Re: Severe and ruthless

On Sun, 9 Aug 2026 15:32:31 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 8/8/2026 7:20 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 20:43:08 -0000 (UTC), Tara <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 8, 2026 at 4:12:45?PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 12:27:31 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/5/2026 2:21 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>> NY Times,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David Wallace-Wells
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "But for years Fauci has been bullied and harassed and intimidated
>>>>>> and, above all, vilified and scapegoated by bad faith critics mounting
>>>>>> contradictory attacks that allowed them to pin responsibility on one
>>>>>> man for everything they might not have liked about the experience of
>>>>>> living through a brutal pandemic. Yet that is exactly why Fauci should
>>>>>> have talked last week: to answer those critics, defend his approach
>>>>>> and those of his colleagues, and explain what lessons he?d learned and
>>>>>> might like the rest of us to learn. Evidently, he felt too boxed in to
>>>>>> try, even with Joe Biden?s blanket pardon in hand."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My assessment is that there is no sense in trying to defend and
>>>>>> explain to people who are determined to show you no quarter.  Fauci
>>>>>> defended and explained in his book.  Read it if want to understand.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This is what it would mean to actually learn from the experience,
>>>>>> rather than treating the pandemic as a simplistic blame game. Instead,
>>>>>> we got Senator Bernie Moreno asking Fauci who he thought he was,
>>>>>> punctuating the rhetorical question with an expletive and a
>>>>>> burn-book-style digest of the contents of Fauci?s just-released
>>>>>> diary."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Treating it as a simplistic blame game.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the essence of modern politics.  It is the ultimate blame
>>>>>> game.  The blame must all be on the other side.  It must show them as
>>>>>> incompetent and unfit for office.  Severe and ruthless must be the
>>>>>> assignment of that blame.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Learn from experience.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No David, any such lessons are beside the point which is only blame.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In conclusion, Daivd:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "The actual origin of the pandemic remains unknown, six years after
>>>>>> the country?s first confirmed case. Perhaps it always will be,
>>>>>> maddeningly enough, which may be one reason it?s so difficult to make
>>>>>> any collective and honest accounting of it. So much seems to hang on
>>>>>> the question of ultimate responsibility. But maybe if we can stop
>>>>>> trying to blame someone for Covid, we can actually learn something
>>>>>> from it."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So here is the image:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David trying to be reasonable and thoughtful and Sen Moreno casting
>>>>>> fire and brimstone.  Both sides essentially speaking to their
>>>>>> followers and nothing to each other, because there would be no point.
>>>>>>
>>>>> You failed to explain the case against Anthony Fauci. It's not just
>>>>> about the origin of the virus - it's all about the reaction to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron Paul is critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci because he views him as a
>>>>> primary architect of authoritarian government overreach, medical
>>>>> mandates, and public deception during the COVID-19 pandemic.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a physician and libertarian, Paul believes Fauci used exaggerated
>>>>> health data to justify destroying personal liberties.
>>>>
>>>> Yes it is clear which side you choose.
>>>
>>> Why does it have to be about sides? It should always be only about the truth.
>>> And the truth is often complicated.
>> 
>> As soon as you have decided what it all means you have chosen a side.
> >
>When you are a trucker, teacher or a soldier and you are being forced to 
>wear a mask and/or get injected, or lose your job - that is where I draw 
>the line. YMMV.

When you refuse to protect the people around you by getting
vaccinated, that is where I draw the line.
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