https://archive.ph/2022.05.13-101020/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/china-zero-covid-xi.html

  • justjoshint [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    americans will really tell you with a straight face that they'd rather die than have any inconvenience placed on them by the government no matter how mild and important it might be

      • justjoshint [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        i'll eat like 8 slices of whole wheat bread in a day every once in a while. i can't get enough of this shit. it'll catch up to me but its worth it

        • sappho [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Covid has caused celiac diagnoses to go up 4x. It triggered mine. Eat that bread while you can comrade

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Who can blame them when all they have seen is years of dragged out ineffective half measures? I don’t want that to continue either, it was ineffective.

        We needed hard and fast crackdowns way earlier, similar to China. Anything short of that is pissing in the ocean

          • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            It’s hilarious the victim complex of American Chuds. The restrictions on them, especially in rightwing and rural areas, was basically non-existent. They had to get a vaccine shot and wear a mask in some grocery markets for a couple months. That’s it. Fucking children.

            • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Nobody even had to get the shot. Nobody forced anyone. Same with masks outside of doctors offices.

              I live in a small trumpy town, and people kept going to the store and taking maskless selfies and posting them on the local FB pages and saying "look! No mask!" as of there is a single lib within 25 miles of here to "own"

              • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Well if they worked for the government or certain companies they did, or they had to quit/be fired.

                • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  True. I kinda forgot about that. I've always worked for very small companies

              • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                Hey, a fellow small town burger lefty!

                I remember the absolute outrage too, them claiming that they are oppressed yet I am the odd man (err...enby) out for wearing masks. Soon enough I'll have enough money to GTFO, whether that be in another country or a small enclave in the US idk, I'm tired of being an impostor.

                :ursus-hexagonia: :ursus-hexagonia: :ursus-hexagonia: :ursus-hexagonia: :ursus-hexagonia: :ursus-hexagonia:

                • CrimsonDynamo [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  I actually chose to live here. It's in the middle of the woods, and I live just far enough outside of the town part to really have to interact with any of them.

                  Pretty much everyone that lives here is related to one of two families, and they all know each other at the store, bar or... The other bar. I just try not to engage, because I stick out like a sore thumb. Everyone has been pleasant, but I can read their yard signs and bumper stickers loud and clear.

                  In the last major election, my wife and I voted for Howie Hawkins. You can check the percentages of how people vote in our township, and out of 300, 8 people voted for him. I have company somewhere

                  • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    Glad you found somewhere you like. The main reason I want to get away aside from the CHUDs is the fact that I have never really left my hometown and I kind of want to change that.

              • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                as of there is a single lib within 25 miles of here to “own”

                'cept you of course

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I'm a commie in burgerstan and I barely give a shit anymore. I have to work and there's no institutional support for any ongoing safety measures. There's nothing I can do, so fuck it.

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Petulant babies, an entire nation with oppositional defiance disorders

      Libertarianism melts your brain