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It's getting to be like Nazi Germany around here

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market

    Dumbass
    That's odd. Most of the Big 5 companies of Seattle were already shutting down their offices and cancelling conferences well before the government told them to do so.

    #abundanceofcaution
    That's actually true. EY has been working from remote and shut down travel for weeks.
    On the plus side, apparently Anderson has come back from the dead.


    Good, they owe me money.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    HHusky said:

    The Nazis asked neighbors to turn in the Jews.

    Can't be too careful. You never know. In an abundance of caution. It's for the good of the country.

    https://wkow.com/2020/03/19/heres-how-to-report-gatherings-of-10-or-more-people-to-authorities

    Funny little libertarian finds any governmental response to circumstances like Nazis and stuff. 'Cuz coercion!
    Make sure and keep an eye on your neighbor....for the good of the country.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited March 2020

    The other day police asked us to help find a senior citizen with dementia that was driving unattended.

    Fucking Nazis.

    Because asking for help to find a lost person is the same as spying on your neighbors and reporting on them to the government. JFC. Have any other false equivalence to offer?
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited March 2020

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market

    Dumbass
    That's odd. Most of the Big 5 companies of Seattle were already shutting down their offices and cancelling conferences well before the government told them to do so.

    #abundanceofcaution
    That's actually true. EY has been working from remote and shut down travel for weeks.
    Exactly.

    Look, I hate guvmint just like the rest of you guysm. So fuck off.

    But let’s not act like private enterprise hasn’t panicked the shit out of the economy many times w/o government assistance. Look at the 1800s - there was a panic every ten years.
    None of which has anything to do with the current situation

    100% government and media driven panic

    Own it or stop apologizing for it

    You bedwetters wanted this. You got it
    Their WWIII dream failed. So they are on this like dogs on a bone
  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325

    The other day police asked us to help find a senior citizen with dementia that was driving unattended.

    Fucking Nazis.

    Because asking for help to find a lost person is the same as spying on your neighbors and reporting on them to the government. JFC. Have any other false equivalence to offer?
    Calm down edgelord. Have another one
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,261 Founders Club

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market

    Dumbass
    That's odd. Most of the Big 5 companies of Seattle were already shutting down their offices and cancelling conferences well before the government told them to do so.

    #abundanceofcaution
    That's actually true. EY has been working from remote and shut down travel for weeks.
    Exactly.

    Look, I hate guvmint just like the rest of you guysm. So fuck off.

    But let’s not act like private enterprise hasn’t panicked the shit out of the economy many times w/o government assistance. Look at the 1800s - there was a panic every ten years.
    None of which has anything to do with the current situation

    100% government and media driven panic

    Own it or stop apologizing for it

    You bedwetters wanted this. You got it
    Their WWIII dream failed. So they are on this like dogs on a bone
    Travel, hospitality, etc are YUGE segments of our economy, especially in a city like ours. Basically, every large corporate or association conference in every major market in the US was canceled weeks before any government edicts came into affect. Fortune 500 America shit their pants before Newsome, Inslee, etc told them too.

    They would have saved themselves some money too by waiting for said edicts. It’s not covered by force majeure to cancel on Vegas just by being scared. The government has to make it illegal or impossible for you to perform.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,898

    The other day police asked us to help find a senior citizen with dementia that was driving unattended.

    Fucking Nazis.

    Because asking for help to find a lost person is the same as spying on your neighbors and reporting on them to the government. JFC. Have any other false equivalence to offer?
    Westlinn has a natural right to be lost and dazed. Liberty!
  • Lawrence_of_a_Labia
    Lawrence_of_a_Labia Member Posts: 487
    Baseman said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market


    Not a good little look
  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,720 Founders Club

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market

    Dumbass
    The government runs your company? Weird.

    Why would you think that?

    Hondo level dude. Not good
    I don’t, but you’re blaming the government for the actions of a private corporate board.

    Maybe you should direct your anger at the inaction of the government. This is going to drag on longer than necessary thanks to shit leadership and the idiots among us.
    I think that by mid April to May restaurants and pubs will reopen their doors and tell everyone to eat their ass. Local government won't stop them.

    Other businesses will follow.

    Early to mid May it will be back to normal with strong encouragement for the elderly and weak-immuned to stay home. People walking around wearing masks.

    The freakout after just a week of staying home is already pointing to this.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,261 Founders Club
    haie said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market

    Dumbass
    The government runs your company? Weird.

