The problem with the executive order was that it restricted senior citizens who did not have mental illness, and posed no violent threat to themselves or anyone else, from their Second Amendment rights, without due process, if they had an appointed fiduciary to take care of their Social Security payments.

Post five credible sources or go away. You don't just get to play this game where everyone else is wrong while not committing to anything yourself.

If you can claim all those sources are not credible you MUST have a list of sources you consider credible so give them up.

In America this is not called murders, it is called collateral and it is a necessary evil, since the USA has to enforce their values which we all know are great.

This is exactly how I feel. It is absolutely unbelievable to me that so many people in this country are both ok with what he has said about the press and believe it. His "fake news" and "enemy of the people" statements about some of the most reputable news outlets in the world should unequivocally disqualify Donald Trump from holding the office of the Presidency.

Gun shows, newspaper ads, online ads. Wouldn't be difficult. No questions asked. The average Joe may not know but could easily figure it out.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/n...ence/98589720/

Publically speak out about fears of deportation? Congrats you'll get raided by ICE that very day!

(I didn't fact check this, so take it fwiw)

I called that at least a month ago. Your pony is very unpresidented.

I have a question about the political spectrum. You have the RWNJ that love authoritarianism and fascism. But fascism is on the left of the political spectrum. What gives?

Is it just that RWNJ refuse to acknowledge fascism in general but yet unaware they are supporting it?

It's just so weird to me. They love capitalism yet scream "Fake news!" and want a police state because browns. They want less government, but more ICE or whatever the **** it is.

Older people are more likely to commit suicide.


Suicide Rates by Age
In 2015, the highest suicide rate (19.6) was among adults between 45 and 64 years of age. The second highest rate (19.4) occurred in those 85 years or older. Younger groups have had consistently lower suicide rates than middle-aged and older adults. In 2015, adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 had a suicide rate of 12.5.

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/

Dayyyum

Not sure where you get the idea that fascism is on the left end of the spectrum, I believe most political scientists agree it's a far-right authoritarian ideology.

On the extreme authoritarian left, you would have cronyist socialism or communism. On the extreme democratic left, liberal democratic socialism.

Right, well, thankfully here in America we tend to frown upon denying civil liberties based on what large groups of people may statistically do.

As the ACLU said (yeah, the ACLU supported getting rid of this EO, too):
Here's the rest of their letter, which was a nice read in general about discriminating against those with various handicaps.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-co...17/01/ACLU.pdf

I almost feel bad for Tillerson--give up 300 Mil/yr just to get the russian sanctions lifted so he makes billions and now that's not even gonna happen. (at least for awhile)

Ivanka/Kushner are clearly the secs of state of this country now if not the whole state dept and that's just how it's gonna be.

Pence doubled down on mexico's gonna pay for the wall because everyone treats their neighbor by building a fence and then insisting the neighbor pay for it. Somehow this is okay with many people.

https://twitter.com/rabiasquared/sta...28717624573952

JFC, the USA must have to be the only nation on earth were people have to debate whether or not mentally ill people should be allowed to buy and carry guns.

https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/statu...46727341400065

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/837037438765789188

Authoritarianism/Totalitarianism can be left or right and a lot of the horrible human rights violations stem from any one party totalitarian state, whether it's left or right. The power base for fascism is a wealthy ownership class, maybe extending to the middle class. Fascism is nationalistic, sexist, classist and racist. Hierarchy is very important.

Totalitarians on the left can be just as bad to groups of people, but ostensibly for different reasons. The base of power on the extreme left is either industrial workers or peasants, but it never seems to be both at the same time. Ostensibly there should be no classism, racism or sexism; only ideological purity. In practice any system with a lot of power will tend to have some powerful class of people - party members, clergy, w/e.

Stalin muddles things because he veered pretty hard nationalist and persecuted ethnic minorities as well as political enemies.

I'm sure all the people who recently stated "as long as they're only deporting criminals it seems fine" like Inso0 will be outraged now.

So US foreign policy is now made by the Trump Clan and retired Generals?

Re: bobman's tweet - it's absurd how little the media required to start slobbering over Trump like this, it makes zero sense how people like Van Jones were waiting to be romanced by a single non-rambling speech that didn't even veer from his established policy goals.

If by extreme in the amount of democracy, I'd say libertarian socialism, anarcho-socialism, anarcho-syndicalism, or some other flavor or anarchism excluding anarcho-capitalism.

It's possible the media wants to come off as "even-handed" or even validating of a new President, and they've been criticizing him so much since the election they were looking for an opportunity to validate/praise him, even a stupidly flimsy one like this.

It goes to show that despite the recent good behavior, the media still has incredible fundamental problems that are going to be extremely difficult to overcome and continue to have a democracy going forward.

And the guy who said he likes soldiers that weren't captured and refused to take any responsibility for the raid that took Owens' life parading his widow like a prop is just the tip of the iceberg for the many things that were wrong with it.