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Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives is kicking off an investigation of covid origins: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-launches-probe-covid-origins-23261

Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives is kicking off an investigation of covid origins: https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-launches-probe-covid-origins-232616675.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-launches-probe-covid-origins-...

ch4s3 4y ago
If ever there were a team qualified to get to the bottom of this, it would include MTG and Matt Gaetz!
- qclibre22 4y ago
  Jamie Raskin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are in the committee, too, so, yeah, we got the A team on this one.
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    Oh yeah, they're going to be the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls of congressional COVID investigation teams.
  - 2devnull 4y ago
    Raskin is a serious guy actually. The headwear is because of cancer.
- kevviiinn 4y ago
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influx 4y ago
Why do we have to rely on Republicans to investigate covid origins? Scary!
- purututu 4y ago
  Me as a European software engineer, understanding tech stuff well, but not American politics, what's the problem with the Republicans? Why would you prefer the other party, Democrats (right?) do the origin research instead?
  - bogantech 4y ago
    Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad"
    - serf 4y ago
      > Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad" it doesn't take a lot of effort to discover that plenty of power-structures and political regimes around the world aside from the United States eventually simplify down to basic adversarialism. It goes from 'RED/BLUE' all the way to 'GreatLeader/Dictator', but the United States doesn't have 'us versus them' to ourselves.
    - istjohn 4y ago
      That's politics everywhere. Politics is the nonviolent contestation of power and typically political parties cater to a set of specific people with peculiar interests and beliefs. Sometimes polarization splits people into two equally self-interested groups fighting a zero-sum game, but sometimes polarization is literally over good and evil, where one side wants to enslave, exterminate, or oppress people, or they want to exploit or invade other countries, or they want to neglect their poor, sick, or unfortunate neighbors, or they want to undermine the democratic intitutions to permanently ensconce themselves in power. Enlightened centrism is just intellectual sloth.
  - corbulo 4y ago
    My interpretation of what he said was 'shouldn't this be a bipartisan effort?!'
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    The main reason is that the Republicans are the relatively right wing party in the country and wacky conspiracy theories about COVID have become more popular in right wing media here. So that’s the partisan reason. But also, since a Republican was in charge when COVID became a problem, it would make more sense to have the then-opposition do the investigation, right? Let’s not ask people who have an incentive to hide uncomfortable failures to investigate!
- LorenPechtel 4y ago
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- ericmcer 4y ago
  because Republicans started too and Democrats are obligated to take an opposing position.
- worksonmine 4y ago
  I'm sorry but this seems like an ignorant comment. I remember the stories from CNN(?) about how it was Trumps fault they didn't investigate the origin back then. I remember when the only ones actually asking questions and not getting vaccinated were blamed to be "stupid republicans" and "conspiracy theorists". You're so polarized over there my fucked up country seems like heaven in comparison. We've always been at war with Eurasia, right?
  - KerrAvon 4y ago
    I don't understand your viewpoint. It was Trump's fault. He was president. Biden is currently on the hook, and he's fucked it up just as badly. The Republicans never had a sane response to Covid; their "questions" were all racist as fuck; their vaccine skepticism is still killing people; they're why we can't mask up and reduce the spread. The Democrats have decided that the very young, the very old, the weak, and the disabled are collateral damage. Joke's on them: Long COVID doesn't discriminate! The Republicans on that committee are child sex traffickers and virulent antisemites. Their agenda is to shut down the United States government. They don't care about the origins of COVID.
    - worksonmine 4y ago
      You're so hyperbole I don't even know where to begin.
    - Always42 4y ago
      top notch trolling
  - TMWNN 4y ago
    >I'm sorry but this seems like an ignorant comment. I remember the stories from CNN(?) about how it was Trumps fault they didn't investigate the origin back then. My favorite CNN article on the topic from Januar 2020, before COVID19 spread worldwide: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...>
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ch4s3 4y ago

If ever there were a team qualified to get to the bottom of this, it would include MTG and Matt Gaetz!

qclibre22 4y ago
Jamie Raskin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are in the committee, too, so, yeah, we got the A team on this one.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  Oh yeah, they're going to be the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls of congressional COVID investigation teams.
- 2devnull 4y ago
  Raskin is a serious guy actually. The headwear is because of cancer.
kevviiinn 4y ago
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influx 4y ago

Why do we have to rely on Republicans to investigate covid origins? Scary!

purututu 4y ago
Me as a European software engineer, understanding tech stuff well, but not American politics, what's the problem with the Republicans? Why would you prefer the other party, Democrats (right?) do the origin research instead?
- bogantech 4y ago
  Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad"
  - serf 4y ago
    > Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad" it doesn't take a lot of effort to discover that plenty of power-structures and political regimes around the world aside from the United States eventually simplify down to basic adversarialism. It goes from 'RED/BLUE' all the way to 'GreatLeader/Dictator', but the United States doesn't have 'us versus them' to ourselves.
  - istjohn 4y ago
    That's politics everywhere. Politics is the nonviolent contestation of power and typically political parties cater to a set of specific people with peculiar interests and beliefs. Sometimes polarization splits people into two equally self-interested groups fighting a zero-sum game, but sometimes polarization is literally over good and evil, where one side wants to enslave, exterminate, or oppress people, or they want to exploit or invade other countries, or they want to neglect their poor, sick, or unfortunate neighbors, or they want to undermine the democratic intitutions to permanently ensconce themselves in power. Enlightened centrism is just intellectual sloth.
- corbulo 4y ago
  My interpretation of what he said was 'shouldn't this be a bipartisan effort?!'
- bee_rider 4y ago
  The main reason is that the Republicans are the relatively right wing party in the country and wacky conspiracy theories about COVID have become more popular in right wing media here. So that’s the partisan reason. But also, since a Republican was in charge when COVID became a problem, it would make more sense to have the then-opposition do the investigation, right? Let’s not ask people who have an incentive to hide uncomfortable failures to investigate!
LorenPechtel 4y ago
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ericmcer 4y ago
because Republicans started too and Democrats are obligated to take an opposing position.
worksonmine 4y ago
I'm sorry but this seems like an ignorant comment. I remember the stories from CNN(?) about how it was Trumps fault they didn't investigate the origin back then. I remember when the only ones actually asking questions and not getting vaccinated were blamed to be "stupid republicans" and "conspiracy theorists". You're so polarized over there my fucked up country seems like heaven in comparison. We've always been at war with Eurasia, right?
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  I don't understand your viewpoint. It was Trump's fault. He was president. Biden is currently on the hook, and he's fucked it up just as badly. The Republicans never had a sane response to Covid; their "questions" were all racist as fuck; their vaccine skepticism is still killing people; they're why we can't mask up and reduce the spread. The Democrats have decided that the very young, the very old, the weak, and the disabled are collateral damage. Joke's on them: Long COVID doesn't discriminate! The Republicans on that committee are child sex traffickers and virulent antisemites. Their agenda is to shut down the United States government. They don't care about the origins of COVID.
  - worksonmine 4y ago
    You're so hyperbole I don't even know where to begin.
  - Always42 4y ago
    top notch trolling
- TMWNN 4y ago
  >I'm sorry but this seems like an ignorant comment. I remember the stories from CNN(?) about how it was Trumps fault they didn't investigate the origin back then. My favorite CNN article on the topic from Januar 2020, before COVID19 spread worldwide: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...>
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