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BiggerBoat posted:So nothing too big here Jesus. I expected it to be more ... I don't know politically savvy? It's literally just her spouting the poisoned brain poo poo. The GOP is really just honest to god dumb as gently caress from the top down.
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Apparently the CDC overstepped it's role by attempting to protect us from idiots. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/cdc-mask-mandate-ruling/index.html
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Apr 18, 2022 20:00
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Ah, DeSantis' own election police force... surely they'll only be used for good! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/desantis-florida-election-bill-signing/index.html
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Apr 25, 2022 22:24
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Guess it's time to consolidate to a direct loan!
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Apr 28, 2022 00:36
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She even yells "I'm a murderer! I murdered my own child!" That's some hosed up poo poo.
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May 6, 2022 14:15
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Normy posted:According to the tweets anyone can request their house be blurred on google maps. Yeah I've come across this a lot when house hunting.
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May 10, 2022 11:55
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Why is it disappointing? Tying aid packages together, tying any packages together seems like a guaranteed way to get it to fail, resulting in nothing. It's supposed to be a way of compromising. "Ok well if you want war funding to just enrich your cronies, then we want COVID funding to help those at home." And, in normal political climates, it can be done. Instead, here, they're saying "hey if you want Ukrainian aid, we want COVID aid" and McConnell is just saying "no...." and the Dems are going "lol ok nm." Then when it comes time to actually pass more COVID funding, McConnell is just going to block it. These aren't poison pills tying to each other, they're more pork like.
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May 10, 2022 20:14
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Mellow Seas posted:Yeah. Donald Trump could literally be President right now. People pretend things can't be worse, despite the fact that we have been very aggressively reminded by Justice Alito that they very much can. I don't know there's something almost worse to the "you had your shot and royally hosed up... now it's our turn again." That sort of raw understanding that "your side isn't doing anything better" really entrenches apathy and enables the enemy to gain a stronger foothold than if they just would have one a second term.
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May 13, 2022 17:39
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Oh snap I got some red text. From just a few minutes ago? Is there a way to find out?
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May 13, 2022 17:55
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Fritz the Horse posted:
Interesting - I believe it's the second time in 20 years! I think it just appeared so I guess someone was mad that I suggested having a failure of a democratic president can entrench the GOP even further. Awesome.
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May 13, 2022 17:59
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I mean to be fair, if ISIS had infiltrated the US and assassinated a former President... I'm pretty sure the response would have been huge and insane.
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May 24, 2022 18:11
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CNN has switched to "multiple people have died" so... Goddamnit. gently caress this loving country. What a loving bunch of loving horseshit America turned out to be.
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May 24, 2022 22:09
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Kirios posted:I fear the much worse outcome is the accurate one. It is, CNN/NYT/etc have all changed it to the higher count.
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May 24, 2022 22:14
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At this point in our timeline, the fault lies squarely with the death cult and their fetishizing of weapons of destruction. Without them in the way, we likely would have addressed the various root causes of a lot of this violence - or at the very least done a good bit to mitigate it where we could - as a country a long time ago. Place the blame squarely on the GOP and the NRA and don't feel guilty about doing it.
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May 24, 2022 22:36
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ImpAtom posted:It is not easy. We have had to discuss with kids we tutor. All you can really do is run down the rules (lock door, under desk, wait for trusted person before emerge from hiding, don't try to be a hero) We've begun explaining to our 8 year old how the US government, specifically Republicans, are actively trying to rule what they do with their bodies and make women and minorities second class citizens. Like, at this point, I'm not even dancing around it. "There is a group of people out there who think you aren't as good as them and they want to control what you do. They're Republicans." Might as well throw the gun control argument on the pile as well. They already run "Code Reds" at school (Active Shooter Drills).
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May 24, 2022 22:41
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The mass shootings and school shootings are terrible, but we also overlook the fact that about 46,000 people die from guns a year in the U.S. and that 117,168 people are shot on average in the U.S. Nobody is overlooking that. It's a large/main part of the "America has a gun problem" conversation.
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May 24, 2022 23:01
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Willa Rogers posted:They've begun explaining to their 8 year olds how the US government, specifically Democrats, are actively trying to make people like themselves second-class citizens. God gently caress you. You're right. Maybe I should just "both sides" it to my 8 year old. Hell maybe I can make it her loving epitaph on her headstone when she inevitably gets shot by a mass murderer who explicitly has access to hate speech and guns because both of those are emboldened by the right wing.
