Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting children in lifeboats is destructive to their psyche

[bigtree]

A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting the children in lifeboats is the most destructive thing imaginable to their psyche. It's time for us to stop all this evacuation talk and just complete the voyage.

A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Yes, the first 7 watertight compartments are now flooded with frigid North Sea water, but it's time for us to stop being ruled by our fears and get back to our normally scheduled travel. We MUST open the shuffleboard courts on the lido deck.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Look at children's faces when they're in lifeboats. They're frightened. They're confused. They don't want to be there. Their parents don't want them there. We need to put them back on the boat, whose deck is now pitched at 90 degrees.

It's time to declare this sinking OVER.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Look, I too want to survive this sinking, but I look at how people insist on wearing constrictive life-vests and taking to life boats and I sympathize with those who wants to spend their time drilling holes in the hull. Better to show this ocean we don't fear it than to cower.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Do you know what a full evacuation of this sinking ship will DO to our scheduled arrival time?

The cure can't be worse than the *glub glub glub*


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Wow, there is a lot of drowning on both sides of this evacuation issue.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
I don’t think people shoving their children into lifeboats understand how cruel they’re being.

Lifeboats are terrifying. They indicate a ship about to sink. What a terrible message to send impressionable children.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
We need to trust parents as the true experts. Parents understand exactly how much sea water their child can swallow, and what their child’s core body temperature should be. It isn’t our place to shove our opinions on drowning down their throats.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
What you alarmists in your lifeboat bubbles don’t realize is ordinary people don’t care about life jackets or buoyancy or physics, and when you talk about those things you sound out-of-touch.

Lifeboat isn’t real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed; whatever’s down there.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
If lifeboats work, then why are so many people in lifeboats still getting cold and wet. Answer me that.


A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
The pro-evac crowd needs to improve its messaging.

Don’t call me anti-evac, that is a slur as bad as any that has been used in history.

A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat Jan 6
Soon we will be forced to wear armbands to identify ourselves, like this one that I am wearing right now, which I made and put on myself, while I harass the crew, for trying to help.



thread:

Link to tweet

[TheRealNorth]

1. They forgot to deny the existence of the iceberg first.

The iceberg was fake news.

[Doodley]

9. You are right. The iceberg is a Democratic hoax. Then its just going to go away like

a miracle. Then it's not as bad as they say. It has been 600 times worse than Titanic.

[Chicago1980]

18. Because when they point to it and it's already melted they'll say....

You see, it didn't exist.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Well, just having lifeboats in the first place

is cowardly, an admission that the boat might sink. Which is totally a hoax. Just don't believe those liars!

[bigtree]

7. the water looks mild

...shouldn't cause more than a sniffle if you fall in.

Anyhow, your body will get used to it.

[sarchasm]

3. You know what would help the children?

Have the band play some soothing music to keep their minds off why the stern is 150 feet in the air.

[bigtree]

13. children are the least likely to drown

...a baby will instinctively start paddling when you drop them into water.

Children stay afloat better than heavier adults.

[Hortensis]

22. What would help the children is for their wellbeing to be

more important TO EVERYONE than political partisanship.

Outrageous and incredibly contemptible that it could ever be otherwise. Children's lives are not balls to try to hit into the outfield.

[Wednesdays]

24. On the actual Titanic, they did just that

The little band played upbeat music most of the night, in an attempt to keep the crowd from panicking.

[soldierant]

33. Including, famously, "Nearer, my God, to thee."

[Midnight Writer]

4. Telling people they need to get into the lifeboats just makes them resist more.

We need to get off their backs, stop scolding them, and stop stigmatizing them.

[bigtree]

20. graph

...

[Iggo]

30. Awesome.

I salute you!

[stage left]

5. K&R

Perfect!

[bpj62]

6. Fake

Did you see the Iceberg because I didn't so this must be a fake story. I am going back to bed. I will see you at breakfast.

[bigtree]

25. breakfast may be delayed

...entire kitchen staff is a bit under the water.


...yes, I'll log off right now.

