The US had a 2x mortality rate of Canada. 6x higher compared to South Korea, 10x of Japan the first two years of Covid. Even going with the lowest number, about 500,000 Americans could have survived with even marginally competent leadership. One that might not have…

1. Disbanded the Pandemic response team Obama set up.
2. Undercut the messaging from the CDC because Trump couldn’t handle Fauci having a higher approval rating than him.
3. Spewed constant misinformation about everything from bleach, sunlight to ivermectin while professionals were desperately trying to do their job.
4. Intentionally dragging his feet on the relief effort because someone told him that it was hitting the cities first and the Democrats would be most affected.
5. Goddamn masks. All he had to do was go on TV and tell his little cultists to wear the damn things, and we could have prevented so much of the deaths that came from the original strain/Delta. (Not Omicron)

… Hitler killed less Americans than Trump did. That’s just facts.

The last two months have been a goddamn rollercoaster.

It almost makes me wonder if we really are in a sim and someone is just pressing buttons to fuck with us and see what we do.

Yeah, but they got rid of those, didn’t they? Elon is going full throttle in the OTHER direction. I mean, clearly one is worse than the other. I’m sure from a money perspective, it didn’t make sense to shut down /The_Donald. Elon would LOVE to have that crowd.

I mean I agree, I didn’t like what they were getting up to, that’s why I’m here, but as bad as Twitter? Comon. Have you heard Elon lately?

You know how those commercials for toothpaste will say something like, “4 out of 5 doctors agree! Crest Whitening Formula is the best toothpaste on the market!”

… It’s not 4 out of 5. It’s more like… 999 out of 1000 when you actually query epidemiologists. These people do this for a living. And bluntly, without disrespect… they are so, so much smarter than you or I ever will be. And this is the area they chose to specialize in and spent their whole lives studying.

You don’t just ‘get’ to go work at the CDC. That’s the equivalent of the NBA of doctors. They’re such a prestigious organization that most other countries name their pandemic management centers after our CDC. And if they tap you to come work for them? You just go. They’re basically humanity’s first line of defense to make sure our overpopulated behinds don’t get jacked by the next Ebola or Smallpox that might be lurking around the corner.

If a global community of doctors with these qualifications say something related to ‘their’ field? Just shut up and listen, man. I swear, most of you have more respect for your plumber or electrician than you do for someone who is likely smarter than anyone you’ve ever met in real life.

Hah, I totally missed that, you got me. :D

Take your upvotes and go.

Ooh, we got one. That’s actually kind of impressive. You were the first one dumb enough to bother to comment. If this was Facebook, the comment section would be absolutely littered with you lot.

Did you notice anything else about the meme?

I don’t feel like retyping my last comment, so just click my name and read my most recent one.

Gore’s whole thing since he lost the election was global warming. Carter had solar panels installed in the white house that Reagan took down. Gore spent the last 24 years trying warn people about global warming. You got another hot take there, hoss?

Shhh. 🤫

When you’re done telling yourself how good of a person you are for taking a stand on an issue we created because we didn’t want Jews in our country either after WWII, may I remind you that the last time the US had a Republican president and a terrorist attack, we murdered 4.5 million people.

That’s still ongoing. ISIS exists because of OUR actions.

Which still doesn’t hold a candle to the countless people who will be dying in the coming decades in the least developed parts of the world thanks to us completely abandoning our responsibility to mitigate global warming, as a country that produces a quarter of all global pollution/waste, 5x the global average per capita.

A truly astounding number, taking into account that we are a country that doesn’t even produce much of anything anymore. At least China makes shit.

We pollute for FUN.

A situation that could very well have been avoided if another 1000 people bothered to show up to vote for Gore in Florida instead of sticking to their ‘principles’.

But I’m glad you got to get your figurative rocks off taking a stand. It’s not you and your ilk playing brinkmanship in this election could very well result in the US diving off a cliff into full on climate change denial that will kill billions in the coming decades.

Who cares, right? The important thing is, you’re fighting for a cause. It matters, by extension, YOU matter.

Real happy for you.

No, you’re not a special little cookie that knows more than the entire global medical community.

(I left a little trap in the meme for the clowns that would claim otherwise. Let’s see if we catch any.)

Fair, but if the excuse is that you can’t get the information elsewhere, that’s just not true. I’d rather give reddit the page views and clicks over Facebook or Twitter.

At least over there, Nazi content actually earns you a ban.

I mean, I’ve never had a twitter account but I’ve heard it plenty. Just peek over at /r/conservative once a week or so.

I finally got around to deleting Facebook this year too when I found out they’ll cross post your Instagram stuff to Facebook if you don’t click a box somewhere.

I get a lot more stuff done without the doomscrolling.

Don’t change the subject, man.

What would we do? You know the answer.

Netanyahu is Israel’s Donald Trump. Hamas knew exactly what would happen and did it anyway. Just like you know exactly what would happen if the above scenario happened in America.

