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21 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

There's thousands of cunts outside NZ parliament protesting vaccine mandate etc causing trouble and fucking impeding everyone and being a pain for small businesses. They're doing it in solidarity with the Canadian truckers and Trump supporters and all the retards in Aussie lol. They're doing things like threatening tow truck drivers.

Right to protest is important right to fuck with people's lives and livelihoods needs to be crushed. Cunts taking up all the bloody parking spots camping outside parliament for fucking ages for no good reason after they've already protested and made their point deserves swift justice. Should aggressively fine them every day, tow all their cars, remove their encampments(they've setup portable toilets ffs) and if they resist then rubber bullets and prison time.

Some Canadian Truckers are still holing the line! Despite Trudeau freezing their bank accounts, arrests and the threat of tow trucks. Trudeau has lost all credibility. He's insulting members of Parliament accusing them of being Nazi's for supporting a peaceful protest. His days are numbered. Don't give in Truckers. Unite and Hold the Line!!

On 2/14/2022 at 2:41 AM, Chris 55 said:

I ran that through Google maps and it's all blurred out 

Haha! I had done the same thing previously. I just moved the camera 1 click to the left. Then It showed up. Very odd it is blurred out. lol

The Hell House. 1139 N. Fuller Ave - Los Angeles. Several pics of the band were taken on the front porch.

44 minutes ago, downzy said:

There were over 10,600 recorded protests nation wide over murder of George Floyd. 95 percent of them were peaceful without a single incidence of violence or rioting.

Typical leftist "mostly peaceful" as buildings burn in flames in the background. Are you sure you don't work for CNN? I bet you call a man a woman just because he wears a dress too.

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The George Floyd protests didn’t cause cities and borders to shut down for weeks on end. It was a social awareness campaign based on the demand for  equality among police services.

You expect me to take you seriously with a comment like that? There is never a reason to riot, burn buildings or loot stores in your own neighborhood. I don't care who died or was abused. PERIOD!
 

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It is organized and promoted by known white supremacists and western separatists.

(some perpetrated by right wing agitators) during the George Floyd protests.

 

Yes, Yes.. I get it. You've been brain washed in your college years to believe that everything is about racism. White supremacy is everywhere! It's all their fault. Even though the Convoy has nothing to do with race. Yet you liberals insert it into everything.

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These people’s concept of rights is as well informed as their opinions on vaccines.

If masks worked the pandemic would be over. If vaccines worked the pandemic would be over. They don't. Many people at my work have the Vax yet they still got covid. I'm sure you know multiple people have been Vaxxed and still got covid. So don't try to act like the vax works. Even a 50% failure rate is still a failure.

15 hours ago, downzy said:

Occupying a major trade route to the point where it affects people’s ability to feed their families or go to work isn’t “peaceful protest.”  It’s political extortion via occupation.

So was the CHOP zone in Seattle WA, or the George Floyd protests that destroyed cities, homes and businesses, As it grew to other cities it also blocked traffic everywhere. Yet, the political left encouraged it. You don't see any buildings in flames during the Freedom Convoy. It's simply a calm protest for their rights (and yours) How can you demonize that? You have an awful leftist skewed point of view.

1 hour ago, downzy said:

For those who think Canada is nothing but a country filled with sad little truckers:

Doesn't change the fact that 6 Provinces are planning to remove the mandates due to the protests and/or because it's just time to roll it back.

Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island. Some dropping the covid passports and mask mandates in just a few weeks.

In Ontario, the Premiere Doug Ford, Who publicly has a hard stance against the protesters has said in a leaked phone call he plans on dropping the covid passport system so the Province can get back to normal. So you can't exactly say these protest are not having an effect, because it is!

2 hours ago, RussTCB said:

I seriously can never tell if you're just doing a character or not. 

Nope. It's just me. I'm a Conservative, Trump supporting Christian. Which is opposite of 98% of the people on this forum. I enjoy getting the liberals goat. If a liberal says something concerning politics, sexual orientation, abortion or religion I'm usually going to disagree with them.

