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Originally Posted by KA24DESOneThree
The government spies on you every day. You have to wear your seatbelt and drive with insurance and not have bald tires and can't have your wheels sticking out from your fenders and have to pay fuel taxes and have to pay state taxes and have to pay increases in property taxes and have to pay federal taxes and have to register for permits and have to pay fees. The mask, though, is too fucking far because it covers up your mouth so you can't spray angry spittle on the supermarket employee just doing their job.
The only people thinking straight are from Florida and Texas? Did someone hand you the "Right-Thinking Man's Argumentation Playbook" and you turned to page 37 to the "Hymn of DeSantis?" My dad always said, "Once a state gets to be the top five in infectious virus cases, you know it's run correctly. And if it's second to Louisiana, it's not only run correctly but the governor should be deified." Imagine, America's Dong getting second to America's Boot. And Texas is fucking fantastic, I love losing power during a cold snap but also during hot spells. It really shows that my state is equivalent to a second-world country (did he just compare Texas to an industrialized socialist state?).
There's plenty of shit you're willing to swallow, most of it from the end of the human centipede that is the Republican Party.
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The irony in here is palpable. Let me get this straight:
1. You don't like other people's "good ideas" being forced on you but you're perfectly fine with getting the government to force your "good ideas" on others. I hate to break it to you but that's not how that works. You either consistently fight that shit or sooner or later, the shoe will be on the other foot and you probably won't like it when it is heel deep in your asshole. There is a case for some government authoritarianism in a serious emergency. Unfortunately, despite your anecdotal experience (sorry for your loss), a bad flu with a much less than 1% mortality rate of mostly unvaccinated elderly that are now 85% vaccinated, is not anywhere near an emergency. If this virus was really as serious as people are acting, force, lies, and coercion wouldn't have to be used at all. People would comply simply because they're terrified of it.
2. Texas had a serious power problem once. Your state has had chronic problems with the power grid, the water supply, and wildfires for decades, and mostly due to the incompetence of your leaders. Pot, meet kettle.
3. Let's not act like the Republican party is the only one consisting of, and supported by morons. About 90% of the support base of both major parties, is complete imbeciles, and it shows. Pretty much all your flagship states are shitholes, just for different reasons. California is one of the biggest shitholes in the entire nation but the rest of us still have to endure their delusions of superiority as they type on an illegal computer, whist also contemplating basic essentials that the rest of us take for granted, like when they'll next be able to plug in their car or take a shower in their third world state.