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Chicago principal claims teacher who made sick Charlie Kirk gesture is the victim

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Post #43 (quoting post #7) =
I didn't say what you say I said. But Kirk said some deaths are acceptable, and made no exceptions for you and your family. The GOP endorsed this position, and so far, no amount of dead children are unacceptable.
 
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This was in International waters.

I missed the declaration that Congress made about that.

And you are yet again avoiding the differences between blowing up a boat nowhere near the US and containing who knows what and blowing up a truck entering the US that you know contains drugs.

There are two reasons for not answering a question. The first is that you don't know the answer. The second is because the obvious answer shows a blatant inconsistency in any given position. I keep asking the question to highlight the second.
All other factors aside, it's a lot safer to blow up a boat in open sea than to blow up a truck on the highway. More chances of mistaking the wrong vehicle for the target as well.with trucks
 
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What do you suppose he's going to do in the name of Christian principles?

I didn’t specify anything nor is it my responsibility to guess. It‘s my duty to prepare and avoid the fallout. If you’re team Trump that’s fine. I don’t believe in him as person or leader but I believe in his allegiance to wealth and thirst for power. Whether we’re addressing capitol hill, local government or financial markets you play the hand you’re willing to lose.

I have no problem betting on his elitism and he delivered what he promised and the rest is underway.

* Reduce corporate income tax rate
* Reduce the estate and gift tax
* Repeal the Death Tax
* Repeal the Corporate Transparency Act
* Index Capital Gains for Inflation
* Eliminate the Obamacare Tax on Investment Income
* Ensure the Individual Tax Relief from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Made Permanent
* Consolidate Seven Individual Tax Rates into Three, Reducing Top Rate to 35 Percent
* Make Full and Immediate Expensing for Capital Investments from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Permanent

~bella
 
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I didn't say what you say I said.
You're right. I misspoke a little. I said I had some views similar to Kirk's and you then asked me if anyone other than Kirk had said they had views similar to Kirk's. I don't know what you meant. I can't read your mind. I have to go by what you post.
But Kirk said some deaths are acceptable, and made no exceptions for you and your family. The GOP endorsed this position, and so far, no amount of dead children are unacceptable.
Yes, Kirk was a very smart young man. In America each year, over two and a half million people, including children, are killed or seriously injured by vehicles, but we don't ban cars due to their importance in modern society.
 
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That's a lot more information than I asked for. Thank you. But I don't understand it all and I want to try to parse it a bit.

I didn’t specify anything nor is it my responsibility to guess.
I noticed. That's why I had to ask.
It‘s my duty to prepare and avoid the fallout.
What fallout, and how can I prepare?
If you’re team Trump that’s fine.
Thank you.
I don’t believe in him as person or leader but I believe in his allegiance to wealth and thirst for power.
I think you're wrong there. I think you should believe in him. He's the best king America's ever had.
Whether we’re addressing capitol hill, local government or financial markets you play the hand you’re willing to lose.
You have a choice of hands? And you play the one you're willing to lose? I don't understand that. Seems like you'd want to play the one you're most likely to win with.
I have no problem betting on his elitism and he delivered what he promised and the rest is underway.
I don't know what that means.
* Reduce corporate income tax rate
* Reduce the estate and gift tax
* Repeal the Death Tax
* Repeal the Corporate Transparency Act
* Index Capital Gains for Inflation
* Eliminate the Obamacare Tax on Investment Income
* Ensure the Individual Tax Relief from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is Made Permanent
* Consolidate Seven Individual Tax Rates into Three, Reducing Top Rate to 35 Percent
* Make Full and Immediate Expensing for Capital Investments from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Permanent
Are you saying that Trump is going to make full and immediate expensing for capital investments from the tax cuts and jobs act permanent in the name of Christian principles?
 
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You wouldn't feel unsafe? You're one tough hombre.
Of course I would. So I would find a better job and move. Who wants to live and work around racists?
 
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Of course I would. So I would find a better job and move. Who wants to live and work around racists?
Wouldn't you want to tell your boss that one of his other employees has a little issue with you?
 
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If she’s receiving death threats simply for making a stupid joke then yeah, she is a victim. A very dumb victim but nonetheless, her gesture doesn’t merit violent threats.
Agree, her ignorant actions are not cause for violence against her but she did glorify violence against Charlie Kirk. Ignorance breeds ignorance. BTW her type of actions were all to common in the “ no kings” rallies. Those rallies were sponsored by big money with the goal of destabilizing our republic.
 
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Are you really concerned about what some woman did in Chicago? Do you really think that what she did represents something important? Is this such a critical event that it needs reporting by a 'news' outlet?

Well, alrighty then.
This type of unhinged action was far too common in these rallies. These were not organic protests by concerned citizens. There were paid agitators leading misguided uninformed sheep.
 
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You're right. I misspoke a little. I said I had some views similar to Kirk's and you then asked me if anyone other than Kirk had said they had views similar to Kirk's. I don't know what you meant. I can't read your mind. I have to go by what you post.

Yes, Kirk was a very smart young man. In America each year, over two and a half million people, including children, are killed or seriously injured by vehicles, but we don't ban cars due to their importance in modern society.
Yeah but cars (especially in America) and necessities for many people.

Guns are eithet
Wouldn't you want to tell your boss that one of his other employees has a little issue with you?
It’s not a work issue if someone threatens to kill you. It’s a legal issue. And if the person felt able to do so it’d mean that kind of behaviour is fine and dandy. Like in the southern states of America when racism was a thing.
 
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Lots of Republicans want to kill anyone who disagrees with them. We saw that on Jan6 and in Minnesota and the Trump shooter.
ikr? That's why all the Jan6ers showed up armed with deadly assault smart phones.
 
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Your son is hanging around with people that you think are unhinged, left wing partisan nut jobs, hypochrites, obnoxious, possible participants at a proud boys rally and not above doxing, probably spout commie nonsense and champions every far left cause?
Sounds like you have witnessed one of the no king’s rallies.
 
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Yeah but cars (especially in America) and necessities for many people.

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The ability to defend one's self is much more necessary than having a car.
It’s not a work issue if someone threatens to kill you. It’s a legal issue. And if the person felt able to do so it’d mean that kind of behaviour is fine and dandy. Like in the southern states of America when racism was a thing.
It's a work issue and a legal issue. If you don't care enough about yourself, wouldn't you want to alert the boss for the sake of other Jews who might be working there?
 
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OK,but it's hard for me to take it seriously when you and others in this discussion want to brand everybody who was there as a left wing extremist. on all issues because for you "left wingt extremist" means anybody who disagrees with you about anything, especially about sex.
I did see some from the right in attendance but they were holding microphones and cameras documenting the unhinged behavior prevalent in the bought and paid for rallies. It was the conservatives in attendance who were the victims of verbal abuse and sometime physical abuse.
 
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. In the boat examples you know none of the details. If it's OK to take out a boat with zero information is it OK to take out a truck and the people in it with all the information you need?
You are right we in the private sector do not know the details the military knew nor do we need to know. I am sure the American military has the ability to discern whether or not drugs were on board without reporting to you or I.
 
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The ability to defend one's self is much more necessary than having a car.
In might be in America I suppose. Americans seem to kill each other an order of magnitude more frequently than in the UK.
 
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The ability to defend one's self is much more necessary than having a car.

It's a work issue and a legal issue. If you don't care enough about yourself, wouldn't you want to alert the boss for the sake of other Jews who might be working there?
He might be in on it. If the work culture allowed that kind of talk the manager probably fosters it.

I’m lucky. I work in a place that’s so woke even I have to think before I say some of the things I’d say to my friends in normal conversations.
 
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