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I once set up my grandfather's TV with parental controls and blocked Fox News.

Then I felt bad when I found out a few months later that he'd spent upwards of $2000 to get it "fixed." He'd paid for multiple service calls and ultimately just bought a new TV.

From the article; Trump’s fraud was responsible for perhaps 1 to 3 percent of all US credit card refunds for a period of time.

NRA does great work.


Holy. Shit.

Boulder, Colorado passed an assault weapons ban in 2018.

The NRA sued the city and a judge struck down the ban 10 DAYS GO.

The Boulder shooter bought the gun 6 DAYS before the shooting.

These deaths were the direct result of the NRA’s intervention.

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1374430703555809292?s=19

A song bird

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Here was across the street last night.

https://youtu.be/qrruMFnM89I

We have no major ice related infrastructure, it's all patchwork of cities and counties. We deal with ice and sleet once a year on average on a small scale. It's a combination of several things weather related and also power deregulation malarky.

The moon is a planet. Things live on it. https://mobile.twitter.com/brianjoralvarez/status/1357007721711755270

I can, as I am actually a Republican (and a conservative Christian one at that!). I should add that I don't watch Fox News though. That audience tends to be over the age of 50. People my age (40 and under) are the Dailywire, PragerU, Stephen Crowder types. It's a little different in terms of styles, with some difference of beliefs. Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro are likely the most overlap between those two groups.

Anyway, you are not too far off on what the thinking is. 1) Correct. 2) Correct. The belief was that there was no real proof that masks work. There's now proof that masks do not help those who wear them. There's the thought that masks might help keep others from getting infected, but this has not been proven. 3) More that people HAVE to go to work and keeping kids (who can get it but are not a meaningful transmission vector of the disease) from school has serious long term affects on them. Especially low income children, which is ironic since it's usually Democrats who claim the care of low income families. Super spreader events - you've got it mixed up. The annoyance from Republicans is that Democrats believe that some events are either not super spreader events or get to be exempted from shame. So you can have a BLM mass gathering, or you can celebrate Biden, and that's fine. But if you get together to protest the lockdowns, or support Trump, that's shamed via the media. 5) I'll add some. Lockdowns are a delay tactic and don't actually save lives. At best, they could keep hospitals from getting over run. Otherwise, the only difference between an area that got Covid and an area that locks down but eventually gets Covid is the added pain of the lockdown.
This added pain isn't just economic. It's suicides and drug overdoses and mental health. It's a high cost.

In general, the problems most Republicans have is the hypocrisy. Masks were originally ineffective, but now they are necessary. 15 weeks to slow the spread...or maybe a year. You can't get a haircut, or you need to cancel Thanksgiving, unless your a senator or a mayor and then the rules don't apply. We must follow the science, unless the science doesn't support our beliefs than it's bogus science (see the Danish mask study that was suppressed and even now is being ignored). There's also the problem that every decision on Covid seems to be to give government officials more power. We're in general not trustworthy of those things.

A South Dakota ER nurse @JodiDoering says her Covid-19 patients often “don’t want to believe that Covid is real.”

“Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real.’ And when they should be... Facetiming their families, they’re filled with anger and hatred.”

https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1328319845012824065

This isn't satisfying schadenfreude - it's horrible and sad. No one deserves to die angry and alone. The mind poisoning in this country is massive and real. Imagine being so wrapped up in hatred and propaganda that you refuse to accept reality even as you gasp for breath. Fucking awful.