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I always wondered if translators would pick a less inflammatory word when translating an outburst by some UN ambassador.

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I like that. I would like to borrow it.

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All yours. Eastern North Carolinians are a generous, happy people, and while I should not speak on their behalf I think they'd be flattered you liked one of their sayings.

For the sake of verisimilitude, in Johnston County, the "th" sound is rendered as "d", thus "all eat up wid de dumbass."

Enjoy.

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The Economist continues to say COVID has most likely killed about 17M worldwide.

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And crime went down after Poe v. Wade passed.

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The Economist is good too.

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He liked to eat bees if I recall even though the result was always the same.

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We don't shut down because people die on the highways. No we don't. But we do make the car companies install air bags. We do mandate wearing of seat belts. We do provide a limit to speed. Yeah we do a lot of shit to minimize death on the highways and we've been pretty successful. Now explain how attempting to minimize death due to Covid is somehow wrongheaded.

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Not in 1861...

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And now they are asking for it by not getting vaccinated.

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I take this so to heart because my great uncle died of influenza in 1919. He was an Army private, having survived combat and the end of the war, waiting in France for a ship home. Instead the family got a telegram from the War Department. I got vaccinated in January, and started demanding a booster in June (got it in September.) Still wear a mask everywhere. I want to grab unmasked people in the street and scream "Uncle Thomas thought he was safe, too!" It's not funny, it's not a hoax, and it's not fucking over.

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Well, you can't get anything by them!

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I was perusing the Herman Cain Awards the other day and came across a post from a doctor who had just quit because he'd reached his last straw. Dude dying of covid in hospital, his family is yelling on the phone to give him Vitamin C and Ivermectin, patient wants to be vaccinated, doc tells family he's dying and they should come visit him and say their goodbyes, family argues but comes, won't mask up and create scene at entrance, dude dies, doctor finds someone to cover his patients to go out and inform family, they punch him in the face breaking his nose and knocking him down, he declines to press charges when security comes for fear of getting marked by QAnon idiots and quits to go find a position in a non-patient facing field.

Who knows if it's true but it sounded plausible

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Blasphemer! His Holy Brand Name is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs!

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I give him a pass for quoting both Gurdjieff and R.A. "Bob" Wilson. Hail Eris - Hail Connie!

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Damn. I was trying too hard to spell Gurdjieff correctly.

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