>>10821047 lb

herd behavior is real, to my disappointment.

people look around to see what "most people" are doing, and make a decision on that, not on risk, common sense, or factual information.

there is practically no covid where I live, and very few deaths. mask wearing outside, in the fresh air, where there is no danger, is off the charts. Running in masks. Bike riding in masks. Walking the dog at 6 am on an empty streets in masks.

guess where I live? In the deepest blue of the blue areas. they want to believe that they haven't been fooled. Again.

>>10821301

let's see your tax returns, John Brennan. better yet, let's see your overseas stash

>>10821383

Brad could be having personal problems that have nothing to do with Trump. Just saying

>>10821415

Exactly. Most, I think, are just feeling the social pressure. Others are actively pushing the narrative. Some are just virtue signalling (look, I'm a good person!) Some are actually afraid (and would benefit knowing that they would probably survive unless old and ill, but that's not part of this narrative)

None of the above are using common sense. Did this virus suddenly start acting like no other virus in history, and suddenly got the power to leap across space and get you? No.

If you are not sick, does your mask protect anyone? No.

Look, I see the marginal advantage of having people wear masks inside stores and crowded places, because one of those mask wearers might be sick. But outside in the fresh air, riding your bike? You have a giant stupid sticker on your back (that only some of us can see, apparently)

>>10821303

scott adams says Biden just has to do ok for one debate. if he survives it, then they cancel the rest. we'll see soon I guess

>>10821370

"make them ask one question"

I'm not good at this, but it may be more effective to ask them a question

ask them a question that makes them think about their own assumptions or beliefs

you can't change their mind, but they can change their own mind

but they actually have to think first

>>10821541

Thanks. It makes me crazy that these are the same people who want us to trust "science."

What they actually mean is trust authority, either because they do, or they hope to be that authority one day

>>10821594

this is the worst kind of nonsense. no matter what the situation, it can get better, and it can get worse. Just throwing up your hands like this is a guarantee it gets worse.

Some fuck in the middle ages said the same thing. You can't fight the power of Rome. Then Martin Luther came along and did.

Countless other examples.

But if you want to personally just suck your thumb, fine. It'll go on without you.

>>10821687

this. and if you took what some anonymous poster on the internet who calls himself Q as true, and now you are disappointed …

don't let the door hit you on the way out

>>10821673

hard no. the system itself is not the problem. it's that the rules don't apply to some people

>>10821690

this is what the authoritarians have in store folks. dress up some scare in science and sell it as for your own good

the beauty part: they don't solve the problem (because it's the wrong problem or the wrong approach, doesn't matter)

… since the problem hasn't gone away they can ask for more and more of your money and take away more and more of your freedom,

>>10821721

let's have some justice. just take the evidence that already exists and have trials

that's good enough. justice vs just us

look, it's never going to be a perfect world. if you think some magic fairy tale world will emerge out of this, you deserve to be disappointed

>>10821803

>>10821653

not venus. (BTW these days there is something called the internet, where you can look things up.)

>>10821455

let's have financial transparency for all feds

the form the congresspeople fill out is purposefully vague. only gives you a ballpark, and no details

>>10821868

that's my boy! owes me big time for cleansing his records!

>>10821881

all you fucks are voting Biden anyway

good luck with that

>>10821873

since you don't know how to work the interwebs, here you go:

https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/statue-freedom

The Statue of Freedom

The crowning feature of the Dome of the U.S. Capitol stands 19 feet 6 inches tall and weighs approximately 15,000 pounds.

The Statue of Freedom

The Basics

ARTIST

Thomas Crawford

MATERIALS

Bronze

YEAR

1863

DIMENSIONS

19 feet 6 inches tall

LOCATION

Capitol Dome

Statue of Freedom is a classical female figure with long, flowing hair wearing a helmet with a crest composed of an eagle’s head and feathers. She wears a classical dress secured with a brooch inscribed "U.S." Over it is draped a heavy, flowing, toga-like robe fringed with fur and decorative balls. Her right hand rests upon the hilt of a sheathed sword wrapped in a scarf; in her left hand she holds a laurel wreath of victory and the shield of the United States with 13 stripes.

The helmet is encircled by nine stars. Ten bronze points tipped with platinum are attached to her headdress, shoulders and shield for protection from lightning. She stands on a cast-iron pedestal topped with a globe encircled with the motto E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one). The lower part of the pedestal is decorated with fasces (symbols of the authority of government) and wreaths. The pedestal is 18-1/2 feet high and almost doubles the total height. The crest of Freedom’s headdress rises 288 feet above the East Front Plaza.

Statue of Freedom does not wear or hold a knitted liberty cap, as would have been expected in nineteenth-century art. The knit cap provided to freed slaves in ancient Rome had been adopted as the symbol of liberty or freedom during the American and French Revolutions and was usually shown as red. The Statue of Freedom's crested helmet and sword, suggesting she is prepared to protect the nation, are more commonly associated with Minerva or Bellona, Roman goddesses of war. The history of the statue's design explains why she wears a helmet rather than a liberty cap. The story of her casting reveals that some of the people who worked to create Freedom were not themselves free.

>>10821916

they aren't even hiding it anymore

like there is nothing to discuss

believe what we tell you, suckers, or else