When you make behaviors a disease, individuals lose and systems win—this is always true. Systems benefit in still being able to call something "shameful" without needing to take any responsibility for its creation. The point is to reveal that any individual's suffering is secretly nurtured to maintain the integrity of the larger system. You're expendable. Eat it.
Everything must be on table as Illinois, Chicago fight back from financial devastation - Chicago Sun-Times
Hmmm. Maybe you should have let those barbers and salon owners cut hair?
Maybe you shouldn't have divided the workforce between "essential and non-essential"
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I think it's hilarious that these dumb asses think they can just tell everyone to stay home, choking off sales tax and wage tax and increasing unemployment spending, and then when they start running low on money and the federal government doesn't want to bail them out, they act surprised.
What I don't think is funny though: The thousands and thousands of average joe state employees that will be affected by this. They didn't create the corruption, or the bloated government with huge overhead, they're average people with bills to pay.
It's blatantly obvious that they could have allowed businesses to open WEEKS ago (Or never close at all, that's just hindsight though).
But instead they dig their heals in the dirt and didn't budge, expecting daddy (the feds) to bail them out.
I was actually thinking of wearing straight up halloween costumes with masks. I proposed dressing up like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, a guy I used to know actually took the idea and ran with it. He's pro-lockdown but kudos to him for making my idea come to life.
That would leave me unable to shop period, here in New York. I think it's a local order and all the stores are complying.
Not one in particular, just decades of observing what they do to interviews, knowing their overwhelming bias, and seeing no effort whatsoever to issue corrections when they are wrong. They just move on to the next misconstruction on the list.
Yes. The Republican-controlled Senate.
Because the virus isn't the point. It doesn't kill enough people to be the point. Fear of it is the tool by which your behavior is to be controlled. And your behavior is well-controlled. Congratulations, you're being a Good Boy.
I hope everybody realizes that if this is the new standard insurance company approach to the new standard legal approach to getting sick, every insured structure in the US has to close. If I get sick at Walmart -- I just KNOW it was Walmart, 'cause I really haven't been anywhere else because of Shelter In Place, I'm unemployed now, etc. -- I guess I can sue Walmart. Right? What do you want to bet that this new legal theory gets shot down very quickly after this first suit against Walmart?
Finally, a little humor to brighten up our day. Goddamn, what can you say?
They didn't create the corruption, true. But they benefited from it. I'm sorry to say that, but depending on their jobs, it's true for many of them. However, it is not helpful to put a huge percentage of your population out of work, even if they are non-value-added employees. It's the sickening bags of shit at the top -- Lightfoot and Pritzker and their fellow criminals -- who should be exterminated like the vermin they are. Someone needs to develop a spray for aerial application.What I don't think is funny though: The thousands and thousands of average joe state employees that will be affected by this. They didn't create the corruption, or the bloated government with huge overhead, they're average people with bills to pay.
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I already explained why I choose to wear a mask while out and about, Rip. Pretty sure that was about 100 pages ago. Do you really want me to go over it again for you? I'd be more than happy to do so.
The purpose of my post was to provide mpalios with the information they requested.
Glad to finally hear the public voices of a few anti-lockdown protestors in the UK
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Even the highly respected BBC historian, David Starkey rightfully labels the handling of this episode in history as both an 'over reaction' and 'economic suicide'. This whole fiasco was all about protecting 'institutions' and nothing to do with 'saving lives'.
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