Everything posted by softlynow
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Active shooter thread
Tell me why that's necessary against victims like this. Against McConnell, MTG, Abbot, your local DA, or school board member? Sure, I get it. Hell, I applaud it. No rules, just win. I know my posts don't register much, but I've already weighed in on the approach Dems need to take. But going after this poor guy whose life has been turned upside down? And before we even know how he'll react? That isn't cruelty with purpose, it's just sating the lust for revenge. Tell me how this kind of cruelty changes minds. Tell me how it results in electoral or legislative victory.
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Active shooter thread
He didn't ask for sympathy. I just don't think that diverting from the road to justice and good policy to dabble in ineffectual cruelty because of our feels is appropriate. I may not believe in Christian dogma these days, but I still consider myself an Episcopalian because of the positive values instilled in me by growing up in that church. If Jesus exists, he is grieving with this man and hoping for better from him.
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Active shooter thread
Based on your posting style, I don't doubt this at all. Every big tent needs its assholes, I suppose. Carry on.
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Active shooter thread
Suitable for discussion, not for ridicule. Let the man grieve. If he comes out of this unchanged, then, so be it, let the vitriol loose.
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Active shooter thread
Fuck that sentiment. He's not a lawmaker and he was never the deciding vote in an election that prevented the passage of sensible gun legislation that could have prevented this killing. He lost his child and now his shit is on blast. That's not karma, and these posts are cruelty. Dems need to be better at fighting, but along the way cannot become the flaming pieces of shit they're fighting against. Be ruthless towards Pub politicians, not poor folks devastated by their anti-life policies.
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
Hard hitting journalism right there. Lloyd Christmas would be riveted. But I guess the average tv news viewer needs this shit spelled out.
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
Y'all can argue it all you want, but nobody knows right now, whether Beto's move pays off. It was a gamble, to be sure. Sydney's thinking is the mainstream. The safe play. Schedule a rebuttal. Hope it gets press coverage, beyond the Tribune and some local tv affiliates. In most situations, Beto's scheduled PC gets little play. So in the coverage vein, this move worked. He is now solidly a part of this discussion. There's also a real possibility that this school shooting is one too many. At some point that day will come. Is this the shooting that changes minds? The smart money is that it is not, but the smart money often sticks with the aging champion well past his prime. For a campaign that most, including yours truly, gives little to no chance of winning, it was a fairly smart play. What does Beto have to lose if 18 children dead 5.5 months before an election doesn't move the needle with moderates? If it doesn't, he loses anyway.
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Active shooter thread
Republicans should simply be asked the following over and over and over: Do you actually want to prevent future school shootings? How would you do so? When can we expect that legislation? Until forced to answer the first question, Dems should assume, by their actions up to this point, that their answer is "no." And should be screaming that from the rooftops every got. damn. day. Republicans accept school shootings. Republicans accept school shootings. Republicans accept school shootings. Republicans accept school shootings. Republicans accept school shootings.
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Active shooter thread
True. It just got more likely that teachers will be required to carry.
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Active shooter thread
It still stunning to me that these people advertise their tiny dicks and their doubts about their own masculinity.
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Active shooter thread
The body of that website does detail that some other countries do have school shooting problems. Some of that text: European countries have had their share of school shootings, although not as frequently as in the United States or Canada. These include eight in Germany since 1913, one in Lithuania (1925), one in Sweden (1961), three since 1967 in the United Kingdom (none after the 1996 massacre), three in Finland since 1989, two in the Netherlands (1999 and 2004), one in Denmark (1994), one in Hungary (2009), two in France (2012 and 2017), one in Estonia (2014), Spain (2015), at least five in Russia since 2014 (including events in May and Seotember 2021), one in Crimea (2018), and one in Poland (2019, no deaths). Gun violence in Central American countries is extremely common. In Honduras, the homicide rate is many times the global average. Because of heavily armed gangs in Honduras, school shootings “are so common, they are subsumed quickly into the country's news cycle and barely register outside its borders.”. As such, the true number of school shootings in Honduras is unknown, but believed to be high. Mexico has experienced 17 reported school shootings since 2004. All of these incidents have resulted in zero to two deaths each. In each of the three shootings that had two deaths, one was the perpetrator. South Africa has experienced five school shootings since 1994, resulting in eight deaths in total. Excluding China, several Asian nations have experienced school shootings. These include one in Taiwan (1962), two in Israel (1974 and 2008), one in Yemen (1997), one in the Philippines (1999), one in Thailand (2003), one in Lebanon (2007), one in India (2007), one in Azerbaijan (2009), and one in Pakistan. The "Peshawar siege" in 2014 was a Taliban attack that killed 145 (plus the gunmen), making it the deadliest school shooting in Asia
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Active shooter thread
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country Top 3 US - 288 Mexico - 8 South Africa - 6
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Great Replacement Theory is no longer fringe, it’s mainstream
No, there’s an urgent need to be armed or working on exiting this country.
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Great Replacement Theory is no longer fringe, it’s mainstream
A bunch of these threads could simply folded into the American Fascist thread. The Center-Right has lost control of its radical flank, and all it will take is one election giving WH and Congressional control to the GOP for the American experiment to end badly. Big lies like this “theory” are the prelude to catastrophe.
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Bitcoin and other crypto-The CR thread
It's not totally clear you understood the post to which you're replying. Who would want to invest in an instrument that doesn't increase in value? Who would want to use an instrument as currency that does increase in value?
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Roe v Wade to be overturned
Has the American electorate and electoral system been replaced by rational counterparts from a different universe yet? No? Prepare your anus for the fascist buttfucking.
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The 01-06-21 Select Committee Thread
We went from Shining City on a Hill to banana republic in about 40 years.
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Round 2 - French Elections
Certainly keeps them in the game despite how terrible they are at traditional warfare.
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The Supremes
Yep. "God wants us to end abortion tourism" is the next line, as if crossing state lines for medical care of an emotional nature and which is possibly necessary to save a woman's life was a fun vacation.
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Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
- Ukraine War
You're asking about the rules that apply to the mega rich?- Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
He only sees the good in people, which is why he knows nothing about Portnoy and Rogan.- Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread
He will emerge from this as the front-runner for the Republican nominee for President, and y'all know it. He knows silence now is a positive for him with his base.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Or he just doesn’t believe in the no win scenario.- So in the interest of maintaining your sanity, you pick two, maybe three issues and that's it.
1. Decrease the number of constituents for each member of the House of Representatives to 30,000. 2. Require upfront pricing from all medical service providers, meaning all prices published on the internet and in a book/binder in the patient lobby. 3. Term limits - 6 for house reps, 2 for Senators. - Ukraine War
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