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@Greyparrot
That's not what I said. I was calling out the fact that Trump has some tendencies that happen to align in parts with existing DC politicians.
Then your point is as usual, entirely irrelevant to the comment you replied to
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Every left wing politician is well aware of how Fox News is objectively a propaganda outlet, yet you don't hear this kind of language coming from any of them. That's the difference between a fascist vs someone who's not.
Sure I do. I'm constantly bombarded by clips of left-tribers saying person A, B, and C should be censored by state power because of "disinformation" this or absurd claim of "incitement" that.

Trump calls them what they are without calling for the violation of the 1st amendment.
Expressing an opinion that person A, B, or C shouldn't have the right to spread disinformation is not fascism.

Attacking the free press as a whole as being enemies of the state... is.

The former, as described, is a dialog about what should be allowed in our society. The latter is the opposite of that. It's a thought terminating cliche, designed to stop all rational dialog and instead appeal to the base instincts of it's audience by invoking fear and anger against it's target. That's the very essence of fascism. That's exactly how people like Hitler came into power.

You're not going to convince an entire population that a segment of them need to be exterminated based on their genes, or that the best form of government is to hand everything over to you alone... with logic. You do it by playing into people's fears and emotions. This is what Trump does, and it's why his supporters follow him down the rabbit hole of total absurdity.

Have you ever heard the guy engage in a good faith rational examination of his views or proposals? Have you ever heard the guy utter a deep coherent thought? No. It's why he gives his opponents nick names and calls them losers rather than dealing with the merits of their arguments. He's the prime example of a fascist.
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@TraumaTango
Hold on... here's a damned good whataboutism: sanctuary cities.

If nobody is Above the law, certainly nobody is Below the law, either. It follows, then, that Sanctuary Cities are a blaring paradox to that statement.
It would help if you quoted my statement so I know what you are talking about.

I don't know how sanctuary cities has anything to do with anything I've argued, but they are not the afront to law and order right wing propagandists love to pretend they are. The reason many cities do not turn illegals over to the federal government is because it proves to be detrimental to police investigations. Illegals won't talk to the police of they know they will be deported as a result.
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@PREZ-HILTON
If those children were burned alive than it isn't Whitcomb's fault most likely 
Nor is it the fault of anyone who died in OK.

That's what makes it even more heart breaking they turned against their own people and decided to work for the government.
The fact that you are a conspiracy theorist who sees conspiracy everywhere does not mean everyone else shares your views. If you really think everyone who works for the FBI did so to join the evil government against his citizens you are delusional beyond all hope.

I should look up some actual investigations and show you them because I guarantee you don't agree with every thing the FBI does, especially after Snowden exposed so much about what government organizations do.
No one agrees with everything any organization does. The fact that you can cherry pick things the FBI has done in it's long history is not a rational justification to claim the organization is somehow inherently against its citizens and certainly not an argument that the people who joined it share your contorted world view about it.

The FBI is not a person, it's an idea. A concept we brought into reality only on paper
So are Nazis 
Correct, which is why when we go after Nazis we are going after individuals and holding them account for their individual actions.

So basically the organization can keep doing evil things and instead of holding the beast accountable, individual cogs in the wheel piss ons, get the blame.
If the organization did evil things then there are individual people out there who had to make those decisions. Go after them. I know it's hard because then you actually have to bring facts and logic to the table, bit today's what you have to do to hold people accountable in a civilized and just society.

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@Greyparrot
That list can apply in parts to a lot of politicians in DC.

Some of the dictators Biden has cozied up to defies explanation.
So what? I'm not calling out the fact that Trump has some tenancies that happen to align with dictators, I'm calling it the fact that he is wannabe dictator in every way.

And your false equivalence with Biden is nonsense. Biden has never touted his relationship with these people bragging about how well they get along, praised them for being such strong leaders, mused publicly about how we should try their tactics here, or boasted about how they wrote each other love letters.

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@ADreamOfLiberty
The "free press" censors the POTUS, circulates unfounded conspiracy theories, and is entirely biased towards the interests of super-corporate government intersection, so they're actually a propaganda machine for a fascist parasite living in our supposedly free republics = enemy of the people, not "free press" UNCHECK
The fact that you agree with it does not change the fact that this is straight out of every dictators checklist.

Every left wing politician is well aware of how Fox News is objectively a propaganda outlet, yet you don't hear this kind of language coming from any of them. That's the difference between a fascist vs someone who's not.

If only he had there would be no impeachments, no investigations, and no DOJ violation of the 1st amendment through social media puppeting. UNCHECK
The president doesn't appoint Congress genius.

He also doesn't appoint every individual in our government. The loyalty requirement can only go so far till you need people with basic experience in the jobs they were hired for. But Trump was starting to figure this out towards the end, that's why he's literally campaigning on granting himself the power to fire anyone in the government he wants directly. So much for your BS argument here.

