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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#127226: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:32:33 PM

@ Galadriel: Have you considered that the reason why you can take more refugees is because you have a population 1/10 our size?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#127227: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:41:48 PM

Not really, most of Canada isn't suitable for large scale habitation (because you know, tundra) and our biggest cities (which are also the ones with the most established ME immigrant communities) are having a major housing price crisis right now. Canada isn't taking in Syrians because its easy.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#127229: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:53:16 PM

Canada isn't taking in Syrians because its easy.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#127230: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:54:55 PM

His eyes look off and that's ruining what is otherwise an absolutely beautiful picture of the man.

Oh really when?
Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#127231: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:55:56 PM

How are you so sure Clinton will win? I want her to, obviously, and she's ahead in the polls, but she's not overwhelmingly far ahead and there are still a very llarge number of undecided voters (likely due to the unpopularity of both candidates). Something like Brexit or another Orlando-type event could push voters towards Trump.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#127232: Jun 20th 2016 at 4:56:18 PM

"After Orlando, Senate rejects four gun-control measures" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Z61BS

"American Muslims see Trump rhetoric fueling prejudice, hate incidents" - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Z62LK

edited 20th Jun '16 4:57:07 PM by sgamer82

Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#127233: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:00:36 PM

[up][up]Nobody is ever 100 percent certain a candidate will win in this day and age, but please don't tell me how Sanders would be better by just relying on "he polls better 6 month out." Sanders has consistently shown ineptitude in campaigning, a ridiculously short fuse to being disagreed with and was still a borderline national unknown where Clinton has been the target of a sustained right wing smear campaign running strong for 20-odd years.

edited 20th Jun '16 5:01:55 PM by Lightysnake

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#127234: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:02:33 PM

[up]X3 Brexit maybe, but Orlando has hurt Trump not helped him. However the economic fallout from Brexit (if it happens) is unlikely to hit before November, the vote is imidiate, the timetable for a exit if the UK votes to leave is not.

No we're not certain, but Clinton has a pretty solid lead and that's before you consider the electoral college.

edited 20th Jun '16 5:04:09 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#127235: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:02:41 PM

A sustained campaign that has barely affected her, I might add.

Oh really when?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#127236: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:05:51 PM

I'm staying at my grandparent's place. My Grandpa won't stop playing Fox News in the background. Which is strange, because I'm 80% sure that they're Democrats.

More strange is that I'm pretty conservative and I can't stand listening to them. They sound like broken records that never stop whining and never changes the topic, with very predictable opinions backed by the exact same logic.

Leviticus 19:34
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#127237: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:07:35 PM

[up] Well, I do notice sometimes how often people on the left repeat old Republican smears. Rosario Dawson looked about ready to yell about Vince Foster at times.

Whereas Bernie? Everyone knows he's against corporate abuse and influence in politics. Unless the corporations are Lockheed Martin, Smith & Wesson, and Remington. Then we just don't talk about that.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#127238: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:12:16 PM

British national arrested at Trump rally for trying to steal an unsecured gun off someone and kill Trump.

edited 20th Jun '16 5:13:33 PM by carbon-mantis

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#127239: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:14:31 PM

Is it wrong that a tiny part of me is disappointed?

Oh really when?
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#127240: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:14:50 PM

Damn it, Garcon, you beat me to the question.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#127241: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:24:29 PM

What is it with the Brits and assassination lately?

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#127242: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:36:51 PM

I hope this story doesn't make it into national prominence. Trump supporters already feel, with some justification, that they are the victims of a campaign of violent suppression, and the media refuses to call it that. And the fact that it was a foreigner makes it even worse. Already more and more people are seeing Trump represent the US, while his enemies feel more sympathetic foreign nations than their own countrymen. The image of Mexican flags arrayed against Trump, and US flags arrayed for him is a powerful one. And I fear that more than anything else will lead him to victory.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#127243: Jun 20th 2016 at 5:48:14 PM

[up]Good point. There are Mexican flags arrayed against Trump. Which also means there are actual Mexicans arrayed against Trump. Which also also means that that there is no way in heck that Trump is going to get the Latino vote, which is probably a decent chunk of votes altogether, which means that there's going to be that much less of a chance that he'll be lead to victory. That's what happens when you piss off an entire ethnicity.tongue

edited 20th Jun '16 5:48:48 PM by kkhohoho

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#127244: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:23:35 PM

So pretty much everyone is pissed off that the Senate is still so obsessed with the Second Amendment that they don't want to protect people.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#127245: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:26:33 PM

[up] Four bills rejected so far...

edited 20th Jun '16 6:26:57 PM by sgamer82

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#127246: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:26:37 PM

Not everyone is pissed about it.smile

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#127247: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:36:26 PM

[up] That sounds awfully glib for the denial of a bill that would prevent the death of innocent people.

smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#127248: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:36:44 PM

I'm pissed. What will it take for them to actually restrict these types of guns? Obviously 50 dead bodies isn't enough for them to stop obsessing over a 200 year old piece of paper written by some guy who never could have seen these weapons coming. So what will? Will they do it once an entire city is wiped out by gunmen? The deaths of children didn't make them care. The deaths of 50 lgbt people didn't make them care. Will they ever give a fuck about us?

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#127249: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:39:47 PM

[up][up] I think he's talking about Mexican flags being arrayed against Trump.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#127250: Jun 20th 2016 at 6:46:06 PM

To be fair, I'm all for gun control that makes sense, but the bills that were proposed were a) pretty bullshit, and b) would have been struck down if they were taken to court (which they would have been as soon as someone could come up with a good test case). The reason is the same: due process.

Like it or not, gun ownership is a constitutional right. You can't just pass laws saying that people can't have guns when they haven't actually been found guilty of anything. Watchlists and no-fly lists are extrajudicial matters that are problematic all on their own, but as soon as you get the constitution involved, it gets a million times worse. Flying on an airplane isn't in the constitution, but owning guns is.

Well, actually, one of the bills wasn't too bad about that, because it actually got a judge involved before saying "no, you can't have any guns". But I assume that one got voted down by Democrats because it was the Republican counter-proposal to a Democratic bill.

edited 20th Jun '16 6:48:18 PM by NativeJovian

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