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CommieGIR posted:Uhhhh, what? Also Dungeons and Dragons will make your children satanists.
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boom boom boom posted:I'm not sure why gun control advocates try to skirt around the real issue with stuff like waiting periods and banning specific gun types and all that nickel and dime nonsense that could just get slapped down by a conservative court anyway. The real issue is the Second Amendment. If you want actual, substantive gun control, the second amendment needs to go. No it doesn't. It wasn't so long ago that the prevailing legal view was that the second amendment wasn't a guarantee of an individual right to gun ownership. DC v Heller probably isn't long for this world without Scalia, IMO.
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boom boom boom posted:I'm not sure why gun control advocates try to skirt around the real issue with stuff like waiting periods and banning specific gun types and all that nickel and dime nonsense that could just get slapped down by a conservative court anyway. The real issue is the Second Amendment. If you want actual, substantive gun control, the second amendment needs to go. I agree completely. Whatever reasons existed for including the 2nd amendment originally have long since evaporated and it is causing far more problems than it solves. I am firmly in favor of its repeal. I also don't expect to see it happen before I die.
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Rygar201 posted:DC v Heller probably isn't long for this world without Scalia, IMO. Once that's gone cities are going to start banning handguns left and right.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/SenateDems/status/743103894310518784 ... Is there anything the Senate's doing that would even get held up by a filibuster?
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Teddybear posted:... Is there anything the Senate's doing that would even get held up by a filibuster? Nah but ever since Rand Paul did that drone one, they've seen it gets media coverage.
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There's been a sea change in US politics, and it really began when the confederate flag came down
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According to a new CBS poll people have a +2 net approval for Hillary's response to the Orlando attacks. They had a -26 for Trump's. According to a new ABC poll Trump's net favorability went from -23 to -41 since he became the presumptive nominee. The Republicans simple can't let this guy be their nominee.
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This is why it's so important to end the conservative domination of the SCOTUS: https://twitter.com/alexazura/status/743106266587791360
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What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership. quote:I feel like after every shooting we have a little cycle where people say, “How can this be happening, we need to figure out a way to stop it,” and then it kind of goes away. I don’t want to say that there is apathy, but I feel like there is a sense of resignation, even among people who believe that something should be done. I feel like there is a certain parallel with people in the 19th century who were living in the North and had a certain distaste for slavery but would kind of shake their heads and say, “It’s just too big.”
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Teddybear posted:... Is there anything the Senate's doing that would even get held up by a filibuster? They just passed the motion to proceed on the Commerce, Justice, & Science Appropriations Act by a voice vote at 10:30, so the Senate is in a 30 hour period of considering the bill before the next vote.
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Deteriorata posted:I agree completely. Whatever reasons existed for including the 2nd amendment originally have long since evaporated and it is causing far more problems than it solves. I am firmly in favor of its repeal. Gun control advocates need to talk about it. Actual change is hard, and takes years or decades, but it's never gonna happen unless the idea of repealing the second amendment is openly discussed
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Amergin posted:The Fifth Column podcast had a good episode for this week, if you want to listen to some meta discussion on the Orlando discussion and reactions from Trump and  Pass.
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MariusLecter posted:What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists The author does realize that we still had to fight a civil war to finish the job, right?
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The author does realize that we still had to fight a civil war to finish the job, right? Most likely, yeah.
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Solvency posted:I will vote Hillary in the General, but I at least have a policy reason for disliking her. It wasn't long ago that she tried to ban violent video games. The best games in the world right now aren't violent, so I don't think this would be a big deal even if it happened.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The author does realize that we still had to fight a civil war to finish the job, right? We're going to find out if the 2nd amendment actually fulfills its purpose. I'm betting no.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The author does realize that we still had to fight a civil war to finish the job, right? I'm all in for burning Atlanta again.
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Deteriorata posted:I'm all in for burning Atlanta again. https://twitter.com/ralphreed/status/743105563702108162
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https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/743109707263533057 real? fake? how can you know? that's the best part of herman cain
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Deteriorata posted:I'm all in for burning Atlanta again. We should just do that anyway. Make it a sorta Burning man thing every year.
