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It is my position the "bump stock" probably saved lives. At that range, with that weapon bouncing around like a paint shaker, it was strictly spray and pray shooting.

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Can we just go and have people learn the value of life instead of pointing fingers at guns and gun owners?

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Liberasis wrote:Can we just go and have people learn the value of life instead of pointing fingers at guns and gun owners?

If the liberals did that, they'd be a bunch of hypocrites. "Lets just learn to love each other...except for this unborn child"

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Xyanth wrote:It is my position the "bump stock" probably saved lives. At that range, with that weapon bouncing around like a paint shaker, it was strictly spray and pray shooting.

I don't know, it seemed pretty damn effective... being the largest mass shooting in US history and all. It was a turkey shoot.

Imren wrote:
If the liberals did that, they'd be a bunch of hypocrites. "Lets just lean to love each other...except for this unborn child"

Liberals are the reason planet fitness exist which is an absolute travesty in its own right. But the whole right wing Christian mentality is a travesty too. Correct me if im wrong but wasnt it psalms 2:11 where Jesus said  "jim and bob i will not make you a wedding cake because the idea of docking totally skeezes me out so no cake for your wedding... Which is also wrong." i guess both extremes are hypocritical in my eyes.

Liberasis wrote:Liberals are the reason planet fitness exist which is an absolute travesty in its own right. But the whole right wing Christian mentality is a travesty too. Correct me if im wrong but wasnt it psalms 2:11 where Jesus said  "jim and bob i will not make you a wedding cake because the idea of docking totally skeezes me out so no cake for your wedding... Which is also wrong." i guess both extremes are hypocritical in my eyes.

I disagree. In a truly free society one is free to refuse service to anyone for any reason.

That said, we have a situation where Muslims are given a pass on driving trucks hauling alcohol for religious reasons, but we can fine shop owners out of business for refusing to go against their religion. I don't see how we can have both things at the same time in this nation.

Braecland wrote:I don't know, it seemed pretty damn effective... being the largest mass shooting in US history and all. It was a turkey shoot.

Let's see now. Shooter with a long gun in an elevated position. Taking time to aim between each shot. Even with iron sites, a 300 yard shot is not a magic trick.

The death toll would have gone up dramatically. Possibly by an order of magnitude.

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Got gun laws being proposed in congress. New poll is up.

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Hey everyone! Glad to be here!

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Konestoga wrote:Hey everyone! Glad to be here!

Hi! Welcome to the region.

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Liberasis wrote:Liberals are the reason planet fitness exist which is an absolute travesty in its own right. But the whole right wing Christian mentality is a travesty too. Correct me if im wrong but wasnt it psalms 2:11 where Jesus said  "jim and bob i will not make you a wedding cake because the idea of docking totally skeezes me out so no cake for your wedding... Which is also wrong." i guess both extremes are hypocritical in my eyes.

Not true Sir. Jesus would almost certainly have taken a much stricter line on homosexual acts than modern Christians do - he was a first century Jew, not a first century Greek. However, I doubt he would have supported the death penalty for homosexual acts - witness what he said to the woman about to be stoned for adultery "go - and sin no more". He did not support stoning her to death for adultery - but he did NOT say "just carry on committing adultery". To a first century Jew homosexual acts were a far worse sin than adultery.

Still all this misses the point - a business person is NOT a slave, if someone does not want to sell me a cake to me because I have a bald head, or blue eyes (or any other reason) that-is-their-business. To "discriminate" is just another word for "choose" - and freedom of choice, (freedom of association - which logically includes the right to NOT associate) is a central freedom. The falseness of Emperor Dicoletian style arguments "the business is open to the public so it is a public matter" must be rejected.

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Xyanth wrote:Got gun laws being proposed in congress. New poll is up.

don't think that politicians who don't know anything about guns should make laws regulating them. For instance, this new bill to ban bump stocks bans all modifications that "increase the firing speed of a semi-automatic rifle". This means that getting the trigger of your gun lightened is now illegal. It is a loophole to essentially ban firearms.

Reed audio wrote:Not true Sir. Jesus would almost certainly have taken a much stricter line on homosexual acts than modern Christians do - he was a first century Jew, not a first century Greek. However, I doubt he would have supported the death penalty for homosexual acts - witness what he said to the woman about to be stoned for adultery "go - and sin no more". He did not support stoning her to death for adultery - but he did NOT say "just carry on committing adultery". To a first century Jew homosexual acts were a far worse sin than adultery.

Still all this misses the point - a business person is NOT a slave, if someone does not want to sell me a cake to me because I have a bald head, or blue eyes (or any other reason) that-is-their-business. To "discriminate" is just another word for "choose" - and freedom of choice, (freedom of association - which logically includes the right to NOT associate) is a central freedom. The falseness of Emperor Dicoletian style arguments "the business is open to the public so it is a public matter" must be rejected.