Nothing more facist than that I guess? Oh wait there is, actually implementing fascist policies like using the apparatus of the state to destroy all hint of credible dissent.
Meaningless drivel. You have absolutely no evidence anyone has done this, and even if you did  that has nothing to do with whether Trump meets the criteria. It is just another attempt to deflect.

I thought no one was above the law? UNCHECK
Your deflection has nothing to do with the conversation.

The law means we all get due process, so any politician who actually respects the rule of law is careful to tell their supporters that anyone belongs in jail. Trump is not, he uses his own fact free evidence free opinion as a rally applause line. That's what fascism looks like.

Haven't seen that.
You can't seriously be this ignorant.

Name one time Trump ever regarded his political opposition as well meaning people who disagreed with him.

I remember when Mussolini famously said "I want you to peacefully and patriotically protest the fact that Greece isn't asking to join our empire." You got nothing. UNCHECK
WTF are you talking about?

We're talking about Trump. Focus.

Examples include... the brexit movement of the UK. Yep that wretched dictator Nigel Farage... oh wait... it was a democratic uprising unless you're denying referendums are accurate.
Yet again has absolutely nothing to do with the point.

Fascists rig elections, they don't complain about elections being rigged and demand security and auditability. UNCHECK
The claim being argued here is whether Trump is a wannabe dictator. No one is claiming he is an actual dictator.

When you have to reach this far you know you have no argument.
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@Greyparrot
Am I misreading your post, or do we actually agree on a divisive partisan issue?
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@PREZ-HILTON
Equalizer... As in everybody gets to be just as dangerous, which will make everyone safer.
Seeing as how most criminals are youngales who can easily defeat everyone not in that demographic in physical combat, why not make people harder to victimize?
Because the world is not as simple as you like to portray.

This is a very common notion pushed by gun advocates - there are bad people (aka criminals) and there's everyone else (the good people). The bad people will always have guns because they don't follow laws, and the good people will always be disarmed. Thus, gun laws means the bad people win.

Few problems here.

If we accepted the idea that criminals are going to be criminals as a reason to do nothing, we wouldn't have laws. Only when it comes to guns would we ever push this idea with a straight face.

Also, the notion that we can just put everyone into these neat little boxes of a good guy or a bad guy is just childish. Real life is not a cartoon. Everyone is the good guy from their own point of view, so who decides that?

Third, basic human nature. When someone feels threatened and they have a weapon on them they are far more likely to use it in "self defense" regardless of whether they were in actual danger. Need proof of this? Look at all of the police killings of unarmed suspects, and then remind yourself that these are the trained professionals among us. But you seem to think putting everyone, not just cops, in the same predicament is going to make us all safer. That defies basic logic.
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@TWS1405_2
But the charges against Trump are weak, at best, and will be proven frivolous in the days to come.
We don't yet know what the charges are, but we do know that Trump falsified business records to hide campaign contributions. His personal attorney was already incarcerated for 3 years because of his role in what he did for Trump. Please explain why you think Trump should not have to have any consequences for it.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
That's why would-be dictators like Trump should be opposed. He exploited the cracks in our system and will probably get away with it, leaving the door open for someone smarter, like DiSantis, to smash the system altogether.
You are the victim of propaganda. Whatever Trump's failings and mistakes the only reason you think that is because of a concerted campaign to destroy him due to the threat he posed to the dominant corruption of the system.
Let's see...
1. Calls the free press "the enemy of the people"... Check
2. Fills top positions in our government based on loyalty over competence... Check
3. Sells himself to his supporters by portraying himself as the big tough guy who will protect them... Check
4. Explicitly advocates for the jailing of his political opponents... Check
5. Often conflates any criticism against himself with hatred for the country... Check
6. Incites his supporters to take up arms of he doesn't get the results he wants... Check
7. Aligns himself with every dictator on earth while alienating himself and the country from our Democratic allies... Check
8. Claims any election he didn't win is rigged... Check

There's more, but this is just off the top of my head.

To claim concluding anything other than 'Trump wants to be a fascist dictator' plainly ignores reality.
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@Athias
Gun advocates don't "pretend" that the gun does not factor into the equation; gun advocates acknowledge that a person's decision GROSSLY SUPERSEDES ANY FACTORS WHICH DON'T MATTER UNLESS THE PERSON'S INVOLVED
In any situation where a death would not have occurred if not for the presence of a gun, how do the decisions of those involved grossly supercede the presence of the gun?

if it were legal for me to own a nuclear weapon and I purchased one, then used it to destroy my entire city, would you argue that the millions of deaths which resulted were merely "a person killing people" or would you recognize that the presence of a nuclear weapon was the problem?
Did the bomb arm itself? Did it detonate on its own? 
No.

Is that enough clarification for you to address the question?

