Random Politics Thread

[The Cat]

 

[Totenkindly]

Well my mom does bring it up -- she lives in a care facility (she's 80) and so they do have more quarantine / demands there + the population is not as healthy / are more impacted by COVID problems if they catch it.

Mom: "It looks like a new version is going around again and people are getting sick. Isn't this ever going to go away?" *sad*
Me: "No, mom. The virus exists now and we'll have to get annual boosters most likely like the flu. It is never going to just disappear."

She was a nurse as her lifelong career. I don't know why she says this kind of thing because she should already know it -- although I guess she is more expressing feelings of loss ("I'm sad the world has changed and people are still getting sick") rather than trying to make a factual statement about how viruses operate.

 

[ceecee]

France is basically a "this is fine" meme.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639779905230749698

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Deutsche Bank is wobbling.

 

[Virtual ghost]

IMF’s Georgieva: ‘Risks to financial stability have increased’

 

[Virtual ghost]

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

 

[Virtual ghost]

France is basically a "this is fine" meme.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639779905230749698

To be honest I don't think that people fully understand how important are events in France. Since the country is basically in the state of open anti-establishment revolt. Because the far left and nationalists have managed to get people out in the streets. What was kinda the inevitable since to many people pushing the country towards free market principles isn't acceptable. Since they see it as attack on their quality of life. To be honest I expect more of this around Europe. Many feel that we are drifting too far from balanced social market economy that made the place for what it is.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

One of the things that has always drawn me to conservatism is it's acceptance of human nature and a focus on creating functional civic frameworks within that nature's constraints. My disgust with the left is at it's most visceral when looking at its tendency to view man as perfectible.

 

[Red Herring]

Same here. I mean, the last vestiges of COVID - like plexiglass barriers and masking are pretty much gone except for hospitals and doctors offices and many that work with the public still wear them. When we came back from the Keys, before Christmas we all tested positive, I let my doctors office know and they prescribed Paxlovid immediately. But we never took it, we did not feel that bad. Save it for people that really need it but it's a very on your own type thing. We've been ready for this to happen so we had a lot of stuff stocked at home. But that flight back from FL sucked - my ears and throat hurt terribly.

Oh, I didn't mean if Covid was still a big thing but specifically if people complaining of Post-Vac syndrome are. I'll take that as a "no", which frankly doesn't surprise me.

 

[Virtual ghost]

To be honest I don't think that people fully understand how important are events in France. Since the country is basically in the state of open anti-establishment revolt. Because the far left and nationalists have managed to get people out in the streets. What was kinda the inevitable since to many people pushing the country towards free market principles isn't acceptable. Since they see it as attack on their quality of life. To be honest I expect more of this around Europe. Many feel that we are drifting too far from balanced social market economy that made the place for what it is.

It is boiling over in France.

 

[ceecee]

To be honest I don't think that people fully understand how important are events in France. Since the country is basically in the state of open anti-establishment revolt. Because the far left and nationalists have managed to get people out in the streets. What was kinda the inevitable since to many people pushing the country towards free market principles isn't acceptable. Since they see it as attack on their quality of life. To be honest I expect more of this around Europe. Many feel that we are drifting too far from balanced social market economy that made the place for what it is.

Oh I understand why they are protesting. It just pisses me off that so many people in the US are so far beaten down that what the French are doing is unthinkable.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Unions Have Been Under Attack For Decades, But Michigan Just Gave Them A Big Win

Maybe this is why Michigan Democrats quickly set about striking down the state’s right-to-work law: Weakened unions are less able to support Democratic candidates, which helps explain both why Republicans champion anti-union laws and Democrats in Michigan were eager to repeal them. In Illinois, too, the legislature recently passed the Workers’ Rights Amendment to its state constitution, preventing right-to-work laws from passing in the future. And these changes suggest future protections for unions in states where Democrats gain control of state government

 

[Red Herring]

 

[Red Herring]

My husband (a history teacher) is currently on a school trip to a concentration camp with a bunch of 9th-graders (9th grade is when you extensively learn about nazism, WW2 and the Third Reich at German schools). How would that fare with Floridian parents (or American parents in general)?

 

[Totenkindly]

Irony: We just discussed the current state of COVID investment in the US here a few days ago, this morning I am getting the revised guidance for my agency where masks are now only required if you are actually sick or if the community COVID level = HIGH. There is also no longer enforced distancing between staff and visitors. If you show symptoms, you are forced to test (either a self-test or doctor visit) and then quarantine for 5-10 days depending on scenario.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Honestly ?
I am starting to think that nothing big will happen to Trump in legal sense. The drama and outcry are just too big and they wouldn't dare to do anything concrete. After all with new cold war going on and inflation problems opening another front could be too much. So the conclusion is perhaps that it is better that they try to beat him in election once more.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Red Herring]

@The Cat In this case not a death camp but "only" a labor camp where they used prisoners of war and some political prisoners as slave labor (but obviously still murdered lots of people both by negligence and deliberatedly, performed medical experiments on prisoners, etc). It's not one of the big internationally known death camps, but I consider it a part of general education to know about your local camp, so to speak, because there usually is something (even if "only" a small labor camp) somewhere nearby.

 

[The Cat]

@The Cat In this case not a death camp but "only" a labor camp where they used prisoners of war and some political prisoners as slave labor (but obviously still murdered lots of people both by negligence and deliberatedly, performed medical experiments on prisoners, etc). It's not one of the big internationally known death camps, but I consider it a part of general education to know about your local camp, so to speak, because there usually is something (even if "only" a small labor camp) somewhere nearby.

Tragically I fear my own country is headed in that direction precisely because so many seem to be so opposed to even acknowledging history let alone learning the right lessons from it. -_-

 

[Virtual ghost]

Mass shooing in Nashville school, 6 dead. Female shooter.