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https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-olympic-events-get-too-quiet-its-time-for-the-white-friends-1518794518

This is the most Asian thing ever.
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What a stupid trade by the Flyers.

They aren't cup contenders. Elliot will be back eventually and Mrazek has sucked balls recently. Just... why?
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If we can get JUST ONE KOTM match into WWE, I will consider all of this a success
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Jakyl25 posted...

Somehow this is going to end with WWE rebranding to GFW

I still like your old idea that during Dixie's onscreen debut, we get a split-screen of AJ Styles looking/acting like he just received news that a family member had died or something.
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Hogan obviously bringing Bischoff.

Which begs the question, who is Vince Russo's route back in to the big money?
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Jakyl25 posted...

Spud already has 205 Live too

paving the way for the eventual return of you-know-who (brother)
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Jarrett GM of RAW
Dixie GM of Smackdown

gogogogo
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Jarrett's HOF speech has me more likely to re-subscribe to the network than any possible thing they might show at actual WM
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https://twitter.com/GrafVonGrau/status/965325058175533056

this is nazi porn
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

that's fair, though i'm not sure what kind of information trump thinks he's going to get by asking this question. the issue of gun control has already been debated to death, so if he has been paying attention he should be aware of all the possible stances and arguments.

Honestly tho, I'm sure what he's really asking is not "What is the best policy for the nation?" but rather "What should I do (to make myself look good politically)?" He wants to know if there's some token gun control policy he can support that would placate the left while not enraging the right. There isn't, but that's almost certainly what he's hoping someone will tell him about...
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pretty sure the point is that he's asking for advice on a fundamental issue he's expected to have an opinion on as president

I'm sure he does "have an opinion." But your own personal opinion isn't always infallible, even if you are the President. CEOs ask advice from their junior executives all the time, as well as their personal friends and contacts. That doesn't mean they "have no opinion," it just means they want more information, more points of view - they entertain the possibility that they might be wrong.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-reportedly-asked-pals-mar-103705057.html

I love how they think this makes Trump look super dumb. As if asking your friends and companions for advice isn't a generally positive thing to do that virtually every leader does all the time. How DARE he not just immediately know, himself, what the right action is and pursue it without regard for the input of others!

This is exactly what "govern like a CEO" looks like.
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https://twitter.com/ObserverQuotes/status/963621067406286848

*applauds*
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I live in midtown, where are you going - if its really really close I might stop by briefly?
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Shadow Dino posted...

http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2018/02/18/are-you-ready-for-the-oilers-to-win-another-draft-lottery-it-could-happen/

Didn't realize the Oilers were all the way down to third worst record. That's rather impressive to pull it off with Connor McDavid on the roster.

cant wait for them to get another #1 pick and for it to lead to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-18/ecb-s-rimsevics-detained-by-latvian-anti-graft-bureau-pm-says

The US be like "You can arrest central bankers for corruption? This changes everything!"
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Rick Astley is a zero-hit wonder

(but a one-meme wonder)
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https://twitter.com/JBurtonXP/status/964935434089435136
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update: 7 wonders duel went over pretty well with the GFWOB

but it also seemed like she had never played anything more complicated than monopoly before, and was easily impressed
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Final destination?
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And then, what could the next step possibly be, if not "ban all semiautomatic weapons"?
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Just did some "case math" on the topic of high-capacity magazines as it applies to the most recent shooting over on SSC.

Of course, lower capacity magazines would not have stopped this attack, just slowed it down slightly. From what Ive ready, the attack lasted nearly 20 minutes, and the shooter carried more ammunition than he used.

Lower capacity magazines would have caused him to take more time to reload, but we can presume he had to reload a few times already, and none of these were used as an opportunity for someone to disarm or otherwise stop him.

