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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI swear, I'm stranded on a planet with a bunch of brain-dead jackponies.
State governors order shelter-in-place to reduce the spread of the most fearsome disease since smallpox was eradicated. And the scumbag libertarian blockheads of the nation, who are their own virulent, corrosive disease, are wandering around out there aimlessly; driven by nothing more than "Th' dang gubmint cain't tell ME whut ta do!..."
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)It's a slow-motion contest for Darwin Awards. But unfortunately the brain-dead jackponies will spread it to others before they're killed off.
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(52,208 posts)It's not (just) the stupid, hateful people who will be dying, and largely not before they could pass on their genes.
Really, it's just mass murder. Throwing people into the volcano to assuage the gods is more apropos.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)The virus doesn't distinguish between the stupid and the non-stupid, although the stupid are certainly making fat targets of themselves.
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(52,208 posts)The stupids have a special hold on political power here. Even the uk, which fell for the brexit crap and has Boris in charge, is doing it better than we are. Maybe not by much, but still....
Thank goodness our major cities and more populous states are controlled by more sensible people, so at least we have a patchwork of common sense....
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)"show me your papers!" one snickered.
"NANNY STATE", another chimed in.
Ignorant assholes.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)initiative a few years back designed to intimidate Hispanic communities living along the U.S-Mexican border.