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A butcher knife might be less effective and wouldn't be a first choice when you absolutely, positively need to kill every mother fucker in the room, agreed. But it can be used to kill and so has a certain utility for the chore. But of course that really wasn't my point nor is it my desire to do the knee jerk right wing thing and place all blame on the shooter and not address gun proliferation or our gun culture. Maybe we could test the theory and place bucket of knives and a bucket of pistols in both the local nuthouse and bingo parlor and examine the results.
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Agreed, absolutely. I was simply thinking, given that the prospect of any meaningful firearms regulation or control in America makes intractable seem a silly word, there was no reason not to consider other contributing factors that might have solutions.
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My bad. I thought Billy Vance was much older. No matter, the point was that reductionist thinking might be good for the feels but that even though we have too many guns and have too often glorified their use the problem is vastly more complex. I'd guess your solution is the wholesale confiscation of any type of firearm that has ever been used in a family massacre. Given how many massacres we've seen that would probably cover most guns so if it could happen we'd have a winner. But that's not happening, and you know it. None of that means we shouldn't also look hard at what causes these never saw it coming events.
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If you like, but that ostensible truth doesn't void the fact that whatever was the brain chemistry rebalance, or sudden electrical storm, that caused the subject to grab a gun and murder his family is still a mystery. Nor does it void the fact that a butcher knife has the same utility. Of course the proliferation of guns in America is a huge contributor to these events, you won't get an argument from me, but clearly there is a lot more involved that can't be known from making a few jumps together or giving them a good look over. As I recall, Ted Bundy was a rather benign and pleasant looking fellow who preferred bludgeoning over shooting.
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Woke or un-woke, gender or mis-gendered, Trump loving or not, homosexual or straight or some variation, or sadly the feeling that you must kill those closest to you to escape, and on and on. What goes on at the level of the brain defies any possible current understanding. It might be intellectually satisfying to be reductionist, and certain, but things and our personal understandings are always more complex. The truth is that we really don't have a clue why we feel the way we do or why we act on those feelings the way we do. But we each and every one of us is always on the precipice of being something other than we think we are. Hence, judge not your fellow beings for their quirks because you just cannot know whether or not you are next up.
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Kim Jong Un-woke?
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Elon Musk, Trump, Security Concerns for America
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
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Ain't that the truth.
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Bravo, Sir! What a wonderfully stated and smart bit of advice. AirbornePOG, this is the word.
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Post #25 Brent said: "Read a bit on the early progressive movement." He doesn't even realize that he shape shifts for convenience. No longer is it the present tense to defend because that's too awful. That I find awe full, for sure.
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You read a bit about the changing meanings of words over time, I promise you won't find it awful.
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Not at all, she's auditioning for a better lifetime job on the Supreme Court.
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Progressivism equals Fascism? That's about as ass backwards a proposition one could possibly make unless it's a total troll or you posted after a session smoking fatties with Rich Ravizza.
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Kamala Harris because it's only her or Trump unless you choose to throw away your vote. The Constitution is weak, the Supreme Court sucks, the whole damn system is crappy, I think, but until it's changed it's Harris or Trump.
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That a clever fellow and student of history such as yourself can pretzel twist his logic until purges, mass starvations, genocides, the brutal and wholesale slaughter of untold millions of innocents and much more until it equates with being concerned with the safe futures and welfare of the weakest members of society is truly concerning. The simple fact that only Trump wants to suspend our democracy in favor of his own autocratic ambitions absolutely means that Harris whose desires are better lives for Americans sucks less. Whether or not her intentions are misguided is irrelevant by comparison.
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Bill, thanks as always for your efforts. But the sad truth is that those of us here who are vehement anti Trumpers have long been too aware of how autocrats are made and wouldn’t trade our freedom or anyone else’s for a few more coins in the purse. The rest of us here either don’t care or don’t have the capacity to understand what the new reality would be living under Trump ver.2. Sadder is that all we can do now is hope.
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So it all started with you? Thanks for the deal on Alaska, I guess.
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Absolutely, but unless they ask nicely I say let them suck sticks.
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We get that a lot. The problem is figuring out who is who.
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Perfect. The moron plays "Time to say Goodbye" as performed by Sarah Brightman. Yep, he's totally ready to lead America. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1846006129953833365?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1846049221369024700|twgr^dbc1511fb3af76d379e0064ca9042379f10c6224|twcon^s3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstories%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2F2276964%2F-Trump-lets-his-unstable-flag-fly-with-bizarre-39-minute-dance-routine
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Oh for craps sake, they were personal and private emails, not work related and she gave her legal team instructions to do so at a time there wasn't any legal controversy.
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Poor construct. Your pretense is that after we seeded her fields for many decades Israel would have outgrown us economically by orders of magnitude. That is ridiculous. Israel wouldn't have a hat to beg for coins were it not for America. And now, just maybe we have a vested interest in not letting that madman Netanyahu use American supplied weapons to get us into the war you evangelicals not so secretly desire.
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My knowledge of war is formed in the exact manner as your knowledge of Jesus Christ; it is born of what I have heard, been taught, from what I have read and then filtered through my personal reasoning faculties. Please take this opportunity to tell me that consequently I can’t know jack shit about it and I should just shut the fuck up.
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Also a great strategy if Armageddon is your goal. People wonder why Christians love Trump and fear not the destruction of democracy, but it’s not a mystery. They already bow to a king so the idea of an authoritarian or autocracy or another prince or two in the middle is hardly an impediment to the desired end goal: the end of humanity. We atheists aren’t extremists like you regardless of your attempt at an analogy. We want it all to thrive and continue. You don’t.
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It's all about the software version running on our neural network.
