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Defenestration posted:loving politifact Yeah, the only way that article at all jives with the "mostly false" designation is if you insistently assume that "directly related to" actually means "is caused solely by" even though it's blindingly obvious that's not what was said.
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Defenestration posted:loving politifact "Directly related?" Did he present a full statistical analysis showing a linear regression model with r^2 greater than .95? No? drat lying commie. pathetic little tramp posted:A pretty awesome response to the "Homeless veterans need to come before refugees" crowd from a Christian: Yes, Slacktivist is the man.
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Jurgan posted:"Directly related?" Did he present a full statistical analysis showing a linear regression model with r^2 greater than .95? No? drat lying commie. I bet he actually got that slope from a TANGENT based off a DERIVATIVE, not good clean AMERICAN math! I can't remember if this was already posted, but one of the PhDs I used to work with put it on Facebook recently:  Nice guy aside from the politics, which were that of a patriotic Texan. He was usually funny and calm but every now and then he would bust into the lab and yell something like "GLOBAL WARMING IS THE BIGGEST HOAX EVER PULLED!" then immediately leave before any of us techs could even respond.
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Britain First shared a video of some Muslim getting beat up in prison for threatening his fellow inmates. Not posting the link because gently caress Britain First. Anyhow, one of my FB friends who's been on a roll recently shared it. Weird guy, he never talks or comments, just shares news. Then his friend joined the conversation   Uhm. so uh yeah I'm Indy Nile (oh come on Social Fixer, you too?  ) and he's Anna Mull.
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So wait, even the Wikipedia says that ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. What's it supposed to be?
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SSNeoman posted:Britain First shared a video of some Muslim getting beat up in prison for threatening his fellow inmates. Not posting the link because gently caress Britain First. Dude certainly sounds like a white supremacist if he can't figure out the difference between standing your ground and championing the cause of a fascist European group.
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Can't wait for President for Life Donald J. Trump to get all of his news from Breitbart, Twitchy, and Allenbwest.com like they were properly vetted articles. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/twitter-users-blast-donald-trumps-racist-inaccurate-black-on-black-crime-tweet/
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one last hurrah for this weekend of EPORW Through it all, above it all, the one thing that pisses EPROW off is  Obama, for something something treason France  Obama, something coal  Obama, for not dying in a war?  Obama who dared to visit Canada  Oprah. What's Oprah done lately?  Reminder: Obama's remarks were in response to a religious test for refugees  It's Obama! The guy you keep making macros about!   Seriously, Obama is a non-being of some kind  BIN. LADEN. DETERMINED. TO STRIKE. IN THE US. :nowwatchthisdrive:  Obama hates America.  Bush loved america  Reagan loved America so much he chowed down on American flags  hahahahah poopy  George Washing---wait, are we pro or anti- Washington here?  Philosophy 101   i'll tell you what's worse: our white balance  And our magenta channel  Not pissed off here  And now, here's my good friend John Kennedy to tell you why we need more guns  Voter fraud!  Journal of a Mad Man indeed  I'll call you uninformed too  Well someone's parents didn't teach them not to kill people in cold blood while they're handcuffed, or within two seconds of driving up to a park and seeing a child  All white classes of schoolkids wasting time reciting the pledge of allegiance? No thanks  As if capitalism isn't mandatory  So close  And yet so far  My gun is a puckle gun. Your argument is invalid.  If TJ had a son...it could likely have been with his fourteen year old slave, Sally Hemmings, whom he raped repeatedly.  Say it with me now gently caress YOU ISRAEL
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im envisioning...native americans armed with european weapons and immunities...
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As opposed to Donald Trump, who "feels like he was in the military" because he went to a military-themed prep school. And this I still don't understand. I taught in public schools for years, and they said the pledge every drat day.
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Defenestration posted:
...also, the Puckle Gun is essentially a giant loving musket with revolving chambers. In order to advance the chambers, though, the operator has to unscrew a mechanism, manually position the chamber flush with the barrel, then tighten it back down. In order to replace cylinders, they have to completely remove the locking lever. While this gave the weapon a pretty significant edge on a single infantryman in terms of average rate of fire, it was absofuckingloutly nothing like a trained shooter with a modern semi-automatic assault rifle. Or a lunatic magdumping into a crowd (though the Puckle Gun also had a 'shot' option which fired 19 goddamn musket balls, so it would be pretty effective in this scenario).In other news, I've been six-degrees-of-wikipedia-ing other early didn't-quite-catch-on repeating firearms for the better part of the last hour. Holy poo poo I want to make some of these! What ever happened to the days when a (  white) gentleman (and absolutely nobody else) with sufficient funding could just commission a foundry to make them a custom five-round revolving cannon OBAMA!!?!??!??! 
