Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Covid, masks. Date: 17 Sep 2025 20:48:06 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <108kv17$73g4$5@dont-email.me> <20250827165330.81eb46a2f8f86d5efb83f0c7@127.0.0.1> <108nnmo$t297$1@dont-email.me> <108q123$1g1ph$1@dont-email.me> <108q9ne$1ieq4$1@dont-email.me> <10a3pjn$egqn$1@dont-email.me> <10a4el4$km8l$2@dont-email.me> <10a5s8v$1360o$5@dont-email.me> <10a60uc$148fh$1@dont-email.me> <10a6r88$1d082$1@dont-email.me> <10a8gq3$261sn$1@news1.tnib.de> <63tnplx3sm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10adunn$33sb9$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Uoz0mmwD5Nzx6ezqJHiTsQeAiJFzP94ZCzCk1qwCk5xx4lKWR5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:USCzJ6KyoA6VtVPewNm2NPNOEDY= sha256:TWNjftmp6sTQq2tOFqqGFVJeKYbjSEHouOBD0BsXBE0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74425 On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:24:07 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 16/09/2025 20:49, rbowman wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:08:54 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> The aversion to masks is mostly a USA thing. And perhaps also a >>> political thing, everything is heavily politicized over there. And >>> political means hatred, even to the point of shooting one another. >>> With a president that does what he can to increase hatred and >>> violence, instead of appeasing it. >> >> The time of appeasing the 'progressives' may be over. > > The problem is that the Democrats were in fact no better. > > Being abused for being a white heterosexual male is in fact not a smart > thing to do. > > Being abused for being an ordinary Rural American redneck, is not a > smart thing to do. In the US, 'progressive' is mostly identical with Democrat. The last 'Progressive Party' was Wallace's creation and lasted about eight years. That one really was a haven for Communists that were left without a home after FDR. 'Liberal', 'left', 'progressive', and so forth have all the semantic value of 'fascist', 'racist', or 'nazi' these days. The Democrats go through this every now and then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council They keep drifting further left led by the so-called elites that look down their noses at the 'basket of deplorables' and then wonder why the deplorables hate them so much. The deplorables also start to wonder why the Republicans seem to be ineffective in stopping the leftward drift.