The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

[Hammy]

Last year when Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's were canceled, our overlords said not to worry, because everything would be normal this year.

But now they're saying it'll probably all be canceled this year too.

I don't have the articles handy, but I saw this a week or two ago.

People are getting unhinged with both the gaslighting and citing sources they conveniently can't supply.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Disgusting piece of trash with no redeeming qualities.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hilarious that the most extreme Delta doomer in this thread is now someone named "CentristRepublican," should we change the thread title now?

His comments are not anything near being an "extreme Delta doomer."
Any no where did he say he wants "masks and restrictions forever" (the actual thread title you make light of).
Learn to read.

His only contributions to this thread in this thread are condescendingly telling us that he's socially distancing and masking and everyone else who isn't is an idiot, doubting the effectiveness of vaccines by overexaggerating the dangers of breakthrough cases due to his own paranoia, and putting his ignorance about viral diseases on full display by not knowing that the flu is deadly. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as a "doomer."

Besides, as you pointed out already, my only other contribution is this thread is pointing out what a ridiculous premise this question is since it's an overexaggeration and mask authoritians exist on all sides of the political spectrum and I was merely pointing out how it was funny that both the OP and CentristRepublican are both self described moderate Republicans.

So I think you and your friend are the ones who actually need to learn how to read.

A lot of "self described moderate Republicans" on here are actually communists.  This might cause a stir but hear me out. The word "liberal" implies you're for personal and economic freedoms.  The mask cult is not for either.  Advocating for control of businesses and personal affairs before 2020 would have been an insane fringe position.  Normalizing it has caused nothing but trouble.  Time to call it what it is — communism.  If you support lockdowns and mask mandates, you are advocating for communism.

[TheReckoning]

A new study conducted by the Mayo Clinic indicates that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has substantially reduced protection against Delta, down to 42%, while Moderna has held up better, at 76%. One can choose to take the viewpoint that breakthrough infections are nothing to worry about as long as it doesn't result in hospitalization, but it now must be acknowledged that breakthrough infections are not rare fluke events and that the vaccines do not make one safe against COVID-19 infection.

In July, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization has remained high (mRNA-1273: 81%, 95% CI: 33-96.3%; BNT162b2: 75%, 95% CI: 24-93.9%), but effectiveness against infection was lower for both vaccines (mRNA-1273: 76%, 95% CI: 58-87%; BNT162b2: 42%, 95% CI: 13-62%), with a more pronounced reduction for BNT162b2.

Here mRNA-1273 = Moderna, BNT162b2 = Pfizer/BioNTech.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v2

Which is why masks need to be mandated for the time being.  The vaccines are great, but their effectiveness is waning with more variants popping up.  We need more measures, besides just vaccines, to combat this virus.

[Kuumo]

Franco shoots and rapes his way across Andalusia to destroy judeo-bolshevism.

Wow, says blue avatar, i think this man is two points two high on the y axis of the political conpass!!

If you bothered to read this thread, you’d know I was talking about authoritarianism compared to Trump. Both are authoritarians, Franco indisputably moreso, but Franco was also more competent, and cared about his population more.

Also, Lincoln arguably shot and raped his way through the Southern United States.

Also, “Judeo-Bolshevism”? Really?

Yes really Franco absolutely believes that Jews and Masons were behind international communism. Franco’s competency is arguably a bad thing, as he competently  implemented a fascist regime.

Also your little lost cause thing was noticed.

In what way was Franco’s war tactics different than Lincoln’s?

Also, Franco dropped fascism after WW2, realizing what it did in Germany and Italy, and didn’t persecute the Jews anymore than any other European regime.

I feel like you’re salty towards me because I said I didn’t think you were too special of a poster. No hard feelings, dude.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Franco shoots and rapes his way across Andalusia to destroy judeo-bolshevism.

Wow, says blue avatar, i think this man is two points two high on the y axis of the political conpass!!

If you bothered to read this thread, you’d know I was talking about authoritarianism compared to Trump. Both are authoritarians, Franco indisputably moreso, but Franco was also more competent, and cared about his population more.

Also, Lincoln arguably shot and raped his way through the Southern United States.

Also, “Judeo-Bolshevism”? Really?

Yes really Franco absolutely believes that Jews and Masons were behind international communism. Franco’s competency is arguably a bad thing, as he competently  implemented a fascist regime.

Also your little lost cause thing was noticed.

In what way was Franco’s war tactics different than Lincoln’s?

Also, Franco dropped fascism after WW2, realizing what it did in Germany and Italy, and didn’t persecute the Jews anymore than any other European regime.

I feel like you’re salty towards me because I said I didn’t think you were too special of a poster. No hard feelings, dude.

Education sucks in this country.

[AtorBoltox]

Why even bring up fascism? It killed by far the fewest out of the 20th century's ideologies.

I do wonder if people who obsess over fascism/nazism are lowkey white supremacists since I guess russian/chinese dead from communism or the even larger amount of third world dead due to the chaos caused by poorly-handled decolonization pushed by the US don't seem to matter. >_>

[Continential]

honestly you could justify anything you want if you somehow pull off a gore victory... man was as unelectable as mcgovern imo

lewinsky scandal making democrats turn out for partisan reason and the gop running a barely literate religious fruitcake is why gore got north of 150 electoral votes and might have gotten more popular votes

[Wells]

Identifying solely as a white person in this country puts you at a disadvantage in pretty much all aspects of your life - whether it be employment, scholarships, and the list goes on.  You'd be foolish to continue doing so if you have any asperations.  I'd advise my children of that too.

