Paul
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Why are the police wasting time on idiots?
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Momentum is with Biden. The only way Trump can win now is if democrats dont vote - which is possible if too many people think Biden is in front so they dont need to vote. Everyone must vote - tell anyone you know in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to go vote no matter what.
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I think the polls are more accurate now than in 2016. They have fixed what were gaps in their sampling. And they have been much more careful about margins in the swing states. So the polls are pretty clear that Biden will win. The only surprise would be how each party has used that polling data in the past few weeks - Trump tactically focuses on small demographics in a very local areas, which can be just enough to turn the margins in just the right places if Biden doesnt focus on the right areas. It will all come down to 3 states. The real risk is that all Biden people voted early, and these votes wont necessarily be all counted next Tuesday, so I expect Trump to use every tactic to try to claim victory or at least say the results are wrong.
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6 hours ago, Jazzy Jan said:
He depresses me so much. To think the leader of the free world and president of the United States could Re-tweet such juvenile ,vile, dehumanising stuff for a start is terrible. Then to think, he has somewhat “ normalised” it is doubly alarming. I would expect that tweet from a feral, stupid half-witted idiot. I can’t imagine ANY leader of the past being so obviously offensive and stupid. The level of offensive stupidity is staggering. The fact this buffoon is admired by anyone is depressing
I was going to say "Surely its fake", but no, he did indeed post that. I guess he is a feral stupid half-witted idiot. He certainly is not a leader.
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24 minutes ago, Junior said:
She's off the meds again?
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6 hours ago, VogueMusic said:
They have got to be lying about his health right now. All his "pre-existing conditions", especially his age and weight and all the medications he's supposedly on... he can't be doing nearly as well as they present him.
Have you seen this talk about him doing a video in front of a green screen. Everyone's obsessed about the green screen. I'm more suspicious - with deep fakes these days, he may well have died last week and they are putting out completely fake videos. Would they actually tell us if he died?
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3 hours ago, VogueMusic said:
If Millennials and Gen Z on tiktok want to send Trump a message, there's one way to do it... VOTE.
Nah, they dont bother doing that.
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I love Crave. I love Come Alive. I even love Ciao Bella.
But from day 1 I just do not like Crazy. I cant quite put my finger on it. Why do others like it so much?
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20 minutes ago, animalinstinct said:
Hope this means the song will get a proper single release. Send to radio and remixes please!
I doubt it. If she now has to give him a %, she will deliberately not release it. Wouldnt surprise me if she took it out of the tour DVD, or change the DVD to a doco with only selected songs.
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7 hours ago, Narendra Sen said:
CRAZY (unpopular opinion around here, it seems, but it's my least favourite song on the album; I tend to skip it every time I listen to MX)
9 minutes ago, BeautifulBicycle said:Same. Never really warmed to Crazy as a stand alone song, though i enjoyed hearing it on Madame X tour, the way Madonna sings cr-cr-cr-aaaa-zzzyyyyy i find a bit simplistic and immature.
Ive never liked Crazy at all. I just dont get why people like it. Its not terrible, but I cant hear anything good about it. The verses are Ok I guess, but the chorus is silly. I prefer Body Shop.
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Thats crazy! Hasnt NY allowed tenants to defer rent when their business is closed? Glad they are getting support.
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2 hours ago, elijah said:
I am not black, but I find this decision ridiculous. What is racist with Gone With The Wind? It paints a picture of a certain time: when there was a slavery and the black people were indeed called the n word. Going by this logic should we forbid all medieval archives, books etc., because they are even worse? There are so many - perceived from todays viewpoint - "racist" books like The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Should we forbid it too? Those works of arts represented certain period of time which had a certain values and we can not go back and erase that. We should have direct sources so that we could objectively study the past. The moral is changing and thats why we have gay marriage nowadays.
For some years now many companies don't perform Merchant of Venice any more, or do it very carefully to better contextualise it.
That said, I saw a version of Thoroughly Modern Millie last year, which I didn't know how racist it was. I was surprised they did it.
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25 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:
Agree. How can anyone make a movie set in the South in the civil war and not depict racism. It would be denying history and be completely false. Showing life how it was at the time & location it was set in is important. It would be stupid to pretend that it was different. Some say that old movies should be banned due to the huge amount of people smoking in movies. Just stupid logic as people did smoke in those times without any knowledge of the health risks. Today it is different and everyone should realize it was what happened at that time. Viewers have brains and can see that things are shown in movies as it once was, not how it should of been in hindsight which would be denying and erasing history and fact.
I think the issue with GWTW is that it presents the slaves as happy and thankful to be oppressed. But yes, important to document how white people tried to represent slavery, which we can now compare to the truth.
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6 hours ago, MadFan said:
This is silly, and another example of the infantilization of people in our culture -- stop babying grown ass men & women. Let us see the work and trust that we can view it through the lens of 1939.
It's different than taking down a statue, which I support because they commemorate a person. They're not neutral. A film is neutral.
totally. to paraphrase someone, films (or art in general) do not endorse a way of life, but describe one. It is up to us to decide how we response to it, be it ignore it, or engage in discussion about it to bring about change.
statues on the other hand ... public spaces should be used for the public good. Statues the propogate myths and represent a false history, or continue to be a symbol of pain for many, should go.
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9 hours ago, Kim said:
I've never liked her. She constantly uses her huge platform to punch down and likes/retweets some of the most hateful garbage.