10 hours ago, downzy said:

No we’re not. Only a few deluded assholes who neither respect electoral outcomes or the judicial process.

Some protesters defy the court order, as they should (in this case) Freedom is never free.

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Those countries were hit several weeks prior to Canada. 

Huh? Sweden, England, Denmark and Norway have all lifted Covid restrictions as they look to reclassify the virus as a disease that does not pose a threat to society.

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What restrictions are you talking about? Your country has been mostly open for a long time.

California, New York and a few other Democrat run states still run full speed ahead with restrictions. requiring children as low as 5 to wear masks and be possibly even be vaccinated! In my state there are zero restrictions (Republican of course) while a few other states won't let you go out to eat without proof of vaccination. It's hypocrisy, lies from the media, censorship on public forums. This will all end soon. It's time to wrap this thing up.

"O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!"

Canadian citizens are pushing back on the covid restrictions, Like true Patriots! Truckers uniting to fight the tyranny of Trudeau. Lifted restrictions from all this nonsense has already begun in other countries. Freedom starts in Canada and will spread to the US. This only the beginning. Truckers unite!

Nice to see you promoting the album with one of the most homophobic and racist songs from a mainstream hard rock band in history.

Love the entire album btw. One side pseudo-live and the other mostly acoustic. Can't beat it.

Terminator is dead. As a fan from the get-go, I say... let it die.

I assume the reunion was financially inspired. I'm sure touring stadiums pays more than a new album any day.

Goin' Down... Axl's vocals mix in the background. Never thought it matched well with Tommy at first, but now I love it.

The Blues... Original high pitched synth that's been removed from the official release.

One In a Million... Slash's guitar solo, so amazing.

Locomotive... Love's So Strange.

18 minutes ago, Coma16 said:

Glad you're feeling better. Seems like it hit you pretty hard. Are you triple vaccinated?

Triple vaxxed? lol. If you are vaxxed you should never get covid. That's how vaccines work.

Supreme court shoots down Biden mandate. A complete win for the rights of millions of workers. Libs can cry and moan all day long. It's over, with the exception of some healthcare workers whose place of employment receive federal funds, but that can end too when Biden is gone, which shouldn't be to much longer.

Being a Matrix fan from 1999, I didn't like this trailer at all. Didn't have high hopes either. I liked the idea at the beginning of the story but then I got lost. Couldn't follow very well. Not a lot of action. Didn't like the recasting of Smith or Morpheus. Waited 18 years just to see it and was not that great. I give it a 4 out of 10.

11 minutes ago, downzy said:

But that’s also true in healthcare systems where the profit motive is absent. 

I don’t believe it’s in the best interest of hospitals to commit state and federal crimes. If hospitals were truly misrepresenting covid deaths for the sole purpose of padding their bottom lines, there would be whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork.

No, I just don’t believe hospitals in the US are willing to risk legal prosecution for the sake of widespread and systemic fraud, one that would require near universal agreement and coordination by every operating hospital and health clinic in the country.

Are they following the rules? Probably. It's still misleading the public. You like to quote numbers of how many people have died of covid. If 10% of deaths were from people who died for other reasons but was labeled a covid death just because the tested positive., then that's a lie and inflating the numbers. They do it and have admitted it, but no one cares. I've seen it on news reports myself.

13 minutes ago, downzy said:

I get hospitals get paid more for treating covid. That I’m not disputing.

What I’m asking for is evidence of hospitals deliberately inflating covid numbers.  Just because there is an economic incentive to treat more covid patients or possible falsifying diagnosis (a crime, btw), doesn’t mean that’s what is happening.

Again, do you have any evidence that hospitals are fraudulently inflating the number of covid patients at the risk of criminal liability?

I don't recall saying i did have proof, only that they were incentivized. Which is absolutely true. If a person dies of heart disease but tested positive for covid. That's a covid death and thus they get paid more regardless if the died from covid or not. Throw millions of dollars in the mix and you think it's not in their best interest to get the most money they can? Come on man. You must think everyone is as open and honest as the government.

