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@Greyparrot
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Yes, interesting thoughts, guys. It would be ironic if the gun control act of 1968 caused that much blowback. I don’t just mean more people acquired guns, but people started collecting them. Using the 80/20 rule, 80% of the guns are owned by 20% of the people.
Perhaps Charles Bronson and his Deathwish movies are part of it, eh?
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@Greyparrot
Well put. I can actually rebut most of the usual pro gun arguments, but what you just posited isn’t one of the usual ones. Whereas the pro gun argument posits gun freedom being greater than any negative consequences reaped from gun freedom, you (and Ben) are saying that freedom in general is greater than complete safety in general. As Thomas Sowell says, “There are no solutions, just trade offs.”
Also, the USA is an incredibly large and diverse nation compared to ones with better crime stats. And being one of the world’s major firearms producers, it isn’t too shocking that there are a lot of guns. One thing no one seems to have an answer for though: gun ownership didn’t really get markedly huge until the 1970’s. What caused that large increase?
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@YouFound_Lxam
You might find this speaker interesting. He actually wrote a book about militant wokeness as the new religion:
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@DavidAZ
They don't bash Niki Hailey or DeSantis nearly as much or really at all.
I’ve seen quite a bit of coverage of DeSantis— all of it negative. The media fear of a DeSantis presidency is definitively there, especially for a person who has not even declared yet.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Is that why Florida is crime ridden now?
Even for your immature style of posting, that’s pretty lame
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I fled Illinois for Florida, and I was hardly alone.
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@oromagi
- You must admit that DeSantis and his followers are at least pretending to be angry about something.
Underdog was saying “people shouldn’t get angry at people for believing…” (bold added)
To clarify, I should have said that opposition to a certain ideology doesn’t necessarily mean anger directed toward people believing a certain way. Perhaps you should be asking Underdog to show evidence where DeSantis is directing anger (ie hostility) towards individual people over this?
But calling for the death of an ideology (i.e. where woke goes to die) does necessarily equal anger
You are not understanding the use of metaphoric and hyperbolic speech for effect here. Lighten up a bit.
Please give a very specific example- name a Florida school that that INDOCTRINATED (indoctrinated means beliefs (not facts) without a critical framework) children (K-12) in a belief system without their parents knowledge or permission.
You already referred to “woke” as an ideology above. Teaching children ideology uncritically is indoctrination. Now, you want examples of such a thing where such a thing is actively being prevented?
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@TheUnderdog
Opposition does not necessarily equal anger. From the “anti-woke”, I only see anger manifest when people’s children are indoctrinated in ideology without their knowledge or permission.
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@TheUnderdog
When DeSantis makes that claim, “woke” means racial indoctrination in primary education, the racial victimhood narrative, the racial equity agenda, and the anti-white narrative… and I applaud him for it.
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I meant “white people INTRAmarrying…”
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@Double_R
Many POC tend to see white supremacy as existing just about everywhere, not just in right wing ideology. Under the loosest definition I have seen, white people intermarrying are, in effect, supporting the persistence of white supremacy.
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@RationalMadman
So to clarify, they think that it is indeed a right wing thing, or they think that only white people believe it’s a right wing thing?
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Only white people tend to believe that white supremacy is a right wing thing.
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I’m not sure why the faction that is so concerned with being inoffensive to other cultures is so invested in the wet market theory. As if to say, “No! The Chinese are not malevolent; they are not negligent; they are simply unsanitary with their handling of raw meats.”
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Austin should have resigned around the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, either in protest or in disgrace.
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The problem with the word “diversity” is that it is loaded language. The definition being:
“the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.”
Sounds nice enough. But what exactly is “including or involving”? Inviting them to cocktail parties? It really means to institute preferences in job and university selection based upon certain underrepresented immutable characteristics rather than merit. It means doing away with the concept of meritocracy, calling it a myth, not just in the past, but impossible to attain in the future as well.
