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whoops wrong thread, never mind
icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Oct 1, 2015 21:10
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guns shouldn't be banned, but anyone who shows interest in owning them should be banned from doing so
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Oct 1, 2015 21:17
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this_is_hard posted:Welp, we've got our first because the evil gubmint taking your manchild toys away is literally equivalent to the holocaust. got it
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Oct 1, 2015 21:27
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Rent-A-Cop posted:I feel this way about politics. sortition worked for Athens, it can work for us
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Oct 1, 2015 21:28
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Fried Chicken posted:Here's the interesting thing to me - it suggests that Trump has a ceiling of ~32%. Ok, that means he will not be the candidate, which keeps with what everyone expected. But it also suggests he also has a floor of ~24%. That would be what is upending all the models and why he hangs in there, usually the floor for a politician is much larger relatives wit their ceiling, so they either never get a head of steam or they fall off the map when they stumble. Trump breaks from that, and thus the baked in assumptions of the models. It is also what fucks the GOP, because a guy who commands a quarter of the base is a guy who gets to name terms and you don't talk back. This is a few pages old, but what terms exactly are we talking about that Trump could demand if he gets 30% of the vote?
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Oct 3, 2015 03:25
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Well theoretically the US would like them to become a real country that can be trusted to have an army without instantly descending into warlordism and atrocity. In reality Afghanistan is a country that couldn't organize an orgy in a whorehouse and there isn't any point in the foreseeable future when the Afghan government should be trusted to wipe their own asses let alone call in airstrikes. afghanistan is a country created by russia and britain agreeing to a buffer no man's land between the chunks of territory they took over from Iran decolonization strikes again lol
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Oct 5, 2015 17:30
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I watched the Late Show and John McCain comes off really well until there is any talk of possible war. Then he hawks it up like no other. He wants to send a couple thousand troops and planes to Syria to counterbalance Iran and Russia. He said that we are giving Iran $100 billion dollars and they are going to use that to destroy Israel. When Colbert asked whether we would keep our troops there indefinitely, he said that we have kept 38,000 troops in South Korea for this long, so we might need to do that in the Middle East. He then turned to nothing but American Exceptionalism. it's cool how the neocons poisoned the well of American international relations for literally a generation or more
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Oct 6, 2015 05:25
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Samurai Sanders posted:That's somewhat more boring than the image I had in my head. It means the clown car triumvirate of Carson, Trump, and FIorina get to extract concessions from the nominee in exchange for delegates. What those concessions are I'm not sure, but there's still hope for excitement
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Oct 6, 2015 06:34
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hrm it's almost like western europe had pre-existing nation states where afghanistan does not
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Oct 6, 2015 17:44
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Acebuckeye13 posted:The only place that post-WWII Europe and Afghanistan would have been even remotely comparable was West Germany, and even then it was only successful thanks to the presence of an exterior enemy the occupied populace feared more than us (The USSR), decades of occupation, and the influx of an utterly staggering amount of money to rebuild. And that was all without an insurgency running around. not really no, the german corporate-industrial bureaucracy was basically just given a massive injection of capital by the US, but kept on ticking unchanged basically
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Oct 6, 2015 18:09
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Related question. Can anyone relay to me a vision for what Afghanistan is supposed to look like when we finally pull out? free of turrists (muslims)
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Oct 7, 2015 04:02
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Dead Reckoning posted:Depends on the poison. In the U.S., most attempts are made with pills. In other countries, particularly rural communities, ingestion of pesticides is more common. Parquat is over 60% effective. Okay, so you acknowledge that reducing gun access and prevalence would reduce the suicide rate?
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Oct 8, 2015 01:24
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Did Russia ever fix it's counter-terrorism program, or is the strategy still to just shoot the hostage? something something death solves all problems, etc
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Oct 10, 2015 04:40
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Crowsbeak posted:Is it just me or does CBS seem to be going full on right wing of late? COuld it be just a ploy to keep their primarily older audience happy? lol @ anyone who gives a poo poo about network TV news
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Oct 12, 2015 06:56
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zoux posted:You know what? gently caress you. I'm sick of reading poo poo like this from gun owners. The NRA has been nothing but reasonable. The NRA has been entirely too reasonable. is this a real post? Armyman25 posted:To protect my hearing and the hearing of those around me. Guns are loud. Silenced guns are still too loud to shoot without hearing protection. Thanks for playing, try again next time
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Oct 12, 2015 16:24
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I am not a book posted:So we have a bunch of people who are presumably worried about the harm caused by guns, but for some reason want to make sure that gun owners risk damaging their hearing. icantfindaname posted:Silenced guns are still too loud to shoot without hearing protection. Thanks for playing, try again next time Silencers are useful for concealing gunfire from outside observers (like the police) but not for protecting your hearing
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Oct 12, 2015 16:39
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Armyman25 posted:This is how laws are passed, it's been that way since the Romans. I don't know what to tell you if you think otherwise. the difference is that the romans wouldn't have tolerated whiny manchild gun owners and probably would have crucified them outside the city gate as a warning to potential copycats. they have a lot to teach us IMO
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Oct 12, 2015 17:26
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various cheeses posted:"We just want reasonable gun control, like banning everything that looks scary, preventing people from carrying them ever, and making everything cost thousands of dollars." hrm yeah sounds good to me here's the thing, at this point guns should be banned just to spite gun owners, literally regardless of real world dangers. that's how bad gun owners are
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Oct 12, 2015 17:30
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various cheeses posted:Relaxed rules on silencers/short barreled rifles/etc. Maybe stopping stupid import rules like not being able to import a barrel. Maybe admitting that pursuing a features ban is dumb as gently caress and doesn't affect crime whatsoever. hrm, how about .... no, gently caress you?
