FFS - you accused me of all kinds of shit and couldn't even take such a mild effort to get you to frame your replies to my posts as a reply to the actual post and not some random shit from who the hell knows where. For some reason that is my fault?
That's because I'm more interested in communicating ideas
Random shit about charges to modify imported equipment which may as well have been car parts for all the relevance to anything you were replying to.
Something other than an attack and a pile of strawman bullshit.
I'm studiously reading all 2500+
No, but if you cannot even read the one you are replying to and see who it is from then that is quite pathetic. If you are not a child you should be ashamed.
Since that is all I've been writing about that obviously makes your "anti-Western" crack at me nothing but a baseless insult does it not?
(One last thing, about "arming our enemies"... the Kurds are not our enemies
I thought I made it very clear above - Daash/ISIL and many others are heavily armed with US made guns, paid for by the taxpayer, that have got there via Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Afganistan. I'll ignore all the bits directed at other people, I really don't know why you are whining at me for words I did not write.
But if you insist on framing it in unreasonably self-flagellating terms
I think you have me mixed up with someone else unless you can quote something from me I have forgotten about. Is "broadening a discussion" an act of attacking me for everything bad you see in "the left" whether I agree with those things or not?
Who won the popular vote is irrelevant. This election was a contest with clear rules and both candidates knew those rules.
Yes but now is a good time to discuss those rules for later elections. For example preferential voting make things other than a two party system possible. Compulsory voting makes it more likely that some ignored issues get some attention - everyone has to be listened to a little bit instead of only Party hardliners. Having voting on some time other than a Tuesday with queues cut off at 2pm or other similar bullshit due to lack of resources (some places didn't have early voting) would make it so that people other than the hardcore political junkies get a chance to vote. So it means the NRA or other fringe groups get their own guy into Congress - so? Is that such a bad thing? Much better than them buying one already in there. The current system is prone to that sort of corruption where money means more than the ability to win votes.
Someone please mod the above up, it's correct. While I hate the result ( send a message to the "elites" by electing one of the worst of them?) if the smaller states have no say they are going to get fucked over so badly that Detroit will look like a paradise in comparison.
If you'll care to check, the original goalpost was American made *and in American hands*
The latter has absolutely nothing to do with the post I wrote that you replied to. Maybe you should have written a reply to whoever was setting that goalpost instead of me, because your entire long post above is kind of pointless, and to be frank I don't really give a shit about the gun laws in your state and do not see them as a problem worth noticing on a global scale either way. Yes, the regulations may be stupid nitpicking inconsistent things but it has nothing to do with your taxes paying for guns in the hands of Daash/ISIL.
is on the left completely dominated by the clueless. Like you, it seems
You have misrepresented me and put words in my mouth - easy to build a clueless strawman when you are cowardly enough to argue with pretend people instead of calmly discuss things with real ones. I'm not clueless - I was just discussing something that you moved the goalposts from to avoid.
but that doesn't excuse the sloppy anti-Western hand waving
I had forgotten that any criticism about the stupidity of shooting ourselves in the foot was "anti-Western".
I've never once in my life listened to the gibberish coming from the NRA. However, I *have* attempted to purchase a stock-configured Saiga-12
Yes, yes - you "win" thanks to a goalpost shift. Once you've finished wandering off into that topic of whatever regulations your state or county has how about we get back onto those American made and paid for guns that are shooting at people we are allied with.
They have been bombing the Kurds as well. Interesting that you wish to have some of the people helping us killed but it only tells us about you and not the actual situation.
First of, American-made guns are ridiculously overpriced
Don't worry, those taxes are paying for it. Billions have been spent on smallarms recently that were donated to Iraq, Afganistan and Saudi Arabia and for some reason the guys we are fighting all seem to have American made guns when captured. Even a lot of the stuff that looks like it's from elsewhere are those expensive high quality US guns paid for by the taxpayer (http://www.kalashnikov-usa.com/). Getting off topic maybe and nothing to do with Trump, but it's real. Blame Obama if you like.
Oh good, now we've got your bullshit out of the way. Remember that part where Hillary wanted to enforce no-fly-zones against Russia in Syira
Why is it a bad idea to try to prevent them bombing the utter shit out of our allies? R or D shouldn't matter, if we are going to be in there at all we need to look after our allies or risk them turning against us.
I think it's the opposite, they are coming to the "land of the free" to get away from that shit. Also not even Iran enforces Sharia law, it's just a few Kingdoms (including our "friends" the Saudis who deliberately drove the US oil shale companies out of business by selling oil at a loss).
One more via Maggie Thatcher. Expect him to be "tough on crime", getting people locked up for all kinds of trivial stuff in the first year, then suddenly after the prisons fill up expect a mass of the people who should be spending a lot of time in prison getting early release to make room. Authoritarians like to give orders but don't really think much about consequences so do really stupid shit on the fly to try to dig themselves out of holes.
prepare to lose big in geopolitical manoeuvring against a wily and resurgent Russia due to terminally stupid policies
What actual evidence do you have that Trump will attack minorities?
His own mouth, remember that Mexican judge? It won't just be race. Expect teachers, computer security folks and whatever other small groups to kick when convenient to get a serve too. Authoritarians are good at picking targets for blame.