Rather than doing away with social hierarchies as it purports to do, it merely seeks to create a different one— one where heterosexual, cisgender white males (especially older ones, aka “male, pale, and stale”) are at the bottom, and a black Muslim lesbian in a wheelchair might be at the top.
Now, it’s bad enough when selection based on immutable group identity is used in university faculties and government hiring for various administrative work, but it is much more dangerous in the near term when it creeps into health and safety capacities.
When combined with the concept of equity as it often is, it pushes not for equality, not for equal opportunity, but for equality of outcome based on immutable characteristics.
The result of all this? Our current vice president.
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@Sidewalker
Did you order the diversity hire!?
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@RationalMadman
I’m not really sure what you are looking for here. You have offered, solely to me, merely circular hypotheticals thus far. If you choose to defend the behavior of a company such as Twitter in the context of this thread topic, feel free— just as I stated what I don’t like about Twitter to the thread’s author.
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@RationalMadman
Yes, what if…
I operate in the world as it is, not the way I wish it were. If you have a corporation in mind which you believe walks the walk you wish all corporations would walk, then please, feel free to posit it for examination and even appreciation if deserved. Alas, I have a nagging feeling you don’t, otherwise you would have already made a separate topic about it.
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@RationalMadman
Yes, we can now add minion for government bureaucracy, virtue signaling, and partisan activism.
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@Greyparrot
I used to think that the government/corporate relationship was pretty much a one way street— corporations lobby government for certain policies, and government would largely grant these wishes. Not ideal but the reality. Perhaps that used to be the case, too. But during and since the pandemic, it appears that the relationship is much more 2 way— corporations such as Twitter are granting the wishes of government bureaucracies. What’s perhaps worse, since the election of “the occupant,” some influential corporations are working not just on behalf of their own business interests, but the interests of the DNC.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Yeah, it had me for a moment, but my wife was equally surprised. Plus I looked over and saw that I had the remote.
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@Stephen
Can’t say I’m a fan of Tommy Robinson, but neither am I a fan of policemen taking bribes…
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@Stephen
Not yet, but I’m familiar with the story.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
“Were” being the operative (past) tense. The pendulum has since swung the other way.
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@Stephen
Wow.
A cautionary tale of what happens when people in authority become paralyzed by fear of being labeled a racist.
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@Stephen
Does the video go into the Rotherham scandal?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Seniority at an airline offers nice work schedules…
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@thett3
Last year, the U.K. closed down the one clinic dedicated to gender affirming care, called the Tavistock Centre, because of various issues, chiefly it resorting to gender transitioning over other treatment options:
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@Best.Korea
I agree— simply printing currency does not create wealth. Wealth comes from resources, goods, services, labor, invention, and innovation.
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I realize this forum is largely empty, but here is hoping that there are still some armchair economists with something to say about Modern Monetary Theory:
To summarize, MMT posits that nations with full control over their currency, such as the U.S., can print money as needed for the general welfare. Inflation would be kept in check by a measure of unemployment and by keeping supply and demand properly balanced. If inflation were to occur, it could be taxed back, government spending reduced, and the money supply thereby reduced.
It is supported by such prominent politicians such as AOC and Bernie Sanders. Personally, I don’t buy it. I believe it would lead to hyperinflation, unemployment, and the loss of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. We would be, to put it delicately, f****d.
Any thoughts for or against?
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Anyone here who fits this description?
to those who oppose highly regulated immigration, are for policies such as amnesty and sanctuary cities, but, like Cory Booker, insist they are not advocating for open borders,
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@Intelligence_06
From my understanding, hate crimes do command a harsher penalty because the motive involves hatred of an entire group identity rather than just an individual one has an issue with. Apparently, this man was attacked for his skin color rather than any personal reason.
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@TheUnderdog
It isn’t either/or. In the US, hate speech is a subset of free speech.
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@Intelligence_06
Crime is crime regardless of who is doing it.
Hate crime laws are based on the principle that the type of motive and identities involved make a difference, which goes against your principle of “crime is crime.” Are you against hate crime laws then?
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@FLRW
Mencken also predicted this would happen at the zenith of democracy.