[Xing]

From a user who has “improved greatly”, lol.

It seems that New Hampshire (Chris Sununu), Nevada (Adam Laxalt), Arizona (Mark Brnovich), and Georgia (Herschel Walker) are guaranteed pickups for the Republicans

[Stuart98]

We should taken the Hiroshima and Nagasaki approach with the Taliban.

Drop a nuke on Kandahar if they don't turn over Bin Laden within twenty-four hours, then after another twenty-four hours drop a nuke on Mazar-i-Sharif. Repeat with other Afghan cities until Bin Laden is turned over.

Instead of invading Iraq, which was not responsible at all, go to war against an actually guilty party-Saudi Arabia.

[Roll Roons]

China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

Is that actually happening, though, or is it just a right-wing plot to make Americans hate China?

The Democrats are going to lose the House by a wide margin, and Speaker McCarthy will make sure that Biden and Harris are imprisoned, thus becoming President.

It almost feels like cheating to include SnowLabrador's posts on here.

[TheReckoning]

They will increase because Americans are extremely selfish people who would rather spend money here than spend it abroad helping Afghans.

Are we supposed to ignore American citizens in favor of Afghan citizens? What country puts other countries first?

Honestly my answer to this is yes. I'm an internationalist, who views the world as one community, and Americans are already very privileged compared to the rest of the world. Foreign aid spent in the third world is much more morally superior than money spent here.

[S019]

Massive FF and patriot.

[Hammy]

you could end all this panic by just forcing journalists to stop talking about it and getting rid of government/corporate rules related to it

why keep the hysteria going?

Just bury your head in the sand and yell as loudly as you can and pretend it's not reality because it goes against your narrative is literally all these people have left.

[S019]

Let's just put both of these here:

yes. the msm needs to be imprisoned.

weve got lots of nice desert in arizona or tundra in alaska to build internment camps to hold journalists

"democracy" and "functioning" are incompatible

just ask a resident of venezuela or zimbabwe or an elderly german jew who remembers 1933-45 how well democracy works

[Pro-Israel, anti-Bibi]

Biden is on pace for Rushmore. Let's hope he doesn't blow it.

The immediate response from OSR is the ignorant comment.

[7,052,770]

Biden is on pace for Rushmore. Let's hope he doesn't blow it.

Yeah, I probably was thinking too small with just Rushmore. They'll also be recarving the Statue of Liberty into Biden one day, as well as the Christ the Redeemer Statue and maybe even painting over the Mona Lisa with his face.

[S019]

Gretchen Whitmer.  Then Newsom.

DeSantis is the best Governor.

[Stuart98]

Biden should ordered CNN HQ shutdown and have Jake Tapper, Chris Cuomo and others arrested for inciting chaos.

[beesley]

America is the dominant economic, cultural, scientific, and military power in the world.  Our ideas of geopolitical morality have dominated the global conversation for over a century since Wilson's Fourteen Points.  The Apollo Program, the Manhattan Project, the invention of the internet, our victories in WW2 and the Cold War, and the eradication/mitigation of most deadly diseases, are all tremendous accomplishments that will still be studied and talked about 1,000 years from now.  We have built most of the engineering marvels of the modern world, including the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, the transcontinental railroad, the interstate highway system, the Golden Gate Bridge and (until 1998) all the world's skyscrapers. We have the highest standard of living in the world[/b] and continue to push the envelope on what that even means. We take civil rights more seriously than any other nation in the worldand continue to use our global influence to force other nations to follow our lead, improving life for billions of people around the globe.

Yes, we are a great country.  Four years of having used toilet paper for a president doesn't change that.

You know people think I hate the US, which is untrue, there's a lot to like and dislike, but this is delusional.

[Cassius]

Until the part about highest standard of living in the world he isn’t especially wrong.

[Alcibiades]

Until the part about highest standard of living in the world he isn’t especially wrong.

All the world’s skyscrapers until 1998? Granted it’s not egregious in terms of the overall point he’s making, just bizarrely straight-up factually incorrect.

[parochial boy]

America is the dominant economic, cultural, scientific, and military power in the world.  Our ideas of geopolitical morality have dominated the global conversation for over a century since Wilson's Fourteen Points.  The Apollo Program, the Manhattan Project, the invention of the internet, our victories in WW2 and the Cold War, and the eradication/mitigation of most deadly diseases, are all tremendous accomplishments that will still be studied and talked about 1,000 years from now.  We have built most of the engineering marvels of the modern world, including the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal, the transcontinental railroad, the interstate highway system, the Golden Gate Bridge and (until 1998) all the world's skyscrapers. We have the highest standard of living in the world[/b] and continue to push the envelope on what that even means. We take civil rights more seriously than any other nation in the worldand continue to use our global influence to force other nations to follow our lead, improving life for billions of people around the globe.

Yes, we are a great country.  Four years of having used toilet paper for a president doesn't change that.

You know people think I hate the US, which is untrue, there's a lot to like and dislike, but this is delusional.

It’s amusing in that it’s regurgitating the sort of mindless, jingoistic propaganda that we tend to think to stereotype the Americans of spouting off when we want to think the worst of Americans. Luckily there are enough thoughtful posters on here to mean that is obviously not the case. But wow was it why it eye opening to realize that there are actually people like that. Pretty sad to be so brainwashed that you can ever admit your country might have flaws.

[Geoffrey Howe]

I think GMAC's point is broadly not a bad one, and it isn't inconsistent with seeing flaws in America. It's just that given who wrote, it couldn't escape from being at the same time extremely unctuous and grating in that way that the worst sort of American jingoism can be.