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It nearly always hurts those it purports to help.

The world doesn’t conform to the way the ideologues want it to.

This is why communism MUST be brutally repressive.

Our species is self interested and pragmatic by nature, capable of both great acts of selflessness and selfishness.

Systems and ideologies always run into those contradictions.

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This is why communism MUST be brutally repressive.

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Now imagine if someone had come up to you two years ago and said--
A few months from now, a novel Coronavirus will spread around the world. The virus will definitely be a problem, and a LOT of people will needlessly die.
Yet government data will eventually show the virus to have a 98.3% survival rate… and a survival rate of more than 99.8% for people under the age of 75 who aren’t morbidly obese.
Despite this data, however, the virus will be treated as the worst thing in the history of the world by politicians, the media, and unelected public health officials.
They will wage a crusade to eradicate the world of this virus, no matter the cost. They will systematically dismantle the core pillars of modern society, from private property rights to individual liberty.
Some of the most advanced representative democracies in the world, like Australia, will literally deploy the military to the streets in order to keep people locked in their homes… essentially at gunpoint.
And governments will indebt themselves by tens of trillions of dollars, going so far as to pay people to stay at home and NOT work.
Politicians will assume unlimited spending authority and use the pandemic as an excuse for every entitlement pet project they’ve ever conceived.
Inflation around the world will surge as a result of this orgy of debt and money printing, but central bankers will dismiss the data and pretend that everything is fine.
Meanwhile, the scientific community will lose all objectivity. They’ll claim, for example, that protesters against racial injustice are exempt from following public health lockdowns because of their moral righteousness.
Yet simultaneously they’ll say that people protesting against public health lockdowns are a danger to society.
Pharmaceuticals companies will be given total immunity from prosecution and liability to develop a host of vaccines to combat the spread of the virus.
The initial clinical trial data will show significant promise in keeping people safe from severe infection. However long-term studies, by definition, will not exist for a number of years.
Despite these limitations, world governments will push these vaccines on the global population. Some will make vaccination mandatory; others will subjugate the unvaccinated population and take away their most basic freedoms until they submit.
Personal choice will no longer be an option. Anyone who hesitates or dares ask a question will be ridiculed as a selfish murder by social media. And the Big Tech companies will squash intellectual dissent.
Even prize-winning, highly respected scientists will be censored for expressing views that don’t conform to the official narrative.
And then, after nearly 18 months, just when you think the pandemic is over, a new variant will emerge… and public health officials will go right back to the same policies all over again.

I’m done with them. The state should provide proof of vax to those who got it, and let the private sector impose the mandates. They will and have every right to do so despite how loud the plague rats scream. As Gov. Noem has said, it’s a hot job market. Don’t like your employer’s mandate? Take yer game to South Beach.

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different path...definitely not an "anti-vaxer".

Why didn't you read before posting?

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side of the political spectrum...you don't take the opportunity to disagree with him, but rather add the supporting commentary that the Left won't criticize her (i.e. don't hold your breath waiting for the 'Libs' to call her 'stupid' or 'evil') because she's one of them...ergo, you support the contention by Ara that she's an "anti-vaxer"...and hence the source of my post which refers to her strongly expressed desire to get all Bostonians vaccinated...albeit, by other means than mandates.

You can settle all this very quickly by avowing that indeed, you really meant to say that Boston's mayor is strongly in favor of getting all her constituents vaccinated and that she simply prefers to not use mandates to achieve that end...thus disavowing Ara's contention and my reading of your post.

What say you?

except for the fact that she is black.

In reality, most reasonable people (left, right, or in between) would realize that she isn’t any of those things and her skin color has zero to do with it.

He has truly jumped the shark into right wing crazy land.

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Why do you lie?

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Damn, I thought you were infallible after reading your numerous posts correcting conservative posters.

share your thoughts on whatever topic interests you.

I didn't say she was an "anti-vaxxer," but opposing mandates is sufficient to be the target of all sorts of epithets by the Deranged Left these days. Such a group of profoundly angry and unhappy people. One might label it, oh how did that general say it, "white rage?" "Privileged White Rage" is probably more accurate. Ever notice that with the Left ragers? The libs raging about COVID are entirely from the economic strata far above the proles.

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