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Black Lives Matter Thread 6

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular

    Remember when Sinéad O'Connor ripped up a picture of the pope because she had been sexually abused by the Church, but spoke out before everyone knew it, and was banned by Loren Michaels because "she got political" or whatever the fuck? Let's see that asshole try that again.

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Who is she talking about when she means "sellout negroes?"

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Who is she talking about when she means "sellout negroes?"

    The AG of Kentucky is the one who tried to blame the lack of charges on Breonna Taylor's murderers on the Grand Jury.

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    SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Who is she talking about when she means "sellout negroes?"
    The people in Africa that sold their brethren into slavery.

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    This discussion makes me think of this poem I was shown in a college class years ago.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jlssG718dDQ

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Who is she talking about when she means "sellout negroes?"
    The people in Africa that sold their brethren into slavery.

    Not a lot of people make that connection, I'm surprised she did.

    On that note, there's a book by a former slave who was a slave in West Africa and Colonial America, where he contrasts the two.

    Okay, it wasn't Omar Ibn Said

    Here it is, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular


    Busy men being important and not dead

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited October 2020
    At least the papers Kim is marking are not blank.

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Becoming more and more convinced that the way this goes is he rushes through his treatment to get out of the hospital and either gets it again or his body breaks down and he kicks it of pneumonia or whatever

    WeedLordVegeta on
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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »


    Busy men being important and not dead

    I don't find the comparisons to North Korea or the Soviet Union to be especially clever or hilarious, considering it's just... how American politics have been, just continually increasing in intensity over the past decades.

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Well I wouldnt compare the politics of those three things but I would compare the "look I am not a corpse" genre of photography as specifically highlighted in that picture because it is fucking funny

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    Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    it's gonna be a lot of fun when the qanoners refuse to believe he's actually dead

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    it's gonna be a lot of fun when the qanoners refuse to believe he's actually dead

    I was thinking about this last night, about the odds they all write him in anyway and throw their votes away

    It's certainly unproductive to be gaming out these scenarios but that's one that spring fully formed into my mind

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Bloody hell is this shit depressing. Waiting and waiting for the next chapter to be written.

    https://youtu.be/hJMBubNUr1s

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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    it's gonna be a lot of fun when the qanoners refuse to believe he's actually dead

    But there's pictures of him going over documents! He's fine! Totally fine

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    it's gonna be a lot of fun when the qanoners refuse to believe he's actually dead

    I was thinking about this last night, about the odds they all write him in anyway and throw their votes away

    It's certainly unproductive to be gaming out these scenarios but that's one that spring fully formed into my mind

    well it's not throwing it away, the votes count and go to whoever is replacing him, in this case pence

    this wouldn't be our first dead guy election

    I still fondly remember john ashcroft losing to a corpse is missouri

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    it's gonna be a lot of fun when the qanoners refuse to believe he's actually dead

    I was thinking about this last night, about the odds they all write him in anyway and throw their votes away

    It's certainly unproductive to be gaming out these scenarios but that's one that spring fully formed into my mind

    well it's not throwing it away, the votes count and go to whoever is replacing him, in this case pence

    this wouldn't be our first dead guy election

    I still fondly remember john ashcroft losing to a corpse is missouri

    I actually did not know that!

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    JansonJanson Registered User regular
    Heck, here’s a list of 6 US politicians who have been elected while dead in the 2000s alone.

    I personally remember Hof’s election from the last midterm!

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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular


    "Oh you thought I said witch doctor! No I'm a which doctor, as in, what am I even doing"

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    True to form they're claiming he's doing much better and could be discharged as early as tomorrow, meanwhile he's apparently on a steroid that's only indicated for patients on oyxgen or a vent.

    Yeah sounds like things are going great, guys.

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    Typhoid MannyTyphoid Manny Registered User regular
    so uh, have we had any proof of life since he got to the hospital?

