😎 It's maskless-brunch-time beibe 😎

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Just read the article, what a ride. This asshole spends like two-thirds of the article highlighting how badly the US fucked up. Then does the whole Freakonomics-style "well AKSHULLY the US is gonna be the winner here" thing. He just ignores the OVER HALF A MILLION DEAD in the US and says since we're the leader in making vaccines, we win. And the US' is somehow using Covid to slingshot economic growth because reasons. And also China is using Covid to be a bully around the world and everyone thinks they're big meanies. Whatever dude, Covid showed the world we'll kill off hundreds of thousands of our own people just to make the line go up, everyone knows it and thinks we suck because of it. Cope harder.

  • CommunistFFWhen [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If the situation was reversed with China being heavily affected, these ghouls would probably pump out articles by the daily calling for the Chinese government to be tried for crime against humanity :agony:

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Haha, nice joke, haha, hahahahah

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I fucking love it, a normal person would read that headline and think “huh, they had a rough start, but I guess they beat the disease.” Haha, fuckin nope, they just claim to have beaten a different country in handling it. This is the chuddiest mindset I’ve ever seen.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Real "race you to the door no no I win because I touched the doorknob first" vibe here.

    Or to quote the recently-discussed Kung Pow: Enter the Fist: "he thinks losing is winning!"

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      recently-discussed Kung Pow

      Damn, where is that discussion of such masterpiece of kino

  • SweetCheeks [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    the US really is the worst. do absolutely fuck all for a year and then at the last minute hord all the world's vaccines to fix the issue.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger distinguished professor of global affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is also a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

    • Janked [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Hal Brands is a piss shit poo poo pee pee dick fuck doodoo ass dumb fuck

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The “clown putting on makeup meme”

      • Bloomberg columnist

      • Scholar at American enterprise institute

      • Henry Kissinger distinguished professor

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Watching the US Challenger exploding during lift off, then penning an article about the success of the Space Shuttle.

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Didn't know a pandemic is something you can "win". Very cool!