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There Bias Two posted:You do realize that there is a huge difference in the number of deaths from guns versus jello, right? insert hot take about dihydrogen monoxide here
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Zuck ran Facebook like a lovely frat for the first couple years, including making the guys dress like Zuck and the girls wear fawning pro Zuck poo poo on his birthdays. He's actually worse than Trump, but maybe his wife controls him now, she's pretty loving cool in inverse proportion to how much of a tool he is.
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There Bias Two posted:You do realize that there is a huge difference in the number of deaths from guns versus jello, right? So how many number of deaths is appropriate?
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: We've been this way for a long time. It's just that the facade of normalcy is finally flaking off.
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FizFashizzle posted:I think palin is going to be a historical afterthought tbqh. She had no lasting legacy to speak of and the reaction to obama was going to happen regardless. There was no VP pick that was going to stop them from losing. Like, you can blame McCain for Palin and that opening the door for Trump... but there were so many moments and chances for the Republican Party to turn back. There were so many points during 2015 and 2016 that they could have stopped this. There were so many points of Romney doing a photo op with Trump and Trump being a regular at CPAC or years of Birtherism that they could have stopped this. There's so many historical steps from Goldwater to the Southern Strategy to Reagan in Mississippi to the Tea Party. Palin and McCain are just a brick in the wall. McCain's legacy will be that he pissed everything away in his final years and lost all credibility to stay in power and stay good with a Republican Party and a President that stood against the things he believed and insulted him personally. But he didn't create this Trump problem any more than every other Republican for the last 50 years did. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 30, 2017 |
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Burning_Monk posted:People die from eating jello. They are incapable of handling that awesome loving responsibility! I guess you could technically eat a gun, but this is a pretty cool bit of stupidity my dude
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Honestly if I'm Nancy Pelosi I'm orchestrating fake memos "leaked" from the Trump white house that they're considering gun registration to keep guns out of the hands of the non-college educated or something. Then come out condemning the federal government for overreacting on gun control. At this point why not
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It's so loving obvious Trump personally colluded with Russia, that most of his team knew about it and some of them helped, and that his party were well aware and probably complicit. It's been obvious since last year just from things that were public knowledge. Every week more damning stuff comes out, real things not the Mensch conspiracy theories. It's going to take something like the piss tape for it to matter and probably not even then, where the conversation will change to "why is being friendlier with Russia a bad thing?" I feel crazy, which is probably the point.
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STAC Goat posted:Like, you can blame McCain for Palin and that opening the door for Trump... but there were so many moments and chances for the Republican Party to turn back. There were so many points during 2015 and 2016 that they could have stopped this. There were so many points of Romney doing a photo op with Trump and Trump being a regular at CPAC or years of Birtherism that they could have stopped this. There's so many historical steps from Goldwater to the Southern Strategy to Reagan in Mississippi to the Tea Party. Palin and McCain are just a brick in the wall. Trump is just a symptom of a preexisting condition.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:What will the NRA do once 3D printed weapons begin to approach the quality and reliability of gun manufacturers? You can anyway print a gun, it sucks, but give it 5-10 years. They will unquestionably side with manufacturers. They will not be required to remain silent on these laws for long however. "Keeping guns in the hands of
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Ague Proof posted:It's so loving obvious Trump personally colluded with Russia, that most of his team knew about it and some of them helped, and that his party were well aware and probably complicit. It's been obvious since last year just from things that were public knowledge. Every week more damning stuff comes out, real things not the Mensch conspiracy theories. It's going to take something like the piss tape for it to matter and probably not even then, where the conversation will change to "why is being friendlier with Russia a bad thing?" Yes. Check this Adam Curtis doco out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation quote:The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 20 years before it collapsed.[3][4] A professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley,[5] he argues that everyone knew the system was failing, but as no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a pretence of a functioning society.[6] Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the "fakeness" was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed "hypernormalisation".[7]
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: During the weekends I can usually distract myself with sports, video games, and leisure. During the week when our moron president is literally trying to kill us, destroy our alliances, and sell us out to Russia, it is this sort of low-grade, endless, numbing horror.
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8O-iDvlmA
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https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/869581555051704320
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: poo poo's always sucked for PoC. It'll only get worse, but at least more white people are dying because they hate us so much they'll defund their own social safety net.
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I guess? Is this a question?
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Al Borland Corp. posted:What will the NRA do once 3D printed weapons begin to approach the quality and reliability of gun manufacturers? You can anyway print a gun, it sucks, but give it 5-10 years. The NRA is and always has been about drumming up business for gun manufacturers. They will 100% be against.
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Burning_Monk posted:So how many number of deaths is appropriate? Yeah man you can't say that cancer is worse than jello because both cause deaths and really where do you draw the line in the appropriate number of deaths
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Here's some fun data. https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffreyGuterman/status/869592985733926913
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_GPkOfVKI
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One of the actual whistles made it through quality control at the Dog Whistle Factory
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Al Borland Corp. posted:What will the NRA do once 3D printed weapons begin to approach the quality and reliability of gun manufacturers? You can anyway print a gun, it sucks, but give it 5-10 years. nra members will think what they are told to think, just like they always have
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: Me, Lying in a Bath Tub Full of Ice with Sutures Over Where My Kidney Should Be: *slowly raises one hand to give you a thumbs up* Doin' alright, man.
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Burning_Monk posted:So how many number of deaths is appropriate? None, obviously. But the point is risk minimization. Both guns and jello are considered useful to society, yet both do kill people at differing frequencies. If one asks, "Is there anything we could do to minimize the risk of injury from the use of this item?", the answer for jello is a resounding "No." For guns, on the other hand, there are regulatory measures that we could take that would reduce the amount of deaths they cause while still allowing them to be used.
