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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums9/11: 3000 Americans dead. GOP: "Let's start a war." CV-19: 666,000 dead: "No we won't vax or mask."
How do you explain this double standard?
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9/11: 3000 Americans dead. GOP: "Let's start a war." CV-19: 666,000 dead: "No we won't vax or mask." (Original Post)
Doodley
Sep 2021
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Thanks. What about the average Republican who was fired up about 9/11 but complacent about CV-19?
Doodley
Sep 2021
#4
Only one member of Congress voted against the authorization of the use of force
greenjar_01
Sep 2021
#10
madamesilverspurs
(15,813 posts)1. There's money in war.
Not so much in a virus.
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Doodley
(9,161 posts)4. Thanks. What about the average Republican who was fired up about 9/11 but complacent about CV-19?
Pinback
(12,173 posts)6. They think killing Muslims is more fun than killing microbes. (nt)
Boomerproud
(7,975 posts)7. Nailed it.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)2. The "War On Terror" was the best of both worlds for the right.
A war against dark skinned non-Gentiles which allowed them to take billions upon billions of $$$$$$$$.
Doodley
(9,161 posts)5. Yes, anger against "foreigners" is always a great trigger for the right.
genxlib
(5,546 posts)3. Correction
Started two wars
Otherwise accurate
jmowreader
(50,571 posts)8. They're not the ones who would have to fight in a war
But they are the ones being asked to minorly inconvenience themselves by putting on a mask.
Salviati
(6,009 posts)9. They are eager to be cruel for our country...
... but refuse to be kind for it.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)10. Only one member of Congress voted against the authorization of the use of force
Only one.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)11. They would love to see all the current chaos devolve into a war n/t