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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Wait, why shouldn't police carry firearms? Of all countries, this would be the absolute last one I would ever want the LE Os to be less able to defend themselves than the citizens.
Edited by MarqFJA on Nov 24th 2018 at 5:22:34 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Not at all, and your failure to engage on any of those points is telling. I understand getting frustrated at the current state of the world, but wishing violence on our opponents isn’t really something we should be getting into.
Also, though I believe police should carry guns, I’ll point out that many countries do not issue firearms to their officers and do just fine.
Edited by archonspeaks on Nov 24th 2018 at 6:25:37 AM
They should have sent a poet.![]()
To be fair I've heard a fairly good explanation for why that works in some places and not others. With the UK, for example, a lot of its population is near urban centers where you can have the actual, armed police in just a few minutes.
Nor is it necessarily entirely accurate that they do just fine either-they arguably are putting their officers in considerable danger by disarming them. Guns are rare in the UK, but when criminals do acquire them the common patrolman is in a pretty bad situation.
Edited by Protagonist506 on Nov 24th 2018 at 6:42:21 AM
Leviticus 19:34![]()
Is this a call for us to end the argument by agreeing to disagree, or... what?
I have no objection to that... though I'd appreciate it if someone would explain what the term "touchpoint" means in this context (US politics-related or otherwise), because all I'm finding right now are definitions that describe it strictly in terms of a commerical business and its consumers, which definitely do not jive with the context of this thread.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. It’s certainly a sensitive subject, and it’s beginning to get off topic for this thread. The Law Enforcement Officer thread might be more appropriate, or maybe the General Politics thread.
Edited by archonspeaks on Nov 24th 2018 at 6:54:41 AM
They should have sent a poet.OK, now I've managed to fully parse that sentence's intended meaning. Thank you very much.
... So, the last undecided Senate seat (Mississipi) is going to be decided in the special election on the 27th. What are the odds of each candidate, and is there any foul play being done by the state's GOP like in Georgia (fuck Kemp*)?
* Hmmm... Fuckemp?
Edited by MarqFJA on Nov 24th 2018 at 6:58:25 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus."The problem is the alt right is marketing themselves as the new counter culture (which I find laughable) and as therefor dangerous and that's why they're being "censored" and de-platformed. And they're not wrong, technically, but they use it to look good in front of their main audience.
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Yet is why one need to counter them a every oportunity with speech in part, somehow we end in this weird idea of nazis being the new punk and progresives being "the men" here, how the hell that happen I dont know.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"![]()
GOP candidate is probably going to win, but it's been getting closer because of some recent controversies, namely, "jokingly" saying she'd be in the front row if someone tried to hang her opponent, and also openly saying "liberal voters should be suppressed".
Speaking of which, there's another controversy with her attending a "segregation academy", though honestly I feel like that just reflects worse on her parents than she herself. Although, she lied about it so...
I'd post a link to it, but for some reason the site isn't letting me copy or paste anything.
Edited by LSBK on Nov 24th 2018 at 10:33:27 AM
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
The Launceston Examiner newspaper had a political cartoon on President Walder Frey and...oh damn. Oh damn, savage and vicious are not strong enough terms to accurately describe the cartoonist's feelings over Saudi Arabia.

I agree, but I was speaking 100% legally, and the answer is they do not. A public university sadly can NOT turn speakers away, because they are considered to be a goverment, and therefor bound by there part of the laws.
Its.... quite bothersome to there staff given the current political climate, but that's how it is. If you wanted to hold a seminar about how global warming is nothing but a globalist conspiracy, and you go through all the channels needed to do so (I don't know the accuracy behind speaking at a university, only the laws) they cant stop you even if it is 100% factually inaccurate.
Its a consequence of the no exceptions in free speech parts of US law that is now vetoed as a topic so I cant elaborate more sorry.
Yeah there’s a difference between the government not being allowed to stop you speaking (clearly banned) and the government being forced to spend government money helping you speaking.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

I’ll also agree with what wise said that a middle ground would be ideal. There’s a whole lot of territory between “let them walk” and “kill them all”.
Again, you really only seem to be out for the satisfaction of a violent ending here. And that’s fine, but let’s not frame it as justice because that’s not what it is.
Edited by archonspeaks on Nov 24th 2018 at 6:13:13 AM
They should have sent a poet.