Comments by "EvilGuacamoleGaming" (@EvilGuacamoleGaming) on "CNN" channel.

@Clayton.Bigsby.360 actually lots of laws exist because of what might happen. I can think of an easy health related law. You can't place a palette on its side in a store or warehouse. That's because it might fall over and harm someone. You can't insulate places with asbestos because it might later be mishandled and give someone cancer. Lots of places don't let you smoke in public because the second hand smoke may also cause cancer. The whole concept of a driver's license is that it's illegal to drive, even correctly, if you haven't proven you've prepared and have adequate vision. I guess I can admire your passion but it would help to be right about anything you are passionate for.
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@PathfinderHistoryTravel 1) I don't like the idea of people dying just because they are stupid or gullible. 2) The only way to have actual protection is herd immunity, which is done through vaccination 3) Unvaccinated people are a danger to those around them, even the vaccinated, since nothing is fool-proof. 4) People who have decided not to be vaccinated have, almost universally, done so because of misinformation.
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@PathfinderHistoryTravel If there are systems in place that make sure stupid people don't do stupid things it saves lives. See: seatbelt laws, helmet laws, etc. 2) I don't want there to be unvaccinated communities and there are people there that don't really make much choice being there. 99% is how many don't die- a large percentage of that group is suffering long COVID and have permanent damage. Natural immunity is slow the virus mutates in the process. 3) I'm not for a forced vaccination- but if people want to be in public around responsible people they need to be vaccinated as well.
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I'm not sure how 'hey parents, you can protect your child from the deadly plague and from them killing your parents' is lowest common denominator. Unless you just mean 'basic and functional'. Which I suppose it is.
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@Henzo88 It is a deadly plague. It can kill, even children. And we don't know if the next variant will be more deadly to kids. More importantly, even if it isn't deadly to kids it is a deadly plague which is important when you consider that kids can spread this deadly plague. I don't want my kid being a carrier that kills my parents of their teacher.
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@nullw8768 I mean I'd still say lightning is deadly, I don't know about you. Shame you would be so involved in lies and have an avatar of a character dedicated to revealing the truth. Shame, really. I guess there are FFT fans that suck.
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@nicholasduck9663 vaccines stop the spread of deadly and harmful diseases. Take vaccine, less people get sick. This is good. Listen, I'm smart enough to know a solid argument and I just made one. I can't shoot any holes in this without lying.
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@nicholasduck9663 I have done the reading. It turns out the obvious, expected, common sense conclusion that vaccines stop the spread of viruses is true*. Because of course it is. And I've never heard anyone discourage vaccinated people from getting tested if they are exposed. I'm completely aware that vaccinated people can spread the virus, which is why I encourage social distancing and masking in public, in-door places even if you are vaccinated (also, it's too hard to distinguish between the vaccinated and unvaccinated and until we don't have an unvaccinated problem the vaccinated will need to continue doing precautions primarily for unvaccinated people). Vaccinated people catching and spreading COVID is the main reason why I want as much pressure as possible to get unvaccinated people vaccinated. *If you want to be pedantic, you could say it doesn't 'stop' the spread because it's not 100%. It will absolutely limit the spread; makes it less likely to happen. This limitation, lowering of the r value, is what will stop the virus.
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@Clayton.Bigsby.360 Okay, cool, but the vaccine works, is safe and it is going to let us have a functioning economy again. Not my top priority but if you are bothered by inflation then you should be trying to get everyone vaccinated. And if you aren't, don't complain about the economy.
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@nicholasduck9663 That's... already a really small number of people. I mean, lots of people have gotten Covid but, as it gives you some immunity, it makes it pretty unlikely that you'll get it again. If you do get it again it will be like with the vaccine where you are far far far less likely to spread it after immunity due to a number of factors. Add to that that people who've had it before, at least some of them, the ones who survive, are probably likely to be more aware to do things like mask up and social distance while they have it. Sorry, it's been a while and I don't know where this conversation is. I can't imagine this number is actually zero, though. We're at millions of cases in this country at this point? There is no way any factor is a zero.
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But he did take the medicine that is a horse dewormer. Like, sure, he took the human form, but it's still stupid and doesn't work. And the only way other people can get it is from horse supply stores. So, yeah, it's a horse dewormer. Cope harder.