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How can this even exist in the information age? http://on-indian-and-conservative-wings.tumblr.com/faqquote:10. How can you be a minority female Republican? Republicans hate minorities, the poor, LGBT, etc. Yes, they do actually. Their collective voting record and treatment of people who aren't their backers has proven this fact numerous times. quote:-Gender/Transgenderism: There are only two genders: male and female. You’re born in the body you’re in, and no amount of gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies will totally make you the opposite gender or rewire your biology completely. I can understand the argument for a third gender if you were born with both sets of genitals, but that is extremely rare. Transgenderism (or gender dysphoria, whatever you call it) is definitely a medical condition, and according to some doctors, a mental illness. Like any medical condition or mental illness, I encourage people who have it to talk to a medical professional and not encourage or promote it. Correct me I'm wrong but aren't the only who make this claim complete quacks who've either lost their licenses or were never licensed to begin with? Cause I'm sure that this fact would be a massive strike against this idea. Chimera-gui fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Chimera-gui posted:Correct me I''m wrong but aren't the only who make this claim complete quacks who've either lost their licenses or were never licensed to begin with? Cause I'm sure that this fact would be a massive strike against this idea. strictly speaking, gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, and the medical treatment for it is counseling and transition. there is a push to declassify it from being less of a disorder and more of a condition, since it's not necessarily harmful, but rather just causes harmful effects in a gendered society boner confessor fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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LonsomeSon posted:...also, the Puckle Gun is essentially a giant loving musket with revolving chambers. In order to advance the chambers, though, the operator has to unscrew a mechanism, manually position the chamber flush with the barrel, then tighten it back down. In order to replace cylinders, they have to completely remove the locking lever. While this gave the weapon a pretty significant edge on a single infantryman in terms of average rate of fire, it was absofuckingloutly nothing like a trained shooter with a modern semi-automatic assault rifle. Or a lunatic magdumping into a crowd (though the Puckle Gun also had a 'shot' option which fired
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Chimera-gui posted:How can this even exist in the information age? http://on-indian-and-conservative-wings.tumblr.com/faq A Dumb rear end in a top hat posted:
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that politifact article is short circuiting my brain i hate them sooooo much quote:That’s not to say that climate change isn’t contributing to existing problems. Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley used more accurate language when he said, "One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis." We rated his comments Mostly True. my balls this is a direct factual statement how the gently caress can it be 'mostly true' are they quibbling with the use of 'mega'? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh 
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:that politifact article is short circuiting my brain If they were actually honest about this stuff then it'd look like they were just being massively partisan, and we can't have that now can we
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Wanamingo posted:If they were actually honest about this stuff then it'd look like they were just being massively partisan, and we can't have that now can we The Thick of It posted:Because of you, I had to come down on Steve Fleming completely unfairly, just to protect my unimpeachable reputation for fairness.
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LonsomeSon posted:...also, the Puckle Gun is essentially a giant loving musket with revolving chambers. In order to advance the chambers, though, the operator has to unscrew a mechanism, manually position the chamber flush with the barrel, then tighten it back down. In order to replace cylinders, they have to completely remove the locking lever. While this gave the weapon a pretty significant edge on a single infantryman in terms of average rate of fire, it was absofuckingloutly nothing like a trained shooter with a modern semi-automatic assault rifle. Or a lunatic magdumping into a crowd (though the Puckle Gun also had a 'shot' option which fired WASWAS at lunch yesterday and they were pretty nice guys?  Jurgan posted:
 
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I am not a book posted:So wait, even the Wikipedia says that ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. What's it supposed to be? Well, there's apparently a couple of different ways you can translate al-Sham, which is the "S" in ISIS. There isn't a right way, but I fell into the camp that says al-Sham best translates as Levant region and I've no particular reason to change it.
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But he had a (well, 1 legitimate) son! He died at a few weeks old. Is a person not a person at conception? How dare they not recognize poor SIDS Jefferson.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:that politifact article is short circuiting my brain They do some really stupid "well, technically they said this" equivocating. Like in 2012 someone said that Paul Ryan's plan would "destroy Medicare" and they said it wasn't true because while he would completely change how Medicare works currently so nobody would actually get any insurance it would still be called "Medicare."
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Friend's wife on FB: quote:Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is a substance abuser, an adulterer, sexually promiscuous and obnoxious. Just  I gotta put this down to them being former military because they're both kinda hippies and into Bernie nowadays, just clinging on to some lovely right wing thoughtcrime. The original version of this omitted the part about Michael Brown, but someone added that in to make it extra racist as well as lovely.
