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  • Originally posted by seer View Post

    So you were killing and eating bugs when you were seven? Man, you were ahead of the curve! ; )


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    • You could equally argue that people being able to release their violent impulses through video games and getting used to doing so makes them less likely to physically act on those violent impulses when they have them, as they associate those impulses with playing video games.

      Also... kids in pretty much every country in the world play violent video games. Just as some kids in pretty much every country in the world have some mental disorders. But pretty much only in the US do schools get shot up. The difference in result can't be any of the common factors. So the difference in result has to be because of the unique factor of the ease of access by kids to guns in the US.
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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      • I agree... seeing Tucker Carlson's prolifically lying face is sobering as to how much of America actively self-harms by watching him.

        But why would you actually mentally harm yourself by listening to stuff he says? Seriously? Have you not been following the revelations from the Dominion lawsuit about just how much he intentionally lied to his viewers night after night?
        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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        • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          I agree... seeing Tucker Carlon's prolifically lying face is sobering as to how much of America actively self-harms by watching him.

          But why would you actually mentally harm yourself by listening to stuff he says? Seriously? Have you not been following the revelations from the Dominion lawsuit about just how much he intentionally lied to his viewers night after night.
          Sorry, you are mistaking me for someone who cares about your opinion...

          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • Originally posted by seanD View Post
            It's seems they're blaming the Christian right (the actual victims) more than they are guns in this incident (Ox seems to be an outlier).
            Of course it's the guns fault.

            The people who support widespread gun availability in the US are morally responsible for all these endless killings. Period. End of story. All the blood is on your hands murderers. There's nothing else to say or worth saying.

            Had it not been a trans person, I'm guessing it would have been more focused on guns. The leftist blame narrative seems to depend on who the perpetrator is.
            Are you projecting monumentally? After all the various mass shootings the right-wing narrative was "thoughts and prayers, we have to make sure we don't pass any laws to do anything about this" and then after this one, with this particular perpetrator the narrative has been "TRANS PEOPLE ARE EVIL!!!". It's the most radical narrative shift based on perpetrator I think I have ever seen in nearly 20 years of following US politics.
            Last edited by Starlight; 03-30-2023, 05:53 PM.
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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            • Originally posted by seer View Post
              Sorry, you are mistaking me for someone who cares about your opinion...
              Lol, you don't even have the slightest defense do you? So you're resorting to "waaaaaah!!!". Good one. Well you can continue to corrode what little's left of your brain by watching Tucker if you like.
              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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              • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                Lol, you don't even have the slightest defense do you? So you're resorting to "waaaaaah!!!". Good one. Well you can continue to corrode what little's left of your brain by watching Tucker if you like.
                No, I don't care. And my brain is just fine, after all I'm not the one who thinks men can get pregnant.
                Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Of course it's the guns fault.

                  The people who support widespread gun availability in the US are morally responsible for all these endless killings. Period. End of story. All the blood is on your hands murderers. There's nothing else to say or worth saying.

                  Are you projecting monumentally? After all the various mass shootings the right-wing narrative was "thoughts and prayers, we have to make sure we don't pass any laws to do anything about this" and then after this one, with this particular perpetrator the narrative has been "TRANS PEOPLE ARE EVIL!!!". It's the most radical narrative shift based on perpetrator I think I have ever seen in nearly 20 years of following US politics.
                  Other than most of what you said just being trollish trash, I really do find it both interesting and odd you're so insistent we pass laws in our country you supposedly don't live in. I just can't imagine being in a forum with a bunch of kwis arguing with them about how wrong they are about their politics and what sort of laws they should and shouldn't pass. That's just bizarro to me.

                  But I don't necessarily think trans people individually are evil and I don't think that's what the narrative is. That's probably leftist projection, like how they project their racism. I kind of feel sorry for them, because I think most of them are mentally ill people. I put the evil part primarily on the shoulders of social media and leftist toxic culture and its politics.

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                  • Originally posted by seanD View Post

                    Other than most of what you said just being trollish trash, I really do find it both interesting and odd you're so insistent we pass laws in our country you supposedly don't live in. I just can't imagine being in a forum with a bunch of kwis arguing with them about how wrong they are about their politics and what sort of laws they should and shouldn't pass. That's just bizarro to me.

                    But I don't necessarily think trans people individually are evil and I don't think that's what the narrative is. That's probably leftist projection, like how they project their racism. I kind of feel sorry for them, because I think most of them are mentally ill people. I put the evil part primarily on the shoulders of social media and leftist toxic culture and its politics.
                    In Star's defence, the New Zealand Herald reads like a local newspaper. If I lived in New Zealand, I'd be bored stiff with "local" news.
                    P1) If , then I win.

                    P2)

                    C) I win.

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                    • Originally posted by Diogenes View Post
                      In Star's defence, the New Zealand Herald reads like a local newspaper. If I lived in New Zealand, I'd be bored stiff with "local" news.
                      Local news tends to be super-boring. Once the front page news was literally that grass was growing well. Gotta get my entertainment somewhere, and the US provides.
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                      • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                        Of course it's the guns fault.
                        Yes that nasty gun walked off into a school on its two legs and pulled its own trigger.
                        The people who support widespread gun availability in the US are morally responsible for all these endless killings. Period. End of story. All the blood is on your hands murderers. There's nothing else to say or worth saying.
                        Hysterical appeals to emotion, as expected.

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                        • Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
                          Hysterical appeals to emotion, as expected.
                          Basic morality isn't hysterical emotion. Fail better.
                          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                          • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                            Basic morality isn't hysterical emotion. Fail better.
                            So visual and realistic depictions of abortions aren't just hysterical emotions?

                            Also, "hysterical" is sexist and also transphobic terminology.
                            P1) If , then I win.

                            P2)

                            C) I win.

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                            • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              Basic morality isn't hysterical emotion. Fail better.
                              You didn't present any morality. Just hysterical appeals to emotion, little boy.

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                              • Originally posted by Diogenes View Post
                                So visual and realistic depictions of abortions aren't just hysterical emotions?
                                Showing a picture of it would be an attempt to engender an emotional reaction. e.g. if I were to start posting pictures of bullet riddled bodies of children killed in mass shootings, rather than just talking dispassionately about the immorality of gun culture leading to mass shootings, that would be attempting to engender an emotional reaction.

                                Also, "hysterical" is sexist and also transphobic terminology.
                                Take it up with Gond, I was quoting him. Also, I don't give 2 figs about virtue signaling word usage so you're barking up completely the wrong tree.
                                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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