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Bully whoever is in charge

mardi 3 novembre 2020 à 01:00

*It's not just Trump — to much of the world, the US is a bully whoever is in charge.*

Biden won't change this much, but Sanders would have.

Covidiots

mardi 3 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Covidiots in many European countries are protesting against measures to put an end to Covid-19, in two fundamentally different ways.

This article describes demands for aid and demands to spread disease. It does distinguish the two goals, but still treats them as part of one larger issue. That is a mistake. Those two reactions to the same situation are totally different in moral terms.

When people have lost their income and demand aid, their cause is just, and the government should provide it. However, to do this the government may need to pull out of the Euro, or it fall into the sort of disaster that crushed Greece for most of the past decade.

However, the people that demand to disregard precautions are demanding to infect other people, some of whom will be killed or permanently disabled. They are disease spreaders, and they belong in prison. It would be most appropriate to put them, together, in a prison which the guards do not enter. That way they can spread coronavirus to each other without endangering anyone else.

The thugs who shot Walter Wallace Jr

lundi 2 novembre 2020 à 01:00

The thugs who shot Walter Wallace Jr did not have an urgent reason to shoot. They could have waited to see if they could handle the situation without shooting. They could even have stopped after one shot.

And why in the world, when the city got a call about having a mental crisis, did it send thugs without tasers?

With "Defund the Police", the city would have been able to send people trained and equipped to handle such a crisis without hurting anyone. That is why I support that campaign.

High forests burning

lundi 2 novembre 2020 à 01:00

Colorado's high forests, which never got hot enough to burn, are burning very hot. One fire has been burning since August.

The average western fire season has extended more than two months since the 1970s. Global heating has gone 1C already and it will probably go at least another 1C; how long will the fire season be then?

The bully told Americans that Covid-19 can't hurt anyone except a few losers

lundi 2 novembre 2020 à 01:00

This story described how it killed first the author's stepfather, then her mother, as the bully told Americans that Covid-19 can't hurt anyone except a few losers.

The mother caught it from the stepfather, who caught it from people who were treating him for an injury, and they probably caught it indirectly from people who spread it because they believed what the bully told them.