U.S. Politics

[konfab]

Well you seem to be making the argument that any law made is useless because people will find a way around it.

Abortion was illegal in Ireland up to the end of 2018. Yet, 4000 women per year travelled to England and Europe to carry out the abortions.

Those who couldn't afford to travel took illegal ones, or self medicated to induce. Estimates for 2018 were around 2300 per year.

In Brazil, over 250 000 women are hospitalised per year due to complications from illegal abortions.

So using your apathy in respect to ways to affect change, why bother with abortion laws?

You are making the case for not needing federal laws on abortion.
US has almost completely free movement between states. So if you want to kill your own child, there is nothing stopping you from just going to a Democrat state that allows it and pick up the free T-shirt that says you are a compassionate human being afterwards.

Where the federal government does have a say, is that if a state tried to prevent a pregnant woman from leaving that state to get an abortion. Or when freedom of movement for that woman is restricted, like if they are in a prison or something like that.

 

[Cray]

Well, you know the Dems are f***king up the country when someone like Dwayne Johnson wants to run as President....

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson further teases presidential run, talks 'goal' of uniting the country​

Kanye West says hi.

 

[konfab]

Thread on the conservative intelligentsia (lol) at American Greatness (double lol) arguing that fascism is a justified course of action.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1381955630139908097

Isn't progressivism wonderful? You now have a moral case for being a fat slob that consumes nothing but sanitised daytime entertainment and packaged goods.

The human being: now refined and perfected by Progress:

 

[Tofu]

Is Kanye allowed to buy a gun? I don't think Kanye should be allowed to buy a gun.

 

[buka001]

Isn't progressivism wonderful? You now have a moral case for being a fat slob that consumes nothing but sanitised daytime entertainment and packaged goods.

The human being: now refined and perfected by Progress:

Retaining your title as the King of Strawmans.

 

[buka001]

BuT mAH vOTeR Id lAWS!!

DeSantis wants voters’ signatures to match. Would his pass the test?

If the Florida governor gets his way, mail-in ballot signatures would have to match the most recent signature on file with the state. His own signature history shows how autographs evolve.

www.tampabay.com

 

[tetrasect]

Drug laws for instance....
I think you ask a very good question.

The point of laws is not to prevent crime from happening, it's to punish/rehabilitate/expel/shun/lock away those who commit them in an effort to minimize crime.

 

[tetrasect]

The more relevant stats, since we were talking about mass shootings, would be the one below

Country	Death Rate per 1 mil	Population 2021
Norway	1.888	5,465,630
Serbia	0.381	8,697,550
France	0.347	65,426,179
Macedonia	0.337	2,082,658
Albania	0.206	2,872,933
Slovakia	0.185	5,460,721
Switzerland	0.142	8,715,494
Finland	0.132	5,548,360
Belgium	0.128	11,632,326
Czech Republic	0.123	10,724,555
United States	0.089	332,915,073

Nope, death rate per capita is NOT more relevant because as mentioned a single shooting in a low population country like Norway can tip the scales immensely.

Maybe better statistic would be the number of mass shootings per capita?

Can't find a list like that but considering that there were 614 mass shootings in the US in 2020 (up from 269 in 2014) it doesn't look good for them.

Another interesting fact seen below is that the number of unintentional shootings is higher than defensive shootings.

 

[Temujin]

Oops

PART 1: CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That’

Investigating and exposing corruption in both public and private institutions.

www.projectveritas.com

 

[surface]

Is Kanye allowed to buy a gun? I don't think Kanye should be allowed to buy a gun.

I don't know much about him except that he can probably buy off NRA and most of the gun shops in USA.

 

[tetrasect]

Oops

PART 1: CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That’

Investigating and exposing corruption in both public and private institutions.

www.projectveritas.com

LOL CNN EXPOSED!!!

Now do a Fox News EXPOSED please?

 

[RanzB]

LOL CNN EXPOSED!!!

Now do a Fox News EXPOSED please?

Or how about PV does a PV EXPOSED

 

[greg0205]

LOL CNN EXPOSED!!!

Now do a Fox News EXPOSED please?

Well known propagandist, liar and grifter James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas.

I get to say "well known" 'cos he is, well... well known.

Observe:



Two pages of search results for James, and...



Nine pages of results for Project Veritas.

Significantly more than the eight mentions - total - it takes to be "well known" among MyBB conservatives... as in the case of "well known anti-Trump Republican", Geoff Duncan.




See?

 

[Vorastra]

"News"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1382281456408522753

 

[Kieppie]

Well known propagandist, liar and grifter James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas.

I get to say "well known" 'cos he is, well... well known.

Observe:

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Nine pages of results for Project Veritas.

Significantly more than the eight mentions - total - it takes to be "well known" among MyBB conservatives... as in the case of "well known anti-Trump Republican", Geoff Duncan.

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See?

Nope you only get to say "well known". Congrats for the effort.

 

[greg0205]

Nope you only get to say "well known". Congrats for the effort.

 

[Vorastra]

If Project Veritas was exposing Republicans, local leftists would suddenly love them.

 

[Vorastra]

Retaining your title as the King of Strawmans.

You should pop in at the "DA fake degree" thread.
@surface is going ham.

 

[Unhappy438]

 

[greg0205]

Oh...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1381953919052566530