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rattlesnake

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Everything posted by rattlesnake

  1. Trump derangement syndrome is reaching new heights.
  2. I share Trump's pro-life stance which has nothing to do with controlling women's bodies.
  3. Relax, when Trump gets back into office in November, all he is going to do is continue the protectionist policies he initiated during his first term (I don't recall any wars being started during 2016-2020, let's drop the reductio ad Hitlerum, shall we?).
  4. Of course it is… I would say the problem is I can't decide what gets injected or not in my body and my son's body.
  5. Discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated people during the pandemic https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05607-y#auth-Alexander-Bor-Aff1-Aff2
  6. An organised dogma with appointed authorities who are the sole dispensers of truth, orders to believe the dogma ("trust the science"), ostracisation of anyone challenging it, believers who will steadfastly defend it… it seems to fit the definition of religion to me.
  7. Quite the contrary. They are the modern blasphemers.
  8. Your sophism was expected. I know lots of people, several of them with families, who were given the choice of getting jabbed or losing their job and effectively becoming homeless. What you describe is active coercion. What I describe is passive coercion. Both are equally deleterious.
  9. Please explain your suggested link between Warp Speed and vaccine mandates.
  10. The only dictatorship I remember in recent years was when the people were forced to inject themselves with a dubious substance, under the guise of Covid, in order to be able to enjoy basic freedoms. The name of the dictator in charge at that time was Joe Biden.
  11. Indeed. A statement such as this one would not have been accepted just a year ago. Now it is. We have come a long way in terms of general awareness. The Overton window is shifting.
  12. I was at Suvarnabhumi airport earlier this week and I have never seen so many people cough. Hundreds of people. Sickness everywhere. Failing immune systems.
  13. Never vaxxed, never had Covid, let that sink in. Healthy people don't generate a single cent for the pharmaceutical cartel, that is why they are demonised.
  14. The Overton window is shifting as planned. First, there is no evidence of DNA in the vaccines. Now, well actually there is DNA but there is no reason to think that it alters a person's DNA or causes cancer. The next step will be, "well, okay, it does alter the DNA, but in no harmful way". Then "well maybe it is a bit harmful, but less harmful than catching Covid". Then, "well, maybe it does cause cancer in some rare cases" etc.
  15. You clearly have it all sussed out, including my BMI. I am humbled by your clairvoyance.
  16. Plenty of sugar in McDonald's "food"… among other things. In any case, I have seen overweight Thai people in villages where there is no fast food outlet in a 100 km radius. But there is a lady who drives by every day selling coffee. I ordered an iced tea once and watched her make it. 1, 2, 3, 4 tablespoons of white sugar… I have also noticed that people have gained weight since Covid, no doubt because they are eating less protein and more carbohydrates as it is cheaper, which leads to weight gain. Ultimately, sugar is always the culprit… as well as additives which disrupt the metabolism.
  17. Same here, those things should be banned.
  18. In theory yes, if for medical reasons. My son needs nose surgery for medical reasons too and we were told it will be covered.
  19. Since the 2006 election, under international law, Hamas is a political organisation with an armed wing, not a terrorist organisation.
  20. 100 kmph seems fast for Sukhumvit. What bike do you drive?
  21. In both recent cases, the individuals were arrested in the Phuket airport departure hall (for one of them, it is specified that it was the international one) by the immigration police. My first thought is that they must prefer to arrest them there than at a previous stage, possibly to avoid delays or cause a stir, or maybe to give them time to alert and deploy the appropriate team (I doubt the guy stamping passports in his booth can just step out and arrest a guy). And once you're in the departure hall, it's not like you're going anywhere so it's probably more convenient to make arrests there. Hopefully there will be more details about this, but I don't see why it would just be a Phuket thing.
  22. It wasn't, but seems to be now, if Phuket is doing it, one can reasonably expect other airports to follow suit.
  23. If it was me, I would contact multiple lawyers and agents and let them know that I am willing to pay the price for this to go away. With a bit of luck, one of them will know someone who can "sort it out". I would not expect it to be cheap though, possibly over 100k. In any case, they would probably be able to organise his exit in the less painful way possible, maybe with no detention, etc.

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