How long does it take to switch magazines? 5 seconds? If we assume hes firing one round every five seconds, that means he has to reload once every 2.5 minutes with a 30 round magazine. With a 10 round magazine, he would have to reload a little less than once a minute. At 5 seconds per reload, over the course of a 20 minute shooting, that increases his needed reloads from 8 to 20, with total reload time increasing from 40 seconds to 100 seconds, meaning one minute is saved. He killed 17 people in 20 minutes, approximately one person per minute. So, in this particular case, reducing magazine size from 30 to 10 can be assumed to have saved about one life.

Is this what people have in mind when they say CONGRESS CAN STOP THIS NOW IF THEY CHOOSE TO ACT!!!
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https://twitter.com/beinlibertarian/status/964532408560312320
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charmander6000 posted...

Not all panthers are black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_panther

Though technically it isn't a panther.

Species appropriation!

Actual Panther
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http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/16/disarming-individuals-with-mental-illnes

Survey data indicate that half of all Americans will qualify for a psychiatric diagnosis at some point in their lives, while a quarter of them do in any given year. Does Rick Scott or Wayne LaPierre think the government should strip 160 million people, or even just 80 million, of their Second Amendment rights because their mental illnesses might predispose them to commit mass murder?

Federal law currently stops far short of disarming all "individuals with mental illness," disqualifying from gun ownership only those who have undergone forcible psychiatric treatment, which is supposed to be based on a legal finding that they pose a danger to themselves or others. That rule is already unreasonably broad, since it means that someone who poses no threat to other peoplesomeone who, say, is committed for treatment because his relatives think he might be suicidalis not allowed to exercise his constitutional right to armed self-defense, even decades later. Yet the rule was not broad enough to stop Nikolas Cruz, the man charged with carrying out the attack on the Florida high school, from legally purchasing the rifle he used.

Cruz was treated for depression, and he was, according to former neighbors and fellow students, weird, troubled, angry, and sometimes scary. But he did not have a psychiatric record that disqualified him from buying a gun. So the question, for those who have given the matter a little more thought than Rick Scott did, is whether Cruz could have been thwarted by a policy that goes further than the current rule but not as far as disarming one-half or one-quarter of the population.
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make guns illegal except for police/military

It's not though. And whenever the right says it is, the left freaks out and says "NOBODY WANTS TO MAKE GUNS ILLEGAL STOP USING SUCH A STUPID STRAW MAN!!!"
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

That first boss was surprisingly intense. I can't help but play this game and say "I can only imagine what a 10 year old felt in 1998 when THIS happened."

"oh good this is going to be a lot easier than ALTTP"
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

By far the most sarcastic and condescending user on the board, but hes usually very clever about it, so its hard not to like him.

Its interesting thinking back, because I clearly remember him not being like this. I wonder what specifically happened in his life to make him this way. The DWMF topic crowd could probably speak on it more.

Overrall great poster imo

everyone gets cooler when they hang with me
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MalcolmMasher posted...

No, I think Australian wildlife doesn't understand the concept of "safe space".

AND a natural ecosystem that reduces the amount of filthy, carbon-spewing humans on the planet? It just keeps getting better!
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It's super weird that people cite australia as a gun free utopia, they literally don't have free speech.

No guns AND no free speech?

It's an SJW paradise!
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Before I start, is there anything I should be aware of?

Besides that it's overrated and disappointing?

I simply can't get into SMB2

Weak. SMB2 is criminally underrated.
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the left edge of my monitor wants to disarm the police?
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Monopoly is like, basically, a slightly dressed up version of Candyland
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you'd probably recognize When Doves Cry as it gets a lot of radio play
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t

he far left proposes exactly that all the time and logically so should ancaps but I don't see it as much from them lately

Hey I'm plenty in favor of disarming all agents of the state, so long as *I* get to keep *my* guns!
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Beck is one of the most prolific artists in the history of music.

The answer might be Lazy Flies by the way, but it depends on the mood.

yeah so was Prince and yet people still only know like 4 of his songs

and don't even get me and Lasa going on Zappa!
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I don't think wounding a criminal is a "lesser negative." I think it's unabashedly positive.
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Bloodhound Gang has (at least) two songs, but I guess the public isn't really divided on it since almost everyone thinks of The Bad Touch first and foremost.

wat

I think the literal only song of theirs I've ever heard is Discovery Channel
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Why wouldnt he just give them to American gangsters?

