In looking at a covid conspiratorial fb friend, he and others were glorifying tennis player Novak Djokovic’s attempt to circumvent Australian covid regs. And since he was the second coming of Jesus, Ghandi and John Wayne, that may have made Australia a villainous slave state.
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If this dimension had a Batman, Roger Stone would be in Arkham where he belongs.
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Has Naomi Wolf repudiated her earlier work, or is she pretending it all fits together somehow?
It seems like her current fellow travelers would not be very sympathetic to “feminism” or to critiques of “patriarchy”
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I mean… let’s hear her out, god knows I’d welcome a WHO takeover at this point. We would almost certainly get universal healthcare and I imagine a bunch of doctors working on the government and NGO side of the equation might share my concerns about student loans.
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Um… the WHO is an international health body… they can’t dictate to nations what sort of health care system they have, they can only make recommendations and are mainly there to coordinate on global health issues.
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It’s “unconstitutional” because WE’RE A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY AND YOUR F**KING CONSTITION DOESN’T APPLY!!!
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I was at least giving her the credit of assuming she was talking about the Australian constitution, but seriously, who can tell anymore? I mean, if she can fuck up a whole book by not understanding a single 19th century British legal term, her chances of speaking with authority on the Australian constitution are about as high as me winning the Nobel prize for literature.
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Is there some known disorder that happens as some people age, such that they spiral out like this? It seems like far too many people fall into this kind of thing as they get older.
I wonder if Tulsi Gabbard is in the early stages, but then: she’s never been all that great, from what I can tell.
We’re so sovereign our “sovereign” is somebody else’s hereditary monarch?
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I just saw some nut post an unlabeled pic of a cop putting a mask on some woman, I think in Australia (or that’s what the pic is supposedly portraying). This was in response to “why does America need so many guns” after all the children that were murdered this week. The basic message (as always) is that “guns aren’t just for huntin’, they are to keep us from the gubbermint tyranny!”
I read this specific version as something that boils down to: “if YOUR kids are in the crossfire, who cares, we need guns so that I don’t have to wear a mask!”
The qons think that because Australia is not “free” (meaning, no guns), the big They were able to impose masks on innocent civilians - in other words, total tyranny. But the manly qons here in Merika would I guess start shooting if told to wear a mask? I hate to see what happens as mask mandates come back in a few days/weeks/months, not to mention this winter…
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Americans are not a monolith. You’ve been painting us all with a wide brush lately. Please stop.
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poe’s law slays me. don’t worry too much about it. i judge individual american citizens individually, and americans as a group by the policies enacted by americans and effects of those policies ( on everyone )
if they - and by they, of course, i mean we - ever manage to clean up those policies and stop behaving in monstrous ways: im sure my opinion will change
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Yup.
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If it’s any consolation the same thing happened to me with Colm Meaney and John C. Reilly.
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When I read the headline I thought “WHO” must be some acronym I haven’t heard of yet, since it couldn’t mean the World Health Organisation, because that would not even remotely make any sense in that context, but turns out that’s exactly what she meant.
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I’ve long wondered if the crank mentality I see behind conspiracy theories and whatever it is we call conservative thought in the US is, genuinely, a form of early-onset dementia.
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Speaking as a Canadian, it’s complicated. But yes, no matter how often Americans come up with this “gotcha”, we are a sovereign nation. 
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I blame high-fructose corn syrup.
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Liz is Queen of Australia.
And some other places.
We’re not jealous. We can share.
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…and one with some big blind spots to boot. The WHO has a long history of boosting and recommending pseudoscientific nonsense like acupuncture and homeopathy. They regularly put cultural relativism above science, which is the opposite of what a health organization should do.
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