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To clarify my position, I think certain gun restrictions are the bare minimum. I think there should also be restrictions by how such events get reported and what information about the killers is made available, as there are groups of young men who go online and glorify these killers and dream up plans to hurt as many people as possible; I think this should also be actively followed and shut down. Didn't mean to ruffle feathers during a tragedy.

I stated twice I'm for most of the proposed changes to gun laws. I think those will have some beneficial impact. Who stated this? I think there are additional things we could do as a society beyond mere gun restriction laws to identify and stop potential killers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack#:~:text=On the evening of 14,a Tunisian living in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing Yes, by definition that is true.

Again, I'm for most of the gun laws proposed in this thread and I agree that in certain instances an individual will inflict fewer casualties without the use of guns. But if a person wants to kill groups of children and doesn't have access to guns, then they will figure some other way. It's naive to think these simple gun restrictions will fix the problem. The highest mass casualty events often don't involve guns.

I had a similar experience in Italy. All of the devout religious folks I knew in the US were fiscally/economically conservative (or at least claimed to be) and generally disliked socialism. In Italy all the devout Catholics I met were very left economically. They have a term for it that I forget exactly but something like cattolicommunista and they generally associated religious folks with the left.

Leftists with questions need to get their shit together.

Using the phrase from Bateshorn:

Christian leftists/christian socialists/catholic communists that are more common in Europe don't fit neatly into either US political camp. But if you were to poll them on various positions they would have more in common with the US left. Another way to put it is that if their choice was between Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders they would choose Sanders in a heartbeat. But the US left not claiming them (even if true) does not somehow make them the voice for the intellectual right.

As mentioned by F250 above, she expresses typical Christian socialist views that are common in European countries and other parts of the world. Not in any way a spokesperson for the American right. She's also not really a monarchist. She is also just a sole person who is just an opinion piece writer, so not a representative of anything except maybe the upper middle class millennial US Christian socialist demographic. Yep. Lots of them in Europe.

So she has been writing articles advocating for democratic socialism for several years now to gain followers as a sleeper reactionary right agent?

I just google searched this person. She is a democratic socialist opinion writer for the Atlantic. A self described leftist and socialist opinion writer makes a joke reference to Plato's Republic on twitter and the conclusion is that the intellectual right is all in on autocracy.

I've never heard of this lady but she is obviously not being serious. It is a facetious reference to the philosopher kings described in the Plato's Republic as being divinely inspired and compelled by a superior power to have the charge of the state. Sounds like her original point is that merely being democratic is not sufficient for just governance.

Religions are not fundamentally about books as the vast majority of religions never had a book or writings of any type. Many religions don't have much to say about the afterlife, either, and some say explicitly that there is no afterlife. I think an aspect of religion is driven by some base psychology that humans use to connect in groups via ritual. This extends beyond religions and is seen within most any large organized entity, at sporting events, and bizarre corporate team building gatherings. I think many people in the west associate religion with books because of protestants' obsession with the bible. The most organized and powerful religious groups in the world today come with rituals, central books & writings, ethical codes, and metaphysical views, and so people tend to see one or all of these as the defining characteristics of religion. My view is that the defining characteristics of religion are certain metaphysical claims and ritual. You combine these two things and you have a religion. But neither writings nor ethical code are required.

Long time watch fanatic thread reader, first time poster. Just got the Nomos club sport neomatik. Very happy with it so far. My wrist is 7 1/8", but a bit rectangular (wide across but thin top to bottom) so many watches don't fit me well. For example, Panerai is ideal diameter for me but the case thickness causes a large gap between my wrist and bracelet/band near the lugs. This watch is 42 mm, 52.3 lug to lug, and only 10.2 thick. The fit is perfect for me. The movement is in house (DUW 6101) self winding with date wheel that can be turned in either direction. Nomos claims to manufacture all components, even their own escapement, in Glashutte. If you are looking for a simple dial with large diameter and thin casing, I think Nomos has some great offerings. Also, lume is super powerful even in medium light settings:

I posted in wrong thread on account of being idiot.