Her (now deleted) crazy tweet last week where she was cutting & pasting shit from a trans hate blog while responding to kids pictures sums the stupid bint up.
is this for real! What has she been up to...
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Was it this one?
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I was at the supermarket yesterday, in the western suburbs, and Come Alive was playing through the store. Not sure if it was some playlist or something (I was only there for 5 minutes) but was a nice surprise, and got me wanting to dance in the aisles!
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55 minutes ago, horn said:
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But the lack of testing for mild cases, which are believed to be the vast majority, was also likely to distort the country's fatality statistics, pointed out Lindsay Broadbent, an expert on respiratory virus infections at the Centre for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast.
"Testing as many as possible is so important. South Korea are an excellent example of this," she tweeted. "With the U.K. gov announcing they will restrict testing to more severe patients this will make isolation of infected difficult and will look like we have a high fatality rate!"
On Friday afternoon, the U.K. had 798 reported cases of coronavirus, a jump of more than 35% from the previous day, with 10 fatalities.
https://fortune.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-uk-cases-herd-immunity-covid-19/
It sounds like UK will be like Italy within a week.
Australia is also limiting testing to only specific cases of known close contact with other confirmed cases or symptomatic people only if they have been in certain countries. This means we don't really know how widespread community transmission already is, so our control measures are probably already behind what is needed. However, apparently they are limiting testing because there is a global shortage of the things (??) needed to do the tests.
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1 hour ago, VogueMusic said:
THIS.
SO many I know, especially those over 60 with underlying health issues, are all not taking this seriously...thinking they can just go about as normal. I just think to myself...are fucking kidding me!!!???
And don't get me started on young people. The amount of these social media personalities on all their insta stories getting on airplanes and taking their fancy trips right now like nothing is different...
WTF?????!!!!!! It's really a wake up call to how entitled we are in the US.
I don't understand why it's so hard for so many to accept some sacrifice now so we can all be better/safer/healthier in the long run for the greater good...?
Why is it so hard to stay your ass home?
1 hour ago, karbatal said:This is what I mean. Western society is very difficult to accept individual freedom to be conditioned. This is normally a virtue but now has become a problem.
All true. I've cancelled my holiday (and probably lost about $4000) and going out of my way to stay at home as much as possible and being extra careful when i do go out. I'm not a high risk of significant adverse effects, but very aware that just going out will contribute to spreading it further. And then to see the idiots fighting over toilet paper (in crowded stores) and complaining about cancelled events, or recklessly just going on as normal, and all I can think: these are the people that our sacrifices are protecting.
Finally Australia has taken some serious steps to limit the spread, but we should do more. They keep saying "we're not at the Italy/France/Spain stage yet" .. well, if we dont do more now, we will be there very soon. The number of new cases is growing each day.
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6 hours ago, dcbyebyebaby said:
My mom went to the Casino today and said it was packed. I swear if she brings that shit home I will be pissed.
4 hours ago, dcbyebyebaby said:My mom sent me this. Shes a hardcore right wing conspiracy nutjob that belongs to Qanon. They are predicting that Madonna will be arrested and the coronavirus will be used as an excuse. They are also predicting JFK Jr is alive and will be Trumps new VP. These people are so stupid.
No offence to you, but your mother is an idiot.
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43 minutes ago, rebelvvv said:
Nobody who's responded has missed your point at all. This is highly infectious, 1000x more so than SARS was. It's the young and asymptomatic carriers who infect those at risk At risk doesn't mean simply the elderly either. If you have asthma, diabetes, any heart condition, your risk is much greater. Many of the "non-severe" cases require hospitalization for pneumonia. You CAN become reinfected even after testing negative, as multiple cases in Asia and elsewhere have proven. Finally, the severe cases cause permanent lung damage that reduces your oxygen intake forever even if you recover. None of this is good or something you should deliberately go out of your way to get. It's also airborne and can linger in the air for 3 hours if someone coughs and you walk through it. So you could VERY easily pass it to a number of other people who are at risk without even knowing.
The world has not basically shut down for nothing. Anyone who knows anything about exponential growth can also see where this is going. Italy had only a few cases 2 weeks ago.
Thanks! I was only referring to people who were healthy and could isolate, and did not mean other measures should be stopped. But this is the info that I didn't fully understand. I'm more worried now. Luckily I work from home so can mostly stay away from people. Australia is cancelling some public events, but not others saying there is no need, which is very inconsistent. A friend of mine attended a cricket match last week where there was a case found in the section he was sitting, so he is now self-isolating, but they are not testing. I guess we are all just going to have to get used to a different way of life for a while.
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thanks for the responses, but you have missed my point.
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Can someone who knows something about something explain something ....
they say that all these measures like travel bans, no large gatherings, washing hands like OCD, etc, will only delay the spread by 1 up to maybe 4 weeks.
for most people who contract it, the symptoms are mild and people recover within about a week. Once you’ve had it, you don’t get it again.
so doesn’t it make sense for young and healthy people who are able to stay home For a week to get the virus, get better, and then they will no longer be able to spread the virus, and we can stop all this.
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So if youre in Europe (continent) you can just go to london and get a flight to the US??
2020 U.S. Election
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seems to be spot on! Biden will need to win at least 2 of WI, MI and PA. But these wont be clear until Friday, due to postal votes, and Trump will challenge the outcome in all 3 if he loses because of the postal votes. So, no result for a while...