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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    "Thems pretty good odds..." - The scientific and medical community. Slippery slopes, unknown unknowns... whatever... talk about Argentina.
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Again, myopic. Hospitals, healthcare, etc... are finite, shared, public, resources. During the pandemic, wards were overflowing with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, causing cancellation and delays to critical medical procedures required by others. Due to the overload, many of these...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    But people are not islands, forever isolated from anything or anyone else. Our actions impact others, and selfishly imperil others during pandemics, nullifying THEIR liberties. Rather, we are all part of an interdependent whole, dependent not only upon each other, but our entire ecosystem...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Will put it this way, and spare people a long-winded answer... Vaccines save lives. Sometimes necessary measures can be justified because dead people enjoy no liberties.
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Liberty is complex, not singular. There are all sorts of possible liberties. A nation with freedom from vaccine mandates, along with the criminalization of abortion and/or homosexuality and/or the banning of teaching evolution and climate science in schools, might be a rightwing paradise, but...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    We're really sorry. Just blame us. I apologize on behalf of Canada. Now, let's get back to turning Argentina into a Austrian school playground!
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Been an NDP supporter for most of my life. My province has an NDP government. NDP is center-left, and has implemented a number of laws/policies that help regular citizens rather than cater to the wealthy and corporations, though capitalism remains very much alive here. What we don't see is...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Sure, I don't like Trudeau or the Liberal government either. Canada is not the worst democracy in the world, but it could certainly be better. However, I distrust the Conservatives even more. Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper muzzled scientists and stopped the government collecting data...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Sure, I'm all for increased transparency and the free sharing of knowledge and technology, especially regarding matters of public health. But that's capitalism at work, using the government to protect intellectual property for private profit. Even the term 'intellectual property' is...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Science is a human enterprise, fraught with the complexities and limitations therein. Sure, I'd like to get corporations, governments, lawyers, etc... out of science, but that's how it works. I'm aware of the situation and potential bias. It is merely a dream to be able to access "pure...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Oh, so those peer reviewed scientific and medical articles I've read are a cover up for the great global vaccine conspiracy? And the various medical people too, sharing their experience with hordes of unnecessary unvaccinated deaths? My data set is large and based upon evidence, in multiple...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Don't really feel like getting into the weeds on this... but will say that the Convoy folks appeared to feel that they were as oppressed as Argentinians, based on the social media propaganda they've been fed. This is what's laughable. Personally, I don't like vaccine mandates, but, in the case...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Seems I did not clearly express myself. I was making a comparison between protests in Canada and Argentina and attitudes toward using the law to crack down on them. Foxi4 appeared to find the Convoy protest funny, yet supports using the law to stop protesters in Argentina, a view which...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    Was not the tiniest bit funny for the citizens of Ottawa who had to deal with blaring horns and disinformed hooligans blocking their roadways 24/7 for a month, fearing for their personal safety. But the Conservative Party supported it, so it's fine. I'm sure the people of Argentina are...
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    Far Right Presidential Candidate Wins in Argentina

    So you also condemned the Convoy protest in Ottawa and think they deserve harsh punishment?
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    RedColoredStars @ RedColoredStars: At least someone other than myself thought it was funny :rofl: +1