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  Is New Zealand right to ban military style guns?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  in response to the recent terrorist attack in new zealand their government is proposing to ban semi automatic and military style weaponry.. do you agree with this idea?.

  would they be  better off allowing more of these weapons instead?.

  would it be better to perhaps allow more of the muslim community for example, to be armed with semi automatic guns to protect themselves at their places of worship?.

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  We need to make it more difficult for people to get these high rate of fire / high penetration weapons (aka "assault rifles"). Police forces all across the US have used the easy acces to these weapons as a pretense for an arms race. The police have used it as an excuse to carry their own assault weapons in every single patrol car. To carry out search warrants in full tactical gear with body armor. They've used it as an excuse to carry grenades and drive around in APCs.

  Assault weapons are undermining our rights and are making the police more and more militaristic everyday. We need to get these weapons off the streets so the police no longer have an excuse to run around looking - and acting - like full blown militias all the time.

  
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  The Mueller Report....will it affect Trump negatively?

  by minimus in

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  they say it will be out any day soon.

  do you think the report will do major damage to trump?.

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  I have to agree with Wasanelder. Let's say for a moment Mueller produces a tape of Trump saying to Putin, "Please hack Hillary's e-mails and have the Russian GRU throw the election" - I don't think even something that damning would matter. Because Republican's in the Senate would just hand wave it away.

  They'd be on TV saying things like, "Well, everyone gets help from non-US actors in some way" and "Remember that one time Obama wore a tan suite at a White House briefing - that's the real crime we should be looking into" etc. Republican's wont even stand up for McCain when Trumps attacking him in the grave - do we really think they're going to stand up for the rule of law?

  So long as Trump has his sycophants in Washington providing him cover nothing's going to stick to him. Maybe if he loses in 2020 he might be charged. But, the way things are going, I think he has a greater than 50% of being re-elected.
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  Is New Zealand right to ban military style guns?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  in response to the recent terrorist attack in new zealand their government is proposing to ban semi automatic and military style weaponry.. do you agree with this idea?.

  would they be  better off allowing more of these weapons instead?.

  would it be better to perhaps allow more of the muslim community for example, to be armed with semi automatic guns to protect themselves at their places of worship?.

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  And given that the gun lobby in the US is paid for by the gun industry, people repeating the talking points of the gun lobby are the sheeple following the people who want to sell them guns.

  Amen
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  Not JW related, but should the electoral college be abolished?

  by Billzfan23 in

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  elizabeth warren, alexandria ocasio cortez, and other democrats are openly expressing interest (and in come cases, campaign promises) that the electoral college has to go.

  i disagree for a few reasons.

  first, the 25 states (out of 50, so 50%) with the smallest populations only get 21% of the electoral college votes (in our current system, today).

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  I think our Republic is best served when the population receives fair representation from it's elected officials. The Electoral College does not practice fair representation. It is an atavism from a bygone age and gives disproportionate value to individual voters. For example, voters in Alaska get far more representation in a presidential election than voters in California do.

  This is not how we conduct local races, state races, or elections for other federal offices. And it's an exception we shouldn't be making for our Presidential elections.
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  As usual, when Simon can't win on the facts he has to resort to strawman fallacies.
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  The research has been done on this exact topic. And it finds that wind turbines not only have a high Energy Return on Investment - they also out preform fossil fuels and nuclear power. So the argument that a windmill could never generate as much energy as was invested in building it is completely and utterly false:

  "The EROI entails the comparison of the electricity generated to the amount of primary energy used in the manufacture, transport, construction, operation, decommissioning, and other stages of facility’s life cycle (Fig. 2) Comparing cumulative energy requirements with the amount of electricity the technology produces over its lifetime yields a simple ratio for energy return on investment (EROI) . . . The average EROI for just the operational studies is 19.8 (n¼60; std. dev ¼13.7). This places wind in a favorable position relative to fossil fuels, nuclear, and solar power generation technologies in terms of EROI."

  Note, this is just the "operational studies." It doesn't include the fact that windmills are becoming more efficient over time and are able to produce greater amounts of energy. So we can expect its EROI to go up even more.

  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222703134_Meta-Analysis_of_Net_Energy_Return_for_Wind_Power_Systems
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  Is White Nationalism A Major Problem In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  after seeing the atrocity in new zealand, do you think white nationalism is a major issue affecting you or where you live?.

  somebody already called out chelseaclinton, blaming her for the attack!

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  it's that many SNEAKING IN ILLEGALLY are criminals.

  This is patently false. The criminal rate for immigrants - legal or otherwise - is lower than the American population.

  https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-illegal-immigrant
  

  and the crimes are not arrests for smoking pot

  This is not accurate either. African Americans are convicted of marijuana possession at a rate of 370% compared to Caucasians.
  https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/item/racial-disparity-in-marijuana-arrests

  It's left wing propaganda saying right wing people say that ALL Mexicans are criminals.

  I don't know of anyone saying "all Meixicans are criminals." But I do know of at least one person who is saying Mexican Immigrants are criminals:

  "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people . . .They’re sending us not the right people. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everyone elses problems."

  -Donald J. Trump
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  What about Germany? What does that have to do with the efficiency of green energy?

  You seem to be confusing Germany's decision to get rid of nuclear power (premature in my opinion) with an actual policy that moves a country away from fossil fuels.

  This is not a pie in the sky idea. Iceland, Sweden, and Costa Rica have all succeeded in achieving 100% renewable energy. And dozens of other countries are operating at greater than 50% renewables. For countries like the US where we have a large population and we like to live in big houses - we like to drive big cars - we like to light up our cities like their a god-damn rave scene - etc. the transition is going to take a lot longer and require a lot more investment. But every little bit helps. And the more we do now the smaller price we'll pay economically and environmentally.
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  Is White Nationalism A Major Problem In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  after seeing the atrocity in new zealand, do you think white nationalism is a major issue affecting you or where you live?.

  somebody already called out chelseaclinton, blaming her for the attack!

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  There are many Right Wing conspiracies. There was Pizza Gate that prompted hundreds of threatening calls and ended with a man taking his rifle to DC and firing shots into the restaurant. All because they thought Hillary Clinton was running a sex ring in the basement of the pizzeria (the building has no basement FYI).

  There have been others that can be quite specific from Trump insisting Obama wasn't a US citizen - to the persistent belief that the UN is trying to overtake the US to create a "one world order" - to a secrete "deep state" that's secretly controlling our government. There are also yet others that are far more vague - Jews are trying to take over the world - blacks are the cause of crime - and most Mexican's coming to the US are rapist and drug smugglers.

  I believe the vast majority of these people aren't evil or crazy. They're just ordinary people who are deeply misinformed by Right Wing propaganda and a political system that far too often uses fear to manipulate it's members.
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  I always have to laugh at the silly Republicans who worry about the environmental cost of "manufacturing" solar panels and wind turbines. Gas and coal refineries and power plants ALSO have to be manufactured (and at a much higher environmental cost). But the environmental cost to manufacture them is absolutely minuscule compared to the pollution they put out by burning their fuel - not to mention the fact that these fuels have to be shipped hundreds if not thousands of miles.

  We can build wind turbines and solar panels that get their energy on the spot and don't put out green house gases. Or, we can be stupid, and build more gas and coal planets and refiners that put pollution into our atmosphere and need their fuel brought to them from halfway around the world. Which one do you think sounds more efficient?