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Why do you keep speaking in terms of prosecution? I already agreed it was minor in legal terms (at that stage). I'm talking in terms of a mental health intervention. Many criminal matters are actually mental health issues, especially if there are drugs involved. Because the only way they're going t...

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Iron Man (and Iron Man 2) presents a world without superweapons until Tony Stark creates them. Cap shows plenty of Nazi-era superweapons, but there's no sign of them still being in play - Ten Rings uses a mix of conventional weaponry and Stark tech; the US military uses conventional vehicles and we...

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I wonder if it's a lack of resources thing or them just getting jaded. It's probably a bit of both. Little of both. Most police departments are staffed at levels that force them to prioritize resources when it comes to actual investigations... and the unfortunate reality when it comes to things lik...

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Vibranium isn't a superweapon - it's the raw material out of which superweapons could be made if you had the tech base for it. It's like selling yellowcake rather than selling nuclear warheads - there's a much, much bigger market for suitcase nukes than there is for the raw material that, potential...

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Never having had Turkish delight or even bothered looking up what it is, I've imagined it as something like baklava, which I also think is really overrated. Either you've only ever had baklava from the grocery store, or you are a madman. Baklava is one of those things that varies immensely. I thoug...

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Goin' sunday. At a minimum, I expect it to be a glorious spectacle, as most MCU films have been. If it's even middling decent, I'll watch it a coupla times, because hey, Moviepass, and not a whole lot else is releasing until Deadpool 2.

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But illegal immigrants are rarely on the books, or if they are it's through forged documents. All jobs are required to do that I-9 thing to prove that the worker is legally employable, which requires government issued photo ID. True, and employers are generally pretty fastidious about that. But the...

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The cops first duty is to protect. I'd put it before serve. Insight and support-network info is worth far less than casualties, even an officers. But 'insight and support-network info' means less casualties tomorrow. It's the same reason Scandinavian prisons focus so heavily on rehabilitation, mean...

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This is actually a pretty important historical point-the idea of "the rights of Englishmen" was very important to Americans and most stuff I've seen on the Second Amendment says that it was precisely this right that the Americans wanted to defend and claim. Remember that the idea that the...

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You are suggesting that the MCU does not have a market for superweapons? Really? Have you SEEN the other movies? Rich guys after superweapons make up at least half the villains. Yeah, my point there is that just because Klaue calls them (and thinks of them as) "savages" doesn't mean he un...

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In fairness, the political field in the US isn't super gender neutral.

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Plus, there's the lucrative wealth during! Look at all these career politicians with wealth far beyond what their position pays! Probably just lucky, right? All of them?

Also, full retirement at age 50, there is that.

Lots of reasons to be a politician.

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It is entirely plausible to have policies that adversely affect certain ethnicities while reducing death rates *cough*druglaws*cough*, but that's not the point. The point is that it's not the number of dead that's the problem but the psychological effect of racist deaths (aka hate crimes) that is. ...

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I feel like you have good points but some clarifications and emendations are in order: 1) Disarmament was contrary also to English practice; the English Bill of Rights stipulated that all men had the right to be armed in self-defense and legal commentaries considered this a natural right. Disarmame...

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There's about 1000 police shootings a year. Most of them really are the case of a person that clearly was a threat to society; had a gun, was threatening, etc. It'd be nice if the police had captured instead of killed, but eh, not losing sleep over it. We aren't going to have police shootings at a ...

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Eh, I think it's pretty directly proportional to the number of unnecessary deaths. Any unnecessary death is going to fracture the community, cause distrust and other various knock on effects. I mean, Baltimore PD isn't considered super racist(it is composed of a majority of minorities, which is prob...

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Umm, no zohar, the point is that the cops are harassing black people more often; the deaths are a symptom of that, rather than the direct result of a murderboner that cops get at the sight of black men. Why are you opposed to having two separate issues? Cops kill too many people, and they can kill ...

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Responding to a call /= combat situation.

I think that's the problem, there.

Edit: Upon reflection, that's still too kind. Military folks accept surrender from folks with actual guns all the time, in combat situations, without losing their shit and emptying magazines everywhere.

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I misunderstood what you meant when you said "met regularly". You meant "usual; normal; customary" rather than literal "met regularly." But this meaning doesn't fit any better than the clumsy phrase I inserted above, and all because of that inconvenient word "well...

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In a discussion with a person who doesn't care for big business, the government, and modern healthcare in general, what reasoning would you give to convince them that the CDC is trustworthy? That's a hard sell. I'd focus in on the specific subtopic, rather than trying to convince them of everything...

