Poll of the Day > In case you haven't heard, apparently Trump is making up his own fake news now.

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So you think police clashing with local residents is a phenomenon exclusive to Birmingham? Lol

Talk about being shovelled a load of shit. You seem to lap this shit up without even questioning it. No wonder this clown got elected

In any case, Birmingham is not a no go zone for police or whatever he said. This is simply not true. No matter what gave him said impression, he needs to be smart enough to fact check what hes saying otherwise gullible people like Zeus all over the world just go around thinking Birmingham is a Muslim hotspot where police arent allowed to go.
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What was that thing that conservatives wanted to lock up Clinton for again?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413044-china-and-russia-listen-in-on-trumps-phone-calls-nyt
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Mead posted...

What was that thing that conservatives wanted to lock up Clinton for again?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413044-china-and-russia-listen-in-on-trumps-phone-calls-nyt

So what you're saying is that clinton should be locked up now with trump? Interesting how leftists change their tune when it suits their narrative. According to you, it wasnt a big deal when clinton was doing it

darkknight109 posted...

Nothing unconstitutional about it whatsoever. Moreover, constitutions can be changed and amended - only the US seems to have this weird fixation on a 300-year-old document being some infallible piece of wisdom that never needs updating due to the march of time and the changing of society and techology.

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And honestly, any attempt to rewrite the constitution now would be hijacked by special interests, fanatics, etc.

darkknight109 posted...

You might want to go and have a re-read yourself. Here, I'll even give you the expanded quote:

"We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening in Brussels. You look at what's happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris."

Guess what happened in Germany, Brussels, Nice, and Paris over the last few years? Terrorist attacks. Guess what didn't happen in Sweden on the night referenced? A terrorist attack.

Except there's literally tons of other shit that's happened in those countries other than just terrorist attacks such as, you know, migrant violence... which is literally also a problem in Sweden. You chose to interpret (or more likely misinterpret) it as simply meaning terrorism so you could decry it.

darkknight109 posted...

You really shouldn't be surprised at Trump lying about this. After all, this is the same administration that brought us the Bowling Green Massacre and the Atlanta Islamist terrorist attack which - just like Trump's lie here - both never happened.

darkknight109 posted...

*I'm* moving the goalposts? Excuse me? And your claim on this is a pathetically flimsy "these things happen on a daily basis"?

Yes, you're moving the goalposts to pretending that only major acts of terrorism matter.

darkknight109 posted...

You know what? I'm calling your bluff on this. Prove that a terrorist attack happened on the night Trump referenced. If you can't, you're lying just as much as the president whose leg you're humping.

And I'm calling your bullshit. You purposefully misinterpreted and misrepresented his remarks to fit your agenda and, by pigeonholing it, you can write off the shit actually happening.

darkknight109 posted...

OK, Zeus, your reading assignment for this evening is to go lookup "small sample size" and write a report back on how it distorts statistical trends. Return to the discussion after you've figured it out.

OK, darkknight, your reading assignment for tonight is learning what current trends are and, of course, figuring out a more compelling lie to justify that Sweden's grenade crimes are more a fit for warzones than civilized nations -- a fact acknowledged by Sweden's own officials.

darkknight109 posted...

I never said Canada taught no history of foreign nations; merely that there's little reason why anyone outside the US would care about Jefferson or Twain specifically or why they would bother to learn about them.

So ignorance basically?
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OhhhJa posted...

Mead posted...

What was that thing that conservatives wanted to lock up Clinton for again?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413044-china-and-russia-listen-in-on-trumps-phone-calls-nyt

So what you're saying is that clinton should be locked up now with trump? Interesting how leftists change their tune when it suits their narrative. According to you, it wasnt a big deal when clinton was doing it

I think they're insinuating that conservatives (or anyone, really) who raised a fuss over Clintons' emails should also raise a fuss over Trumps' iPhone. Otherwise it kinda comes off as "yeah well he's on my team, so it's fine" or something along those lines.
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Zeus posted...

And honestly, any attempt to rewrite the constitution now would be hijacked by special interests, fanatics, etc.

Apparently not, because this has gone pretty much without a hitch.

Zeus posted...

Except there's literally tons of other shit that's happened in those countries other than just terrorist attacks such as, you know, migrant violence... which is literally also a problem in Sweden

So put some numbers to it. Your posts are heavy on invective, light on actual facts. Start backing up your arguments if you want them taken seriously.

Zeus posted...

And I'm calling your bullshit. You purposefully misinterpreted and misrepresented his remarks to fit your agenda and, by pigeonholing it, you can write off the shit actually happening.

He literally said "last night in Sweden". There's no misinterpreting that, no matter how much you try and worm your way out of it.

Zeus posted...

OK, darkknight, your reading assignment for tonight is learning what current trends are and, of course, figuring out a more compelling lie to justify that Sweden's grenade crimes are more a fit for warzones than civilized nations -- a fact acknowledged by Sweden's own officials.

Already done, if you'd bothered to read through the topic:

"The reason why I keep coming back to America's gun problem is because the whole Sweden argument is such utter horseshit and said gun problem is the easiest way to point out why.

I mean, let's take a good, solid look at this. Zeus claimed that Sweden is suffering from "widespread grenade attacks". You claimed there was a "huge spike" in grenade attacks and tied it to refugees. This is all pure, undiluted, bullshit alarmism and I feel like both of you should be smart enough to know that. And a simple look at the numbers reveals the truth - you are more likely to be shot in America than be a victim of a grenade attack in Sweden. Not just a little bit more likely either - multiple orders of magnitude more likely. The odds of you surviving a year in Sweden without being blown up are roughly the same as you surviving *three days* in the US without getting shot.

Conservatives badly want Sweden to be in some huge crisis so they can use it to shriek about socialism and foreigners and Islam and refugees, but it's simply not true. This is not the big, scary boogeyman you desperately want it to be. Sweden was one of the safest places on the planet before 2016 and it's still one of the safest places on the planet in 2018. Unless you are terrified to leave your home every morning for fear of getting shot, you have absolutely zero basis to point fingers at Sweden and say "Look at all the horrible things happening!"

The grenade attacks are awful, the same as any other terrorist-style attack, but - when you actually take a dispassionate look at the numbers - they're all flash and zero substance."

Zeus posted...

So ignorance basically?

Cute deflection, but ineffective.

They could've also spent time teaching about the Tokugawa shogunate, which was pretty much as important to the history of Japan as Jefferson was to the history of America. Or we could have been reading the Epic of King Gesser, one of the most notable works of Mongolian literature in existence.

But we didn't, because there's only so many hours in a day and neither of them were of significant importance from a Canadian perspective, much like Jefferson and Twain.
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