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1. Create a world where the internet is so common and people use it so much that they are almost addicted to it.
2. Encourage parents to let their kids use the internet.
3. Let people in school know that in prison, there is no Wifi.
A lot of mass shooters are addicted to the internet. They wouldn't want to go 50 years without the internet. You would save so much money on law enforcement and the crime rate would plummet.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
The easy way to eliminate school shootings; airport style security at all of our schools.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
It might be 100. If there are 20,000,000 AR 15 owners in the US and 100 of them commit a mass shooting, then it's collectivist to take AR 15s away from the 19,999,900 AR 15 owners that didn't murder.Again, you are either being dishonest or are uninformed
What's the correct number then?
It turns out enough actual adults agree with legalizing AR 15s for me to think like a libertarian adult.Wrong again. Polls show that more than 60% of Americans want AW banned.
I said enough adults, not the majority want to legalize AR 15s. I have no problem whatsoever being in the minority on an issue. I don't follow the herd on issues; maybe as a politician that may make sense; but neither one of us are politicians. And if the majority was always right on an issue, well the majority of the US population believes Caitlyn Jenner is a man. I guess I'm contrarian on both of those issues. You are contrarian on the trans issue; but it goes to show that just because the majority disagree with me, it doesn't mean I assimilate to the majority; it means I may then try and convince people to join my side as would a lot of other people so then AR 15 legalization support is in the majority. If everyone followed the herd unconditionally, then every issue would have 0% or 100% support and we would be a hive mind. You may like that on an issue where your opinion is in the majority. But what happens when you are not in the majority (like you are with whether transwomen are women, the death penalty, etc)?
That included Ronald Reagan. Did you know that? Probably not.
I knew Reagan wanted to ban AR 15s and I didn't agree with him on it. I also didn't agree when he got this nation deeper in debt; although I did like his immigration rhetoric. The democrats and republicans aren't my thought leader.
Um, show me. When and where did I say that. Do you know who the Founding Fathers are I wonder.
You are very left wing; your opinions are predictable.
That doesn't mean it should be amended.The Founding Fathers used logic. They knew they couldn’t write a document that would be applicable for a growing and changing country.
I realize there are times when the constitution should be changed, but I don't believe a federal AR 15 ban should be one of those changes.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
If he truly had issues beforehand, how did he buy all those assault weapons?
Lack of background checks. It is Nevada after all.
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@Best.Korea
I wouldnt want for my son to be hurt, no matter what he does.
Society does not love your son to the extent you do.
But when you are a parent, you want your son to fear you more than to like you. That is how they stay disciplined. If I had a son, once they turn 13, I'm making them do 500 pushups a day (I've done 500 pushups in an hour and I'm not even in top notch shape; if a male cannot do 500 pushups in 24 hours, then he is weak).
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@Best.Korea
But your alternative idea of you telling him to not murder anyone is totally pointless if he wants to murder.
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@FLRW
yes, if we elect Trump we can wipe out the Republican party and all poor (worth less than $300 million) Republicans.
- Murdering people for being republicans is a crazy idea.
- At this point in time, Trump is the republican party (just like Biden is the democrat party). This is like saying if you elect Bernie Sanders, then you will wipe out Judaism. You don't wipe a group out by electing one of their members to a position of political power.
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@Best.Korea
You can turn him in and the state kills it (I say it because murderers don't deserve human pronouns).
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The pro gun argument is that people should have the means to defend themselves, particularly if they live 100 miles from civilization in bear country.
Don't make this argument unless you support banning all guns in cities and suburbs, where bears don't exist. If your sole argument for wearing a condom is you don't want to get the girl pregnant, then there is no point in you wearing the condom if the woman hypothetically had her uterus removed (by choice before you were dating her).
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@Best.Korea
You saying that would be pointless. He will still murder.
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@FLRW
Hang Mile Pence! Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!
You like Trump now? I wouldn't be upset if the answer is yes, but be honest.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Ya, they do. The Las Vegas shooter for example
He had issues beforehand. I don't think he just snapped.
