Posts by Jessica Gonzalez

Susan Kim2 said:Not even close, if you ask me. Whether you're looking at the chaos in the city, the region, or just the massive scale of everything else—it doesn't matter. This franchise was barely relevant for a three or four-year stretch in its entire history before LeBron James showed up.

urbanhawk17 said:They asked him, "Who’s supposed to take the kids to school if people over 65 can't do it and parents are working?"

Capak just replied, "I don't have an answer for that."

Jacob Kern2 said:https://lider.media/poslovna-scena/t...kaznica-131120

What are your thoughts on this development?

To provide some context, Bill Gates actually mentioned on Reddit a while back the concept of "personal" identifiers in the form of a digital chip. The idea was that these would act as a sort of verification for vaccination status or digital immunity—essentially a system without which citizens might find themselves denied the fundamental right to work or travel.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

The ID2020 alliance launched a program in late 2019 aimed at securing digital IDs alongside vaccinations in Bangladesh, working in tandem with the Government of Bangladesh and GAVI. As they described it, the program views immunization as a unique opportunity to establish digital identities, which in the case of Bangladesh, would be utilized to track those who have received their shots.

Would you be willing to accept such a system?

Before anyone begins applying labels or resorting to mockery, it is worth noting that everything mentioned in this text is quite easily verifiable through the official websites of the organizations cited, as well as the previously mentioned Reddit discussion.

wiredrider9 said:What foreign interests is Škoro a puppet for?

Matthew Young35 said:I disagree.
Personally, I wouldn't be raising any objections—far from it. But make no mistake, there would be plenty of people who would.

It's a mess. These political appointees are organized into unions, making them one of the most powerful groups out there.
Imagine announcing a reduction in the number of bureaucrats in the education system. And I don't mean actual teachers; I mean the administrative bloat. Take some tiny school in the middle of nowhere: you might have two teachers, but then you've got a principal, two secretaries, an accountant, a PR rep, two janitors, and two security guards. If you cut those positions, you'd have 100,000 people protesting in Times Square instantly.
The same logic applies to various utility companies, the railroads, and everything else.

restlesssurfer97 said:Look, this whole thing is a marathon, not a sprint, and if you ran a poll on this even a decade ago, the numbers would look completely different, no question about it. People are finally waking up to what's happening, a critical mass is starting to form, and honestly, change is going to happen simply because the pressure is becoming too much to ignore. Nothing is ever going to be fixed overnight, we all know that, and we shouldn't be sitting here expecting some kind of miracle to solve everything by tomorrow morning.

restlesssurfer97 said:Does anyone else get the feeling that Ribić and those other self-important pharaohs have been acting way too hysterical over the last year or so? It’s honestly not just me thinking this.

Quick poll for everyone here: it feels like people are overwhelmingly calling for massive cuts to the federal bureaucracy, taxes, and all those bloated local government offices and counties.

brightpilot6 said:So, I’m curious—which specific event from 1995 onward do you all believe posed a greater socio-economic threat than what we're facing now, enough to make that statement incorrect? I would genuinely love to hear your reasoning.

And where exactly are you getting the idea that this statement implies an "apocalypse"? When someone says "since the war," they clearly mean something less severe than a full-scale war, and since even the war itself wasn't an apocalypse, I can logically deduce that this won't be one either. What kind of logic are you actually applying here?

urbanhawk17 said:There’s no difference.

If the whole world goes into lockdown and America doesn't, the same damn thing happens anyway. You don't need to be an economics expert to figure that out.

I personally think the global lockdowns are unnecessary. Spain is under lockdown and they had over 3,500 new cases yesterday; Italy had about 1,800.

So Sweden is also going to face an economic downturn. But for some reason, people are dragging Sweden through the mud over their measures, while Italy and Spain are somehow considered fine?

And just a month ago, everyone was claiming Corona kills 30 times more than the flu. I'm starting to think it kills less than the flu.

brightpilot6 said:True, that was the last point. Let’s just say, suppose this sickness started spreading without any government intervention—though we’ve already seen how that plays out in several other countries. But let's take it a step further: imagine that even after things escalated, there were no official lockdowns on transportation, retail, or even grabbing a coffee at a local shop.

Can anyone actually guarantee—and on what basis, really?—that we wouldn't face a spontaneous economic shutdown? Wouldn't people eventually just say, "Forget this, there's some unknown disease out there, hospitals are overflowing, the government isn't doing a damn thing, I see what's happening in Italy, and honestly, screw my shitty job as a cashier, a driver, a teacher, a daycare worker, a maid, or a waiter; I'm staying home until this blows over"? Or perhaps, "I'm not going to bars, I'm not going away for the weekend, I'm going to hoard every single dollar because who knows when I might need it"? Or even, "I'll just call my doctor to get me on medical leave, because what is this madness even for?"

I’ve asked this before: what would your actual economic plan be for those one or two months where the elderly and the vulnerable are being wiped out, while everyone else is gripped by panic over the unknown and losing all faith in "the system"? What would you communicate to the public? And more importantly, how would you talk to the most essential business owners?