SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

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  1. garamet

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    Somebody doesn't read Calvin & Hobbes. :(
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    no I don't. But one of my female friends said my hair looked like one of the characters (back when I had hair of course).
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    Bit better but our cunts are learning from your cunts so not as good as the rest of Europe.

    We don't have twats wandering about waving AR-15s in the faces of medical personnel and spitting at them, though. We're clapping ours.

    Y'know, because they are fucking heroes.
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    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    I'm glad, but I also worry it puts undue pressure on you guys. Superman isn't meant to cry, and we're building y'all up that way. You're all under immense pressure and you may need an out. Feel free to vent via PM if you need it.

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    "We don't have twats wandering about waving AR-15s in the faces of medical personnel and spitting at them, though. We're clapping ours.

    Y'know, because they are fucking heroes." - Matthunter

    yes medical folks are being celebrated as heroes (and rightly so) here too - but I don't expect that news to get across the pond, only the gun waving news. Gotta keep that stereotyping going of course!
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    The rest of us can manage to retain more than one thought at a time. Maybe if the gun-nuts would go home or, yanno, maybe volunteer to help, that might be useful.
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    the gun waving protesters do not represent the average US citizen, nor even protesters in general for that matter. But gun wavers are "low hanging fruit" for some lazy people looking to make a political point. As for the gun toting protesters they make for good sound bites and exciting optics, much like French protesters who torch cars, or German protesters who litter.
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    Like their hero in the WH, they're a bunch of petulant children. You want things back to normal? Put down your fucking toys and help out. Volunteer to drive an ambulance or a morgue wagon, or deliver medicines and groceries to people who are sick and can't leave the house. Take your monthly ammo budget and donate it to the Red Cross. Do something other than spreading hate and throwing tantrums.
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    Hornets, wasps, and bees - total - account for approximately 62 deaths per year. Nice try.

    Did you make that chart yourself or did your Mommy help you?
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    This had nothing to do with arguments over liberty.

    This was straight up hood shit.

    A security guard working at a Dollar General store?

    The asshole came back and shot the guard because apparently the assholes wife said she was "dissed" by the security guard during the argument and the asshole had to prove how tough he was.

    Wife probably left out the part where she spit on the guard.

    A man dead over stupid shit. The wife has been caught. The killer and the son are on the run. Only one that won't be charged with murder will be the daughter. The daughter was the one not wearing the mask. The mother was.

    Why would you wear a mask but not have one for the daughter? Now you're facing a possibility of life in prison. You'll probably not get life but you'll get a lot of years. Your husband and son are definitely going to prison for life. Just fucking stupidity.
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    I have all the books as they came out in the years they came out. I've thought about buying the complete 3- book set even though I do have the complete set but I just haven't done it. Yet. If Amazon drops it to a good price I'll do it.
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    I literally feel sick reading this.
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    For the most part, but do not ignore the few of us who are recognizing the stupid have a much larger chance of being in that wave of people and therefor their numbers will be the greatest to get the virus and die in the next wave. It is like when Magneto was on the bridge and told his stronger mutants to stay back while the dumb and enraged idiots lunged forward and took the initial hit in X-men 3. Every mining cave needs a canary.
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    This is the price of business in a society where guns are everywhere and there is little to no hurdle to having one. Even in a society which does a lot of screening and regulation on gun ownership you will have a few misses. However, the number of these things will be reduced drastically as you do more to regulate gun possesion and access.

    Still, this sort of guy would be on his way to jail anyway. A guy with that much temper was going to have a confrontation anyway. Without the gun empowering his anger he might have just made a scene or had a physical altercation where it would have been much harder to kill the security guard.

    As for security guards in places like dollar general I have seen them. It is a place which probably has a lot of shoplifting and there are security regulations and reasons why a security guard should be the one to handle confrontations in the store over the clerks. Just for the flow of other customers during a time when you are going to enforce a law like this you would want to have a person who's job it is to enforce and explain that rule while the cashiers focus on the people on line.

    At any rate, hope the guy spends the rest of his life in jail for this bullshit. It is a fucking mask and no reason to resort to such violence. Fuck his guin ownership, he needs to be in a cage with restrictions if this is his idea of what is in any way acceptable.
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    "Like their hero in the WH, they're a bunch of petulant children. You want things back to normal? Put down your fucking toys and help out. Volunteer to drive an ambulance or a morgue wagon, or deliver medicines and groceries to people who are sick and can't leave the house. Take your monthly ammo budget and donate it to the Red Cross. Do something other than spreading hate and throwing tantrums."
    Garamet

    agree with you! These people (nor any of us) don't make the rules or set policy. This all sucks, we get it. Instead of public bitching do something positive that can help people affected financially or personally or whatever.
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    You...you took this meme seriously ?