He really must hate America if hes even outsourcing his conspiracy murders

Patriotic Americans would have reported this and not stood for this sort of nonsense!
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And point is largely that it's completely disingenuous to compare cars and guns because cars literally do not have to kill anyone to function properly and guns do.

They don't have to, actually. Most recorded instances of defensive gun use involve simply brandishing. You take out a gun, and the criminal runs away without you ever having to fire. Warning shots, or shooting someone in the leg doing no permanent damage, etc. could function just as well.

And that's not even bringing up hunting, target shooting, or whatever (which I hate to rely on because I think it's a smokescreen... make no mistake... the purpose of the second amendment is to enable the citizens to engage in armed rebellion against the government if necessary... period)
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Trump should jump on this and wholeheartedly agree, and say we can have similar gun control once we build the Wall (and a Canada Wall).

Did you miss the whole fast and furious thing? The entire premise (according to right-wing talk radio) was that Obama gave guns to Mexican gangsters so that they would come here and shoot people and this could be used as a justification for more gun control!
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Presidents of the United States of America

Lump and Peaches? I'll give you that one.

The rest I couldn't name more than one song for.
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No, I'm arguing that it only has one purpose that is intended to maim and/or kill. A car has a purpose and in order to have it maim and/or kill you have to take it directly out of its purpose.

OK - but "maiming and killing people who are aggressing against you" is very different than "maiming or killing innocent people"

So I still don't see what your point is. Yes - the purpose of a gun is to maim and kill. Sometimes maiming and killing serves as a net positive. Just like driving does. Except when you drive over innocent people, and then it doesn't anymore.
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Oh so when it's pointed at an innocent person who is not threatening you in any way, the gun jams and the bullets don't fire?

When a car is pointed at a person in a sidewalk, it doesn't stop running either. What's your point?

You are arguing that there is no socially beneficial use for guns. I am suggesting you are wrong.
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Who says he couldn't get his guns back after proper psychiatric treatment and evaluations?

How confident are you in these evaluations? I think he might have passed. I've heard he was on anti-depressants, which means he was under psychiatric care. They could have declared him a threat to himself and others and gotten him restrained in some way - but never did. Elliot Rodger saw like 20 different psychiatrists.
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A gun has a proper function. It's designed to maim and/or kill what it is targetting.

The "proper function" of a gun is to maim and kill people who are threatening your life and liberty. Which, notably, is exactly why nobody proposes banning the police and the military from having guns...
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School shootings are the ultimate political shitstorm because they manage to combine the two most ridiculous but emotionally successful forms of rhetoric.

1. SOMEONE must DO SOMETHING
2. Won't SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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"I'm going to be a school shooter" is a threat of violence.

I think that's debateable, particularly with the "professional" qualifier. There is no such thing as a "professional" school shooter - which is what makes it a joke, rather than a threat.

"Stripped of a fundamental constitutionally protected right FOR LIFE because of a single statement" seems like pretty harsh punishment.
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Heres a question since you are more in tune with them than I am:

When right-wing pundits make the suggestions we are discussing here, what do THEY really want to have happened? I honestly dont know either.

I feel like you do that if the FBI had come and taken his guns away beforehand, these same people would be flipping their shit

The honest/cynical answer is "They want this conversation to go away."

Pattern seems to be:
1. Shooting
2. Left wing howls GUN CONTROL NOW
3. Right wing distracts by pointing to any and everything other than gun control that might plausibly have made a difference
4. Trump sends a mean tweet and everyone forgets and moves on

I think deep down, at their core, most people on the right agree with me. This is just the cost you have to pay to live in a free society. But saying so is political suicide, so they deflect until the heat dies down.
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People joke about school shootings and about other people looking or acting like school shooters, but I dont see much I am going to shoot up my school.

That's not what this guy said, either.
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