ozimoron

Daddy was rich, 'nuff said.

“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick,” Biden said on Thanksgiving Day. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.” https://apnews.com/article/biden-gun-violence-colorado-shootings-f85b4b9a59e3852868950d797f79a351?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_04

I like any post that puts down nationalism and cultural hegemony.

One of the tweets using a fake verified account for SpaceX. "People often ask why we at SpaceX have accepted billions in government subsidies during our lifespan to do 1/4 of what NASA pulled off decades ago, but with a privatized company," it added in another tweet. "We don't have a good answer. But people often ask us." https://www.newsweek.com/fake-spacex-tweets-troll-elon-musk-over-government-subsidies-penis-size-1759117

Try to not post on public forums when you are going to get your knickers in a knot if someone doesn't agree with you.

Maybe I should take lessons in tugging the forelock?

Nothing at all to do with the fact that Thais use a different written script? How many British (or Americans and Australians) speak any foreign language at all?

Odd that some support religious beliefs when it suits them and not otherwise.

Nobody is in any doubt that a mass shooting consists of 4 or more victims.

Being Australian, I must confess to not spending much time at all listening to Sturgeon or any UK polly. That doesn't prevent me from taking an interest in European politics and doesn't absolve you from needing to provide a link to support your claims.

Expats find it useful.

Scotland should annexe the land north of Hadrian's Wall and raise it.

Link please?

Lack of English doesn't seem to affect the tourist trade. Compare Philippines tourism with Thailand's.

You got that all wrong. Trump said that he didn't know West was bringing a guest. I always show up for dinner with a billionaire with an uninvited guest. Doesn't everybody? The former president said in a statement to CBS News that he did not know who Fuentes was, nor that he would be arriving with West https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-dined-with-kanye-west-and-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes-adviser-says/

One was an accident and the other not (usually)?

16 is old enough to have full legal rights but not old enough to die in a war. Could you imagine the public outcry if 16 year olds were drafted or recruited into the army to fight a war? Your opposition to 16 years getting the vote is that young people mostly vote left wing. I don't think I need to provide a link to prove what should be very common knowledge among the politically aware but if you insist, I will.

I just did. Do you read anything outside the echo chamber?

I'm not frail (much) but anytime something is delivered for me to the condo the maintenance guy brings it to me.

I think that's already been done. The brexit disaster would result in a wipeout for the remainers if either referendum was held today I believe. Let's see how the polls stack up in the coming months.

Especially given the statistically increased potential for gun homicides occurring in the home with their own guns. Or, famously, parents or friends actually giving their children guns. A study published in January by a leading non-profit organization that focuses on gun violence prevention found that there is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings. The study by Everytown for Gun Safety determined that California had the strongest gun laws in the country. Hawaii topped the list with the lowest rate of gun deaths in the country while Mississippi led the country with both the weakest gun laws and highest rate of gun deaths. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/us/everytown-weak-gun-laws-high-gun-deaths-study/index.html Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/12/mass-shootings-weapons-legal-what-to-know/7814081001/

At my condo the customer comes to the lobby. I don't think the security guards allow them in and many condos have card or other keyless entry.

When you make a claim you must substantiate it or you are trolling and this case you are trolling. I read about this yesterday where it's claimed that most mass shootings are planned meticulously. All these links were obtained fro a simple google search which took me a single minute. You could have dispelled your own myth easily but chose to push this false right wing narrative instead. Here is evidence that you a re wrong, now please produce up a credible source which supports your claim. The reality is that people with mental illness account for a very small proportion of perpetrators of mass shootings in the U.S., says Ragy Girgis, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry in the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/mass-shootings-and-mental-illness-5 https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/dispelling-myth Data from Columbia Mass Murder Database reveal psychosis and other serious psychiatric illness absent in the majority of perpetrators https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/new-findings-columbia-mass-murder-database U.S. popular and political discourse frequently applies the mental illness descriptor to white male shooters, but analysis of whiteness itself, or discussions of whiteness as a race or ethnicity, are usually omitted from published studies about U.S. mass shootings.37–39 By contrast, race and ethnicity often play a key role in accounts of mass shootings when the perpetrator is not white. https://journals.lww.com/hrpjournal/fulltext/2021/01000/mental_illness,_mass_shootings,_and_the_future_of.6.aspx