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empty whippet box posted:"the attackers had to use knives and cars because they couldn't access guns! the solution is: more guns!" They couldn't get hold of real bomb vests either and had to wear fake ones. By Trump's logic we should be selling bomb vests in UK supermarkets so the good people can defend themselves. It's actually not all that hard to get guns in the UK as long as you have a clean record and can fake sporting interest.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:14 |
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Yeah, way to go gun policies in the UK.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:20 |
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vaginite posted:
Not the military, but the Treasury, via the Secret Service for all levels of government. Opt-in by default. Opt-out in writing only. Votes should be treated like money, and given non-partisan anti-counterfeiting scrutiny, with equivalent penalties. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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I guess it's probably time for me to delete my Twitter account since they're obviously never going to enforce their own loving rules against hate speech provided it's Trump doing the speaking.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:24 |
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871328428963901440 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871331574649901056 Meanwhile, on an average day in the United States in 2017, 41 people will be shot and killed. http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:25 |
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Like literally the reason the death toll is in the single digits is because of the UKs gun laws. In the US we're lucky if one of our monthly mass shootings doesn't go past 15 dead people
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:28 |
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If the gun debate tweet was made by any other person, you would correctly read it as them praising the UK for gun laws that made it harder for them to get them and that we should have a debate in our country because of what could of happened over there if they did have guns. But no, he is just not able to word good or string a coherent sentence together and it's really hard to break your brain hard enough to read it in a way that doesn't come off like the above.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:30 |
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Mister Facetious posted:Don't know why you people don't just implement e-voting. What could possibly go wrong? I admire the boldness of the plan to diminish the strength of Olds as a voting block, but there are probably ways to achieve this goal without allowing voter fraud and impersonation on a massive scale.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:38 |
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boner confessor posted:all of these places already vote democratic. there's no point to putting more liberals in liberal enclaves, you'd need them to move to rural areas to tip those districts which is even more wildly impractical than whatever nonsense you're pushing here All the those cities are suggested precisely because they are already Democratic. Tipping districts in red states is pointless because Republicans just move the district lines whenever they please, and they'll continue doing so until gerrymandering is banned. And few people want to move to a jobless rural area that haven't already anyway. But moving to another liberal city with a strong municipal government that is providing the kind of services that you'd expect in an urban area in a bluer state ... people are more open to the possibility. The idea is to solidify blue control of state governorships, the Senate and presidency by spreading out the liberal population so that they are represented fairly. And it takes advantage of existing economic trends, as opposed to doubling down on our old political plans that don't seem to be working very well. If you prefer the optics of "promoting the image of blue cities in purple states", then go with that. Kaal fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol at atlanta turning into armageddon from half an inch of snow. It was more than an inch... of ice
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Nobby posted:They shut down that paper mill. there's some weird smelling stuff along the oregon coast too-coos bay comes to mind, logging I think-but the worst smelling place on the west coast by far is driving up the 5 where it hits the 198 iirc at loving harris ranch the stench of poo poo and death lingers for miles, i don't know how people eat at the restaurant there and i certainly don't know how people like, stay in the hotel there
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Nobby posted:They shut down that paper mill. Tacoma still had an aroma last time I drove through it on I-5 in March
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:47 |
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https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/871407975029669889 Because this won't end in dead people at all.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:52 |
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What the gently caress. Seriously what the gently caress privatizing air traffic control is somehow the dumbest thing Trump has done yet.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:53 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/871407975029669889 This isn't one of those things he can actually do right It's just like a pointless eo that will never go anywhere
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:54 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/871407975029669889 "Kennedy Tower, Delta 394 is bingo fuel requesting priority" "Delta 394 that sucks for you, your folks haven't paid for Priority Approach Access™ like United has, so you have 9 United aircraft ahead of you. Get in a holding pattern and send a hat around the cabin." I also guess the rule of air traffic controllers being on shift for only a few hours before a mandatory hour break would probably go away too, because why pay employees to take breaks!
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:54 |
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Piell posted:What the gently caress. Seriously what the gently caress privatizing air traffic control is somehow the dumbest thing Trump has done yet. https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/871333992502620162 This is.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:56 |
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This has to be a joke, Trump isn't literally a drooling incompetent
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:56 |
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No, that's just normal Trump level dickishness. Privatizing air traffic control is way beyond that. Does he want people to hate him, that's the only reason I can think of for this
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:57 |
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Piell posted:This has to be a joke, Trump isn't literally a drooling incompetent Air Traffic has been trying for ages to go private, and they've come pretty close in the past. My question is will this be a privatizing like Canada's and it's just a non-profit organization that's basically still the government. (Haha who am I kidding it's going to be for-profit as gently caress)
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:58 |
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Yo someone buy a URL and write a script to do this automatically and put a single 728x90 ad under the scroll and tweet it out I bet you get some beer money
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 18:59 |
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Did Fox & Friends do a retrospective on Reagan recently or something? "Being a shittier person than Reagan" is the only reason I can think of for this, unless...was one of his planes delayed for 30 seconds or something?
