@SteveTheBookGuy It would be difficult to confirm but even if they could confirm it, they wouldn't cuz it would encourage masking and wide spread mask wearing would cause people to alter their behavior which would implode the service economy and likely lead to workers demanding more protections
@kananaskinyeti I'm 90% sure the majority of American aggression will be aimed at allies
Collapsing empires can either face their enemies head on, and risk defeat and collapse, or they can cannibalize their vassals and kick the can down the road for a while, and I think he's gonna do the latter
@SteveTheBookGuy That 500B is probably the only thing holding up the tech sector now, and if they cancel it the whole sector may collapse
And it'll likely be used for stock buy backs and more lobbying to get more handouts
@SteveTheBookGuy I know libs who've started masking again in some situations since January 20th, and tbh I'd rather they didn't, I want them to protect themselves and others but that's not what they're doing, they're making a political statement/virtue signaling and they're gonna get masks banned
@a_lil_bow liberals don't believe in any of those things
uniting w/ people who engage in democide & eugenics, & deny genocide is how fascists win. They'll use u, deny your rights, & then throw u away when u ask for help
& frankly I'm not interested in that type of allyship, good luck tho
@1goodtern If the first h2h cases are reported on US soil, then the US gets blamed but if there's no reporting in the US, the US can blame the first country that reports h2h cases & pretend it didn't start in the US
Thatโs just one reason, the primary focus is on protecting US capitalists
@Kit_Yates_Maths Do you think it was vindictive of Fauci when he lied to people about airborne transmission of covid for years
If one murderer who is above the law wants to harm another murderer who is also above the law; I don't care
@loscharlos I've seen dozens of reports of breakthroughs like this but none ever make it to market, why?
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the reason must be that our rulers want large numbers of people to die
I'm open to another less evil explanations if you have one
@SteveTheBookGuy Part of me is angry at libs for ignoring all Biden's failures until they became Trump's problem, but another part of me knew all along giving libs Trump to blame would be the only way to make them care again
And I hate to admit it but fairweather allies are better than no allies
@ColinDMello And if you report on it at all, it'll only be the parts that benefit the owners of Global News
You're a stenographer for power, not a journalist
@rekastner@BernieSanders Bernie is a sheepdog, he's trying to radicalize his supporters to the right. He says all the same things establishment Dems say but nicer to get support from the left
"we have to vote for Hillary"
"we must support Joe Biden"
"Israel has a right to defend itself" the list goes on
@SteveTheBookGuy There are no organisations to prepare Americans for a revolution
But even if a massive revolt of left leaning people did manage to overthrow the gvt, Americans would probably try to restore Obama to power cuz they don't actually understand capitalism is the issue
@cdtwriter I'm not defending billionaires, I just think it is important to understand why the capitalist class is so evil; capitalism produces a system that guarantees the winners of capitalism will be the most cruel and evil people imaginable
@cdtwriter And what we see as the richest, most selfish billionaires, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and so on, are the end product of a lengthy selection process
There's a survivorship bias, the people who reach billionaire status and decide to just go on permanent vacation aren't visible to us