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Ethan in the Record Store
S05E11 -- The Moronic but Hailed as Brilliant "Confessions" Video
Does this still hold up?
His Paul Walker Impression was Unnerving...
Penn's Background (spoiler)
Studio Wanted One of the Leads to Live in Order to have a Franchise...
Spoiler - Showdown with the Bad Guy
References to Groundhog Day...
But... Go Woke, Go Broke
Extraction 2: [Your Subtitle Here]
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I don't see why it should be surprising if poor people are more likely to procreate than rich people. We're in an evolutionarily novel environment that has been shaped by culture, which moves far more rapidly than natural selection. Men with more sexual partners are less likely to have children than men with the fewest partners (above zero). People who are highly religious and poorly educated tend to have a lot of kids. Education should have a skull and crossbones when it comes to passing along one's genes.
Your non-replies are instructive. I'm not sure who you think you're fooling. It's nice you've abandoned the pretense of an argument for weak insults. This has been fun.
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If they weren't, then criminals would still be using guns... but they're not. They resort to substitutes. All other things being equal, knives are less deadly than guns, so it's a win. The overall level of violence is down. The big boy purpose of laws is not to eliminate crime, but to reduce it.
Re: Illinois vs. Indiana
A profoundly stupid straw man. You're conflating a vector with a monocausal explanation. Do you think the reason Texas has a lot of illegal immigrants is because they have a border wall and agents, and the reason Wyoming does not is because they lack those things? In terms of violence/organized crime, there ARE other factors. A big one is population density (and the things that come with it, like organized crime).
Re: CDC
You cite "Bureau of Crime and Labor" in your copy/pastah. I can find no Bureau of Crime and Labor. You also suggest the findings are from the CDC. This is unlikely. It appears some similar stat had been cited or linked by the CDC at one point, but it was removed, in all likelihood because it's bogus research for the reasons I mentioned above. Here's a link you'll find favorable: https://crpa.org/news/blogs/cdc-hiding-the-truth-on-defensive-gun-use/
You did say something correct when you mentioned "lack of solid data." It's almost certainly not due to year-to-year variability in data. The wide range because it's a bogus methodology that one cannot place any confidence in.
"What? Go ahead. Show me the 'controlled data' of whites being as violent."
That is not what I claimed. Please read for comprehension. I said gun availability matters, which is why you can compare whites with high rates of gun availability to whites with low gun availability, and discover the former is higher. I gave another example comparing Black populations. You dumb racists are so exhausting. Just look into your malevolent soul: Why do you think Southern states (and racist non-Southern states) prevented Blacks from getting guns? If you think guns don't make a difference, then you wouldn't care if Black people are armed. Speaking of being armed...
Re: Blades, blunt objects etc. vs. Guns
Yes, people can be killed umpteen different ways. And yet, firearms are one of the most effective. Why do gun rights actvists prefer guns on their nightstand to a brick? If you have a 10-year old, does he have access to a baseball bat? Golf club? A large rock in the backyard? Kitchenware? So there's no difference than if he could get his hands on Glock as he pleases?
One of the more retarded arguments I'll see is people who say that after a country like Australia imposes strict laws against firearms is someone who says there's a jump in knife crime. That shows gun laws are working...
Agreed. Sorkin's basically full of shit. In Sports Night he has a lead character say something along the lines that he's ambitious for the reason all men are ambitious -- to impress a woman. Social Network is more about Sorkin's view of what drives young men than what actually drove Mark Zuckerberg, so his comments about this unnamed studio executive are likely self-righteous lies.
"Trump winning in 2016 proved that all republicans and dems are the washington elites."
This sounds like a non-sequitur. Claiming all Republicans and Democrats are Washington "elites" is one thing and relatively meaningless, but it's quite another to say Trump's 2016 win "proves" it. Waiting until an election year to impeach makes sense. Trump waited until an election year to bribe Ukraine with taxpayer money to launch a phony investigation into his leading political rival (and the one who happened to beat him). How is the "deep state" going to stop Trump from winning again? The deep state refers to bureaucrats who run the federal government. They don't run elections, which are conducted by the states.
Might want more tinfoil to protect your balls from the Obama mind-rays.
You seem to think you have something resembling a compelling argument. What's your sample size for what these dictators have done while Biden has been in office? Putin invaded Ukraine -- something that had been building for decades. During Trump's term, separatists in Eastern Ukraine were making war. Yemen was battling Saudi Arabia and civil war in Syria raged. Peace did not fall over the world during Trump's tenure.
It's funny how Biden is simultaneously weak, a dementia patient, and a dictator. Not that Trumpists have a coherent worldview, or that they care that Trump self-describes as "very strong" and seems to get along well with actual dictators. In 2016, Marco Rubio called Trump a wannabe strongman who despised the rule of law. Rubio endorsed Trump ahead of the Iowa caucus, which seems to show the real corruption of Washington elites. It was the same story for Ted Cruz. Yet the people MAGAtards despise are Washington elites who have consistently opposed Trump. Even DeStantis has recently complained people who "kiss the ring," something he will almost certainly do shortly.
Some right-wing jackwad here could definitely shoot up children at a nearby elementary school.
Yeah, it's not like a certain North Korean dictator called him "dotard." I know, I know, later they "fell in love." It's funny Trump-cultists think they have some kind of argument here with the respect/allyship of countries like Russia and China. That runs both ways: Trump respects those countries and leaders more than western liberal democracies.
Republicans used to be fond of a heuristic, "I shall support the candidate our geopolitical rivals like the least." The most ardent supporters are not voting Republican; they're voting Trump.
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