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Rainbow Droid

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5. It is a significant enough portion of the public for one to use the phrase "the public"

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:43 AM

Mar 2020

I would think that after more than four decades of half the country denying science/factual reality, and after almost 4 years of Donald Trump being "President of the United States" complete with all the insanity this has brought to the nation, sane people would not be so quick to argue over such trivialities...

and yet here we are.

Almost half the public believes the pandemic is fake news and you want to argue over the definition of "the public".

Maybe we really are screwed.

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Remember, trump didn't slow testing out of mere incompetence -- it was deliberate. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #1

How can you convince the public of this fact when they think the pandemic itself is a hoax? Rainbow Droid Mar 2020 #2

It's not "the public"; it's only the cult that believes such shit. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #3

It is a significant enough portion of the public for one to use the phrase "the public" Rainbow Droid Mar 2020 #5

We are if you're determined to elevate the cult to being "the public". Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #6

I get what you're saying but you are defining 'the public' to exclude those in the Trump Cult. Rainbow Droid Mar 2020 #7

The birds eat bugs in the spring. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #10

More Recent Polling Indicates More and More People Believe and Accept the CV-19 Crisis as Fact Indykatie Mar 2020 #8

THANK YOU !!! I've been saying for weeks that this is on purposeI've been saying for weeks that this uponit7771 Mar 2020 #11

I am sick to samplegirl Mar 2020 #4

Horrible. RIP BeckyDem Mar 2020 #9