(03-24-2020, 03:55 AM)SilverFang01 Wrote: So, some on the right are floating the idea of letting people die to save the economy:
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/statu...46050?s=21
Jonathan Swift came back as a woman. Her name is Alexandra Petri, she writes satire for the Washington Post, and she should be categorized as a National Treasure. Her take on the Texan nutcase:
I regret that I have but one grandparent to give for my country
Quote:We cannot put a price on what will be lost — so how much could it possibly be worth?
... What makes life worth living? I am pretty sure it is not “possessing any connection whatsoever to other human beings”; or else the president has been doing it very wrong.
Here is your chance to serve! And there is still a place in the line for the people who did not ask to be volunteered — but you must help them! You can sacrifice them, too, by your decision, because this disease conveniently does not understand who is stepping up and who is not.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."