@jesscraven101 This is a delusion. Thinking that J.K. Rowling's defense of women's human rights puts your child in danger is a delusion and makes you an extremist.
> Government will never ever directly take control of anything. They will get private business to do it, because that guarantees the ancap tards will see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
To my knowledge, in the US, it's corporations that control the government, not the other way around.
I believe businesses implemented mandates because they knew that they were otherwise risking large numbers of sickness among the workforce, ultimately leading to loss of profit.
We've actually seen a pretty big example of that happening in Germany:
1,500 workers infected, production shut down, forced to install HEPA filters before they were allowed to reopen.
To be completely fair, it sounds like it might have been related to the way the ventilation systems work in meat production sites: Air being constantly recirculated to save on cooling, with viruses surviving longer in the cold air...
Anyhow. I wonder what motivation you think governments have that leads them to implement vaccination mandates, other than a combination of protecting the economy (corpo profits) and protecting public health.
@cjd@r000t That's a really extreme position to take. I think there are a lot *more* emergencies out there that are not getting enough or even any attention. Of course, some issues may in turn be blown out of proportion for one or another reason, but I don't believe COVID was an example of that. It's easy to look away and think that everything must really be OK when you live in a small privileged bubble that's relatively unaffected.
@fluffy I never realized that this happened until I heard about it very recently, and don't understand why it happened either.
The way it was back in the time:
- If you're tech illiterate, you use IE because it's what Windows offers by default. - If you're moderately nerdy, you use FF or Chrome, and there's never been a really big advantage of either over the other so they were always toe to toe. - If you're a hipster you use Safari (Apple hipster) or Opera (non-Apple hipster).
What changed? Why's everyone preferring Chrome over FF all of a sudden, and who taught all the boomers to avoid IE?
I used to go by the pseudonym Social Justice Wizard and was keeping it separate from my real identity. They didn't actually have concrete proof that it was me but somehow sniffed it out. My home address was also not supposed to be visible on the Internet and they found that one too somehow.
It was pretty wild seeing my real name, face, and home address posted on a website full of retards, but nothing actually happened.
Then I thought fuck them idiots and, emboldened by J.K. Rowling and Alice Schwarzer, decided to go publicly "TERF." Now even my home address is public because it's the address under which I've registered the non-profit FeministWiki company.
The thing with aggressive trans activists that had me genuinely worried initially is, they've somehow genuinely convinced themselves that anyone who disagrees with them is a *literal* (and yes I mean literal) fascist of some sort, and if it seems like they support feminism somehow then they're just faking it and using it as a cover. They keep telling people this, and a few years ago there weren't a big number of feminist public figures and organizations taking the trans-critical position, which made it easy for them to convince people of their conspiracy theory.
But in the last few years there's been so many popular public figures, prominent feminists, new grassroots feminist organizations etc. popping up in opposition to transgender extremism that nobody can genuinely call you a fascist anymore and expect people to take them seriously.
Besides, I'm in such good standing with my employer at this point that he'd beg me to stay if I wanted to quit, rather than ever think of firing me due to some stupid activist pressure. :beanblobcat: