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Well, Inspector @"Wayfarer" worked it out. I had no idea.

If guilt and shame are the direct result of mistakes, which you consider unpredictable and unavoidable, are they not similarly unpredictable and unavo...

@"green flag" was banned for being returning banned member @"Hoo".

The Sane Society by Erich Fromm Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford The Castle by Kafka On the Fourfold Root of the Pr...

Let's test that theory. Tell me what I'm thinking right now.

https://youtu.be/ZG15oP7q4fI

Lol, I only noticed this after I made the same conclusion in the Trump thread.

Yes, and it may not all work out so wonderfully, but it's kind of beautiful to imagine the cult members' heads explode in sycophantic shock as their e...

Makes the North Koreans and Branch Davidians look kind of bland: "Our father, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, is the most outstanding leader of ...

From the New York Young Republicans Club: "President Trump embodies the American people – our psyche from id to super-ego – as does no other figure; h...

He should have gone down for that. The Democrats have no moral standing here either.

I expect Hanover is consistent btw and would criticize Republicans for shooting themselves in the foot if Clinton were indicted in a red state. It's t...

Sure, my main point though is there's always an out for those like Trump who are both rich and powerful and entrenched on one side of the political di...

I get the impression that Americans don't really believe in their justice system. They pay lip-service to it but they seem to believe if you are rich ...

Maybe Jammy can hunt a few of those for us. :pray:

He's worth his weight in muskrat, that fella.

You got me. Continuing the theme of self-promotional bullshit, I have been reading Albert Speer's biography. I don't recommend it.

I have perfect teeth and have written several classics in the field of psychology.

There's a mental health problem to be sure. But it's society that's mentally ill, and the symptoms are the perverted priorities that place superficial...

That's a little fatalistic isn't it? It sounds like you're saying that since controlling people is bad and freedom is good, we should let human nature...

Of course, you could oppose it morally and I may even admire you for that, but the result is you'd be enslaved by those with the resources to outgun y...

No they're not but put it another way, if you were designing an ideal society, would you really make it such that people could privately own any weapo...

Your rights are socially instituted and involve not only you but those who you may endanger in their exercise. You have no natural right to run around...

See the above post. I personally benefit only in that I am disturbed by children and other victims of gun violence being needlessly murdered and I won...

Look at it this way, NOS: You may feel you and other gun owners don't deserve to have your guns taken away. Others may feel that future victims of mas...

That's how changes in law work. Because they are made to benefit society as a whole not you personally.

You've just aptly described the justice system. Should we stop punishing criminals then?

Apart from being a very odd argument, this exemplifies the genetic fallacy. It wouldn't even matter if the KKK invented gun control, it's either a goo...

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Are we not talking about mass shootings here? @"Tzeentch" mentioned "mass murder" so I presume we are. The above includes anyone who got shot in a sch...

Average age of a mass shooter in the U.S. is 33 btw just to put @"Tzeentch"'s misleading claims into context. https://rockinst.org/gun-violence/mass-s...

The Nashville shooter is 28. "Kids" aren't committing the vast majority of these mass murders. Adults are.

Thanks for biting the grenade on that. The idea of allowing everyone to have whatever weapon takes their fancy / they can afford is cool in a sort of ...

I partly guessed Ron De Santis was prehistoric.

You wouldn't deny me an armoured vehicle or grenade launcher, would you @"NOS4A2"? As long as I was competent to use them.

:lol: Though by that measure, we might have to judge @"NOS4A2" as being sarcastic too as I honestly don't believe he'd disagree with anything I've sai...

If I have enough money to buy a tank, I should be allowed one. A tank never killed anyone on its own.

I would settle under protest for mere submachine guns though grenades and bazookas never killed anyone on their own and are no more dangerous than car...

I'm currently teaching my five year old how to use hand grenades and bazookas in the hope that my government will get sense and start to respect our f...

I dig. She still doesn't know shit about me either.

Ah, I was just commenting on this in the GPT thread. Very irritating.

Re the above, when 1) and 2) come into conflict, it tends to prioritize 1). E.g. It wouldn't let me get away with the claim that the trashy Hollywood ...

:smirk: My major observations so far are: 1) It's quite "PC " or at least non-committal on controversial topics. It does a lot of commentary along the...

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Is that Judge Judy's dad?

I'm not questioning that. I'm wondering why you didn't point out the error this time to give it a chance to fix it if the goal is to produce longer pa...

I tried this. It's not quite up to date and is more of a hybrid experience preferring to direct you to links and websites than give you detailed infor...

That's not even a palindrome. Shouldn't you have corrected GPT on that or am I missing something?