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We are so fucked 

Yeah what the hell is going on 

5 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Riley’s last post is utter non-sense  We will have long lasting negative effects though.

After reading the article I do tend to  think “flattening the curve” to be an exercise in futility. 

I just don’t think it’s reasonable to shut down society for two years. 

11 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

The article goes on to say that flattening the curve isn't the solution, completely stopping the curve is. This is why the only effective solution (health-wise) is to basically stop society for the next 1 to 2 years 

Is such a thing even possible?

1 minute ago, Comet said:

I’m sort of impressed with Biden so far, didn’t see that coming. He’s dead-on in differentiating a national emergency vs. medicare for all. 

Yup. If the debate continues like this I can't see any way Bernie doesn't drop out within a few days. 

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Also, if it's 0.5% (which would match Korea, which is basically testing everyone and where people are taking it seriously), then it's still 750,000 dead. Yeah, no big deal.

They (stupidly) think because less than 100,000 have been infected in China that it will be the same everywhere else.

I’m taking screen shots of tweets like these so they can be reposted in a couple months.

36 minutes ago, Bacon said:

Reddit is making excuses for the woman. Like the milk is for a day care or coffee shop or some such thing. Unlikely but plausible I suppose. 

Milk seems like the worst thing to buy for reselling purposes so I’d tend to find it plausible that she’s running a daycare or something like that rather than an attempt at profiteering.

Oooh one non-white person there.

2 minutes ago, elbobo said:

 

literally the first person that spoke after Trump was a woman 

*all white and mostly men

Like I get it that Weinstein was a terrible person but, just in general I feel like we shouldn't mistreat people just because they are convicts. I think Tolstoy said something like you can judge a society based on how their prisoners are treated. 

29 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

My roommate just informed me that someone at her office at DoJ exhibited symptoms so they're being sent home.

 

So it looks like I might be the first D1Pshit to get it!

 

thoughts and prayers 

They’re making the WRONG decision. 
There’s three candidates in the race, let them all speak! 

6 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Nonsense.  Institute a proper carbon tax and then give all the proceeds back to each citizen on a monthly basis.  Don't let the government have any of that money.

Hot take: public infrastructure spending is giving it back to the people.

 It’s pretty much impossible not to touch your face.

20 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

Texas House could flip blue which gives Democrats a say on district mapping. It’s a big deal here. 

Is such a thing possible?

1 hour ago, Chris- said:

They are angry that Warren stuck around and siphoned progressive votes; these same people shrugged their shoulders when it was suggested that a similar situation cost Clinton the election. It is a satisfying comeuppance to behold. 

Oh ok good point. 

17 minutes ago, Chris- said:

Despite my sorrow last night and into today, I will say that it is immensely satisfying to see the Dirtbag Left struggle with the same feelings Clinton supporters felt in 2016. Get fucked losers. 

I don’t get this. You think they were happy to see trump win? 

3 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

So.... does this mean Gabbard will be in the next debate since she received a delegate in American Samoa?

God I hope so

3 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Polls had Hillary winning the popular vote by around 3% and she won by around 2%. They were pretty damn good. There are always some state anomalies; 2016 just happened to be one where some important states fell into that. But others, like Virginia, were just about right on. And that was despite the fact that there were a considerable number of undecideds. There weren't in 2012, and the polls nailed each states.

 

 

For a significant amount of people (and I include myself in this group) the idea of Trump winning was absurd. I remember, prior to the election, somebody getting in a Twitter argument with Silver saying that Clinton had a 99.9% chance of winning. It wasn't the polls that made people think Trump only had a 0.1% chance of winning. The polls said he probably wouldn't win and people combined that with their absolute revulsion with Trump to conclude there was no way he could win. Then in hindsight, no one wanted to label themselves as being wrong so they'd rather say "well the polls misled me." 

It's impossible to prove but I bet that polls wouldn't have gotten nearly as bad a rap if Romney had won in 2012 as they did when Trump won, even though as I recall in 2012 the polls were predicting an Obama win with far greater certainty. People would've seen Romney win and shrugged saying "well pollsters said he had a 10% chance of winning" (or whatever the odds were) because a Romney victory wouldn't have been as much of a mind breaking thing as a Trump victory was. 

Just now, CitizenVectron said:

 

well at least there's some good news tonight 

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

Who do we think Biden will pick as his VP candidate? Stacy Abrams? Deval Patrick? Tim Kaine?

Mitt Romney

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Which Biden will win.

 

Actually, I'd say Biden might win a majority now.

 

NC just called for Biden.

The GOOD thing about a Biden nomination is there’s absolutely no reason to worry about it resulting in a Biden presidency. 

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

MORONS