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@freemo maybe they misunderstood "potted plants"

My girlfriend is trying to give me a hard time for drinking soda in the morning, claiming it will give me an upset stomach. Meanwhile she is feeding me eggs that have intentionally been buried in the ground until they go rotten and turn black.

...sips soda and stares at her...

@freemo if we ban the name "Steve", we will be safe, since very few "Steves" commit crimes in China, India or Japan.

What an "Assault Rifle" ban sounds like to me:

"Well since no guns used in mass shootings have ever been painted pink, lets make it so all guns have to be pink, that will reduce mass shootings!"

@thatguyoverthere @freemo @lmrocha @pj well the ancient Greeks summarized the logical fallacies. And probably about 90% of the media's content would fall into one of these categories.

@lmrocha @freemo @pj @mike805 lol it's like you really aren't paying attention. He never said that you were arguing an anti-vax position, but that you are using techniques he's run into when discussing the vaccine issue. Things like completely ignoring the actual argument he's making and relentlessly attacking a strawman he's already lit on fire.

@freemo @realcaseyrollins Agreed. Taxpayers are the customers and the employers. We *are* the police union. Any union they form separately is in direct opposition to the general public they're meant to serve.

> Republicans are, in theory, about small government.

Haha yes. In theory.

I'm in the #GOP but for the life of me can't find many prominent politicians who are about small government. #Trump and #RonDesantis sure as heck ain't it.

@jaysonmassey

Think about if the first amendment was worded as:

A free press being necessary for the functioning of a country, the right to freedom of speak shall not be infringed

Essentially the same format.. if you read that would you or anyone objectively reading it be able to say "Ok thats saying only the press should have freedom of speech and no one else should have that right"... or that "that seems to suggest I can infringe on peoples freedom of speech as long as its not the press"

I doubt it, and frankly I suspect anyone reading the second amendment who isnt bias would probably agree with me.

While I am often not very happy witht he GOP leaning SCOTUS on this one I really am glad to have a right-leaning supreme court.

Lets hope they do the right thing and knock down these and similar state-laws as unconstitutional and in violation of the

Провели с детьми опыт с разноцветными огнями 🧫🧪💥🔥 #дыбр #фото

"Israeli politics will remain fundamentally unstable as long as the occupation persists as a putatively temporary military dictatorship that Israel upholds indefinitely. "

theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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> I posted papers in response to you saying there is no evidence that more guns increase mortality. The papers I posted are 100% relevant to the discussion. In both individual households and society at large, greater availability of guns leads to higher mortality (after controlling for all sorts of demographic factors) , not just in suicide but also in homicide rates.

See, thats not what I said at all.. I said **nothing** about overall mortality rate. I talked about murder and violent acts in society as a whole, that is vastly different than mortality rate, which I did not claim and in fact explicitly argued against more than once in the thread by making very clear that suicide by gun is completely unrelated to what is discussed, but would be included in figures of mortality rate.

Thank you for demonstrating for me exactly why you are posting non-sense articles that do not address remotely the assertions I am actually making.

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