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American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)
Explains all the school shootings in those other countries that allow abortion and evolution.
Never for even a millisecond buy the lie that they don't see the absurdity in their reasoning.
Pretty standard Republican beliefs. What I always find odd is their incredibly romanticized, rosy view of the past - apparently back in the Good Ol’ Days, there was no murder, rape, physical or sexual abuse, wars, lying, stealing or horrific institutions like slavery (I assume he’d say it was actually a good thing) because Americans at all times revered the Lord, so of course they didn’t do any of that.
Looking at election results, the vast majority of Republican voters live in rural or at least suburban areas. Those feature both low population densities and isolation. This can make the crime rate in instances of violent crime per year low compared to an urban area with the same crime rate per capita. It also means that when someone does her killed, The average distance in feet (or miles) from the crime scene to your house is larger. This can affect perception of crime a lot
Can we just disolve as a nation already? Start an auction state by state to different countries?
Clearly we cannot manage the simple act of self governance. The experiment is over and we failed.
Honestly I'm here for a CA/OR/WA Western seaboard alliance. Hawaii can go back to being governed by natives but can ally with us.
3.6t + .3t + .73t = 4.63t using 2022 nom GDP
Which would make the Western Seaboard the #3 economy in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
I think some of the northeastern states could likely form a similarly powerful and cohesive country.
Alberta can join Montana and the Dakotas if they hate Canada so much.
Maybe BC could join the Western Seaboard, too.
It'll probably never happen... but who knows? The relative stability of countries and international borders is a recent phenomenon.
I'm all for this too. The Western landlocked states would be screwed not having access to the Pacific ports as well.
Nah they can have access.. for a price.
Laughs in Colorado
That's a nice Imperial Valley agricultural industry you got there, it'd be a shame if we just dammed the Colorado at the Utah border.
Unless CA could convince OR/WA to give them more water, the inland states are critical for freshwater here.
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This guy is looking worse and worse. He's already an insurrectionist, he's basically a christo fascist nutjob
So, typical Republican then.
The school shootings weren't a problem until after we started putting In God We Trust all over our money.
Jesus Christ, they somehow got worse then Trump
This guy wants Gilead and he's not quiet about it.
Yeah and I blame Taylow Swift for the lack of Indian restaurants in my hometown in Italy smh
even more horrifying, he is second in line to the presidency. in the unlikely but possible deaths of dual assassination motivated by some right wing nut to get this guy in power
So, yet another Republican idiot. Not much of a surprise.
This was the plan from the Maga house members from the start. Suck Mccarthy so hard he agrees to a one member vote for ouster. Vote him out months later. Then put in your Maga cuck.
Oh fun already huh.
He does everything wrong. As a house speaker, it's not his job to bolt out his beliefs. As a christ, it is not his role to judge.
Holy fuck, what an asshole.
New house speaker spreads misinformation. Still not fired.
TIL they teach abortions in US schools
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings.
The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, and in addition to opposing gun control legislation, the man who is now second in line for the presidency has blamed mass shootings on both teaching evolution and abortion.
When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.”
He’s advocated for the return of prayer in public schools, derided the “so-called separation of church and state” on the House floor, and argued that the nation’s founders did not establish the separation to prevent religion from influencing government, but rather to impede the government from restricting the influence and free exercise of religion.
The new House Speaker is also a diehard Trump supporter who worked to overturn the 2020 election, and so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that he doesn’t view the United States as a democracy.
It’s not just majority rule, it’s a constitutional republic, and the founders set that up because they followed the biblical definition of what a civil society is supposed to look like.”
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Learning trig has made me want to blow brains out so much more than biodiversity ever did.