Holy crap that’s spot on. I’m gonna be repeating that observation about Texans as it’s painfully true about the ones in my city.

It’s sad that this will have no impact on the china simps.

It sucks even more that the victim was terrorized and that it’s entirely likely that their family will actually be retaliated against.

Animal torture sure makes you seems cool.

Nonsense hypotheticals are not whataboutism.

That’s probably because it’s a line that gun control opponents use to try and minimize the obvious dangers and issues with guns. Make sure you are very clear about the scope of your observation and take into account the context you are introducing the observation and you won’t get yelled at…as much.

You said that very incorrectly. It’s not solely about numbers but numbers are absolutely a fundamental factor.

That you didn’t give a helpful answer makes me doubt you where as before I was interested in what you had to say.

It does seem like a reasonable cya for selling to some one but I’ve just never seen it happen. The attitude around me tends to be indifference at best and more often contempt for performing any inquiries into the buyer’s eligibility.

“why you think deaths were justified”

They didn’t say that.

I have never witnessed any seller give any thought to wether the buy had a CCW or not.

Dude the topic has been drifting for quite a while. You going to act like “getting more Dems” doesn’t have a cost? You going to admit all the things you’ve blown past? Your proposal is to have them not do a major component of their job and instead focus on flipping seats blue. The money they get paid as elected officials gets paid either way. Either course of action costs money, doing the proper prep work for bills or campaigning. That famously so-cheap-it’s-near-as-free campaigning. They will need to not only justify to their own voters keeping them elected during your do nothing policy but also convince other voters to elect more do-nothings.

Hold yourself to your own standards.

You think that drafting no bills and promising to do it later is going to win more seats and not lose them?

Because “we are wasting your money” is false. They are either getting paid to try to advance progressive issues or they are getting paid to sit in their asses and promise to try once they have enough people. That they fail every time it’s false too. Also assuming that putting up no fight doesn’t hurt things is incorrect. Just letting the issue go and letting it become the new normal makes it harder to gain momentum on later.

Over not trying at all, yes.

For winning voters it is.

Hard to work on getting more democrats elected when the proposed platform is we won’t do anything because the republicans will just say no.

So given the purely obstructionist nature of Republicans what is left for Dems to do?

So you feel this way about all progressive policies? Like gun control? In the face of opposition don’t try.

I’d say for the sake of not jailing the innocent that letting the ones that can plausibly deny beat the charges is what we’d have to accept. I think that requiring that meta data would certainly be a significant new requirement but it doesn’t necessarily make it an overreach. I believe that pornography production has to provide verification of the age of their participants and every porn site has some legal statement about the age of the people depicted. Categorize the meta data requirements similarly.

Outlawing cp doesn’t stop it from being produced or hosted in other countries so we should give up on that too? Or should we sensibly keep a law against it on the books, build an international broad consensus to work against it, and apply political pressure to the countries that won’t cooperate?

“There is plenty to be done at this point. Not being able to fix it 100% doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to fix it at all.”

“It might not be immediate, perfect, or without resistance but it can be done”

Republicans are shitheads for sure but if nonconsensual ai porn presented to them with the right degree of moral panic they could accidentally do the right thing.