But it is collectivist to ban AR 15s for 20 million people because one of them decided to do a mass shooting.One? You are not being honest
It might be 100. If there are 20,000,000 AR 15 owners in the US and 100 of them commit a mass shooting, then it's collectivist to take AR 15s away from the 19,999,900 AR 15 owners that didn't murder.
Don’t be a moron. Think like an adult.
It turns out enough actual adults agree with legalizing AR 15s for me to think like a libertarian adult. I believe in freedom if you aren't harming anyone else significantly and are old enough (and the vast majority of AR 15 owners don't), you believe in reducing unwanted pain even if it means you are going to have to institute some level of collectivism. Our morality is different, and I respect yours and I hope you respect mine. We are both anti Trump, for instance; I don't think he is pro LUSHOOTY and you don't think he's AUP.
Weapons of war weren’t always cable of mass murder. Now they are.
Also, a man is capable of beating his wife up. As long as he doesn't do that, he can look like John Cena and have all that destructive power and it's fine. The vast majority of AR 15 owners aren't going to murder (just like the vast majority of Muslims aren't going to be terrorists). Just have freedom! The counterargument you might make:
Muslims are people, guns are not
Muslims and AR 15 owners are both people. Owning an AR 15 and being muslim are choices. Should someone be banned from making a choice because a small portion of people in their group use that choice to do something bad? No. I apply this for Muslims and AR 15 owners; the left pities Muslims for being brown and view AR 15 owners are strong and scary, so they operate on their feelings.
The Founders expected us to adapt to that reality.
On one hand, you say this. On the other hand, you trash the founding fathers for owning slaves.
That’s why they made the Constitution amendable
That doesn't mean it should be amended.
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@Swagnarok
In an ideally just society, the convict would have to pay back society for the costs of his/her incarceration by having to work (prison food, healthcare, etc. would not be free), with mechanisms in place to prevent conflicts of interest between the courts and the entities that benefit from said labor.
You sure you would want some murderer doing hard labor (which has no guarantee to be profitable)? The murderer is a hazard to any workplace; no company wants them; a lot of companies don't even want non-murderers working there.
Wrongful convictions exist, though.
Wrongful convictions exist, and if you are a green party or socialist person, then you would not want them put to death and are willing to impose whatever taxes are necessary to keep innocent (and guilty) murderers alive. The libertarian however, would be against this because they want to cut government spending (and this means cutting some program that keeps people alive).
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@Best.Korea
If everyone was treated like family member, world would be closer to what we want it to be.
But are you willing to treat strangers like your own family? Meaning are you willing to adopt some stranger you don't even know? If the answer is yes, then you are extremely rare here.
But if I had a son, I wouldnt want him to go to prison.
How would you punish your murdering son?
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@njk25
Many companies changed their logos during pride month, that is pretty clear messaging
They are grifting/virtue signaling. They know that out of the people who buy their products the following information:
- About 67% of their customers are left wing. 57% of the US population is left wing; but given that women (more left wing) do most of the shopping and given the left is more likely to spend while the right is more likely to invest, this leads to about 2/3 of shoppers being left wing.
- If a company leans into right wing causes, this 67% is less likely to shop from them. If a company leans into left wing causes, the right wing customers more or less ignore it. I've seen so many conservatives consume starbucks; it's way less common for a left winger to consume Chick Fil A. Conservatives care less about a company's politics than liberals do.
So it makes sense for a company to pretend to be socially progressive to make more money in this capitalistic economy so liberals spend more money so their stock price grows so investors (who are disproportionally conservative) get richer.
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@Best.Korea
If my son did bad things, I would try to turn him into a better person instead of punishing him.
House arrest for your murderer son would not be a good idea because they can murder more people with minimal house security.
If everyone did that to everyone, world would be much better, if everyone was like family member.
This sounds very altruistic until it's put into practice. You know what you are supposed to do for your children? You are supposed to take care of them; house them, feed them, put up with them, etc. The idea that you should be supposed to do this with someone else's kid is absurd.
