Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Razgovory]

Ok but then that is the problem. They keep bringing up issues that should be addressed. Black market weapons. Organized crime. Hint you are fine with gun control so long as law abiding citizens can have whatever weapons they need. Mental illness should be addressed.

I mean I am perfectly willing to try to address this issue at whatever angle everybody agrees is ok. But in order to do that people at least need to be honest about what should be done. Don't say you think we need to delve deep into mental illness or black market weapons if you do not actually mean that.

Of course I have seen no statistics or evidence that suggests most of the guns used to commit crimes are done with black market weapons, but hey probably some of them are.

Are they bringing up the contraband goods that already are prohibited?  Child Pornography, Nerve Gas, Slaves... are the laws against such items only punishing the law-abiding because because "Criminals don't follow the law?"  As far as I know the prohibition on Nerve gas has been rather successful in the US.  There have been no nerve gas attacks in the US that I know of.  And Nerve gas is an "Arm", it should be protected by the 2nd amendment, but nobody seems bothered by the fact it isn't.

I don't mind delving into Mental illness, though I have a feeling the people who are saying that we should look at mental illness don't understand what the fuck they are saying.  The DSM V cover a whole bunch of behaviors.  Behaviors that large numbers of people engage in and don't consider it a mental health problem. Let's tie mental illness to firearm ownership.  Require a psych eval before you can purchase a weapon and mandatory eval every five years to make sure you are still free any mental hygiene problems.

[Syt]

[crazy canuck]

Well yes, the real faces of people who experience racism.

[Valmy]

Yeah I have heard that for years. Obama was called the most racist President ever. James K Polk, who speculated in slave trading while in office, had nothing on the racist crimes of Obama apparently.

[viper37]

I'm sure I've seen this one before, but anyway, it's back, and it's still good

[Syt]

Cammy Miller Kretschmar is with Chris Park and 3 others.
September 13 at 10:47 AM
Written by a 26 year old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.

AOC AND THE BLIND GENERATION

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

"NEVER SAW AMERICAN PROSPERITY!" Let that sink in!

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world are destitute and truly impoverished.

Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this...My generation has ONLY seen prosperity. WE HAVE NO CONTRAST!

We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War Nor did WE see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem; WE HAVE AN ENTITLEMENT PROBLEM, an UNGRATEFULNESS problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[The Minsky Moment]

Alyssa has a point. Clearly the American politician who declared "American carnage" and an economy in "disaster" in 2016 is an ungrateful crank who should be shunned for his "factual illiteracy"

[Syt]

[Barrister]

What's wrong with public transportation?

[Oexmelin]

It's a progressive cause. Thus evil.

[The Larch]

No rides either, the point is being assholes and punishing the kids by making them walk because they dare to act on climate change.

[Admiral Yi]

Well public transportation does in fact contribute to global warming, if you view the alternative as walking.

[Valmy]

So once the kids do that, what is it you plan to do adults?

Let's be passive aggressive and assholes to children that will...do something...

[Duque de Bragança]

Well public transportation does in fact contribute to global warming, if you view the alternative as walking.

Not, if hydro or nuclear powered, as in electric métros or trams. .

[The Larch]

Well public transportation does in fact contribute to global warming, if you view the alternative as walking.

That's autistic-tastic, Yi.