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DeVos Funded Chaos in Michigan

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Ubiquitin, Apr 15, 2020.

  1. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    If "we have no idea" then we should not be taking Americans' civil liberties away from them. If "we have no idea" then we should not prevent Americans from opening their businesses to earn money to feed their families. The bar should be set extraordinarily high before civil liberties are stripped away. This threat, we now know, does not meet the test.

    Americans can safely return to work, just like they go to Walmart and HEB, now, using protective measures. There is no logical explanation for a blanket lockdown of society. Target medical resources on quarantining the elderly. STOP the use of the subway in NYC (#1 culprit). STOP cruises for a few months. Problem solved.
     
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    99% survival rate still means 3.28 million people in the U.S. die from it. That would be horrific and well above what even the worst models have shown.
     
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    ^^^
    This type of ignorance is why people are locked down in their homes right now. You math is wrong, champ -- not everyone is going to get the virus and your survival rate is too low.
     
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    How stupid do you have to be to display a Swastika IN ANY CONTEXT? It's like me putting on blackface in order to make a point about racial injustice in the early 1900's.

    Folks on the right are just stupid. Sorry if you are a Trumper supporter and that offends you but its true. You guys have a cult that has completely gone off the rails.
     
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  7. RayRay10

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    Now imagine if they weren't white:

     
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  8. NewRoxFan

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    For realz? Any guesses what they are there for?

     
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  9. Deckard

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    They should have been arrested. Not for carrying weapons, I'm a gun owner myself, but for creating a public disturbance, which they are definitely doing. It is the seat of the state government, not a public street or a public park.
     
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    Bringing rifles to a coronavirus fight.

    Smart.
     
  11. rocketsjudoka

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    This is what I've been warning about. These guys are a distinct minority but they are winning as we see state after state relax or open further even though no state has met the guidelines from the CDC or even guidelines that these states themselves have established. If this is a war we're suffering a major mutiny within the ranks.

    This is also why I'm saying at this point herd immunity from natural infection is our only option until we can get a vaccine. Longterm social distancing as a nationwide strategy is failing and we don't have the testing or other infrastructure to do contact trace tracking. We need to prepare for a lot more illness and death until we get to herd immunity.
     
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    If they weren't white, they would be.

    How that is not considered "privilege" when it's for "scary people like them but not thugs" is beyond me, but I'm not white.

    Trump didn't cause this. More like they're enabling Trump in order to enable themselves.
     
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    They should be arrested for carrying weapons if the MI State House has a law against firearms on it's grounds. That said I can understand why the Capital Police didn't as they don't want to escalate the situation or make martyrs.

    All that said I still think there is a strong likelyhood of violence at some point.
     
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    IF they were black . .. there would be a massacre
    They would be dead in large numbers
    Teargas wouldf have been thrown and swat called

    Rocket River
     
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    Yeah, but no Constitutional right to infect the rest of us.
     
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    I guess nice try. I get a laugh out of right wingers all of a sudden discovering that unemployment and poverty can lead to illness and death. Crocodile tears for those folks. You fool only yourself. Like many a healthy probably young "liberartarian" type you feel safe so **** the old and if it might interfere with your income.
    Hey maybe only 1 per cent of kids will die. Who cares you probably don't have any kids. I doubt even you are so f'd that you would cheerfully accept a possible unnecessary 1% death for your child.
     
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    I guess the Governor wasn't intimidated by the armed thugs that appeared at the state capital...

     
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    Gretchen Whitmer should now do all public appearances with two katana blades across her back in order to clown the incel/open carry Venn crowd
     
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    Self deleted for not being connected to the thread topic.
     

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