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@njk25
I think it could be since you followed really big and famous right wing creator's, and relatively newer left wingers.
Possible, but I tried to follow big names on both sides.
But generally speaking most corporates are center left aligned.
Why would corporations align with the party that wants to raise their taxes?
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@Best.Korea
It's fine that you value the life of your son that much. But society doesn't care if your son lives or dies. They will pretend to if they are being nice, but they don't. If you want him to get life imprisonment if he murders, then you should pay for it with your own money because society doesn't care about your son.
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@DavidAZZ
Probably at this point, 90% of voters are vibes voters. Like ask a generic democrat who likes Biden why they prefer him to Dean Phillips; they will say they like Biden's vibes. Same thing for Trump voters vs DeSantis. Honestly, the same is true for why people prefer Jill Stein over Cornell West or vice versa.
It's easier for a very charismatic preacher to spread a lie than it is for a boring person to spread the truth.
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@Best.Korea
@njk25
I tried to be in as little of an echo chamber as plausible with 50/50 left/right accounts. 90% of the content I saw was right wing.
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@Best.Korea
I would do death. My taxes matter more to me than their lives, and if you are libertarian (not the green party or socialist, but libertarian), then you would agree.
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@njk25
When I had an Instagram account, I followed an equal # of left and right accounts. The right wing accounts made up like 90% of my feed.
It turns out Big Tech wants to promote right wing accounts because the more they get promoted, the more people vote right wing, so the lower Big Tech's taxes will be.
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Their argument is, "We don't want the government to have the power to take someone's life."
It sounds pretty convincing until you realize the alternative, giving the government the power to steal $25.2 billion from the taxpayer and using it to fund the living expense of murderers and rapists.
Now this is when the talking heads of the LP say the following:
The death penalty is more expensive than life in jail
To which I respond: It doesn't have to be. The cheapest way to do the death penalty is cheaper than the cheapest way to do life imprisonment. The cheapest way to to life imprisonment is free food, healthcare, and shelter for 50 years, with expensive guards. The cheapest way to do the death penalty is a bullet to the head 10 minutes after a guilty conviction. Some innocent people will die, and from the AUP/leftist perspective, they don't care about taxpayer money, but from the libetarian perspective, they are willing to sacrifice a small number of binnocent lives to cut government spending.
So from the libetarian perspective, why would it make sense to be against the death penalty? If they don't care about money, then how are they libetarians? Wouldn't they be members of the green party (or the socialists if they really like guns)?
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@Moozer325
Yes; there are different types of vegetarians/vegans. Some believe we have an obligation to help the poor (like Peter Singer). Others believe the obligation merely is not harming animals. Like I wouldn't eat an animal, but if I have to spend thousands of dollars to save an animal's life, I wouldn't do it; but Peter would. That's fine as long as he does not force me by the power of the state to participate in his charity.
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@zedvictor4
I think men should be encouraged to get vasectomies before they have sex, but I don't want to force people to not have many kids. If you want 20 kids with 5 consenting women in a polygamous family, then as long as you pay for your kids; hey; they are your kids.
When you force the taxpayer to pay for your kids, then it becomes a problem.
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@Moozer325
Actually, we are pretty different. He might argue that society indeed should be forced to help starving children because to him, human life is priceless. I believe that human life is not priceless (which is why I don't want to adopt and I don't believe anyone should be forced to adopt). I would rather have a poor innocent child starve to death or suffer in foster care than to adopt him. If you think that's unjustly selfish, then adopt.
Neither one of us eat meat due to us believing on a personal level, it's unjustified homicide, but he's more socialist and I'm more libertarian. On economics, we could not be more different.
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@IlDiavolo
Because the extreme left has always been the most violent and fanatic
Jan 6 is evidence to the contrary.
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Pro lifers and pro gun control people: Human life is PRICELESS and must be saved no matter what!!! If it SAVES just ONE life, then the control is worth it.
Me: If that’s true, then the government can force people to adopt as many starving children as they can afford (if it saves just one life).