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“The border!” was one of the chants heard during the president’s State of the Union speech. The condition of the US border and border enforcement are hot button issues currently. One can find a whole host of articles and studies extolling the benefits and virtues of allowing immigration, legal or not, and defending the numerous “sanctuary cities” in the US (Canada and Europe as well).
However, Democratic politicians, such as Cory Booker, have claimed that the Democratic Party does not advocate for open borders and resent the GOP implication that the US borders are virtually open and intentionally so. I have to point out here that the term “open border” itself is pretty vague. If one looks it up, the types of national borders are numerous and varied. Admittedly, it is not simply a binary choice of open/closed borders. But… to those who oppose highly regulated immigration, are for policies such as amnesty and sanctuary cities, but, like Cory Booker, insist they are not advocating for open borders, my question is:
Why not have open borders?
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@PREZ-HILTON
I saw it when you first posted it. The extreme disconnect between the voice and the verbiage was good for a laugh. In any case, it’s good to see what even affordable technology is capable of these days…
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@PREZ-HILTON
This just in (actually, I don’t know when it happened): the video in question has been removed due to hate speech violations.
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@PREZ-HILTON
I want to know how Norad let it go through so much airspace before noticing. Or did they notice and just declined to take any action?
NORAD knew about it when it was launched in China. Why they let it float over the sparse Yukon Territory unmolested is beyond my security clearance. Perhaps General Milley thought taking it down would constitute an act of white rage?
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@PREZ-HILTON
Way too many unanswered questions on this, such as: where was Canada on this when it entered their airspace? Or even: where were we when it entered Canadian airspace?
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@Lemming
Monty Python,Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)White Chicks (2004)
You bring up some interesting context! Yes, there is a definite difference between “men in drag” and present day “drag queens.” The former involves men dressing as “plain Jane” women for comedic effect. The latter involves over the top efforts toward glamour and feminine sexuality, entailing flamboyant skin tight costumes, exaggerated versions of the female form, long eyelashes, heavy face and eye makeup, large hair, and sexual movements, voice affects and innuendo. To sum up, I would take young children to see “Mrs. Doubtfire” but not “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”
No one would dare promote a “pornstar story hour” to children, but because men seeking to be women are labeled an oppressed and victimized group, many misguided people feel as though they have to vouch for drag queen shows and story hours as not just harmless but beneficial to children.
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@YouFound_Lxam
So basically that was Anti-American
Alas, the Democratic Party has evolved from valuing its citizens, to valuing foreigners as much as its citizens, to presently valuing foreigners more than its own citizens. Trump’s “America First” doctrine, which IMO should have gone without saying or much fanfare, was instead highly controversial.
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@Greyparrot
When you identify as a professional, female figure skater, and society wants to validate your feelings:
Reminds me of the one about the naked emperor who identified as being fully clothed…
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@Greyparrot
Should our elementary schools be offering optional, after school gun safety courses? It’s never too early to learn!
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@YouFound_Lxam
So I would ask you if you think boys dressing up as girls is beneficial to society, and I would also ask the reason you are bringing your kid specifically to a drag queen, and not another person. What makes it different, and so special?
“Mommy, I wanna wear a sparkly dress and long shiny hair and eye coloring to school! Can I? Why not??”
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@TheUnderdog
I don’t think it qualifies as pedophilia, as I don’t see that being a motivation for it. I think it certainly qualifies as a particularly radical form of ideological indoctrination of children. Ah, I can hear the simplistic, knee jerk retorts already… “you mean, like religion?!” (Not necessarily talking about you, TheUnderdog)
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@YouFound_Lxam
Sure. As the video illustrates the views of anti-racists, it simultaneously supports what I have been telling you as well. I’m not arguing with you, fyi. I’m simply informing you about anti racist ideology.
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@YouFound_Lxam
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@YouFound_Lxam
How does it not?
Addressed in post 7. Virtually nothing disproves white supremacy. Try asking an anti-racist “How could white supremacy be falsified” or “If white supremacy were to end, how would you know?”
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