Yes, that's why we require people to get drivers licenses before they can legally drive
And how many accidents involve LICENSED drivers?
That's irrelevant to what we're talking about. You asked me if we blame the car in auto accidents, I pointed out that we do in fact recognize the role an automobile plays in car accident deaths. Our attempt to minimize this includes requiring licenses before we permit someone to get behind the wheel.

Do you acknowledge this? Do you recognize that our approach to guns is entirely different?

This is really simple; in this scenario a child is dead whereas without a gun in the picture today child would be alive.
Because, once again, you created a scenario where the child dies as a result of being shot. If the scenario consisted of that child dying as a result of being stabbed, or choked, then we'd acknowledge the knife use and the use of one's hands as painfully obvious.
I didn't "create" the scenario. This actually does happen in real life.  5 year olds getting stabbed or choked to death by another 5 year old doesn't. Because killing someone else with a knife, bare hands, or pretty much any other weapon takes effort and intent. With a gun all it takes is carelessness. That's why we treat these things differently, or at least we would in any other situation, except when it's a gun.
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@PREZ-HILTON
If yes, can you please explain how the prevalence of a dangerous product makes society safer?
It's an equalizer between extremely weak people and strong people. It is also a bit of an equalizer from future Nazi like governments. It is also an equalizer in dangerous Alaskan territory and other areas against bears and elk who can defeat humans in fair fights.
Equalizer... As in everybody gets to be just as dangerous, which will make everyone safer.

Got it.

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@Greyparrot
Many women would disagree that only an armed man is a threat to their life.
No one here is making that claim, so you are as usual, having a whole conversation with yourself
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@PREZ-HILTON
'Political leaders shouldn't follow the law'... Ok bro.

That's literally what they're elected to do, but you are entitled to your own viewpoint, regardless of how inherently self defeating it is.
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@PREZ-HILTON
You mean a government that follows the rule of law?
Do you think the government was right to enforce laws allowing slavery?
Are you seriously comparing laws prohibiting financial fraud to slavery?
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@Greyparrot
Except that small Chinese plastic toys don't also save lives. You left that out. Common sense here.
It's also common sense to consider not just the lives it saves but also the lives it takes, especially when many of the lives saved were only in danger in the first place because of the product you are crediting for saving lives.
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@PREZ-HILTON
How would that stop you from using logic?
You're trying to refute a real life issue with a hypothetical that has no grounding in real life. Logic dictates that engaging in that particular conversation is a waste if time.

Ban guns and then what? Women jogging just have to accept being raped because they don't have a gun as an equalizer?
Is it your position that every woman who goes out jogging should be carrying a gun on them?

It won't work in making society safer overall.
Do you believe guns are a dangerous product? Yes or no?

If no, we can stop here. You're delusional.

If yes, can you please explain how the prevalence of a dangerous product makes society safer?
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@PREZ-HILTON
I'd prefer an autocrat over a totalitarian government we are heading towards
You mean a government that follows the rule of law?
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@Sidewalker
Comments?
I'm just preparing for the onslaught of the political right's bullshit logic free fact free attacks on this as being political and watching all of the right wing minions follow suit because that's what they were told to believe.
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@PREZ-HILTON
You have refused to actually state how many accidental gun deaths occur a year compared to the 70k lives saved
Why would you compare accidental deaths to lives saved? That makes no sense. If you were comparing lives saved to anything it would be lives lost. And when you do that calculation be sure to remove any life "saved" which was only saved because the perpetrator themself had a gun.

Not sure if this point was in reply to my OP, but if so the only reason I used that example was to point out a concept, not to paint a picture of reality.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Obviously the child who was shot to death was killed by the child.
But does this mean the child is responsible for that action. 
No, it means we deal with the very simple fact that the gun is what enabled this tragedy to follow.

Every gun advocate here is trying to take something really simple and overcomplicate it. If a toy was found to be dangerous to children because they kept choking on it, we would remove the toy from our stores.

Recognizing that a product is dangerous and that it's presence will result in harm is a common sense reaction in any other case, but suddenly when it comes to guns the product has nothing to do with the situation and it's entirely 100% about the irresponsibility of whoever we can manage to coherently point the finger to. It's mental gymnastics at its finest.
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@Best.Korea
Banning guns doesnt actually help with anything.

How about change your society
Gee, why didn't we think of that?
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@PREZ-HILTON
Just think about which strategy you would adopt if that is your goal and guns aren't available.
No thanks, I'm not a mass murderer. Show me one that ever decided to use poison as their weapon.

Obviously you need a gun to do that, but it isn't the root cause of why the violence was initiated to start with.
No one is arguing that getting rid of guns gets rid of violence, it just makes violence less deadly, which is what matters.

Would you seriously argue that a product designed to kill someone is less effective at killing someone than an product designed for cooking?

