COVID19 Factors We Should Consider/Current Events

[Mark Rippetoe]

None of our allies give us anything for free, and we don't give them anything for free either. The presence of a price tag does not invalidate a nation's status of being our ally

What makes Israel our ally?

[mkm5]

It doesn't matter if Trump was shot, or not, or by whom, of there was another shooter. None of it matters because this event didn't alter the predetermined broad outcome of US politics which was set in motion many months ago. The entire system of US electoral politics, every possible outcome, is managed.

Trump could have had his head split open, showering everyone with brains, and NOTHING WOULD HAVE CHANGED. As with JFK. There would be no civil war. America is obese and passive, and they watch the news like a conversation and a TV show.

Indeed, after the round whistled past his head, he called for unity, like the true political professional he is. If anyone at this point still thinks Trump is remotely outside of the system, or anti-bureaucracy in any way, then I am sorry but you are an idiot. OH WOW ELON MUSK FINALLY CAME OUT AS A MAGA GUY! MARK ZUCKERBERG!!!!

Remember when Dinesh D'Souza became the de facto leader of the "stop the steal" movement, and after the election result came in, he changed his tune. It all became about defining "democracy". Trump just said he "took a bullet for democracy". It always comes back to the belief in democracy.

As long as you engage and believe in democracy, vote, and give life to the uniparty system, you will be stuck in this endless political conversation forever, and all your energy will be used up and wasted. In four years' time this thread will be discussing the same stuff and having the endless conversation right here still.

Most importantly, while you're tied up with the endless conversation, there can be no space to even ask questions like "Why is Zionism central to US politics?". Nobody wants to talk hear about that icky subject when they could be discussing the latest... Event.

Subjects can be endlessly spoken within this system until the masses are sick and tired of hearing about them, and so demoralised, that everyone just kind of accepts that a consensus has been reached and the matter has been dealt with. Immigration is a good example subject. Completely talked about to death. No action has taken place, nor will it. Everyone sits around, passively consuming news media about it, complaining, and wondering where it will all lead. They turn up at a booth every 4 years, cast a vote. The show goes on.

Well said Matt.

[David A. Rowe]

Bullets passing close to your ear don't deafen you. It's a loud pop like those things you throw on the ground. Unless it's tumbling, then they make a cool whizzing noise.

Bullets passing through flesh don't make neat holes. Sometimes, you can't even see the entrance wound when blood is present. Cartilaginous tissue has a lower water density than other tissues, and is not affected by the hydrostatic effect of higher velocity rounds (secondary cavitation) in the same manner as other parts. I worked a suicide once where the guy shot himself from a ~2' distance in the head. Couldn't find the entrance wound from 16" away with a flashlight. Made a little three prong cut like what you'd expect from a broad head arrow. Bullet didn't exit.

You guys need to chill out and enjoy the show. There's some small fun to be had playing the what-if conspiracy game, but it doesn't matter. The world believes it happened, and we're already beyond it and living in that reality. That means, for now, it's real.


Stop dragging your dicks in the dirt every time something questionable happens. Look at the road ahead, not behind. Keep your feet moving and underneath you.