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:02 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/871407975029669889 What purpose would this even serve?
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:04 |
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Magic Hate Ball posted:What purpose would this even serve? Give rich people more money, duh
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:05 |
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Piell posted:This has to be a joke, Trump isn't literally a drooling incompetent https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/871381666882875394 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/871359348500566016 https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/871426046935142400
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:05 |
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Spaced God posted:Air Traffic has been trying for ages to go private, and they've come pretty close in the past. My question is will this be a privatizing like Canada's and it's just a non-profit organization that's basically still the government. It's intended to be a single nonprofit corporation. I have no idea how that is supposed to improve anything.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:07 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's intended to be a single nonprofit corporation. I have no idea how that is supposed to improve anything. At the very least it will provide an opportunity to attack the controller's union.
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Piell posted:This has to be a joke, Trump isn't literally a drooling incompetent Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:13 |
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https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/871415116654424064
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:14 |
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In case anyone is wondering, privatizing ATC and selling off roads and airports is not something Trump can actually do. He can suggest it to congress, to which they will reply by rolling their eyes and chuckling.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/871407975029669889
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Rigel posted:In case anyone is wondering, privatizing ATC and selling off roads and airports is not something Trump can actually do. He can suggest it to congress, to which they will reply by rolling their eyes and chuckling. I dunno, sounds like exactly the sort of thing Paul Ryan would absolutely love to do.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:17 |
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I've pointed this out before, but if handled competently there is no problem with the privatization of ATC. ATC and civil air services provided by a private not-for-profit corporation in Canada, and it works perfectly fine. Now, I have absolutely no confidence that Trump would handle such a thing in a sane way, I'm just pointing out that it is technically possible for it to be done in a non-destructive fashion.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 19:18 |
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Piell posted:No, that's just normal Trump level dickishness. Privatizing air traffic control is way beyond that. Does he want people to hate him, that's the only reason I can think of for this Privatized ATC is actually pretty common. The UK, Germany, and Canada all use some degree of privatized air traffic control, whether through a government owned corporation, for profit corporation, or non profit corporation. In principle there are some advantages as far as the potential stability and amount of funding (i.e. dominated by relatively predictable use fees rather than the whims of legislature), but I am 100% confident in this administrations ability to spectacularly gently caress up anything and everything.
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Piell posted:What the gently caress. Seriously what the gently caress privatizing air traffic control is somehow the dumbest thing Trump has done yet. For you when Trump privatized air control it was a travesty, the dumbest thing he had ever done. But for Trump, it was a Monday.
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PT6A posted:I've pointed this out before, but if handled competently there is no problem with the privatization of ATC. ATC and civil air services provided by a private not-for-profit corporation in Canada, and it works perfectly fine. lol Jared is going to be in charge of it.
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Tzen posted:What the gently caress why because he is trying for "easy victories" any kind will do.
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PT6A posted:I've pointed this out before, but if handled competently there is no problem with the privatization of ATC. ATC and civil air services provided by a private not-for-profit corporation in Canada, and it works perfectly fine. It won't be not-for-profit. It'll be run for maximum shareholder profit with the absolute minimum of safety regulation, and cost more than the current system. It will, however, do a stellar job of routing taxpayer money to those the administration desires political donations from.
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Idle Sunday thoughts while watching MTP rerun: I wonder if we're approaching a tipping point with regards to Islamic inspired terrorism sometimes. It's by this point global in scale with the Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, large swathes of Africa, and parts of Europe, India, and China all struggling to combat. Mass media raises the sense of threat and repeated occurrences with a common tie despite massive differences in context and goals I fear causes an increasingly difficult narrative to combat.
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Boon posted:I wonder if we're approaching a tipping point with regards to Islamic inspired terrorism sometimes. It's by this point global in scale with the Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, large swathes of Africa, and parts of Europe, India, and China all struggling to combat. counterpoint: the philippines has had issues with suppressing the muslim population since all the way back with president magsaysay and was p. much openly at war in mindanao until like 5 years ago china doesn't have the sort of issue you're thinking about as well, given that the government kind of uses "uighurs are muslims," as a nice justification to "cooperate" with Russia in Central Asia (re: the sco) and to keep their suppression of uighurs and of Xinjiang nice and kosher internationally
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