Posts by hollowtrucker77

Sam Green73 said:The Mayor of New York City just can't seem to wrap his head around the idea of shutting down the subway system.

So what's the big deal?

Nicholas King said:Public transit is a necessity for some people. A coffee shop isn't.

The whole argument that "if they let public transit run, they should open cafes too" just doesn't hold any water, in my opinion.

a cafe actually has better sanitation protocols
😁
anyway, if you're cramming people into a subway car or a city bus, you could just as easily let them sit out on a patio; it’s not like you've gone out of your way to either protect anyone or cause any extra harm by doing that.

Sam Green73 said:Look, it doesn't have to be an "all or nothing" situation where you just let things get overcrowded. You can simply cap the number of passengers allowed on a vehicle at one time.

It’s the exact same logic we use for capacity limits in retail stores here in the States.

Seriously though, would you actually want to be the one driving a bus or footing the bill for transit operations if you're only hauling ten people at a time?
What about a light rail car carrying thirty?
Come on, people, use some common sense here...

Tyler Vaughn7 said:So, I'm reading Capak right now, and he's claiming one of the first things they'll ease up on is public transit. Seriously, could someone please explain to me how there's somehow less of a risk of getting infected on a bus than if you just drove from Petrijevac to Josipovac—two neighboring towns—without a permit?🤔

Just when you think it’s physically impossible to sink any lower, someone goes and proves you wrong.

Jerry Robinson56 said:In that light, yes, anomalies are an inevitable constant, and any high-level overview can only offer generalizations. Unfortunately, the rigid hierarchies found in law enforcement, medicine, education, and so on... they stifle intelligence and halt progress by dismissing any genuine initiative. I encounter this firsthand in my professional life every single day. You have to realize that systems are sustained by good people. That is the only way a system survives and evolves.
One must undergo the process of burning out and rising again more times than a phoenix just to prove a point.
Therefore, you must advocate for necessary changes at your own level, while remaining mindful not to compromise others. If the precinct captains or deputies are reasonable individuals, they possess the discretionary authority to exercise common sense in their enforcement. A solution can always be engineered, regardless of how insurmountable the obstacle appears.
Someone articulated it well: the Republican Party is directly responsible (utilizing artificial divisions to consolidate power) for all the, forgive me, nonsense we've had to endure, whereas the Democratic Party serves as the accelerator and the innovator.

🤦😵🙂

I guess you can’t really expect much from the older generation
but if we’re going to pretend we actually care about logic here: where is the actual necessity for all this physical paperwork? why on earth would anyone need hard copies just to verify benefits?
People ought to be more responsible, but honestly, our institutions have been overrun by morons whose intellectual capacity doesn't extend past a sheet of paper and a rubber stamp.
And frankly, I don't give a damn—this is supposed to be the gold standard of healthcare and intelligence, yet they can't function without some damn piece of paper, refusing to accept a simple PDF sent over by medical staff, even though it’s exactly what they recommended in the first place.

just by tracking a cell phone

Why on earth would you be considered in violation just for requesting a permit?
The only person who could actually be in the wrong here is the official issuing it, not someone simply asking for one.

Melissa Collins3 said:Of course not. When the top leader of a country sneezes, you don't just sit around waiting to see what happens—you go straight into quarantine. That's how it works.

Honestly, let's just pass a federal law banning sneezing, coughing, and coughing fits altogether, complete with a minimum fine of at least 10 bucks per offense. $0.00
et voila - problem solved.

Jerry Robinson56 said:https://www.nytimes.com/article/...example_tid=5674

With 1,160 infections and one fatality reported nationwide, the consensus remains clear: they didn't just flatten the curve; they absolutely crushed it.

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a feature titled, "New Zealand didn't just flatten the curve. They crushed it." Their reporter, Anna Fifield—who hails from New Zealand but has spent the last two decades living abroad—noted that it took a mere ten days to prove that the New Zealand strategy of immediate quarantine was undeniably effective.

While this approach shows promise, its success depends entirely on sustained discipline. One might eventually grasp why restricting movement is an absolute necessity, given how little we truly understand about the broader complexities of this situation.
Furthermore, one cannot ignore the role that population density and physical proximity play in these dynamics.

And what, are we just going to be under lockdown forever now?
😵

Adam Collins4 said:Right, because clearly, Border Patrol agents only sit in their little booths at the checkpoint and completely ignore the rest of the entire border line...

Totally logical, isn't it?

Weren't you supposed to be in the Scouts or something? Why all this nonsense?😉

Tell you what, let's go for a little stroll out in the field together and place a bet on whether we actually run into someone who shouldn't be there.
😉
Or maybe you actually know exactly how much our border is covered and protected?

