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The few that remain which actually remember what flower power was all about.

don’t worry, Search was set to SafeSearch: Moderate

Wimp!

Obviously because they’ve finally mastered managing their own pair.

“It came back.”

Only when the burning bush burns me!

“Representative democracy” - representative of the control freak rich holding the purse-strings that have long financed the vast majority of election campaigns.

Seems there’s a huge market in authoritarian sadists. Capitalists & fascists are creaming themselves on either side of it.

Gen X here, been progressive since long before I knew there was a term for it. All I can say is it’s about fucking time.

Oh, this won’t be abused.

It’s gonna take getting rid of a LOT more than him to even start fixing what ails this country.

There’s a reason I called this a nightmare.

I’m torn - do I buy a Vizio before they change the OS in hopes of being able to put a FOSS OS on it, or do I abstain to avoid financially supporting them?

Just call the removed ones “Strongly suggested” instead of recommended. Done - at least until we manage to rid ourselves of this nightmare.

Followed by my client telling me I’m looking at the post via the wrong instance. This is an aspect I still don’t understand.

Wow, tell us you don’t understand sarcasm at all.

Riiggghhhhttttt. Ignoring the fact that the distant future is almost completely unpredictable makes people less skeptical. Make sense.

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For those of us grounded in reality, the likelihood of gun ownership being forbidden anytime in the foreseeable future – especially when there are so many millions of people out there with them already – is extremely unlikely.

At the risk of sounding like a “think of the children” argument (which, ironically, that side of the political spectrum loves to misuse), I don’t believe anyone sane wants mentally unfit people to have access to guns.

No, advertisers know how to manipulate your train of thought to start thinking that way. You know how they make sure the same ads (or very similar ones with the same taglines) are seen innumerable times? That’s not only because they’re trying to be the first brand you think of when you want something in that vein, but because they’re taking advantage of the fact most people who are without prior knowledge otherwise (which is why they’re so big on targeting the young) will start to believe what the advertisers are saying is actually true – without proof – if they hear it enough.

Humans aren’t naturally very prone to critically thinking things through – our brains are still those of animals who operate on instinct & preconceived notions, which the advertisers are trying to program us with.

Can’t rebut my argument (or won’t, which may be telling), so you lamely try to move the goalposts. Hard to take you seriously after that. What happened in those places isn’t going to happen here anytime soon (at least not with regard to guns). There are plenty of other much more pressing issues that should be higher in your priory list.

BTW in case you didn’t notice, I’m not the person you were talking to a couple comments back.

If your guns – that you presumably virtually never need to use – are such a ridiculously high priority to you, then your priorities are seriously out of whack. Especially since nobody’s trying to take them from you unless you’re mentally unfit to have them. Or is that the real reason for your “concern?”