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Great — so people will be even more socially isolated and stressed. Yay technology!

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Long outdoor equipment companies … oil prices at record lows for car travel and hiking/nature are seen as “safe” because they don’t involve sitting or standing in a crowd.

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Gas isn’t nearly high enough. Taxes enough to make the poison cost $10 per gallon and used to subsidize nuclear power plants, electric trains, and conversion to electric vehicle would be a good start. Fuck the pestroleum industry with a hammer drill

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The emergency declaration is more about funding than about sowing panic.

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FlyerInHI – the Great Recession resulted in ACA, Medicaid expansion which is strictly income-based, without regard for assets, as well as criminal justice reforms. Calls for sentencing reform and marijuana law reform started to get really serious right around 2009, because it was simply too expensive to pay to jail people for victimless crimes. It certainly resulted in both “socialist” and anti-authoritarian reforms.

The next Great Recession will push Americans further to the left.

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Yep, down since peak.

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Oh my! The market is only down 9% since peak, not 12%. The real amusement will begin when profit numbers start feeling the pinch of disrupted supply chains, of people not flying, of people not going out as much… Give it a few months. The real fun will begin just in time for a long summer, and it will be fresh in people’s minds come November.

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flu- I thought that TheJoeMentum was a sockpuppet/troll account created by you 😀

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You’re the one that seems to have time to create multiple sockpuppet accounts on here … this is how I picture you.

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So people are forced to go for a walk in nature, have a nice dinner with family, go to a church if they believe in a skydaddy, instead of spending their entire existence working or blowing money. What’s so bad about that?

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You seem to talk about it a lot … people who don’t have it, talk about it. I could say worse, but I’ll take the high road here…

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It’s always different this time … until it’s not. I don’t want to live in the Midwest, and have to drive a car everywhere. I love trains. Trains are beautiful. I love riding them, love watching them. I think somewhere like Prague (with generally liberal “moral” laws and good social safety net) would be more in line with what I don’t hate than the majority of this fucking rat-grinder of a country.

This is a more beautiful sight to me than any Ferrari or Tesla. Fast, clean electric train:

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The fascist Bloomberg just dropped like a wilted lily. Sanders and Warren are doing more than you think … they’re pushing the Democratic party to the left. Biden’s views…

* Public option (check)
* Free college (almost – for two years, then generous loan forgiveness and repayment capped at 5% of income)
* Federal decriminalization/descheduling of marijuana, and not interfering with state-level full legalization (check)
* Support of public transit and AMTRAK … there’s a reason why he’s called “Amtrak Joe” – he used to commute by train from Delaware to DC on the regular (check).

His views have been forced to the left by Sanders and Warren. A moderate calling for all of this would have been unthinkable a few years ago. It would be brilliant if he picked Warren as a VP – he’d likely lock up many women’s votes by doing so, and when he’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a year or two down the line…

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Fortunately, there’s an app for that … LOL! Commitment is overrated, especially if it traps you into marriage and you have to get a “real jerb”, move to the suburbs, and be a “provider” because the government doesn’t provide basic services like daycare, health insurance, and college for a simple tax payment. I hope for a childless existence or one kid at most. Responsibility and commitment are overrated; irresponsibility and freedom in personal life is called “self-care” and is something that should be celebrated and nurtured. Plus there’s the environmental aspect … ZPG should be a goal, not a joke.

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Anyone who makes me slave more than 50 hours a week for them is an asshole… I don’t enjoy working; it just makes me feel ill and tired. But American society is also the asshole for accepting those conditions of employment and life. Civilized countries limit working hours to 35-40 per week and require boss scum to give at least a few weeks of blessed vacay to everyone. Thus, I wish for either the collapse or reform of society.

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