Great job! Those goal posts won’t move themselves!
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I get that. I was being dismissive/critical of the NRA, 45, ammosexuals and the media who cynically use these shootings to further their own agenda. Parent’s fears are not be dismissed. Understanding the true risk can help allay those fears.
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The whole idea of filling our schools with untrained teachers packing heat or PTSD filled vets standing watch over our schools seems not out of place in the world of “starship troopers”
Would you like to know more?
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It’s good news for the millions of families facing an otherwise fearful future, though.
The other side said “Remember you are a real human and not a lizard in a skin suit” and he was really concentrating on that bit.
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Excepting the hundreds of families who will watch their children die needlessly in mass shootings over the next several years, of course.
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Speaking of one in a million occurrences, so is stranger abduction. Every school has procedures in place to reduce the risk of this.
And related to THAT, I present you with a stranger abduction (specifically a baby snatching) that was prevented by procedures that the hospital had in place. Specifically the “baby lo-jack”
This happened in the hospital where my daughter was born, a month afterwards.
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And he almost nailed it
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You’re responding as if I’m advocating inaction. Even the small number is too many of course.
Policy made under a condition of exaggerated terror that enables evil idiots like 45, NRA etc, is unlikely to be optimal. Gun control and other initiatives to reduce the bonkers US gun violence situation has my full support. Arming teachers does not.
Your understanding of statistics and risk may need some work.
This is what it must be like to have a robot for a parent.
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Rationality and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
Looks staged to me.
This team and their followers are extremely media and image sensitive. The note could serve a couple of purposes such as telling the pro slaughter crowd that any placating towards the libs is a hollow gesture, and of course the libs will have a vocal problem with the note which will only create more divisive dialogue to steer the conversation away from the sociopaths making money off of the issue.
I know everyone is simply going to say he is dumb. But I stick with the idea he is a gamer trying to win his game, and has no interest in winning at being a president.
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In a more competent administration, I’d agree with you, but
Hanlon’s Razor wins, despite excessive evidence of malice.
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I feel like that was staged, along with the other fake stack of “documents”. They have a history of doing this.
No one has yet presented even the tiniest bit of circumstantial evidence to refute this theory.
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Can we tone it down with the toxic emasculating machismo maybe please?
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The guy has actually done a lot in his life, he is an experienced and successful criminal at the very least.
I do not have the capacity, or spend the time, to understand his motives and the means he will utilize to get what he wants, so an easy answer of “he’s stupid” might be my own ignorance.
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That only implies ambition, not intelligence. Financial experts who have actually run the numbers say that he’d be worth twice as much today if he’d simply taken the money he inherited from his daddy and invested in into an index fund (like many people do with their IRAs) instead of launching all these harebrained business schemes just for the sake of slapping his name on stuff.
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He is also a showman and knows his crowd. He knows people and if they can do something for him or not. He is well connected and is advised enough to stay out of the fire (so far). He has been diverting money on a scale that might be unprecedented, Putin level. And ruthless… to be at the top you have to be willing to burn everything.
I do like your ambition idea, maybe that and some cash is all it takes? I will change my argument from “he’s not dumb”, to “well, he’s got a lot of qualities, aside from being dumb”.
Edited for additional ramblings, and Brando
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