We had a Flubro suspension for ad hominem attacks yesterday so Jim is serious about eliminating it.
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Somehow the Australian Coronavirus debate shows up a lot on my twitter feed. In spite of the lack of deaths there, there is massive opposition to anyone who won’t wear a mask. If any of our Flubro comments showed up in Australia twitter you can be sure they would be massively “ratioed”.
The key thing in some of these foreign lands, as it relates to masks and social distancing, is some sort of concept of shared and collective responsibility toward each other - any talk of freedom and liberty gets shot down as a stupid American value. I am glad that I became American this year and don’t have to put up with as much of that nonsense. In the foreign land that I came from the wait for an MRI was 1 year or more. But for a dog the wait was only a day because the system was private and not socialized. Anyone in this system just viewed the 1 year wait for humans as a “shared sacrifice” for the “communal good”. Any criticism of this system was immediately attacked because this 1 year wait almost seemed like a source of pride. Where will John Galt go if these favorable opinions of communal responsibility and shared sacrifice continue to rise in the USA?
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Im B4 K_POS.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
Welcome to your life AS AN AMERICAN!
You will never regret it.
Other countries look good (Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, etc.) but, despite the problems here, our Founding Fathers gave us an incredible start that undergirds all.
Missed the edict, thanks.
Makes me sad to encounter a lot of conservatives in my everday life engaging in mask shaming activities these days.
If you posted this on 22 July 2020, that means the zot happened today, or maybe hasn’t happened yet.
Who will it be?
I have never worn a mask. I will not wear a mask. I do have a wife who puts one on from time to time. But I will forgo weddings and funerals and mass until I can do it without a mask. I moved from my Illinois house to my Wisconsin cabin because here I can go into bars, get a hair cut and go to bars without a mask. In fact I rarely see a mask, and there is almost no virus here. Even if the law makes it to here I will go down without the mask.
So, I sat down and watched a little boob tube last night. Lethal Weapon 2. A few weeks ago, all the commercials were “We’re all in this together. Stay strong. Stay home and don’t kill my grandma, blah, blah, blah.” Now, they have switched to something more pathetic. “What is the first thing that you want to do when they let you go back out? We will be waiting here for you.” I almost had Mel Gibson shoot the TV.