Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[LinekersLegs]

I honestly don’t understand how such an obvious WUM can continue to get so many bites !

Perhaps people missing arguing over Everton‘s weekend performances and spoiling for a fight

 

[carolinablue232]

I honestly don’t understand how such an obvious WUM can continue to get so many bites !

I don’t actually think he’s a wum. He seems genuine in what he believes, even if those beliefs are misguided or coming from a less than educated place.

 

[verreauxi]

Then he's either lying or (in that particular regard) an idiot. The theory of evolution is not contestable. It is demonstrably true. You can test it. You should question and test it, in fact... because that's how science works.

A nuerosurgeon dismissing a scientific theory as "the work of the devil" is crazy in that it disregards how his field of study developed. Witness

5 Ways Ben Carson Relied On Evolution In His Work

Carson is an author on several publications that rely heavily on that devilish construct known as evolution.

www.forbes.com

Ben Carson is a huge idiot, no question about it. Our resident adolescent is confusing credentialism with being intelligent.

 

[verreauxi]

Believing the world is 10,000 years old requires you to reject centuries of empirical evidence to the contrary. What other motive would there be than lack of education?

This is correct. If you are supplied with incontrovertible facts and choose to ignore them for ideological purposes you are not being smart. The number one major for future doctors is Biology, and in US departments (apart from Liberty University) evolution is taught as fact and theory; those students who major in biology and choose to dismiss what they've learned are simply blinkered fools who, despite their educational achievements, are clearly not educated in any true sense of the word.

 

[Ruairi77]

What's exactly the confusion here? @BlueTX Is complaining that he doesn't want right-wingers to "impose" their views on the population yet the left-wingers have already imposed their views in many states by enabling vaccine mandates. Isn't that imposing their views?

there's a difference in basing mandates or even laws on theology as opposed to public safety. Thats in the constitution.

 

[Ruairi77]

I don’t actually think he’s a wum. He seems genuine in what he believes, even if those beliefs are misguided or coming from a less than educated place.

yea, I'm with you.
A lot of wums start with a belief in what their saying, but when faced with an impossible argument, resort to winding people up, kinda like what finnfan used to do.
Emir is trying to argue his views but unfortunately there's no changing the decades of thinking that lead you to be pro assault weapon, anti public health care and questioning evolution.
The effort to reconcile the two mindsets will be the undoing of America.

 

[Ruairi77]

Also, Ben Carson is one neurosurgeon who doesn't believe in evolution.
I wonder what percentage of neurosurgeons in America do believe in evolution. I'm willing to bet it's a around 95%

 

[Prevenger17]

Well either way, he's a wum or almost supernaturally clueless. Don't engage him

 

[LinekersLegs]

Ffs

 

[Ruairi77]

Well either way, he's a wum or almost supernaturally clueless. Don't engage him

ha, that's probably fair!

 

[Ruairi77]

Ffs

this a funny one for me. I mean, they're all shocking decisions these days.
but I kinda expected at least one conservative to decent on this, given their legal backgrounds and supposed adherence to the constitution.
It's very worrying that they are just voting lock step to give the police as much power as possible at the expense of the citizen.

 

[BlueTX]

It's perfectly reasonable for American citizens to fear police. Now with the right to openly carry weapons for self-defense and stand your ground laws on the books will the conservative SCOTUS support the right of a citizen to shoot and kill police officers? As a Texan, I have no legal duty to retreat in the face of danger to myself. I also have the right to shoot someone if I believe it necessary to prevent a violent crime to my person.

I have done no wrong. I am being confronted by police and I fear they will harm or kill me. How then, do I not have the right to shoot and kill police officers to protect myself?

 

[GoldenToffee]

Wow scary times in US that you can now carry your gun anywhere. Might not go back in the future. What a shame.

 

[GoldenToffee]

It's perfectly reasonable for American citizens to fear police. Now with the right to openly carry weapons for self-defense and stand your ground laws on the books will the conservative SCOTUS support the right of a citizen to shoot and kill police officers? As a Texan, I have no legal duty to retreat in the face of danger to myself. I also have the right to shoot someone if I believe it necessary to prevent a violent crime to my person.

I have done no wrong. I am being confronted by police and I fear they will harm or kill me. How then, do I not have the right to shoot and kill police officers to protect myself?

You know the answer already though. Even if police may threaten to kill you, and you fear for your life, and it's your right to defend yourself, you know you're going away forever if you kill a policeman or woman.

 

[BlueTX]

You know the answer already though. Even if police may threaten to kill you, and you fear for your life, and it's your right to defend yourself, you know you're going away forever if you kill a policeman or woman.

Perhaps. However, I think it is an interesting thought/legal excercise.

There is good reason why the police in Texas were adamantly against open carry laws being passed here.