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American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)
They'd much rather disolve the education system.
Explains all the school shootings in those other countries that allow abortion and evolution.
Pretty standard Republican beliefs. What I always find odd is their incredibly romanticized, rosy view of the past - apparently back in the Good Ol’ Days, there was no murder, rape, physical or sexual abuse, wars, lying, stealing or horrific institutions like slavery (I assume he’d say it was actually a good thing) because Americans at all times revered the Lord, so of course they didn’t do any of that.
In the good old days they were carefree children that were shielded from the terrible things happening in the world.
Looking at election results, the vast majority of Republican voters live in rural or at least suburban areas. Those feature both low population densities and isolation. This can make the crime rate in instances of violent crime per year low compared to an urban area with the same crime rate per capita. It also means that when someone does her killed, The average distance in feet (or miles) from the crime scene to your house is larger. This can affect perception of crime a lot
Can we just disolve as a nation already? Start an auction state by state to different countries?
Clearly we cannot manage the simple act of self governance. The experiment is over and we failed.
Honestly I'm here for a CA/OR/WA Western seaboard alliance. Hawaii can go back to being governed by natives but can ally with us.
3.6t + .3t + .73t = 4.63t using 2022 nom GDP
Which would make the Western Seaboard the #3 economy in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Cascadia, my dream is Cascadia.
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Mate we can’t afford it right now. Maybe if Florida ends up in the bargain bin?
It's the age old argument of "if there is no God, how do we teach what is right or wrong?"
Yes we can teach morals and ethics without a creator in place. As Penn from Penn and Teller would put it. "I don't need the fear of eternal damnation to tell me that I shouldn't murder. I shouldn't murder because it's wrong".
I rape and murder as much as I want - I just don't want to.
"If the only thing keeping you from murdering and raping people is fear of punishment from god, then you are not a good person."
"Christian nationalist"...So no surprise.
I had a feeling it wasn't going to take long for me to hate this guy but it happened even faster than I expected.
Cool cool cool so this dude is unable to comprehend how one can have morality or ethics without an imaginary friend who is constantly threatening to torment them for all of eternity and thus is actively hostile to me as a person because I don’t believe his imaginary friend exists in the first place.
The imaginary friend also tells people to murder their kids and shit "as a test" to prove their faith. This guy said he heard voices telling him to kill people, so if their god is real I more suspect he's the cause of this, not the solution.
What a fucking idiot
Is this guy really just an idiot, or is he simply pandering to the uneducated to get re-elected?
Yes
Louisiana here. It’s impossible to know the difference anymore. The results are the same.
For a while it was the latter but this new generation of Republicans are the ones who grew up drinking the kool aid. Their Voters can't tell the diffrence and many are too cooky to care
The school shootings weren't a problem until after we started putting In God We Trust all over our money.
Jesus Christ, they somehow got worse then Trump
You thought they’d jump up when reaching the bottom of the barrel, but they took out the shovels.
Ok, let's agree that humans evolved to become school shooters, but how does abortion play a part in it. Abortion actually eliminates possible school shooters, so it balances it out.
This guy wants Gilead and he's not quiet about it.
Yeah and I blame Taylow Swift for the lack of Indian restaurants in my hometown in Italy smh
He has a point. There has never been mass shootings before they started teaching heliocentrism at school.
This guy is looking worse and worse. He's already an insurrectionist, he's basically a christo fascist nutjob
So, typical Republican then.
Oh fun already huh.
This was the plan from the Maga house members from the start. Suck Mccarthy so hard he agrees to a one member vote for ouster. Vote him out months later. Then put in your Maga cuck.
even more horrifying, he is second in line to the presidency. in the unlikely but possible deaths of dual assassination motivated by some right wing nut to get this guy in power
Just when I assumed the person swinging the hammer couldn't get any stupider... along comes this guy and proves me wrong.
Is this really world news, tho?
Honestly, it took me a bit to realise which community I posted this in and I regretted it. I normally would not have posted it here. I try hard to never post us-centric stuff here or in similar communities. 🤦🏽♂️
Could it have worldwide implications, certainly. But not directly.
What a strange conclusion to draw from a problem
He does everything wrong. As a house speaker, it's not his job to bolt out his beliefs. As a christ, it is not his role to judge.
So, yet another Republican idiot. Not much of a surprise.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is a hardcore Christian nationalist who has a history of spouting extreme right-wing views — including on mass shootings.
The Louisiana Republican’s record on guns has come under scrutiny in the wake of a shooter killing at least 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, and in addition to opposing gun control legislation, the man who is now second in line for the presidency has blamed mass shootings on both teaching evolution and abortion.
When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.”
He’s advocated for the return of prayer in public schools, derided the “so-called separation of church and state” on the House floor, and argued that the nation’s founders did not establish the separation to prevent religion from influencing government, but rather to impede the government from restricting the influence and free exercise of religion.
The new House Speaker is also a diehard Trump supporter who worked to overturn the 2020 election, and so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that he doesn’t view the United States as a democracy.
It’s not just majority rule, it’s a constitutional republic, and the founders set that up because they followed the biblical definition of what a civil society is supposed to look like.”
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Holy fuck, what an asshole.