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Biden's vaccine rollout plan is not only going to make the situation worse, but lead to an explosion of antivaxxers as they watch and see them fail to actually work.

What's wrong with it?

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Biden's vaccine rollout plan is not only going to make the situation worse, but lead to an explosion of antivaxxers as they watch and see them fail to actually work.

What's wrong with it?

Biden plans to release all vaccine stock instead of holding half in reserve. The vaccines require boosters taken at specific intervals, and the only way to guarantee stock is to reserve half. So much for Democrats being the "party of science".

My understanding is the optimal interval is not known.

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Anyone who thinks the jurors in the Chauvin trial weren't under enormous pressure to convict to avoid widespread destruction across Minneapolis and the nation and threats to their own lives is kidding themselves.  Perhaps the verdict would have been the same without this threat, but we cannot know.   The threat of riot is incompatible with the ancient principle of trial by "the lawful judgment of his peers" as questions of guilt or innocence are left behind in favor of a scapegoat mechanism where one is sacrificed to protect the many.   This is a much greater danger to the institutions of government and justice in our society than any stolen election.

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Anyone who thinks the jurors in the Chauvin trial weren't under enormous pressure to convict to avoid widespread destruction across Minneapolis and the nation and threats to their own lives is kidding themselves.  Perhaps the verdict would have been the same without this threat, but we cannot know.   The threat of riot is incompatible with the ancient principle of trial by "the lawful judgment of his peers" as questions of guilt or innocence are left behind in favor of a scapegoat mechanism where one is sacrificed to protect the many.   This is a much greater danger to the institutions of government and justice in our society than any stolen election.

Cool story bro! Tell me, does this mean that the state jury that acquitted be La cops who beat the hell out of Rodney King were simply Noble upstanding individuals who defied the threat of riot?

There's no way to know exactly what they were thinking, but I don't believe the threat of riot was as salient, as there wasn't a recent precedent for it afaik.  Also that was at the high tide of crime in LA, so restraining police in any way may have itself been seen as the greater risk.  Besides which some people, maybe more then than now, felt if you drive drunk you are risking the life of innocent people and deserve whatever you get.  Seems like drunk driving was treated as a bigger deal in the culture back then, at least I heard a lot growing up about how bad it is.

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Anyone who thinks the jurors in the Chauvin trial weren't under enormous pressure to convict to avoid widespread destruction across Minneapolis and the nation and threats to their own lives is kidding themselves.  Perhaps the verdict would have been the same without this threat, but we cannot know.   The threat of riot is incompatible with the ancient principle of trial by "the lawful judgment of his peers" as questions of guilt or innocence are left behind in favor of a scapegoat mechanism where one is sacrificed to protect the many.   This is a much greater danger to the institutions of government and justice in our society than any stolen election.

Cool story bro! Tell me, does this mean that the state jury that acquitted be La cops who beat the hell out of Rodney King were simply Noble upstanding individuals who defied the threat of riot?

There's no way to know exactly what they were thinking, but I don't believe the threat of riot was as salient, as there wasn't a recent precedent for it afaik.  Also that was at the high tide of crime in LA, so restraining police in any way may have itself been seen as the greater risk.  Besides which some people, maybe more then than now, felt if you drive drunk you are risking the life of innocent people and deserve whatever you get.  Seems like drunk driving was treated as a bigger deal in the culture back then, at least I heard a lot growing up about how bad it is.

Wow that is some grade a bullsh*t right there. The attempt to try and portray the King jurors in a positive light while condemning the Chauvin ones is beyond hypocritical

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I'm so tired.

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Anyone who thinks the jurors in the Chauvin trial weren't under enormous pressure to convict to avoid widespread destruction across Minneapolis and the nation and threats to their own lives is kidding themselves.  Perhaps the verdict would have been the same without this threat, but we cannot know.   The threat of riot is incompatible with the ancient principle of trial by "the lawful judgment of his peers" as questions of guilt or innocence are left behind in favor of a scapegoat mechanism where one is sacrificed to protect the many.   This is a much greater danger to the institutions of government and justice in our society than any stolen election.

Cool story bro! Tell me, does this mean that the state jury that acquitted be La cops who beat the hell out of Rodney King were simply Noble upstanding individuals who defied the threat of riot?

There's no way to know exactly what they were thinking, but I don't believe the threat of riot was as salient, as there wasn't a recent precedent for it afaik.  Also that was at the high tide of crime in LA, so restraining police in any way may have itself been seen as the greater risk.  Besides which some people, maybe more then than now, felt if you drive drunk you are risking the life of innocent people and deserve whatever you get.  Seems like drunk driving was treated as a bigger deal in the culture back then, at least I heard a lot growing up about how bad it is.

Wow that is some grade a bullsh*t right there. The attempt to try and portray the King jurors in a positive light while condemning the Chauvin ones is beyond hypocritical

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I'm so tired.

It's hypocritical to say that one group of jurors were responding to the social pressures of their time and place, but also say that another group of jurors were responding to the social pressures of their time and place.

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That sex and reproduction are inherently connected in biology instead of reproduction being inherently its own thing that people can control independently leads to suboptimal human happiness in a lot of cases, and should be treated as an example of the unintelligent design aspect of arguments against Gods existence.

Sex serves an important function in humans and some other animals in promoting pair bonding, alongside its adaptive advantages to multicellular organisms generally. True there are drawbacks to sexual reproduction but its not clear another system would end up working better.