Timeline for introvert list by m14brony, page 6
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@mrmattimation There is no fundamental difference between him and Hillary. He is more unpredictable and demagogic, but we are talking about someone with a history of opportunism (he claimed to be pro-life and in favor of universal healthcare in the past). Trump is simply pandering to the most backward sections of the working class with his anti-immigrant rhetoric and such (he probably doesn't even believe a good deal of what he is saying, and even if he believed it, it wouldn't get congressional approval). I am also convinced Trump's appeal would melt away when he ended up failing to improve living standards.
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@mrmattimation Ulfric can build a shine of Talos with a small loan of a million Septims.
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@mrmattimation Perhaps Ulfric Trump is too busy vociferating against the greyskins and the lizards? :P
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@critialcloudkicker I don't know of all of the details, but I can't say I would be surprised by a coup d'etat against Erdogan, a budding Islamist despot.
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@mushi Even during the Pokemon craze in the late 1990's, I never bothered with it. However, even as a young teenager at the time, I was firmly in favor of switching to the metric system over here in the USA. Is it really that hard to deal with multiples of ten?
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@rarity Ulfric is going to build a wall. And he is going to make Morrowind pay for it.
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An accident? Clayton Brumby's actions constitute outright negligence as far as I am concerned. His blatant disrespect for basic gun safety has resulted in his son's death. Not only should this man face charges, but his firearms should be confiscated, and he should be classified as a prohibited person. I have had hot casings land in my shirt on several occasions, and in every one of them, the first thing I did was safely set the gun down on the shooting table/bench before dancing around and trying to get the hot casing out of my shirt. Are people in the firearms community going to take a more "Swiss" approach to things, or are we going to continue this asinine "free for all" that can only eventually result in draconian anti-gun legislation eventually being passed?
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@tiffany Have you ever noticed that a fair deal of the people in the US who tell blacks to "get over" slavery and racism happen to be the same people who can't get over the Confederacy losing the Civil War?
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@ceruleanspark I'm okay with heteros as long as they don't shove it in my face
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Drumpf has a big wall of garbage, and he is going to make Mexico pay for it.
Tuesday, 28-Jun-16 21:25:42 UTC from web -
Girls have been complimenting me on my painted toenails.
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The land of my ancestors (well, some of them) has sent a big "cherry you" to Donald Drumpf: https://gma.yahoo.com/mexican-flags-raised-protest-donald-trumps-visit-scotland-165505145--abc-news-topstories.html
Tuesday, 21-Jun-16 22:36:06 UTC from web -
Bungholio!
Friday, 17-Jun-16 21:36:58 UTC from web -
@critialcloudkicker Eeyup.
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Thanks, Autocorrect! :(
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*Glomped.*
Friday, 17-Jun-16 20:26:50 UTC from web -
@azureblaze I never bothered with cigarettes, but I never developed an addiction to cigars back when I smoked them.
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How many Trump supporters does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "Oh, and we'll get the best - I know the best people, who are gonna screw this thing in. And then it's gonna be so bright, let me tell you, and people are gonna come from all around and go oooh! and they're going to say that it's the best light bulb they've ever seen - and I'm telling you right now, Mexico is going to be paying the electricity bill - I'm gonna make em."
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@critialcloudkicker I have been calling for a better healthcare system and more universal firearm training in the US for years. And even in spite of such problems in the US, violent crime was at a peak in...the early 1990's. The violent crime rate actually continued to drop after the ban on "assault weapons" expired in 2004. Other factors are at play here, and the various anti-gun politicians do not have a solution. They are simply applying Donald Trump's flawed logic to a different target.
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@critialcloudkicker EDIT: I forgot to mention that a description of a firearm purchase is entered on the NICS background check paperwork here in the United States. What we have is a de facto registry.
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@critialcloudkicker As far as I know (correct me if I am wrong), places like Switzerland and the Czech Republic don't have screenings that occur so frequently, yet their more relaxed gun control laws don't result in widespread violent crime. I doubt that such frequent screenings are necessary.
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@awl We have politicians who have a history of backing and financing Islamists when these people are fighting one of their enemies.The current and previous administrations on Capitol Hill threw away the lives of thousands of GI's and far more Arab lives destabilizing an entire geographic region; the rise of ISIS and the spread of terrorism being the result. We live under a broken, for profit healthcare system that makes it more difficult for people to get the help we need. It is considered acceptable to judge entire religious and ethnic groups by the actions of an individual lunatic. Anti-intellectualism is a popular pastime. A college degree has become the new high school diploma. A billionaire oligarchy calls the shots. No serious efforts are made to tackle income inequality, poverty, or the lack of prospects of the youth. What we have is not working, indeed!
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@awl We're still dealing with positions being distorted here. An assault rifle wasn't even used in this shooting; a good deal of the people in the media clamoring for more stringent gun control don't even know what they are talking about. The problem is that their arguments are more predicated on emotion than fact. There isn't even clear-cut, conclusive evidence linking more relaxed gun control with violent crime and such; the problems we see in the USA are not as prevalent in the Czech Republic or Switzerland, which are on the more lenient side of gun control legislation compared to say, Japan. Japan has very strict gun control and low violent crime, but France's strict gun control didn't prevent an even more lethal shooting than Orlando from happening. Nor did Norway's prevent Anders Behring Breivik from killing and injuring more than Omar Marteen.
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@critialcloudkicker I don't think a "pseudo-military regime" automatically goes hand-in-hand with more relaxed gun control vis-à-vis other Western nations. While I don't agree with every aspect of Swiss gun regulations, I do greatly admire many aspects of their gun culture over there, and I think there is quite a bit the US can learn from them. I need to research more specifics of whatever criminal and mental health evaluations they do, but they don't have nearly as many shooting-related problems as the US does. Furthermore, I don't think their combination of conscription with a non-belligerent foreign policy constitutes a "pseudo-military style regime."
