Recent content by Emily Lake

I find it endlessly fascinating that when the discussion is about marxist-inspired policy actions, communism is limited to being collective ownership of the means of production and never, ever anything else. But when people feel like it will benefit their position (not their argument), suddenly...

What has the world come to when people feel justified attacking someone because they feel threatened by that person engaging in a legal action? Have you ever even bothered to consider how you would feel had the roles been reversed? If Rittenhouse was an armed protester, who was chased...

Poor actions afterward, lack of remorse... are those sufficient to deprive him of the right to self defense? The reason people end up defending Rittenhouse isn't because any of us think he was a great guy or some other stupid shit. It's because other people absolutely insist on framing him as...

You're quite literally excusing the assault of a minor on the grounds that the minor brought it on himself by having shown poor judgement. Your logic is the same logic used to excuse assaults of women on the grounds that the woman brought it on themselves by having shown poor judgement. That...

:cautious: If she hadn't been wearing such a short skirt she wouldn't have gotten herself raped?

Counter: You're talking about 80% of the LEGALLY OWNED firearms in private hands. Which doesn't at all address the firearms that were illegally acquired in the first place. Are you assuming that the drug dealers and gang members are going to voluntarily surrender their illegal firearms? For...

My employer isn't a democracy either; it's absurd to say that my employer is communist. The US military is an employer.

It's really weird and contradictory that you want immense nuance and contextualism when it comes to whether nazis were socialist, even while you recognize that they explicitly identified themselves as socialist... but you simultaneously demand that we're all supposed to accept them as being a...

It's also not collectively owned - soldiers don't own any part of the armed services, they're employees by contract.

Did YOU read the link Poli posted to the Nazi platform objectives? Saying that the nazis were "corporatists", sheesh.

For consideration in this derail, only about half the households in the US have firearms, and the majority of those only have one. Rural areas have more households with firearms... but they also have more bears and mountain lions and wolves, and they do more hunting. There's a relatively small...

Why on earth do you think this? It's kind of the exact opposite of the argument when it comes to drugs - where making them legal is supposed to result in lower rates of addiction and deaths, and remove the appeal of them being taboo and counterculture. Are you also for much stricter drug laws...

Of course, you're correct with regard to training. Personally, I think it's reasonable to require training and qualification prior to allowing purchase and ownership of a gun. I'd rather like to see periodic re-qualifications as well. Yes yes... infringement... but I think it's reasonable to...

Explain to me how that's supposed to work. People who illegally acquired guns in the first place, and who routinely commit violent crimes are just supposed to stop committing as many violent crimes because... why? Are you imagining that the cartel-backed dealer is just going to wake up and say...

I agree that reducing gun violence is good. I am not convinced that effective gun regulation will effectively reduce gun violence in the US, when the guns were illegally acquired by violent criminals in the first place. If you can convince me that making it significantly harder for law abiding...