18 hours ago, downzy said:

So your claim here is that numbers are inflated because it’s in the economic interest of medical providers to label something as covid even if it’s not.

Interesting.

Do you have anything to back any of this up?

This was common knowledge back when the cares act was put into place. I did say this was in the US. A quote from USA Today.

"Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it's considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases."

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/verify/verify-do-hospitals-get-more-funding-by-marking-deaths-covid-19-related/103-36834bad-1113-4f67-8804-5d97e6593745

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/

1 hour ago, janrichmond said:

Perfect example of a strawman argument. 

This is not an argument. These are facts from the CDC website.

1 hour ago, downzy said:

The US is over 800k deaths from Covid and will likely pass 1 million by late winter.

Again, 2 percent of the US population is 7 million.    

The virus is real, but are you considering that older patients and those with chronic comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and pulmonary disease, are much more prone to critical and fatal outcomes? Let alone the fact hospitals (in the US) are incentivized when they treat a covid patient. If someone wants the shot then get it.  But when you say no one says the sky is falling..... IT IS when they threaten citizens with their job if they don't get it. It's a bullying tactic. Who wants an authoritarian Government? This is why Joe Biden's Vaccine mandate was swiftly obliterated.

I always find this thread amusing. You people act like you'll die if you don't get the shot. It's just absurd. Children are the least affect by this virus. Covid-19 has a 98-99% survival rate if you contract the virus, regardless if you been vaccinated or not. It's all based on fear and misinformation from the media. What about all the other deaths in the world. No one seems to look that information up or even care to discuss them.

480,000 deaths per year in the US are caused from smoking. Has anyone shut down the tobacco companies?

659,000 deaths in the United States are from heart disease. Has anyone shut down McDonald's yet?

599,601 deaths are caused by cancer in the US. but we still use products that contain carcinogens.

Interesting all the comparisons to SCOM. It's not the first time. Loving The Alien by VR has that high pitched picking all over it. He's done it before. To the trained ear you can hear that in several of his songs.

35 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Axl: With 'Appetite,' for me the parts, playing, etc., timing flaws, whatever, are perfect, and as a moment in time for me, the whole record is. That said, the sound of the drums, which at the time in our niche of the woods was a bit of a bold statement and a somewhat successful effort to change things from the current flow at the time, and so may have been necessary but for me sound the most dated of anything there sound-wise.

With 'Illusions' several years ago, something came on the radio and I realized how the energy in the drums, though solid and consistent, brought me down in a way I feel damaged the material in the long run, if not from the get-go. Maybe it's there with some, most or all of us in ways, but I specifically notice it more with the drums. And when listening in that sense of analyzing how something feels to me in regards to its involvement or inclusion in the song, whether anyone disagrees I'm somewhat capable of removing myself and events from the picture.

First I've heard of this. Interesting. Stevens sound is very distinctive, his snare, cowbell and his timing were something I've always admired.

Without Matt the band would have broken up as they couldn't find a suitable replacement. Sure some of his drumming is flat (14 years intro) but some of it is just amazing (Locomotive).

You can't have it both ways Axl.  If anything is dated it's UYI. The Influences, Sound, Genres and Styles are over the place. Not that it's bad, it just has very little cohesion as a whole.

22 hours ago, downzy said:

Kind of mind blowing that more Americans died of covid-19 in 2021 than in 2020 (and we still have a month to go).

Thanks anti-vaxxers. 

Your welcome. Considering I've never been sick, tested, had a shot or wear masks and I'm still alive. Yet those who are vaccinated claim to be getting sick. I'm pretty sure the Vax is supposed to prevent you from getting Covid otherwise it's not a Vax! You Lame-o's can continue hiding in your house or walking around like zombies with your face covered, even when you are by yourself. I'll never do it. If I thought my life was in danger, I'd do something about it, but it's not so Life goes on.

Seems like yesterday Axl signed in as Dexter just to cuss out a Mod here (and the chats) Those were the days.