Typical Republican response.

Brilliant.

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DEFINITION OF USELESSNESS: arguing about Trump with a Trump troll. The internet wastes enough time as it is, without that.

Oh common man - how are you ever going to see the other side's point of view if you are persistently so closed-minded and don't even want to engage in discussion?

Oh common man — Agustino

"Come on", not "common".

"Come on", not "common". — Michael

Yes, that! :rofl: I'm sorry for being an uneducated foreigner! :lol:

I dunno, 'oh common man' has a lovely tinge of aristocratic scorn which I quite like.

“We have to look at the Internet, because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds, and their minds are being formed. And we have to do something about maybe what they’re seeing and how they’re seeing it,” Trump said. “And also video games. I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence in video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts. And then you go the further step and that’s the movies. You see these movies, they’re so violent and yet a kid is able to see a movie if sex isn’t involved, but killing is involved. Maybe they have to put a rating system for that.”

Trump the genius. Let's put a rating system on video games and movies so that children don't see things they shouldn't see. :brow:

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In a major project, Reuters tracks the real impact of President Trump’s policies - all in one spot: This is ‘The Trump Effect’.

Top story as of typing: Exclusive: As Trump trashes NAFTA, Mexico turns to Brazilian corn (P J Huffstutter, Adriana Barrera, Reuters, Feb 2018)

Why is Batman such a violent, punishing teacher? I wouldn't have him in my school.

How boring of you. Besides, the only way to stop a violent, punishing bad guy is with a violent, punishing good guy. Whatever. Just so long as they both have guns and are around children. But then, that sounds dangerous. Let's give the kids guns too just to be on the safe side.

Teachers are already paid, but to the extent they are underpaid, that has nothing to do with gun violence. If we paid teachers better, we'd just have better paid teachers exposed to gun violence. Nothing like using a crisis to work a pay raise though, which is simply to say that if teachers are owed a raise, it has nothing to do with the school shootings.

Do you really place the blame of the school shootings on the teachers for not being properly trained or paid? That seems to be such nonsense. I'm open to considering things beyond the personal struggles of the particular students (like societal pressures and the like), but it is doubtful that teacher pay has much to do with the shootings. In fact, the recent Florida shooting was by a non-student who had been expelled from school and who had a tragic childhood where he was orphaned and without any real direction.

Think you replied to the wrong person there.

I thought you were chiming in in agreement with the sentiment of the Banno post, so I recklessly assumed maybe you agreed with it. If not, then I wish I could give you back the few moments it took you to read my post and respond, but I'm afraid it's lost.

I can see some benefits to Trump being president. For starters, it exposes the swamp which he claimed to want to drain, such as opening a new market for guns to be used for self-defense in schools by teachers, something most teachers unanimously reject as being a ludicrous idea. His politics will most likely result in a higher voter turnout, something any vibrant democracy needs. People are showing renewed interest in getting stuff done politically. Basically, the reactionary pendulum swing against Trump and the Republicans is, in general, a good thing in my opinion, which has been a weak teeter-totter for the past decade or so.

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Cheers. Best strawman ever.

Teachers are already paid, but to the extent they are underpaid, that has nothing to do with gun violence. — Hanover

That the USA is not capable of providing education and healthcare cuts right to the core of the issue. It's the lack of a common wealth, of an understanding that they are all in this together and hence need to look out for each other as well as themselves that put the USA in this hopeless, helpless position.

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A bit too late, perhaps.

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Meh. In the end, he is your problem, not mine.

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