Jesus was, in fact, a libertarian conservative like me. He believed that adultery and homosexuality were wrong, but he did not allow the rabbis to stone the adulterer, because they were just as guilty as she was. Had they tried to stone a gay man, he would have probably done the same thing. Also, the 10 commandments says that thou shalt not steal. Taxation=theft. Theft=going against God's commands. Taxation therefore goes against God.

Xyanth wrote:I disagree. In a truly free society one is free to refuse service to anyone for any reason.

I'd argue that most of the highly-successful companies would be very tolerant to their clientele and serve just about anybody who'd pay. They would have a leg up on the competition since they aren't immediately refusing service to a whole section of potential customers.

More potential customers = More eventual customers = More profit

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Aja pretty much nailed it.

Hey guys! o/

I'm The immortal elysium, Foreign Affairs Minister of The Mystical Council

I decided to make some contests, inter regional, of course, to maybe strengthen our relations or something.

Anywho, here's the dispatch.

Inter-Regional Halloween Contests

by The immortal elysium

Inter-Regional Halloween Contests

As the new Foreign Affairs Minister of The Mystical Council, and to get in the Halloween Spirit, we shall be hosting a couple of contests for anybody to enjoy.

The first of which is a short story contest.

We shall take submissions for a short stories that fit the following requirements, from anybody who wishes to make such a submission.

- Based around Halloween, be it horror, comedy, and anything in between.
- Less than 5k words.

Submissions are limited to one per person, so don't submit it until you are sure that it is ready for submitting. No edits can be made after submitting.

We shall also host a Halloween based flag contest for any graphic designers who wish to make such things.

For the flag contest, you may enter as many entries as you wish, as long as it fits the theme for Halloween.

All entries, for both contests, need to be submitted by Halloween day.

You can telegram me entries for submission as well. I'll compile them all together.

Let me know if you wish to remain anonymous, too.

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The immortal elysium wrote:I decided to make some contests, inter regional, of course, to maybe strengthen our relations or something.

Boo! And similar salutations of the season.

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New new zajtahn wrote:page=poll/p=103548

The Alt-Right is NOT libertarian! The Alt-Right views people in collectives, and some of those collectives are fabricated. For instance, the Alt-Right would have you believe that everyone in every country in the Western Hemisphere south of Texas is one race, brown, but I am a Cuban-American and so white that people have confused me for an Anglo. So that claim is debunked immediately. Second, collectivism is not libertarian in any sense. Collectivism is socialist by default. Thirdly, their claim of correlation between race and IQ is ridiculous. The reason Africans are on Average less intelligent than Europeans is because Africa is a less developed continent than Europe. Less development means less education, which means dumber people. In conclusion, calling the Alt-Right libertarian is just going to get antifa to punch real libertarians, because they think we are nazis.

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Keaulcan wrote:The Alt-Right is NOT libertarian! The Alt-Right views people in collectives, and some of those collectives are fabricated. For instance, the Alt-Right would have you believe that everyone in every country in the Western Hemisphere south of Texas is one race, brown, but I am a Cuban-American and so white that people have confused me for an Anglo. So that claim is debunked immediately. Second, collectivism is not libertarian in any sense. Collectivism is socialist by default. Thirdly, their claim of correlation between race and IQ is ridiculous. The reason Africans are on Average less intelligent than Europeans is because Africa is a less developed continent than Europe. Less development means less education, which means dumber people. In conclusion, calling the Alt-Right libertarian is just going to get antifa to punch real libertarians, because they think we are nazis.

Yeah, that's where I scewed up with the poll. I say "libertarian" as in wanting more freedoms for people and less government. I should've used a better term, I'll admit. I based the options off of a political leanings test.
Plus, don't take what's in the parenthesis seriously. They're all jokes. I expected the True Neutral option to tip everyone off on that. You know, calling them "the decent people" and all that.

New new zajtahn wrote:page=poll/p=103548

There were more than a few assumptions made in that poll. Decided not to vote.

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Xyanth wrote:There were more than a few assumptions made in that poll. Decided not to vote.

I voted Republican, but probably shouldn't have. Republican probably meant neocon, which I am not.

Xyanth wrote:There were more than a few assumptions made in that poll. Decided not to vote.

The "assumpsions" are all jokes. The center option should've tipped you off.

Keaulcan wrote:I voted Republican, but probably shouldn't have. Republican probably meant neocon, which I am not.

Got to vote for the one that can get elected. Trump wasn't my first choice either. But Hillary was never any choice. Ever.

New new zajtahn wrote:The "assumpsions" are all jokes. The center option should've tipped you off.

Got that now.

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