OT: 87th Obsequious Banter Thread: Don't be Brash

[Lord Defect]

Rutgers bars unvaccinated student from attending virtual classes
this is asinine

 

[Rebels57]

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[Chinatown88]

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I know it's not the same thing, but this immediately reminded me of Guilty Crown.

 

[Chinatown88]

I know it's not the same thing, but this immediately reminded me of Guilty Crown.

f*** that ending.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

f*** that ending.

I own it, but I haven't watched that entire show since it came out. I legit don't remember the ending .

It can't be as bad as Tokko.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

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I feel like a decent chunk are just stubborn & ultimately don’t want to be told what to do. So like any political discourse these days they find whatever talking points they can to justify their poor behavior.

 

[Lord Defect]

Israeli experts analyze mRNA COVID vaccines long-term effects

Pretty good article, relax, it’s pro vaccine.
One thing I haven’t heard from it though is some people who have gotten a mRNA shot developed appendicitis.

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Beef Invictus]

Rutgers bars unvaccinated student from attending virtual classes
this is asinine

Eh f*** em. They made their choice and the university can go as far as expelling people for incredibly minor stuff.

Messing with university policies is playing with lit gasoline. Especially since so many administrators are on power trips.

 

[Embiid]

Israeli experts analyze mRNA COVID vaccines long-term effects

Pretty good article, relax, it’s pro vaccine.
One thing I haven’t heard from it though is some people who have gotten a mRNA shot developed appendicitis.

Yeah I saw this one. Interesting read.

The problem with the whole anti-vaccine debate is that there is a high degree of lack of "informed ignorance" let alone outright ignorance. The former actually allows for some hope....

 

[Lord Defect]

New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

Anyone running the Gritty 5K on November 6?

 

[Lord Defect]

Anyone running the Gritty 5K on November 6?

Run? What’s that mean?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Run? What’s that mean?

If you have to ask you don't want to know.

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[Appleyard]

Bolsonaro is a terrifying man. He might send Brazil 50 years into the past while using the country as a personal ponzi scheme for him and his friends... trying to effect a coup when you are in charge is so mad.

In a few months they could well be a dictatorship.

 

[kudymen]

Mankind is stupid sometimes, eh

A curtain divides male, female students as Afghan universities reopen

 

[kudymen]

trying to effect a coup when you are in charge is so mad

Didnt Erdogan do the same thing? Those guys are like twins so often

 

[Appleyard]

Didnt Erdogan try the same thing? Those guys are like twins so often

Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Lukashenko... at times it is scarily reminiscent of the 1930s with some of these populists who say they are "for the people" but their policies edge them towards dictatorships, and most of what they are doing actually favours the rich while they tell the poor they are saving them.

Right now it looks like Bolsonaro will lose the election comfortably, and is trying to rally military and supporters against the Supreme Court, who put in a law to stop the Government spreading "fake news" about numerous things... as well as started a corruption investigation into Bolsonaro and some of his cronies.

He has called them "communists" for this, and then spread more "fake news" about the laws themselves and their limits... and because people read Facebook and the news instead of reading what the laws say they buy it... even though a lot of the Supreme Court are centrists and some even right wing. (though he has gone after two judges in particular and is basically inciting violence against them.)

 

[kudymen]

Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Lukashenko... at times it is scarily reminiscent of the 1930s with some of these populists who say they are "for the people" but their policies edge them towards dictatorships, and most of what they are doing actually favours the rich while they tell the poor they are saving them.

Orbán and in some ways the leading party in Poland (PiS) need to go a few borders further away from me. Bleh

 

[Beef Invictus]

Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Lukashenko... at times it is scarily reminiscent of the 1930s with some of these populists who say they are "for the people" but their policies edge them towards dictatorships, and most of what they are doing actually favours the rich while they tell the poor they are saving them.

Right now it looks like Bolsonaro will lose the election comfortably, and is trying to rally military and supporters against the Supreme Court, who put in a law to stop the Government spreading "fake news" about numerous things... as well as started a corruption investigation into Bolsonaro and some of his cronies.

Supply-Side Populism is the strangest of modern movements.

 

[Appleyard]

Supply-Side Populism is the strangest of modern movements.

He (and a lot of others) have basically combined Franco's "Ministry of misinformation" tactics alongside Goebbels utilisation of the "Big Lie".

Terrifying that people still buy this crap. When so often it is actually harming them long term. But they dont read the manifestos...