Originally Posted by WutFace (Post 3038551)

1. It's inalienable.
2. Your inalienable rights end the moment you infringe on others' rights to safety. Driving drunk is illegal because it infringes upon others. So is being a dumbass in a pandemic.

I would be all for your rights to expose yourself to COVID, if you weren't a contagion threat to others. Your coworkers. The liquor store clerk where you go to buy your handles of Wild Turkey. The nurse who will try to save your foolish ass when you inevitably come crawling to the hospital. If you could guarantee that you wouldn't expose anyone else, then you have my blessing to go remove yourself from the gene pool in the name of capitalism.

3. I am a little shocked that so many pilots are so foolishly brazen during this crisis. One of the key responsibilities of our jobs is THREAT MANAGEMENT. And ya'll are turning off the radar as you approach a line of thunderstorms.

Originally Posted by bidnez (Post 3033944)

You're hardly worth arguing with, but do you realize the parties switched political views- Republicans used to call themselves Democrats and Democrats called themselves Republicans. Lincoln was a modern day, Democrat.

Sounds like you could use at least some public school indoctrination yourself.

Originally Posted by Squirrel27 (Post 3034171)

It's really not that difficult, and was explained pretty well. Republicans used to be liberal, progressive, and the party of a large government. Nothing that they support now. So when somebody says "Lincoln was a Republican," he almost certainly would not identify with today's Republican Party, because they embody absolutely zero ideals that he stood for.

Originally Posted by Fast90 (Post 3005011)

I believe 100%. After two weeks or so and the sky is not falling, the public is going to get very resistive. This is a massive over reaction.

Originally Posted by WutFace (Post 3038551)

So is being a dumbass in a pandemic.

Originally Posted by WutFace (Post 3038551)

1. It's inalienable.
2. Your inalienable rights end the moment you infringe on others' rights to safety. Driving drunk is illegal because it infringes upon others. So is being a dumbass in a pandemic.

I would be all for your rights to expose yourself to COVID, if you weren't a contagion threat to others. Your coworkers. The liquor store clerk where you go to buy your handles of Wild Turkey. The nurse who will try to save your foolish ass when you inevitably come crawling to the hospital. If you could guarantee that you wouldn't expose anyone else, then you have my blessing to go remove yourself from the gene pool in the name of capitalism.

3. I am a little shocked that so many pilots are so foolishly brazen during this crisis. One of the key responsibilities of our jobs is THREAT MANAGEMENT. And ya'll are turning off the radar as you approach a line of thunderstorms.

Originally Posted by Bozo the pilot (Post 3039834)

Are snowflakes allowed to post here?
I thought you had to at least have a Commercial ticket.

Originally Posted by Mtnbikemike (Post 3039848)

I hope all this makes you feel better about yourself. God bless

Originally Posted by Bozo the pilot (Post 3039853)

And Im sorry this hype has ruined this career for many of us. God bless- we'll all need it.

Originally Posted by Slaphappy (Post 3039638)

Haha nice revisionist history.


Not really. They never were the party of "large government". Maybe you should read up on history a little bit more.

Originally Posted by phrogfella (Post 3041099)

It’s not revisionist history, he’s actually correct. The political parties are just shells, the constituencies move around through the years. Rather than focusing on the party names the key is to focus on a constituency like social conservatives. Prior to LBJ, social conservatives were Democrats but since then they’ve become almost exclusively Republicans. Strom Thurmond is a great case in point. We’re in the middle of another major reshuffling of the parties and their constituencies now with Trump’s Republican Party.