Note the scene where the criminals pay for a good lawyer and the state does not want to go against people with money. It's the future in the new Kingdom.
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If the insults you handed out are molehills in your mind then your parents failed.
For some reason that is my fault?
Random shit about charges to modify imported equipment which may as well have been car parts for all the relevance to anything you were replying to.
Something other than an attack and a pile of strawman bullshit.
No, but if you cannot even read the one you are replying to and see who it is from then that is quite pathetic.
If you are not a child you should be ashamed.
Example - Ukraine a couple of decades back.
Think of that and reconsider based on some reality how the hypothetical situation would play our.
It's a stupid discussion anyway, as unlikely as the movie plot of nukes in the fault causing the entire state to slide into the sea.
Since that is all I've been writing about that obviously makes your "anti-Western" crack at me nothing but a baseless insult does it not?
I thought I made it very clear above - Daash/ISIL and many others are heavily armed with US made guns, paid for by the taxpayer, that have got there via Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Afganistan.
I'll ignore all the bits directed at other people, I really don't know why you are whining at me for words I did not write.
Most definitely not.
I did not write much and it should be very simple and obvious what my stance is on that very narrow topic.
I think you have me mixed up with someone else unless you can quote something from me I have forgotten about. Is "broadening a discussion" an act of attacking me for everything bad you see in "the left" whether I agree with those things or not?
Let me get this right - being critical of arming our enemies is "anti-Western"?
Yes or no.
Yes but now is a good time to discuss those rules for later elections. For example preferential voting make things other than a two party system possible. Compulsory voting makes it more likely that some ignored issues get some attention - everyone has to be listened to a little bit instead of only Party hardliners. Having voting on some time other than a Tuesday with queues cut off at 2pm or other similar bullshit due to lack of resources (some places didn't have early voting) would make it so that people other than the hardcore political junkies get a chance to vote.
So it means the NRA or other fringe groups get their own guy into Congress - so? Is that such a bad thing? Much better than them buying one already in there. The current system is prone to that sort of corruption where money means more than the ability to win votes.
Someone please mod the above up, it's correct.
While I hate the result ( send a message to the "elites" by electing one of the worst of them?) if the smaller states have no say they are going to get fucked over so badly that Detroit will look like a paradise in comparison.
The latter has absolutely nothing to do with the post I wrote that you replied to. Maybe you should have written a reply to whoever was setting that goalpost instead of me, because your entire long post above is kind of pointless, and to be frank I don't really give a shit about the gun laws in your state and do not see them as a problem worth noticing on a global scale either way. Yes, the regulations may be stupid nitpicking inconsistent things but it has nothing to do with your taxes paying for guns in the hands of Daash/ISIL.
You have misrepresented me and put words in my mouth - easy to build a clueless strawman when you are cowardly enough to argue with pretend people instead of calmly discuss things with real ones. I'm not clueless - I was just discussing something that you moved the goalposts from to avoid.
I had forgotten that any criticism about the stupidity of shooting ourselves in the foot was "anti-Western".
Yes, yes - you "win" thanks to a goalpost shift. Once you've finished wandering off into that topic of whatever regulations your state or county has how about we get back onto those American made and paid for guns that are shooting at people we are allied with.
If we were not paying for them they would not have them.
Such as Trump?
They have been bombing the Kurds as well. Interesting that you wish to have some of the people helping us killed but it only tells us about you and not the actual situation.
The really silly thing about that whole affair is that it was supposed to be French yellow cake as another "freedom fries" bit of bad loser behavior.
Don't worry, those taxes are paying for it. Billions have been spent on smallarms recently that were donated to Iraq, Afganistan and Saudi Arabia and for some reason the guys we are fighting all seem to have American made guns when captured. Even a lot of the stuff that looks like it's from elsewhere are those expensive high quality US guns paid for by the taxpayer (http://www.kalashnikov-usa.com/). Getting off topic maybe and nothing to do with Trump, but it's real. Blame Obama if you like.
No.
There are even some Christians there. The disciples didn't all go to Rome.
Why is it a bad idea to try to prevent them bombing the utter shit out of our allies? R or D shouldn't matter, if we are going to be in there at all we need to look after our allies or risk them turning against us.
I think it's the opposite, they are coming to the "land of the free" to get away from that shit. Also not even Iran enforces Sharia law, it's just a few Kingdoms (including our "friends" the Saudis who deliberately drove the US oil shale companies out of business by selling oil at a loss).
Expect him to be "tough on crime", getting people locked up for all kinds of trivial stuff in the first year, then suddenly after the prisons fill up expect a mass of the people who should be spending a lot of time in prison getting early release to make room.
Authoritarians like to give orders but don't really think much about consequences so do really stupid shit on the fly to try to dig themselves out of holes.
Pretty well already happened.
His own mouth, remember that Mexican judge?
It won't just be race. Expect teachers, computer security folks and whatever other small groups to kick when convenient to get a serve too. Authoritarians are good at picking targets for blame.
As if that's going to happen. He's the opposite of just about everything Ryan and the rest stands for. He was called an "outsider" for a reason.
Note the scene where the criminals pay for a good lawyer and the state does not want to go against people with money.
It's the future in the new Kingdom.
Been done, watch it if you like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...