Because I am objectively correct that gun bans won't work
Won't work at what? Stopping 100% of all deaths which would have resulted from a gun?
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@Athias
No one is claiming the gun should be held accountable.
Aren't you?
Uh, no.

If a toy is shown to be involved in excessive choking incidents, we recall the toy. No one would argue this is "holding the toy accountable".

The idea being pushed by this talking point is that the presence of guns is irrelevant, if someone ends up dead only the people involved should be factored into the equation.
Yes, that's what's called accountability. Because the use of firearms in a violent altercation DOES NOT HAPPEN without the people involved. Once again, guns are inanimate objects. 
Your response to my point proves the very point I was making.

You're the one talking about accountability, I'm talking about recognizing the root causes of a problem to inform how we go about solving it.

As I already explained, no gun safety advocate pretends that gun deaths occur without a person somehow involved. But gun advocates love to pretend the gun is not part of the equation.

Let's try a simpler version; if it were legal for me to own a nuclear weapon and I purchased one, then used it to destroy my entire city, would you argue that the millions of deaths which resulted were merely "a person killing people" or would you recognize that the presence of a nuclear weapon was the problem?

Case in point: if by some chance I were involved in a car accident that resulted in the death of another, do you factor my car into the equation?
Yes, that's why we require people to get drivers licenses before they can legally drive - because we recognize that the danger posed by having the wrong person behind the wheel of a car is far greater than the person by themself.

The car is the difference there.

This is pure sophistry. You purposefully created a hypothetical where a child dies as a result of being shot.
You act as if the scenario I created is entirely made up with no connection to reality. It's not. Children do end up getting their hands on guns and accidentally killing others.

That aside, the purpose of any hypothetical is not to paint a picture of the world, it's to test one's logic. If the logic of "guns don't kill people" held up then there is nothing to pin as "sophistry". This is really simple; in this scenario a child is dead whereas without a gun in the picture today child would be alive. The conclusion is simple; guns do kill people.

You can make whatever argument you want to pretend that's not actuate, but you would have to abandon the same basic logic you would apply to any other scenario.
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@Best.Korea
People have historically demonstrated that knives, bombs, cars and poisons can kill plenty of people even if you somehow succeed in removing all the illegal guns.
So you're going with the old "if we can't completely solve the problem then we shouldn't even bother" argument.

Please show me one other instance where we rely on this logic in real life. If a measure to make cars safer won't prevent 100% of car accidents do we throw up our hands and say it's pointless?
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@PREZ-HILTON
The goal of a mass shooter is to kill as many people as humanly possible. If you remove guns, are knifes more effective at that or is discreet poisonings across the country more effective at not only doing so but decreasing the chances of getting caught so you can get a higher kill count? 
No one really knows because no one ever bothers to even try this, which is what makes it so strange that you keep coming back to this hypothetical which has no tie to reality.

There are countries with more or similar guns per Capita and it doesn't happen. Switzerland has very high gun ownership and it doesn't happen, so does Yemen.
There US leads all developed nations on earth when it comes to gun deaths per Capita. Is it your position that gun ownership rates has little to do with this?

If you hate American citizens and want them to die than there are better ways to do that than by lying and claiming gun ownership is the root cause of these shootings.
What is with this stupid talking point you've latched onto lately? Since when does disagreeing with you on guns equate to hating Americans and wanting them to die?
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@PREZ-HILTON
They are moving from gun to poison. Did you know that most convenience stores have coffee canisters which are easily accessible. You can take a road trip and hit 100 convenience stores and poison those canisters within a 5 or 6 hour window killing a thousand people instead of maximum of like what 20 in a shooting. 
How are people out there seriously making this argument?

Please show me the statistics on mass poisonings.

However this problem does affect actual Americans, so most of us would prefer that people actually work towards actual solutions
Strangely, no other developed nation on earth suffers the same amount of gun deaths as the US. I wonder what they do differently...
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@Mharman
It doesn't. Every gun death has a human element to it.
Yes, every gun death also has a 'presence of a gun' element to it.

The difference generally speaking is that gun safety advocates understand this full well and make no attempt to refute it. 2A advocates meanwhile often argue implicitly or explicitly that the presence of a gun is not the issue, that instead is all about the people involved.

The fact that you can always find a person to blame (the parents in this example) is irrelevant to the fact that without a gun in the picture no child would have ended up dead. So when people say "guns don't kill people" that statement is just plain wrong in any  meaningful sense.

The two elements (the person and the gun) will always be present in every gun death. The 2A advocate strategy is to pretend only one is to blame and then argue that one should be the person and not the gun (because how do you blame an object?). That's just childish simpleton nonsense. We need to look at the whole picture.

