I think you hit the nail on the head with this bit: “I do think she would choose and protect country over party, over her own ambition and legacy. I do believe that and others don’t obviously.” I am one who doesn’t, I think she will sell off this country state by state if that’s what benefitted her. And Trump is of…

If we’re going into the false flag theories, let’s talk about how Obama ordered the shooting in Newton to push his ‘gun control agenda’ - no? Or is that too outrageous? Was 9/11 an inside job, too? I thought conspiracy theories were the domain of the rightwing extremists?

I’m voting for Gary Johnson, too, here in New Mexico. I’m done, anyone who tells me I’m wasting my vote or taking the coward’s way out can go pound sand.

This is basically how I feel. How true: facts > your feelings. I am lean left on social issues like LGBTQ rights, abortion rights but right on fiscal policy and national security and immigration. Basically moderate politics and no party affiliation. I wish there were a “realist” party I could join. I feel like there’s…

This. I don’t understand obstinate blindness to stuff like this. An imam is shot dead in NYC and within half an hour everyone and their brother had decided it was Trump’s fault. This, though, we must wait and see.

Nah, then it’d be sexist.

So what you’re really saying is that you’re no different from those who are sitting on their couch and hoping “please God, let it be one of those Muslims?”

Had to convert to Islam before she could marry him, is my guess?

I am a first-generation legal immigrant from India, (browner than chocolate) and now naturalized US citizen. While I don’t agree with the “love it or leave it” crowd, I can see why it happens. If an American family moved in next door to where I lived in Calcutta and complained constantly about the heat, the pot-holed…

Yup. I was at a big family event this past weekend and politics naturally came up a lot. It’s easy to say “don’t be afraid,” which amounts to the same thing as telling a depressed person “stop being depressed.” People *are* scared - can you not see what’s happening in Europe? My cousin is visiting from Calcutta, India…

It matters because he is a naturalized citizen (as am I, if you care) - which is different than a natural-born citizen - and radicalization amongst second-generation immigrants is a hot topic right now given with what’s going on with Europe. You’d have to be willfully ignorant to think second-generation immigrant…

Thank you for typing out what I’ve been trying to say without exploding an artery. “Woops, it’s not me, so it’s okay.” Being stabbed at a mall in America is the new normal now and do they just expect all of us to roll with that attitude? Because appeasing Allah and his pious devotees and making sure they are not…

I don’t understand these responses that are more concerned with what people’s perception of Islam will be as opposed to the actual attacks that are happening. It’s never “Man, this is awful. People were hurt.” It’s immediately “Oh no, people will be more Islamophobic now.” 

Oh god, you gotta love this line of victim-blaming self-flagellating argument. What did we do to bring this upon ourselves? “We must be nicer to these moderate Muslims - you know, it’s our mean comments that are making them more radicalized. They’ll just do terrorist-ey things just to, you know, prove you right.”

Exactly - this notion of “those stupid white hicks with mullets shouldn’t have a vote because they’re just DUMB, haha” is incredibly counterproductive because you can turn it around and say “well, the black baby mama with the bad weave who dropped out of high-school shouldn’t get a vote, either” - it cuts both…

I have to agree, that sounds really patronizing. I am immigrant from India and if my neighbors came up to be “extra nice” to me as their white “good deed of the day - let me show you we’re not all like Donald Trump,” I’d be be all, like, “GTFO my lawn, lady - do you think I am a simpleton or something?”

Well, and that’s really all that can be said.

Did he point the gun at the cops at that point or did he surrender?

Precisely. “Cops aren’t Batman.” They are also human, they are part of the public. Asking them to behave like robots/ computers in order to assume an absurd level of risk, isn’t going to work.

The way I understand this is if you’ve assess the risk threat high enough to respond with deadly fire, then you aim at center mass. That is if you have decided that it is necessary to shoot, then you shoot to kill.