• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    16 days ago

    This must be old, we were almost at 1.6m deaths by the end of 2020. Over 5 million by the end of 2021. Thanks God.

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        15 days ago

        Well, by the end of 2021 there were a little under 800k deaths (edit: in the US), so the vast majority were not from the US, let alone Republican.

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          15 days ago

          1.6M by the end of 2020, but also 800k by the end of 2021.

          Maybe God did some work after all?

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            15 days ago

            2020 was still very much in the projection stage, the numbers got adjusted constantly until a good representation was agreed upon.

            For example, one of the first “Covid-deaths” in my area was an 87 year-old man on palliative care for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He died, they ran a post-mortem covid test on him, it came back positive. Later on, he got removed from covid death statistics as it was probably not covid that killed him.

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            15 days ago

            Sorry I didn’t make it clear. 800k is US only, other figures (including OP) are worldwide.

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        14 days ago

        most of them were Republicans.

        I wonder if that will make a noticeable impact on the 2024 election?

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    16 days ago

    Kind of an encapsulation of their modern mindset. “Thanks, big guy, for making others suffer instead of me.”

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    16 days ago

    Shouldn’t they be thanking god because they’re in heaven and we should be cursing him for not taking us?

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        15 days ago

        I don’t disagree. I wouldn’t want to spend eternity praising the Abrahamic god… but that’s what you’re supposed to want. So the dead people should be the grateful ones. And not just Jerry Garcia.

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          I mean, seriously. Think about the music they’ll have in heaven.

          It’s all going to be the same shit with the same 3 chords for eternity. It’d be like listening to the same 5 elevator songs for all of eternity.

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    16 days ago

    Ah, yes. Praise the patron god of sadism and injustice for working his vile deeds on others while the faithful escape a perceived just fate.

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    14 days ago

    Yes, how religious types completely overlook the contradiction is beyond me

    • If it’s good for me, God directly did it

    • If it’s bad, it’s my/our fault somehow