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Red_Dragon

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Posted: Mar 14, 2025 - 7:00pm

 kurtster wrote:

Sounds sarcastic to me. 

Or ironic in a way different from what you thought.

He's pointing out the presumed virtues the audience represents and with their behaviour, these virtues go out the window simply based upon disapproval of a particular person.


What color is the sky on your planet, kurt? Seriously.
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Posted: Mar 14, 2025 - 6:59pm

 Proclivities wrote:
Vice President JD Vance gets booed at The Kennedy Center
"This video should challenge us all to commit to making the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed," writes Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, a Trump appointee who is also the special presidential envoy for special missions, on X.

"It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place."

I thought "intolerant",, "welcome", and especially "diversity" were prohibited words under this administration.  Irony is still alive.
 
Sounds sarcastic to me. 

Or ironic in a way different from what you thought.

He's pointing out the presumed virtues the audience represents and with their behaviour, these virtues go out the window simply based upon disapproval of a particular person.
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Posted: Mar 14, 2025 - 11:44am

Vice President JD Vance gets booed at The Kennedy Center
"This video should challenge us all to commit to making the Kennedy Center a place where everyone is welcomed," writes Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, a Trump appointee who is also the special presidential envoy for special missions, on X. "It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength. We must do better. We must welcome EVERYONE. We will not allow the Kennedy Center to be an intolerant place."
I thought "intolerant",, "welcome", and especially "diversity" were prohibited words under this administration.  Irony is still alive.
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Posted: Sep 30, 2024 - 5:59am

JD Vance: The Immigration Crisis, How Polls Are Used to Fool You, and the Left’s Plan to Stop Trump

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Posted: Sep 15, 2024 - 12:30pm

I wish we could have stuck with the couch-f*cker meme but there it is...


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Posted: Sep 15, 2024 - 8:46am

JD Vance on CNN this morning with Dana Bash, just openly admitting the stories he and Trump made up the stories they are pushing regarding Haitian immigrants.
When Bash (sort of) calls him on it, Vance said "If I have to create stories to get the media to pay attention then that’s what I’ll do!"

Even Bash, who is MAGA adjacent was nonplused and there was a long moment of dead air where she tried to get Vance to see the absurdity of what he just said.
Instead Vance just doubled down on it.

Vance claims he and Trump have to "create stories" about migrants eating cats and dogs "so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people."
Basically, if I have to lie and demonize innocent people and they are then targeted for violence by my hateful unhinged followers, I will. Collateral damage. So what? Because that's what it takes to scare Republicans into voting for me.

I don't care how you slice it, that's right out of the Josef Goebbels Reich Minister of Propaganda playbook.

~Jim Wright
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 3:02pm

 thisbody wrote:

It's imbeciles' reasoning. Or major financial fuck-ups.
Money over life, y 'know. It will be a question asked of us:
Are you willing to be a murderer (have you been)?

Future societies will be strict on this, not showing much patience towards you cowboy shootists.


Yes you in need of a peaceful brain-implant!



It's taken me a long time to realize that English is not your primary language. 
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 12:15pm

 Beaker wrote:


No they're not.  This is dishonest, which is pretty much par for the course with you.  The anti-gun types here are screaming in the same way they have always reacted, with each mass shooting.  They offer no alternatives but their very own position of banning the offending weapon and restricting legal access to buying firearms.  They don't discuss what might happen to the likely incidence of school shootings if such a ban were enacted (Oh noes - there's other guns! Hello 3D printed ghost guns ! Oh noes - Europe - mass stabbings! )  They don't discuss the availability of unregistered weapons (also a considerable problem in Canada - guns smuggled in from America).  They don't discuss root causes - such as mental illnesses and societal ostracization of the shooters. Their entire focus is on the weapon, and not at all on the shooter.  The discussion on mass shooting here is intellectually dishonest, just like you.





This is rich, coming from someone who mostly behaves like his/her muppet avatar. 

"The anti-gun types here" are focused on a lot more than America's ready access to guns. I think everyone recognizes that even a ban and seizure on assault-style weanons won't stop mass killings in the US. The root causes for this kind of violence are far deeper than ready access to guns. 

That's why "the anti-gun types here" want to go beyond common-sense gun control measures and support more funding for counseling, violence intervention and community services. A mass killing like a school shooting is just the end point in a long string of social and economic problems. As I see it, a mass shooter thinks they've run out of options to improve their lives or get along with others. 

People here bring up these shootings to point out how badly broken our society CAN BE. People like you who criticize "anti-gun types" refuse to look at the deeper problems and think that if we just harden our schools (like JD Vance suggested) and arm our teachers, things will be fine. People like you DON'T want to fund psychological counseling or community outreach efforts. People like you things the 2nd Amendment trumps everything else and that our government and society shouldn't impose any responsibility on gun owners. 
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 12:02pm

Root causes ————- make me puke!
As if anything else would be responsible - just say -out of the blue sky- for the killings. Dead bodies everyday from the fucking country that names itself home of the free.

Translate that.
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 11:41am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Of course they do, but if we attempt to restrict access to guns while the person is seeking or put into treatment, we're violating their 2A rights. According to some. 

It's imbeciles' reasoning. Or major financial fuck-ups.
Money over life, y 'know. It will be a question asked of us:
Are you willing to be a murderer (have you been)?

Future societies will be strict on this, not showing much patience towards you cowboy shootists.


Yes you in need of a peaceful brain-implant!

