Metaneos

Anthony Rota brought a Nazi into parliament, and encouraged a standing ovation. Perhaps some few will likely go to bat for the former Nazi soldier, Yaroslav Hunka, using the same old tired arguments: it was such a long time ago; he couldn't have known what was happening; he was just following orders; and so on. He's well-within his own lifetime still. He hasn't died. Many of his victim's died back then but some survived, and likely to this day, they haven't been made full for reparations for the loss of life and property of their antecendents. Furthermore, crimes against humanity never expire. He was a former SS volunteer. The absolute scummiest of scum. He was a snitch and likely thug for Himmler's gangs, which were under the direct rule of Hitler, which by 1941-42 had disposed of all pretext and were fully into their systemic murder operations in Ukraine. The simplest rule for intent would've been, what did he know and when did he know it? By 1941, there w...

Meh, we've been through this story before. Anti-government party wants to shut down the government. Minimal governance party does as little as possible to dissuade the anti-government party. Governance by Committee as the US does is mainly about the optics. The day to day stuff will probably just keep on doing by itself but big budgets, which need Congressional approval will probably just halt in place. Sometimes, they'll probably have to be restarted at a later date. Competent government could just bypass this sort of stunt but Democrats think it makes good political theatre and have no interest in stopping. Republicans think their voters just eat this sort of stuff up. However, it's all just theatre. But parties have their leaders mainly interested in the same things but it's all about the optics for them.

We're fucked. There should be no uncertainty or ambiguity. We're hooped. We're over a barrel. We're fucked, six ways to sundown. The evidence is both in the numbers and should be clear anecdotally as well. Just in case you don't know the numbers, a Covid infection has a 1% minimum death rate in the acute phase and 15% disability rate in the long-term. It takes 2-years to recover from a long Covid infection but Covid infections can infect an entire population's worth of people over the course of a year, if not faster, which means the likelihood is people will become sicker before they get better if we're doing nothing to mitigate transmission. Oh, Covid can also mutate faster than we can build immunity to it. What this means is over the course of five years, if not faster, we'll have at least 50% of the population disabled. (I think we're already there.) Moreover, since Covid's introduction into the population, other diseases have grown in numbers...