[RainCaster]

8. I did my own research and...

... icebergs are very rare compared to lifeboats. They are the Real harm.

[calimary]

21. That's the part that slays me. "I did my own research".

“Research”? What kind of “research”? Where’d you study? Some Mickey Mouse museum? The Institute of Ren & Stimpy?

[RainCaster]

23. I got my degree in icebergology from Trump U

Yeah... About that.

[calimary]

34. Or - out of the bottom of an old stale box of Cheerios maybe.

[RainCaster]

35. Wheaties

[calimary]

44. For trumpers that's "The Breakfast of Chumpions"!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

42. Institute of ren and stimpy

That was funny.

[CaptainTruth]

10. The iceberg is no worse than ice cubes.

It's just a bunch of ice cubes put together. How many people have been killed by ice cubes? None!!!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

40. Well, there was this guy in a bar. Scotch on the rocks, I believe.

Everyone in the place was too drunk to do a Heimlich maneuver.....

The coroner seemed to think he actually may have been killed by the drunks trying to do the Heimlich....


KY......

[Taraman]

11. Excellent comparison

Watching "Reliable Sources" this morning and I didn't hear anything about the "common good" or "public health emergency" or 1 million dead and 1 million new infections per day.

I only heard, it's difficult for the individual and his personal freedom. Yes, it is.

There it is, in a nutshell. The case before SCOTUS. The case before the American public. Do you care about anyone else?

[Moostache]

12. Humorous and apt...but missing a small detail...

These fools are not only against prevention, they would want to sink the lifeboats as an example to others not to stand in their way...

[Bayard]

14. I hear ivermectin melts ice

[keithhs28]

16. How about...

...bleach?

[orleans]

15. perhaps the best twitter thread i've seen

and the tweet replies are great too.

and there's more from the orig tweet that beings on jan. 7

thank you so much for posting this!

[tblue37]

17. K&R for visibility. nt

[Hekate]

19. KnR for truth. Don't look up -- the iceberg is all in your heads.

[crickets]

26. Great thread!

Link to tweet

[CatWoman]

29. LOL!!!!

i was just about to post this video

[yardwork]

27. Being forced to evacuate is worse than genocide.

[Mad_Machine76]

28. This is a brilliant Tweet Thread

Saw it the other day. Then struck up a conversation who said that schools are the safest place for children to be right now and keeping them at home is an inconvenience for their parents.

[betsuni]

31. K&R

[canetoad]

32. Brilliant!

K&R

[Celerity]

36. "The President couldn't be clearer--schools in this country should remain open."

Link to tweet

Education Secretary Cardona says schools should stay open

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says “students suffered enough” and schools should stay open, after some districts opted for remote learning due to rising COVID cases and safety concerns.

“I know we have the tools to get our school safely open,” Cardona said on NewsNation’s Rush Hour. “And we have to do everything in our power to give our students the best opportunity for success. And that means giving them an in-person learning opportunity.”

[twodogsbarking]

37. Honey I sunk the kids.

[Pinback]

38. Do you know how many people drown in SWIMMING POOLS every year?

Also, the iceberg came from a Chinese lab, funded by our leading oceanographer.

Great thread.

[Scarlet Begalas]

39. Banning Things

This reminds me. I recently had an online discussion with a wingnut about gun control, and he tried to bring up this argument, which i'm sure you've heard before. Cars can kill people, too, so maybe we should ban them. To which I replied, "electricity can kill you too, so I guess we should ban that. And while we're at it, get rid of knives, because they can kill people too." Etc, etc.

[calimary]

45. Yes! Whap it right back in their faces!

Just about ANYTHING can kill if used stupidly.

[CatWoman]

41. K; R

[burrowowl]

43. Great post!

[DeeDeeNY]

46. Those lifeboats were built too quickly

I don’t see how they can be safe just because all the experts say they are. Better to stay in the boat and drown.

[alphafemale]

47. Even with a life vest you don't live in 28 degree water very long

[sindri]

48. I. Love. This.

[twodogsbarking]

49. True words are often spoken in a joking manner.