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Old 12-01-2020, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Sector 001
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Right wingers don't like facts, numbers, or free speech

Sure.

I see the same from both extremes. The further from the center you go, the greater the divergence from the norm, the bigger the lies, and the stronger the conformity requirements.
This person gets it.
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Old 12-01-2020, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Wouldn't you like to know?
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Nope, it's the shocking loss of freedom and government over-reach that is the real concern.

Oh yes but the OP is also generally correct in their assertion.
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Old 12-01-2020, 08:28 AM
 
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B.S. Those on the right don't push for free stuff for Illegals and everyone else then pretend that only taxing the rich can actually fund it. Your policies are built on lies, deception and misinformation/disinformation. Just admit it if you are at all honest.
No the right just likes to live thier lives and have others live by the Bible yet only take things out of it they want too..

If they truly lived the Bible word for word they’d give money to the poor like it says to in the Bible..

No offense but to act like one political side is all bad and the other is all moral and honest you have to have a childlike mentality.
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Old 12-01-2020, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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This is not 1918 where over 30,000 physicians are overseas in the army so they are not able to treat the sick at home, this is not 1918 when they did not have ventilators. Its not only the abhorrent number of dying, it is the survivors who have long term health issues and those we are still learning about.

Do we really want to wait until this turns into a 1918 situation? Where I live, there were so many sick farm workers that prisoners had to go milk cows and milk was rationed; in PA they are still uncovering mass graves there were not enough grave diggers. Another one was just uncovered.
Speaking as one who served as business manager of a medium-sized cemetery (in Pennsylvania, no less) and grew up on a family-run dairy farm -- this post is a classic example of a grain of truth -- distorted by the Low Public's desire for rumor and sensationalism.

In the days before centralized (and unnecessarily bureaucratized) welfare systems were set up in the late Thirties, every locality had a "Poor District", supported by a "Poor Tax" and administered by an "Overseer of the Poor". The local farmers could always use an extra "non-hired hand", and the Poor District paid a "minimum wage" of sorts -- for the sort of work nobody wanted to do.

Now as to those "mass graves":

Up until, roughly 1930 (and more so in the West and South), the regular loss of women to disease and childbirth led to a surplus of un-attached and un-anchored single men, who roamed between menial jobs. The book Hoboes, by Mark Wyman, gives a good account of this. These men often died paupers, or by accident in circumstances far from relatives, if any existed, and on occasion, several died in the same incident and were buried in a common grave (one of these was uncovered in the Wrightsville / Columbia (PA) area some years ago).

And there has always been a small number of men (and occasionally, women) who move so far "off the grid" as to die alone and un-noticed: they tend to gravitate to the large cities and end up in "potter's fields" as evidenced below:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ma...vid-19-deaths/

So I wouldn't be too concerned about normal burial processes and procedures being overwhelmed by COVID.

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Old 12-01-2020, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Free State of Florida
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Yes you can post from sources like The Epoch Times and Infowars, that is why you come here.
64% of people only believe in the news sources they expose themselves to, and not others sources.

So, only ~1/3rd of all the links people post here have any chance of being believed. ~2/3rds are rejected out of personal biased.

Nearly all of us would agree that there are no unbiased media outlets anymore.

Trust in media is at an all time low. Nobody knows what to believe anymore. The media is failing miserably.

They are propaganda. If you care to see how bad the media is failing, read this:

https://knightfoundation.org/reports...and-democracy/

Solutions? I don't have all the answers, but here's a few ideas....

-Don't pay for ANY media. Drain them dry of subscription revenues. Why pay for propaganda?

-Don't fully trust any media source data, until it can be cross verified by eyewitnesses, or other documentation....such as video, photo's, audio recordings. Treat them all as propaganda.

-Trust actions more than words.
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Old 12-01-2020, 10:54 AM
 
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Stay away from twitter.

Yes, conservatives should really be moving over to Gab or something else. Twitter is censors the President and at least one Senator. It has an agenda, which is fine. Go where you can be a conservative.
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Old 12-01-2020, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Placitas, New Mexico
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No, Leftists don't like facts, truth and honesty because it exposes their emotionally based fantasy world.
You mean like you denying the facts that Biden has won the election?
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Old 12-01-2020, 11:00 AM
 
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So basically once you hit 70, your life doesn’t matter anymore.

Hey, I thought this was like the flu! Over 250,000 dead, sure doesn’t look like the flu. So much for that talking point. Go ahead, forget the free press, believe everything your leader tells you on Twitter.
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Old 12-01-2020, 11:01 AM
 
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No, Leftists don't like facts, truth and honesty because it exposes their emotionally based fantasy world.

It's hard to see how anyone could have a bigger issue dealing with facts and getting in touch with the economic and health reality facing average Americans more than Donald J. Trump.
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Old 12-01-2020, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Vallejo
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Freedom of speech includes freedom of association. She exercised it. You exercised yours to come make a post here whining about free speech.
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