The other issue with blaming the parents is that there was no malice involved here, just irresponsibility. But human beings are inherently irresponsible, so while the criticism is valid in any individual scenario, it is not a valid argument when we're debating public policy. The argument there is essentially that human beings need to stop being human beings.

That is a good argument in favor of requiring those courses. I will be on board with this if the process is quick enough for someone who urgently needs a gun.
If someone urgently needs a gun that is all the more reason to not sell it to them. That's literally the point of a mandatory waiting period.

Not very high up, but that is irrelevant. Surely you could save some lives by passing lighter control, no? 

Alternatively, we could have entire campaigns telling parents to keep their kids away from lighters, and kids to stay away from lighters. Couple that with improvements in child safety mechanisms, and we could have a decrease in the rate of those types of incidents.
Everything we do is a result of a cost/benefit analysis. Guns are a contentious issue because they are a frequent cause of unnecessary deaths in this country, while the benefits of having so many guns out there and so easily accessible is minimal.

Lighters are far more useful and necessary to the functioning of our society and cause no where near as many casualties. The idea that we would put all of these requirements in for lighters is therefore every bit as absurd as it sounds.
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@PREZ-HILTON
The FBI works for the interests of government which works for large corporations, not Americans. They aren't citizens, they are occupiers.
The FBI is still made up of citizens. People who grew up here, went to school here, decided to pursue a career in various fields which the FBI felt could be utilized, and the overwhelming majority of them did so because they genuinely want to stop those who are hurting others.

That is the reality no matter how hard you try to ignore it or rewrite it.

The FBI is not a person, it's an idea. A concept we brought into reality only on paper. You cannot "hold it accountable", the only thing you can do is hold the individuals who made the individual choices which lead to the undesired outcome responsible for their individual roles in actualizing said outcome.

Not the negotiators . They did fine. They didn't light children on fire. It was people like Christopher Whitcomb who were part of the sniper team who coincidentally was also at Ruby Ridge.
Setting aside your acceptance of this nonsense conspiracy theory, if you are that mad at Christopher Witcomb then go after him, not some random building in OK housing people who had absolutely nothing to do with what happened in Waco.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Not citizens. FBI.
The FBI is made up of citizens.

After they burned children alive in Waco and remember this was a year later so the same people, I would say they had it coming. 
"They" didn't burn children alive in Waco. That was done by their cult leader.

You're literally blaming the hostage negotiators while ignoring the role of the hostage taker.
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@Mharman
However, your argument doesn't showcase the importance of gun regulation, it showcases the importance of gun education.
It showcases that the idea that guns do not cause deaths is nonsense.

But none of these are things we can regulate. We can't control how people store their guns on their property, and we can't stop parents from failing to parent properly.
The point of the hypothetical was to refute a concept.

If we really want to get specific on this one hypothetical, we could require a gun safety class to be completed before allowing someone to purchase a firearm, as just one example. Would that stop this from ever happening? No, but would almost certainly reduce the number of these types of incidents.

Many house fires have been started by children playing with lighters. Do we need to ban lighters, or require some kind of special permit for lighters?
Guns are the number one cause of death in the US for children. Where exactly is being burned to death on that list?

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@Athias
In the event that the five year-old, who found the stashed gun, shot the other child, then of course, the child who was shot to death was killed by the other child using/playing with the gun. Is that really debatable? We can perhaps dispute who's to be held accountable, which isn't typically attributed to inanimate objects.
No one is claiming the gun should be held accountable.

The idea being pushed by this talking point is that the presence of guns is irrelevant, if someone ends up dead only the people involved should be factored into the equation. The purpose of the scenario I described is to point out how plainly obvious it is that the gun is absolutely pay of the equation.

In this scenario, without the gun being in the picture, no one ends up dead. Do you deny this? Would you argue that the child shot to death would have ended up dead another way regardless?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Ok. Let's pretend for a second that gender is a social construct, and the LGBTQ+ communitys deffinitons of words are the right ones.

If this were to be the case then the LGBTQ+ community would have to deny all of current biological aspects of sex.
There is absolutely nothing about going along with a particular definition of man and/or woman that requires one to abandon biological aspects of sex.

You seem incapable of recognizing that thoughts and ideas lead to words and definitions, not the other way around.

We can all hold and fully understand various aspects of biology while expanding our concepts of gender to include societal norms. Calling someone a man does not mean one cannot decipher between male and female DNA.

You tell me that in order to argue against this topic I must subject myself to your definition of words and not mine
No, I don't. I am telling you that if you are going to criticize someone else's position, then you need to criticize that which is actually their position.

And the way you determine what someone else's position is, is by understanding what they mean when they use certain terms.

If you are unwilling to engage in this simple step then you are unwilling to have an honest good faith conversation.

You do not have to agree with someone else's usage of words. If you want to criticize others for improper use of terminology that is fair game. But that is an entirely different thing than claiming someone else is delusional.

