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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 04, 2021, 06:30:41 AM »

While the fears are real, the dangers are a different story. I'm assuming that you're a centrist Matthew. The republican party is objectively worse than the Democratic party. Many leftists have been disillusioned by the Dems and their status quo tendencies.

To many this sounds like I'm sucking off the Dems, but voting for the lesser of two evils is necessary for a leftist if they actually hope to change things. Giving any extra power to republicans is only going to damage the chances of changing the system. While corporate democrats aren't good either, they are much more easy to fight against than the mental borderline fascist republicans.

If the democrats gain supermajority, then the only steps left are to gain enough power within the party and then change the election system to make it more amicable to 3rd parties.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 04, 2021, 05:28:18 AM »

An unfortunate thing is that voting third party is going to, at least temporarily, give all political power to the republican party, which in it's current state would immediately trash the institutions to make sure that no other party would ever gain sufficient relevance to challenge them.

The first past the post system forces a country to have a two party system. While the D'Hondt method has it's problems, it could be a better solution.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 03, 2021, 10:58:35 AM »

Populist right doesn't want to limit the power of corporations, the only things they seem to care about are culture war issues and conspiracy theories like Qanon, the big lie and antivaxx bullstuff.

The populist sides could have things in common if the right didn't abandon every stance they have on economics the moment Tucker Carlson says that the BLM wants to make white people feel guilty for their ancestors actions. And then they proceed to vote for republicans who ban any mentions of slavery and civil rights from school curriculum in hopes of banning "critical race theory".

The unfortunate thing is that the right doesn't care about big corporations and their policies in principle, only if it affects them negatively. (Not saying the left doesn't do this at all, but much less.)

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Off Topic / Re: [news] US constitution has been marked as "harmful"

« on: October 02, 2021, 01:47:52 AM »

No source = don't care

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Off Topic / Re: resonte is in page 1 of posters

« on: September 28, 2021, 10:19:38 AM »

Took me a while, but now I'm the 6th most online member

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Off Topic / Re: dead by daylight has a massive hacker problem

« on: September 27, 2021, 10:40:25 AM »

Edgy

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Forum Games / Re: Describe the above user's avatar with one word v2

« on: September 27, 2021, 02:49:31 AM »

dog

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Centrism

« on: September 14, 2021, 01:10:27 PM »

I would advocate to you, Matthew, a system of Market Socialism.
It seems to tackle the two issues you have with the extreme ends by keeping most power away from the government, while also keeping it away from an elite capital owner class.

As for US being a democratic republic, that doesn't prevent it's economic system from being capitalist. Proper critique of capitalism is simply a want to bring democracy to the economic system much like the government already has.

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Off Topic / Re: you getting the v@x?

« on: September 14, 2021, 12:57:27 PM »

Finally got my second vax today

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Stupid Antivaxx Mom loses custody of Son for being Unvaccinated.

« on: September 02, 2021, 07:21:08 AM »

It is a fact that unvaccinated people are increasing the chances of mutation for the virus.


As for the money side?

Here are the stocks for Pfizer, Astrazeneca and J&J

Look at them by 5y timeframe and see that the Covid pandemic hasn't exactly launched their stocks to the moon. The lines seem to follow a common and a general upwards trend that was happening even before the pandemic.

Added to that, the unfortunate situation being, that large pharamceutical corporations are required to produce these vaccines. I personally would like most of these corporations to be state owned or state run entirely. That would cut the costs since profits aren't prioritized.


While choice is important in medical settings, things are different outside of the hospital. Your personal choice of not taking the vaccine is limiting the freedom of people who are unable to get the vaccine or have weaker immune systems or are completely immunocompromised.

The unvaccinated don't have the right to force others to live in a disease ridden world.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Stupid Antivaxx Mom loses custody of Son for being Unvaccinated.

« on: August 31, 2021, 04:21:22 PM »

People who are endangered are: those who have adverse reactions to the vaccines or are allergic to them and therefore unable to get it.

A second point to that is also the fact that unvaccinated people allow the disease to mutate and form new variants. The longer the pandemic goes on, the more likely it becomes that a new strain arises which requires a new round of adjusted vaccines to combat.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Sydney's Covid-19 positive terrorist captured!

« on: August 31, 2021, 12:52:07 AM »

I keep screaming into the void.

You have the right to not take the vaccine, but you do not have the right to endanger others. That means, that unvaccinated people have to keep out of public spaces and properties where the owner requires people to be vaccinated.

Regarding the goalposts? If people had followed the restrictions, then the spread of covid would've slowed and possibly ceased.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Sydney's Covid-19 positive terrorist captured!

« on: August 27, 2021, 09:05:56 AM »

oh. in that case im a transvaxxer. I identify as fully vaccinated even though im scientifically not. who needs solid biological data when you have trans rights, am I right? or do those rights fall flat too?

If you're talking about transgender people, then biology isn't the main field of research that concerns gender. Social sciences study that.

Also, this has nothing to do with the vaccines, keep on topic.

my apologies for hurting your feelings

just saying my rights matter too

You still don't have the right to endanger others.

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Off Topic / Re: Why are we forced to get the \/@x?

« on: August 27, 2021, 09:01:13 AM »

there are 3 types of people

Source? It's funny that anti-vaxxers can pull the dumbest stuff from their ass and require next to no proof to discredit the vaccines.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Sydney's Covid-19 positive terrorist captured!

« on: August 27, 2021, 01:02:09 AM »

You antivaxxers seriously have no solid data to stand on. Even the rights argument falls flat.