🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@Romaq i wouldnt be comfortable carrying a gun if i didnt train often enough that i woukd be confortable knowing where the bullet will wind up.when i pull the trigger.

While mandatory training has some nuance that might need discussing as a general principle i agree, if you carry a gun it is irresponsible if you arent going to a range regularly.

I also agree that a gun used as a toy or for cool points is a very stupid way to treat a device that requires a great deal of respect.

For example i spent a lot of tine picking what sort of gun i was going to carry and much of that decision came down to safety concerns of the various models as well as the holster it might pair with.

@Clementulus @PBruce @NMBA

Who even knows anymore...

@JonKramer if the logic is thst being punched in the face makes you more sympathetic to people being punched in the face, then why not just look at if they are sympathetic directly... if someone clearly isnt synpathetic to people being punched in the face, thrn why give them extra credit for being ounched in the face... the logic makes no sense.

Tbis broken logic shoukd be challenged at every level. For example if the history of racism caused more black people to be poor, instead of helping black people help poor people. Its far more effective and addresses the problem directly and fairly by default.

@JonKramer yea given her past thats not an acceptable reason... Having been abused, when you are also an abuser, doesnt (and shouldnt) qualify you. There should be only one thing that qualifies you for a position where human rights are important to our future.... a good track record on human rights.

@JonKramer No it goes WAY beyond "tough on crime"

Kamala for example has a very long history of opposing bills that would hold cops accountable and even actively told her staff not to persue **any** cases where police shot and killed unarmed people, causing many murdering cops to get off.

That, as one among a long list of examples, is the exact opposite of being "touch on crime".. thats about giving cops a free pass to murder... even then its a small blip in a long list of horrendous decisions by her. We see those same patterns in anyone Biden seems to pick, its disgusting.

@JonKramer The people he has selected int he past have had horrific history in terms of social justice.. while they arent hitler the point is the same, if they already have been abusive to minorities with their past actions it is no exuse to choose them simply because of their race.

@JonKramer Ignoring their actual performance and assuming their skin color gives them better odds despite their history to the contrary is absolutely horrible logic.

"Yea the guy might literally be hitler and killed off an entire race of people, but he is also 1/4 cheroke so lets elect him anyway, odds are he will be good on civil rights!"

@JonKramer And how does picking a piggot with melanin fix that problem? Again I wouldnt care if these were top choices, they arent.

@JonKramer By that logic the smallest minorities need to have the largest perportional representation... We need more eskimos in congress!!!

Racial politics is always a failure, the only solution is to stop giving merit points to people for their race.

@JonKramer

Well I am not history... we dont fix history by doing the same racism against new people... We fix the problem by not picking people by race, by not judging people (merits or failing) by race... When nearly all of your picks consist of the 13% of the population that is black you've screwed up, no two ways about it. Doubly so when those picks have horrific history wrt their stance on various issues.

@JonKramer Also for the record the US congress matches the % of white people in the population rather well.. Both the general population, and the senate, are 75% white. So the idea that there arent enough minorities isnt true either.

@JonKramer

I have quite often complained about appointing a slate of white men.

That said, if they were good picks and clearly the top priority was ability, not race, then I wouldnt care what race they are... But when you do things like pick a VP because she is a black woman AND has a horrible track record supporting bills harmful to women, then yea we have a problem them.. Assuming someone will be better with social justice simply for being a rich black person is just idiotic.

Without even looking I can already guess he just looked down a list and picked anyone who was a minority... for an pro-segregationist he really has the community buying his pandering.... unsurprisingly his tactic works.

When i saw his VP pick, Kamala with a horrific history **against** women and blacks I already knew his game... just more confirmation.

I guess his top priority is just covering up his pro-segregation past... seems to work.

@uspolitics What does Magic The Gathering have to do with Lauren?

@healyn

I agree, its similarly unbecoming for an adult to use the word "woke" in pretty much any context.

@torparskytt Yea I am very thankful to be in a shall-issue state... open carry outside of the city doesnt even need a license... but to conceal or carry open or concealed int he city you do need one. So I have one.

@skobkin should be thursday :)