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Detective Inspector, Left-Wing Thought Police ◈ Can't type for tooffe. I block TERFs on sight.

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@GabiMccauley Of course there might be another reason why a state where teenaged girls are routinely coerced into bearing the children of rapists, has a lower average age…

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@Psyconn0r @KathrynTewson @Bipolarbear1996 And it dropped through a freak wormhole in space-time to 2018?

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@KathrynTewson I do find it ironic that the most toxic single author in modern times, Ayn Rand, was a woman, because in general you are absolutely right.

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@mattgaetz Target shooting: bolt action is more accurate.
Self defense: you are safer without a gun, statistically.
Hog hunting: again, give me a bolt action every time.

Killing lots of people quickly though? AR-15 every time.

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@davidmweissman It’s also spectacularly bad for this. Give me a bolt action every time, if you actually want to hit the target reliably. Semi auto is designed to compensate for lack of time to aim in the field, not an issue in civilian use.

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@kausikdatta22 Btdt. Some people I respected, too. Empathy blind spot.

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@Popehat Good news! That is as close to a statistical certainty as makes no difference.

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@Popehat @joel_defoe Some car companies are proposing this for autonomous vehicles, which will be interesting in practice (read: court). But of course in most car crashes the mandated insurance covers the cost.

Mandated insurance.

Hmmm, there’s a thought.

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@scrowder Yes. The society becomes happier. Also less socially stratified, and generally wealthier.

The biggest problem being, of course, the self-appointed representatives of “God”, whose theology so often perfectly aligns with their own financial interests.

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@GOP Absolutely. It’s being turned into a fascist Christian White Nationalist dystopia.

By you.

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@firuzimehta Aside from that being a lie, the consequences of COVID include way more than that, specifically including death.

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@GOP I'm sure you'll do your best to ensure that is not carried forward tot he General.

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@Jim_Jordan Freedom from being forced to carry rapists' babies, or freedom from being shot in school by people who would not pass a background check?

Or maybe freedom from being prosecuted for molesting kids you're coaching?

@GOP: The party of mass death and hypocrisy.

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@GOP: The state has the right to force you to carry a rapist's baby to term, even if it will kill you or the fetus is unviable.

Also GOP: Background checks for gun ownership are an abhorrent intrusion on our liberty!

GOP. The party of mass death.

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@thetopjob @danilic Peter Dutton? The racist potato? Fuck that guy.

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@BetoORourke The contest for "most consistently malevolent @GOP elected" is hotly contested, but Abbott is knocking it out of the park!

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@DonaldJTrumpJr While we're about it, how about judging the party whose craven obeisance to the gun industry has resulted in the US being the ONLY developed country where mass shootings are a routine occurrence.

F the @GOP!

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@GOP Also he hasn't been golfing, or made the Secret Service pay to stay in his hotels.

He's just stayed at the office and done his job.

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@RepMTG And REPLACE it with universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole, and mandatory insurance with the uninsured underwritten by the industry.

The US is the ONLY developed country where guns kill more people than cars do.

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@Jim_Jordan The ones that Trump attacked for not being part of the cult?