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For much longer than that. Not to mention we used to just straight quarantine people/households. America is a selfish country filled with dolts.
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If that's the case, it's still completely dumb. If you shoot someone in self defense with ball ammo it's definitely going to over penetrate and keep going possibly hitting anyone or anything behind the threat. And what happens if you are driving from the range and experience a flat tire, have to use the restroom, an emergency where you need to go somewhere else. Bad laws.
Hollow points are more destructive and dangerous to the person who was shot. They cause so much internal damage that the person will not survive a wound that may have been survivable otherwise. They are banned by the Geneva convention.
Why do police use them then?
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First off, not a democrat. Secondly, Republicans concretely instrumented and benefited from the CRT media moral panic. Not "painting" anyone, simply stating facts. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conse...
It wasn't Republicans who thought it a good idea to constantly tell white schoolboys that they are "oppressors". If a political party can't take such virulent institutionalized hate and make political hay out of it, then it's not a political party worth keeping.
> It wasn't Republicans who thought it a good idea to constantly tell white schoolboys that they are "oppressors".
Show me who's constantly telling white schoolboys they are oppressors and not that they are protected[1] by every institution we have[2]? It's an entirely invented self-victimization.
1. https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/stanford-ra...
2. https://www.wymt.com/2020/08/28/nick-sandmann-joins-senate-m...
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Show me someone who is for healthcare, unions, college, but also doesn't want to take a black marker to the second amendment, I'll wait. Until the left stops going after guns, single issue voters will keep voting the way they do.
Have you ever considered why there is a strong correlation between beliefs in healthcare, unions and college and a belief in gun control laws?
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I recently learned that drugs have become more dangerous and more damaging not due to customer demand, but because of the war on drugs. You need to transport a lot less fentanyl than cocaine for the same effect strength. Meth also had changed to work without ingredients we have banned. This has made meth much more damaging. I wonder what things would look like if we just took the Portugal route. https://www.econtalk.…
Also 100% on the Quinones on Econtalk. Another interesting one for an alternative view to the war-on-drugs/decriminalization dichotomy is CSPI: What's Wrong with the West Coast? with Michael Shellenberger Michael Shellenberger is an activist and author. He joins the podcast to talk about his book San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. He discusses debates around homelessness in San Francisco, the ideology drivi…
Thanks for the recommendation! Already learned interesting new things like that building of shelters is being blocked "because we need to build real housing".
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It wasn't Republicans who thought it a good idea to constantly tell white schoolboys that they are "oppressors". If a political party can't take such virulent institutionalized hate and make political hay out of it, then it's not a political party worth keeping.
> It wasn't Republicans who thought it a good idea to constantly tell white schoolboys that they are "oppressors". Show me who's constantly telling white schoolboys they are oppressors and not that they are protected[1] by every institution we have[2]? It's an entirely invented self-victimization. 1. https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/stanford-ra... 2. https://www.wymt.com/2020/08/28/nick-sandmann-joins…
You don't know what's going on in schools? Or have you just internalized this oppression narrative so much that you don't think there is any reason to oppose it?
"Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white caucus” group and asked to “remember” that we are “White” and “to take responsibility for [our] power and privilege.” D-E’s racial segregation of educators, aimed at leading us to rethink of ourselves as oppressors, was regressive and demeaning to us as individuals with our own moral compass and human agency."[1]
Really this leaked out during the pandemic when schools went to zoom and parents saw what their kids were being taught. That is what created the outrage.
Check out some of the data gathered by concerned parents and other whistleblowers:
[1] https://www.fairforall.org/profiles-in-courage/dwight-englew...
https://ctmirror.org/2021/09/23/ct-educators-share-what-is-b...
https://www.momsforliberty.org/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9490203/Parent-57-0...
Here is testimony from dissident teachers complaining that they are being forced to teach this social justice narrative and that they are being policed even in their personal lives and private communication, complaining about the climate of fear and authoritarianism:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/23/teacher-p...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJBlgIA3K24
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That doesn't stop a determined group of canvassers from going door to door and pressuring people to fill out their ballots on the spot while they wait on their doorstep. It's also a perfect time to offer a bribe or incentive for a speedy completion. There's no way that any form of remote ballot is going to be as secure as doing it in person. It's just not possible because you will never know the provenance. Like most…
I actually wonder how viable it would be to devise a targeted ballot spoiling attack. Picture this: Have a canvasser or harvester pick up mail in ballots. They take it to a safe house and open the envelopes. If it’s a vote for the candidate they don’t like, put marks on it so it doesn’t get counted. Place it in a new return envelope. You’ve just cancelled that person’s vote. If someone checked that their vote was cou…
You can't just return your ballot in any envelope, you'd have to have access to excess return envelopes which is a tall task.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by adding marks invalidating the ballot. If you fill out a ballot incorrectly, the poll workers will notify you that there are issues with your ballot.
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#359Any (relatively) unbiased sources that explain how NJ got into this predicament? Just current leadership being out of touch with the wants/needs of NJ citizens?
NJ isn't south jersey. south jersey could be reasonably plucked out of anywhere in deep red fly over country with 2 coasts(Atlantic,deleware) on each side.
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I don't want status quo, but I also don't want them housed. I want the ones that steal, rape, squat in parks, do drugs, sell drugs, defecate in public, and litter to all be thrown in jail.
So you want the government to house them at taxpayer cost!
Housed and punished for that vs housed and rewarded for that? I know which I’d pick.