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#333851: Oct 15th 2020 at 7:37:41 AM

Rupert Murdoch thinks Biden will have a landslide victory.

When even Rupert Murdoch is tired of your shit, you know its over.

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#333852: Oct 15th 2020 at 7:48:26 AM

Herd Immunity is code for "Not having A Plan repackaged as A Plan"

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#333853: Oct 15th 2020 at 7:53:38 AM

It's simpler than that, really. It is herd immunity as a policy rather than a potential end goal.

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#333854: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:03:18 AM

Now that I think about it, we should probably be prepared for a ghost spike in cases if Biden wins, since the current administration is suppressing numbers.

Expect cries of "Biden is making the pandemic worse!" to follow soon thereafter.

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#333855: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:10:42 AM

"Herd Immunity" is essentially culling the wheat from the chaff (which I originally thought was "weak from chaff" but it turns out its wheat from chaff); Social Darwinianism in action.

This philosophy is exactly why the elderly are the ones abandoning Trump the largest; the disease hits them the hardest, and thus they are the chaff.

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#333856: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:17:28 AM

That's not quite an accurate description of herd immunity. It's much more "I don't care" turned into policy, sometimes with a "somehow magically we'll be able to protect all vulnerable people" fig leaf.

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#333857: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:20:11 AM

Its an extension of hoping COVID basically runs out of people to infect, once it infects everybody then everybody will be immune.

Which is NOT Herd Immunity.

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#333858: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:21:06 AM

Oh, no, that's not herd immunity either. Herd immunity simply means that enough people in a group have immunity (either through having the disease before or through vaccination) that a virus outbreak does not readily spread. It simply means there are not enough available hosts around for the virus to spread.

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#333859: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:21:16 AM

I'm genuinely confused they keep trying to do nothing when it's killing them, their chances, and their popularity. This is not just the definition of insanity, this is the definition of stupidity.

Which is NOT Herd Immunity.

I am actually too horrified to use an Indigo Montoya meme that is very accurate about their interpretation.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 15th 2020 at 8:22:54 AM

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#333860: Oct 15th 2020 at 8:51:53 AM

Chuck Schumer just posted on Twitter that Democrats denied Republicans a quorum on the Judiciary committee but chairman Lindsey Graham is moving forward anyway. Anyone know the actual parliamentary procedure on this? Is Graham pushing through a rules change (can he do that without a quorum?), or is he invoking some alternate method of getting around a quorum, or is he just ignoring committee rules and doing what he wants without bothering to justify it at all?

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#333861: Oct 15th 2020 at 9:28:22 AM

A friend of mine said the fall of the Republican party began not with Nixon but with HW's loss to Bill Clinton. That's when they went utterly nuts, began embracing extremist ideologies, and cheating wholesale. Nothing shows them to be bigger losers than their extreme belief they have to do anything to win.

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#333862: Oct 15th 2020 at 9:30:04 AM

Herd immunity simply means the virus runs out of hosts in a given area such that even susceptible people are unlikely to get it. You build herd immunity through vaccination, since humans rarely develop long term immunity against a mutating virus that is firmly established and since the chance of a virus gaining a mutation that reduces its virulence is low.

That’s why antivaxxxers and newborn children can mostly live safely in communities with high vaccination coverage.

The GOP latched onto it because the implication that you develop immunity by doing nothing appeals greatly to a party that makes idleness an art form. But herd immunity is in modern times a manufactured phenomenon.

Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Oct 15th 2020 at 12:31:28 PM

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#333863: Oct 15th 2020 at 9:32:13 AM

1. It's insane and stupid.

2. By the way, the fact Giuliani and the rest clearly made the fake e-mails for this "scandal" should mean someone should go to jail. I mean, I wonder if it was even a jump this time to ACTUALLY FRAMING PEOPLE.

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#333864: Oct 15th 2020 at 9:53:32 AM

The recent South Park Pandemic Special had its expy of Trump dismantle any efforts to cure Covid-19 because he realized that the virus was deadlier to the minorities who were seeking to vote him out.

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#333865: Oct 15th 2020 at 9:56:35 AM

That's...literally not satire.

That's just what Trump did.

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#333866: Oct 15th 2020 at 10:18:31 AM

Incidentally, to my understanding, the creators of South Park are annoyed that Trump won because he's actually very difficult to satirize.

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#333867: Oct 15th 2020 at 10:19:57 AM

That actually is satire, since Parker and Stone are showing the truth in manner meant to ridicule.

Edited by megarockman on Oct 15th 2020 at 1:20:13 PM

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#333868: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:11:52 AM

Has there been any good news today?

Any at all?

Edited by TitanJump on Oct 15th 2020 at 8:12:02 PM

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#333870: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:15:13 AM

[up][up]Georgia seems to be in play.

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#333872: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:16:23 AM

Bah, space is fake and Earth is flat!

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#333873: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:17:06 AM

@Foren, I initially read that as "Ebola is flat!"[lol]

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#333874: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:19:01 AM

[up][up] sad

It actually took me some time to find good news while doomscrolling through Twitter and you had to mess it up.

Edited by Fighteer on Oct 15th 2020 at 2:19:22 PM

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singularityshot Since: Dec, 2012
#333875: Oct 15th 2020 at 11:50:42 AM

I'm getting ads saying that Trump has an 8% chance of winning and they are offering 2.6 return on my bet...

... for the 2016 race against Hillary.

Think it's worth a punt in my opinion.


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