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darkknight109 posted...

Given that I already get water under my house (which is raised on pilings) in the winter and climate change is already measurably affecting the weather around here, no, this isn't something that is having an impact years down the road - I get to live it here and now.

I also find people grossly underestimate exactly what "a few inches" means in terms of tide levels. "A few inches" of sea height doesn't mean seaside properties lose a few inches of land; the grade of most oceanside properties is extremely shallow, so that few inches of height can translate to several hundred square feet of real estate now being underwater at high tide.

Mister, you're all wet!

darkknight109 posted...

They are indeed. More specifically, they want to get rid of it and replace it with a proportional one.

Which is a pretty solid idea that I am completely behind.

Sounds like a terrible unconstitutional idea.

darkknight109 posted...

That I already posted just seven posts ago, so I have no idea why you feel the need to restate it.

Figured you might actually pay attention to what he said.

darkknight109 posted...

Literally none of which happened on the night Trump referenced in his lie.

These are things happening on a daily basis. You're just moving the goalposts.

darkknight109 posted...

LOL!

There have been 78 of them since 2010, or an average of about 10 a year nationwide (and this includes 2016, which was a significant outlier with 35 detonations - take that away and the numbers drop to just over five a year). For comparison, about 100 people are shot and killed every single day in the US. Adjusted for population levels, Sweden has one grenade detonation per million people per year, while the US has 121 shooting deaths per million people per year.

Personally, I think I'd rather live in Sweden. It seems much safer.

Overlooking that Sweden's grenade attacks are in ADDITION to their other crimes (and not touching on the fact that your claim is a pretty massive distortion given that it's been a GROWING trend with the vast majority of incidents happening in the last FOUR years), you're pretending that 10/year is a great acceptable number in a nation that previously averaged ZERO per year. More importantly, as Swedish police acknowledge, the level of attacks is unprecedented outside of war zones.

And if you'd like to live in Sweden, go ahead. Just tell them you're a refugee and they'll hook you up with a home in one of their towns (whether or not the residents are okay with it).

darkknight109 posted...

In other words, he was lying.

Thank you for proving my point.

Not true at all.

darkknight109 posted...

You went to a weird school, then, because neither of them are in any Canadian curriculum that I'm familiar with.

Which makes sense, because there's no particular reason why either one would be considered figures of any great importance to anyone outside the American borders.

If you mean to imply that Canadian history classes teach nothing of the history of foreign nations -- which is blatantly untrue -- then Canada's education system is vastly worse than the US's considering that the US covers the history of other nations.
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