If I’m understanding him correctly, he’s explaining the conflicting ideas of having a right, and then it being legal to have that right infringed up.

(for obvious reasons)

Can’t speak to the legitimacy of the gun stories but, being from Dallas, I can absolutely confirm the irritation that honking instills in Texans.

This is my general feeling of these ‘hot takes’, too. It seems like a good takedown until you take into account the less-than-obvious stuff. But, if you try to say anything about using some critical thought, people want to tell you that it should have explicitly been in the movie, otherwise you’re just ‘handwaving’…

International bank-to-bank transfers are the use I’m keeping my eye on. The few that have toyed with it have nothing but great things to say. Apparently there is a lot of red tape around international transfers and that makes them a very slow (multiple days) process. Cryptocurrency does it within minutes. That’s,…

[...]although I wonder how many people who are staunch 2A folks really believe that.

And the cycle goes on. You give me a question which has nothing to do with the topic and, as you note, is a nonsensical question to ask, but I answer it, in good faith, as best as it can be answered, within the context of the topic, and then go even further to clarify my previous question and the appropriate answers…

Nazism is a form of extremism. Categorized as such, by the extreme views that make it up. You even used the word “devotion” with the implication of fanaticism (implied by it being a shortened version of the “fanatical devotion” you used earlier) to describe their affiliation with their political party. That’s…

Literally any Nazi soldier in WWII. But especially those that ran the gas chambers. So “Erich Bauer” is one.

I generally agree with your arc outline, I just think the “middle” on this is more towards “Assault rifle ban!” - without being able to define an ‘assault rifle’, because most don’t own guns and thus don’t care - rather than “end NRA lobbying”.
Could be wrong! But that’s how I’m reading it. I suppose time will tell.

Yeah, I know the only ones really calling for a ban are some of the Parkland teens and the far-left people that agree with them. I can respect the reasoning, I just believe that the need to fight the government actually IS worth the tragedies that can be caused because of that right (but not the tragedies that our…

Sorry, still waiting on that vindication of extremism I asked for 1000 posts ago. Like I said, if centrism is bad - in opposition to extremism - and extremists kill people in the name of extremism, I’m just looking for some people who kill people in the name of centrism.

They politically dominate the place. When speaking of voting, rather than population ideology. But they don’t literally dominate anything. That the hispanic vote is suppressed doesn’t speak to the power of conservatives in Waco. It speaks to the power of federal disinterest when it comes to the rights of immigrant…

No, “It’s pretty liberal, but it doesn’t vote liberal because of the crazy white christian conservatives that benefit from stopping immigrants from voting.”

You mean where the ratios are more in their favor, like in Val Verde or Webb counties? Imagine that...

Wait, you’re telling me that a large hispanic population doesn’t influence the VOTE?!!!!?!

Any city of a certain size has some high profile shit that sucks. But Waco has a large hispanic population, and is a pretty liberal little city.

As a 2A fundamentalist who will never agree to gun bans, from Dallas, all I can say is: Fucking good. I hope republicans are pissing their fucking pants. I hope Beto takes Cruz’s job, and the governor gets replaced by someone with some fucking sense ASAP.

You didn’t claim that. Try to keep up.

This was exactly my first thought, but I went the other way with it: