Yes, I agree those factors probably contribute to the fact that the US experiences far more school shootings than any other country in the world, but again while far more infrequent, there still have been school shootings in Canada, Australia, Europe, and many other places.

Keep in mind that I’m playing devil’s advocate here, but if we were to fix the things you mentioned: toxic masculinity is erased from the public consciousness and the government gives free mental health support to everyone, can you guarantee on your life that a school shooting would never ever happen again for any reason? Simple yes or no answer to satisfy Mr. Vance.

Are there ways to lower the number of school shootings? Yes, and you’ve already made some great points.

However, are there ways to prevent school shootings from ever happening again? Well, the answer is unfortunately no. Guns exist and even the strictest laws and bans could never change that. School shootings still sometimes happen in countries with far stricter laws too.

It’s one of the logical traps conservatives love to use though: They lean on the fact that it is impossible to completely fix a problem and thus also dismiss any attempts to improve things even slightly because they still see any imperfect solution as a failure.

When a corporation or private individual uses their large pool of capital to subsidize an unsustainable business model that undercuts and disrupts the competition until it can establish market dominance, that’s called venture capitalism. When a government does the exact same thing, that’s called communism.

The typical American mindset of “corporation good, government bad”.

Good Old Projection: The Republicans are already using X to cheat the election and they don’t want competition.

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Face eating leopard says they have to continue eating faces because there is nothing else to eat.

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It’s fair that maybe he felt like he could still insert a pro-labour message in the minds of working class Republican voters who were tuned in, but it’s confounding for him to not call out Trump who is representative of the exploitative capitalists he was talking about. That’s the silent endorsement to me, making it seem like the two are not completely at odds.

“This face eating leopard is good! It’s those other face eating leopards you should be worried about…”

I watched the speech live. I actually agree with a lot of what he said, but the dead silence in the crowd when he wasn’t kissing Trump’s ass was all I needed to hear. That speech wasn’t trying to convince Republicans to revolt against their leader, it was trying to soften moderates to vote for a dictator who will crush them at the first chance.

“Maybe if we become friends with the face eating leopards then they will stop eating our faces!”

Total class traitor.

The cynic in me believes that the Republicans calling for Biden to have a drug test before the debate was good old projection, and Trump was the one who was actually hopped up on drugs. Can’t ride that pharmaceutical train all the time though.

Advertisers believe they are doing you a favour by using personal information to serve “better” ads that would be more “interesting” to you.

The reason is that Elon Musk got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

I mean I’m fully aware of the hypocrisy of republicans saying they are the party of “freedom” only when freedom aligns with their ideology. It’s just fun to watch them try to backpedal and implode when you ask if they would be comfortable with a democrat making similar rules.

Just last week, Abbott ranted about a male teacher who wore a dress to some school events in the state who was driven to quit his job by online trolls. Abbott said that the teacher was “trying to normalize the concept that this type of behavior is OK” and said, “This is the type of behavior that we want to make sure we end in the state of Texas.”

I seriously want to ask conservatives in Texas why they are comfortable letting their government dictate what clothes they are allowed to wear?

Then why can I buy a prepaid SIM with cash and no ID? I do this when travelling to the US because it’s cheaper than international roaming.

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I’ve started using Obsidian with a kanban plugin, though any sufficient kanban style solution would work. I have a to-do column (aka backlog), an in-progress column, and a finished column. I add notes to the cards about what I did and I never delete stuff from the finished column so I can review if I need to re-open or re-do a task in the future.

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