GOD BLESS AMERICA

Also, as I recall, the left in general was making a big fuss about #NoKings protests at the time. Y'all didn't care much either.

I didn't hear the word "Hortman" out of a single left-winger's mouth until Charlie Kirk was murdered, and y'all wanted to accuse the right of hypocrisy (while not actually addressing the terrorist assassin.)

None of which counters the fact that you have one incident of someone murdering a Dem, vs three attempts on Trump and a successful one on Charlie Kirk.

Even this post is an attempt to reframe the discussion away from left-wing terrorism, to how the right is bad for complaining about left wing terrorism, using a cherry-picked post by some rando who was wrong.

Which is precisely what folks like you have done against all the attacks on right-wingers I just mentioned.

Then, when there was no clear political motive as I said before, everyone dropped the story almost entirely. Until Charlie Kirk's murder, when the left needed something to justify saying "both sides have a problem with violence."

2020:

That was not basic hygeine in the US or most of the West at the time.

It became political the second public officials made it mandatory. It would've been even if everyone had agreed.

Most masks were not medical grade N95s.

>, and people deliberately downplaying the severity of it,

No, they just disagreed. They weren't secretly agreeing with you, but lying.

>There was literally a plague where a solid chunk of the population literally decided to make it worse,

These people said, at the top of their lungs, that they did not believe the mainstream claims about COVID.

You are ignoring that so you can convince yourself they were malicious and therefore wrong.

>the vaccine reduces your chances of infection and moderates the symptoms but it doesn't guarantee immunity,

I seem to recall a lot of pro-vaccine people treating the vaccine like it granted immunity. Only later did it switch to "oh, no, it's actually just for the symptoms".

I also saw loads of people asking why the normal vaccine development and testing time was apparently unnecessary for COVID vaccines.

I can't recall a single pro-vaccine person answering.

>nd the government's official stance is "it's just a new flu", as if it doesn't literally cause your immune system to forget how to do anything.

Multiple governments, across the world, shut down normal life and travel in order to stop COVID. Including two US Presidents, from two different parties.

That generally doesn't happen with the flu.

I wish the governments stance had been 'oh its just a flu.'

As for the vaccine, it was developed faster than most because we already had vaccines for other coronaviruses, and they were able to use those as a basis to build off of instead of starting from scratch. Furthermore, COVID-19 was constantly evolving new strains that were less effected by the vaccine, which is why you needed a booster shot every few months, because different vaccine variants were and are more or less effective against different strains.

The government's response to COVID was so much worse than COVID itself. The countries who fared the best were the ones who reacted the least, because the vast majority of advice we were told (stay indoors as much as possible, isolate yourselves from friends and family and community but keep going to work, wear a piece of cheap, soggy fabric over your nose and mouth for hours at a time,) was actually found to be counterproductive. Not only did it psychologically wreck people — it also tanked their physical health, ironically making COVID worse.

In addition to that, it tanked the economy in ways we're only just starting to realize. All the fraud making headlines across the country? It existed before COVID, yes, but it massively accelerated during those years because the government became incredibly lax during an emergency. The state of Washington flushed away billions of dollars on unemployment fraud, most of which went overseas. That's billions of dollars taken away from Americans who needed it..... and where is it now? No one knows. To cover themselves, the government printed mass amounts of money, causing significant inflation. This, also, has been extremely damaging for Americans.

>agnostic/atheist but politically centrist/libertarian

>find an atheist/agnostic channel on YouTube

>”wow this person seems very reasonable and knowledgeable and-“

>they have a video that makes it clear they’re a leftist of some kind

>tfw

Why do so many atheists that leave Christianity or Judaism end up worshipping at the altar of Marx?

It's not like face-stabbing is likely to spread to nearby houses.

No matter what they believe.

And also minorities from racist assumptions of people on the left. As in, over a decade of criticizing BLM.

And also, on occasion, defending Trump.

Clearly you've cracked the code of my secret allegances (that happen to line up with your prejudices).