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General Discussion / Re: I hope to God Brickadia is not most Blockland players choice as a successor

« on: December 10, 2021, 07:31:37 AM »

Man you guys are triggered by microbricks. Lmao, just don't use them, make not using microbricks into an aesthetic.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Local President Watches Poll

« on: December 09, 2021, 02:41:36 AM »

I'm hearing a lot of complaints, yet no alternate solutions. So long as covid is a danger, society needs to act in a responsible manner to prevent further outbreaks and deaths. The vaccine passports will be necessary until covid is either eradicated or has mutated into a sufficiently harmless form.

The pandemic will be over when the restrictions are mostly over. I wouldn't call a pre-covid society with vaccine passports a pandemic.


Then there's the grandstanding. Do you think that scientists didn't expect mutations and new variants? Have officials not said that the restrictions depend on the covid situation? The goalpost moving was what was expected. The promises of the pandemic ending if people followed the restrictions weren't lies, people didn't follow the restrictions. Even disregarding all that, viruses and pandemics in this modern and connected world are new issues that don't have much precedent, so expecting a perfect job is unreasonable.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 30, 2021, 02:47:45 PM »

There are no signs of tampering on the genome of the virus, and the other likely vector, bats, were also present, be it in soup or the patient zero visiting the market after being in contact with them.

Being nice will not change the system. You need to have a political message and coordination in order to make meaningful change in policy, your opponents will already do this.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 30, 2021, 03:51:36 AM »

 

Please don't try to meta-brown townyze my arguments. The statement I made equates to: It hasn't been proven that the virus originated from the lab. The fact that it originated near the lab is undeniable evidence only to that it originated near the lab, in regards to it originating from the lab it only increased suspicion.

The bat soup theory isn't pushed as fact, the only thing about the bats that has been said is that SARS-CoV-2 is very similar to a strain found in bats and the suspected route through which the virus jumped is so far unknown.


As for your political talk, I am now curious: how would that work? Do you mean to change the minds of the population?

I had a similar idea, though it is combined with the takeover of one of the major political parties.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 27, 2021, 04:40:57 PM »

Regarding the NYPost article:
Gain of function research means the development and modification of an organism in the pursuit of a new property or enhancing an existing one. What the Wuhan lab did could be considered as such, though assigning malicious intent is speculative. SARS-Cov1 was the reason the research was committed, they wanted to find out the method through which the virus jumped to humans. There is no concrete evidence toward the lab leak theory besides the fact that the lab was near the point of origin.

I recommend Potholer's videos: "Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?" and "More "man-made" SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak malarky" at 3:32 (This addresses the nypost article's source)


As for the vaccine hoarding:
I agree, the US and other western countries should waive the patents.


Now about the lesser of two evils argument. I only think it is valid because there is no other way out of the trap. Not voting wont help, voting the party you hate more is stupid and voting third party wont work. Voting the least bad feasible party on the other hand is going to give you the best chances of making progress.

But now I'm curious. How would you solve the issue Matthew?

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 27, 2021, 03:36:35 AM »

*Sigh*

How exactly did the modern government create this problem?

Do you think that preventable Covid-cased flooding hospitals is hype?

Do you think that because African countries don't have similar access to vaccines, the western countries shouldn't bother?

Any infection can produce the next major variant, so any prevented infection reduces the chances.
All of these occurrences have been considered possible and have even been expected.

This anti-vaccine derangement is only going to make the situation worse.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 23, 2021, 02:39:47 AM »

Welp, I redact my psychological assessment of Kyle

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES

« on: November 22, 2021, 09:53:08 AM »

"Suspect described as either black or arab"
So basically the corporate media isn't going to cover it at all.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

Washington Examiner
BuzzFeed
CNN
Washington Post

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Off Topic / Re: I own Bir Tawil and now establish it as my own country

« on: November 19, 2021, 08:31:39 AM »

What does the name Sugondese mean?

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General Discussion / Re: I hope to God Brickadia is not most Blockland players choice as a successor

« on: November 19, 2021, 07:30:15 AM »

brickadia are trying their best to wipe this stuff off the face of the internet

This looks leagues better than what Blockland has.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Prosecution caught withholding evidence

« on: November 18, 2021, 01:00:32 AM »

Riots are bad, civilians shouldn't show up with weapon across state lines to defend private property. That job should be left to the police. This shooting should only push people to address the reasons behind the riots and deficiencies in police response.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Prosecution caught withholding evidence

« on: November 17, 2021, 04:56:34 PM »

Morals are relative.

Yes, and most moral systems deem Kyle's actions as seeking trouble/a chance to kill BLM protesters.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Prosecution caught withholding evidence

« on: November 17, 2021, 02:40:24 PM »

Man this whole thing is a farce. Legally Kyle will be found to have acted in self defense. Morally it's still mostly his fault those people are dead.

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Off Topic / Re: [news] v@xed man dies of covid but it could have been worse!

« on: November 12, 2021, 09:12:39 AM »

I can't tell if this is bait or not. Billions of people are vaccinated, the amount of adverse effects is miniscule, having Covid is leagues more likely to cause worse health effects than the vaccine.

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Off Topic / Re: it is november somewhere in the world, y'know what that means?

« on: November 01, 2021, 07:22:13 AM »

I failed