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• On the post: Our Humanity

  

  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 06:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't this the same executive order....

  Sorry, but I think this applies far more strongly to Dark Helmut than it does to me.
  
  I corrected a falsehood, and went no further.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 05:55pm

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  Honestly, I mostly agree with you, but lets try to be accurate here. #2 in your list (yours, not his, since you had the courtesy to give us numbered points) is quite wrong. ILLEGAL immigrants are biased towards the less educated. And yes, he was speaking about illegals. It's called context.
  
  Context applies to the whole thing. He was referring to illegal immigration in that whole quote. Illegal immigrants tend towards the less educated, and therefore the less able.
  
  #3 I can't disagree.
  
  #4 Wrong. Those who are motivated to emigrate don't just up and say "Gosh! My comfy middle-to-upper class is just so restricting!" They're almost always either poor or persecuted. And yes, that's an argument in favor of taking them, assuming they've been vetted.
  
  #5 Wut indeed.
  
  #5(2) Total crime levels changing has nothing to do with a given population being a disproportionate source of crime.
  
  #6 You're agreeing with Trump here. Literally. Context again.
  
  Frankly, Leigh had a better point on that one.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 05:37pm

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  Mattis has strongly stated his opposition to torture last I heard. But I'm curious about this hypothetical Trump coup. How does a guy who's ALREADY president have a coup? Like, if there was/is/could be a coup, wouldn't it have already happened and he won? He's president, there's no higher office to seize.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 03:57pm

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  I am refuting two things. First, that there is a religious test denying entry (lower priorities in a specific subset of cases are not the same as rejections), and second, that anyone is exempt from the ban. Anything further than that I am not refuting in the slightest, nor attempting to.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 02:33pm

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  The actual 'Mexicans are rapists and murderers' quote:
  
  When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 02:20pm

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  That guy's site is an interesting read, thanks!

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 02:09pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't this the same executive order....

  Yes, that is indeed the section of the executive order which I already quoted. I'll quote from the proceeding comments which you seemingly didn't bother to read, with some extra bolding to help you out: "Upon resumption" means that AFTER the ban ends, minority religions will get prioritised in cases in which they claim asylum from religious persecution. There is no exemption from the ban based on religion. There is no religious test DENYING entry.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 01:35pm

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  You stated: Those seeking asylum can be exempted from the ban, but only if they are a member of a "minority religion"
  
  This is false.
  
  My comment conflicts with what you stated by not being false.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 12:38pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't this the same executive order....

  Uh, maybe you should go re-read it again-again. I'll copy paste the relevant section here.
  
  "(b) Upon the resumption of USRAP admissions, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, is further directed to make changes, to the extent permitted by law, to prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality. Where necessary and appropriate, the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security shall recommend legislation to the President that would assist with such prioritization."
  
  "Upon resumption" means that AFTER the ban ends, minority religions will get prioritised in cases in which they claim asylum from religious persecution.
  
  There is no exemption from the ban based on religion.
  
  There is no religious test DENYING entry.
  
  (Atheists should certainly get to claim religious persecution)

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 12:24pm

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  You want US-centric? Here you go, buddy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#2000.E2.80.9309
  
  Sadly sorting by date doesn't work due to someone not using a sort friendly date format. By my count approximately 50% of terror attacks in the US during the past decade were jihad related. "Patently false" stands.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 11:46am

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  "It doesn't matter if almost all of the terrorist attacks in the last decade have been domestic ones done by white people." Patently false.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_violent_events_by_death_toll#Terrorist_attacks

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 11:36am

  Re: Re: Isn't this the same executive order....

  I don't recall Trump's having that either, but hey, read it yourself https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re: Hypocrisy

  Trump has not banned people of a specific religion from entering the country. He has banned all people of any religion from seven specific countries from entering the country. He has not banned any members of any religion from outside those countries from entering this country.
  
  Countries which he has not banned people from include (In order of Islamic population percentage from wikipedia's list here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country#Table) Maldives, Mauritania, Afghanistan, Tunisia, the Western Sahara, Morocco, Tajikistan, Mayotte, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Niger, Algeria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Senegal, Kosovo, Gambia, Mali, Jordan, Turkmenistan, and Egypt. These are all countries with 90%+ Muslim populations.
  
  If we go for a simple 50%+ add another 20 or so majority Muslim countries to the list.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 04:25pm

  This is yet another case where should and do strongly diverge. We should be able to expect privacy in all our communications, no matter whether a third party is involved. That shit's a government cop-out by people with no respect for the constitution nor the ideals it helps codify.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 03:42pm

  Given their recent VPN crackdown, they seem to be sticking to the tried and true 1 step forward 2 steps back plan.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2017 @ 12:57pm

  This is kind of off-topic, but why the heck is The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children initialized as NMCEC? Shouldn't it be NCMEC?
  
  And I'm not even sure it's an error on your part, since a quick search shows FEMA calling it the NMCEC.

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2017 @ 04:03pm

  I'm pretty sure the whole Jose portion should be considered too. I mean, I can't count the number of times I've been visiting friends in Italy and accidentally asked them "Dov'è Jose bagno?"

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  GristleMissile ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 01:47pm

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  Eh, Jack Thompson got disbarred, so they aren't completely useless. I think the worthless shits from Prenda got disbarred too.

• On the post: Do You Want A Police State? Because This Is How You Get A Police State

  

  GristleMissile ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 12:51pm

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  As usual, this is one of things with more than one interpretation, not all of which are bad things. Obama's admin mandated federal oversight of several police departments and there was nary a peep of anything except support for it. Suddenly when Trump threatens to do the same he's a totalitarian monster creating a police state. (which we're ALREADY in, btw, and have been since at least early Dubya) Maybe folks could wait and see what his actual plan is before flipping shit and spewing FUD. It could very well be that his plan is to fix the problems in police behaviour that led to there being an anti-police atmosphere. And Tim, your "counter-examples" in no way showed that there isn't an anti-police atmosphere (there is one). You merely showed the police often deserve such an atmosphere. That's a different thing.

• On the post: Legal Threats By Charles Harder & Shiva Ayyadurai Targeting More Speech

  

  GristleMissile ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2017 @ 01:45pm

  Good thing Roy's on GNU social as well. Gonna have a lot harder time taking down those posts than one's on a centralized system.

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