A Typical LRC Idiot wrote:
Wait... I thought Texans were enjoying as much freedom as Kiwis. At least that's what I read on another thread on New Zealand.
So what restrictions did Texas have if there was already as much freedom as in New Zealand? I am really confused.
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For the win.
eh no wrote:
A Typical LRC Idiot wrote:
Wait... I thought Texans were enjoying as much freedom as Kiwis. At least that's what I read on another thread on New Zealand.
So what restrictions did Texas have if there was already as much freedom as in New Zealand? I am really confused.
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For the win.
Actually, Texans have MORE freedom than Kiwis. We are free to pay $16,000.00 a month for electricity on a one bedroom apartment and freeze to death when the power goes out. We are free to breath smog and toxic chemicals like Benzene and Butadiene 1, 3 from oil refineries. We are free to go kayaking through our neighborhoods when the inadequate stormwater systems are overwhelmed by tropical storms and hurricanes. Our 9 year old girls are free to get shot in the head during a road rage incident.
sanchobaile wrote:
4:59 wrote:
A real leader? I hope your joking. This is the same guy who opened up Texas too early last year. He folded to social and media pressure and closed the state back up a few months later. "do his own thing ""Not afraid to go his own way to do the right thing when there's pressure from society" give me a break--he's the farthest thing from a real leader.
a disaster induced by climate change and a lack of planning.
Induced by climate change? Thats a mighty claim. Can you prove that climate change caused that cold weather bout? Can you prove that it is even correlated?
Please dont make scientific claims about something which you know very little about.
You cannot prove anything with just observation data, and we cannot run global weather experiments. This isn't a "gotcha" question - you're just being stupid.
Bullet_Proof wrote:
sanchobaile wrote:
a disaster induced by climate change and a lack of planning.
Induced by climate change? Thats a mighty claim. Can you prove that climate change caused that cold weather bout? Can you prove that it is even correlated?
Please dont make scientific claims about something which you know very little about.
sp2 wrote:
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
If Republicans hadn't pretended that the virus was fake from the very beginning, we could have been open a long time ago. Instead, more than half a million Americans have died and millions more will have lasting health issues. And you're telling the people who care that they just hate little kids and small business owners? Eat sh*t.
Yep. Just one of the many grade-school-level truths they're incapable of understanding.
The really beautiful part of this current stupidity, though, is that, the rest of the way, it's literally gonna be Republicans killing *themselves*. That's been true to a pretty good degree already, but it's *really* gonna be true now.
Democrats (being, ya know *sane*) are rapidly getting vaxed, and are still making at least some effort to take rational precautions in the meantime. Relatively few of them are going to die (or be permanently damaged) by COVID from here out.
R's on the other hand --refusing the vax in their juvenile insanity, and doing everything they can to expose themselves at every chance-- are going to keep right on slaughtering themselves and each other for another year.
The criminal low-life Abbott, with his actions today, is *literally* signing the death-warrants for tens of thousands of his own supporters. Ya gotta love it.
Go for it, you psychopaths! Knock yourselves out. Hell, start holding massive Fashy-Moron rallies again. You can all stand around spitting your Medieval stupidity in each others' faces, and hasten your generous self-culling.
The rest of us *thank* you. With every one of you that you self-infect, you are steadily raising the average IQ and the moral temperature of the country just a little bit.
Please, keep it up.
The lack of empathy in this post is deeply troubling.
I hope you never have kids, because you would throw them under the bus, to save yourself.
2600 bro wrote:
You cannot prove anything with just observation data, and we cannot run global weather experiments.
Bullet_Proof wrote:
Induced by climate change? Thats a mighty claim. Can you prove that climate change caused that cold weather bout? Can you prove that it is even correlated?
Please dont make scientific claims about something which you know very little about.
Exactly right. Since nothing can be proven with observation data, you cant claim that climate change caused a brief series of cold days. Trying to use fancy language like "induced" to dance around the subject is also disingenuous.
Bullet_Proof wrote:
sp2 wrote:
Yep. Just one of the many grade-school-level truths they're incapable of understanding.
The really beautiful part of this current stupidity, though, is that, the rest of the way, it's literally gonna be Republicans killing *themselves*. That's been true to a pretty good degree already, but it's *really* gonna be true now.
