Biden vaccine mandate blocked!

[Parkbandit]

it was always harder to get a good load going out.

[Methais]

The main reason people don't understand the distinction you're making is because that's not what those words mean - some vaccine mandates are in law, some vaccine mandates are in the executive branch, some are outside of government entirely, such as the many vaccine mandates by companies and schools the Supreme Court has upheld.

Notably, one vaccine mandate from the federal executive branch is the one that says workers at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid must be vaccinated against coronavirus, and this mandate was upheld by the Supreme Court. If they were following your reasoning about what mandate means and what law means, they would have overturned both, but they didn't, so they weren't.

It is easy to project a sweeping philosophical position onto a Supreme Court decision that reaches the same conclusion, but Supreme Court decisions in general and this one in particular are very nuanced and narrow - the specific law, the specific scenario, the specific reasoning all play into why a specific decision is reached. They don't write dozens of pages for fun, you know?

What did you do about eating sandwiches before your mommy taught you how to buy cold cuts though?

I get you think a Dictator should just be able to wish things into existence... thankfully that's not our system of government. Though, with jackasses thinking like you, not for much longer.

In Latrin's defense, he's going to need someone to take care of him after his mommy and daddy are gone. Big government is the perfect fit for him.

[Parkbandit]

What did you do about eating sandwiches before your mommy taught you how to buy cold cuts though?

In Latrin's defense, he's going to need someone to take care of him after his mommy and daddy are gone. Big government is the perfect fit for him.

Exactly. I understand the desire for the alt-left's big government push... who will tell them how to live their lives otherwise? Most of their parents have probably abandoned them... they have no guidance in their lives.

[Latrinsorm]

There are hundreds of millions more that don't have these issues. The majority shouldn't have to suffer because of that. Life isn't fair.

You get how this expressly contradicts "Any lives lost are up to the individual." though right? If you're going to abandon it so quickly why bother saying it in the first place? This is a weird convo.

And it seems to me like the majority already "suffers" quite a bit because of the principle that we should look out for people in dire straits - for example, we already agree to pay hundreds of billions of dollars every year indefinitely for people who are so sick they can't work, and when people complain about those taxes we tell them life isn't fair, we don't tell the sick people life isn't fair. What's the difference?

[Latrinsorm]

It’s been a really long time... How are you??? I hope you are still the ultra-positive confused liberal but great at math types and didn’t turn into one of those bitter woke commie “how dare you” Greta types. Please stay OG leftist.

i'm still great at math!

so no, not super positive these days

[Flap]

You get how this expressly contradicts "Any lives lost are up to the individual." though right? If you're going to abandon it so quickly why bother saying it in the first place? This is a weird convo.

And it seems to me like the majority already "suffers" quite a bit because of the principle that we should look out for people in dire straits - for example, we already agree to pay hundreds of billions of dollars every year indefinitely for people who are so sick they can't work, and when people complain about those taxes we tell them life isn't fair, we don't tell the sick people life isn't fair. What's the difference?

Latrin, I'd encourage you to watch the Youtube series, The Alt-Right Playbook. This making-a-claim-and-then-abandoning-it tactic is extremely common in modern political "discourse". The moment an argument is defeated, they'll move on and throw some other nonsense at you without ever addressing that they were wrong.

[Gelston]

You get how this expressly contradicts "Any lives lost are up to the individual." though right? If you're going to abandon it so quickly why bother saying it in the first place? This is a weird convo.

And it seems to me like the majority already "suffers" quite a bit because of the principle that we should look out for people in dire straits - for example, we already agree to pay hundreds of billions of dollars every year indefinitely for people who are so sick they can't work, and when people complain about those taxes we tell them life isn't fair, we don't tell the sick people life isn't fair. What's the difference?

Nope. Because it doesn't.

[Parkbandit]

It’s been a really long time... How are you??? I hope you are still the ultra-positive confused liberal but great at math types and didn’t turn into one of those bitter woke commie “how dare you” Greta types. Please stay OG leftist.

i'm still great at math!

so no, not super positive these days

But still so very much confused and very much a Greta type.

[Suppressed Poet]

That’s unfortunate. I remember L as confused & misguided, but also naïvely optimistic. I’ve seen the same transformation in some of my hard-left extended family members too. They have become quite bitter.

[Parkbandit]

That’s unfortunate. I remember L as confused & misguided, but also naïvely optimistic. I’ve seen the same transformation in some of my hard-left extended family members too. They have become quite bitter.

You forgot the Latrinesorm who was afraid of everything and saying he is "socially awkward" doesn't give the term the impact it deserves.

Covid happened and it magnified all of his disabilities 100 fold.