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Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure
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03-02-2020, 02:47 PM
What happened to the rant? I guess that was easy.
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04-18-2020, 04:25 PM
Americans used to hate criminals and the homeless, but now every American is a criminal and soon every American will be homeless.
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04-18-2020, 05:14 PM
(04-18-2020, 04:25 PM)pam Wrote: Americans used to hate criminals and the homeless, but now every American is a criminal and soon every American will be homeless.

It is fine to hate criminals. The homeless? They have done far less to merit hatred. Typically they have been unable to do bad things to people of the sort that make others homeless.

If you want to know what it was like to have things designed so that everyone could be treated as a criminal, then contemplate Article 58 of the old Soviet Criminal Code.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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04-19-2020, 10:24 AM
(04-18-2020, 04:25 PM)pam Wrote: Americans used to hate criminals and the homeless, but now every American is a criminal and soon every American will be homeless.

Leveling tends to be down, then up, and we're still in the downward phase.  It takes a while for the gravity of anyh situation to dawn on enough people for it to trigger real change.  We're still accumulating converts.
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