Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Dustcan  
Sorry, I was in a TL;DR mood. Dumb question.

@Terton  
What do you expect us to do about irresponsible gun owners? Having a gun is a huge responsibility. If you fuck it up, it’s on you, no-one else.
 
How about neither of us use the death of a child to further their own political agenda?
 
Guns aren’t toys. If you let your kids anywhere near them you’re a fucking idiot.

@Sectioned  

 
Translation: Don’t attempt anything to reduce the number of accidental gun deaths. Got it.

@Violet Rose in The Rain  
I think you mean, don’t attempt anything to reduce the amount of freedom in this country. Or should we just give up and hoist the Venezuelan flag already?

>no big news items on gun violence/deaths  
“Why are you pushing for gun laws? Nothing bad is happening!”  
>big news items on gun violence/deaths  
“How dare you take advantage of bad things happening to push for gun laws!”

@Sectioned  

Not let them have guns in the first place comes to mind.
 
 
@Sectioned  

Boy, it’s a good thing all kids everywhere never look through their parent’s things on their own, or go places where someone else entirely may have unsecured firearms, or disobey their parent’s instructions in any way.

@Dustcan  
UBI is a fucking dumbass idea that needs to die.

@Sectioned  
Once again, Kyle’s being a contrarian without offering any substance to his rebuttal.

@Ereiam  

 
Maybe he has a point. But that requires he’s knowingly adding to the feedback loop to accelerate its own self destruction.
 
But I doubt he’s actually a Landian accelerationist.

@Zincy
 
Even though I’m pro gun rights, this is why whenever I’m in a place with weapons about, they are unloaded and safe to handle (pretty common-sense gun safety methinks). For single-shot weapons, I make sure that no rounds are chambered; for semi-auto weapons _{(“B-but I thought they were banned in NZ!” lol, implying that will be abided by when the provision banning them is sun-setted in June of next year)} the same and making sure the safety is on; for full-auto weapons, the same as for semi-auto except I pretend I never saw them, so when the police ask me I can play ignorant and say “how am I supposed to know the difference between a gun with sears that allow the bolt to reciprocate until the trigger is released and sears that only allow semi-auto firing?”
 
 
Anyhow, what I wanted to mention today is how I’m seeing a lot of ‘progressives’ on social media cheer for Assange’s arrest on the basis of him “not being a real journalist.” Last time I checked, there was no designated priesthood called “journalists,” and to imply that just because someone or some organisation doesn’t conform to your definition of ‘journalism’ is just another step on the road to dismantling both a free press and free speech; all because of partisanship over something someone published that they felt was in the public’s interest- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute!?
 
For some reason this entire scenario sounds awfully familiar for some reason. A journalistic person and/or an organisation with a controversial publishing history, that publishes something that one side defends or at least acknowledges as “freedom of the press” and the other side decries as “not real journalism”; and when said journalistic person/organisation is under serious threat, the side defending them points out the dangers this could have down the line, while the side decrying them says that it would be “good for the press in the long run with them gone.” Where have I heard that before?
 
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it feels like it happened not too long ago…

@Dustcan  
So is Finland going to continue with their UBI stuff?

@GargantuanBass  
Let’s not get into telling people here to die.

@Princess Luna
 
Sorry. I was saying that was essentially his argument, hence the quotes.

I just reread what Bass was replying to. Ignore this.

It was too soon for Hillary to run for president. We had Obama with law enforcement which sent several people to prison, then along comes Trump.
 
Her only option now would be to combat corporate tyranny.

@Badheart  
Hillary screwed up allot, she didn’t come out swinging with good policies and had a strong pro corporate history, that didn’t excite the left, combined with disillusionment over the dems screwing over her main rival so bad, hence why they have those new super strict rules about members not being allowed to shoe any favoritism,

@Thanotos Omega  
Her only predecessor was Obama, she could have crapped all over Trump.
 
A good number of her voters were most likely locked up.
 
 
That’s feminism, high quality and low prices.

@The Smiling Pony  
Citizen gun ownership is a trap.Once a country put their collective fingers in that particular mecanism,there is no turning back and mass shooting as well as separatist militia/fringe group increase .That’s my view as someone who live in a country where those Second Amendment non sense laws doesnt exist.We dont need them,more guns in the hands of he people will be just another problem to stack on the pile of problems we already have.No thank you,we dont need that

@Scrabbleman
 
I’ve no idea. It’s not the success they were hoping for (they were hoping it would incentivize unemployed to find jobs, but their results found it had no positive or negative influence on the rate the unemployed became employed).
 
I can’t find any news on what they’ll do so we have to wait and see.

@Ebalosus  
>no designated priesthood called journalism
 

Bernie is rocking it at the Fox News town hall.

@Dustcan  
Good for him. I hope he has fun getting stomped this election.