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  1. lotus503

    shooting at quebec city mosque, 5 reported dead

    How ones determines to formerly describe the act. We all ought to be able to agree there is no place for this. By all accounts the guy was a RW extremist.
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    Very interested to hear folks thoughts on the following

    I appreciate your feedback responses in bold
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    Very interested to hear folks thoughts on the following

    What specifically in the write up do you disagree with? I didn't see it as an ideological piece in as much as a reflection on current state of affairs. I did share your opinion regarding no actionable recommendations, however I don't think that's what Wolin set out to provide, rather holding up...
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    Very interested to hear folks thoughts on the following

    Did you get a chance to check it out?
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    Very interested to hear folks thoughts on the following

    I've been spending time researching a lot of Poli Sci and found what I think may be one of the better descriptions of our existing government and politics. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/sheldon_wolin_and_inverted_totalitarianism_20151101
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    Scalia dead

    Best wishes go out to his family & Friends, Can't say I am personally disappointed as I think he was the worst SCJ that I can recall.
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    christopher hitchens

    There is no proof God exists or does not exist. The key is being OK with not knowing and that is just not something theists can do. But in my mind theists have dual burdens. 1. Evidence of Gods Existence 2. Evidence that if God exists he is anything like they describe with their religion
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    christopher hitchens

    What you describe is Russell's teapot and was used to display a point that they burden of proof is on the person claiming. In other words the burden of proving Gods existence is on the person who states it as so and not the burden of the person who says it isnt so...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I think what we have learned is just like the extremist on the right we in fact has extremists on the left. I call them regressives, the overallly social justice warrior types. That said you cant be a bigot or racist and expect to hide behind the overly politically correct either. Sooner or...
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    8th grader writes letter about the racist abuse he's experiencing at middle school

    All of my girls are in MMA and all of them know if anyone for any reason says anything to them (Bullying), they are to tell a teacher and/or us. They also know if anyone ever lays a hand on them to beat that persons ass, when they get suspended from school or whatever we will go out for ice...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    Religion in any meaningful capacity will die all by itself over time, the world will be better for it too.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    Understood, but I wouldn't say that is the case for the majority of them. Its does beg the question as to why these educated men are choosing to join ISIS and the like.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I wouldn't go that far, My main point is the Mideast is a mess and the Mideast should clean it up. Our involvement there has not been an overall positive thing.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I think Saudi Arabia needs to do something about it.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    agreed, you would never get me to buy into the whole 40 virgin thing, but if I lived in a mud hut in the desert it may seem appealing.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    My position is this, what has happened is France is a tragedy. I really have no words because its just that sad. But I don't think because 160+ people have died we need to send ground troops into the mideast to try and get rid of the problem. 1. It wont work 2. We have our owns problems...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    How much more? thats sort of my point if were assigning value to life then assign the value and then we can do the math and see whats more beneficial to spend money on. My hunch is it isn't conflict in the middle east, but without knowing your numbers I cant be sure.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    While I don't know if I agree with your proposed measures, I would rather spend the money and resources here in the United states vs another Mideast. war. It sounds to me like you agree with that given your proposing spending money here too.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    Not really, you have to read further back, the point I was really going after is that spending billions or trillions on the war on terror seems like wasted resources given we have a lot of murder and death here. I was responding to a post that stated we should own up to causing some of...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I don't disagree with that. But woudl also add its not just owning up to our own shortcoming but also understanding the shortcomings of others. But then again humans have been killing each other since there were Humans, maybe were not at a point of evolution to override our genetics as a...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    My opinion is that were have been short sighted for far too long. The true cost of those types of wars/operations occur over generations. How many terrorists for example have become terrorist since our invasion of Iraq? Seems to me we spent trillions to breed more terrorists and causes more...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    While my knee jerk reaction is to agree with you, I don't imagine all involved got that way because they were born that way. I tend to think something in their life circumstance allowed the evil shit to flourish. So I don't think spending trillions to just punish and kill is a real long term...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I have no idea how many. how I would try and fix it would be determined by the amount of resource i had. If I had the dollars and commitment to the tune of our MidEast adventures I'm sure I would come up with something.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    The point I was referring to was about spending billions or trillions on another ground war in the middle east and really no effort or resource to solve our own issues surrounding murder and death.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    I don't know any of the people killed in Paris or Chicago. I don't know the breakdown of good vs bad people or what your benchmark for either is. The only thing im sure of is Murder is when another person takes someone elses life without permission. But while your wanting to quantify the...
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    We have had 450 murders or so in Chicago alone this year.
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    Deadly Shootings, Explosions In Paris

    Yet we have massive death and murder here in the united states and wont put an ounce of resource into trying to deal with it. Nope when it isn't terrorists its just an acceptable byproduct of our society. When it is terrorists its cool to spend trillions. Our "Moral obligations" have us...
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    Clinton Support Drops - Sanders Supporters Surge

    It could be structured in a manner that an independent non government body oversees the process. I do agree if the electorate wasn't so stupid money wouldn't matter. TV ads are bought for a reason they are effective and truth matters very little when stupid people are bombarded with bad...
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    Clinton Support Drops - Sanders Supporters Surge

    What I do not like is the influence corporation and lobby have over our government and public policy. There are numerous ways to conduct and election cycle absent this influence. Publicly funded campaigns have worked well on local levels, no reason it wouldn't work nationally.
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    Clinton Support Drops - Sanders Supporters Surge

    We both obviously like to fuck too! your point?
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    Clinton Support Drops - Sanders Supporters Surge

    Money is speech and corporations are people. You don't see anything wrong with that?
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    Someone try to explain to me how the Gray family deserves 6.4M?

    Interesting to read all of the predictions about the family and money. By interesting, I mean disturbing.
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    We just need a market disruption, a Skin coating that is bullet proof, problem solved, guns worthless for murder.
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    Video: Police shooting in Texas of unarmed man

    Its absolutely relevant when the excuse used to murder folks with their hands up is that policing is a dangerous job. This isn't about police this is about the rule of law in this country and the abuse of it at the hands of those who are supposed to uphold it. This is also about those folks...
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    FOX News Hires George Zimmerman as Commentator

    If it was real it wouldn't be shocking.
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    Naw, I actually own and enjoy several guns, I am not however a convicted felon and I do not have a history of mental illness. Meanwhile in most cases gun violence is carried out by those who are convicted felons and/or do have a history of mental illness. I think its perfectly reasonable and...
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    I do support the right for a woman to choose what she wants to do with her own body. I base this mainly on the fact that a woman would be a person and have the bill of rights apply as such. I do not consider a fetus a person with the same rights. You think in very black and white terms and I...
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    Ill do what again? Guns = Abortions? Sorry but I try and evaluate issues based on the issue and the merits of the arguments on both sides. I guess I don't think like you and look for common patterns on unrelated issues to try and derive an ideological way of thinking across a broad...
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    Yeah I think past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, I think we as a nation need to do what we can to keep guns of out of the hands of convicted criminals. I also think we need to do more to keep Guns of of the hands of the mentally ill.
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    Virginia news crew shot to death on air

    Cool, So someone with a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon should be allowed to own a gun. Convicted rapists, murders etc. :colbert: