2020 Election MEGAthread

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Woke Locc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And then JFK Jr stood up and clapped

Wait? You're questioning my source? I confirmed this Chinese guy on the right made this video and said all this stuff I paraphrased! That's crazy you would call that guy a liar, he's wearing glasses and has lips!

You should scan that QAnon...errr....QR code in the corner, there's truth in there!

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I sent this link to the FBI and haven't heard back which means they're investigating for sure!

[Jibartik]

I want to be clear, I agree with you about everting except 9 months ago I said worst case scenario was 300k deaths and a country too apathetic to care about it.

So I was basically right. I mean I didnt think we'd come close to my worse case scenario, but I was right about how virulent it would be. And I was pro social distance/masks from the start! (I just expected with how virulent it would be, with rational acceptance of reality, modern conveniences and medicine, it would only last 6-9 months, but we stretched it out to a year or 2 by making it an election issue :smacksforeahd: )

I also remember trump being reluctant on ventliators but the china thing I do remember saying "oh here we go the dems are saying he's being xenaphobe, lets remember that when they say they were all trying to stop the spread of the virus when everyone eventaully realizes what is about to happen"

This is just inexcusable to me (even with your color) at no point would letting (what would be aroud 300k I assumed) people die to save face at the expense of risking my life would I ever think that would be ok:

Trump gathered his top men and everyone decided that while they couldn't be sure if the Yan Li-meng documents were real, many of the claims were being rapidly confirmed by independent observation. Appraised of the waning stock of PPE and the general unreadiness of the US healthcare system to deal with what could be a very virulent episode, Trump decided not to disseminate the Yan Li-meng information at that time and play the virus down to prevent any panic should the documents become public anyway.

It makes me think that asteroid they say is gonna be small and miss us is actually gonna be the size of Kentucky and land on Kentucky.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is just inexcusable to me (even with your color) at no point would letting (what would be aroud 300k I assumed) people die to save face at the expense of risking my life would I ever think that would be ok.

Not accustomed to dealing with Asia then. Saving face is important. Consider you are dealing with a communist country that will happily play hot ditch action. Numbers, faces.. what do they matter? The party must look strong and clean. Looks are important. Having a good, smiling and triumphant face is important.

Sadly, you would end up killing far more.

"Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!"

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Consider you are dealing with a communist country that will happily play hot ditch action. Numbers, faces.. what do they matter?

I've been playing a lot of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS so like you I'm an expert and I concur. He's so naive to think life means anything. That's a new concept, conveniently brought to you by white people from Europe. Unfortunately Asia has been hard to penetrate so the sense of people being individuals and having free will never really reached that far.

Jibartik:

The Great Leap Forward was a five-year plan of forced agricultural collectivization and rural industrialization that was instituted by the Chinese Communist Party in 1958, which resulted in a sharp contraction in the Chinese economy and between 30 to 55 million deaths by starvation, execution, torture, forced labor, and suicide out of desperation. It was the largest single, non-wartime campaign of mass killing in human history.

Sixty years ago the Chinese leadership just outright killed 50 million of their own people and then went to bed at night and slept just fine.

Did you know that? Did you know they got schoolchildren to kill all their teachers and then they machinegunned the children later as a reward, job well done? Now they have new teachers and new students and pictures of the people responsible are hung in Chinese schoolrooms to this day.

Think about that next time anyone presents any information coming out of China and says oh yeah, this forms some kind of basis for an argument I'm about to make.

[Topgunben]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've been playing a lot of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS so like you I'm an expert and I concur. He's so naive to think life means anything. That's a new concept, conveniently brought to you by white people from Europe. Unfortunately Asia has been hard to penetrate so the sense of people being individuals and having free will never really reached that far.

Jibartik:



Sixty years ago the Chinese leadership just outright killed 50 million of their own people and then went to bed at night and slept just fine.

Did you know that? Did you know they got schoolchildren to kill all their teachers and then they machinegunned the children later as a reward, job well done? Now they have new teachers and new students and pictures of the people responsible are hung in Chinese schoolrooms to this day.

Think about that next time anyone presents any information coming out of China and says oh yeah, this forms some kind of basis for an argument I'm about to make.

If the US has truely lost 250k people from Covid, how many has China really lost?

[FatherSioux]

Originally Posted by Topgunben [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If the US has truely lost 250k people from Covid, how many has China really lost?

The stats from China are hilarious. They claim under 100k cases. Under 6k deaths. But Jib here will tell you how poorly we’re doing on testing.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've been playing a lot of Total War: THREE KINGDOMS so like you I'm an expert and I concur. He's so naive to think life means anything. That's a new concept, conveniently brought to you by white people from Europe. Unfortunately Asia has been hard to penetrate so the sense of people being individuals and having free will never really reached that far.

Word. The Bible is one of the testaments to the value of life iirc. I think of Stalin when Athiests in America shit on everything while taking full advantage of its safeties.

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We can be moral and hold things together without the need for a spooky man in the sky watching over everything. I have a brain.

Cool, use it in a place where your diaper isn't changed for you.

[Jibartik]

I will not lie I did think there was a slim chance we'd all be fighting to get stuffed onto container ships evacuating with dramatic overhead camera angles in my minds eye like it was a zack snider end of days containment movie. But that I kept to myself lol

[Jibartik]

Yeah that's what I'm saying trump is anything but slow and deliberate, am I wrong about that? That's what my argument about the SC packing was all about. That's what my list of 6 reasons trump is radical up there was all about.

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[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah that's what I'm saying trump is anything but slow and deliberate, am I wrong about that?

Yes.

We think long term. We're like the Bene Gesserit, without all that hot lesbian sex.

If we have to move fast on policy in the short term to ensure long term stability, it is what it is.

"It is what it is" - Gaius Helen Mohiam