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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by akomtu »

twofornone wrote: post #157
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #66

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What is the idea?

I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest ele…

And I like how they've been hiding behind the "progressive" label, as if pushing for electric vehicles and the identity politics are equally progressive ideas.

That's something that bad guys have been doing for long time: they pick a good idea or symbol and attach themselves to it. This is how nazists have turned swastika (an ancient holy symbol) into something evil and how the supporters of the identity cult are destroying the image of the true progressives.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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tw04 wrote: post #154
vmception wrote: post #37

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I'm referring to the people running. This guy spent $150 on Dunkin donuts and put himself out there, home address and everything.

He's got a "don't tread on me" flag flying in his front yard. I don't think any of his acquaintances were unsure of his political beliefs.

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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by oh_sigh »

willvarfar wrote: post #181
busymom0 wrote: post #144

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New Jersey (along with NY, CA) has the most unconstitutional gun control laws in America. If I have a daughter who's returning home late at night from University, I would want her to be armed for her own protection. Things like "taxation" are not the most important thing to her.

It would be better to live in the kind of country where girls can walk home at night safely without guns?

Yup, now OP just has the choice to make...completely rewrite American society, or go down to the gun store and buy a gun.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by busymom0 »

sharkmerry wrote: post #235
busymom0 wrote: post #183

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> knives and cleavers or vans here in Canada. According to the FBI homicide stats for US, 297 people were murdered by a rifle in 2018 in the US. 1,515 on the other hand murdered with knives, 443 from blunt hammers, 672 with hands, feet: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-... EDIT: I specifically stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinki…

>> According to the FBI homicide stats for US, 297 people were murdered by a rifle in 2018 in the US. Holy misleading data excerpts batman... there were 10k homicides by gun, but you choose 1 type of gun and not the most common. 2014 - 2018 knives 1545 -> 1515 Blunt objects 431->443 Hands, feet 668->672 Guns 7803->10265

I stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinking. Dems run on "taking away AR-15" but the stats show that isn't going to achieve anything.

In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364

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Post by qqqwerty »

voz_ wrote: post #137
busymom0 wrote: post #121

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> YAY! Thank you to the heroes that set the Children's Jail on fire. > This is a nice start. Lookin good Kenosha. (entire car lots burnt to the ground) And she was running to be the Attorney?

The progressive take at the moment is that law and order is evil, better to have cities like SF where criminal thugs punch sweet old asian women in the street and rob them.

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Post by busymom0 »

colinmhayes wrote: post #208
busymom0 wrote: post #183

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> knives and cleavers or vans here in Canada. According to the FBI homicide stats for US, 297 people were murdered by a rifle in 2018 in the US. 1,515 on the other hand murdered with knives, 443 from blunt hammers, 672 with hands, feet: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-... EDIT: I specifically stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinki…

2/3 of murders were with guns. Would people still kill each if they didn't have guns? obviously. Would they do it less? Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government.

> Hard to say since research into gun violence is banned by the government.

That's plain false.

The reason they stopped studying because it didn't fit the narrative.

In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364

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Post by jimmygrapes »

Erik816 wrote: post #101
nostromo wrote: post #48

A Republican just won an election in Seattle City Government for the first time in three decades. This election has seen some big shifts in the electorate, even in some deeply-Democratic areas. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/republica...

A "Republican" who has previous run as a Democrat and has voted for Democrats in all recent presidential elections. This says less about any shift in the electorate than it does about the extremism of the Seattle left.

You ever go running with an energetic medium-large dog? Sometimes they are just so excited they want to sprint away, much faster than you can possibly bring yourself to go. It's not that you wouldn't love to go that fast, you just can't, and you have to pull the younger, more dependent dog back to a tolerable pace for you. You're still running, just at a pace that doesn't cause injury. You're also making sure that the dog doesn't get off the leash and cause any harm or get unintentionally harmed.

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Post by busymom0 »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #225
busymom0 wrote: post #183

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> knives and cleavers or vans here in Canada. According to the FBI homicide stats for US, 297 people were murdered by a rifle in 2018 in the US. 1,515 on the other hand murdered with knives, 443 from blunt hammers, 672 with hands, feet: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-... EDIT: I specifically stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinki…

The bit you missed out from that link was: Total firearms: 10,265

I stated "rifle" not all guns. Because saying we need to take away all guns is pie in the sky thinking. Dems run on "taking away AR-15" but the stats show that isn't going to achieve anything.

In 2008, there were 800k-3 million defensive uses of guns.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29101364

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Post by busymom0 »

colinmhayes wrote: post #184
busymom0 wrote: post #165

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> stop guns from out of state from entering the city Stop letting them use gun control to ignore the underlying issues in the community. ME: Chicago has strict gun control but high gun violence. Gun Control: They get guns from states with loose gun control. ME: But those states don't have the same gun violence Gun Control: Places in Chicago are poor & neglected so there's more violence. ME: BINGO, it's a socioeconomi…

> Stop letting them use gun control to ignore the underlying issues in the community. I'm glad we agree that poverty is the root cause of gun violence, but realizing that does nothing to stop gun violence. Poverty isn't something that can be solved with the snap of a finger, although I certainly think we are on the right track. What do you think we should do to stop gun violence in the mean time? Nothing is a valid a…

The problem isn't simply about poverty/money or racism or past inequities, it's about corruption, gangs, fatherlessness, teacher unions and lack of school choice.

Chicago has been fully one party ruled since 1931. Baltimore since 1963, Detroit since 1962 etc and so on. Why has none of the lives improved in these cities and they keep having gang problems?

If Chicago hasn't been able to fix anything for almost a century, maybe it's time to either vote for another party or start a new party and vote for them.

Related, 13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math. Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending. This is not because the schools dont get enough money. In fact its just about as far away from that as you can get. If despite getting the 2nd more funded, the students still can't do high school math, someone needs to look at what's going on in these schools.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7bvreb/13_baltimore_c...

https://archive.ph/VfciU

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...

https://archive.ph/cqIZd

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