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  1. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    Also, "fully vaccinated" seems to be a moving goalpost.
  2. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    But is it going to be painful for the democrats?
  3. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    Back to the topic - you know what? Here in South Africa even we are seeing some shelves empty. Some products just aren't available from the suppliers - surprising, because they are foodstuffs that I thought were produced locally.
  4. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    Anyone who's read enough Charles Dickens knows about this sort of thing. In Oliver Twist, the evil guy who runs a child labour house openly tells someone else that he feeds the children gruel in order to keep them weak and submissive, and that children will get independent-minded and rebellious...
  5. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    They get the science they pay for.
  6. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    Yes, if you really want to play a tabletop game you do not need to buy expensive stuff - make your own from cardboard, or modelling clay, or whatever.
  7. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    The taxes the "barbarian" conquerors would impose would be substantially less than what the Roman government had been extorting from the common people. Also, if your town got re-conquered by Rome, they would want you to also pay the tax backlog for the time that it was under barbarian control...
  8. Scottty

    The shelves are getting empty

    The fundamental problem, I think, is that the elites and whatever-crats are insulated from the effects of their actions. Millions of people losing their jobs due to stupid government policies? The clowns at the top don't care, because it doesn't hurt them.
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