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@AC-wp7em I mean, first off, you can't call it a lie- he did take a horse dewormer. He took the version meant for humans, which he got prescribed because he's rich enough to know a doctor who will prescribe him anything he wants. The rest of us don't have access to doctors without morals that will prescribe us medicines that won't work for what we've got so if we wanted to take this medicine that doesn't work we'd have to go to a feed store. IF the medicine actually worked to help with COVID then I'd bother to reconsider. But it doesn't. It is a dewormer- an anti-parasite. COVID is a virus, not a parasite. We've also studied trying it to cure COVID; it doesn't do anything but make humans sick. I'm just saying, if you want to point a finger at a place where big pharma could be making cash by pushing something that doesn't work I mean this is a great example. So to review; not a lie. Not a plain lie, not incorrect. You could argue it's a bit misleading, but we are talking about a medicine that isn't going to help anyone with COVID. I'm not sure why you want to make sure to be polite and precise with someone using the wrong medicine which could harm people directly who follow suit and gives people the dangerous misconception that there is a 'cure' besides, you know... the vaccine that was made to be a cure.
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@AC-wp7em because calling it a horse dewormer accurately describes how stupid it is to take it. And again, it is a horse dewormer. You conservatives are such snowflakes. "it hurts my feelings that you didn't describe the medicine someone took the right way". Human or horse versions it's pretty much just as stupid. Your issue is imaginary. I'm sorry... facts just don't care about your feelings.
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But kids can still spread it. And kids usually don't want to kill their teachers and grandparents and so most will be happy to be protected.
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@Konghammer1 You do realize how huge a number of people that is, right? And that number will be higher if we don't prevent more deaths? I'm not sure why you are cavalier about death.
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@Konghammer1 I mean the death by plague of the indigenous people of the Americas is probably more apt for your comparison but yeah, this isn't going to kill off the human race. However, I think we can say safely that millions of people dying from something is a big problem. Like, I don't think we have to get to 'this will wipe out humanity' to be freaked out over something. Though, as a side note, more people freaking out about climate change, which is a threat of that level, might not be a bad idea.
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@Konghammer1 Firstly, the poles aren't flipping, that's not a once in a ten thousand year occurrence, it's a once every 100,000 year occurrence and hasn't happened in three quarters of a million years; it doesn't seem to be happening now and further there is no evidence that the last time it happened there was a change in climate on earth. Get better sources of information. This is just rehash of bad doomsday prophecies from 2012. Secondly, while I'd love for there to be more efficient means to transport politicians we are talking about a fraction so small it's not worth talking about. It's also not worth talking about like... the carbon footprint of race cars. This is a major problem with understanding how this works- it's not an individual problem it's a systemic one. Like, those motorcades would have less carbon footprint if they were electric and we had a clean energy grid. But you can't have a motorcade of electric cars because there are only so many power stations and unless we get off of burning coal for electricity it isn't even a benefit for them to be electric. That matters way more than what any one person is doing. No one person makes a difference in climate change unless they can change the system. Like oil execs and politicians; they could change our grid to not be destroying the planet but don't. You are pointing at vague hypocrisy to avoid doing and supporting what needs to be done. You are missing the point. I likewise do not care if oil execs privately ride bikes and use solar powered electric cars; that doesn't change the real problem of constantly feeding our addiction to fossil fuel and avoiding the solution. I want a planet left for my child, I don't have time to give a fuck about a single boat or a motorcade or a private jet. The river is flooding the house and you are worried about faucet that is dripping.
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@Konghammer1 it's virtue signalling. If they were like 'oh, I don't go on the jet' it's just a virtue signal. Maybe it might encourage better behaviour in other citizens but I wouldn't count on it. Most people don't have the option to have private jets. We could save more carbon footprint by enforcing old FAA guidelines about airlines needing to do a certain amount of direct flights rather than doing bullshit hubs to try and save on labour costs. Do I want my reps to do better? Sure, yes. But their personal actions aren't as consequential as their actions to enact laws and regulations to save the planet. As for an electric motorcade, it might work? But that means investing in electric vehicles for congress which means getting that approved and I think that's a fight that won't be easily won by the left. And it won't matter if the power grid is still using coal and oil; in fact it could be worse. Not to mention we need improved infrastructure so clean energy can get to the areas that can't host clean energy plants. There is only so much power that can go through a wire and unless we build bigger, stronger interstate power lines it won't matter if it's green energy. New Hampshire, for instance, has stopped programs for new green energy because they are pretty much entirely on that grid and they can't get enough of it out to areas that need it. This is what I care about. In the worst situation where all the stories you say are true about personal waste of environmentalists I still know that short of getting a third party viable the only chance for the environment is with Dems. I'd love to get to the point where gops are no longer relevant, and then we can go 'I want the environmentalists that never have done anything remotely hypocritical'. But that's not a choice we have right now.
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I don't get why conservatives hate watch CNN. CNN works at least somewhat in reality, conservatives don't like reality. If conservatives want their delusions reinforced they have multiple propaganda outlets to suckle on. There's plenty to complain about with CNN but it's not like conservatives are within the ballpark to discuss it.