Democrats (being, ya know *sane*) are rapidly getting vaxed, and are still making at least some effort to take rational precautions in the meantime. Relatively few of them are going to die (or be permanently damaged) by COVID from here out.
R's on the other hand --refusing the vax in their juvenile insanity, and doing everything they can to expose themselves at every chance-- are going to keep right on slaughtering themselves and each other for another year.
The criminal low-life Abbott, with his actions today, is *literally* signing the death-warrants for tens of thousands of his own supporters. Ya gotta love it.
Go for it, you psychopaths! Knock yourselves out. Hell, start holding massive Fashy-Moron rallies again. You can all stand around spitting your Medieval stupidity in each others' faces, and hasten your generous self-culling.
The rest of us *thank* you. With every one of you that you self-infect, you are steadily raising the average IQ and the moral temperature of the country just a little bit.
Please, keep it up.
The lack of empathy in this post is deeply troubling.
I hope you never have kids, because you would throw them under the bus, to save yourself.
I'll speak slowly, for your sake, so you'll have a shot to grasp it.
I've got the deepest empathy you'll find,... for decent people who care about the things that matter (like, mostly, other people).
I've got much less for people --like you-- who are trying to kill me and all the other decent people in the service of their own insane bigotry.
I recognize that their (your) incredible *stupidity* is almost a match for their (your) incredible malice and venality, and that that combination leads them to behave in ways that are more destructive of *themselves* than of all the things they mindlessly, stupidly hate so much.
I further recognize that that self-destruction is a deeply *positive* thing for the country, the world and the human race. The more, and more quickly, you folks wipe yourselves out, the greater the chance for the species to survive.
The sad part, of course, is that your hatred and stupidity is *still* bound to get lots of decent, innocent people killed as well --as it's already done.
Your criminal psychopath governor in Texas --*desperate* to distract folks from his epic criminal negligence and complicity in the disaster that's just hit his state, and secure in the knowledge that folks like you are stupid enough to happily help him do that-- has just *murdered* tens of thousands of his own people with his self-serving action yesterday.
Yes, the decent of us take some small comfort in the fact that most of the harm you morons inflict will fall on yourselves, but that doesn't make it okay.
And, of course (again, I don't expect someone like you to have either the intellect or the honesty to grasp this), the chance remains that his, and your, epic stupidity and corruption will allow the virus to mutate in ways that could potentially unleash yet another catastrophe that could terribly hurt everyone.
But you morons essentially leave the decent no choice but to hope like hell that won't happen, continue to behave as rationally and thoughtfully as possible, and take comfort in the fact that in the meantime you're improving the overall climate by 'thinning' your own incredibly stupid and malicious herd.
So, again, thanks for that part, anyway.
We were going to go to Texas over Easter weekend to see my wife’s family. Not a damned chance now. Texas may quickly surpass Idaho as the dumbest state in the nation.
Seems the dumbest state in the nation is the one you are from.
Bullet_Proof wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
You cannot prove anything with just observation data, and we cannot run global weather experiments.
Exactly right. Since nothing can be proven with observation data, you cant claim that climate change caused a brief series of cold days. Trying to use fancy language like "induced" to dance around the subject is also disingenuous.
Well, I guess we can't know anything! Might as well give up trying!
^Very much a "last refuge" argument of somebody with nothing useful to add to the conversation.
joed|rt wrote:
Here we are over a year later.
Almost a year. We’re at about ~340 days.
Get your vaccines peeps!
eh no wrote:
A Typical LRC Idiot wrote:
Wait... I thought Texans were enjoying as much freedom as Kiwis. At least that's what I read on another thread on New Zealand.
So what restrictions did Texas have if there was already as much freedom as in New Zealand? I am really confused.
???
For the win.
New Zealand is currently in a lockdown. I believe it’s their second in the last month.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/03/auckland-lockdown-threatens-to-split-team-of-five-millionenergeticlotuseater wrote:
eh no wrote:
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For the win.
New Zealand is currently in a lockdown. I believe it’s their second in the last month.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/03/auckland-lockdown-threatens-to-split-team-of-five-million
I was going to say. Perhaps this is not the best time to gloat about how free New Zealand is.