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LonsomeSon posted:...also, the Puckle Gun is essentially a giant loving musket with revolving chambers. In order to advance the chambers, though, the operator has to unscrew a mechanism, manually position the chamber flush with the barrel, then tighten it back down. In order to replace cylinders, they have to completely remove the locking lever. While this gave the weapon a pretty significant edge on a single infantryman in terms of average rate of fire, it was absofuckingloutly nothing like a trained shooter with a modern semi-automatic assault rifle. Or a lunatic magdumping into a crowd (though the Puckle Gun also had a 'shot' option which fired There were some interesting designs and innovations regarding firearms back then - have you seen the Lorenzoni? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_hnC6x036Q quote:Today we have one of the oldest guns we've looked at, a Lorenzoni repeating flintlock pistol. The system was designed by an Italian gunmaker in Florence name Michele Lorenzoni. They were made in very small numbers, and the workmanship is stunning, especially considering that they were first manufactured in the 1680s. Few things then are like things now - technological innovations have advanced and expanded the scope of many rights, but if the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to advances in arms, then the 1st wouldn't hold for advances in communication like the internet, radio, etc. The entire 'The Founders never considered AR15s therefore...' argument is bunk.
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'last month' appears to actually refer to July 2010 and 'not reported' appears to mean 'only reported in the area where they lived, much like 99.9999% of deaths.' my favorite part has to be 'who likely came from rural america', since it completely gives away the game that the chain originator didn't know jack poo poo about any of these soldiers and is only interested in the political hay they can make.
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LeJackal posted:There were some interesting designs and innovations regarding firearms back then - have you seen the Lorenzoni? The intent of the founders doesn't matter in any regard. They were not infallible übermensch and their standards and morality is no longer useful or applicable to our society today.
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Somewhere Justice Scalia just got really mad and he doesn't know why.
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robotsinmyhead posted:Just  LeJackal posted:Few things then are like things now - technological innovations have advanced and expanded the scope of many rights, but if the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to advances in arms, then the 1st wouldn't hold for advances in communication like the internet, radio, etc.
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Go gently caress yourself, LeJackal.
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Guavanaut posted:When the media does report on every single dead or injured service personnel then hawks complain that they're making the war look bad. You don't need a license, registration, or test requirements to operate on quite a few frequency bands. In addition, your right to broadcast is using a medium which is owned by the public and as such requires special consideration to make sure in theory that everyone gets use out of it.
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Maybe we should have one big turret-mounted gun in the middle of town, and anyone who feels like they want to exercise their right to bear arms without owning a gun themselves can pay money and have a short panel of tests. Now they are licensed to fire the central gun!
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Ahahaha this is the greatest reaching self-contradictory excuse I've heard for not accepting refugees. http://www.caintv.com/what-does-the-bible-really-say So the Samaritan isn't risking himself... but if he actually feared for his life he's risking another stranger's life, and that's ok? Not the more reasonable assumption that, "hey, this dude's in pretty bad shape and he needs rest, I'll pay his bill while he recuperates." How do you miss the parable's message that "your actions are what make you a good person; even this hated subgroup can be a better Jew [Christian] than assholes more concerned with their own piety and not touching a bloody body on the Sabbath." ?!? To say nothing of the more common idiocy about how we're letting I'm posting it here because I can't respond to the idiot that liked it, though I did unfriend her, something I never got around to after she treated my sister like crap.
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Who What Now posted:The intent of the founders doesn't matter in any regard. They were not infallible übermensch and their standards and morality is no longer useful or applicable to our society today. The founders were cool with state and local governments banning black people from bearing arms, so turns out you can actually fit quite a bit of regulation into "well-regulated" if you wanna
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VitalSigns posted:The founders were cool with state and local governments banning black people from bearing arms, so turns out you can actually fit quite a bit of regulation into "well-regulated" if you wanna Guns owners, just as racist during the nation's founding as they are today.
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VitalSigns posted:The founders were cool with state and local governments banning black people from bearing arms, so turns out you can actually fit quite a bit of regulation into "well-regulated" if you wanna I don't think that really carries over because the founders didn't consider blacks to be people. You don't hear the NRA complaining that chimpanzees can't buy guns yet,
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VitalSigns posted:The founders were cool with state and local governments banning black people from bearing arms, so turns out you can actually fit quite a bit of regulation into "well-regulated" if you wanna Should have let them have 3/5 of a gun each.
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DarkHorse posted:Ahahaha this is the greatest reaching self-contradictory excuse I've heard for not accepting refugees. I don't get why these types even bother with the Bible. If you are just going to absolutely mangle a passage to mean what you already believe (Matthew 19 is a common victim here as well) just scrap it entirely and don't give a poo poo what some sheep herders from 2000 years ago thought. I guess some people need reaffirmation for stuff they already think but these are always so incredibly stretched and the reality is so clear I can't imagine even they themselves are fooled. I remember a macro where Matthew 19 was very carefully rearranged and configured with specific omissions to be pro-wealth and there is absolutely no way to do that without perfectly understanding the real message. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Radish posted:I don't get why these types even bother with the Bible. Branding.
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Lemma posted:Branding.
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