• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It’s more accurate to say dems turned into his version of republicans than to say he’s turned into a dem.

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        “you are wearing a red and white striped club tie in a half-windsor knot”

        “… I’m not wearing a tie at all.”

        American public: “well I’m not voting for him anymore”

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        People say this and then you look at voting records in congress and you see them fall in line when the chips are down. Party affiliation and loyalty is what gets you reelection funds and spots on committees, there’s a lot of tangible and intangible pressure applied from the color of the tie.

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      Schwarzenegger ain’t a republican or a dem.

      Anyone who says “screw your freedom”, unironically and publicly, in a time of crisis, isn’t an American.

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        American patriot here: Screw your false idea that you have “freedom” to callously endanger others because you didn’t like wearing a mask during a global pandemic.

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        There’s priority to this stuff. As they say, your freedom to swing your fist ends at my face. Being forced to wear a mask does infringe on freedom, but being forced to contract a potentially deadly disease because you can’t put on a stupid mask is a greater infringement. See also: you don’t have the freedom to drive recklessly, you don’t have the freedom to set off fireworks anywhere you want, you don’t have the freedom to assault people.

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          Being forced to wear a mask does infringe on freedom

          Both the federal circuit and the supreme court agrees.

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        Anyone who says “screw your freedom”, unironically and publicly, in a time of crisis, isn’t an American.

        Lol, anyone accusing someone as being un-American for exercising their constitutional right to free speech is both a hypocrite and an idiot.

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          1. Arnie literally isn’t an American. He’s Austrian by birth and obviously hasn’t adopted American values.

          2. Arnie has a right to free speech. But if someone uses their speech to advocate the forcible and violent suppression of other’s rights, that is unAmerican. His statements make it clear that he doesn’t respect American values. He’s a sick authoritarian fuck just like his literal Nazi father.

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            But if someone uses their speech to advocate the forcible and violent suppression of other’s rights, that is unAmerican

            the absolute irony of your moronic opinion is likely to have flown over your head

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            Arnie literally isn’t an American

            He was literally the governor of California?

            Arnie has a right to free speech. But if someone uses their speech to advocate the forcible and violent suppression of other’s rights, that is unAmerican.

            Lol, you have no constitutional right to endanger the public. Show me a court anywhere in the world that has claimed that the government has no right to institute public health policies.

            doesn’t respect American values

            You don’t get to dictate what constitutes American values. In just a couple post you’ve already called an immigrant “literally not American”, and have called that American un-American for exercising free speech. You are not recognizing his constitutional rights, but he lacks American values because…vibes?

            a sick authoritarian fuck just like his literal Nazi father.

            Ahh yes, I remember when the most progressive state in America became nazi Germany for 8 years.

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              Show me a court anywhere in the world that has claimed that the government has no right to institute public health policies.

              https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/read-cdc-mask-mandate-ruling/index.html

              https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/12/03/Supreme-Court-sides-with-church-challenging-Califs-COVID-19-restrictions/3721607017533/

              Several decisions. One regarding the forcible masking of transport passengers. Another regarding indiscriminate lockdowns and restrictions of religious gatherings.

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                The US Supreme Court let stand a ruling that said the Transportation Security Administration could require airline passengers to wear masks during the height of the pandemic, keeping in place a precedent issued by a key federal appeals court.

                It was overruled by the Supreme Court.

                Another regarding indiscriminate lockdowns and restrictions of religious gatherings.

                This isn’t saying the government doesn’t have the authority to enact public health laws, it’s simply saying those laws can’t inhibit people from participating in religious gatherings.

                Again, it’s just public safety. It’s amazing someone who is so nationalistic won’t make a small sacrifice for his country, like temporarily wearing a mask in public.

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                    Ah. I see. I think what we have here is a failure of long-term memory and possible loss of object permanence and/or temporal perspective.

                    There are health care workers that contracted Covid before the vaccines came out that are suffering permanent complications from it as a consequence of the actions of people like you. Two years of wearing a mask for a couple hours a day is a small price to pay in comparison to a lifetime of pulmonary insufficiency, or neuropathy, or new autoimmune disorders that don’t even have names yet. These are doctors, nurses, EMTs, paramedics, everyone from the Chief of Surgery to the hospital’s housekeeping staff were put on the front lines of a once-in-a-century pandemic. If people had worn their masks, washed their hands, stayed home, or even just behaved sensibly or respectfully, there would be a lot of healthcare workers that would still be healthy, and others that would still be alive today.

                    It’s people like you that are responsible for the havoc brought upon the least deserving of it.

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                    Temporarily is not forever. There isn’t a defined time on temporary. Two weeks is two weeks. Temporary is indefinite.

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                    If it has a definite time period and ended at some point, that’s the definition of temporary. The opposite is permanent, and… two years isn’t permanent.

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                FYI both links were judges nominated by Trump and rammed through the approval process to specifically do things like this.

                The first one was an obvious political stunt, she literally “struck it down” in 2022 when it was extended by .

                On April 18, 2022, a week after the CDC’s extension of the public transportation mask mandate through May 3, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the District Court for the Middle District of Florida, struck down the mandate as unlawful in a lawsuit brought by an advocacy group…”

                Whew, thank god we had that ruling, I wonder how many lives that helped during that and subsequent COVID surges? Thanks Judge Mizelle! Lmao

                Your second link also directly involves a judge appointed by Trump, literally right after she was appointed.

                In the 5-4 decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court last month, was the decisive vote siding with the conservative judges on the bench.

                Lmao, wow, would you look at that. Right in your link.

                This shit is sad, what are you getting out of this? What’s keeping in your bubble?

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                One regarding the forcible masking of transport passengers.

                Boy the type of people who like to split hairs about what an insurrection is sure don’t split the same hairs when it comes to masking policy.

                If you want to see what “forcible masking” looks like, take a look at China. There was nothing remotely similar to that in America.

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                  Take a look at any of the videos of people forcibly masked on planes. It’s identical to the way people were treated in China. The only difference is Americans fought back.

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                    You’re full of it. At one point the airlines required masking, but they just kicked people off of the flights. We also had toothless enforcement of masking everywhere here including in supposedly strict lockdown California. You have a persecution complex because you’re a little baby who can be broken by being told to wear a six inch scrap of fabric on your face.

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        If you still support an orange man baby traitor who attempted to overthrow democracy and install a fascist dictatorship after losing an election, you sure as FUCK aren’t an American anymore.

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            Now I don’t have to hope – I know you’re so insufferable, anyone would spit in your drink and food.

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              This is the sort of formless turd that the entire kitchen gets in line to give their burger bun a good scrote swipe before slathering the room temp-mayo on and plating it.

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            Your regular diaper seems to be full based on how cranky you are. You should probably tell your mom to change it before you start discussing things you know nothing about.

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          Yeah for sure. Citizenship is only guaranteed if you enlist in the United Citizen Federation. Would you like to know more?