Mothra said:Indeed, we do.Sam Lowry said:Then the question isn't whether we should live under a totalitarian government. At least in Texas, we do live under one.Doc Holliday said:Without a crime, yep.Sam Lowry said:You think six months in jail is totalitarian?Doc Holliday said:Are you saying we should have a totalitarian government?Sam Lowry said:So you're saying lockdowns are effective when people comply?Mothra said:As it turns out, having a totalitarian form of govt. assists with fighting pandemics. In China, people can be forcibly locked in their homes, and go to prison or be shot dead for breaking lockdowns. And of course, when whistleblowers try to tell the world what's going on, they can be disappeared. It's quite convenient.Sam Lowry said:Not at all. We have hundreds of times more cases per capita than China. These discrepancies won't make a dent.Malbec said:Right, because nobody ever made posts about how bad Trump botched the response and how the U.S. was so bad that it had 25% of the world's deaths from COVID and constantly used those stats to disparage Trump. But, then I suppose since EVERYONE knew China was lying, then those posters were just lying too. Good grief.BaylorBJM said:Doc Holliday said:I made the assertion that the CCP was lying about C19 and I was promptly called a conspiracy theorist.CHP Bear said:
No - are you kidding me - WOW, what a surprise! - really - who'd of thought?
Yeaaa I would love you to find that post because EVERYONE knew China was lying.
Please link to where someone allegedly posted that.
It is abusing its power. It is not totalitarian. But it does appear to be interested in taking totalitarianism for a test drive.