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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 9:32am

 Beaker wrote:
They don't discuss root causes - such as mental illnesses and societal ostracization of the shooters. 


Of course they do, but if we attempt to restrict access to guns while the person is seeking or put into treatment, we're violating their 2A rights. According to some. 
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 8:47am

 Beaker wrote:


No they're not.  This is dishonest, which is pretty much par for the course with you.  The anti-gun types here are screaming in the same way they have always reacted, with each mass shooting.  They offer no alternatives but their very own position of banning the offending weapon and restricting legal access to buying firearms.  They don't discuss what might happen to the likely incidence of school shootings if such a ban were enacted (Oh noes - there's other guns! Hello 3D printed ghost guns ! Oh noes - Europe - mass stabbings! )  They don't discuss the availability of unregistered weapons (also a considerable problem in Canada - guns smuggled in from America).  They don't discuss root causes - such as mental illnesses and societal ostracization of the shooters. Their entire focus is on the weapon, and not at all on the shooter.  The discussion on mass shooting here is intellectually dishonest, just like you.





Well, speaking of dishonest, a lot of people have made a lot of suggestions. Suggestions based on examples from other places that worked. But you and several other people insist on 'no limits on guns of any kind'. So the rest of us have said "well then, what is your solution". To which we get more cops, mental health, blah, blah, blah. But we've done all that and still have the problem.  We have tried to focus on the shooters with red flag laws and the like, but we are told that those are unconstitutional restrictions on a person's liberty.  So we wait, and more people die, and pro2a people tell us 'too soon', 'thoughts and prayers', 'we'll always have crazy people', but they never put forth any notable proposal other than 'more guns'. So we've armed teachers, we've put SROs in schools, we have armed the populace with 'shall issue' concealed carry permits so that everyone around is armed. People now carry guns to the movies and to go get groceries. Sometimes their kids get ahold of them and kill themselves while we shop (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/8...). Then when a political candidate from the party of all guns all the time, makes remark and says "fact of life", you bumble down a sematic rat hole diagraming sentences and pointing at commas to justify that he wasn't minimizing gun violence... despite the fact that gun violence is now just a fact of life. Then you get in a huff when we say you are minimizing gun violence.

The fanaticism around the 2nd amendment is a recent development. The NRA was a hunting club until the late 70's. Here's an interesting podcast with some good background for those who care: https://radiolab.org/podcast/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show.  Other places have figured this out (Canada for instance), but America is a gun.

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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 8:46am

 Beaker wrote:
Thanks for illustrating my point about intellectual dishonesty, by offering up an example.

Yeah. Nice dodge.

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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 8:45am

 rgio wrote:
That's a good point.  We should make child pornography, fentanyl, lead paint, and a bunch of other things legal. Focus on the users, not those making money.


Thanks for illustrating my point about intellectual dishonesty, by offering up an example.
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 8:37am

 Beaker wrote:

 Their entire focus is on the weapon, and not at all on the shooter.  The discussion on mass shooting here is intellectually dishonest, just like you.

That's a good point.  We should make child pornography, fentanyl, lead paint, and a bunch of other things legal. Focus on the users, not those making money.

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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 8:13am

 kcar wrote:

@Beaker: Given the amount of trolling and crap you've posted here, you shouldn't expect much polite discourse from others. But people here are trying to have a serious discussion about school shootings. You're just carrying water AGAIN for a failed politician who's trying to shrug off another school shooting. 



No they're not.  This is dishonest, which is pretty much par for the course with you.  The anti-gun types here are screaming in the same way they have always reacted, with each mass shooting.  They offer no alternatives but their very own position of banning the offending weapon and restricting legal access to buying firearms.  They don't discuss what might happen to the likely incidence of school shootings if such a ban were enacted (Oh noes - there's other guns! Hello 3D printed ghost guns ! Oh noes - Europe - mass stabbings! )  They don't discuss the availability of unregistered weapons (also a considerable problem in Canada - guns smuggled in from America).  They don't discuss root causes - such as mental illnesses and societal ostracization of the shooters. Their entire focus is on the weapon, and not at all on the shooter.  The discussion on mass shooting here is intellectually dishonest, just like you.



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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 7:08am

 Proclivities wrote:

I'm always a little suspicious whenever there is a "provocative" repost from Twitter/X or other social media sites - regardless of whatever side it may represent - but maybe that's just me.



You are correct.  That should be the default stance for everyone.  Though trying to get many/most to change their reflexive ways may be impossible.
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 7:07am

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 See you next Wednesday. 


The problem, phokes, isn't the tone of the debates here, it's what you choose to debate, while ignoring other substantive issues and news.  Very few convos, so far this cycle, have been substantive and on important topics.  The discussion on unrealized gains is one notable exception to what is mostly low-fi noise that passes for political discussion here. 
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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 7:06am

 Beaker wrote:


You mean to say that fake narratives happen on social media, that many fall for and repeat here?  That's never happened here on RP before!

Thanks.  You are correct.  A little digging, and yeah, it's totally fake.  My bad.

I'm always a little suspicious whenever there is a "provocative" repost from Twitter/X or other social media sites - regardless of whatever side it may represent - but maybe that's just me.

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Posted: Sep 8, 2024 - 7:02am

 Proclivities wrote:

FYI - I strongly doubt the veracity of this image.


You mean to say that fake narratives happen on social media, that many fall for and repeat here?  That's never happened here on RP before!

Thanks.  You are correct.  A little digging, and yeah, it's totally fake.  My bad.
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