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The Flood / Re: Hot takes
« on: March 01, 2018, 11:27:36 PM »
Calling something "unconstitutional" means absolutely nothing.

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The Flood / Re: Hot takes
« on: March 01, 2018, 05:53:07 PM »
PC gaming is for casuals who think they're hardcore.

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Gaming / Re: Halo Mega Thread
« on: March 01, 2018, 05:47:16 PM »
all i can ever think of when reach is brought up is this video

YouTube

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 02:44:46 PM »
Rights are not something that can be amended. We are entitled by them by our own existence.
you see no danger or folly in allowing men who lived two and a half centuries ago tell you what your basic rights are
They did pretty well if you ask me. They didn't cover everything, but I'm glad what they did cover is law.
i agree, that's why amendment 2 is the only one i have a serious problem with

all in all, the constitution is pretty awesome, but i'm not gonna sit here and pretend it's the word of god or anything, especially when it needed to be fixed up 27 times over the course of 200 years
Cool, but I think if one of the amendments in the Bill Of Rights is taken away, it reflects that the government does not view them as rights anymore and believes they are privileges instead. I for one like the sound of "right to free speech" as opposed to "privilege of speech". The removal of one invalidates the rest
i don't really see the logic there

free speech (which i do believe is a basic human right) has nothing to do with the right to bear arms

just because they were written on the same bill doesn't mean they're inextricably intertwined, unless you could explain how
Bill of Rights. Not Bill of Privileges
bill of nine rights and one privilege

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 02:35:44 PM »
Rights are not something that can be amended. We are entitled by them by our own existence.
you see no danger or folly in allowing men who lived two and a half centuries ago tell you what your basic rights are
They did pretty well if you ask me. They didn't cover everything, but I'm glad what they did cover is law.
i agree, that's why amendment 2 is the only one i have a serious problem with

all in all, the constitution is pretty awesome, but i'm not gonna sit here and pretend it's the word of god or anything, especially when it needed to be fixed up 27 times over the course of 200 years
Cool, but I think if one of the amendments in the Bill Of Rights is taken away, it reflects that the government does not view them as rights anymore and believes they are privileges instead. I for one like the sound of "right to free speech" as opposed to "privilege of speech". The removal of one invalidates the rest
i don't really see the logic there

free speech (which i do believe is a basic human right) has nothing to do with the right to bear arms

just because they were written on the same bill doesn't mean they're inextricably intertwined, unless you could explain how

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 02:13:03 PM »
Rights are not something that can be amended. We are entitled by them by our own existence.
you see no danger or folly in allowing men who lived two and a half centuries ago tell you what your basic rights are
They did pretty well if you ask me. They didn't cover everything, but I'm glad what they did cover is law.
i agree, that's why amendment 2 is the only one i have a serious problem with

all in all, the constitution is pretty awesome, but i'm not gonna sit here and pretend it's the word of god or anything, especially when it needed to be fixed up 27 times over the course of 200 years

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 02:02:05 PM »
Rights are not something that can be amended. We are entitled by them by our own existence.
you see no danger or folly in allowing men who lived two and a half centuries ago tell you what your basic rights are

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:49:52 PM »
I feel regulation against certain firearms and features as a whole do little to nothing to limit criminals. At least not in this country. Background checks are cool. They make sense, but I believe the Constitution and Bill of Rights the most absolute law of the land and should not be violated.
the fact that the constitution has been amended so many times should suggest to you how fallible and subject to change it really is

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:40:03 PM »
I think banning a simple mechanical concept would be nigh impossible. Even regulating it is exceedingly difficult. You can actually easily manufacture a submachine gun, from materials you can buy at a hardware store (P.A. Luty). The law can only do so much to control what people do in their own homes.
i already agreed that it's impossible, i'm just describing how things would be in my perfect world

so when i tell you that there would still be millions of good people owning guns under stricter gun control policy and 2A repeal, you know it's coming from a person who would ultimately get rid of all guns if he had it his way

in other words, i'm not allowing my personal bias against guns affect how i view guns in the real world

we're never getting rid of guns, but that doesn't mean we can't limit public access to them
and limiting public access doesn't necessarily mean giving criminals more power, it's quite the opposite