Words are nothing more than a vehicle for conveying thoughts and ideas. If you are not responding to the actual thoughts and ideas others are conveying you are only arguing with yourself, which is what you've been doing this whole time.
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Attempting a more serious conversation than some recent threads...

I have a question for every 2A advocate who has uttered these words;

A five year finds a gun that was stashed away, decides to walk over to the playgroundold and play with it. Three minutes later a child is shot to death.

Question: Was that child who was shot to death killed by a gun or killed by another child?
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@PREZ-HILTON
A part of me wants to support mcVeigh because he targeted the FBI but there was a daycare in the building and he bombed it while the daycare was in operation. 
So you are in support of the slaughter of your fellow citizens. You're a sick individual.
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@YouFound_Lxam
The definition of a woman has been agreed on for all of human history up until now. The only time it has changed is when the definition of a woman offended some members of the LGBTQIA community.
Once again, definitions have been changing for all of human history. That's literally why we have English, Spanish and Italian, all of which along with others came from Latin.

You talk about logic but do not understand how to apply it. Logic is how we arrive at conclusions from a given set of premises. The premises of an argument can change drastically depending on the definition of the words being used.

If I told you I bought new nails for myself, you might conclude that I'm gay or just enjoy dressing in drag. The opposite of a masculine man. If I clarified that I bought nails to finish building a tree house for my son you would probably come to a completely different conclusion.

This is communication 101; when refuting someone else's claim as not factual, you have to use their definition, not yours. The fact that you disagree with someone else's usage of a word regardless of whether you have a valid reason to reject it is completely and utterly irrelevant to whether the claim made by someone else is factual.

Anyone who does not understand this basic concept has no interest in a good faith discission.

So let's try this one last time:

You claim the LGBTQIA community and it's supporters are delusional because they believe a man can become a woman.

So explain how [the LGBTQIA community's definition of a] man cannot become the [the LGBTQIA community's definition of a] woman.

Go.
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@YouFound_Lxam
But when you're perception of reality does not line up with facts, and logic, in any way shape or form, then that perception of reality is nothing more than a belief driven by faith. 
You continue to repeat the same drivel despite being repeatedly explained that you are attacking a complete strawman.

There is no fact that the LGBTQIA community is pushing which is not true. You continue to pretend it's the case because you continue to pretend others are using your definitions and not theirs. It is becoming apparently clear that you are not interested in a good faith discussion on this topic.

Gay marriage has no benefit for society or for the gay couple. Marriages (believe it or not) has contracts and money involved. That means that money is being spent on a couple who don't have the capacity to have kids, and if they were to raise said kids, this would not be good, because the best way to raise a child and set them up for success, is with a mother and a father. 
You criticize the LGBTQIA community for wanting laws that are not based in facts, yet not one reason you've provided for your stance on gay marriage has anything to do with facts.

You claim it has no benefit to society. That's because you disregard the concept of equality as beneficial to society. That's not a fact, that's your opinion.

You claim that the best way to raise a child is with one mother and one father. That is once again, your opinion. In fact the question of the best way to raise a child is inherently a matter of opinion.

You are guilty of exactly what you are criticizing others for.

Enlighten me - why must that something be biology?
Gender has always been based in biology. We have the male sex, and the female sex. Humans (whether you like it or not) have created gender (the human construct) based off of the two sex's. That is why it must be based in biology, because that is why it was originally humanly constructed.
So to summarize, 'gender must be based on biology because it has always been based on biology'. That is not an answer, it's a fill in for the absence of an answer.

Just because something has always been a certain way is not a reason for it continuing to be that way. We change the way we do things all the time and have all throughout human history. If your logic held up we would still have slaves.

The concept of gender was introduced to human civilization before we understood anything about biology or gender dysphoria. This isn't 10,000 BC, you'll need an actual reason to support your assertion that gender must be based on biology.

This is an extremely idiotic question I must add. This is like asking "Why must money (the human construct) be only based in the fairness, and trade of society?" Because humans that existed before us created that human construct. 
Money must be based on fairness and trade because the goal of a financial system is to spur improvements to human civilization by giving incentives for people to contribute their abilities to society. And since that's the goal, fairness and trade are essential to achieving it's desired ends.

If we decided however that we wanted to change the goal, all of this goes out the window. If we decided the purpose of money was too keep fires going, suddenly it wouldn't matter if you had a $100 bill in your pocket or a single.

That's what you don't get, you have to start with a goal in mind. Then you can have an objective (aka factual) answer as to what follows. Without that, anything you have to say is merely your opinion.

You get upset at me, when you claim that I am setting up the argument against the LGBT movement with my own perception of reality, and not accounting for theirs.
No, I get irritated when you continue to characterize this conversation as being about a factual determination of reality and not a matter of how people should be treated.

