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Good. But again, just to be absolutely clear about the point you're trying to make, you think he should only go away indefinitely if he has a gun while threatening to kill and violently raping your wife, right? If he threatens to kill and violently rapes your wife without using a gun, you're ok with him re-entering society at some point?

But let's just be clear here, you think that the person who violently rapes and sodomises your wife or daughter without having a gun should not get a life sentence and should be allowed parole, right? Because, y'know, if you're being honest, why else would you have used it as an example?

The USA is already the most incarcerated nation on earth with the most punitive sentencing system of any non-dictatorship. But yeah, I'm totally sure that adding one more mandatory minimum to the mix will be just the ticket. It'll be totally productive without unfairly ruining anyone's life.

I can imagine how surprised you're going to be when you find out that support for gun control and opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing is not exactly a unique position.

Come on man. You were doing so well being reasonable lately then you go and say something as unbelievably stupid as this. You know this scenario is not in anyway a justification for imposing long mandatory sentences for the possession of a gun during any type of crime.

Brent: I just share simple facts! Also Brent: How dare you assume I agree with this article I shared!!

See, this is the most illuminating thing you've posted in this thread. We know that there is racism in the military. No matter whether you think it's more or less prevalant than in general society it is there and it was there. If you're claiming that you literally never saw anyone behave or talk in a racist fashion towards or about an Officer or NCO that simply proves you wouldn't recognise racism if it punched you in the face. Right. These sound like exactly the kind of reasonable men you'd expect to voluntarily form a miniature post-racial utopia. Again, this is an illuminating point. We know it matters less what race people are when it's pitch dark. You can't be racist if you don't know there's someone there to be racist against. Like your example of a cop pulling over a black guy to say 'doctor, you're taillight is out yada yada'. We know that black people are far less likely to get unfairly pulled over at night because the cops can't fucking see black skin in the pitch black.

Excatly, that's why Winsor - who clearly fancies himself as an enlightened free thinker - is coming across in this thread as such a credulous, shallow and narrow minded tool of the right wing propaganda machine. It challenges his worldview to think that he might be in any way a beneficiary of systemic racism therefore he's willing to believe anyone that will help him claim otherwise, no matter how obviously spurious their arguments are.

Why is it interesting that the Epoch Times calls it the CCP virus?

Can’t have criminals running for government. One of them will be tapped for a US Congress run within the next 2 years I’d imagine. Both sides have made a habit of pardoning some pretty awful and undeserving people, but the Republican trend of idolising the people who needed pardoning is bizarre.

Pretty much same experience here. The anti transmission measures do work, and it might actually be quite nice if people start wearing masks in crowded places over winter from now on. That said I'm not quite sure why Westerly is getting on his high horse about preventable flu deaths when is overall position is that we shouldn't bother doing anything except vaccinating to prevent deaths. I'd also note that in nearly 4 decades on earth without taking any anti virus precautions whatsoever I've caught the flu once, and in 18 months of Covid I've caught that once too despite everything. People are going to have to try really hard to convince me that current flu variants are remotely as transmissable or dangerous as Covid. Yeah, this is a bit of a sore point with me too. This time last year I started working with a 22 year old kidney transplantee. He was never going to grow old, but he was probably going to grow up, have a life, and have time to do the things most people want to do with their lives. A week before christmas his original disease starting affecting his new kidney and crocked his immune system, just before new year he caught Covid and by mid January he was dead. Some people wanting to score political points will apparently want to say he died of a rare genetic disorder, or he died of organ failure, but with those two things he'd most probably still be here now and his life expectancy would still be measured in years or decades, which is a pretty long time when you're 22. I really couldn't care less what other conditions people have that were making them unwell, if they'd have been here now without Covid then Covid killed them, and anyone trying to hide behind stats that argue otherwise needs to cut the bullshit and face reality.

What first hand experience of Covid death reporting did he have as a retired person?

A sudden year on year increase because so many more people die at 75 than 74?

Ah yes, the poor disenfranchised white people, such a common theme in American history. Anyone else want to place bets on how accurate Windsor’s assertion turns out to be?

In what way does that make you angry?

Never has the phrase ‘be the change you want to see’ felt more apt.

Ah, the website that brought you "2020 Man of the Year: Guy Who Shocked Lib With Electrified Trump Sign". Yes, I can see why you need to pretend to be unaware of what their bias is.

Soooooo, some critical race theory proponents are Marxists, Marxists are wrong about everything, therefore critical race theory is wrong? Yep, I think you'll find that in the list.

?? Who gets to say what anything is? Who gets to say what civics is? Who gets to say what history is? Who gets to say what biology is? You seem to be saying that because the name CRT has been appropriated by right wing scaremongers as their latest boogeyman that CRT itself is therefore untrustworthy. It's a creative objection, I'll give you that, but it isn't a good one. All the subjects above can be appropriated by bad actors, whether they be authoritarians, holocaust deniers or anti-evolutionists but it doesn't reflect badly on real study of them.

Now that's bullshit. A ) Social constructs do exist. B ) CRT doesn't say race is the sole consideration of anything.

And yet you haven't posted anything from CBS and NBC, you've posted stuff from Legal Insurrection Foundation, a well dressed part of the alt-right whose main claim to fame is insisting that Derek Chauvin was not guilty.

Apart from the fact that you know the names of some authors, no. You really don't give that impression.

So you look at a radical right wing source and you find out that what they have to say about CRT makes it sound bad? So fucking what? Is that supposed to be new information to anyone? So again, why should anyone listen to you when you're just another critical race hedgehog?

It’s not about pro Trump and anti Trump. It’s about complicit vs not complicit. Jim Jordan is not just crazy, not just a proven liar on a wild scale, not just an enthusiastic pusher of wild election fraud fantasies, he was literally in the room where it happened when Trump and his team were formulating their ‘let’s get everyone riled up’ pre riot plans. It’s not even just about the bias - you can’t make an investigator out of someone who could easily be subpoenaed as a witness to the things being investigated, and everyone knows that. Putting him forward in the first place is pure Republican political theatre.

Do you honestly not understand that you are the hedgehog being talked about? You refuse to see any of these issues in anything but one big absolutist way.