• Commander_Data [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It's hard to even fault Democrats. Republicans are going to romp in November solely on the "masks, vaccine mandates and lockdowns are bad" message. The US is a nation of spoiled children that have never been told no and this is the result. No policy implementation could have changed this outcome. The US is a blight on the world.

      • Commander_Data [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        People don't want to be slightly inconvenienced by wearing a mask. If we had kept spring 2020 level virus control protocols in place it would be even worse. The US is beyond redemption.

          • Commander_Data [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I'm sorry but your position is naive. If we had done full China zero covid response and a million people hadn't died the "but at what cost" folks would be winning even harder.

            • Deadend [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              But we would still have countries that did fuck all and got dead people.

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Fuck em, we'd have not-murdered a million+ people and probably saved the rest of the planet a lot of pain from us being a turbo evolution petri dish

          • Commander_Data [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm not being an apologist for Democrats, just pointing out what a giant sack of garbage the average American is.

            • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              When some of them want a nuclear exchange with Russia, and believe they could win, I knew the peace time truly make them entitle.

          • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Do they even realize that they are basically acting like how they perceive liberals? As self-entitled "me me me" people that have no regard for civic duty and consider that oppression.

            MFW everyone is getting COVID because the actually smart people lost a culture war to legions of idiots.

    • Vizuzia [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      A dictatorship of the proletariat could have changed this outcome 😤

    • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I used to think individualism was a flawless thing, but now I want enough collectivism so people can act like adults instead of every time we get a solution, large swathes of people disobey for the sake of "nyah nyah! I can do whatever I want and no one tells ME what to do!*"

      ** = Does not apply to LGBT people or black people or women or practicing non-Christian religions or no religion whatsoever

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

      It’s hard to even fault Democrats.

      Not that hard. They tried nothing and they're all out of ideas.

      • Commander_Data [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The point is the nothing that they did has been seen as government overreach by a really huge portion of the electorate. We all know the Democrats are beyond reforming. The comment is to illustrate how individualism is literally the only American value.