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hayden_horn

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  1. when is? in your estimation, when should the poilitical conversation about the epidemic of gun violence begin?
  2. it's not all or nothing, nor is that what gandorf is insinuating. matter of fact, most of us recognize it's not all or nothing. we have a half dozen firearms in this household. my son is very much into shooting. but that doesn't mean we must have them in our household if that means hundreds of americans die every year in shootings. i'd give those guns up right fucking now if it meant uvalde didn't happen or any of the other terrible shootings that are largely committed by legal firearms in this country. there's a point, when something legal is very bad for us, we should maybe think about regulating it. leaded gas? lead in paint? lead pipes? lead at all? we got rid of it because it's very bad for us to ingest lead. while that seems like a lead pun, it's not intended as such. but it was a case of us looking critically at a thing that was bad for us and said to us "hey, us, let's not do that bad thing anymore, it's bad for us" and we stopped. that's going to happen with guns, permanently and without your contribution if this shit continues. gun owners need to be out front owning this topic and this conversation and this narrative, because gun safety is the fucking cornerstone of responsible gun ownership. why are they not?
  3. so I'm not a member of the community but I'd bet my mortgage he is not winning over drag queens with a twitter battle. but members of the drag community tend to be cantankerous and rebellious (can i say bitchy?) so i don't doubt that there are a few loling at him.
  4. this is a topic i care about quite a bit, as you know, but i will find it interesting in the new paradigm. you know what i do and what i cover, and how fucking interesting it has been with covid affecting everyone, which has caused all kinds of branches of innovation that we might have been already there but unable to previously flower. we're doing all sorts of shit from home, and learning is the next horizon. i'll be especially interested in how public schools innovate, because it has become more than clear to me than ever that daily education, and hell, the daily fucking workday, is simply a model based around childcare. that's it. it might have started as something different, but i don't really think so. however, my kids have learned all kinds of shit in school. however, we've had a situation that we're dealing with my youngest where he just cannot go to high school. yet he's somehow pulling a b in some classes? so it's clear that school is about more than what is being taught in the classroom. this sounds stupid, but think about harry potter. yeah, the setting is the school but almost nothing happens in the classroom. sure, it's used for a demo or two, but all their major learning is done through real world application. that's the model i think we need to see evolve. practical education that prizes, oh, i don't know, education over behavior and attendance and sitting in your desk for x amount of minutes being quiet. kids today simply are not inured to a world of quiet, and guess what? that's fucking okay, because neither are adults. they need to learn to operate in this noisy world somehow. they need to learn with screens and an online world. when i was in school you'd get in trouble for looking things up on the internet. now that seems fucking crazy. if it's on the internet, 9 times out of 10, with actual factual things, it's true. i tell my kids to google stuff all the time. fuck a dictionary or an encyclopedia. they don't need to waste time with those skills. but it also comes with helping kids to develop a meaningful bullshit filter, and i think it is working. even older teachers are pretty fucking hip to what the kids are into these days. if we could just catch up education from the 18th century, it would be great.
  5. because the unwashed masses have been useful tools for all people in power forever. until they aren;t and they kill all the people in power. then they become the people in power and find the unwashed masses useful tools once again.
  6. for sure. and it's used by extremists. i think i even used to use it when i would reference certain left wing views in the past. but it is used to make an "others" to castigate. it's extremist behavior, but not by itself, i reckon.
  7. soon as i saw the lunar new year shooting, i told my wife it was something more mentally ill than angry and that i'd bet the person won't fit the profile of angry young usually white guy. and that probably people would use that for political hay either way instead of pointing out the device used (a gun) and the person wielding it (probably mentally ill). sure enough. what do i win? another school shooting? fucking a, america. fucking a.
