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**Frownland** · 04-26-2020, 10:59 AM

99/100 times, the "context" that supposedly changes everything about whatever Trump says is wholly consistent with how it's being reported. While the media tends to explain the context pretty decently, their headlines don't often do this since headlines are used to give the gist of the article instead of detailing the whole situation in one sentence fragment. Many Trump supporters get confused by this.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 11:01 AM

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Bummer but not surprising. Maybe this pandemic will improve preventative medical research instead of our current reactionary approach.

You probably do too, but I doubt it. There are way too many signs pointing to nothing positive or proactive coming out of this. Incarceration rates are going to stay high. There’s already a movement toward house arrest ankle bracelet with forced enslavement but the county lockups are still staying and will remain overcrowded, violent, insanity inducing petri dishes. I know you’re talking about accelerating our approaches to vaccines and so forth but even the low hanging fruit of universal nutrition, housing, and health care - the large scale equivalent to washing our hands - isn’t even remotely on the table. Our policies of environmental devastation are still running full force which also gives a free pass to the proliferation of all kinds of human hostile pathogens and their vectors. As flooding and storms continue to amplify so do the unsanitary conditions that come with them. And war... we’re still at it. If there was ever a time for “swords into plowshares” it’s right now but it’s not even being discussed.

Lucem Ferre · 04-26-2020, 11:02 AM

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99/100 times, the "context" that supposedly changes everything about whatever Trump says is wholly consistent with how it's being reported. While the media tends to explain the context pretty decently, their headlines don't often do this since headlines are used to give the gist of the article instead of detailing the whole situation in one sentence fragment. Many Trump supporters get confused by this.

Or it could be a response to the memes. But at that point who ever is trusting memes is probably a lost cause in the first place.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 11:05 AM

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99/100 times, the "context" that supposedly changes everything about whatever Trump says is wholly consistent with how it's being reported. While the media tends to explain the context pretty decently, their headlines don't often do this since headlines are used to give the gist of the article instead of detailing the whole situation in one sentence fragment. Many Trump supporters get confused by this.

Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 11:07 AM

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Or it could be a response to the memes. But at that point who ever is trusting memes is probably a lost cause in the first place.

If you can’t read you look at the pictures.

Lucem Ferre · 04-26-2020, 11:07 AM

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Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

My step dad can hardly read. He still sounds out his words.

The Batlord · 04-26-2020, 11:12 AM

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If you can’t read you look at the pictures.

You can do both with comics.

**Frownland** · 04-26-2020, 11:24 AM

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You probably do too, but I doubt it. There are way too many signs pointing to nothing positive or proactive coming out of this. Incarceration rates are going to stay high. There’s already a movement toward house arrest ankle bracelet with forced enslavement but the county lockups are still staying and will remain overcrowded, violent, insanity inducing petri dishes. I know you’re talking about accelerating our approaches to vaccines and so forth but even the low hanging fruit of universal nutrition, housing, and health care - the large scale equivalent to washing our hands - isn’t even remotely on the table. Our policies of environmental devastation are still running full force which also gives a free pass to the proliferation of all kinds of human hostile pathogens and their vectors. As flooding and storms continue to amplify so do the unsanitary conditions that come with them. And war... we’re still at it. If there was ever a time for “swords into plowshares” it’s right now but it’s not even being discussed.

Depends on how long it takes until they make and distribute a vaccine. The longer this lasts, the more undeniable these shortcomings will be.

There are some changes that I'm counting on though, even if it ends today. There will be mass exploitative price explosion once people try to get back to "normal" and demand increases again. The customer is always right model will be pulled back at least somewhat. And there will be less random small talk from bored strangers.

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Meanwhile teachers can’t even tell their students to STFU and read. I wonder how many full grown adults have never actually read a book.

That's what got us here fosho.

OccultHawk · 04-26-2020, 11:47 AM

Honestly Frown - things will continue to move in several directions at once.

To make it simple I think the bad guys are going to win but ain’t nobody know.

Lucem Ferre · 04-26-2020, 11:59 AM

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Honestly Frown - things will continue to move in several directions at once.

To make it simple I think the bad guys are going to win but ain’t nobody know.

I think the people have to demand better precautions for something like this and the administration will fold out of public opinion. In which case I think the same problem will repeat it's self once we get comfortable and they start pulling back funding towards these precautions again.

I have very little faith that even that will happen because people are idiots and still in denial of the severity of this virus.

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