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Hey, guys! As some of you already know, I live in Croatia. I know that the American conservatives claim that it's justified for the US to be involved in a war because it brings people freedom and capitalism. So, I have a serious question about it. Ehhh, maybe? It really depends. Even on the war. Ho...

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Okay, so...a pipe like that doesn't really resemble a gun all that much. This is worse than the bb guns or toy guns...at least those have roughly the right shape, sort of.

This is a valve and a small bent pipe, not even really in a gun like shape, unless one is very imaginative.

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That's....not the right way to do it at all. If you dropped in functioning, you'd have a decent modern approximation. Well functioning militia being essential. Which, in fairness, if we use the term militia in the sense of the time, only really included men, and may have only included white men, dep...

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You will note that all of those usages are specifically granting an authority. The second amendment doesn't grant an authority. Both meanings were valid. Context is what matters for differentiating between them. If you're seeing an authority assignment in the second amendment, let me know who it is....

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I don't think you're going to "get" this, and -- unlike your argument about Zemo's plan being credible in Civil War -- there's something deeply uncomfortable about saying that the racist white analogue to European colonialism is an expert on the African country he tried to exploit. Especi...

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Yeah, that was a big factor. The early states/fed had a ton of trouble financing things, and it's a large part of why the articles of confederation didn't stick around. Even privately owned cannon and warships existed, and were greatly welcomed in the Revolution.

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Depends on your goals. If you're after improving the country, your actions will look different than if your goals are just "live my life in hedonism, and ensure nobody can oppose me". North Korea is really terrible at the former. But for the latter, it mostly works. Just for the ruler, and...

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(And he apparently didn't even know that much -- since the instant he tried to actually arrange a sale for just a chunk of vibranium, Wakanda immediately knew where and when) And Klaue had a plan for getting away from them that worked. How many people, including native Wakandans, would know enough ...

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Ah, that makes sense.

I concur that it will do pretty much nothing about the opiod issue, but then, I don't think it's intended to.

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Zamfir wrote:The problem there is that Purdue Pharma is based in New York. It might well be useful to send in the military against them, but patrolling the border isn't going to interfere with their operations.

Im not following, how does Purdue Pharma connect to Trump's dislike of immigrants?

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Yeah, that's not even vaguely in line with how the movie presents him -- or how he's portrayed in the previous movie ( Age of Ultron ). You're just twisting the story up into a pretzel to justify your narrative -- a narrative that, might I remind you, amounts to "Exploitative white European un...

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Apparently, National Guard troops will be sent to the border to help curb border crossings. It certainly seems to be stretching the truth when the Secretary of Homeland Security is saying “the threat is real”. Sure, there’s drugs crossing the border, but doesn’t homeland security deal with stuff li...

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If teachers are armed, what will happen is the gunmen will shoot the teachers first. What you need is to arm the students too, which would have the bonus of eliminating school bullying, bullies, students that might be bullies, jocks, nerds, drama geeks, Wendy who didn't want to go to Junior Prom wi...

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If teachers are armed, what will happen is the gunmen will shoot the teachers first. What you need is to arm the students too, which would have the bonus of eliminating school bullying, bullies, students that might be bullies, jocks, nerds, drama geeks, Wendy who didn't want to go to Junior Prom wi...

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Adding the question isn't a means of corrupting the data. They're not going to burn every census that doesn't claim citizenship. They're just asking the question. They are going to know how many people live there(even for the undercounting, they do have an idea of how much undercounting happens, so...

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Perhaps the best antiNazi strategy would then be to treat them as just laughable moron and not legitimize their image by treating them as a credible opposition? Schedule comedy rebuttals after their talks and opposite their marches. Make being a Nazi look like not some kind of “cool counterculture”...

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Ultimately though, the idea's that if everyone can freely express ideas, and the good ideas beat out the bad ones in the long run. If you don't believe that will happen, you might as well give up on democracy as a principle. I don't think it's quite that black and white. One can believe in free mar...

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I got the impression that the same tribe had been ruling Wakanda since the original Black Panther - is that right? Yeah, that's what they said, though it also appeared the challenge thing was a tradition, for sure. Not sure how long it'd been mostly a formality/traditional thing rather than an actu...

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...fill the police force with people who aren't naturally hostile to black people, such as other black people? This is already the case in Baltimore(well over half the force and leadership), and Baltimore PD has a lot of problems. You could, I suppose, argue that it's not intrinsically racist thank...

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. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/why-republicans-are-favored-in-arizona-and-ohio-special-elections.html More special elections upcoming along with Cooks report of their political tilt. Arizona's is April 24, so we should see how close it'll be. GOP is likely to win this one, but+13 isn't unreachab...

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