mdk

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So you're against the will of the people then?

Speaking of the house doing their job, the bill was fast-tracked when the democrats within the house wanted to debate the issue. Do you believe the house was doing it's job then too?

What do you feel about the majority of conservatives in support of the small measures of gun regulation?

@scribz

1. The fuck are you on about? I think this is a stupid bill. It doesn't matter who or how many people think otherwise. What kind of semantic bullshittery is this? Are you an anarchist? You know, because you're against the government? Fuck off.

2. Yep. And it was still a stupid idea at that point, too.

3. The same thing I feel about anybody else in support of this particular instance of gun regulation. It's a stupid idea they're getting behind.

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@mdk ... what kind of dogs do you have? I'm assuming fairly big dogs.

*shoves a pair of mastiffs at you*

Here, have a couple more. They only bite if you make them mad.

@RomanAria

German shepherd-type dogs. This one and this one. The white one's gigantic, like 70 pounds and dumb -- only knows two speeds, "off" and "hump." Of course that's the one everybody wanted to ride....

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@mdk Oh dear, don't get eaten.

@RomanAria

They wanted to ride my dogs. Which wasn't so bad -- dogs are faster than tiny children, so they handled it fine and only caused a couple hours of crying. But then the kids decided they wanted to try riding them again at night -- at 12AM, 1:30AM, 2AM, 3AM, and some more I can't remember -- while the dogs were asleep. In my bed.

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trophies will be awarded once @mdk-senpai gets back to civilization.

@RomanAria

He's back, he's just surrounded by tiny children. Will review/discuss/etc. soon as I get a chance -- might be today, if I'm not too exhuasted to focus. In any case, CONGRATS to @McHaggis, @Silver, and @wisedragongirl, and of course to everyone who participated!

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This right here. My uncle ended up almost missing a family reunion because he happened to SHARE THE NAME of someone on the no fly list. The real kicker is that the guy who's actually on the list is of a completely different race. He had to drive up north for the reunion instead of flying, and missed the full first day.

The guy who was on the list was also on there for nothing more than a single instance of theft. I mean, yeah, sure, he stole something and that's illegal. But the no fly list? What, is he going to threaten to crash a plane into the fucking White House unless they give him a thousand dollars' worth of silver jewelry?

@Keyguyperson

Same for my buddy. He takes three full extra hours to get through customs, every time, because there's a 7'3" Nigerian who uses his name as an alias. We're talking about a guy who literally flies planes for the government, is on the government's no-fly list.

And it's not, like, a weird name even. It's pretty common. So the same thing has to apply for like a hundred other people in the country too. That's what you might call a tainted well. Use that water to put out a fire if you have to I guess, but for god's sake don't drink it.

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Okay so what do you feel about the majority of conservatives that are in favor of the bill?

Should the no flying list be repealed as well considering it affects all people across the board?

Should the no flying list be repealed due it's far increasing relevance to people's well-being and freedom to travel?

Do you find the republican house not representing bipartisan support for gun regulation undemocratic?

@scribz

1. It being a stupid idea is totally non-partisan.

2. The list itself, and the authority governing it, should certainly be looked at.

3. Freedom to travel through the sky in a recliner is not an inalienable right. The NFL is an administrative policy, legally made and specifically focused towards a single lawful purpose. Recklessly extending it beyond its scope, especially as a litmus test by which to deny ANYBODY his or her constitutional rights, is fucking ridiculous.

4. Sure. We're a representative democracy. The reason we have a house and a senate in the first place, rather than being governed by polls, is so that they can stop the frightened masses from overreacting in the moment. They're doing exactly their job, and yes, their job is 'undemocratic' at the moment. That's a loaded word and a dirty question, but the answer is yes, they're SUPPOSED TO. We set it up that way because occasionally pure democracy gets behind stupid ideas like this one.

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What do you feel about the democratic house sit in to restrict people on the terrorist watch list from guns? I see 86% of citizens in the US support it across the political spectrum.

