Ten million Americans declare unemployment in two weeks and all your government does is give you a $1,200 "advance" on
your tax return while bailing out corporations with the largest wealth transfer ever, and some of you are still
shrieking about Russia and China. Pathetic fucking tools.
Your rights are evaporating, your government has failed to provide the bare minimum social safety nets during a very
manageable pandemic, your nation's billionaire class has been growing wealthier and wealthier while most of you would
struggle to pay a $1000 emergency bill, but sure, China is your real enemy.
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Many Americans being plunged into debt and destitution. Many young Americans about to start contemplating joining the
military. Many Pentagon officials factoring this in to their future calculations. Poverty has long served as a makeshift draft in the dangerous, dying US empire.
Not that it should surprise any American that this crisis has only wound up benefiting massive corporations, debt slave
owners, government agencies and the US war machine. These are the real US government, after all.
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Keep in mind that virtually everything you hear from conservatives and mainstream liberals right now is basically just
an irrational lashing out over their entire ideology faceplanting in front of the entire world.
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Governments which prohibit people from providing for themselves without providing for those people do not deserve to
exist. There is no legitimate basis for declaring a lockdown in any area without first ensuring that you can adequately
provide for everyone whose financial stability is disrupted by this, and if you do it's perfectly legitimate for the
citizenry to resist your lockdown.
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I could probably think of dozens of things the drivers of the US government could stand to gain by deliberately letting
this pandemic get a lot worse than it needs to in America.
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The entire Cuomo family is a corrupt political dynasty and the sooner America flushes them down the toilet the better.
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Friendly reminder that more people would trust "authoritative" news outlets about this virus if those outlets didn't
have an extensive history of constantly lying to the public about very important matters. You can't blame people for
being distrustful when you made them that way.
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I personally wouldn't invest a lot of emotional energy in the hope that things will go back to normal. "Normal" is gone
forever. Even before the virus the only consistent pattern we've been seeing is things getting stranger and stranger.
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.
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Covid stats paint an unclear picture since governments likely distort their numbers, testing is sparse and many are
asymptomatic. To get a clearer picture of our situation, listen to what medical staff are saying where it's bad, since
overwhelmed hospitals are the primary concern.
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People: May we please have minimal authoritarian responses to this pandemic and adequate protection from poverty?
Governments: No but you may have the exact opposite of those things.
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There isn't actually any contradiction in the beliefs that (A) the virus is dangerous, (B) mass unemployment is
dangerous, and (C) authoritarian government policies are dangerous. There needn't be any cognitive dissonance holding
all three at once; they're not mutually exclusive.
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Contrary to popular belief, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was not about an oppressive dictatorship but a society getting
exactly what it asked for; people were so dumbed down by television that they voted for books to be burned because they
didn't want to be challenged or offended. Worth remembering as people are demanding more authoritarian lockdown measures
and snitching on their neighbors for going on a second run.
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Continuing starvation sanctions during a global pandemic is biowarfare.
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I don't remember voting for a paradigm where powerful governments pour the lion's share of resources into sabotaging,
toppling and destroying nations which don't defer to their interests. Do you?
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Start-ups and mom-and-pop shops are going bust all over the place and the US government is helping the big corporations
sweep them up for peanuts. Time to stop stanning for billionaires my aspirational, entrepreneurial friends. You are mere
fleas to them.
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USA: We're moving more troops to the Middle East.
Middle East: Why?
USA: To protect the troops we already have there.
Middle East: Why were those troops here?
USA: To protect the military bases we have there.
Middle East: And why were those bases here?
USA: Our troops needed somewhere to sleep.
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We should be relaxing at home assured of our financial and medical stability while bankers, debt collectors and arms
manufacturers stress about their future.
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I hope all you couples stuck at home together are getting world-transformingly vulnerable with each other and having
world-transformingly awesome sex (in that order).
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The post-apocalyptic movies lied to you about human nature. People tend to be more caring and compassionate with each other in a time of great crisis, not less. Please remember this going forward.
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Nobody knows what's going to happen and anyone who says they do is bullshitting.
There's no reason to feel confident that anything is impossible anymore, because everything's changing so quickly and
unpredictably. Orwellian dystopia? Maybe. World War 3? Maybe. Nuclear war? Maybe. Revolution? Maybe. Mass-scale
awakening? Maybe. Create a new world? Maybe.
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