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Comment Re:They don't give a fuck (Score 1) 197

Meh, true, but at the same time, may threaten the foundations of democracy, unless very explicitly defined somewhere later in the document, is vague enough to be utterly meaningless. A very, very few governments will use it as intended while the vast majority will only block the most egregious of the violations. And given the lack of specificity, both interpretations would be correct.

Comment Re:It is not the free market that is failing (Score 1) 1216

Moving to different jobs when a company fails wouldn't be such a big fucking deal if the War Labor Board hadn't given tax breaks to companies who provided health insurance in the 40's as a way of easing the effect that government mandated wage controls were already having. Then the tax benefits were never rescinded after the war at the behest of the UAW a and car companies mainly. Thus you have the current day problem of employees losing health insurance almost any time they change jobs.

Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 1216

Every country that could actually defend itself from an army of Frenchmen led by a male member of that country which called itself socialist has become a prime example of the monstrous lengths government can go to. Of course, according to all the ivory tower morons, none of those countries were actually socialist. The only time socialism works even remotely is when a population is very homogenous and the vast majority of defense spending is done by someone else.

Comment Re: Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 1) 550

Correct, they do. Did you know that the US knife murder rate is almost double the UK's entire murder rate? That's right, Americans murder each other at twice the total rate of the UK just with knives. Or they used to anyway. Since American violence stats have by and large continued to go down and UK stats gone up, that may have changed recently.

Comment Re: Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 1) 550

The drop in murder rate as a percentage was virtually the exact fucking same between the US and Australia in the 10 years following the Port Arthur massacre. IIRC the US actually came out ahead a little in that contest. You'd have to check the statistics yourself to be sure however.

Comment Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 1) 550

Murder rate boyo, not mass shooting rate. Not to mention I was discussing total murder rate and not merely gun murder rate. If gun murders go down but other types rise to compensate, the lack of gun deaths means jack shit. Then there's the fact that the vast majority of reliable and valid studies on the subject(and if you don't implicitly understand what I mean by reliable and valid when it comes to statistical studies you should probably exit the discussion forthwith) show no correlation between gun availability and total suicide rate.

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