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@TenaciousGoat When they told people who already had covid (supposedly as the tests are bullshit) that they still needed to get the vaxx, that was a huge red flag. And the whole "what's natural immunity" from the media insisting it did not exist was enraging, especially everyone who remembers how when they got chicken pox as a kid it meant that they could not get it again (though there is a real vaccine for that, not the mRNA bullshit).

@narada If you have any real merit when it comes to a realm of knowledge, it matters not if you are a "real person" with "credentials" and/or a degree or are some rando with a anime profile picture. You should be capable of showing how knowledgeable you are.

The moment someone says "I have a degree/I have a doctorate" tells me that their self-proclaimed merit should be put into question.

@shortstories That certainly happens too. I am talking about those that are "true believers." The true believers are always there, and they can certainly always have their numbers padded by paid protestors too. That is part of the propaganda, to say "look how many people are protesting!"

When someone on the left is in power, then those paid protestors are no longer padding the numbers, while the true believers are still there, ignored by the media as they are no longer useful.

So if you ever wonder "where is the anti-war left when Obama is dropping bombs on foreign countries?" they are probably out there protesting all the same. It is just that they are only amplified as "important" by the media when it is convenient to their narrative.

This applies for many, many other issue, because it turns out that leftist useful idiots are no longer important once the left has power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k

Something about what was said in this video is worth bringing up. Not whether or not she is an idiot for being a communist, but the "I protested against Obama" part.

I do not doubt that she did. The reason why those like Piers Morgan do not believe her is because when she was protesting Obama, it got ignored because she was not useful to the leftist establishment. They only care to highlight such protests when someone on the right is in power.

@teknomunk @LouisConde Meanwhile...

And in some cases, there are people who are simply apathetic to politics. When I first talked to these people who simply chose to write in Mickey Mouse or any other fictional character for President, I used to get upset because "their vote could have made a difference." But now, I realize that they are by no means any problem. Especially not compared to those who are the low-information type that keep voting for more freebees from the government.

Whenever I hear "if you have a problem with it, you need to vote," they fail to understand that many of the problems cannot be voted away. Along with that, they never should have been problems that would have been brought to a vote in the first place. That is, government should have remained less of a factor in our lives, thus making the vote "less critical."

Even when voting is counted fairly and all that, in most cases one vote means very little with the vast number of votes. Though this is more of a size of population issue rather than democracy/republicanism itself.

Also, getting the most votes for a candidate/issue does not mean that the outcome is actually the best. Rather, it is just the outcome that is most popular.

This is not say that other forms of government that do not have voting are really better. Rather, I am saying that voting currently is not really solving problems that it claims it should do. Too often we have judges overturn the votes of the people (see: all the states that voted against gay marriage as amendments, California going from Red to Blue because a judge overturned a vote from the people).

And we cannot even trust that our votes are even being counted properly either.

Voting in itself is one of the biggest and silliest memes there is. That is, the idea that the vote is sacred and doing so is "doing your duty as a citizen." It really is not nearly that special and not something that you should feel like is an obligation if you do not have a strong enough interest or investment in the outcomes or if you see it as pointless.

Yet, we are told time and time again with "get out the vote" campaigns how special and important it is to do so.

@basedbagel But that's just the thing, they don't actually get in shape. They may get a gym membership and even go there a few times to walk on a treadmill. But there is a reason the "my gym got busier after New Years" is a meme. Because it does not STAY busy afterwards.

And many fat people don't commit to the more important part of weight loss in changing what they eat. You cannot outrun or outlift the amount of food you put into your mouth.

If you had any "New Years Resolutions" just forget it. You should have been making changes to your life before some arbitrarily decided calendar date and all that. Most people who make such resolutions abandon them the moment the feelgood rush wears out and they find out that they never wanted to commit to real changes.

When I started getting into lifting, it was not due to some resolution around a new year. It was at some time when I realized I should be making myself stronger.

@deprecated_ii I am not shocked that enrollment is declining and that it is mostly men opting out, but I have to wonder what the most prominent factors are for this.

Is the college being better recognized as a farce? Are the men realizing that the "college is just one big party" propaganda is meaningless if you struggle with women regardless? Or are the guys being priced out by women getting more money showered while they are expected to pay (an even greater) full price?

@WashedOutGundamPilot @LindaCollins11 @justnormalkorean

>Most "covid" seems to be the flu these days

It was often just the flu during 2020 too. Unless you are stupid enough to believe that it just "disappeared" in 2020.

@sj_zero 2020 was a bit more of a special case, not only in the amount of fraud but how obvious it was. Having 4 swing states with 4:00 am ballot drops/updates while making sure that any observers they could kick out due to "covid restrictions" were kept from seeing anything.

I also recall in 2008 AL Franken having more votes "found" to win his senate race. So the fraud is definitely been a long running thing.