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:11:36 PM »
i mean ultimately if i had a button that destroyed all guns and prevented anything similar from ever being created or used again, then i would press it instantly

in fact, i'd smash wayne lapierre's face against it

that's my ideal, no guns whatsoever, fuck you

never gonna happen though, so i have to try to discuss reality

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:08:05 PM »
no, in the same way that the right to drive an automobile is not a basic human right

it's a privilege that has to be worked for, and can be taken away
So if I'm a caveman and a rival tribe has sharp rocks and is regularly raping and killing people from my tribe, I can't get my own sharp rock and defend myself and my family because my tribal leaders say so? I specifically mean the ability to arm oneself regardless of what age or state of technology.
you are now talking about the right to defend yourself, which is a different subject
Defending yourself from those that are armed without being armed yourself almost certainly results in bodily harm or death.
still a better outcome than allowing any fucknut to carry a projectile weapon

it's pretty asinine to compare rocks to guns, by the way
So you'd prefer rape and murder possibly with illegal projectile weapons so the perpetrators of such can't get their hands on them because they obey the law?
okay, don't be fucking stupid

my entire thesis (that i've stated repeatedly) is that owning guns is like driving cars, in that it's a privilege, not a right

that means you can still easily get your hands on weapons if you've jumped through the necessary hoops like a responsible adult, it's just not your godgiven right in the same exact way that driving isn't your god given right

and since millions of people still drive, millions of people would still own guns

just because something isn't a basic human right doesn't mean it's banned completely

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 12:56:54 PM »
no, in the same way that the right to drive an automobile is not a basic human right

it's a privilege that has to be worked for, and can be taken away
So if I'm a caveman and a rival tribe has sharp rocks and is regularly raping and killing people from my tribe, I can't get my own sharp rock and defend myself and my family because my tribal leaders say so? I specifically mean the ability to arm oneself regardless of what age or state of technology.
you are now talking about the right to defend yourself, which is a different subject
Defending yourself from those that are armed without being armed yourself almost certainly results in bodily harm or death.
still a better outcome than allowing any fucknut to carry a projectile weapon

it's pretty asinine to compare rocks to guns, by the way, or to assume that good and responsible people still wouldn't be armed (the same way good and responsible people drive cars)

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 12:52:35 PM »
no, in the same way that the right to drive an automobile is not a basic human right

it's a privilege that has to be worked for, and can be taken away
So if I'm a caveman and a rival tribe has sharp rocks and is regularly raping and killing people from my tribe, I can't get my own sharp rock and defend myself and my family because my tribal leaders say so? I specifically mean the ability to arm oneself regardless of what age or state of technology.
you are now talking about the right to defend yourself, which is a different subject

the fact that we do not allow just anyone to drive has not hindered society in any way, imagine that

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The Flood / Re: Is the right to arm oneself a basic human right?
« on: March 01, 2018, 12:43:48 PM »
no, in the same way that the right to drive an automobile is not a basic human right

it's a privilege that has to be worked for, and can be taken away

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Serious / Re: Florida school shooting - 17+ dead
« on: March 01, 2018, 11:58:24 AM »
"why adopt gun control rules when criminals just buy their guns illegally from the black market"
just to clarify, this is not the argument i'm making, and i made the same point towards deci in the other thread

i figured my stance on gun control has been made clear enough in the past that i wouldn't need to clarify, but i support gun control to the extent that even most leftists might consider draconian

all i'm saying here is that it's still a two-way street; the black market will always exist, yes, but i'm coming at it from the perspective of someone who's more in line with your thinking, not deci's thinking

deci seems to be hung-up on the notion that any degree of gun control is pointless because it's not 100% effective, when, like you said, perfect efficacy is not what we're looking for

it's minimization

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Serious / Re: Florida school shooting - 17+ dead
« on: March 01, 2018, 11:12:57 AM »
It's called the flea market.

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"Ban all guns"

You fucking can't, because anyone with ill intent can get a gun illegally even with the 2nd amendment abolished.
but less of them would happen, which is the whole point

nobody would be so retarded to argue that "banning all guns" would stop every shooting ever

the point is that it becomes much more difficult for shooters, which is better than absolutely nothing
It would be like Mexico where only criminals and cops have guns.
good

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter (World)
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:27:42 AM »
well i guess it's okay, as long as it's a different company

a company that has been engaging in MUCH grimier business practices for literal decades before bungie underwent baby's first controversy

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter (World)
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:24:25 AM »
so this game is basically destiny right
yes exactly well done
aren't you supposed to hate destiny or something

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Serious / Re: Florida school shooting - 17+ dead
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:19:59 AM »
tbh fam I'v been countering everyone who uses the "you can buy a rifle but not a beer" argument irl  by agreeing that it's absurd and saying that we need to lower our drinking age to 18 like the rest of the developed world. It either ends the conversation or derails it totally away from guns.
wait, do people really use that argument in contexts other than "we ought to lower the drinking age"