  8. well, since it was me who hypothesized this, i'll deign to answer in @Celery Man's stead. yeah, i do have a half-baked hypothesis that extremists are more prone to words like "screed" or "ilk," absolutely. it's a hypothesis for which i don't have any hard evidence. then along came a poster saying, "hey, yeah, that would be an interesting hypothesis to test, and here's how it could be done," to which you extremists responded "wait, what are you proposing?!?" that it would be interesting to see if extremist posters tend to use certain extremist (my new descriptor) language? yeah, it would be. it would be interesting to see all sorts of vocabulary and linguistic trends as they are tied to the consumption of news/media/website sources as well as commonalities between posters with common political views. wouldn't that be interesting?
  9. seriously. if you are going to dress up, at least try to look the fucking part. if there was a dangerous perp in that van bent on killing those cops, they made it super fucking easy. jesus.
  10. yeah, this is straight from the no shit department. you can spot a work truck. i don't think anyone begrudges any work truck or knock around truck. most f-250s i see ariund town aren't work trucks. but they are in the fucking way, whether i can't see around them in traffic or they are filling up the parking lots. yeah, yeah, you don't paint the small spots but you sure try to fit in them fuckers.
  11. the venn diagram with some surly bmi thread where everyone just lifts and isn't a huge fatass is probably a single circle.
  12. so...i dunno. which is it? you never really gave us a baseline for sanity. you also never answered whether you consider yourself extremely right wing?
  13. straight from dogtown
  14. you said it was a leftist circle jerk. unjokingly and seriously. unless you weren't serious with that? i can quote you if you like.
  15. yeah, so i'm just looking for an example. let's see an example of what you consider a realm of sanity for online political discourse. come on, shouldn't be that hard.
  16. well, first we would have to agree on what right wing extremist means. i think it means you, because you post some crazy ass right wing extremist shit here. for instance, say, this fucking thread. you probably do not want people combing through your posts for examples of right wing extremist views. that might not end like you think it would. but, in case you missed it and of course you did, i was talking specifically about coded language that right wing extremists (like yourself, i want to be clear here, i absolutely think you are a right wing extremist) use in online forums as strange self-identifiers. i'm sure left wing extemists do the same thing, but i don't see it as clearly. but then, i'm compelled to ask you a question: do you consider yourself extremely right wing?
  17. this place is not a leftist circle jerk. might be you could, i dunno, benefit from some introspection and ask yourself why you think this place is a leftist circle jerk. and again, as compared to what? you want a leftist circle jerk, i can direct you towards: https://www.democraticunderground.com/ as compared to that place, surly is texags.
  18. only here? as compared to where, exactly? a-ha. i understand the distinction. thanks.
  19. normally i'm right there with you as i'm trying to be a better person with my words. but i think this one is alright and kind of sexually neutral. would you think twice if he said "jerking themselves off?" because i wouldn't. i dunno.
  20. it's only missing "ilk" for the right wing trifecta. there's something behind the disingenuous language that extremist right wing posters use, and i mean the exact words. i'm not sure what that something is, but it's there. it's like there's a primer out there. or maybe it's fox news sourced language? you never hear clap-trap, screed, or ilk unless some extremist is going off about something.
  21. well it just so happens that I've had a smoldering coal burn my sack so maybe I'm slightly immune hahahaha who am i kidding gutfeld is terrible but i would still rather watch gutfeld over maher
  22. i'd rather watch gutfeld to be honest
  23. i find it's best not to sit and ruminate on currency overly much. the economic cornerstone of all trade is a bullshit belief system, and has been since forever. it's amazing that we are still clinging to a rare-ish shiny soft rock with limited utility as a thing upon which to base this belief system.
  24. i once had this hare brained idea to turn myself into a maga person and just run as a republican for some winnable house district. just fundraise and lie and lie and lie. and then get elected and immediately change to a democrat just for the lulz. like a hard swerve, jim ross "ohmygod it's hayden horn with a steel chair" kind of thing. thought it would be funny. unrealistic, and i lack the motivation and the ability to bald-faced lie and sell my soul, but it was a fun idea, like winning the lottery. but this guy went and did that already, but better.
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