You just don’t want to say it. Because that would make you a hypocrite. Because accepting your first position, that we need to leave Israel high and dry, applying the same moral standards to us, you might as well be saying, “Death to America.”

If you don’t wanna go that far, guess what. You’ve got double standards. And that is a moral conundrum only WE have. Most other countries that have a terrorist attack don’t invade sovereign nations and murder millions of people.

When France had their huge terrorist attack, their PM went on stage and said, “This will not change us.” They still accept more Muslim refugees than we ever will.

If anyone doesn’t get to talk shit, it’s us. Especially, ESPECIALLY regarding anything in the middle east, because we engineered the whole thing for our benefit. Abandoning 20 million Jews we propped up specifically to draw aggro for us is cowardly. Denying the reality of what we did because you want to pretend you’re really a ‘good’ person is laughable.

You live in a house with potable water that comes out of the tap. You have any idea how insane that sounds to most of the world? Just wasting drinking water like that?

All the things you take for granted was built on the blood of others. You live in America, get off your high horse. The name of the game is harm mitigation. You want to cosplay a goody-two-shoes? That’s nice. Tell it to the 4.5 million people that died because we couldn’t be bothered to make sure Florida got another thousand Gore votes. If you’re an American, you’re ruining things for everyone else, just by existing.

The US has 1/20th of the global population and produces 1/4 of global emissions and waste. 5x the global average. Know those billions that are going to die in places like Africa as global warming accelerates in the coming decades?

That’s us.

So, if you wanna know why I think your phariasaic platitudes are gag inducingly vile, it’s because your vapid single-issue hot take is ACTUALLY harmful to humanity as a whole. Republicans should never be in power. And no, you wanting to play brinkmanship with democracy itself at stake isn’t funny to anyone actually paying attention.

Your lifestyle is only possible because of the absolutely heinous shit we visited upon others. You want them to pack up and leave? First find them a place to go.

Better yet, campaign to bring the 2 million Palestinians HERE. You think people living in Gaza right now wouldn’t immediately accept an offer to come live in America?

Sure, we’d have all the problems that we were so eager to inflict on the Israelis. We’ll get bombed, people will die, and we’ll probably finally get our share of the terrorist attacks Israel and Europe have been dealing with for decades. But unlike them, we’d actually deserve it. And they’d acclimate to secular society a lot faster here than they ever would living there.

Let Israel have the whole thing, and lets see if that changes a damn thing. It won’t, but at least you will actually learn WHY Jordan and Egypt refuse to accept Palestinian refugees. (Hint: It’s called assassinations and coup attempts)

9/11 was just my imagination I guess.

Wait… no it wasn’t. We killed some 940,000 directly and our wars resulted in a cumulative loss of some 4.5 million people.

What… Americans didn’t know we were mucking about in the middle east for decades?

You think we wouldn’t do that now, if we lost ten times as many people?

…With Donald Trump as president?

I didn’t ask you if you were a conscientious objector. Unless your name is Donald Trump that means diddly squat. I asked what America would do in that situation if you weren’t lying to yourself.

And when that day comes to pass, do we deserve the death sentence you want to inflict on Israelis? Cause… we already showed what we’d do in those circumstances.

Do you think we’d react differently today? That’s a super straight forward question.

If anyone anywhere, regardless of the horrific shit we visited upon them attacked a US territory and killed 20,000 people and took another 4,000 hostage, and we had a Donald Trump in office at the time, what would we do?

This isn’t one of those, “Rules for thee, but not for me” kind of situations, is it? Because I’m not doing this to deflect things from Israel, I’m saying WE did it, so at bare minimum we have an obligation to protect the lives of the 20 million people we placed in a death-trap of our making.

You say that and yet, we have protests about Israel/Palestine and not a peep about reparations for Native Americans. We killed 99.9% of their population. It’s easy to pay lip service after the fact, it’s done.

Guess it’s easier to pretend you care when you don’t have settlements being raided and entire families being scalped. And you killed so many of them that there aren’t enough of them left to complain about their treatment. We know what we did do when that was the reality though.

I ask again, what would we do if a tribe went rogue and started doing that now?

Do you think we’ve grown over the past 200 years? Think we’d react differently today?

Be honest.

And that’s why you completely sidestepped my assertion that we’d never do what you’re asking of Israel right now?

I can’t tell if you just aren’t bothering to read what I wrote or if you are just looking for the closest tangentially related thing to copy-paste.

I just said expecting them to return land when we’re keeping Texas and California is a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.”

Yes, Israel removed Palestinian settlements. At our behest. We told them that land was now theirs. And the countries surrounding Israel telegraphed invasion plans for days before the six day war.

Revisionism aside, are you still trying to lay this at the feet of the Israelis instead of ours? We did that. It’s cowardly to try to pretend otherwise.