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@DJ-mj5pq Antifa hates the DNC. Well, that's hard to say because antifa isn't people, it's a philosophy. I've never known anyone who supports or does antifa work that liked the DNC. Anyway, the largest news channel in the country is de facto State Media, Trump wants to shut down all non-conservative media- using the old 'lying press' line from literal Nazis... And why would anyone need to lie to make Trump look like shit. He's an egotistical, amoral, child predator who is responsible for the deaths of over a hundred and a half million Americans this year. He has failed to make good on the very few promises he made to get himself elected. He's a complete failure. This is beside the, you know, treason stuff. Multiple instances of treason. Which he keeps admitting to.
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@Jimmy econlib doesn't seem to understand what Communism or Socialism is, so I'm not keen on thinking they understand... anything. It reads like 50's red scare propaganda. As for the other two sites they clearly would indicate Trump in that regard. Anyway, fascism is authoritarian right politics. If a definition doesn't bother to say that out right it doesn't matter- the other characteristics are part of the far right. Ultra-nationalism, racism, obsession with tradition.
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@Jimmy What are you talking about? I wasn't acting in any sort. I tried to see if maybe you got confused by some rhetorical device I may have employed but honestly... I don't know what you are talking about.
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Sam Mortakai I mean, if you are a fascist, loving your country to a point of worship is fine. It's part of the whole Trumpism thing. Trumpism pretends like America is some great savior, it can do no wrong, that the founding fathers were great heroes and we should always view things as how to put our country before others. There's also a thing about deciding arbitrarily who is American enough to be part of the country. Anyway, Trumpism is obsessed with the trappings of tradition- so called family values that amount to oppression of women, ignoring abuse men cause, lauding of a mythical past- be it the 50's, romanticized ideas of the Civil War or the cult of the Founding Fathers. There is also a lot of big daddy worship when it comes to Trump. By any measure he is a complete failure. He's made no one safer in any fashion, he's not accomplished any goal and he can't stop lying. Any rational person, if such a person can exist on the right, should be demanding his replacement with someone competent.
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@Jimmy What part am I acting on. I don't have any idea what you are responding to.
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Sans Handlebars No. Fascists kill Marxists. And it was Communists who did most of the work to defeat fascists in WW2. Sure, we helped, but it was really the Russians who won the European theater. Anyway, the Nazis specifically killed any actual socialists in their mist- both in the party (see night of long knives) and out (Socialists and communists were the first to be put in the concentration camps- this is why the famous poem starts 'first they came for the socialists and I said nothing'). Fascism is a response to the same problem; capitalism. As such, sometimes the responses are similar. But the solutions always involve going back, blaming the 'bad elements' and contributing to 'the great war effort'.
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Sans Handlebars They have been more peaceful than they should be. But any violence caused by the protests and riots pale in comparison to that done in response.
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Sam Mortakai Minorities do not want a war with white people, even though it is what we deserve. They merely want the same chance as us. And we have not stopped oppression of minorities. For fuck sake, we still have slavery in this country, we just use the prisons to justify it.
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@oslier3633 Neat, but like, pretty much every holocaust survivor still around is like 'this is very familiar'.
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We could eliminate all police involved shootings if we removed their guns. And the cops. We have no reason to believe they keep us safe, they are relatively a new invention and they pose a significant threat to many people. Why should we accept that there is gang out there we must bow down to? Anyway, crime is largely the product of desperation. If you really cared about those kids killed in drive bys you would eliminate the need for gangs- invest in Black lives and businesses, give homes to the homeless, fix what this country has stolen from Black people for hundreds of years. That and legalize most drugs and end the drug war which fuels the gang violence. I reject your solution of licking boots and arming wife beaters with guns and super hero complexes to solve a problem we could easily fix with legislation and rerouting tax breaks into improving society.
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I also reject that the use of deadly force is needed whenever cops are scared. By definition cops are cowards, that's why they join the force. Anyone not willing to put their life before others should not be trusted with what we trust cops with. Also, if you can't pull a single guy out of a minivan when you have backup you are too weak to be trusted with a position of state violence.
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@DTRAX33 I mean, we let the cops run the streets and they aren't any better. Crime is not a product of a lack of police. Roe v. Wade reduced crime more than police ever have.
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@flarp3564 I don't expect them to change. I expect their plans to change. People don't break the law because it's cool or they just hate doing legal things. When people break the law on purpose they do it knowing there is a risk. Why would I risk my life to sell drugs if I have an education and there are jobs available the pay well and aren't risking my life? I mean, you realize that there is only 'same race crime' because we refuse to legalize the sale and distribution of narcotics allowing for gangs and cartels to fill that vacuum of a market need- and the industry itself, being illegal, is dangerous and encourages gang on gang violence to pull the most money possible out of their dangerous venture. There wouldn't be a high amount of 'same race crime' if there were more races forced into the illegal drug trade.
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