Human life is not priceless. That may make you uncomfortable because you want to act like you care about your life as priceless and want to apply that to everyone. But you value your life way more than you do other people’s lives, and you are selfish (nothing wrong with that; I’m very selfish because I’m willing at some point to spend money on a house for myself but I don’t want to adopt a child; I do not love that neighbor as myself).
So either the Bible is wrong and the left saying, “If it saves just one life, then it would be worth it” is equally wrong, or you better get to adopting as many kids as you can afford.
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How come the left is more upset about Trump’s shooting than the right was about Jan 6 (basically an assasination attempt on Biden and other politicians)?
Don’t act like the parties are the same. One has a consistent anti unwanted pain ethos and applies it even to people they hate; the other is only interested in power and they only like Trump because of his vibes (which while I admit Trump’s vibes are entertaining, they should be frankly irrelevant for an election).
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Where did you get this weird analogy from? Did you make that up yourself?
Yes; anyone that wants to murder won’t turn in their guns; only some people that don’t want to murder will turn in their guns.
What happens when the people who own guns snap and decide to go on a rampage?
People don’t just snap.
But it is collectivist to ban AR 15s for 20 million people because one of them decided to do a mass shooting. Before you defend collectivism, here are more examples of collectivism: Islamaphobia, racism, sexism. It is not acceptable to judge the group by the individual whether it’s with Muslims or owners of the most popular rifle in the nation!
We are trying to get rid of guns that are designed for war.
Every gun at some point (even the rifle) was either a weapon of war at some point or was more powerful than a prior weapon of war.
But you seem to have the belief that human life is priceless (you would believe if gun control saves just one life, then it’s worth it no matter the treading on liberty) simply because you believe human life is priceless. This is a belief you have not thought through.
If human life was priceless and the government believed human life was priceless, then the government can force every single household to adopt as many children as they can afford if it saves just one life.
You will save tens of thosands of CHILDREN'S lives by forcing peolle to adopt chimdren. That does not mean we should force people to adopt.
This means innocent human life is not priceless, not even the life of a child.
This means innocent human life is not priceless, not even the life of a child.
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@zedvictor4
Perhaps some sort of population management scheme would be more sensible.
The state should not be discouraging reproduction. More people means more GDP. Find ways to increase the carrying capacity (like indoor farming or more deforestation for more land for crops).
If you believe we shouldn’t have kids, then lead by example. But give people the choice to have kids if they can afford to raise them.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
This is going to blow your mind, but maybe 80% of voters in the US don’t care about policy. Democrats pretend they are anti war, until Obama increases the military budget, then they find excuses because they like Obama’s vibes. Republicans act like the debt needs to be paid off, until Trump gets us deeper into debt, and then they find excuses because ultimately they like Trump’s vibes.
Few people care about policy. They only actually care about vibes. It’s why you can find a lot of Trump voters who like Jessie Ventura when he talks about conspiracy theories (because the right pretends they are anti establishment, even though Jessie Ventura believes Trump is a racist over his border wall). It’s also why many democrats like George Bush; sure he did wars and torture, but hey; he gives off decorum vibes and he hates Trump, so more anti MAGA people like Bush than pro MAGA people.
You won’t be able to convince most people to vote for you based on policy. You need good vibes. It’s frustrating, but it’s true.
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TW: My pronouns are she/her.
Me: Fine; I will use those pronouns with you.
TW: What are your pronouns?
Me: Release, Epstein's, List! Once that happens, my pronouns would change to get, the, rope.
If Epstein did what he did in the suburbs, he's getting lynched!
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@HistoryBuff
while I wouldn't want my elected officials to be racists or jerks, sadly, alot of people are.
You think Lee Zeldin is racist (with his Latina wife)? Or do you believe if you are republican, then you are racist? In that case, there would be nothing wrong with being racist just like there is nothing immoral about being republican.
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@wylted
Everyone is literally anti unwanted pain.
Explain how being pro deportation, pro AR 15, anti abortion, anti Medicare for all, anti free college and pro Gaza Genocide is the anti unwanted pain position? How is opppsing a 93% top marginal income tax anti unwanted pain?