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Tatsuta Age posted:I guess you could technically eat a gun, but this is a pretty cool bit of stupidity my dude Ya, Stone Cold's logic was pretty dumb. "guns are a loving bad thing" because people are irresponsible with it is as bad and argument as "[anything] is a loving bad thing" could be used. It's an argument a kid makes. Guns can be used for [bad thing]. But are guns mostly used for [bad thing]? Again what's the number of deaths that make it appropriate to talk about it? Can we discuss cigarettes? Power tools? Are you for removing all hand saws because they could be used irresponsibly or maybe setup some kind of regulations on use? Stone cold made no distinction so he gets a jello joke. There Bias Two posted:None, obviously. But the point is risk minimization. Both guns and jello are considered useful to society, yet both do kill people at differing frequencies. If one asks, "Is there anything we could do to minimize the risk of injury from the use of this item?", the answer for jello is a resounding "No." For guns, on the other hand, there are regulatory measures that we could take that would reduce the amount of deaths they cause while still allowing them to be used. Stone Cold's post made no distinction. "guns are a loving bad thing" was his argument. Burning_Monk fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 30, 2017 |
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: Have you ever had a loved one in the hospital or badly sick and you had to go about your regular life but the whole time you were just looking at your phone waiting to hear news and letting your mind jump to all the worst places? And then there'd be moments where you'd genuinely forget and lose yourself in something good or fun but then you'd remember and be overcome with guilt? And then your phone finally makes a noise and for a second that feels like a lifetime you feel paralyzed and overwhelmed with dread about what the message is going to tell you and how bad things might be? And like even if its good news it comes with a long conversation about everything that could still go wrong or still has to be dealt with which is all bad news but just isn't the worst possible news? That's kind of what its like being an American right now. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 18:17 on May 30, 2017 |
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:General question: Kind of like the car chase in Bad Boys II where the bad guys start hucking dead bodies into highway traffic, only they never run out of bodies.
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hi everyone, lets not talk about guns. thanks and god bless
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Burning_Monk posted:Ya, Stone Cold's logic was pretty dumb. "guns are a loving bad thing" because people are irresponsible with it is as bad and argument as "[anything] is a loving bad thing" could be used. It's an argument a kid makes. the man using arguments a small child would feel stupid earnestly arguing calls sensible arguments arguments a kid would make my sides how can we regulate guns if we do not regulate literally every single thing that could cause harm, the man who asserts he is not mentally disabled and should be allowed to carry dangerous items says
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TildeATH posted:Zuck ran Facebook like a lovely frat for the first couple years, including making the guys dress like Zuck and the girls wear fawning pro Zuck poo poo on his birthdays. I doubt he's worse than Trump.
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paranoid randroid posted:Me, Lying in a Bath Tub Full of Ice with Sutures Over Where My Kidney Should Be: *slowly raises one hand to give you a thumbs up* Doin' alright, man.
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I mean, if we manage to survive this it will be nice to know who all the closet rascist/fascist/antisemites were. Like, it's nice to know that Rob Schneider and Chuck Woolery are basically unreconstructed asshats.
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STAC Goat posted:Have you ever had a loved one in the hospital or badly sick and you had to go about your regular life but the whole time you were just looking at your phone waiting to hear news and letting your mind jump to all the worst places? And then there'd be moments where you'd genuinely forget and lose yourself in something but then you'd remember and be overcome with guilt? And then your phone finally makes a noise and for a second that feels like a lifetime you feel paralyzed and overwhelmed with dread about what the message is going to tell you and how bad things might be? And like even if its good news it comes with a long conversation about everything that could still go wrong or still has to be dealt with which is all bad news but just isn't the worst possible news? This but the diagnosis is terminal cancer. You could be waiting for years, or months, or weeks, but the conclusion is foregone.
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Burning_Monk posted:Ya, Stone Cold's logic was pretty dumb. "guns are a loving bad thing" because people are irresponsible with it is as bad and argument as "[anything] is a loving bad thing" could be used. It's an argument a kid makes. And that's the bottom line! :iamafag:
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Burning_Monk posted:Ya, Stone Cold's logic was pretty dumb. "guns are a loving bad thing" because people are irresponsible with it is as bad and argument as "[anything] is a loving bad thing" could be used. It's an argument a kid makes. the best thing about guns in america is that they are more frequently used to commit suicide than homicide. for this reason alone i oppose gun control
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We need to ban fully-automatic jellos.
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Pakled posted:My dad bought a fuckton of guns during the Obama years and when he passes away, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all. I don't want em and I know it would be better for society if I just destroyed them, but on the other hand, I'd probably make something in the high four digit range selling them all. Can I have a couple?
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Al Borland Corp. posted:What will the NRA do once 3D printed weapons begin to approach the quality and reliability of gun manufacturers? You can anyway print a gun, it sucks, but give it 5-10 years. The NRA is similar to the GOP in that they buddied up to the crazy for so long that they are stuffed full of true believers. Exorcising them would destroy the organization so the leadership will probably dance around the subject while being vaguely pro-printed-gun until the really crazy nut jobs get enough power to install someone who will go all-in.
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At least learn what a communist is....
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I actually remember thinking snap elections that most countries have as soon as a majority doesn't like their leader were a bad thing, and that a duly-elected president needs to have the freedom of 4 years to do things that might be unpopular but necessary, and gradually convince people that he's right before the next election. Smugly thinking to myself every time some mildly bad news happened to a leader in another country "heh, guess they'll toss him out soon, what a silly, unstable system". We have 3.5 more loving years before we have a chance to correct this epic mistake.
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