gnusty_gnurc

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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Have you ever stopped to consider that, lockdown or not, people simply aren’t choosing to do the things they used to? So we don’t need mandates?
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> You’re being a bit dramatic about this. This is how an abuser talks. "Why do you care so much?" Say that to the working class person whose livelihood depends on the continuity of public life. The person months behind on rent
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Have you considered that these measures are _temporary_? I will never consider this given the excesses and absolute indefensible failures of the emergency powers introduced in service of the Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/etc. w
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
"Harmful to society" is a poor standard used to justify a lot of evil stuff. That standard once included homosexuality. It was the basis for eugenics. Also like I mentioned before - Prohibition. It's a standard that's ul
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> How hard can it be to make this sacrifice so that someone’s grandma doesn’t die? This is where things go wrong. You're shaming people for feeling natural human instincts to socialize. As though it's selfish to not want to be
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Well, here we go: procreation is a fundamental human instinct. Do you want to legalize rape? This is non-sequitur. A better comparison is like legally enforcing abstinence to eradicate HIV. If you can't get the idea that isolation
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Limiting the consumption seems logical. Lots of "plans" seem logical and this is precisely why technocracy is a vexation on society. Unintended consequences. The presumption of knowledge and control. All of these elite presum
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> the academic consensus The academic consensus is a proxy for cultural elite; the condescending narcissists and effete. Nothing reeks of moral superiority like brushing away opposition as "uneducated."
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Is being an anti-vaxxer political? In current popular fashion everything is political. But also, anti-vaxx is an obviously denigrating term that’s part of the whole liberal orthodoxy. You’re drawing very broad characterizations betwe
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Anti-vaxxers? Really? Way to engage an argument by generalizing and politicizing with a completely irrelevant comparison.
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> and they keep parroting the almost 100 years-old Autrian critique of central-banking without any kind of cognitive effort Just naming something doesn’t invalidate it.
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Seems like government and leaders are committed to a vaccine exit from the pandemic. Repurposed drugs have gotten too little attention and energy, and I suspect there's a connection with intellectual property and profit. If we could fa
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
As history has shown us, mass organization prevents evil /s
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Given the absolute infallibility of the state in China, I suspect they declared "war won" and just stopped reporting any spread. Run society like nothing is going on. There's a reason NK and China made sure there were televis
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Difficult when you're an 85 year old with dementia in a nursing home. this is someone beyond life expectancy and almost by definition liable to be taken out by anything, never mind covid
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Most interesting ones!
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Odd, I suspect the same people would offer the idea that wealth disparity is bad.
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China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins(apnews.com)
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> some forms of ignorance in our highly connected society become very dangerous when voiced Right out of 1984...make "ignorance" inexpressible! Dystopian utilitarian analysis says certain words shouldn't be uttered.
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> to bypass the scientific process The scientific process isn't owned by anyone. People are free to speak words; those who say otherwise are speech police. The obsession of certain people with "the harms of words" is illib
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> but just go and read science quietly Can you imagine the pretentiousness required to say this? We all know the reaction of this were the words spoken to some identity group X. “Go read biology quietly.” “Go read history quietly.” >
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Bingo! Vague notions of “harm” forbid anyone from doing anything. There’s rarely anything that can be said nowadays without some activist finding a reason to take offense. It’s funny when it’s the activist themselves that get cannibalized b
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
One is a virus that’s ostensibly handled fine by practically any healthy immune system, whereas the vaccine is a novel gene therapy. It seems to be fine and without any noticeable side-effects, but the “how dare you even slightly doubt it,
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Which we really need to stop this elitist bull-shit of degrading community college as something "beneath us". I call BS on you! It's almost assuredly the overrefined and effete that would argue this; they've got the
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
Equity entails discrimination. "Good" discrimination, a worldview that requires racial essentialism and stereotypes. Reduce everyone to their immutable attributes and tailor your behavior accordingly. Since in the minds of social
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
You haven't been to college recently then - it's a minefield of hollow moralism, safety-ism, and virtue signaling.
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> But spare me the pearl-clutching over excess social orthodoxy from the side of the aisle that has for my entire life been foursquare for ideological orthodoxy and social conformance to their preferred norms. Change begins at home. That
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
https://news.bitcoin.com/jpmorgan-600-billion-demand-bitcoin...
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> Asymptomatic transmission might be not very high, but presymptomatic transmission is very high. Actually if you read the meta-analysis I linked, 0.7% secondary attack rate covers both presymptomatic and asymptomatic.
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by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
> The economy is already so damaged, it will not recover in our lifetime and will likely result in an alternative currency...that is also strictly controlled by the central banks, of course. Institutional players are increasingly warming

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