Good idea. Try to find something to do when you wake up besides posting epic screeds on the internet. Seems like you’ve been getting a lot of screen time lately…
What does this have to do with me thinking COVID-19 is a hoax? (Which is far, FAR from being the truth. This Pandemic is real…)
In answer to your question…there has been nothing that I have seen the Government mandate (and in most cased ask) that would warrant some wide-spread revolt with guns blazing.
Tends to happen when averaging like 4 hours of sleep per night. Can’t go out, can’t go to gym (aside from home gym), can’t see my friends… This is a decent distraction from all that is going on.
You may not agree with my arguments, that doesn’t mean they’re tedious/to be dismissed. This is a place for civil conversation, not putting others down.
Not quite sure what your issue is, @NickViar…but having people put words in my mouth that I don’t even think is not a game I play.
So we can move on.
I’m not quite sure, just guessing. If you believe, as it could have been reasonably inferred from loppar’s comment, that Americans failed to use their guns to stop government overreach, you have to ask “why?”.
The real-world answer is that we complied with what was being asked. It all seems quite reasonable, in fact. Now, if you STILL believe that gun owners failed to meet your standards of freedom defense, it follows that you also believe the response of gun owners at large was a failure to apply their principles of freedom, meaning they should not have complied.
If you believe gun owners should not have complied with the government’s request, you would by-definition have to believe that the COVID threat is much lower than the threat of tyranny. The gun owners were thus duped into compliance when the real threat was tyranny.
Hence, the hoax.
Bro, if you own a gun and really believe it has any worth whatsoever as a deterrent of tyranny, you should be shooting at least one or two people every time you leave the house. You see a mailman delivering mail to your grandma? You shoot that bastard because he’s working for an organization that profits from its government-provided monopoly. You see a Police Officer responding to a bank robbery? You crash into him to stop him. You see a school teacher with her students on the playground? You shoot her.
Not putting you down buddy. Your t-nation output is staggering lately. You’re a young man go find something else to do!
DAMN you guys can read too much into not even what someone writes…but just their comments on what someone else wrote.
My bad!
Right here:
I can’t leave my property aside from buying groceries (10,000$ fine if caught)
I don’t watch a lot of TV, nor do I play video games. (Edit: felt as if some info in here was too personal)
I find this is a good distraction, lessens my generalised levels of anxiety. But you’re right, this probably isn’t the healthiest past-time, I need to find another distraction. I’ll be reducing my screentime.
Being young has little to do with anything how given having a social life is now practically illigal.
Let me write it again:
DAMN you guys can read too much into not even what someone writes…but just their comments on what someone else wrote.
My bad!
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Nope, I haven’t written that. I was just commenting how easy it is to agree to the reduction of one’s freedoms if the illusion (gun stores open) is maintained.
Maine is absent of areas like Chicago, Compton, Detroit… It is relatively rural and has a low population relative to many states.
My kid is 19 and stuck at his mom’s house. He’s miserable right now and it sucks. Not much I can do to change that right now. Tough it out.
Well that’s not really an illusion, is it? I can log off right now and go pick up a shotgun on my lunch break. I’m free to leave my home, I’m free to go buy a gun, I’m free to quit my job and I’m free to start a business.
We can debate how much freedom is really there when you get into the weeds of various regulations, etc, but I am not presently living in a police state or anything resembling it. I don’t feel like I’ve rolled over on my rights at all. Yes, there are some cops who will do stupid stuff like harass park-goers in some distant state, but I don’t see any signs of that being an institutional policy.
Is there oppression that I’m missing, somehow?
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Really? What’s your source on this information? I could’ve sworn I saw a 100 story skyscraper just last week.
Google.
My home state Minnesota is not all that densely populated and has 5.6 million people.
Where you in NY by chance? According to HighRises.com, only Vermont and South Dakota don’t have buildings taller than Maine. In fact it lists your tallest building as 16 stories.
I’m not sure. I don’t remember leaving Maine recently. Maybe it was just a really big tree.
A hundred branches to the top is a hundred stories to the squirrels who live there. Nature’s sky scrapers.
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Only one mason company in the near area. He’s gone and worked on the West Coast before but we live in the Midwest.
Yeah, I don’t know what all his bosses do, but I guess sometimes people just don’t care. This has been going on for years. Just a crappy, selfish owner. The union doesn’t seem to mind.
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I’m trying to understand…did what you wrote imply in some way that you felt COVID-19 was a hoax…or have you shared that sentiment in some other post?