Reply With QuoteThe post was to PoliTalker and he will understand.Originally Posted by Nordberg
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Never said you did. You seemed to have some problem with defining extremism. I gave an example. Have you ever advocated gun confiscation? Regardless, are you denying several Democrats have advocated it? What are the odds President Biden will be signing a gun bill next year?
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
We are still going to need factories. And just like the factories of today look nothing like the ones of 50 years ago, the factories of the future will be different from today. There has to be an emphasis on efficiency with everything.
One of the problems with our society is: we generate too much waste. We need clever engineering that takes what we once threw away, and puts it to some good use some new way. We are seeing more of that and I predict that trend continues. That's a win/win. I also think we need to give refuse-sorting another try. And we just need to let people decide if they wish to participate or not, but don't expect everyone to do it, and don't give them containers or bins if they are not going to properly sort everything. The one thing that totally screws that up is when people don't pay attention to what goes in what bin. It's no good if there's glass in the paper bin and steel in the aluminum bin. Un-monitored public bins just don't work because there is always a jerk in every crowd that puts the wrong thing in. They need to be under security camera and people using it need to be identified and written up if they put wrong things in.
We could use this new stream of raw materials for creative benefits. We just need some clever people to start working on what to do with all the stuff besides throwing it in a landfill.
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It'd be better to most most toxic industries into space. Why do you think more isn't being done to put mankind into space and on the Moon for industrial purposes and mining?
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
That depends on the GA Senate vote on Jan 5.
Clearly something needs to be done. We have too many gun deaths.
I don't know. Maybe you don't think it's a problem or you think it's simply unavaoidable.
We should not accept this amount of gun deaths without wanting to do something.
What's the solution?
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
Cost prohibitive.
No for-profit space industry is making a profit.
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I think it's a problem Democrat lie about "gun violence" by padding and doubling their numbers with suicides.
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With thinking like that, Columbus should have stayed in the Med.
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
So nothing need be done? We simply accept the gun deaths as inevitable? The occasional gun-nut massacre is to be expected?
No. I can't do that. I think we need to improve.
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
Not a good example.With thinking like that, Columbus should have stayed in the Med.
Lotta people would have lived better lives if he had stayed home.
He brought massive death to the new world.
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Doc Dutch (11-16-2020)
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Better mental health care. Remove the stigma from mental illness. Consider this; A person has a small bout of depression because their parents died then, after a month of treatment they're all better. They apply for a new job and the application includes questions about mental illness. Do you think employers would be more inclined or less inclined to hire a "nut job"?
Why do you think suicide is higher in the military than non-military professions? Higher stress, yes, but there are plenty of high stress non-military jobs. It's because if a person turns themselves in for treatment, they might as well have "nut job" tattooed on their foreheads. In the military, it's up or out. There are no career corporals or 1st Lieutenants. Additionally, there's no 401k. No pension before 20 years. All of the vets on this forum who didn't do at least 20 years (occasionally, an early out package) get nothing for retirement, even if it was 19 years, 11 months and less than a month. In order to avoid the stigma of mental illness, they hold it in until they kill themselves.
Mental illness is also associated with another killer: violent domestic disputes. You certainly know abusers grew up with abuse. How to break the cycle? Sterner sentences for abuse just so they can learn more abuse in prison? Wouldn't mental health care be the better solution, at least for the most part?
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Have you considered how many would have died or never been born if he hadn't? Besides, it's bound to have happened one way or another. The Vikings have visited before and there's evidence Polynesians made the trip. It was only a matter of time before civilizations on different continents met.
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
The 20 years thing is interesting. Sounds like a change is needed there, if that is leading to suicides and people just 'bucking up and stuffing it in.' A proportional military retirement based on any time served is in order.
Mental health is the only issue? So where is the big Republican initiative to tax gun owners and the gun industry to pay for better mental health care?
How about a deal between proponents and opponents of gun rights.
Since the mental health issue is not currently resolved, tighten restrictions on gun ownership until it is. Once that is done, and it can be assured that guns are only in the hands of responsible owners, then the restrictions can be safely lifted.
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Doc Dutch (11-17-2020)
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Hello Dutch Uncle,
It is irrelevant. We can't go back and change history. And no, the Polynesians never visited America. It was the other way around as Thor Heyerdhal proved with his Kon Tiki voyage. The Polynesians are descendant from South Americans.
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The "20 years thing" has been like that far longer than I've been alive. The fact most people don't understand it is classic example of them not giving a shit. Democrat have commented to me numerous times about military deaths or permanent maimings with "They volunteered. They knew what they were getting into".
When have Democrats ever put better mental healthcare over banning and more restrictions? Never. Obama added it as an afterthought when his first gun bill failed to pass the House(?). It was in the bill that made the Senate.....waaaayyyyy down at the bottom. Well below banning AK-47s and high capacity magazines.
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