Every trans person I've ever seen acknowledges that they are biologically different from those whom they identify with. That's why they had to have surgery, take hormone blockers, etc. This is such a common sense notion that it's absurd it needs to be pointed out.

When we say someone is a"man", we're talking about in every way that matters. You define a man as someone with particular chromosomes. Please tell me how on earth that actually matters to you. Do you have a chromosome reader in your back pocket? Do you scan people when you meet them? It's an absurd stance.

All these people out there providing "fool proof" definitions of man and woman have never once in their lives used these methods to tell whether anyone they've met fits their definition. That's what makes this so ridiculous, and why it is so transparently based on nothing more than bigotry.

So when you claim trans people believe a man can turn into a woman you are talking about biology.
No, I am talking about gender. You assumed that I was talking about biology. 
I am not saying that trans-people believe that a male can become a female.
I am saying that trans-people believe that a man can become a woman.
First of all, I didn't use the terms male and female, so your retort is already made up.

Second, you are the one arguing that there is essentially no distinction between gender and biology, so this response makes absolutely no sense.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Ok dude. I have seen you, countless times state that men shouldn't be involved in this issue, because it isn't their problem.
The assertion you made is that leftists believe men are not allowed to have an opinion on abortion. I'm explaining why that assertion is absolutely ridiculous. Funny how you responded to everything except that explanation.

..............what other people besides women have uteruses?

See guys, this is a prime example of delusion. 
No, it's a prime example of someone who doesn't understand the concept of context.
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@YouFound_Lxam
So, if a belief is not based in facts, science or biology, then what is it based in? 
It's not a belief, it's a viewpoint. Do you not understand the difference?

What the community believes is that we should base political decisions and everyday decisions on feelings and not facts. 
Should gay people be allowed to get married? Please explain what facts you used to reach your conclusion on this.

Yes, gender is a human construct, that is based in biology. You can't have a construct, unless it is based in something.
Enlighten me - why must that something be biology?

The LGBTQIA community is not claiming a man can be a woman
Brother.................

Transgender literally means a man transitioning into a woman, or vice versa. 
Words carry different meaning in different contexts.

You only have one definition of a man and a woman that you accept. So when you claim trans people believe a man can turn into a woman you are talking about biology. So when I respond to you're statement I am refuting what you are claiming based on how you are using the words.

Responding to someone else's claim based on how they are using their words is how good faith productive conversation works.

When LGBTQIA members and supporters talk about turning a man into a woman we're using the terms in a gender based context (which has little to nothing to do with biology).

Hence, these two statement use the same words but with different definitions, therefore they mean something completely different.

Do you understand?
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@Greyparrot
Yes, people will always act within their best personal interests. That is absolutely status quo and will always be. What is your point?
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@YouFound_Lxam
So, you guys say that you can't have an opinion on abortion if you don't have a uterus, right?
Wrong. Everyone has a right to their own opinion and always will, this is a basic human right.

What leftists are actually doing is pointing out the audacity of advocating for laws which restrict one's rights to their own body while sitting comfortably in the position of never facing that possiblity yourself.

But then you guys also say that you don't need a uterus to be a woman, right?
Wrong. Words in different contexts carry different meanings. On the subject of abortion, when we use the term woman we are generally talking about people with uteruses.
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@Greyparrot
They were clearly paying him because he was the son of the VPOTUS which they viewed as giving them a chance at greater influence and power.
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@YouFound_Lxam
For the LGBTQIA+ movement, they have faith in the idea that a man can be a woman, and vice versa. They also have faith that it is ok for a man to be intimate with a man and a woman with a woman. They worship the trans-ideology, and the ideology itself is their God.

It is a belief in something that is not supported by science or biology. 
We've had this conversation before and I've already explained it to you multiple times. You can disagree with someone else's views, but you cannot just pretend their views are whatever you decided and not their actual position. And when you are debating someone else, you cannot just pretend they haven't made the arguments they did. I'm going to explain this in detail one more time before writing you off as being  completely uninterested is good faith conversion on this issue.

The ideas being pushed by the LGBTQIA community has absolutely nothing to do with facts, science, or biology. Read this statement as many times as you need and be sure you have absorbed it entirely before reading any further.

What the community is talking about is how members of this community feel, how we should treat each other as fellow citizens and human beings, and how we should think of certain terms.

Once again, gender is a human construct. That is absolutely a fact. All words along with their definitions were all made up by human beings, so there is no reason other than your subjective opinion that any particular word should be defined in any particular way.

The LGBTQIA community is not claiming a man can be a woman, they're challenging the rest of us to think about why we define man and woman the way we do and to change it. Again, you don't have to change how you define it, but stop pretending the rest of us are bound to your black and white definitions.

So back to your points;

No, it does not take faith to define a term differently than the way society historically defined it. Terms change all of the time and have been since the beginning of human history.

