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  1. ChrisJones
    The electoral college certified Bidens win with 306 votes to 232 for Trump. Would you support the overhaul of a system that would allow congress, rather than the people, to elect their government representatives? That is what is essentially at play here. The nulling of 150+ million votes to allow a couple of hundred people that are already in power to decide who remains in power.
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    True but if human to human contact is part of the problem, population density will have been a factor in it. Plus their geographical distance and the watching the world struggle must have helped too. They went in hard from the top down but they locked down quite rigorously from my understanding. Same this side of the Atlantic but still it rages. Our respective governments are clearly incompetent so why are we expecting them to fix the problem that they keep making worse? We know they're useless so why would this be any different? At what point does the average bloke start takin
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    Totally agree with you there, mate, but I can't accept that's the way to behave in a free country and given the CCP's totalitarian control on the media I still don't believe it was the success story they're making it out to be. I certainly wouldn't want to see that kind of government response in either of our nations but I also would like to see this brought under control with as little a fuss as we can muster. It will take mass compliance but I'd rather it was done through the free will of an educated citizenry than via the gun barrel of the state, if that makes sense? I think we al
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    I couldn't edit my post above but I thought this was an interesting addition. Australia's population density is 8 people per mile² New York is 26,403 people per mile² London is 14,670 people per mile² The New York metropolitan area has roughly 2 million more people in it than the entire country of Australia. Could that have helped the Aussies?
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    By doing exactly what we're arguing against. Would you agree that their mass compliance helped?
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    She does a lot of work for charity, mate...
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    I'd tend to agree but I'd reckon that would be more to do with the fact that they have a lot more experience with these viruses whereas we've just ignored it until the body count meant we couldn't look away any more. Is there anything other than Chinese state media reporting any conflicting data? Especially as the CCP has just jailed the woman who reported conflicting data to the Chinese state narrative?
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    She donated $1m to the development of the Moderna C-19 vaccine...
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    We do have choices but aside from getting rid of the drunken crew that's steering this ship no one really seems to want to adopt the preventative measures, en masse, to get us heading in the right direction. This side of the Atlantic our shepherd hardly mentions it and constantly contradicts people who a much better idea about it than he does and that's just a glimpse of what a sh*t state we're in. I agree with what you're saying about how it's been handled but surely we have to agree as citizens that if we don't do something differently, and for the better, this sh*t is going to rage on
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    I can't argue with that Max but it's very utopian, granted you've not been given that option over there. This side of the Atlantic the lockdowns have been pretty sparse since the initial outbreak, yet we're over 330k cases. We have a robust private sector medical system that has shown about the same ability to cope as your public sector system. In a perfect world your solution would be something I'd agree to but with the amount of f*ckery in play we're both having a rough time of it. Given that solution how would you suggest we get there given the current circumstances? Bearing in mind th
  11. ChrisJones
    Rewatching Longmire on Netflix. Still as good as it was the first time around.
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    What scale is that? Both situations are wrong. What is right?
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    Absolutely. I can't argue with that at all. Risk is everywhere and we all have to calculate that as individuals. I know my risk is low. Same with my immediate family. My parents are in the highly elevated risk group through their age. My mother and father in law are in the extreme risk group because of their advanced ages and underlying health conditions. My neighbours are a combination of all factors, it's killed my grandad and my mam's neighbour (both in their 90's) and this is all playing out in both rural and urban areas on two continents. That's for me personally. The people I know that h
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    Who doesn't? I'm asking max, and anyone else, how you measure the risk associated with letting the virus rip through the most vulnerable community? I don't get on as much as I used to up, and you may have answered this, but do you distance? Mask up? What worth do you put on your elderly neighbours/relatives? I know you're anti-vaccine, and that's entirely up to you but do you take any precautions at all to stop potentially endangering anyone?
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    How do you measure the worth of those at extreme risk? This thread is very busy and you probably missed it, no worries, but how do you measure the worth of those that will be effected by the virus?
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    I've heard a few grumblings about it, and we'll see what happens next week. The odds are getting longer and longer and despite the YouTube posts the evidence simply isn't stacking up. If he does manage to overturn the result it will be to seize the power back, not to prove any sort of election fraud. It isn't to check and balance it's to disenfranchise millions of voters. Essentially the people that are funding this laughable farce. He's had all the legal channels to challenge the result, and he's well within his rights to pursue that. He has not been able to produce any evidence to the l
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    Are we finally going to start the Biden thread?
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    Absolutely but I still don't believe it's worth that risk. I can't just look at my family, and say "F*ck em, they shouldn't have filled up on butter and sugar post WW2." I understand that the risk increases from most things, with age, but I just feel that I shouldn't be personally responsible for accelerating something that I know I could avoid, hence my comment about worth. Again I understand why people don't want the jab but I don't want to attend a funeral over something I could have possibly prevented either, if that makes sense.
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    I've posted the point before but what do you consider the worth of your elderly relatives and neighbours? Again whether anyone gets one, or not, is none of my business and I couldn't care either way but then I'm not worried about me catching the virus. I'm concerned about passing it on to someone that could potentially have a much worse time of it than I would. I watched that scenario play out in real time in the last couple of months of 2020. I understand the concern of getting the jab but I'm more concerned with the factors behind letting this rage on for the next 6-12 months.
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    I do and I can't argue with it at all. I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a factor in my tactical relocation. As you know I'm a huge advocate for gutting some of these public ideas and letting the average citizen keep their money and then they get to decide how they want to spend it. They fail to prepare they prepare to fail, which is basically the default setting for humanity. That's another one of those comments where the words nazi gets thrown around. Saying you want to shrink the power of LE and the military gets you labelled a bleeding heart liberal... The fundamental point is t
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    Agreed. I will say Johnny's cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" is one of the few I've heard where I reckon it was better than the original.
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    Original... Cover... Not necessarily an improvement but a worthy cover, none the less.
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    Absolutely. Work should be Monday - Wednesday.
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    It's bonkers when you see just how much of it evaporates into thin air. A few years back, in this thread, I posted a Forbes link that showed how the US military was able to get extra money for materials (billions) and no one knew where it came from. It wasn't directly approved through the correct legal channels, yet there it was plain as day in millions of $s in brand new unused hardware. No one has yet been available for comment on just how that happened and public apathy/disinterest has allowed it to just disappear into the ether completely unchecked. "Politics is the entertainment divi
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    ... and through public apathy we've given the state the monopoly on the power, and sometimes violence, they choose to enforce it.
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