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  • pronstar

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    Can we get back to lockdown?


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    seeker_two

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    That place east of Waco....
    On that subject, it does no good to kill off a local mayor or governor; laws of succession mostly ensure someone else already in power can step in pretty immediately.

    A recall of elected officials would be more effective, even though a serious attempt at it would be pretty difficult to pull off, considering most of the people likely to support it are also least likely to be directly impacted.

    So long as welfare money is flowing from big .gov and charities to the people (unemployment, RERF,.) there is no real disenfranchised class, which is what you need for a change in government to occur. There’s still a huge amount of the 30+M Americans who became unemployed in the last ten weeks who think their job will be back by the end of the summer; realistically, probably 10M of those jobs vaporized...mostly sole props/small businesses and the restaurant/hospitality industry. Even if that weren’t the case, there won’t be much, if any, of a jobs recovery through Q3.

    I hope I’m wrong on that part, but with so much of the service sector dependent on business travel and summer events that’ve already been canceled, I just don’t see it happening. I know many of the large companies that fuel the business travel are pretty aligned that the next decision point will be mid-August so they can have workers in buildings for Q4, which is right in time for the next flu season. Most of the newly work at home class aren’t too thrilled about that and have already said they’d prefer to consider coming back next spring, at the earliest.

    I’m guessing it’s going to be next summer before much of anything substantial begins to happen for job growth. If the Ds win, then I’m not sure what it’s going to look like because they’ve planted their flag on whatever ‘safe enough’ means.

    The real political decision to be made is lockdown round 2. If there’s any sign of positive economic change before the November elections, it’ll be really hard for governments to make that choice, especially if it appears the contagion is under control....which it will be for most of the summer. Believe it or not, what happens with Burning Man and that fall out may be an indicator of the greater public opinion than anything else.
    You're thinking like a rational person.....mobs and assassins don't think like that. And, if the assassin lives long enough to tell his/her story, the next office holder will always have it in the back of their mind....

    Not condoning, but sadly expecting....

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    SQLGeek

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    You're thinking like a rational person.....mobs and assassins don't think like that. And, if the assassin lives long enough to tell his/her story, the next office holder will always have it in the back of their mind....

    Not condoning, but sadly expecting....

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    Assassinations make martyrs out of monsters. Look what it did for the legacy of Harvey Milk.
     

    benenglish

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    You do realize that she's a pole dancer (acrobat) and not a stripper. A former welding student of mine, very cute and very strong, would kick your butt if you called her a stripper.
    Yeah, but...

    There are organizations who try to combine the strength, complexity, and art of modern poling with a very strong stripper aesthetic. For example, winning performances under the auspices of the U.S. Pole Dancing Federation never failed to maintain a "I'll see you in the champagne room later" vibe. At least, that was the case not too many years ago.

    I think that organization is now defunct, having morphed into a "serious" poling organization. There are several competing sanctioning bodies and they all tend to look a little different. All of them are working towards becoming Olympic sports mostly under an umbrella organization called the International Pole Sports Federation. However, even though the IPSF has made some progress the goal of Olympic standing is far off. You can't have an Olympic sport without vigorous programs for youth and disabled competitors and none of that is firmly, widely in place yet.

    I have no problem telling the difference (and respecting the difference) between serious pole dancers and strippers. The crossover between the two groups, however, is a fact of life. I know more than one serious pole dancer who features in strip clubs because she grew too tall and too curvy to continue a serious ballet career. Sometimes the situation is pretty confused.

    There will come a time when normal people realize that serious pole dancers and strippers are completely different but I contend that the automatic association with strippers will take generations to fade from our collective consciousness.
     

    easy rider

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    This was my student:
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    benenglish

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    Well I definitely didn't expect to read a treastise on pole dancing in the Coronavirus thread but here we are.
    Thank you for that.

    I have completely failed to keep the promises I made in post #1 of this thread.

    I apologise to all of you.

    Now I need to figure out how to proceed. I'm going to sleep on it.
     

    SQLGeek

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    Thank you for that.

    I have completely failed to keep the promises I made in post #1 of this thread.

    I apologise to all of you.

    Now I need to figure out how to proceed. I'm going to sleep on it.

    I'm sorry, I wasn't intending that as a criticism. I've been posting on internet forums for....dear me, over 20 years. Threads drift. That's just how it goes.

    I'm more amazed at the depth and breadth of experience we have on this forum.
     
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