No vibes, just context ⚛️ Aspiring neckbeard. Silicon Valley alum. Lover of all things product, art, retail, non-profit.
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I can definitely tell from your thread you have never run or even been adjacent to running a business. This myth that there are all these profits to turn over keeps socialist teenagers going
touchbistro.com/blog/your-fi…
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But who is going to pay them these high wages if companies don't want to open there lol? I am from this area there's almost no business there as is. The logging companies moved away decades ago because American labor is too expensive.
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You left out jetpacks and golden rocket cars! Any absence of either for EVERY CITIZEN is austerity. Also the right wing will demand an assault rifle for every man, woman and child so don't you dare leave that out. And no one should have to work to make them either!
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The region she represents is already economically depressed. Old mill towns where the last big companies packed left in the 80s. Driving through Ocean Shores or Aberdeen feels like it did when Kurt Cobain was there. It shouldn't make itself less attractive for businesses to open
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So the data show households with guns are 11 times more likely to have an accidental shooting. If you're saying training will prevent this, then let's have mandatory training. Because obviously that's not happening now. Don't beat around the bush, this is a serious issue.
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Sounds like you're making a case for a mandatory minimum amount of training to own a gun- which yeah- totally agree with you.
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You're far more likely to accidentally shoot yourself or your family with your gun than someone breaking in
vox.com/2015/10/1/18000520/g…
And the Australia data shows both firearm homicide and suicide have more than halved since the ban- keep in mind the logarithmic scale of the graph
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I'm more suggesting that if the US had stayed out of WW1 then Germany likely would have won, there would have never been a Treaty of Versailles, and there would have not been a Hitler or a WW2.
iwp.edu/articles/2019/03/21/….
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"When they go low, we go high" - Michelle Obama 😉
You've bought into the NRA's talking points- namely that gun reform would be useless because they'd find another way. It's nonsense, so I made fun of you.
rand.org/research/gun-policy…
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You’re right. In fact all people with mental illnesses should be given assault rifles the day they turn 16
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Lol so is this supposed to be an argument FOR more guns while acknowledging that most police couldn’t handle a mass shooter?
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WW2 was the last time a foreign nation declared war on the US by an act of aggression on our soil, so it is different. And it’s probably the case that WW2 would have never happened if the US had stayed out of WW1.
historyextra.com/period/firs…
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Unfortunately Americans often think they are genuinely helping in most of the issues they get involved in- but this is the problem: they never learn- almost none of the military aid or wars it has waged have helped anyone and often make things worse. Look at Afghanistan today.
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Ok again- why are you talking about Ukraine and not the dozens of other conflicts and genocides happening right now? Why are you only invested in Ukraine?
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There’s actually a pretty mainstream argument in academia that the USA’s focus on international issues (the Cold War, Gulf War, Afghanistan) policing the world since WW2 have caused US voters and government to care less about its internal policy.
ehistory.osu.edu/articles/hi….
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