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Your thoughts on the protests
RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:47 am)Bella Morte Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYW3aVfW0Kk

Aaaand this is why I'm getting a license to carry, and I didn't even vote for Trump. lol
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:49 am)Bob Kelso Wrote:
(November 11, 2016 at 7:47 am)Bella Morte Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYW3aVfW0Kk

Aaaand this is why I'm getting a license to carry, and I didn't even vote for Trump. lol

Yeah, it's just a shame the man in the video wasn't armed. Now that would have been an entertaining video! Also, you're extremely lucky to have that right in the first place. Sadly we don't over here in the UK, but with the way things are going, that might actually change in my lifetime. Smile
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:51 am)Bella Morte Wrote:
(November 11, 2016 at 7:49 am)Bob Kelso Wrote: Aaaand this is why I'm getting a license to carry, and I didn't even vote for Trump. lol

Yeah, it's just a shame the man in the video wasn't armed. Now that would have been an entertaining video! Also, you're extremely lucky to have that right in the first place. Sadly we don't over here in the UK, but with the way things are going, that might actually change in my lifetime.  Smile

Yeah I've been considering it for a while, things around my area are getting worse instead of better. We're going to move sometime in the near future but until then I'd rather not be unarmed, lot's of gang and drug shit going on across town.
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:02 am)alpha male Wrote: The protests, or rather the belief of those protesting or otherwise expressing fear at the election results, is disturbing.

To me, they're only disturbing to the extent that they lead to violence or other destructive behavior, like the assholes who attacked a Trump supporter.

But the doom-and-gloom prognostications are nothing new. I think they've been getting more and more hysterical over time, but that might simply be age and media access affecting my perception of it. I have no doubt that there were people who felt that the world was going to end when Reagan was elected, then when Bush was elected, then when Clinton was elected, then when Bush was elected, then when Obama was elected, and so on. I think Trump can do some damage as President because I don't think that he has enough of a mental filter to keep from doing and saying dumb things. But I also know that he isn't about to turn the nation into 1930s Germany.

I expect that we'll settle in after a few more days, then the hysteria will pick up again in January and for a month or so afterwards. Then things will settle down again and we'll spend the rest of the next four years making complaints that will sound very familiar to anyone who has followed politics for the past 15 or so years.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:53 am)Bob Kelso Wrote:
(November 11, 2016 at 7:51 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Yeah, it's just a shame the man in the video wasn't armed. Now that would have been an entertaining video! Also, you're extremely lucky to have that right in the first place. Sadly we don't over here in the UK, but with the way things are going, that might actually change in my lifetime.  Smile

Yeah I've been considering it for a while, things around my area are getting worse instead of better. We're going to move sometime in the near future but until then I'd rather not be unarmed, lot's of gang and drug shit going on across town.

May as well use your right to defend yourself while you still have it. You're safe for the next four years, so that's good.
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 7:47 am)Bella Morte Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYW3aVfW0Kk

Ah, back to the old self, I see.

32 seconds of video without any context. You know, way to go, my dear. Min actually dedicated a whole thread to anecdotal evidence of Trump supporters attacking minotities. He at least put some effort in collecting.
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 8:19 am)abaris Wrote:
(November 11, 2016 at 7:47 am)Bella Morte Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYW3aVfW0Kk

Ah, back to the old self, I see.

32 seconds of video without any context. You know, way to go, my dear. Min actually dedicated a whole thread to anecdotal evidence of Trump supporters attacking minotities. He at least put some effort in collecting.

Yeah a few young guys beating the shit out of an old guy who has obviously tried to walk away several times, I'm sure context would help.  Dodgy
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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Oh look, they apparently stole his car as well.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/10664/vide...e-stephens
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
(November 11, 2016 at 8:28 am)Bella Morte Wrote: Oh look, they apparently stole his car as well.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/10664/vide...e-stephens

Ah, c'mon now Bella. I'm sure he just gave it to them and offered his body as a venting source for their anger. Right, Abaris? They dindunuffin.
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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RE: Your thoughts on the protests
To be quite honest, I am looking over my shoulder a lot more lately than I usually have while in public. People seem to be inspired to react with violence towards anyone different than them because of Trump's inspiration. Trans people get attacked and killed enough as it is. I just keep wondering when I will be next. The university right down the street from me was already heavily vandalized by Trump supporters right after the election. Even in a blue state, I know I'm not safe.

While I think the protest here in Albuquerque was tastelessly done, at least they didn't hurt anyone or cause damages.
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