Reply With QuoteI found the point about political self interest on the part of American politicians to be valid regardless of the validity of gun control.
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To be fair, whether you agree with him or not; Cheeks has posted some decent stuff recently in this thread.
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I found the point about political self interest on the part of American politicians to be valid regardless of the validity of gun control.
Its a joke. Didn't he say something along the lines of making one's constituents happy so you get reelected? You're a constituents when you vote or write them.
Like it or not, but that is kind of how it should be. They should do what you think is right. Not what they think is right. Some of those guys might like it if their religion became the national one. You probably don't want that. What should they do? Make the people that vote for them happy or do what they personally think it right?
You guys are making the assumption that your version of right is the ultimate form of right and that people fighting for what is right will automatically agree with you.
The real problem in the US is that money talks and elected officials listen more to the people that fund their campaigns than the people that vote for them. They see it more of an issue of marketing than making the most voters happy.
i drink it up!
Hard to take The Daily Show seriously as political commentary. Not because it's too liberal (they make a lot of good points) but because they aren't accountable to anything they do or report because of the comedy angle. Australia has some of the weirdest laws. Like outlawing small tits. I'm sure that was in the best interest of the people, too. (the argument smaller tits encourages pedophilia, IIRC)Originally Posted by MechDeus
I also don't look at gun ownership at all as a conservative view. Not in the way that I just want things to stay the same. I look at preserving freedoms to take certain actions as a very open and liberal approach to social construction, and the corrosion of that freedom because of fear a bad approach to decision making.
Fuck that shit. I love small tits. That doesn't mean I'm a fucking pedo.
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None of the news networks are accountable, either. Aside from getting made fun of, there are no consequences for their lies and incompetence.
its the same preventive legislation that people apply to guns. Taking away something that a lot of people like under the assumption that it will stop a few outliers.
I wonder if there has been any pedo rape prevented from this stuff? I doubt it.
NO ONE IS BANNING GUNS IN THE US
It is not the same. Not at all.
Also there is an obvious link between guns and the large numbers of gun deaths and injuries each year. While there is nothing relating small breasts and pedophiles
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Goddammit why do I get sucked into this shit
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Hostages? **** em'
I think the point of that Daily Show segment is that the officials buckle when up against a strong lobby, where they make choices based on the fear of a lobby swaying the public against them in their future reelection versus voting what the public currently is in favor of (And IIRC a pretty big majority of the public was for the background checks, right?).
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