Jeff veering into 'locker rooms' and 'progressive authoritarianism' is exactly why 22 Republican AG took the time to do this.

And Republicans hunt for irrelevant culture war issues to use in performative, recreational litigation, and ------- like Jeff eat it up.
#101

Sums it up entirely.

>Public schools are going down the dumper.

Anecdotal - but the public school district where I live is much better than it was 20 - 30 years ago.

Righties want the failure of anything in the public sphere.

Trump was asked to denounce white supremacists, point blank, in the debate. Wouldn't do it. Told them to stand by. Has them on speed dial.

The legislation is a direct response to Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote in a concurring opinion in the ruling that overturned Roe that the court should also reconsider the landmark 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects the right to buy and use contraceptives without government interference.

Why is Robin Vos so obsessed with Trump!
Sheesh!

There comes a point where one might ask if any of this is intentional and their supposed inability to get anything done is just cover.
#18

I've asked myself this.

"Stone seems to have coined the phrase "Stop the Steal" - not in 2020, but in 2016. The URL www.stopthesteal.org was registered on Feb. 24 of that year - the day after the Nevada Republican caucuses, and the approximate moment when it began to sink in that Trump could actually win the nomination. After a loss to Ted Cruz in Iowa (which Trump claimed, baselessly, was fraudulent), he scored clear victories in the next two primaries. His lead lengthened in March, though Cruz did manage to eke out a few more wins that month - at which point remarkable claims began appearing on stopthesteal.org."

"Many contemplate suicide. This is a key point. Mass murder is often a form of suicide and can be treated as akin to suicide. In their despair many seem to have what almost amounts to an identity crisis. Is it my fault or is it the world's fault? Am I a loser or are they losers?

And here's where victimhood turns into villainy. The ones who become mass shooters decide they are Superman, and it is the world that is full of ants. They decide to commit suicide in a way that will selfishly give them what they crave most: to be known, to be recognized, to be famous."

- David Brooks

>>And yet you cheer on the US dumping weapons of war into impoverished -------- countries.

Please produce the animated gif of Snoofy cheering that.

"No country makes guns as readily available as the United States."
"Except Switzerland has a lot of restrictions just to get a gun, iirc, and annual training and licensing requirements."

Not arguing any of these points.

Just touching on our culture.
Why is it rage-yahoo?

It's blind to ignore that aspect.

It's such pure -------- anyone that steps back and looks at the shooters knows better. Anyone using it should be embarrassed AF.
#122 | POSTED BY YAV

Some say, Dungeons & Dragons caused young people to worship Satan and not capitalism in the '80s.??

Guns are a massive problem.
But they go hand in hand with our sickness. Our country is sick.
Money = success.
Ripping off people = fine, if it = money, which is success.
Reading a book = stupid, sucker, not good for money
Scam = money | loop back. Nothing wrong with a good scam!

I remember reading a comment on a news story a few years ago; can't remember exactly what the story was due to damage to my fRontAL LOBE.
But the person lived out of the US from the late 80's until the early 2000's and didn't have a TV. They commented on how after turning on the TV in America in the early 2000's, the one thing that stood out above all was the nastiness and the mocking ('reality tv') that was now mainstream.

Danforth, just seeing your #128.
I don't disagree with your statement about guns.
But
"True, but the rest of the world lives on American culture. Our movies, our music, our video games."
i understand what you mean by movies, music and games being a major export, but you have to agree that's an overstatement. there's a difference in other places.
In other words, we can export Hollywood to the Swiss, but they can still hangout armed to the teeth drinking beer in a festival atmosphere without incident.

"Sch,
All the shooters have been stoners."

So you say all the shooters have been stoners. What does that mean? The hundreds of mass shootings that occur in the US are all committed by people that use cannabis? Do they drink alcohol as well?

Miranda sez 'virtually all' are committed by people who have played first-person-shooter video games.

Entirely anecdotal: but i've been acquainted with a number of pot-smoking video gamers over the years. Least violent people I've know.

If you claim 'it's not the gun it's the person' you should agree with 'it's not the weed, it's the person'. Except that you can give an unbalanced person all the weed they can smoke and they won't be mass shooters without a gun.

I think it's fair to at least attempt to correlate cultural violence, but you'd have to take it all in: the movies, tv, bedtime stories with the Krampus, in addition to video games. America has a lot of violence sewn into it's culture.

Jeezus H....
Was my post not obviously pointing out how ridiculous Bill's comment was?

He was a stoner.
Don't overthink it.
I bet he's jonesing about right now.
Without mind altering substances he might be thinking, "oh crap".
#97

That's been my experience with stoners over the years.
They'd start jonesing, then do their marijuana-pot thing, then they'd get that crazy look in their eye.
I'd be like 'no, please, don't go on a mass murdering spree! it's not worth it dude! you'll be saying 'Oh crap' if you do!'
Stoner would be 'no bro, YOU don't understand, because you're not on mInD-aLTerINg substances like i am! Out of my way now!'

>>wonder why you clipped half my post? I did not choose the word "couple"

Millions of people play FPS games and a couple a year wind up living out their fantasies
Millions of people own guns and a couple a year wind up living out their fantasies

You quoted a prior post, and you deliberately swapped in your own words.
Not sure what point you were trying to make.

>>Millions of people own guns and a couple a year wind up living out their fantasies,
#163 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7

According to Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit research organisation which defines mass shootings as at least four injuries, there have been 309 so far this year. That is approaching an average of two a day.

>and many of them never committed a crime before committing a mass killing.

Exactly - their field day with an AR-15 is their crazy coming out party.

"Among Americans surveyed by the Pentagon who were in the target age range for recruiting, only 13% had parents who had served in the military, down from approximately 40% in 1995. The military considers parents one of the biggest influencers for service.

An expert on military personnel policy says that middle class parents, including those who are newly middle class, often encourage their kids to go to college before selecting a career, which hurts recruiting for enlisted personnel. "Changing the mind of parents is the really tough part, particularly if these are parents who worked really hard for their children to go to college," said Kate Kuzminski from the Center for a New American Security. She noted that recruiting ads increasingly target the parents of potential recruits. "That's where they're trying to win the hearts and minds."

Jeff - it sounds like the Mama Bears are interfering on behalf of their lil' cubs!

What's this about Michael Stenger, the head of senate security on Jan 6, checking out yesterday?

Any high school coach or teacher leading their players/students in prayer, even if optional, is coercive.

Can someone tell me what in the actual ---- the supreme court is doing talking about access to contraception?

"No, Trump has to be broken into a thousand pieces and put away in a dark place where his screams can't be heard. Maybe in Hell."
#5

You have to throw his diapered ass into the Cracks Of Doom.

No easy task.

I went to a Jesuit high school.
It was the early nineties, so take that for whatever it's worth.

It cost money to attend, but the school did a lot to help families who couldn't afford sticker price.

There were kids from a ... reasonably wide array of socio economic backgrounds. It was definitely wider than the milky white public school i would have attended if i hadn't gone there. My family didn't have a lot of money.

We had to take a couple semesters of Theology.
Prayer services were optional, but most attended.
There were some jewish students. I guess they figured it was a safari before something else.

We had to do community service - some hours at food banks etc.

I don't think private schools such as the one I went to should be receiving public tax dollars.

ABC poll, that says it all......
#7 | POSTED BY MSGT

What did you do when there was only NBC, ABC and CBS?