    Why would you think that?

    Hondo level dude. Not good
    I don’t, but you’re blaming the government for the actions of a private corporate board.

    Maybe you should direct your anger at the inaction of the government. This is going to drag on longer than necessary thanks to shit leadership and the idiots among us.
    I think that by mid April to May restaurants and pubs will reopen their doors and tell everyone to eat their ass. Local government won't stop them.

    Other businesses will follow.

    Early to mid May it will be back to normal with strong encouragement for the elderly and weak-immuned to stay home. People walking around wearing masks.

    The freakout after just a week of staying home is already pointing to this.
    Hopefully, that’s the case. But Amazon and MSFT need to send there people back to office.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,568 Standard Supporter
    The counselor is all in on 100k dead Americans and aliens. I'm thinking way under the 80k flu deaths in the 2017-2018 file season.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913




    That's actually true. EY has been working from remote and shut down travel for weeks.

    Whinney never would have went for that shit.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,063
    salemcoog said:



    That's actually true. EY has been working from remote and shut down travel for weeks.

    Whinney never would have went for that shit.





    Bert Cooper used to have problems with that whippersnapper Roger all the time, too.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,898

    The counselor is all in on 100k dead Americans and aliens. I'm thinking way under the 80k flu deaths in the 2017-2018 file season.

    The Nazis found Gasbag!
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781

    The other day police asked us to help find a senior citizen with dementia that was driving unattended.

    Fucking Nazis.

    Because asking for help to find a lost person is the same as spying on your neighbors and reporting on them to the government. JFC. Have any other false equivalence to offer?
    Calm down edgelord. Have another one
    Great argument.
  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    I'm saving my powder for when the government ups my stipend. Until then you're all safe.
  • RoadTrip
    RoadTrip Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,147 Founders Club

    Baseman said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market


    Not a good little look
    Little wasn't my first thought
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,045
    edited March 2020
    I guess what we're talking about is how far the police powers can be extended in times of mass public crisis.

    There has always been, and will always be, tension between individual liberty and the common good. I understand the Tug Tribe views the latter with great skepticism, but it's not like we've ever had it 100% 'do what you want, when you want.'

    What do you do about the mob? When can the police make them disperse? Never? What about the draft? In what circumstances? Not as likely an issue now given that the military is huge and is much less reliant on boots on the ground than it was, say, in WWII, where you just needed a critical mass of bodies that wouldn't have achieved w/o the draft.

    Doesn't it usually, really, just come down to whether we agree with the proposed action in some set of exigent circumstances?

    I've always been sympathetic to the Libertarian point of view, but I also know that a pure expression of it is impractical, extremely unlikely, and probably not a great idea on the margin.



  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,898

    I guess what we're talking about is how far the police powers are to be extended in times of mass public panic.

    There has always been, and will always be, tension between individual liberties and the common good. I understand the Tug Tribe views the latter with great skepticism, but it's not like we've ever had it 100% 'do what you want, when you want.'

    What do you do about the mob? When can the police make them disperse? Never? What about the draft? In what circumstances? Not as likely an issue now given that the military is huge and is much less reliant on boots on the ground than it was, say, in WWII, where you just needed a critical mass of bodies that wouldn't have achieved w/o the draft.

    Doesn't it usually, really, just come down to whether we agree with the proposed action in some set of exigent circumstances?



    When the national guard sets up check points to have Americans show their home address, we've passed the point of giving up a few liberties for the "common good"

    Who gets to decide what is the common good? This shit always has major unintended consequences. Always.
    And people who won’t act responsibly because they believe they only have freedoms, no responsibilities, will do more harm to freedom than anyone else.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    edited March 2020
    HHusky said:

    I guess what we're talking about is how far the police powers are to be extended in times of mass public panic.

    There has always been, and will always be, tension between individual liberties and the common good. I understand the Tug Tribe views the latter with great skepticism, but it's not like we've ever had it 100% 'do what you want, when you want.'

    What do you do about the mob? When can the police make them disperse? Never? What about the draft? In what circumstances? Not as likely an issue now given that the military is huge and is much less reliant on boots on the ground than it was, say, in WWII, where you just needed a critical mass of bodies that wouldn't have achieved w/o the draft.

    Doesn't it usually, really, just come down to whether we agree with the proposed action in some set of exigent circumstances?



