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#106352: Dec 9th 2015 at 10:11:10 PM

Call me crazy but I think we should just turn over the election of our leaders to the bald eagles. Clearly they have a better sense about these things then we do.

We could even make a ritual out of it: We build a large, grand hall. We fill it with eagles and for our presidential elections we have the candidates walk through this hall, if they are unworthy the eagles will sense this and they will attack, if one of the candidates makes it through unscathed then the eagles have spoken and we will have our new president.

edited 9th Dec '15 10:12:28 PM by FalseDichotomy

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#106353: Dec 9th 2015 at 10:32:21 PM

And if two make it through we have them fight to the death?

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#106355: Dec 9th 2015 at 11:03:47 PM

[up][up] No, if there are multiple winners we send them back at the same time.

Same rules as the first round after that.

[up] Technically my idea is democratic. It's just eagle democracy.

edited 9th Dec '15 11:07:11 PM by FalseDichotomy

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#106356: Dec 9th 2015 at 11:09:42 PM

I think it would be defined as representative, just with our representative decided via eagle. If the eagle-chosen officials are then allowed to vote on matters of law as is currently the case in Congress, than I suppose it would be a.... representative oligarchy?

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#106357: Dec 10th 2015 at 12:42:29 AM

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#106358: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:16:41 AM

I'd like to point out that what Trump said about there being places in London he wouldn't go because Muslim terrorists bullshit was said some months ago by other Republicans before he joined the debate. (I think before they all started campaigning.)

It was called out as bullshit then but apparently everyone's forgotten that and now find it vastly shocking that anyone would say that. The precedent has been set, and not just by Trump.

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#106359: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:43:19 AM

Conversely, look at Iceland. Lots of guns, one of the safest places in the world.

Iceland does NOT have "lots of guns".

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#106360: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:44:59 AM

[up]It also doesn't have lots of people. tongue

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#106361: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:46:23 AM

Switzerland fits the bill better. Though their gun culture is significantly different than the American one.

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#106362: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:47:55 AM

The Swiss have guns because they're first stepping stone in a theoretical Russian invasion of the West. They're there so they survive more than a couple days in WW3.

We have guns because we hate minorities and wanna play cowboy.

Oh really when?
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#106363: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:53:49 AM

[up][up][up] Exactly. Icelanders keep ending up on top of various statistic lists because we're tiny enough that it's easy for us to have proportionally high results. You could say there might be proportionally a lot of guns in Iceland compared to the populace, but the average Icelander does not own a gun, isn't interested in owning a gun, and probably wouldn't know where to look to find a gun. Using Iceland as evidence for this "nobody gets attacked if everyone has access to guns" argument is just plain ludicrous nonsense.

edited 10th Dec '15 1:55:51 AM by DrDougsh

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#106364: Dec 10th 2015 at 1:55:40 AM

[up]X5 It's 14th/13th (depending on what you do with the Swiss) for guns per capita, though admittedly that's on a list where there's lots of margin of error for low scoring countries in certain areas (Africa and Latin America in particular) to actually be much higher.

[up]X3 The Swiss numbers are actually pretty low if you don't count the militia weapons that aren't equipped with ammo in the home.

edited 10th Dec '15 1:57:03 AM by Silasw

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#106365: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:08:04 AM

Take it with a grain of salt. It's a running joke in Iceland that we end up near the top of almost every list if you count "per capita".

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#106366: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:54:53 AM

I'd like to point out that what Trump said about there being places in London he wouldn't go because Muslim terrorists bullshit was said some months ago by other Republicans before he joined the debate. (I think before they all started campaigning.) It was called out as bullshit then but apparently everyone's forgotten that and now find it vastly shocking that anyone would say that. The precedent has been set, and not just by Trump.

Has anyone else talked about areas being so heavily radicalized that even the police fear to enter than?

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#106367: Dec 10th 2015 at 2:56:35 AM

Yes, and David Cameron went as far as to call him a "complete idiot".

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#106368: Dec 10th 2015 at 3:15:14 AM

Fox News also (infamously) said something similar once about Paris.

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#106370: Dec 10th 2015 at 5:01:13 AM

I think they're projecting quite a bit. It's spelled "London", not "Compton".

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#106371: Dec 10th 2015 at 5:37:08 AM

They aren't mad because he's too racist for them. They're mad because he's saying it out loud.
In other words they're mad he's handing out red meat instead of blowing the whistle. :p

Then he'll just go back to being a forgotten politically irrelevant billionaire.
Only if he gets his ass blown out in the primaries and he doesn't get the electors needed at the convention. And currently the polls point to him being the front runner. Consistently. For ~6 months.

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#106373: Dec 10th 2015 at 7:11:09 AM

You'd think white supermacists would be against fake tan.

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#106374: Dec 10th 2015 at 7:13:50 AM

Rachel Maddow reported last night on how the Republican candidates are all desperately dancing around the question of whether to actively condemn Trump for his statements. Contrary to what seems to have been reported, most of them have yet to issue a definitive statement about it, and all have indicated that they would "support whoever is the eventual nominee", without any sort of "except Trump" qualifier.

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#106375: Dec 10th 2015 at 7:21:34 AM

but the average Icelander does not own a gun, isn't interested in owning a gun, and probably wouldn't know where to look to find a gun.

Technically, that's mostly true of the median US resident too. We have a lot of guns, but they're concentrated among about a third of the population.

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