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Deteriorata posted:I'm all in for burning Atlanta again. Hell yeah burn the 4th largest majority black city in the country gently caress the south
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But Adult Swim is made in Atlanta 
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Luigi Thirty posted:Hell yeah burn the 4th largest majority black city in the country gently caress the south I think when people say Atlanta they mean Buckhead and Cobb County, which honestly I can't disagree with.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Hell yeah burn the 4th largest majority black city in the country gently caress the south Hey if a few black communities need to be destroyed for progress, that's always worked out before!
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DemeaninDemon posted:I'm excited for Hillary. Four more years of basically Obama policy, a generation of scotus not sucking, and following up the first black president with the first woman. I'm also legit excited for Hillary, although I was more excited for Bernie in the beginning. The more I learn about her, the more clear it becomes that the rhetoric against her is at least 80% total nonsense. (However, I've been holding off on majorly celebrating until after the convention because frankly I don't need a bunch of the hardcore Bernie people I'm friends with to drag me into pointless arguments about how Bernie can still totally win this thing. I'm tired of having that dumb conversation.) For me personally, and I suspect for many other women, the fact that she's a woman is exciting NOT because it checks off a box or because of 'identity politics' or whatever - it's because she has a very solid record of advocating for women's and children's needs, and understands them in a way that even the most sympathetic man really just can't. When I read the transcript of her speech to Planned Parenthood it was honestly kind of stunning to see a presidential candidate use the words "we" and "us" and "our history" while talking about abortion and contraception. showbiz_liz fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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haveblue posted:Didn't the Supreme Court put a pretty solid smackdown on that movement? It's not going to rise again. Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Ass%27n
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Shillary posted:I think when people say Atlanta they mean Buckhead and Cobb County, which honestly I can't disagree with. It's got nothing to do with the residents per se. It's the very definition of uncontrolled urban sprawl without any design or planning. I spent two hours on 285 yesterday stuck in traffic in the middle of the afternoon. There is no rush hour - it's gridlock 24/7 on all roads. Evacuate the people, burn it all down, and start over again.
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It was a few pages ago that we dismissed the possibility of a Libertarian as an alternative, but in Arizona, it's not so crazy. I don't know if there are any videos of the 2010 gubernatorial debate, but the Republican incumbent Jan Brewer was a complete mess. The Democratic candidate Terry Goddard was taking the debate seriously. Barry Hess, the Libertarian, was there to debate seriously. The Green Party guy just seemed happy to be invited. Jan Brewer... She was an absolute wreck. Edit: C-SPAN saved it: http://www.c-span.org/video/?295287-1/arizona-governor-debate Just watch the opening statements. Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/NRA/status/743110378272350208 Anyone wanna take a shot at interpreting this augury
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Also the violent video games thing wasn't really talked about after Sandy Hook, and that dude was a literal video-games-all-day playing shut-in. If it were 2002 that would have been all we would have heard about.
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Considering how little Welch talks in that episode and how much they poo poo on conservatives you might want to give it a listen. But by all means stick to your echo chambers.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NRA/status/743110378272350208 what the gently caress just happened
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zoux posted:Anyone wanna take a shot at interpreting this augury The Republican position on the no-fly-list-gun-ban has been to require the FBI/ATF to file a case to block someone from buying the weapon each time they're alerted of the sale. If the case takes longer to be heard by a judge than the waiting period for the sale, welp, that guy just got a gun!
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/NRA/status/743110378272350208 Interpreting it as the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to non-citizens of the US? Which didn't really help in this case since the dude was born in the US but hey.
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Blue's News is the white CNN! The 90s are back baby!
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:It was a few pages ago that we dismissed the possibility of a Libertarian as an alternative, but in Arizona, it's not so crazy. And then she won anyway, right?
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Luigi Thirty posted:Hell yeah burn the 4th largest majority black city in the country gently caress the south How about CNN HQ at least?
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