@scribz

Considering a good friend of mine -- an active-duty Air Force pilot currently commanding a flight school unit -- is somehow on the terrorist watch list -- I don't have a lot of faith in whoever's putting all that together and running it. Heck maybe they'll clean up their act, and maybe someday the watch list will run as smoothly as healthcare.gov. Or put it to you this way: let's say Donald Trump gets to decide who's on the terrorist watch list. Does that sound like a law that can coexist with the bill of rights as we know it?

More to the point -- it's a stupid feel-good law. We're talking about terrorists right? If they're terrorists, in what way is this supposed to do one goddamn thing to stop them? I can't fathom how, after being at war against terrorism for fifteen years, anybody in this country still honestly believes that a piece of paper is gonna prevent a terror attack. Okay maybe some people are scared, I mean it's called TERROR after all, that's to be expected, and in reaction to that fear certain irrational (temporary) beliefs are bound to arise. But the people in leadership, the people actually writing the bill and organizing the sit-in? They know exactly what they're doing.

It's not a bill at all, it's a political circus. Shit they're not even committed, "No bill no break" didn't even last 24 hours. It's a joke, and if it goes through it'll be abused, and everybody knows it -- but we're choosing not to care, because this time it's only gonna affect gun owners, not iPhone owners, so what's the big deal right?

TL:DR -- it's a stunt. Anything it is, more than that, is harmful to pretty much every kind of freedom we enjoy, so let's just not.

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@The Nexerus

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Okay good I can address these.

1. SNP stated if a constitutional change was to occur, like the UK leaving the EU - that another referendum should or would be an option to take place. The SNP didn't outwardly state this however, because as a political party they don't want to back peddle if that doesn't bring about independance for all the reasons you mentioned. What they'll be looking for is a national call for one. Which has steadily rised coming up to the brexit vote and has spiked since the results. Now, whether it's genuine or not, the SNP did rally for a remain vote - partly to ensure scotland's vote was in stark contrast with england, but they did target the outer regions of the UK too. So, on all ends it's only political spin that could assert their call for another referendum is taking advantage of the brexit vote as opposed to a genuine and valid response. So far, the ground support for the SNP is larger than it was during the scottish referendum, and polls are showing that those likely to vote yes to scottish independence and to remain/return into the EU is now 55% to 45%, a decisive indication.

2. The SNP doesn't have a majority, but more proportional votes were made to the SNP last council elections than ever before. I don't mean in (how many people voted) as voter turnout is huge amongst all parties after the SNP's rise in the general elections, what I mean is the amount of people that voted for them for every person that voted for another party. The reason they lost a majority by either 1 or 2 seats is entirely how our voting system works, which is made entirely to ensure there can't be single party domination. Now, this only hurts them on a parlimentary level, as public support for the SNP is massive ( which is already swinging the political window in their favor with other parties), now the SNP has to get a little support from some parties when it comes to things like taxation, which - thankfully - the green have enough power to then hold leverage on the SNP. For independance however, we already have some of the labour party, all of the green party, and the SNP to cover that. So, no problem there.

3. Oil - yep. This is a valid point. Oil has dropped. But it will rise again, and again, and drop again. It always has and always will as long as middle eastern oil rich countries flood the market when it suits most summit countries. It suits the UK in terms of the westminister bubble because trading it was more beneficial (at least to the upper classes) in profit than exporting it, and it suits canada and america, so that will always happen. But it's still a finite recourse with very small steps in terms of renewable energy taking place to replace it, god forbid - so prices will, again, go up and up and up and up and then down and so forth.

That said, it's only a strict demographic of the scottish population that's actually pro oil anyway. Scottish people from center to left all are in favor of renewable energy. An oil fund wants to be made for any economic crisis, but the narrative was only highlighted when under attack when the no camp attempted to state that it was scotlands only valid trade, it's never been the Yes camps sticking point (but having 60% of all of EU's reserves for one small country ain't bad btw). We've made the argument that scotland can have a growing and stable economy without it, as we have fishing, hydro, agriculture, tourism, whisky (biggest buyer is china), engineering and a growing contemporary market.

@scribz

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