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VikingofRock posted:Remind me why everyday people need guns again? Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:Reagan also nominated Robert Bork to SCOTUS, and Bork was a frothing religious lunatic. I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. quote:Compassion, if nothing else, should urge us to avoid the consequences of making homosexuality seem a normal and acceptable choice for the young. Jesus, how can a person think like that?!
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:10 |
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VikingofRock posted:Remind me why everyday people need guns again? Why did you feel the need to use the word "everyday" in that question?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:11 |
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This got picked up by a bunch of other news sources today, so I'm bumping it again because, well, it's worth it.Joementum posted:Gohmert of the day, "I've had people say, 'Hey, you know, there's nothing wrong with gays in the military. Look at the Greeks,' Well, you know, they did have people come along who they loved that was the same sex and would give them massages before they went into battle. But you know what, it's a different kind of fighting, it's a different kind of war and if you're sitting around getting massages all day ready to go into a big, planned battle, then you're not going to last very long. It's guerrilla fighting. You are going to be ultimately vulnerable to terrorism and if that's what you start doing in the military like the Greeks did ... as people have said, 'Louie, you have got to understand, you don't even know your history.' Oh yes I do. I know exactly. It's not a good idea."
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Shageletic posted:I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. Tens of millions of Americans literally believe that.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:23 |
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DeusExMachinima posted:IIRC 4 people have to die (not counting the shooter) for it to qualify as mass murder, according to the FBI. You're all desperately grasping at straws while gun laws are looser than ever and murders are half of what they were 20 years ago. Too bad we don't count murder via corporations, I wonder if they're decreasing too. (Mcdonalds, walmart, etc)
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:29 |
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Shageletic posted:I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. Well, rightwingers make life so hard for gays I would hope a child isn't gay, but once they're born it's already decided.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:32 |
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Shageletic posted:I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. Keeping someone out of the fire and brimstone of Christian hell is the most compassion act a person can do.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:32 |
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Joementum posted:Why did you feel the need to use the word "everyday" in that question? Sometimes I want to put holes in something that's over there?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:43 |
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A Winner is Jew posted:That's only possible if she's shot by a white male. Anyone else and they're getting life. *throws rock at gamergate* I know. Really though she'll just land a ghost-write book deal and be Jill the Gunnie rather than Joe the Plumber.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 01:43 |
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Ron Jeremy posted:Keeping someone out of the fire and brimstone of Christian hell is the most compassion act a person can do. Sometimes I wonder if there's actually a hell. And then I get scared of dying and await the coming of age-stunting technologies so I could live a thousand years. Anyways the spirit of Reagan must be crushed.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 03:27 |
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I don't know if this thread has been following the stupid poo poo Don Young said about suicide in the last few days, but someone made this and I love it. Don Young with Mike Tyson comments: http://imgur.com/a/994Ka
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 04:23 |
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Pohl posted:It was a valid and non crazy response. You are just being weird by picking on him/her. How is immediately jumping into the conversation to tacitly imply that guns are not the problem after a school shooting in any way a valid or not crazy response? Or trying to minimize a bad thing because apparently being upset about school shootings means you don't care about black kids being killed in the ghetto?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 04:26 |
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420DD Butts posted:How is immediately jumping into the conversation to tacitly imply that guns are not the problem after a school shooting in any way a valid or not crazy response? Or trying to minimize a bad thing because apparently being upset about school shootings means you don't care about black kids being killed in the ghetto? Nobody does care though?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 04:32 |
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SedanChair posted:Nobody does care though? I think after the rash of mass shootings earlier in the year, we've just sort of accepted it. Maybe some day I get randomly killed by a crazy dude, whatever, freedom isn't free bro.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 04:53 |
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edit: actually nevermind carry on with stupid gun chat
