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Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 269

Occam's razor would seem to apply here... it may be (as your clips would seem to be trying to suggest) that BLM (the guys that used to chant for dead cops) are really lawful and it's opportunistic white people that are vandalizing at these rallies,
or maybe BLM has gotten a bit out of control and started smashing / looting / burning stuff. Again.
I'm sure there are plenty of bad actors on both sides, but this sort of lawlessness is generally not what happens when a bunch of white people demonstrate. Even when they show up wearing scary "assault rifles". Funny that, eh?

Comment Re:Yes (Score 3, Insightful) 269

...ignoring the black protesters begging them to stop.

Funny, I haven't seen a single instance of that happening. The vast majority of people looting / etc are not extremely well tanned white guys with dreads. Can you link me two videos where this actually occurred? There is one white guy with a skateboard here but I'm not sure the black people are begging him to stop. They seem too busy loading large screen TVs on that dolly. Who the hell does this woman think she is? She's clearly antagonizing those white skateboarders, right?

Comment Re: Trump should be treated like any other user (Score 1) 148

I'd like the proof for his statement "The crowd of Trump supporters in Charlottesville consisted of nothing but Nazi and racist terrorists.". I mean how do you arrive at that conclusion other than by judging people you've never met by something superficial like what color skin they had in the video.
What do you call it when you make blanket judgements about people based on the color of their skin?

Comment Re:Trump should be treated like any other user (Score 1) 148

You'd look less silly if you actually viewed at the links in the article you're replying to. Those aren't really tanned white guys with dreads doing that stuff.

The reason the is this push back is because some people don't want more equality (competition)

Strange white people aren't suppressing Asians isn't it? It couldn't have anything to do that some people have been told how oppressed and what victims they are for so long they're enraged and don't know what to do about it maybe?

or for people they consider a criminal underclass

You're not much for statistics are you?

Comment Re:I live in a semi-rural county (Score 2, Informative) 197

Some statements don't age well. For an example, google "are US hospitals overwhelmed". You'll note a ton of FUD mid march through mid(ish) April then only a tiny number of articles detailing how hospitals are starting to take in regular patients as the horrible crisis failed to manifest.
You can yell and scream about the apocalypse, but people have been doing that for years. Maybe you should get a Bible and a street corner. The rest of the US is sick of this (mostly) nothingburger and ready to get on with our lives.

Comment Re:Suicides are a wash (Score 1) 275

"reduced stress from not working and going to school reduces them."
You seriously thing NOT WORKING reduces stress? How about not getting the education you've already paid for, but maybe some online classes like all the other ones on the Internet? I'm seriously interested in how you think that works! Especially the job thing. I'd love to know how to pay my bills and feed my family without working. Please do elaborate.

Comment Re:sounds like he is being force fed lines (Score 1) 275

"[Citation Needed]"
Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63 percent higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in the journal Social Science & Medicine. Drinking has gone up, depression is going gangbusters, people are avoiding hospitals and doctors (obviously) for non-Wuhan-related reasons and you can't take your head out of the sand for a 5 second Google search to see what's going on? How hard do you have to work to remain that ignorant?

Comment Re:sounds like he is being force fed lines (Score 1) 275

"I would be seriously surprised if exercise has any serious affect on it."
Well... kinda. The knock-on effects of exercise would include better cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure, better weight control and more energy to do more stuff (it sort of feeds on itself). Why do we care? Aside from age what seems to be the biggest factor in whether you'll get sick / die of the Wuhan virus? Being unhealthy! High blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular problems. 6 months ago I'd see 1-2 people maybe when I went out to exercise. Now I gotta keep maneuvering around all these silly people that have discovered the need to walk their stupid undisciplined dogs. Ok so I got a thing about that. Point is, all the movement I'm seeing can't help but be a net positive for these people. Myself I'd take being strong and healthy over a prescription for hydroxychloroquine (almost had it, missed the second "h") any day of the week.

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