General News Thread

[LegalLoliLover]

China Virus is trending on Twitter again. Time to get busy diverting attention to the CCP (whether or not ignoramuses and/or CCP 50 Cent Brigadiers interpret that as Trump support is irrelevant).

[Alternative Ice]

kanye is a well known trump supporter and biden has been kicking his ass. Kanye is likely hoping if he scoops up some “for the lulz” protest votes that would have otherwise gone to Biden he might be able to play spoiler in Florida and a few other critical places

Pretty sure most of the “for the lulz” voters would vote for Trump over Biden or just not vote at all.

[Tobias]

Pretty sure most of the “for the lulz” voters would vote for Trump over Biden or just not vote at all.

That’s not actually true you know. In most cases people voting for a joke tend to vote against the incumbent.

[LegalLoliLover]

While China's specialty is the information virus of propaganda and the actual virus of... Well, viruses, they'd get their butts kicked in direct combat. Fallout is... unlikely:

[Twelveseal]

From Ye's spoiler bid to a different kind of sickness; China may have a confirmed case of the Black Death. So that's three possible or current pandemics out of China in a year.

Thanks, China!

[asterism42]

I am fairly certain the plague making the headlines is because people are more disease conscious now. There are around 500-1000 cases of plague worldwide every year, and it's a lot less serious with the advent of antibiotics.

[Twelveseal]

Yeah, but at the same time, it's not a thing we want spreading in an already strained medical system.

[LegalLoliLover]

If the US is losing monuments, will they go full cultural revolution and rebuild them as cheap replicas of themselves when they realize that those monuments are tied with tourism revenue?

[Twelveseal]

Lol, we'll probably build something else, yeah.

[LegalLoliLover]

Then people will wise up about it being a replica and not go there anyway, thereby resulting in that project being a waste of money. See the replica cities in China that are essentially ghost towns now. In fact, the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie had a line by Belloq where he said something along the lines of buying a $2 watch, burying it for a 1000 years, and then people will kill over it. However, few people would kill over a "freshly" made $2 watch. Again, whenever I say cultural revolution, know that it is the greatest insult.

[SpoonyViking]

The bubonic plague has never really gone away, it's just that with an overall improvement in sanitation, it's become much rarer. It's not really cause for alarm yet.

[Twelveseal]

Charlie Daniels has died.

[OverMaster]

If the US is losing monuments,

Don't worry, Trump's got that covered:

https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/trump-...erican-heroes/

[Alternative Ice]

That’s not actually true you know. In most cases people voting for a joke tend to vote against the incumbent.

No? Joke voters don't care who's the incumbent they just vote for whichever candidate is the biggest meme.

[LegalLoliLover]

Don't worry, Trump's got that covered:

https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/trump-...erican-heroes/

Didn't I show with my watch example (taken from Indiana Jones) that older monuments and artifacts tend to be worth more than newer ones?

I apologize for saying $2. It was actually $10. As for the communists and/or bandits who think that they are entitled to violence and destruction, just because of sob stories:

[Twelveseal]

Well this feels counter-productive.

[LegalLoliLover]

You honestly think that the rioters care about productivity?

[pinetree]

Are joke voters even a relevant percentage of voters? I'd imagine they wouldn't be in a country in which voting is not mandatory.

[asterism42]

[Rafflesiac]

Well this feels counter-productive.

No culprit is stated.