General News Thread

[LegalLoliLover]

I know.

[Dullahan]

then clearly you also know - having read hansard - that this speech takes place after the adjournment, when senate business for the day is done and individual senators get to stand up and ramble about whatever

sen. griff here is a member of a party with like 3 people in it, all in south australia, with no real interests except - correction - surviving the next election because at this rate he probably won't lol

nothing will happen

so calm down

[asterism42]

SAO deserves to be called shit in a national parliament tbh

[LegalLoliLover]

then clearly you also know - having read hansard - that this speech takes place after the adjournment, when senate business for the day is done and individual senators get to stand up and ramble about whatever

sen. griff here is a member of a party with like 3 people in it, all in south australia, with no real interests except - correction - surviving the next election because at this rate he probably won't lol

nothing will happen

so calm down

I said that he's a filthy scumbag, not a powerful scumbag. Powerful scumbags are those politicians from the same country that got perfectly legal porn with small-breasted women banned, along with completely fictitious loli hentai.

[SpoonyViking]

SAO deserves to be called shit in a national parliament tbh

I second the motion.

[AsGryffynn]

This site is very accurate reporting situation of covid19 in Japan via GitHub, sorry Japanese only.https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/

In japan, fake rumor was happened. all the supermarkets ran out of toilet paper. I just started telework, no need to ride packed trains (^o^)/.

I have no clue why people didn't just freaking telecommute when they easily could. The moment cases start reaching Bogota, I'm sealing off my home and ordering my shit through delivery (seriously, you don't even need to leave for groceries).

Medicare for All
Welfare State Democratic Socialism

This is the world Bernie bros want

And this is wrong because?

A mainstream politician namedropping trashy ecchi anime... never thought I'd see the day.

You should've looked at the reaction of onlookers when an Italian gymnast performed to the Bleach OST and I just found that out. Also, was Italian, and I love Italian girls. Noice.

SAO deserves to be called shit in a national parliament tbh

And plenty of other anime but I doubt we'd see a weaboo Senator engaging in a filibuster anytime soon.

[Ossan99]

734 AD: Big earthquake occured.
737 AD: Smallpox was raging..
740 AD: Large scale revolt occured in kyushu...
749 AD: Japanese people did it!
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2011 AD: Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake.
2019 AD: Biggest two typhoons were hit..
2020 AD: COVID-19 is raging...
So,

Spoiler:

We should build a great statue of Buddha once again!!

[rxrx]

Is it true that America CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus?

[AsGryffynn]

Is it true that America CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus?

They are taking a page from Phil Spencer's book of spin.

[Twelveseal]

Basically, Trump realized that publicly botching a response to a disease outbreak and helping contribute to a tanking stock market like this is bad for reelection campaigns.

[rxrx]

I never thought America will be this bad.

[Twelveseal]

I imagine it'll get worse, tbh. Especially if Trump wins another term, since he's shut down the only real, legal ways to check his misbehavior. However, even this is just a continuation of earlier trends caused by Congress ceding authority to the President, changes in policymaking and discourse, court case decisions favoring the wealthy and powerful over those who aren't, and the influence of lobbying on behalf of corporate and special interests. It'll get worse, and it'll continue to have impacts globally.

[rxrx]

I imagine it'll get worse, tbh. Especially if Trump wins another term, since he's shut down the only real, legal ways to check his misbehavior. However, even this is just a continuation of earlier trends caused by Congress ceding authority to the President, changes in policymaking and discourse, court case decisions favoring the wealthy and powerful over those who aren't, and the influence of lobbying on behalf of corporate and special interests. It'll get worse, and it'll continue to have impacts globally.

Everywhere's the same. And people thought China is bad.

[Twelveseal]

You're not wrong. It's screwed up pretty much everywhere to some degree. And it's not like China isn't bad. It is. It's arguably got many of the same problems the US does when it comes to government, just coming wholly from the CCP rather than from private sector interests. Everyone has issues. Not always the same issues, but issues nonetheless. It's not like anyone or anything is perfect; there's always going to be problems. The goal is to try to fix as many as we can and minimize the ones we can't.

[rxrx]

You're not wrong. It's screwed up pretty much everywhere to some degree. And it's not like China isn't bad. It is. It's arguably got many of the same problems the US does when it comes to government, just coming wholly from the CCP rather than from private sector interests. Everyone has issues. Not always the same issues, but issues nonetheless. It's not like anyone or anything is perfect; there's always going to be problems. The goal is to try to fix as many as we can and minimize the ones we can't.

Agreed. Just that the propaganda from the West makes you think what a paradise it is compared to China. Can you believe there are actually still people rioting in Hong Kong because the govt. wants to set up quarantine camps?

[Twelveseal]

Lol, ye. We know it's no paradise here. Plus, quarantine camps sound reasonable, unless you have the kind of command economy emergency response that Beijing has, where it can build housing damn near overnight.

Tbh, the whole global reaction to covid seems overblown, but at the same time not, since it's essentially trying to prevent a new recurring seasonal affliction like the flu.

[rxrx]

Lol, ye. We know it's no paradise here. Plus, quarantine camps sound reasonable, unless you have the kind of command economy emergency response that Beijing has, where it can build housing damn near overnight.

Tbh, the whole global reaction to covid seems overblown, but at the same time not, since it's essentially trying to prevent a new recurring seasonal affliction like the flu.

I was thinking maybe governments would take a clue and prepare itself seeing how China basically shut down Hubei, especially Wuhan to prevent the virus from spreading. They just seem to get caught off guard when the virus emerged in their country, making me think they were busy laughing at China instead of bracing for the worst.

And everyone do the same thing, grabbing essentials like food and water, some toilet paper, and Mericans grab more guns and bullets.

Just surprised how off guard they are, and how America even choose to stop sharing info with its people when just weeks ago they were critical of China being not transparent enough.

[Twelveseal]

Pot, meet kettle. Basically it's that we thought China could contain it for the most part. No one really did anything, assuming it was just a "Chinese" problem. Until it wasn't. Now everyone's dealing with the repercussions of doing nothing when they had the chance to prepare. That it will literally cost lives is just depressing. That it likely won't have any political consequences is worse, but they're trying to cover their asses and minimize public resentment by controlling information on the topic anyway. Just in case it does.

As for what we're getting? Food, water, masks (totally sold out here atm), hygiene supplies (including things like sanitizer in addition to basic supplies and toiletries), vitamins, etc... though there's guaranteed to be a section of the population that buys guns and ammo, yeah, as they'll see this as the beginning of the FEMA Death Camps/White Extinction conspiracy theory.

[Twelveseal]

Possible proof of alien life?

[rxrx]

Pot, meet kettle. Basically it's that we thought China could contain it for the most part. No one really did anything, assuming it was just a "Chinese" problem. Until it wasn't. Now everyone's dealing with the repercussions of doing nothing when they had the chance to prepare. That it will literally cost lives is just depressing. That it likely won't have any political consequences is worse, but they're trying to cover their asses and minimize public resentment by controlling information on the topic anyway. Just in case it does.

As for what we're getting? Food, water, masks (totally sold out here atm), hygiene supplies (including things like sanitizer in addition to basic supplies and toiletries), vitamins, etc... though there's guaranteed to be a section of the population that buys guns and ammo, yeah, as they'll see this as the beginning of the FEMA Death Camps/White Extinction conspiracy theory.

To politicians, we are nothing but numbers. Pretty sad when you realize bureaucracy is the same in any country. We are all mindless drones of respective propaganda.