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    TubeTube Registered User admin
    Some wishful thinking I think

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Also even if we take this at face value:

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    JavenJaven Registered User regular
    so uh, have we had any proof of life since he got to the hospital?

    Yeah, they posted a picture of him signing what was later revealed to be a blank piece of paper, and a video where he spoke of doing very well and ready to get back to work, which was later revealed to be at least partially edited.

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    TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    It's interesting that they'd offer the info that he's being given dexamethasone. If I'm reading things right, the evidence supporting dex in covid is for patients who are somewhat sicker than just "mild"

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    It's interesting that they'd offer the info that he's being given dexamethasone. If I'm reading things right, the evidence supporting dex in covid is for patients who are somewhat sicker than just "mild"

    Yup.

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    Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Tynnan wrote: »
    It's interesting that they'd offer the info that he's being given dexamethasone. If I'm reading things right, the evidence supporting dex in covid is for patients who are somewhat sicker than just "mild"

    Yup.


    as tempting as it is to read into that, i could also see him just being a big fussy baby and demanding they gave him any medicine they got

    we know so little about what's going on and what's true and what's misinformation, i'm hitting a point where I'm kinda just tuning out all the updates about it. lemme know when he's either better or (hopefully) dead

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    TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    Someone with more direct clinical knowledge than me can correct me if I’m wrong about this, but my understanding is that dex is not a drug you’d want to just give someone who didn’t absolutely need it.

    This feels like they’re throwing the kitchen sink at him and that’s just not something you do unless you need to.

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    DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    I would throw a kitchen sink

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I would throw a kitchen sink

    Come on man, let's be real

    It'd be easier to drop it, like an ACME anvil style

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    RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Tynnan wrote: »
    It's interesting that they'd offer the info that he's being given dexamethasone. If I'm reading things right, the evidence supporting dex in covid is for patients who are somewhat sicker than just "mild"

    Yup.


    as tempting as it is to read into that, i could also see him just being a big fussy baby and demanding they gave him any medicine they got

    we know so little about what's going on and what's true and what's misinformation, i'm hitting a point where I'm kinda just tuning out all the updates about it. lemme know when he's either better or (hopefully) dead

    Well, as I understand it, at his age, you do not have the maneuvering room to say fuckit with your options the way you would with a teenager.

    No allergy having little Billy, Tattooine.

    His 90 year old drinking grandfather whose cancer is in remission....final level of Strike Suit Zero.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Come on you repulsive fuck

    Be October's big moment, do the right thing and cop it

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    Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    my birthday is Saturday this coming week and I know what *I* want for it

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    Tynnan wrote: »
    It's interesting that they'd offer the info that he's being given dexamethasone. If I'm reading things right, the evidence supporting dex in covid is for patients who are somewhat sicker than just "mild"

    Yup.


    as tempting as it is to read into that, i could also see him just being a big fussy baby and demanding they gave him any medicine they got

    we know so little about what's going on and what's true and what's misinformation, i'm hitting a point where I'm kinda just tuning out all the updates about it. lemme know when he's either better or (hopefully) dead

    According to this info, that steroid is actively harmful to patients who do not need it:

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    burboburbo Registered User regular
    edited October 2020
    I would throw a kitchen sink

    Thats impossible. As Trump has taught us, one can't even throw a brick, its way too heavy.

    burbo on
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    HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
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    KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I would throw a kitchen sink

    hold up, let me give you a hand

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    KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    My wife is an ICU doctor who has been treating covid patients continuously since March. She was positively giddy when she heard that he's on dexamethasone.

    As that tweet from Craig Spencer points out, at a minimum it means that he requires supplemental oxygen right now. And you do not give it to someone who has a mild case.

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    Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
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    OdinOdin Registered User regular
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/white-house-misused-rapid-covid-19-tests-face-masks.html

    I just can't with these fucking morons. Imagine refusing to use condoms because you have access to a pregnancy test

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