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Oct 12, 2015 17:38
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lol they deleted all the posts in TFR
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Oct 12, 2015 17:38
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DeusExMachinima posted:No wait, you were so close to educating us about silencers! http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/gun-silencers-dont-make-them-anywhere-near-silent/ quote:That’s actually pretty significant considering the decibel system is a logarithmic scale; so, for example, 200 dB is 1000 times louder than 100 dB, not double, and a reduction of 40 dB is more like 1/100th of the original sound. However, for most commercially available fire arms and cartridges, this ends up only reducing the noise level to somewhere in the range of 130-150-ish dB for a supersonic cartridge and 117-130-ish dB for a subsonic cartridge. For reference on just how loud that is, an ambulance or police siren is typically between 100-140 dB. So this isn’t exactly the “whoosh” sound Hollywood depicts. Given that hearing loss can occur as low as 85 dB, it’s typically recommended that even with a silencer on a fire arm, that the shooter still wears some sort of hearing protection. immediate hearing loss threshold is usually given as around 120dB, so uh, ahahahaha stop posting you literal brain damaged retard like someone else posted, i guess too many loud noises takes a toll on a person icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 17:42
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DeusExMachinima posted:No dumbshit, immediate hearing loss is 140db. How can you not know this? http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/education/information-center/noise-induced-hearing-loss/ http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/education/information-center/decibel-exposure-time-guidelines/ quote:A clap of thunder from a nearby storm (120 dB) or a gunshot (140-190 dB, depending on weapon), can both cause immediate damage. and in addition my last post quoted saying silenced guns average at 140dB as well, so, uh, try again. or actually, please don't and scurry back off to your manchild posting ghetto Monkey Fracas posted:I guess to shift the conversation a little I'd like to ask what makes the NRA such an unreasonably powerful lobbying group. read the last few pages of this thread to find out why icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 17:50
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various cheeses posted:If the parties flip flopped on gun control I'd never vote for a republican again. Unfuck your party and maybe I'll consider giving them my votes again. serious post: gun owners shouldn't be allowed to vote there's no right to vote in the constitution, remember
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Oct 12, 2015 18:28
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Jarmak posted:Is that why you're willing to alienate a large portion of the electorate who might otherwise support you on those issues just to support useless regulations that aren't going to pass? these people don't actually exist, just FYI
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Oct 12, 2015 18:41
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Jarmak posted:The previously mentioned Colorado elections indicate otherwise. Okay so that's one minor D-leaning swing state full of libertarian manchildren. That's it? In that case, gently caress it, the Rs can have them
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Oct 12, 2015 19:12
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DeusExMachinima posted:a) that's not OSHA, my source was and b) 120db *can* cause hearing loss immediately *after* prior exposure that day. Some shorter/lighter suppressors intended primarily for combat versus range use are just under the 140db threshold, most aren't. Don't know where you got your "average" from. Try again. I guess you didn't hear me tell you not to leave your posting ghetto anymore? Maybe because of all the hearing damage?
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Oct 12, 2015 19:33
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Jarmak posted:I feel like no one in this thread has ever met a democrat or independent from a rural area or swing state they're called dixiecrats, and there aren't too many of them left these days in case you haven't noticed
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Oct 12, 2015 19:47
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Snowman Crossing posted:I voted straight Democrat for the first decade of my voting history. Then a few years ago I took up recreational shooting on a whim. like i said, gun enthusiasts should literally be barred from voting
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Oct 12, 2015 20:15
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sharknado slashfic posted:Are you saying that people should vote against their own interests because that would make you...a republican. identity politics aren't real interests, comrade to the guillotine with you
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Oct 12, 2015 20:27
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Has there ever actually been a grand-coalition style crossbench speaker of the house in US history?
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Oct 13, 2015 23:26
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the_paradigm_shift posted:Aside from being way too long, and ignoring conservative pundits, does the American public really have a problem with Afghanistan going on? Like the moderates and people who ignore politics. I feel like the American public, much like Obama himself, at this point cares mostly about saving face and studiously refusing to acknowledge the catastrophic effects of the neocon policies that it voted for, and just wants the whole middle east nightmare to quietly go away and never be mentioned again icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 15:56
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Hodgepodge posted:Uh oh guys, looks like Clinton won too hard it's loving hilarious how transparently the media wants to sink hillary not that hillary isn't a hilarious idiot for picking that fight to begin with, but god drat
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Oct 15, 2015 17:41
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fits my needs posted:Um, what the hell is crowd sourced news journalism? What is that link? reddit?
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Oct 16, 2015 23:07
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so how did hillary's testimony go? any meaningful developments or is this just going to keep continuing indefinitely?
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Oct 24, 2015 00:46
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Ditocoaf posted:I'm a big Sanders supporter, but of the variety that just is glad for him legitimizing socialism and applying pressure from the left lol if you think Sanders is a socialist or that what he's normalizing is socialism Full Nationalization Now
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Oct 25, 2015 03:57
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so sum up the GOP debate for me. who did well, who did poorly, etc. did The Donald come out OK? what about Carson? did JEB! implode?
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Oct 29, 2015 03:53
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Mavric posted:I'm trying to imagine honest blue collar plumbermens people debating what they heard at this debate tonight and my mind is exploding, please advise. they're voting for donald trump just FYI
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Oct 29, 2015 09:52
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evilweasel posted:I'd like a unicorn, because I too dislike dealing with reality. william jennings bryan owned, actually
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Oct 29, 2015 17:58
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wrong thread
icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 06:33
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Dolash posted:Surely every thread is the right thread for a stirring defense of anime? someday, young padawan. but that day is not today icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 07:16 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 07:06
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