arduinna

arduinna wrote

With the exception of Chile, the US has four times as many gun-related murders as the two next most violent countries in the developed world.

Except for a country with more gun murders, the US has more gun murders. Also, the statistic of 'gun murders' still seems dumb; of course areas with less guns have less gun murders. How many murders do they have, though?

Take the Black Lives Matter protests. They’ve been belittled by Republicans and make many Democrats nervous when participants talk about how the historic and outsized use of force against black Americans is real, unnecessary and still happening.

Yet, historically, gun control is first pushed against minorities (especially black people) to the point where Republicans were supporting gun control against the Black Panthers and similar movements. If anything, it disproportionately harms minorities in that only cops get to keep guns, being the ones who often use forces again black Americans. Often this is followed by an argument of "in the UK/France/etc the cops don't have guns" by liberals in my experience- yet in the UK there were the London riots sparked by pigs murdering a black man, and in France the gendarmerie can be seen patrolling Paris with rifles.

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arduinna wrote

We have 5% of the world’s population and 35%-50% of the guns in civilian hands, more guns per capita than anywhere else – and more gun deaths, too.

I always hate this; we do have more gun deaths, yes. Because you can't have gun deaths without guns. However, nationally in the US, regions with more guns have near equal murder rates to those with less, so its very clearly not a question of the volume of guns but the circumstances of the locality. And places with less 'gun deaths' have more murders with other weapons instead, so it continues much the same.

Just a somewhat related tangent I wanted to get out.

And in the long run we need to end the war with a decisive victory for an idea of a pluralistic, e pluribus unum union, with an affirmation of inclusive values and universal human rights, and of equality across all categories.

That sounds not only unlikely but impossible to do under any form of 'the United States'.

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arduinna wrote

I have a really bad feeling about this. The show's one of them that had an end that I was very, very happy with, and the ambiguity only made it better. BCS worked as a prequel that was ultimately much weaker than BB but still fun, and the flash forwards were always of only depressing, bland times.

To give an actual future to Breaking Bad doesn't sound like it'll end well and will just leave the series on a weaker end than it has.

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arduinna wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by !deleted9987 in by !deleted9987

if you hate abuse, why are you on a shoplifting thing?

I'm sorry... what's the overlap between beating women and shoplifting, exactly?

I don’t care about abuse unless it happens to me or anybody else close to me. Call me selfish.

Go fuck yourself.

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arduinna wrote

From what I hear from my friends across the USA, a lot of socialist candidates were barred from ballots despite meeting legal requirements. I'll need to check sources for it.

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arduinna wrote

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You guys might think am trolling, but these ideas can actually work if executed correctly.

Did you execute them, or you pulling that out of your ass?

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