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@wylted
Trump was not at the protest. He was at the Whitehouse.
He was encouraging the protestors to riot.
If Beto O Rouke did what Trump did, then the right would have executed him or made him inegilable to run for office. Trump gets a pass because it’s cult leader privilige.
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@HistoryBuff
ok, so virtually no one in the republican party is conservative then?
I’m not saying that, I’m saying there are many blue LGBT voters that have a conservative mindset to what they believe is bullying.
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@HistoryBuff
I can't imagine how anyone gay, trans or even minorities could support republicans.
I'm bi and have voted republican before. A lot of LGBT people don't have thick skins, but my skin is pretty thick. I'm not judging them for having thin skins, but I'm acknowledging it.
About half of my beliefs are democrat, half are republican.
I'm not trans, but most trans people (using transwomen for this example), argue calling them a man counts as hatred. Caitlyn Jenner views it as free speech. If someone makes a joke at me saying I can't decide between men and women, then I know they are making fun of me, but I don't really care. Just like on the flip side, Wylted thinks I'm a crazy communist (I lean more libetarian on social issues), and I don't really care. The more you are alive, the less you care about what others think of you.
There are 4 main ways people respond to percieved oppression:
- They whine about being oppressed. Ex: Stereotypical SJW femenist.
- They calmly, but firmly say, "You are being transphobic". An example is this kid I met who was Irish; I called Ireland Western England, and he argued the Irish were being oppressed. He didn't claim it was bigoted what I said.
- They don't care what some stranger says. An exmaple was there was this bilingual person who was talking Portuegese and someone said, "This is America; we speak English" to them and they didn't care.
- They claim, "All the other (gays/trans/Latinos/blacks) etc are bad, but I'm one of the good ones". Example: Kelly Cadigan, Cadence Owens.
The 1st way to respond is leftist, the 2nd is conservative, the 3rd is libetarian, the 4th is a grifter. It's possible to do multiple responses at the same time. Caitlyn Jenner does a combination of 2,3, and 4. If it's something neutral like transgenderism, then I think responding style 4 is horrible; I respond style 3 usually; I often do style 2.
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You strongly support Trump, whereas if someone says, "I'm an anti Trump republican" in Hollywood, then they get viewed as one of the good ones. The left loves Liz Cheney. But imagine you didn't live in Hollywood, but Daytona Beach, FL. You would hate anyone who publicly says they hate Trump. You even tried to get me banned for an opinion I have where I'm in the minority. Don't play the victim when you are in the minority and then censor people when you are in the majority.
You fly the confederate flag in Hollywood, you get your ass whopped. You burn the American flag in Florida, you get your ass whopped. It is rare for people to like free speech when it's speech they hate.
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@zedvictor4
A few thousand people know how to live in Antartica.
That number should be like 100 million before we seriously consider building megacities on other planets.
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Her comment: "It's easier to come out as trans than it is to come out as republican."
Me: Depends on where you are. In Hollywood, it wouldn't matter as long as you are an anti Trump republican and as long as you don't lean into any GOP issues due to the low IQ of most people (when someone says they are republican, I assume they are pro life, anti gun control, pro Trump, and believe transwomen shouldn't compete with cis women. I'm indifferent, but if I was a Hollywood leftist, I'd react poorly to someone coming out as a republican, but their IQ is low, so you say you are an anti Trump republican but are right wing on abortion and trans stuff, as long as you keep that hidden; the left will assume you are a RINO). In Redneck Tennessee, this couldn't be farther from the Truth. In battleground country, it doesn't matter.
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@WyIted
You just don't see this shit from Republicans. This is dnagerous rhetoric from the left causing this
Does, "Hang Mike Pence" sound familiar?
But there is a difference between killing an innocent person known to be innocent and killing a murderer. So I'm more upset with, "Hang Mike Pence" than I am with the shooter.
Trump can do no wrong to you, so you won't critisize him. I'm merely virtue signaling to anyone not in the MAGA cult (the majority).