Homura and Sickle fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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The funny thing was, I dismissed the whole Sandy Hook thing as another Columbine (well, it happened again, and that's it). Given that I had just walked out of the theater with a friend when I first heard of it, and was far more worried at the time of the Mayan End times (that simply could not go away BECAUSE it was so implausible). I still wonder why Obama sent out an executive order demanding the NRA stop it's bullshit and fold to new regulations. He can do that, right?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 05:16 |
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Joementum posted:Why did you feel the need to use the word "everyday" in that question? Because that's pretty much the primary debate. The right and the left broadly agree that rich dudes having expensive sporting shotguns at the club is okay, and that they should be able to hire armed guards. They also broadly agree that the urban poor should be disarmed for everyone's good. What's left is whether you feel curiosity or fear when a coworker talks about going to the range, or your neighbor pulls a rifle case out of the trunk of the car, or when you see someone on the street with a holstered handgun peeking out from under his jacket when he moves just so. Secondarily, it's whether you relax a bit when you find out the weapon in question has a woodgrain finish. For the most part, debate and especially policy proposals about guns in the US are about those questions.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 05:30 |
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Grouchio posted:Sometimes I wonder if there's actually a hell. And then I get scared of dying and await the coming of age-stunting technologies so I could live a thousand years. You don't need a hell for that, silly. (Matjek Chen Was Right)
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 05:33 |
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SedanChair posted:Nobody does care though? Cool, good, thanks for the heads up.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 05:51 |
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The right and left wings in America disagree fiercely over whether the proletariat should be armed, basically.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 06:15 |
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Chantilly Say posted:The right and left wings in America disagree fiercely over whether the proletariat should be armed, basically. It would be more accurate to say that they disagree fiercely over which members of the proletariat should be armed.
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Joementum posted:Why did you feel the need to use the word "everyday" in that question? I wanted to leave the military and police officers out of the question. It's hard to imagine having an effective military without guns, and I wasn't really interested in getting into the "should cops have guns" debate. But judging by this Killer robot posted:Because that's pretty much the primary debate. The right and the left broadly agree that rich dudes having expensive sporting shotguns at the club is okay, and that they should be able to hire armed guards. They also broadly agree that the urban poor should be disarmed for everyone's good. What's left is whether you feel curiosity or fear when a coworker talks about going to the range, or your neighbor pulls a rifle case out of the trunk of the car, or when you see someone on the street with a holstered handgun peeking out from under his jacket when he moves just so. Secondarily, it's whether you relax a bit when you find out the weapon in question has a woodgrain finish. For the most part, debate and especially policy proposals about guns in the US are about those questions. "everyday" was probably not the right word to use. There was no classism intended here.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 12:09 |
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So how's Season 2 of Alpha House? (TV IV doesn't have a thread, so I assume this is the closest currently)
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 12:43 |
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Here's a two-fer to start your Saturday the right way. How secret money buys Wisconsin's laws. quote:When billionaire Chris Cline’s company bought an option to mine a swath of northern Wisconsin in 2010, the company touted the project’s potential to bring as many as 700 well-paid jobs to a hard-pressed part of the state. quote:Still, documents and interviews show that Gogebic’s money secretly made its way into the political battle over the mining law—and that the efforts of the WMC and the Wisconsin Club for Growth significantly swayed the results. quote:The battle over the mining bill began in 2011, months after the Cline Group announced plans to apply for a permit to build an iron mine in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin, not far from the Lake Superior shoreline. Gogebic began working with two Republican state legislators on a bill to speed up the process of securing a permit, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Without the legislation, a Gogebic official told the paper, the company “would have to re-evaluate” whether it wanted to build the mine. Go here to read if WMC wins (hint: this is America): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/14/the-secret-money-buying-wisconsin-s-laws.html And here's another signpost to the triumph of Republicans this fall. The dropping trust by Americans for political institutions: quote:In taking office during two overseas wars and the Great Recession, President Obama set out to restore society’s frayed faith in its public institutions, saying that the question was not whether government was too big or small, “but whether it works.” Six years later, Americans seem more dubious than ever that it really does. quote:“As Bill Clinton used to say, most Americans start out thinking the federal government couldn’t run a two-car funeral,” said Bruce Reed, who was a top White House official under Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama. “Now they worry that one of the two cars should have been recalled and the other can’t go anywhere because Congress is still fighting over whether to fix the road.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/u...nav=top-news&hp
