EarthExile
EarthExile t1_j8sgq41 wrote
It's not a worthwhile endeavor. If you could harness and assemble the resources it'd take, making a whole planet might be the silliest thing you could possibly use them for. There are plenty of planets and moons we're not using. With a planet's worth of resources you could enlarge and terraform Mars, and still have most of your nickel and iron left over.
EarthExile t1_j8raiz8 wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
Right, so we've established that your arguments are worthless, you lie constantly, and you won't engage when called on those things. What you're left with is an implicit threat of violence. Cool. And people wonder why so many Americans shoot people.
EarthExile t1_j8qszss wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
You're now telling me I said things I haven't said. This is all in writing. It's all still there. You can't just lie about absolutely everything, people are going to notice.
EarthExile t1_j8pyguq wrote
Reply to comment by SkitariiCowboy in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
Five and a half billion people, but we'll have to do it with rocks and kitchen implements
EarthExile t1_j8ptj1x wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
No they didn't. The Wiemar Republic had stricter gun control laws. When the Nazis took over, they loosened the regulations for Party members. They only disarmed the specific groups they hated.
It helps to be familiar with history before you get all shitty and sarcastic about it. A cursory search reveals that you're talking out your ass, which means you put even less effort than that cursory search into justifying your belief. Or you looked up Nazi gun control, saw that what you believe isn't true, and just lied to me, hoping I wouldn't know or check.
Does it matter what's true? When I show you a map that shows a hundred countries without our gun violence problem, does it really make sense to keep acting like solutions are impossible?
Do you feel you're being honest?
EarthExile t1_j8pb5xo wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
You hone in on one of the few countries with significant gun violence like ours, as if the existence of other violent countries proves America can't achieve something. To do this, you look past most of a planet where the problem is much less severe. Did you realize you were doing that?
Do you think there are not gangs and cartels and lunatics in these places?
EarthExile t1_j8ozu2j wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
It does not take utopian ideals to attempt to solve problems. Just the will to try.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country
EarthExile t1_j8oyp6s wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
I don't think most cops should carry guns either. Plenty of civilized countries manage that way. Just imagine a world where cops aren't prepared to instantly kill people because they don't have to assume everyone's armed to instantly kill them first.
EarthExile t1_j8ojkm3 wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
200 shootings? Cops alone kill a thousand or so people a year in America, that number is ridiculously low
EarthExile t1_j8ohj1w wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
Fascism is much more complex and specific than that, but yeah it would definitely require a repeal or reinterpretation of the Second Amendment to ever solve American gun violence. As long as we imagine "a well regulated militia" to really mean "any swinging dick who may desire to inflict high tech violence" we'll never be able to improve the situation.
EarthExile t1_j8nvcyr wrote
Reply to comment by WellSeasonedUsername in Sandy Hook Survivor Survives Second Mass Shooting by midmodmad
So the only real solution, as has always been obvious, is to collect and destroy guns on a massive scale
EarthExile t1_j7gmlpr wrote
Reply to Conveyance Tax by Over_Razzmatazz3417
Every time a landlord's little hustle falls apart, an angel gets its wings
EarthExile t1_j6ox4hb wrote
Reply to comment by MTGBruhs in CT schools see continuing rise in chronic absenteeism by ctmirror
So your education seems to have worked out fine, then.
EarthExile t1_j6ojqeq wrote
Reply to comment by MTGBruhs in CT schools see continuing rise in chronic absenteeism by ctmirror
Take some responsibility and crack a book from time to time
EarthExile t1_j6o67l5 wrote
Reply to comment by MTGBruhs in CT schools see continuing rise in chronic absenteeism by ctmirror
I assume you meant "Common Core?" You should watch your conspiracy videos with subtitles if you want to pretend to have any idea what you're talking about
EarthExile t1_j6kazyn wrote
Never give up on knowledge as beyond us! We are always finding new ways to search. People looked like real psychos trying to fly for, presumably, all of human history. Until someone figured it out.
EarthExile t1_j5t9xxe wrote
Reply to comment by Justagreewithme in Lamont proposes allowing CT pharmacists to prescribe birth control by gabbydeben
Walk me through it. Why must the people who most direly need to avoid an unplanned pregnancy, and are more likely to make risky decisions, be kept from birth control?
EarthExile t1_j5t0qas wrote
Reply to comment by Justagreewithme in Lamont proposes allowing CT pharmacists to prescribe birth control by gabbydeben
As long as the people who need it the most are still screwed over, it's good?
EarthExile t1_j5t0ngj wrote
Reply to comment by pittiedaddy in Lamont proposes allowing CT pharmacists to prescribe birth control by gabbydeben
They should, but those kinds of religious crazies get those jobs specifically for the chance to inflict their silly fake Jesus on people who need goods and services. My driving instructor was one of them. Get a few teenagers in the car away from family and friends, feeling nervous and vulnerable, and then spend that time pounding them with Jesus.
Some religions make you a worse person while making you feel like a good person.
EarthExile t1_j528t8i wrote
Reply to comment by ThoriumActinoid in Lawmakers considering bill to allow aid in dying in Connecticut by IndicationOver
It was my brother's wife in my case. He was only twenty seven when her organs went into failure.
EarthExile t1_j4zo1s1 wrote
Reply to comment by Supernothappy in Lawmakers considering bill to allow aid in dying in Connecticut by IndicationOver
I am glad for you, that you've never had to watch someone die slow and ugly over many days. I have. It's the worst thing I've ever experienced.
Beg whatever gods you believe in that you never know what it's like to smell a loved one rotting while they slowly drown in their own fluids. That you don't watch their fingers blacken. That you're never there for those moments of confused semi-lucidity when they beg for help that isn't possible.
It is impossible to experience that horror without feeling a sort of shame that you're letting it happen. You wouldn't inflict it on a stranger's dog. You'd shoot it because that would be kindness.
EarthExile t1_j24m5go wrote
Reply to comment by Barkerfan86 in Quentin Tarantino Character Battle Royal by Kitchen_Shine
He's not a Tarantino original, so idk if he counts
EarthExile t1_j1jlyy1 wrote
Reply to comment by Master_Puppetz_1986 in Time To Take Down Your Election Yard Signs by 1mJustALurk3r
That would be an invitation for other scams, they'll know how vulnerable you are. Expect a lot of salesmen and churches.
EarthExile t1_iyckj1g wrote
Reply to comment by 2DEE831 in What’s The Last Best Movie You Watched? by Whathappensnext___
That's a fun double feature. Cannibalism, and a movie that I was sure would involve cannibalism
EarthExile t1_j92qb51 wrote
Reply to here's a question regarding gun control by AdHistorical7107
Nope this is America, you don't get to ask questions about how armed people are until they're shooting you