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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: October 08, 2024, 09:44:25 PM »

I'm pretty sure that nobody in the government is trying to "disarm" the public

You mean except for all the people in the government trying to explicitly ban guns from being owned by the public.

Examples?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/kamala-harris-assault-weapons-ban-tax-relief-pennsylvania

https://pelosi.house.gov/issues/gun-violence-prevention

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-democrats-continue-push-for-assault-weapons-ban

Oh, ok. You should rest easy then. If I'm found with a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb by the federal government it will definitely be taken away from me and I will definitely get in a lot of trouble. So this "disarming" that you speak of actually happened decades ago, no need to fear it as something imminent now.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: October 08, 2024, 07:41:58 PM »

I'm pretty sure that nobody in the government is trying to "disarm" the public

You mean except for all the people in the government trying to explicitly ban guns from being owned by the public.

Examples?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 06, 2024, 04:40:45 PM »

It's still a Bible. It's still a religious text. If the conservative members of the Supreme Court want to make a precedent out of allowing Bibles to be distributed in public schools again nothing will stop them, and this pretext wouldn't make it any easier because it's STILL A RELIGIOUS TEXT.

So no, this is not why they're doing it, but nice try anyway at rationalizing their bullshit, I know you see it as your job and I'm sure you did your best.

Also, this isn't what many of the Founders believed, but you go ahead and keep propagating that lie.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 06, 2024, 02:50:34 PM »

It makes sense to me why they would need a special Bible with the Constitution in it. They are attempting to bring Biblical study back into the school system. If they use a regular Bible then they can be accused of running afoul of their students' freedom of religion. They would get criticisms and questions like why not use the Quran or Torah?

 

Yeah, add the Constitution in there and this issue just vanishes, right Tom? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk

« on: October 06, 2024, 10:01:23 AM »

https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-elon-musk-supports-dark-maga-conspiracy-at-donald-trumps-butler-rally

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1519415674111672325?t=r4AR1SSE72VK23RM8R9FRQ&s=09

"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally"

Welp, so much for that. The man's every bit as much the charlatan and hypocrite Trump is. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 02, 2024, 02:36:58 AM »

Would you be concerned if someone ate your favorite pet?

You guys certainly don't seem that concerned, considering that you want to dismiss all claims by claiming that there is not enough evidence to your satisfaction.

The linguistic gymnastics in this sentence... Tom, you are a master at using the maximum amount of words to say absolutely nothing.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 08:00:49 PM »

I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

lol this never happened.

Do you have evidence it never happened?

Ooh, got 'im. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 01:08:25 PM »

I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

I'll take "things that never happened" for $1000, Alex! 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 29, 2024, 09:09:47 PM »

It's a thing. You won't find any evidence of it because the mainstream media won't let anybody talk about it and the Deep State suppresses it but it's all a part of the vudu.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 26, 2024, 07:39:56 PM »

According to the article I linked…

Trump and Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, are charged with disrupting public services, making false alarms, telecommunications harassment, aggravated menacing and complicity.

Yes, it’s doubtful that the case will go anywhere, but it’s yet another example of the number of fucks that Trump gives about the truth and the potential consequences of his words and actions.

It's also an example of the kind of overblown, unnecessary actions taken against Trump that his followers use as ammo to say that he's just being targeted for political reasons, and given that they're correct in this case, it's justification for that attitude. This really isn't helping any.

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Technology & Information / Re: ⚡Is my browser faster than your browser?

« on: September 22, 2024, 07:43:44 PM »

Wow, Doctor, that's the fastest browser I've ever seen, I just don't know if I can handle equipment like that. :faint:

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 20, 2024, 04:26:23 AM »

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-jewish-voters-will-bear-lot-blame-loses-fighting-antisemiti-rcna171938

Did we already have "scapegoating Jews" on the list of ways Trump is like Hitler or is this a new one?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 16, 2024, 10:57:41 PM »

I don't think it's surprising that the side that can't be trusted with guns keep using them against Trump.

Not that I don't agree with you, but why do you think Republicans can't be trusted with guns?

Where did you find this one? It just cracked me up! Thanks for joining us tonight, Roundy. I really really like this joke. Hahah.

Find what? Thomas Crooks was a Republican from the day he registered to vote to the day he died. Routh is apparently unaffiliated and voted in this year's Democratic primary but has also voted Republican in the past.

I'm not sure what "side" you're talking about, exactly, but it sure ain't Democrats.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 16, 2024, 08:26:47 PM »

I don't think it's surprising that the side that can't be trusted with guns keep using them against Trump.

Not that I don't agree with you, but why do you think Republicans can't be trusted with guns?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 16, 2024, 07:56:31 PM »

This "assassination attempt" looks even faker than the Miracle Ear one, not buying it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 15, 2024, 05:24:04 PM »

Meanwhile JD Vance just admitted that the Haitians eating pets story was always a pie, and rationalized by basically saying you have to tell some racist lies to make sure Americans understand the danger we're in, and James Lankford just admitted that the Republicans intentionally killed the border deal for no other reason than that Trump would have an issue to run on.

Why do they insist on giving Democrats so much ammunition? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 15, 2024, 01:06:29 PM »

Meanwhile, in reality, far from the comforting fictions of MAGAworld::

The poll of 3,276 adults, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates with fieldwork by Ipsos, finds that Harris did firm up some of her personal appeal: Thirty-seven percent say the debate made them feel more favorably toward her, vs. 23% less favorably. There was no such benefit for Trump: People by nearly 2-1 say the debate made them see him less favorably.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 15, 2024, 12:49:01 PM »

I remember very clearly every incident of Harris baiting Trump to make an ass out of himself and how he fell for it like a child EVERY SINGLE TIME.

It takes a tremendous amount of TDS to actually have watched that and come away thinking Trump was the winner. Only MAGA cultists like Tom, who are truly too far gone to EVER come back from their brainwashing, could possibly come away with that opinion. And seeing them scramble to justify it like Tom is doing has just been madly entertaining.   

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 08, 2024, 10:49:00 AM »

I know Action80 is supposed to be super old, but does anyone else imagine a petulant ginger 10 year old (I don't know why ginger, it's just what I picture) sticking his fingers in his ears going "NUH UH!" when reading his posts?

Or is it just me?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: August 31, 2024, 08:29:33 PM »

Actually "train wreck" is an extremely spot-on way to describe Trump's whole campaign this year.