The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

Drawing awfully close to the fine people on both sides thing here.
Left wing lunatics exist definitely. Go watch that episode of Louis Theroux where he spends time with the survivalists in North Dakota....
But in terms of numbers we're talking 80:20 at best/worst.

No idea about survivalists in North Dakota, but among the people protesting in Berlin last weekend the leftist crazies were a majority according to media estimates I saw. However, if you join forces with Nazis to demand government stepping down and a constitutional assembly you are no better than them. And that discredits whatever valid concerns regarding restrictions of our basic rights they might otherwise voice. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Drawing awfully close to the fine people on both sides thing here.
Left wing lunatics exist definitely. Go watch that episode of Louis Theroux where he spends time with the survivalists in North Dakota....
But in terms of numbers we're talking 80:20 at best/worst.

Reductio ad trumpem? 

Indeed not the same, since you don't see far right politicians having such views holding political office in France.
In Paris, the attempt at an anti-mask demonstration only gathered 200-300 people with a real mishmash of conspiracy theories. Le Monde noticed a yellow vest tried to convince demonstrators to join in an action against the Macron régime but they politely declined since it involved spending some time at a police station and did not want to mix issues anyways.

Quant à la requête d'un « gilet jaune » venu demander « qu'on se fasse tous embarquer, on aura notre revanche ! », elle ne récoltera que quelques refus interloqués : « Ah non mais là, faut pas tout mélanger. »

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2020/08/29/a-paris-un-rassemblement-anti-masques-aux-revendications-multiples_6050332_823448.html

By the way, guess who was skeptical of the asymptomatic issues involved with Covid and the precaution principle behind steps such as mask-wearing? Champagne left socialite [spoiler]intellectual fraud[/spoiler] Bernard-Henri Lévy who called the asymptomatic patient a "medical absurdity" on Twitter, obviously. 

Molière a inventé le malade imaginaire. Voici venu le temps du malade sans le savoir, c'est à dire asymptomatique et d'autant plus dangereux, voire coupable, qu'il est malade sans l'être. Absurdité médicale. Forfait moral et politique. Crime contre l'esprit. #cevirusquirendfou

https://twitter.com/BHL/status/1297662533009133569

Health minister tried to explain him later on the issues at hand on Twitter.

[Syt]

Vienna public transport's official twitter staying "with it":

[Valmy]

Left wing lunatics exist definitely. Go watch that episode of Louis Theroux where he spends time with the survivalists in North Dakota....

Oh well even among the mainstream leftists you have crazy hippy shit.

[Eddie Teach]

Vienna public transport's official twitter staying "with it":

Do the Razzies have music categories? 

[Valmy]

Vienna public transport's official twitter staying "with it":

So hip and cool. I bet the other kids think its rad.

[Sheilbh]

I will run for office on a single issue platform of banning brands from behaving like people on social media

[Barrister]

I will run for office on a single issue platform of banning brands from behaving like people on social media

I dunno - few do it well, but I enjoy the few brands that do it well.

[Valmy]

I will run for office on a single issue platform of banning brands from behaving like people on social media

But how else will they communicate their brand values to their target demographic? 

[Tonitrus]

And what if the person is a brand?

You would ban Oprah. 

[Sheilbh]

And what if the person is a brand?

You would ban Oprah. 

You can't make an omelette without banning Oprah

[Sheilbh]

The amazing President of Ireland paying tribute to Van Morrison for his 75th birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Q8K_mQlDw4I&feature=emb_title

Edit: He really is my favourite world leader. Elect more poets!

[Habbaku]

Miggeldy Higgins.

[Saladin]

So..
I might swing by the great state of Virginia next year.

[The Brain]

Why?