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  1. caze
    It was their collectivist perspective which allowed this crisis to happen in the first place, they sat on knowledge of the outbreak for at least a month, refused to implement any mitigations hoping it would go away by itself, arrested doctors and researchers who let out any information or otherwise contradicted the party line. So yeah, they're not the model to base the response to this on.
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    apparently this is less prone to mutations than some viruses, only 1 in 20 transmissions results in a mutated virus being passed along, and most mutations either make little difference, or are just as likely to be more harmful to the virus as the host. most RNA viruses are very prone to mutations, but coronaviruses have some of the same repair mechanisms as DNA based cells/viruses, which helps keep their RNA sequences intact when they divide. which is good news for developing a vaccine, and hopefully makes it less likely an even more deadly version will develop.
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    sounds like Trump has coronavirus, he was short of breath and snorting like a pig (maybe he has swine flu )
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    rofl

    caze replied to a topic in Football (Soccer) Discussion

    we only need two more wins, behind closed doors if necessary.
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    worked really well in the scene too.
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    rofl

    caze replied to a topic in Football (Soccer) Discussion

    we battered them, jammy cunts. oh well, only Real have retained the title so it's obviously a tough ask. we'll have to console ourselves with the greatest league title victory in English history.
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    god damn this lady is dumb. horseshoe theory in full effect. the only way to make a 3rd party in the US is to start from the ground up, if they can't even win seats in a state senate, they'll never achieve anything nationally, after that they'd need to win seats in congress and the senate. flol, she's just advocated a Tulsi Gabbard/Ivanka Trump ticket.
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    Biden doesn't have dementia, don't be an asshole.
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    Maybe it was all the guys Trump fired who knew that stuff? ...more seriously, I'm sure they do know, they're either being deliberately hamstrung by the white house, or it's just down to them being massively under resourced.
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    You're wrong, read what I wrote again, I gave specific examples of policies which are incompatible with European social democracy. Proper socialism is 'owning the means of production', Democratic socialism is proper socialism in this sense; social democracy is not socialism in this sense, it is merely capitalism with a good social welfare system and some income redistribution (which is fine, all that's left is to argue about the details, if this was all Bernie was advocating I wouldn't have a problem with him).
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    This is false. Sanders is a self described Democratic Socialist, not a Social Democrat. His policies are far to the left of anything in Europe (e.g. banning private health insurance, wealth tax, price controls, public/worker ownership of private enterprise). Some of these things were tried in Europe in the past, they were all utter failures. I used to think he wasn't as bad as this, that he was just doing the usual American thing of getting the name of his political ideology wrong (e.g liberalism), but I was wrong, he is actually this bad.
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    This attempt to paint Biden as senile is pathetic, and as someone who actually has relatives suffering from dementia it's pretty offensive and obviously bullshit. Half the clips floating around attempting to show him as senile have been edited (like that recent one of him 'endorsing Trump' , how are people falling for this bullshit?), and the rest are just evidence of pausing, forgetting or mixing up a word (not surprising given he suffers from a stammer), something which is incredibly common amongst people generally anyway and likely has zero to do with dementia (like calling his wife his sister, who here hasn't had a parent or aunt/uncle who hasn't mixed up the names of their own children for example?). Trump on the other hand displays obvious signs of cognitive decline, with obvious failures in understanding what's going on around him, to retain information, his delusional confabulation, as well as his other obvious psychological problems).
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    really great tune, I want an EP of this stuff stat.
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    McCoy Tyner has died, aged 81. Vital cog in that classic middle-period Coltrane quartet. Love this album of his too:
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    this shit better not interfere with Liverpool winning the title.
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    there were certainly actual instances of horrible psychopathic shit that went down, given a situation like that the small minority of people who are psychopaths would have a field day. but the really terrifying thing about the Nazis was that most of the perpetrators were average, uninteresting people; the banality of evil explains most of what went on far better than some over the top cartoon evil.
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    this wasn't entirely true on Tuesday. what was surprising about how big his comeback was was the degree to which he won over young people, working class folks, women, it wasn't just the boomers (which admittedly are his base). Sanders still did better than him in most of those categories, but Biden did far better than expected. which indicates given a choice between him and Trump, there wouldn't be a big problem bringing along most of Bernie's supporters, and no problem at all with Warren's.
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    That's about half of what Sanders has raised/spent btw.
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    https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/candidate?id=N00001669 Unite the Country being the Super PAC American Posibilities was another Super PAC set up before the other one, but it never raised any money.
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    wrong, the majority of Biden's money to date has been direct personal donations, which are limited in amount and fully transparent. the only way to get unlimited and opaque funding is via a Super PAC, and he only had one set up for him relatively late in the game (late last year), and it only generated any serious money in the last week (and was still far less than anyone else spent). since then he's seen his small personal contributions grow massively (raising more than Sanders since Super Tuesday), making the Super PAC contributions even smaller overall. he's on record saying he doesn't want Super PAC money, so we'll see if this trend continues, or whether there's a shift to serious funding from them in the future. no, I think Super PACs should be banned, and that there should be strict regulation and transparency on campaign spending. I'm just saying it doesn't always have the impact the paranoid rantings of the far left would have you believe, this is demonstrably true in the Biden campaign to date. you're also completely wrong about the mainstream media's coverage of Biden, they have been very cool on him from the start, there was far more interest in Warren's campaign than his, and even the smaller moderate candidates who got nowhere. Bernie has probably received more favorable coverage than Biden up til now. They'll probably fall in behind him now that there's no-one left, but up til now they've been no help to him.
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    I've seen all three. One of the few people who seems to like the film, even though it butchers the major point of the comic, it's still well made judged on it's own merits imho. The show was a lot better than the movie though, closer in spirit to the comic, really well put together I thought.
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    I rarely get offended watching tv/movies, but I have to say lots of that left a bitter taste in my mouth. Making the Nazis out to be cartoonish villains, and making up a bunch of ridiculous death camp stories (like the chess thing), was pretty shitty. Pacino is great in it though alright, and I'm usually pretty lukewarm on him. The lack of a consistent style was also annoying, when it just sticks to the story and stays in the moment it's fine, but the various little over stylized diversions felt completely out of place.
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    it's not disingenuous at all. the point is money in politics isn't everything it's made out to be. sure, it's going to help, but it's not sufficient by itself (look at Bloomberg), and even if you don't have any you can still achieve results, as Biden just showed. Biden only had one Super PAC supporting him, and it's barely raised any money, has had close to zero impact (he didn't even run ads in most of the Super Tuesday states). in a reply to the original tweet he tried to backtrack saying he wasn't good at maths, but it doesn't matter as what he meant was Bloomberg's entire fortune. but even then it would only amount to around $150 per person, lol.
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