I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. Especially when the lies were so obvious. You can't get COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie), You can't spread COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie). If they would have been honest from the start -- that you are less likely to need to take up limited hospital beds if you got the vaccine, I think people would have responded better.
Then there were the obviously stupid mask rules.... wear a mask, stand in lane, separate... but as soon as you sit down at a table, you can take off the mask and now all of the sudden the disease magically can't spread.
No gathering outside, no going to church, even outside if you provide plenty of space or we will arrest you.
However, riots lining up body to body for the cause of the week is perfectly fine without masks.
The hypocrisy of the whole situation was obvious and undeniable. I'm sure you are partly true with some of the Trump hard core lover people.... but there are a LOT of silent majority in the middle that don't like Trump but dislike the lies and hypocricy much much more.
> You can't get COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie), You can't spread COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie).
I don’t recall this. My memory was that the messaging was primarily around reduced risk of serious illness
/death and reduced risk of transmission.
I do recall the CDC or whoever in the early days saying not to wear masks, which felt like an obvious lie, I presumed at the time to protect supplies for medical professionals. I also recall it was a few years before they acknowledged it was airborne, despite having sufficient evidence it may be quite some time (and previously messaging was that it was affirmatively not airborne).
The pandemic sucked but the politics around it were just so gross and disheartening. Anyhow, this is all way off topic for the original article.
Nobody said you couldn't get COVID if you got vaccinated. I lived through it, I paid attention, you can't lie to me about that. There was some talk about 90+% effective, that means it's good, but not smallpox vaccine good. Nobody, but nobody said you couldn't spread it if you were vaccinated.
I just cancelled my account that I've had for about 10 years... maybe longer. I barely used it, but it's now >$100/year for my plan. I had maybe 15 videos uploaded that I would share occasionally.
I used to be an indie filmmaker and used it to host features when nothing else could. I’ve been paying since 2008. The price would go up but they were great so I let it be.
This article does pretty much talk about the past when they did control the government. It's also been well known that the left has spent more money in all of the elections for a long time. Kamala spent over $1B on her campaign which was much more than Trump.
I'd like to find out if the dollar figures in the article are correct -- that tells the real story.
My guess is to get people to pay taxes on this part.
“ The blockers shield tax-exempt investors from liability. But the proposed changes could add hefty taxes to any distributions made to SWFs if the blocker is deemed to have “effective control” of a portfolio company.”
How much tax revenue and job revenue which translates to sales revenue, employment taxes, donations, etc has Google generated for California over the years? Is it a business they couldn’t have started somewhere else? Should the beholden to the state in perpetuity?
To be clear, Billionaires often pay zero income taxes. Not 1%, not 5, not 10. They pay $0 in income taxes. Many in the shrinking middle class pay almost half their income in tax.
Can you then guess who gets more representation and voice in the government?
That’s not a loophole. That’s the entire system being built to by the wealthy and powerful to protect wealth and power.
Don’t get me wrong, i reflexively protect my wealth and power too. But it’s an unfair system and we have to acknowledge that before we can start to fix it.
Why in the world would you not believe this? Trump has come out and publicly stated that he wants Greenland over and over. He's literally said that the military option is on the table. You don't have to believe this article at all, but it's obviously true just because of what Trump himself has said.
I find this a bit hard to believe that they refuse to index it at all if the robots.txt doesn't exist. Would love to see more data or confirmation on this.
Then there were the obviously stupid mask rules.... wear a mask, stand in lane, separate... but as soon as you sit down at a table, you can take off the mask and now all of the sudden the disease magically can't spread.
No gathering outside, no going to church, even outside if you provide plenty of space or we will arrest you.
However, riots lining up body to body for the cause of the week is perfectly fine without masks.
The hypocrisy of the whole situation was obvious and undeniable. I'm sure you are partly true with some of the Trump hard core lover people.... but there are a LOT of silent majority in the middle that don't like Trump but dislike the lies and hypocricy much much more.
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