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May 24, 2022 23:34
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Willa Rogers posted:^^^ yeah, a few people were doing that; look over the last few pages & also see social media responses. I don't paint them as "out to get her" like they're hiding in her closet, but when the discussion becomes "why is it happening?" then a more honest discussion tying into the same party that wants to restrict her rights is warranted. We haven't even *had* the gun discussion yet so its hypothetical (beyond the Code Red "remember to hide, lock the doors, etc"). We also paint it in terms an 8 year old can understand and isn't really in the language I'm using here on the forums. We also restrict her access to the news. But yeah you probably *should* have just stopped at "I'm not a parent."
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May 24, 2022 23:46
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Willa Rogers posted:That's not what I was doing, though; I was pointing out (1) that I didn't think that tack was particularly reassuring from a kid's POV, and (2) that the bedrock reality to the poster would be flipped on its head by their political enemies. First, I don't know if there even is a solution to be honest. I think this country is too far gone for an actual solution barring something drat near cataclysmic (and even climate change is throwing that into doubt). The tact I was taking with my kid was about women and their bodies and how the government wants to control it (and I was just hypothetically extending it to gun control by saying "well might as well throw this on the pile"). But yes of COURSE that is what the right is doing with their kids. Look at all the little kids in MAGA hats at Trump rallies. And given how they are setting themselves up to be completely successful in a 3 branch takeover and cementing their rule for decades to come in every facet of life... this is certainly not the time to squeeze my eyes harder and just hope for the besties!
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May 25, 2022 00:13
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CommieGIR posted:What IS Manchin serious about other than undermining Dem legislation and defending Coal barons? Seriously does anybody ever call him out on this constant use of vague milquetoast "eh maybe I'd kinda do something... one day.. .maybe... but ya know this isn't the day. I'll know it if I see it." Like he's just a loving king waiting to be feted or legislation brought to his feet. Does anybody ever say "hey motherfucker it's your JOB to try to come up with the solution... put an idea forward... anything at all!"
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May 25, 2022 00:49
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I like Biden's speech. We need to make "there are other countries with guns and mentally ill people and this doesn't happen there" the main talking point. Talking point for who? Nothing is going to get done. Tiny kids are getting mowed down and NOBODY ON THE RIGHT loving GIVES A gently caress. They aren't suddenly going to go "oh... yeah... actually there may be a path!" Because they have demonstrated over and over they aren't even interested in any paths. They don't want *anything* but total 2A freedom and to have as many guns as they want and gently caress you to literally anything else. There's nobody on the fence about this issue that just needs the right words for it to click. There's just total loving stagnation in the congress that is preventing any movement.
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May 25, 2022 01:55
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The only real and lasting solution to gun violence is the over-arching "Just make people's lives materially better so they don't always feel marginalized and with their backs against the wall." But...well that ain't the American way. edit: and proper mental health care comes with that
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May 25, 2022 02:46
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Youth Decay posted:That is part of the solution, but not the whole solution. There are many class-stratified capitalist hellholes around the world and America has by far the most mass shootings by lone gunmen in proportion to our population. Shootings seem to correlate more to the rate of firearm ownership. Fewer guns, fewer shootings. I know that's not the politically expedient answer, but we cannot "solve" this without severely limiting private ownership of guns. Oh I'm 100% on board with that too. I guess I was trying to frame it like in order to have *lasting* peace you need material improvement. Otherwise any reform that happens now is just going to be vilified and doubled down upon by the right and they'll mount an even more violent response.
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May 25, 2022 04:19
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Kalli posted:If you want something done you're going to have to do it yourself, for example: Jesus loving Christ (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 26, 2022 04:27
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B B posted:The press conference where the cowardly cops give an update about their response is going to be here: Can't wait to hear the same "brave first responders" garbage over and over. Just like the CBP spox talking about the two officers that first fired at the guy. The way they write these things like babby's first Fairy Tale Golden Book is just so gross. Also because they're lying.
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May 26, 2022 19:13
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Vahakyla posted:What loving kind of gotcha is this? There is actually a solution. Repeal the second amendment, confiscate guns and make owning one a felony.
