If the Chinese wanted to purposely infect the world, why not just have agents disperse it in India, or France, or anywhere that is not China? Why release it first at the city which is the center of your countries bio-weapons research program which will just stoke questions over its origin? If China wanted to infect the world with minimal damage or suspicion on China the failed miserably.

The more likely scenario is the Chinese wanted to minimize impact on their own economy and "save face" so they did the only thing in their playbook, suppress suppress suppress. Then, because ma Globalism the rest of the world was very slow to react for fear of an over-reaction damaging their own economies.

You're in an election year, you shut your borders and everything down. The disease fizzles, just like SARS and H1N1, you lose the election.

If we actually get proof this is an intentional attack on our economy by China it seems like a good way to economically isolate China from the west if our European "allies" will sign on. If not you try to leverage it for a push back to isolationism and reliance on domestic industry. I don't see how a globalist wins the presidency when the Chinese Virus just bent over most peoples retirement accounts like a group of Soviet Soldiers after the fall of Berlin.

The real question is who does the media side with and do enough people believe the Media. Its so weird to see some people on CNN supporting Trump going at China.

And its too early to see how all of this develops politically into November.

Besides a lot of hungry out of work people looking for someone to blame.

The early reaction is without a doubt Trumps "These guys are the JV team" moment and not a good look on him politically.

I only question the man-made accusation because if you are out to risk an open war by deploying a bio-weapon , why go with something that leaves most productive adults able to work/produce?

It will be Katrina all over again, except the liquor stores and strip clubs will be closed

Political messages have to feel organic, it's very difficult to make an overt message movie that is good like say American History X . The problem with Hollywood is they are about as subtle as a 44 magnum fired indoors with their messaging. The message also has to appeal to enough of the public, modern Hollywood left wing messaging, pro trans, pro Abortion, pro globalism have a very narrow but disproportionatly loud audience.

The problem becomes what is actually inspiring to your core audience about globalism? Keep in mind that your core audience are Americans, Chinese and native Europeans in that order. With the exception of the Chinese globalism has brought nothing but problems to a majority of those audiences. To actually make a successful movie about globalism the movie can't be about globalism, it has to be abstract like the Chinese providing the missing piece of a puzzle to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth.

And it has to feel organic, you can't implicitly state "thank God for our open lines of communication and commerce with the Chinese", there has to be room for the audience to reach the conclusion themselves. This goes back to the lack of subtlety in Hollywood and why most get woke movies are terrible and poorly received.

People that are inspired by diversity for the sake of diversity are a minority still. If one good thing comes out of this global pandemic it may be forcing people to re-evaluate open borders and the consequences of globalism. Especially when a bad actor like China controls so much of the supply chain.

But that is me probably being overly optimistic, in two years people be talkin about the iPhone 20 and the latest Celeb porn leaks

It's about generational conditioning, eventually a vast majority of humans will have little net economic benefit to our society as AI and Robotics become better. They need to be conditioned to become more and more compliant so there is no revolt. Throughout history many rebellions have begun because slave labor displaced too many skilled and unskilled free workers. Hell in part unemployment helped take down the Roman Republic by opening the door for a populist like Caesar to grab power.

I was about to say Nick is a closeted homosexual who likes Pedophilic catboys

Our group in IL is pretty good but too many retired LEOs or LEO Family that are full on boot licker.

I got fit too late in life, before I'm 40 I'll need surgery to fix my lower back because I was heavy in my teens. Get fit and get fit early Kings.

RMA has nice III+ plates that are significantly lighter than the IVs. Supposedly they are in the process of becoming nij certified for those plates.

That's really good information to have, even if the gay t f is not coming to your door. So many pitbulls running amock, gotta know how to treat your doge.

Around here there's a lot of abuse. Too many fuckwits with their dog fighting

^ Keto is the real deal.

Four times in 3 days, do you work at a morgue?

Hope your one of the lucky ones who gets a runny nose for a day then is back to 100%

You can be empathetic while being realistic. You can be empathetic while thinking what will this mean for me.

It's really easy to look at the world we have versus the world our parents had, the fruits that their labors and voting habits have born and go full-on doomer. But every great society in history is full of corrections, some societies come out fine on the other side of those corrections and some crumble.

Looking at the positives food has never been this inexpensive or readily available. Even when looking at fresh/good food.

@DustMustBust Newer SIG ARs are OK, Aero, S&W, Ruger will all be better bang for the buck.

@jaguarknight Ruger MPR

S&W M&P 15. If you're willing to wait on sales you can put together a complete Aero M4E1 for about that budget.

Best Corona meme yet. Also most realistic representation of what went on lol

Everyone can help themselves, you gotta find your inner strength. There's always an alternative, a new treatment, an experimental medication, something new to find.

Ya got it dude

Forklift driving is stupid easy so long as you are not a retard and the company doesn't have you doing crazy dangerous stuff, like lifting 10K lbs on a 5Klb rated forklift.

*HOLD POSITION*

That Brisket looks good

"Everyone I don't know is a fed" lol

Good evening Special K

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