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Recent content by eselement

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    Protect life: Get a gun, be taught to use it properly, carry, help make society safer

    There is no solution when gun nuts and the NRA control the narrative. The 2nd amendment has been twisted beyond all reason. Now it includes silencers? High capacity magazines. Assault rifles. It's insane. Look, I grew up around guns. I've handled more than my fair share of them. I'm all for...
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    Protect life: Get a gun, be taught to use it properly, carry, help make society safer

    ROFL. That logic is just...wow. I'm going to use it for my own purpose: my house is a gun free zone. There has never been a mass shooting there. So clearly it has prevented gun violence. By your logic, we might as well say that gun shows prevent mass shootings. This issue has been studied to...
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    Protect life: Get a gun, be taught to use it properly, carry, help make society safer

    Right. I'm the one being outlandish. We have roughly 300 million guns in a nation of roughly 300 million people. If the solution to gun violence was guns, we wouldn't still have one of the highest rates of gun violence in the world. And we already have armed TRAINED citizens. They are called...
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    Protect life: Get a gun, be taught to use it properly, carry, help make society safer

    So your solution to gun violence is more gun violence? That's just what we need, everyone carrying guns so that any bad situation can turn immediately deadly. Congratulations, this is one of the dumbest things I have ever read in my life. You are the poster child for all gun nuts.
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    Black Lives Matter/Police/Racisl Tensions: Is there a solution?

    We could start by not having a president who does nothing but throw gas on the fire, who doesn't refer to black football players as sons of bitches who should be fired for expressing concern for a social issue. Conservatives could pretend to have a sliver of empathy for the plight of black...
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    Black Lives Matter/Police/Racisl Tensions: Is there a solution?

    Racist victim blaming. 100% why this will never be solved. You can't even convince Conservatives there is a problem. Or, rather, that the problem is black people and BLM "terrorists."
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    MSM IGNORES violent Antifa plot caught on TAPE

    The MSM reports every time antifa protests or riots. So I'm not sure what else you're looking for. This undercover "journalism" is ethically suspect. We have seen so many of these videos where someone infiltrates and organization and then it turns out to be misleading, at best. Not only that...
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    Communist Plan Uprising on November 4th.

    I'm concerned about the nationalists and white supremacists who have been emboldened by this president. I'm certainly not worried about Nazis overthrowing the government, if that's what you mean.
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    Communist Plan Uprising on November 4th.

    I live in Portland. Antifa couldn't overthrow the PTA. Much less the federal government. I wouldn't worry about the Communists. The Cold War is over.
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    The gender gap

    More important: philosophy Less important: healthcare, education, social work I disagree.
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    What is a Conservative and a Liberal?

    What I was trying to get at was that people have a duty to preserve and respect their property as well as the property of others. I think Locke's words are something along the lines of not wasting or spoiling what one owns.
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    What is a Conservative and a Liberal?

    I think this is a principle of classical liberalism for sure. The idea that ownership, including self-ownership, and labor are intrinsically linked and that we all should have equal opportunity to acquire property.
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    Who pays if tax reform doesn't pass?

    Dems probably. Republicans are going to push reforms that disproportionately benefit the rich, as they always do. The more interesting thing will be when all the details come out and Americans come to terms with their deductions disappearing. The question also remains how on earth massive tax...
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    What is a Conservative and a Liberal?

    This is pretty tough. Locke was so influential on the founding fathers so I think a lot of his philosophy is at least as applicable to conservative thought. If push came to shove, I think three principles that might be most applicable to the modern liberal would be: 1. Tolerance (no one true...
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    Study: Liberals and Conservatives Equally Deny Reality

    Nice. Reminds me that I often end up in arguments with people who insist that the problem is that "liberals" are irrational and make decisions based on emotion rather than cold, hard logic and reason. Nope. We are ALL irrational.
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