GOD BLESS AMERICA

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).

So far no one has managed to cite a single incident of bias that doesn't crumble immediately under the actual facts. The answer each time is some form of "the facts don't matter, what matters is that I made up a story about it and got upset, which is your fault."

Also it would be very funny, also he's a great American who loves America and the American people (as opposed to a lot of people who love what they imagine building after they dismantle America for parts), also @daisukitoo's other reply:

This would make Donald Trump's face the symbol of unethical, clandestine financial transactions.

He's really not, though, and he really doesn't.

...I don't mean this in a "check out my counterintuitive lefty definition of patriotism" way. I mean that he openly despises large sectors of the country, including traditional touchstones of American patriotic identity, in a way that has no parallel in any other US politician of comparable stature. He's the guy who flubs and flouts military ritual observances, and basically insulted John McCain to his face for his veteran status. He's the guy who makes a point of tearing down the architecture of Washington, DC. He's the guy who doesn't even bother pretending that he values Every Citizen, as opposed to valuing Those Citizens Who Support Him.

And you can say that all of this is symbolic frou-frou, which is true, and that symbols can sometimes get detached from the things they're supposed to symbolize, which is also true.

But - it's all of a piece with everything we've already known about Donald Trump forever. From way before 2016! He values money and celebrity and success and nothing else! He spits on everyone that he considers a loser, which definitely includes most Americans! He is cosmopolitan enough to think of those foreigners who swim in his circles as His People - enough to marry one! He would absolutely have been a part of hoity-toity New York sophisticate culture, if the sophisticates would have had him!

Anyhow, Donald Trump should be on the $250 bill if and only if he dies while in office, either by natural causes or by unnatural ones. In that case, putting his 1980s businessman split-term populist face on the bill is fitting, including because doing cash transactions in $250 bills is kinda shady. If Donald Trump survives his second term, then he should not be put on any U.S. currency, except for a limited-release commemorative Trump coin used for fundraising by the Federal government. This coin should be legal currency brought back periodically for sale to fans, but only if sales are profitable.

Trump is an egomaniac, unquestionably. He wants to Make America Great Again so that people will say "wow, Donald Trump made America great again, he was the best president ever and we should put his face on a bank note and build him a monument in DC and put his face on Mt. Rushmore and gush about him in our history books." To this end, he promotes policies that he thinks will genuinely strengthen America. He's doing it for his own personal ego boost, yes, but the end result is - at least hopefully - a stronger America.

Folks like Biden, Obama, Bush Jr., Clinton (both Hillary and Bill), etc., are also egomaniacs, but their focus is different. They want power and status among their elite clique of globalist technocratic government elites, and do not want a stronger America or an American population that is better off. They hold us in open contempt and often outright hatred. They get their ego boost from grinding us under their heels and convincing us to thank them for it.

The glib phrasing of the tweet does leave some room for interpretation. My reply is because I, personally, know people who say they feel totally unlovable because in over a decade they haven't been able to find anybody. And sometimes I want to shake them by the shoulders and tell them that they aren't unlovable, they just have impossible standards for compatibility.

Guys talk a lot about women demanding men be 6 feet tall with abs — in my experience, that isn't true. Many do, however, want a guy who has most of the same opinions and hobbies that they do (and none that they personally find annoying), as well as a level of emotional availability that few guys have naturally — and glowing confidence on top of all that. It's not realistic, and they're ignoring many good people who they might be able to build very happy lives with.