No, it does not take faith to believe something is "ok". If you believe it is ok that is your subjective opinion. If you believe something is not ok that is your subjective opinion.

No, science and biology are not part of this conversation.

Do you finally understand this? Yes or No?
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@Greyparrot
None of this has anything to do with the point I was making.
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@YouFound_Lxam
You could also argue that the LGBTQ+ movement is a religious movement. 
Then by all means, support your assertion.

What are the key characteristics of a religious movement and how does the LGBTQ movement qualify?

And most leftists put that at the forefront of our politics as well. 
No, most leftists put standing up for marginalized communities at the forefront of their politics. The only reason we spend half the time we do talking about the LGBTQ community is because of the political right's obsession with this.

The difference is that you can't have a functioning society without the idea of a God. 
God is what keeps everything in line, so theoretically even if God didn't exist, the mere idea of him would help society amazingly.
This isn't just illogical nonsense, it's demonstrably false.

Then where did the idea of God come from in the first place?
From our fear of our own mortality combined with our narcism.

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@ADreamOfLiberty
eventually those two brain cells will come to the inevitable conclusion that drug-addled, zero expertise, non-Ukrainian Hunter was collecting a money on behalf of his father. After you know that, the simplest explanation is quite clear.
Occam's razor is when you take all of the available evidence into account so you can weigh it against each other, not just the part of the story you cherry picked.

You have demonstrated repeatedly that you are not capable of this, only the part of the story you want to focus on gets weighed, everything else is discarded. This is conspiracy thinking 101.
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@Greyparrot
Oh my god so what? Ex-Mayor Lightfoot got elected by building a campaign around peace and safety for Chicago. It means zero.
Then you just refuted ADreamOfLiberty's argument.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, try reading the conversation so you know what you're commenting on.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Fake News, Trump denied paying off Daniels, and still denies it. He now knows about the payment because Cohen told him about it after the fact.
Trump's personal attorney is doing interviews on TV openly admitting Trump knew about the payments at the time.

This is exactly what happens when you live in a propaganda bubble and why you believe the absurdities you do. Do yourself a favor and goggle the subjects you wish to argue beforehand.

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@DavidAZ
Looks like IwantRooskie is crying about his time as a child.  This tells me the problem was not the church, but rather the parents.  
His delivery can be pretty terrible and unproductive, but he is absolutely making a valid point. It never ceases to amaze me hearing right wingers who  constantly put religion at the forefront of our politics accuse the left of indoctrination. No adult would believe the nonsense religions teach if they were not taught it from childhood, the only way religion survives is through indoctrination.
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@hey-yo
You loose every part of bodily autonomy if you have no life therefore your life should take priority over another human's bodily autonomy. 
This has nothing to do with the conversation. We're not talking about which rights are more important or valuable than others, we're talking about how we determine where one person's rights begin and where that person's rights supercede that of another.

If this conversation were as simple as you are describing, a starving person would have the right to enter into another person's home and steal their food because that person's life is on the line, and life supercedes the right to privacy, personal space, and possessions.

Hypothetical. If in a conjoined twin scenario where A survive but B will die if sepererated, how does bodily autonomy factor in?
This is not analogous. Conjoined twins share the same body, so neither has any legitimate claim to it over the other.

What do you mean by necessary result, why is that in italics?
If X will automatically result in Y, than Y is the necessary result of X.

I placed it in italics for emphasis because your arguments seem to skip over this concept. You continue to portray granting the right to abortion as granting the right to mother's to kill their babies. That's the same thing as claiming that granting me the right to lock my door to keep a starving person out is granting me the right to kill them

The fact that the person might starve to death is irrelevant because that's the necessary result of me having the right to my own property. Thus, necessary results do not get factored the same way.

Should we base law on what is subjective or objective, and why?
We base it in both. The goal is always to be objective, bit every law that has ever been written is subjective at it's core. Why is it illegal to steal? Because people like having their own things. Why is it illegal to assault others? Because people do not want to be assaulted.

Every law reflects and upholds a core value of some kind, it's not possible to have a law that's not based in any value.

I said both are human and therefore should maintain the same rights based on being human.
You're talking about DNA. I'm talking about actual traits we value.

A person in a coma who will never again wake up is a human. No reasonable person would ever argue that their continued existence is just as valuable as that of an able bodied person.

What is the ability to make decisions, what does that look like? 

Ability to retain memories, how does dimentia play in that? 
Why are you asking me what it looks like for a person to make decisions? Do you not know what making decisions is?

Dementia is part of the equation. I am not aware of any law that values someone with dementia less and would argue there shouldn't be one, but in any moral dilemma one could concoct if you add in that one of the individuals had dimentia that would change the calculus slightly.

Like I've point out, this is complicated. We look at all of these qualities and weigh them appropriately. No one thing makes the whole case.
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