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May 26, 2022 19:14
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Bishyaler posted:This is only a solution for the problem "America's 2nd civil war isn't starting fast enough". It's the only *actual* solution though as evident by... literally everything happening around us. Regardless of it's impossibility. Maybe you can engage in a decades long effort to make people's lives materially better and improve mental health, slowly gain control of the senate and then eventually pass some sort of gun control. But that's not happening either. I think we've all come to the conclusion that nothing is every going to happen about it and the world will burn up from Climate Change before we're able to act. So might as well wishcast.
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May 26, 2022 19:25
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Bishyaler posted:I don't believe that electoralism or Democrats make things better, so no, I won't be engaging in that effort. Climate change doesn't appear to have an end in sight as long as capitalism keeps truckin' along, and if you ever want to end capitalism, history tells you that you'll need guns. I mean I don't disagree with you. I don't think what I want - material improvements and proper gun control - are going to be achieved through traditional electoralism (especially with the Dems).
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May 26, 2022 19:43
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Terminal autist posted:Making yourself permanently unelectable for every single position in your state down to dog catcher and then running a high profile campaign every cycle and losing while siphoning millions from winnable races isn't a viable electoral strategy. It has to start somewhere though. It's obvious that anybody that tries to play it down the middle with hopes of making changes once elected gets their fires immediately doused by the 3 am bar-mat runoff that is the Democratic machine.
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May 26, 2022 20:21
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This is a tough read, but here's an account of what went on from one of the students in there. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/us/robb-shooting-survivor-miah-cerrillo/index.html A kid having to smear herself with a dead students blood to play dead and then lay there for an hour, knowing there are police outside and wondering why they aren't helping.
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May 27, 2022 15:15
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Bishyaler posted:Typically violence is ended by violence. The only difference is that the people here appear to be arguing that the state should have a monopoly on that violence. The state which loitered in a parking lot for an hour while kids died screaming. If the state had the monopoly on gun possession *this wouldn't have even happened.* There would be no situation to sit around and loiter.
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May 27, 2022 18:56
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Bishyaler posted:That's an interesting suggestion. How do you plan to make that happen? Gun control.
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May 27, 2022 19:09
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selec posted:Enormous Well it was a dumb loving question that needed a simple loving answer. It sure as poo poo ain't going to happen with captain numb nuts over there
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May 27, 2022 19:13
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Bishyaler posted:It wasn't a dumb question, I was attempting to lead you to the realization that you will never pass gun control before Democrats lose congress in the midterms and the GOP, having shredded voting rights at the state level, begin their permanent control of government. Ok then, post-revolution gun control.
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A big flaming stink posted:Regarding gun control, I think this tweet sums up my position pretty well Boy that is a big ole pile of "not saying poo poo."
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May 27, 2022 20:53
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mastershakeman posted:Banning guns will solve deaths Boy this is some bad faith poo poo. Guns are not as easily produced, concealed and distributed as drugs. You can scarcify the supply a lot easier. There would need to be a prolonged effort to buy back or confiscate the assault rifles after the fact so it would need to be a sustained effort.
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May 28, 2022 00:06
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FlamingLiberal posted:That's the roughest 44 I've ever seen, good lord Living in fear of literally everything around you 24/7 will do that to you.
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May 29, 2022 19:33
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Dick Trauma posted:I feel like things are accelerating as the GOP pushes our country down the hill toward the cliff. The GOP has always been on the LGBTQ+ = pedophiles but I feel there is an even stronger concerted push for it right now. Our town's Pride event's FB page is just being bombarded with "groomers and pedos" talk from its citizens. I feel like they're setting this up to be one of the pillars of their Gilead so they can simply hang/imprison them without a shred of evidence.
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Jun 4, 2022 14:22
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We attended a pride fest today in North Carolina. There was a drag queen story hour event that had the "groomer" Nazis up in arms and the city bowed to the pressure and cancelled that part. But then a Raleigh chapter picked up the sponsorship at the last second and it went off without a hitch. Kids loved it and even got to take pics with the queens. It was remarkably well attended. Didn't see a protestor in site thankfully.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:McConnell is going to kill the Supreme Court Justice Security Bill because Democrats expanded the bill to include spouses and children of Justices, Supreme Court staffers, and Law Clerks. The bill makes Supreme Court Justices and those additional groups of people eligible for the same type of overtime/after hours protection as members of Congress can request if they are threatened. So basically McConnell wants to be able to hurt people responsible for the leaks. Got it.
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