Atheist. I was raised in various flavors of southern, whites protestant churches. Mostly the so-called charismatic, non-denominational, types, but also mainstream Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, etc, but not excluding some of the weirder cultish strains.

I left because I began to realize just how fucked in the head they raised me. I couldn’t relate to regular people very well at all, and couldn’t trust the judgement of religious people at any level. I got out and got the help I needed. I only wish I had done it sooner.

Why should we have death sentences?

Dude has charisma and is skilled at improv. He had a story of overcoming addiction and had some good things to say about social issues back then. That kind of thing sells, so lots of scumbags put it in their bios.

More like “I can’t be guilty of such a crime. I’m saved!”

Because it’s free. H&K is expensive. I imagine they still hold parents on the HK416 and might prevent other manufacturers from making them. No such restrictions exist for the M16 or AR-15 anymore. While the HK416 may well be superior, there’s nothing wrong with the AR that hasn’t been addressed for years. And it might send a bit of a message if Europe starts building a bunch of them.

Soon. Soon.

There are no patent limitations on manufacturing M16s. It’s a solid, proven, affordable design. Europe is a manufacturing powerhouse, with plenty of superb weapons manufacturers who don’t even need to use Stoner’s design. They risk absolutely nothing.

I actually plan to buy the latest print encyclopedia I can find. Just in case. Fuck them trying to kill everything good on the internet.

Just one, no.

History doesn’t exactly repeat. It sometimes rhymes. Just because it happened one way doesn’t mean it’ll go the exact same way again.

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Peer pressure to conform, toxic masculinity, homophobia, dirty jokes and failure to grasp dark humor, society failing to train boys to mature into men, propaganda news, obsession with team sports, lack of good education, lack of mentorship, etc.

I work blue collar. I know some.

Well don’t announce it. Change them.

Ok whatever.

I don’t believe you have the guts to admit when you’re wrong and change your mind. So why waste any more time with you?

No, it isn’t.

LoL ok.

Now explain how diversity, equality, and inclusion ruins everything.

LOL wut?! Businesses aren’t people.

No, the market does not give a flying fuck about justice. That’s why we have a government.

The business owner will get rich, kill the company, then sell off the tattered remains, all while poisoning the groundwater – and the market won’t do a damn thing about it. The workers you don’t give a shit about deserve justice, good jobs, and fair treatment. That rich man deserves justice, to have everything he owns seized, including losing his freedom. A business is a piece of paper. It can’t feel a goddamn thing.

You and the market would just let them get away with everything they do, so long as they got rich. Those robber barons absolutely love bigoted suckers like you.

You’ve had this explained to you endlessly already, but you’re determined not to understand. It’s because the point of society isn’t to root for bad businesses failing. It’s to ensure the just treatment of all people. If you don’t have that, you do not have a civilization. You just don’t care about that because you care more about pretending to be superior than about cooperating to build a society of value.