    When the national guard sets up check points to have Americans show their home address, we've passed the point of giving up a few liberties for the "common good"

    Who gets to decide what is the common good? This shit always has major unintended consequences. Always.
    And people who won’t act responsibly because they believe they only have freedoms, no responsibilities, will do more harm to freedom than anyone else.
    North Korea has few covid cases and no mass shootings.

    Make sure and call the police if you see your neighbor having people over or if you see any New Yorkers.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,045

    I guess what we're talking about is how far the police powers are to be extended in times of mass public panic.

    There has always been, and will always be, tension between individual liberties and the common good. I understand the Tug Tribe views the latter with great skepticism, but it's not like we've ever had it 100% 'do what you want, when you want.'

    What do you do about the mob? When can the police make them disperse? Never? What about the draft? In what circumstances? Not as likely an issue now given that the military is huge and is much less reliant on boots on the ground than it was, say, in WWII, where you just needed a critical mass of bodies that wouldn't have achieved w/o the draft.

    Doesn't it usually, really, just come down to whether we agree with the proposed action in some set of exigent circumstances?



    When the national guard sets up check points to have Americans show their home address, we've passed the point of giving up a few liberties for the "common good"

    Who gets to decide what is the common good? This shit always has major unintended consequences. Always.
    I really don't know. Who? Moreover, who gets to decide whether it's panic or legitimate concern?

    Somebody? Nobody? Sometimes? Never?

    I don't know. Does anyone really know where to draw the line? Were we threatened in WWII? Why did we intervene? On what basis did we compel (which is exactly what it was) 100s of thousands of US citizens to grab a gun and go oversees and die? Was a victorious Nazi Germany every really going to threaten US soil?

    I'm not an epidemiologist nor a med. I haven't the qualifications to second-guess protocol in these situations. I also need some evidence to believe that the experts are conspiring with the enemy within for some ulterior motive.
  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,045

    I guess what we're talking about is how far the police powers are to be extended in times of mass public panic.

    There has always been, and will always be, tension between individual liberties and the common good. I understand the Tug Tribe views the latter with great skepticism, but it's not like we've ever had it 100% 'do what you want, when you want.'

    What do you do about the mob? When can the police make them disperse? Never? What about the draft? In what circumstances? Not as likely an issue now given that the military is huge and is much less reliant on boots on the ground than it was, say, in WWII, where you just needed a critical mass of bodies that wouldn't have achieved w/o the draft.

    Doesn't it usually, really, just come down to whether we agree with the proposed action in some set of exigent circumstances?



    When the national guard sets up check points to have Americans show their home address, we've passed the point of giving up a few liberties for the "common good"

    Who gets to decide what is the common good? This shit always has major unintended consequences. Always.
    I really don't know. Who? Moreover, who gets to decide whether it's panic or legitimate concern?

    Somebody? Nobody? Sometimes? Never?

    I don't know. Does anyone really know where to draw the line? Were we threatened in WWII? Why did we intervene? On what basis did we compel (which is exactly what it was) 100s of thousands of US citizens to grab a gun and go oversees and die? Was a victorious Nazi Germany every really going to threaten US soil?

    I'm not an epidemiologist nor a med. I haven't the qualifications to second-guess protocol in these situations. I also need some evidence to believe that the experts are conspiring with the enemy within for some ulterior motive.
    The experts aren’t conspiring, but the experts don’t see the whole picture and don’t think about unintended consequences. They have a very narrow focus.

    The media sees it as an opportunity. They have a vested interest in fueling the fire. Even yelling fire in a crowded theater. Whether it be ratings, relevance, or trump bashing spin, they benefit from inciting the panic.

    That’s how we get to the position that stopping all economic activity is worth it if saves 1 life. After all, what If that life was a loved one of yours....

    No one is conspiring, but many are seizing an opportunity to push an agenda.
    I get that.
  • georgiaduck
    georgiaduck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,603 Swaye's Wigwam
    Baseman said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market


    How can a woman with such nice chesticles look like Gus the mule when laughing?
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,748 Standard Supporter

    Baseman said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market


    How can a woman with such nice chesticles look like Gus the mule when laughing?
    Related to the Osmonds or the mule?

    Questions we want answers to!
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,372 Founders Club

    Baseman said:

    We got shut down by corporate. Pussies

    Sounds like the free market spoke.
    The government isn't the free market



    How can a woman with such nice chesticles look like Gus the mule when laughing?

    wow, a Bitchfork post has made Stalin laugh out loud, for real.