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 12:52 |
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Given that last year was the year that half of the government literally refused to do anything in protest, I'm going to guess that poll is flawed in some way.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 12:56 |
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You know looking at the voter turnout in midterm elections, Americans can kinda blame themselves on having a lovely government
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 13:13 |
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DarkCrawler posted:You know looking at the voter turnout in midterm elections, Americans can kinda blame themselves on having a lovely government Most political spending comes down to propaganda, too. Imagine what would happen if the propaganda stopped working? Or at least the cheap easy stuff?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 13:18 |
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I think ultimately the problem is that the GOP's goal of voter disillusionment is very easy to obtain via obstructionism. The public doesn't follow politics closely, so things like the Shutdown a year ago have already been forgotten in favor of ISIS or Ebola hysteria. Then the conservative news media hammers into missteps by the government to make them appear catastrophic, and they magnify every single one to that degree. Meanwhile the Dems are at a disadvantage when it comes to reversing the public's view that the 'government is evil' or whatever.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 14:55 |
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Is this Stormfront's worst nightmare or what? "An anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white, self-radicalized convert to Islam" attacking NYPD cops with an axe?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 14:59 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:I thought Zeitgeist was the zeitgeist of the thread Nah, Zeitgeist is the zeitgeist of the Michael Brown thread
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Is this Stormfront's worst nightmare or what? "An anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white, self-radicalized convert to Islam" attacking NYPD cops with an axe? Work in him being an Israeli expat or something similar and you'd have run the board.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 17:07 |
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Quote of the day, "That's not really her name. She's using that name to ride her daddy's coattails." ~ Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens on Michelle Nunn.
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Shageletic posted:I'm at least six pages behind, but this sentence is breath-taking. Honestly, in the '80s it was pretty standard. The idea that gays were actually generally decent people regardless of what they did in their bedrooms is a fairly modern one. Seriously, even in 2004, the idea that a Presidential candidate could be pro-marriage was ludicrous, and the issue of the gays was used as a wedge against Democrats. Most of the momentum of the gay rights movement has come in the last decade or so - any public statements in the '90s or much of the 00's seems almost regressive by today's standards. A Bag of Milk posted:Tens of millions of Americans literally believe that. Right - the guys who are anti-gay-marriage at this point are generally not just kinda uncomfortable with it, they literally think gays are bad people or out to destroy their way of life or whatever.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 18:36 |
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Bonus quote of the day, "If you don't know what that is, it's Obamacare for banks." ~ Paul Ryan on Dodd-Frank.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 20:38 |
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Joementum posted:Bonus quote of the day, "If you don't know what that is, it's Obamacare for banks." ~ Paul Ryan on Dodd-Frank. So something that started as meaningful reformed but was changed so much along the way it now resembles only a half step in the right direction? I don't believe that's totally accurate.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 21:04 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Is this Stormfront's worst nightmare or what? "An anti-government, anti-Western, anti-white, self-radicalized convert to Islam" attacking NYPD cops with an axe? More like their wet dream, due to him not using a gun yet using something that justifies him being gunned down. Now if that was the love child of Mjolnir and Captain America's shield...
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 21:32 |
http://whnt.com/2014/10/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-getting-alabamas-new-star-i-d/ More things to gently caress over poor people in Alabama, I love my state. I'm mostly thinking that a poorer person couldn't afford to go get extra copies of SS card or birth certificate if lost. Also, I think current drivers license are cheaper than the amount for this STAR Id.
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GreyPowerVan posted:http://whnt.com/2014/10/23/what-you-need-to-know-about-getting-alabamas-new-star-i-d/
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UrbanLabyrinth posted:So how's Season 2 of Alpha House? (TV IV doesn't have a thread, so I assume this is the closest currently) Just finished the first episode (whole seasons up), so far it's great. The show really feels like it hit its stride.
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