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Cinder
@Triquetrea
Yes, but I suspect the rot here is much deeper and starker than that. It is like the spike in gas prices predating the Ukraine war and sanctions pandemonium: there is a total void at the top. It devours light. It provides nothing, and allows nothing else to shine.
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Ben King
@Grimeandreason
It's almost like an economic system that is incentivised to maximize profit only inherently lacks the capacities and adaptability to deal with a pandemic sans any public health protections. twitter.com/uroobajamal/st…
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
The inability of so-called "lawmakers" to actually enshrine in law any of the things they wish to carry out is another example. Executive overreach into retractions and apathetically phrased half-apologies amidst ruinous lawsuits is just another feature of the covidian West.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
From my home country: Norway wanted to restrict travel, so they attempted to pass a law that infringed on multiple constitutional rights, as the basis of a practice that carried on long after said law was amended, and is now in court being sued for barring entry to EU nationals.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
There were multiple pathways that could have been taken to achieve the desired results, but they went with the most arbitrary authoritarian approach they could think of and introduced a totally fatuous collection of exceptions that rendered any desired effect irrelevant.
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