America`s Gun Culture

Started by Wildweasel74, December 14, 2012, 06:00:57 PM

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seafoid

Kirk was an extremist.


https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Charlie Kirk asked


There is a lot of hate coming from the GOP side.There is no talk of reconciliation.

https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b

Laura Loomer, a rightwing activist whose lobbying has prompted Trump to fire members of his administration, said on X it was time to "shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organisation".

Polarisation is off the charts in the US.

thewobbler

"People should be allowed to say whatever they want, as long as I agree with them" is also off the charts in the US.

Actually the whole country is off the charts. And all the people in Ireland who are determined that a "right" and a "left" exists over here are every bit as demented and dangerous. The last thing we need are polarised sides to politics, whereby lunatics feel protected by their side, and fundamentalists become so entrenched they cannot make their own minds up. These sides don't currently exist. Stop making them up. Let's not be America. It was a fun idea and had potentials. But it doesn't work. We'd be better off under the English monarchy and class system.


johnnycool

Quote from: seafoid on September 16, 2025, 07:47:00 AMKirk was an extremist.


https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Charlie Kirk asked


There is a lot of hate coming from the GOP side.There is no talk of reconciliation.

https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b

Laura Loomer, a rightwing activist whose lobbying has prompted Trump to fire members of his administration, said on X it was time to "shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organisation".

Polarisation is off the charts in the US.


It's the beginning of the fall of the US Empire.

Like the Roman Empire it will crumble from within.


brokencrossbar1

Quote from: johnnycool on September 16, 2025, 08:08:18 AM
Quote from: seafoid on September 16, 2025, 07:47:00 AMKirk was an extremist.


https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Charlie Kirk asked


There is a lot of hate coming from the GOP side.There is no talk of reconciliation.

https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b

Laura Loomer, a rightwing activist whose lobbying has prompted Trump to fire members of his administration, said on X it was time to "shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organisation".

Polarisation is off the charts in the US.


It's the beginning of the fall of the US Empire.

Like the Roman Empire it will crumble from within.



The comparisons with the Roman Empire are interesting and have been made more and more. As an entity the USA is significantly larger than the Roman Empire ever was.

It is not inconceivable that the states themselves will start breaking away. The likes of Alaska and Texas are as big as France and Germany combined so certainly have the geographical size to be independent. It's not going to happen over night but it could well start happening if the sense is that they are stronger alone than combined. Some of the richer states may feel they have been propping up 'poorer' states for too long through federalism.

johnnycool

Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on September 16, 2025, 09:19:15 AM
Quote from: johnnycool on September 16, 2025, 08:08:18 AM
Quote from: seafoid on September 16, 2025, 07:47:00 AMKirk was an extremist.


https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Charlie Kirk asked


There is a lot of hate coming from the GOP side.There is no talk of reconciliation.

https://www.ft.com/content/3b6574ac-f8db-4998-9a91-e7f4bbe70a9b

Laura Loomer, a rightwing activist whose lobbying has prompted Trump to fire members of his administration, said on X it was time to "shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organisation".

Polarisation is off the charts in the US.


It's the beginning of the fall of the US Empire.

Like the Roman Empire it will crumble from within.



The comparisons with the Roman Empire are interesting and have been made more and more. As an entity the USA is significantly larger than the Roman Empire ever was.

It is not inconceivable that the states themselves will start breaking away. The likes of Alaska and Texas are as big as France and Germany combined so certainly have the geographical size to be independent. It's not going to happen over night but it could well start happening if the sense is that they are stronger alone than combined. Some of the richer states may feel they have been propping up 'poorer' states for too long through federalism.

Historically Republicans wanted more autonomy for the states with less overreach from the Federal Government, but are cheering from the rafters when Trump sends in the national guard to the likes of Memphis, Washington DC and maybe Chicago.

Trump is just a disruptor oblivious of the long term consequences of his actions. He just doesn't care.

DaleCooper

Quote from: thewobbler on September 16, 2025, 08:03:06 AM"People should be allowed to say whatever they want, as long as I agree with them" is also off the charts in the US.

Actually the whole country is off the charts. And all the people in Ireland who are determined that a "right" and a "left" exists over here are every bit as demented and dangerous. The last thing we need are polarised sides to politics, whereby lunatics feel protected by their side, and fundamentalists become so entrenched they cannot make their own minds up. These sides don't currently exist. Stop making them up. Let's not be America. It was a fun idea and had potentials. But it doesn't work. We'd be better off under the English monarchy and class system.



Ireland is an American vassal, you seem to think there is a choice?

You don't get American multinational corporate culture without changing your own.

Main Street

I came across a comment on Threads
"I can't believe Charlie Kirk was actually less annoying when he was alive"