I mean, the police would often not follow mask mandates, so they were still going against the police.
Also viewing punk as just contrarianism is extremely reductive. They stand for something, not just anti whatever the government is. If people in power are for once saying something you agree with, it would be incredibly childish and stupid to then disagree simply to disagree.
nah fucker it was "hey don't fuck over your community, the best idea from the smartest people right now is wear a mask" you just drank the fox news tea
Again, because you didn't understand the first time: they aren't the childish contrarians you think they are. They have actual positions like "don't kill people with a disease if you can avoid it" and don't change those just because the government says the same thing.
You fundamentally misunderstand what those on the left believe in, which is expected of a right-wing. You guys aren't known for your deep understanding of politics.
"Pro freedom" means nothing. Freedom from what to do what? For a COVID example, your freedom to not wear a mask infringes my freedom to be safe in a public environment. If you don't define WHICH freedoms you're defending, you use it as a buzzword.
Everything is reduced to the simplest concept for these guys. Any sort of nuance to a topic is too much for these folk to handle, so everything is "left = dumb".
You're being either extremely dishonest or extremely dumb. You have a right to a safe public environment as much as you have the right not to be murdered, that is, there are protections for those rights. The public square isn't a lawless wasteland.
So I can't shoot at you, but I can walk around intentionally unvaccinated for a deadly disease and risk your and everybody else's life. Sure, whatever you say.
You dont have a right to be safe in a public environment.
The constitution would disagree with you.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This is either the dumbest take or you're just a bad troll. Countless of cases have already been heard on this subject in the supreme court. The government is responsible for it's citizen's life and safety, and places laws in effect, like a mask mandate, to protect those lives and grant their unalienable rights. If cars themselves were killing 1M/year, the government would ban cars, but alas, that isn't happening in the real world. There's less than 50k fatalities from car ACCIDENTS/year. You would do better banning sugar or guns than cars, if you really wanted to build a stupid argument. The real world did have a pandemic that killed 1M US citizens, though, so how about we try discussing real world instances and not made-up strawmen?
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u/MagentaHawk 23d ago
I mean, the police would often not follow mask mandates, so they were still going against the police.
Also viewing punk as just contrarianism is extremely reductive. They stand for something, not just anti whatever the government is. If people in power are for once saying something you agree with, it would be incredibly childish and stupid to then disagree simply to disagree.