Rebuild it how? Based on whose government? Whose constitution? How do you know that tyrants of either side wouldn’t take power like they always do? The French and Russian Revolutions went after the nobility first, then the intellectuals, and then the disenfranchised and vulnerable. The US pulled off a hell of a magic…

People who are anti-vaccination, anti-fluoridation, and are pro-magical thinking are anti-science and will easily adopt new conspiracy theories? I’m so surprised.

I’m from a state in the Midwest, and if the weather hasn’t been noticed by farmers, then they’re being willfully blind. A couple years back, there were floods and cold weather for so long it was uncertain if the corn crop was going to be planted on time or get drowned out from the rain. The weather’s become more…

Not everyone can afford to throw out a perfectly good piece of bread.

Yeah, that’s still legit. I personally just can’t understand how anyone would waste the food.

God forbid. They wouldn’t take us because they’d have to give us equal representation, which would land us back in the same situation we already have but with England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland having about as much power as California + New York, Minnesota, Iowa, and West Virginia, respectively. That said,…

I routinely buy consoles a couple years after they come out, since then they are A) usually at least half their original price, B) have any weird malfunctions worked out, and C) have a lot of good games available. It’s really hard for me to justify dropping half a grand on a machine I’ll get much less use out of than…

Some people don’t eat the whole bread loaf? What?

Okay, so they were six when President Obama was elected. That means they were fourteen when President Obama left office and have suffered the past four years the same as the rest of us. I was younger than six when Clinton was first elected, and I still knew GW Bush getting elected the first time and then later getting…

I mean,I think you’d have had to be living under a rock from 2008 to 2016 to not know what Biden’s about. You’d have to have smoked quite a bit of weed to forget almost an entire decade.

I don’t know how to explain to you more clearly that the vaccines are being tested by private and public institutions and that it’s just the final decision on whether or not to approve it that would be in the FDA’s hands. Like, these studies are going to be published in peer-reviewed journals, and the NIH and FDA can…

Some of the people in this comments section sound like paranoid conspiracy theorists. The president is a shithead, but most of the people involved in preparing, testing, and approving vaccines have absolutely nothing to do with him. Companies are making vaccines based on industry and/or academic research. The vaccines…

We don’t know how long the vaccines will last yet in the monkey models, since there’s not been enough time to tell. However, having even a kind of effective vaccine will allow for loosening of the current guidelines. A stopgap measure vaccine until we can develop one that’s long-term or more effective is still better…

Hey, so the NIH as a whole really skews Democrat, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the FDA did, too. The people doing the work on the vaccine trials themselves are physicians and nurses, and researchers are doing the data analysis. I’m personally hoping for a vaccine by the end of this year/start of the next, because…

Hey, sorry, I wasn’t trying to come off as combative towards you. I’m annoyed at general trends within these conversations regarding cancelling; my comment wasn’t directed at you in particular. My point was more that the individuals that get seriously cancelled for one reason or another that spring to peoples’ minds…

I forgot she existed, honestly. I know it’s not hard and fast, but my comment was more referring to a general pattern I’ve seen whenever these conversations happen. People from certain groups tend to be pilloried for lesser infractions than others while some people get away with (on rare occasions) literal murder.…

Agreed on FFVIII. The junctioning system made me want to scream.

The only thing I find iffy about any of this is that men actually have to do something reprehensible to be looked negatively upon, but the only woman anyone ever mentions has shitty opinions. You mentioned four (you can argue Jackson, I guess) rapists, whatever the hell you want to label Kanye West, and a TERF. Of…

Fauci is a titan in the field of HIV research and is such very well regarded, and the scientific community as a whole was running around like a chicken with its head cut off back in February and March as it tried to figure out what to do about the coronavirus. The NIH itself didn’t even go on lockdown until mid-March.

And your opinion of him just says to me you have no idea what Anthony Fauci has accomplished in his career.