EPTUS Politics Mega-thread - Page 2181
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Mohdoo
United States15723 Posts
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Zambrah
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Mohdoo
United States15723 Posts
Referring to Walmart | ||
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Aveng3r
United States2411 Posts
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
On March 14 2020 05:39 Aveng3r wrote: Can someone explain to me why there is such a shortage of testing kits here? I understand that this is a new virus and you can't whip these things up overnight, but how did we get to a place where it seems that a lot of hospitals and other health care services still don't have them? Is it anything other than the typical BS of this bureaucracy? US declined using the WHO test kits and gave the contract to a US corporation instead, who had to design a new one and manufacture it. They weren't able to meet demand in time, clearly. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11623 Posts
On March 14 2020 05:29 Zambrah wrote: He doesnt know a lot about much, huh. True. I have absolutely no problem believing that. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25996 Posts
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Sadist
United States7290 Posts
All these dipshits do is pander to Trump's ego and have no interest in helping the american people. Its shameful that they won't allow follow up questions. All it is is spin spin spin. "They say theres a picture, I haven't seen the picture" Hey you fucking slob take a look at the picture. Its online. Stop tweeting and do a google image search you waste of space. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
Source: World Bank & IMF There will be a growing incentive to not "pick the US" as time goes on while China maintains triple the GDP growth rate of the US. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Zambrah
United States7381 Posts
Still real shitty, but the weird idea people have of China as some huge orwellian police state is silly. Its just a giant hyper capitalist, ultramaterialistic society for the vast majority of the people there, it also just happens to have a silly tyrant who bans dumb phrases and words because hes silly. As proof, when I was living in China, I would talk to people and say things that were Pro Hong Kong when Blizzard did its stupid, also other dumb stuff related to Xi's tiny lil trantrums, but I'm not in jail or anything. | ||
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JimmiC
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Zambrah
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China and the US are more alike then we'd like to admit, Chinas got a LOT going for it over the US in some ways (being able to quickly see healthcare professionals for a low cost was a nice perk when I was there) and a lot of shitty shit they do. I'm just kind of of the opinion that the US and China both suck, and that people should shut the fuck up about other regimes when talking about a country's systems. Socialism in Venezuela or Germany in the '40s (lol) is stupid when youre talking about the US. People in the US want something akin to the nordic countries (or they want to die in the gutter of disease based on how they vote, but those of us who want M4A and stuff picture nordic countries typically) and trying to lump our views in with shit like people who glorify Stalin is pretty gross and insulting and it happens a lot, so we can definitely be a little defensive about it. That and the fact that America seems incredibly resistant to actually making progressive change in almost any capacity on so many levels, it really winds up being demoralizing on its own without other people dogpiling. But yeah, I'll freely acknowledge that China's government is awful and shitty, but they're competent shitty, they're the kind of shitty you get when the people in charge are capable of directing their government to do stuff and the government actually is able to do stuff. Its kind of sad, because China would be capable of greater things if their government was better. Compared to the US which is capable of basically nothing because our government is so awful and shitty, but incompetent shitty. So in conclusion, fuck the Chinese government, and fuck the US government, we should all wish for better and more importantly DO better. Maybe in one hundred years. Also, eat the rich. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23453 Posts
Asia’s richest man announced his intention on Friday to ship 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to the U.S. in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Jack Ma’s charitable foundation and his China-based company's foundation, the Alibaba Foundation, have also sourced and donated supplies to other countries being hit by the virus, including Japan, Korea, Italy, Iran and Spain. The donation comes amid testing delays across the U.S. as state officials scramble amid a shortage of lab materials — sparking concerns that health officials are undercounting the number of Americans with the virus. “Drawing from my own country’s experience, speedy and accurate testing and adequate personal protective equipment for medical professionals are most effective in preventing the spread of the virus,” the statement said. “We hope that our donation can help Americans fight against the pandemic!” www.politico.com | ||
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Nevuk
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Zambrah
United States7381 Posts
Gives him an easy out to say it was all a hoax by election time to help mitigate how he helped set up the US to fail at dealing with the corona virus though. | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15723 Posts
On March 14 2020 13:39 GreenHorizons wrote: China's Jack Ma's foundation is donating desperately needed test kits and masks to the US to fight the Corona Virus outbreak here. www.politico.com Ma is a direct component of the CCP and IMO should not be conveyed as anything else. This is China trying to muddy the waters by pretending this isn't 10000000000000000% their fault by appearing as a good guy. | ||
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