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Trump was saying we should kill Mike Pence over what he did Jan 6.
If a leading POTUS candidate can call for the death of his VP, then anyone can call for the death of anybody.
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@HistoryBuff
I'm sure you also know lots of people who lost their virginity before marriage and don't regret it. And even if they did regret it, that isn't evidence it causes poor mental health.
What % of those that wait regret it vs those that don't? Why else would they regret it?
Sex changes your brain.no it doesn't.
I got addicted to porn (less intense than sex). It changed my brain and I regret getting addicted. I hope others don't make the same mistakes I did.
lol I don't know where you went to school, but smoking was still super common when I was in high school. These days they just switched to other things like vaping. I also knew a bunch of people who used chewing tobacco for some reason. It was disgusting.
This would be way more common if the school system didn't tell people to never start.
The point of celibacy before marriage is to increase a man's power over his wife.
This is probably not true if both people wait.
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@HistoryBuff
You should try to be more careful before jumping to conclusions.
That's why I go to DART and ask people like you for your take.
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@HistoryBuff
My point is that he has admitted that he is so badly brain damaged he can no longer continue in his career.
RFK's brain is in better condition than Biden's.
the man has been saying crazy shit for years. I don't care if he apologizes for it. He is not fit to be in any public office.
Some things RFK has said are very crazy, but he wants to cut the military budget which as someone who is left, you would at least give credit to him on.
yep, that's kind of racist and dumb.
If you live in NY, then you would still vote for her, so don't act like bad statements you take back are deal breakers.
RFK is more articulate than Biden after sundown; that's a fact.Is that important? I'll take less articulate and sane over more articulate and thinks covid was designed to not kill jews.
In the context of if RFK has a working brain, yes. He took that statement back and I think it's genuine. I forgive Kathy Hocul for bad statements she apologized for and I treat RFK the same way.
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@HistoryBuff
So the relation between sex and negative mental health is more related to people doing risky behaviors have mental health issues. Not the sexual partners specifically.
That's strange. A bunch of people that I met lost their virginity before marraige and they regretted it long term (including 1 democrat woman I met). Sex changes your brain.
But to pretend like teenagers aren't going to have sex is just silly.
If the school system discourages sex like they did to tobacco citing mental health, then a lot of teens will break the rules; but most won't because they tend to listen to authority at least to some extent (like if they never told us to not smoke in school, then the smoking rate would be way higher than it is now).
I can kind of agree that they shouldn't have tons of sexual partners. But that is a far cry from no premarital sex.
I would assume the more sexual partners, the worse it is for your mental health.
Women who are empowered, who have experience dating and know how they should be treated are much less likely to put up with shit from their husband. Men wanted their women to be virgins so they would be able to control them more easily.
My, "High body count is bad for your mental health" argument is for both genders. It's what should be promoted for all.
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@HistoryBuff
How does that have anything to do with him being brain damaged?
Your argument is he can't earn an income from a generic job (something that I think is true of Obama). If Obama tried to get a job at Chipolte, then all it takes is for one person to go to that restaurant that really hates Obama to shoot it up and then Chipolte suffers as a result. Obama is unemployable through ways that don't reflect badly on him.
Thus proving that stupid people believe they are smart and that stupid people can, and do, run for president.
But what's your point? How does that relate to RFK?
He testified he is brain damaged. Those are his words that he swore under penalty of perjury were true. Now, years later, he thinks that he should be president.
So you believe brain damage can never be healed, but a stroke can be (which is why you think it's bad for RFK but not Fettermann)?
Biden is elderly.
That's part of the reason he shouldn't be the head of the ticket.
He sometimes struggles for words and says the wrong thing. RFK thinks diseases are designed not to kill jews.
RFK sometimes says the wrong thing and apoligizes. Kathy Hocul said black kids don't know how to use the internet. She took the statement back and I forgave her back then. Biden said he didn't want his kids growing up in a racial jungle.
RFK is more articulate than Biden after sundown; that's a fact.
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