Adam Collins4 said:A buddy of mine who runs a shift at a border crossing says there aren't any cars or migrants in sight...

And this is at a checkpoint where, not too long ago, specialized units had to work alongside their colleagues from Canada just to keep people from crossing.

He tells me things have never been this quiet in years, and it's all thanks to that perfect storm of closing down the smaller stations plus the curfew...

Yeah, obviously, because everyone just starts hitting the unofficial routes instead; it's common sense that the numbers would spike elsewhere.
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darktinker4 said:Oh, come on, it'll probably last until New Year's Day.😉

Who's down to sign a petition for a strict five-year quarantine? Maybe throw in seven years of good behavior just to be safe.🎉 🎉

Congress and the White House??
I'm in!!!!

Larry Walker24 said:then honestly, they should just shut down his whole town.

Honestly, we might as well scrap all the Municipalities and just downgrade the Counties to their level

Jack Cook7 said:Look, don't try to sell me those fairy tales; I've seen way too many in my life.

People have lives, jobs, stuff going on. These mandates and decisions are being made totally on the fly (which is obvious since we've never seen anything like this before). Responsibilities aren't even clearly defined because everyone is constantly asking questions or wandering around lost or stuck on the phone. They just pass the buck, and then they expect people to follow these half-baked rules down to the millimeter, or else face draconian penalties, $10. To me, it’s a textbook case of pure incompetence.
And as usual, they cover up that incompetence by straight-up trying to scare us.

Joe Biden, man... in this country, you could try to run someone over with a car on a sidewalk, but if you're a party member, you just get some light fine. But if you didn't have a permit—which you didn't even know you needed because you were just commuting from a San Francisco Bay Area suburb to Brooklyn and had no clue where to go—they'll absolutely rip you off $10.

Rules are supposed to be passed early so people can actually study them and adapt, or if the rules suck, so they can be fixed. But these ridiculous US authorities do everything at the very last second, and then they just resort to brute force, acting like, "THIS IS THE COUNTRY! Why weren't you ready?! Do I need to call someone to deal with you!?"

Honestly, it’s terrifying how easily citizens in America are just rolling over for these ad hoc dictates and government stupidity without any protest whatsoever. Even worse, people like you end up calling me out for "whining aimlessly." It's classic totalitarian behavior. A bunch of clueless hacks who can't predict anything, so they're always "surprised by unpredictable events," yet somehow a big enough club can fix any problem. Like how Eric Adams was dealing with things, but whatever, "he personally guarantees everyone is safe."

I can already see the police checkpoints where they'll be waving political membership cards and shouting, "Do you even know who I am!!??"

They've brought in the permits, now all they have to do is remember to stitch a little symbol on their sleeves so they can identify people more easily...

So, let’s take a moment to revisit the reality that Nazism and fascism aren't actually right-wing ideologies at all; they’re firmly rooted in the left, sitting right alongside Stalinism, and the entire historical conflict was basically just a massive collision between national socialism and international communism.
It’s also pretty easy to spot the patterns in how both sides operated and settled their scores—they were just so incredibly "humanitarian," "tolerant," and "progressive" toward their opponents, especially when it came to crushing anyone who simply had the audacity to think differently.
Just look at the prosperity and well-being of every single Country that fell into the socialist pit and see how those stories always end.

The bottom line is that the left serves as a total beacon of hypocrisy, lies, and semantic gymnastics.
Every single one of their social experiments has inevitably spiraled into a dictatorship characterized by massive loss of life, leaving the average citizen to rot in poverty and misery while the party elites live in absolute luxury.
Even here in America, our own leftists spend their time dreaming about moving to Germany or maybe Ireland or the UK.
It’s funny how nobody seems to have any sentimental attachment to Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea.
Honestly, being a leftist feels like a genuine psychological disorder, which becomes particularly dangerous when they actually get the chance to put their theories into practice in the real world.

Steven Hughes44 said:I couldn't even make it through that much. It was screaming boredom from the very first minute, honestly. It’s rare to see a movie this mediocre sitting there among all the loud, overrated competition.

The "Trash Can of the Year" award finally has its rightful winner. 😁

I'm siding with the skeptics here.
👍
Just a boring, pathetic piece of cinematic trash.

so what's your take
my money is on you losing this one in the end
and i'm not just guessing here, i'm speaking from pure experience

After acting like that, you’re seriously still considering letting him touch your car???
I mean, take a second and actually think about this.
🙂
First off, let's get to the bottom line here: if he decides to screw up, there might not be anyone left to sue you, because you could end up being smeared across some highway somewhere.

It’s just not being dealt with
and honestly, I don't even see what the big deal is regarding a bullet stuck in a barrel or anything else like that,
it's exactly where it belongs,