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Serious / Re: Florida school shooting - 17+ dead
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:17:39 AM »
People who will want to commit a mass shooting will still do it, and it will happen a lot more than it does now. its called the flea market and the black market. No background checks, no test. Just pay cash, and you own a fucking AR-15 or AK47 or hell even a .22 Glock, illegally, and its incredibly easy to do if you have no guilty conscience or morals )
The majority of these young shooters don't strike me as resourceful enough to do this.
and it wouldn't be more or less difficult to do with or without a gun ban, or with added background checks

the option to purchase illegal weapons on the black market will always be there regardless of what solutions we implement

obviously

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter (World)
« on: March 01, 2018, 09:14:03 AM »
so this game is basically destiny right

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"Ban all guns"

You fucking can't, because anyone with ill intent can get a gun illegally even with the 2nd amendment abolished.
but less of them would happen, which is the whole point

nobody would be so retarded to argue that "banning all guns" would stop every shooting ever

the point is that it becomes much more difficult for shooters, which is better than absolutely nothing

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The Flood / Re: Aloo-mini-um or aloominum
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:43:33 AM »
the american way of saying it has this pleasurable tintinnabulation about it that makes it preferable, if inconsistent

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The Flood / Re: Aloo-mini-um or aloominum
« on: March 01, 2018, 01:06:39 AM »
Some book pronounced it as the latter and the Americans acquired that.

Also, there is no true way to pronounce "gif". It's respectful towards the creator to pronounce it with a soft "g", though.
The guy who invented the word says it’s Jif
that's what he said

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The Flood / Re: Why is "people of color" a term people are ok with?
« on: February 28, 2018, 05:02:25 PM »
it really seems like you haven't spent any time reading about this subject at all, and are just talking shit like always
It seems like you have no rebuttal at all. There's nothing to read. It's a bullshit term being used by leftists, and it's the same shit "colored" used to be. That was the politically correct term st the time to label all races who are not white. That way of thinking should be obsolete by now.
and it is

because PoC isn't a revival of it, it's an active indictment of it
How is it an indictment when it's the exact same thought process?
how is it the exact same thought process when it is not the exact same thought process
It's just another way to say nonwhite. In what world is using a term like that NOT racist? Just use the person's race. Why is white the standard?
because they're the majority

it's not really a "standard," it just is what it is, i didn't decide that fact

the term obviously doesn't have the same gravitas outside of densely white countries
How does that make lumping everyone together a good thing?
it's not good or bad
its bad bro
yeah america is ruined

why are you so in the closet about supporting him

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The Flood / Re: Why is "people of color" a term people are ok with?
« on: February 28, 2018, 03:51:11 PM »
it really seems like you haven't spent any time reading about this subject at all, and are just talking shit like always
It seems like you have no rebuttal at all. There's nothing to read. It's a bullshit term being used by leftists, and it's the same shit "colored" used to be. That was the politically correct term st the time to label all races who are not white. That way of thinking should be obsolete by now.
and it is

because PoC isn't a revival of it, it's an active indictment of it
How is it an indictment when it's the exact same thought process?
how is it the exact same thought process when it is not the exact same thought process
It's just another way to say nonwhite. In what world is using a term like that NOT racist? Just use the person's race. Why is white the standard?
because they're the majority

it's not really a "standard," it just is what it is, i didn't decide that fact

the term obviously doesn't have the same gravitas outside of densely white countries
How does that make lumping everyone together a good thing?
it's not good or bad
its bad bro
yeah america is ruined

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The Flood / Re: Why is "people of color" a term people are ok with?
« on: February 28, 2018, 03:23:52 PM »
it really seems like you haven't spent any time reading about this subject at all, and are just talking shit like always
It seems like you have no rebuttal at all. There's nothing to read. It's a bullshit term being used by leftists, and it's the same shit "colored" used to be. That was the politically correct term st the time to label all races who are not white. That way of thinking should be obsolete by now.
and it is

because PoC isn't a revival of it, it's an active indictment of it
How is it an indictment when it's the exact same thought process?
how is it the exact same thought process when it is not the exact same thought process
It's just another way to say nonwhite. In what world is using a term like that NOT racist? Just use the person's race. Why is white the standard?
because they're the majority

it's not really a "standard," it just is what it is, i didn't decide that fact

the term obviously doesn't have the same gravitas outside of densely white countries
How does that make lumping everyone together a good thing?
it's not good or bad

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The Flood / Re: Your mood songs
« on: February 28, 2018, 02:18:41 PM »
Mood as in what?
how you're feeling you dumb bitch

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Serious / Re: What do you do when you get old?
« on: February 28, 2018, 01:53:58 PM »
my dream is to become a professional retirement check collector

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