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Florida Night Club Shooting - at least 20 dead - impact on US elections?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, Jun 12, 2016.

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Will this shooting help Trump or Clinton, if it turns out that it was religiously motivated terror?

  1. It will help Trump

    51.0%
  2. It will help Clinton

    7.3%
  3. It will help neither of them

    41.7%
  1. Bobbythegreat

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    Well yeah, that specific part destroys the narrative they wanted to push, that this was a hate crime instead of terrorism. They wanted to make people think he was a closet homosexual who was pushed over the top by a society of homophobic people and that need more hate crime legislation.
     
  2. Commodore

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    It's also an impotent gesture, given we all know what Mateen said.

    It just makes the administration look like cowards (and we know they wouldn't censor any other motive)
     
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  3. Bobbythegreat

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    The administration was about to come out and say that Mateen did this because of a Youtube video so they were pretty upset about having that spin go down in flames before they could even put it out there.
     
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    Read more: http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/f...ly-poll-im-beating-crist-214891#ixzz4C8x34MZD
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  5. Northside Storm

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    yeah, it is too bad.

    I normally don't treat Jorge seriously, but seeing as this is a good intro to the superiority of cities, urban economies, and 21st century economics vs 20th century decay---

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303325204579463761632103386

    http://science.time.com/2013/07/23/...ut-that-cities-are-the-safest-places-to-live/

    http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/08/price-rural-life-0


    Urban dwellers are the apartment livers building America: rural citizens are not self-sufficient, they are the paupers on the street conservatives deride.


    America is being led by its dynamic mega-city economies, areas rich in diversity and entrepreneurial immigrants. Silicon Valley and the Greater Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston--not the plains of the Datokas, beyond a binge of fossil fuels. And certainly not West Virginia.

    America is a tale of blue cities supporting red, deadbeat wastelands.

    http://www.citylab.com/work/2012/04/global-economic-dominance-us-cities/1787/

    Hell, MIT alone, if you were to isolate its graduates and the products of their labour, would be the 8th largest economy in the world. (MIT it should be noted, and not HBS, or Wharton, or Yale Law).

    STEM-based innovation is the future. Dynamic urban economies are the cornerstone of American prosperity and wealth. Therein lie the creators, while rural hinterlands are filled with young people struggling to find there way in, away from a dying remnant of the 20th century--a land of paupers that take away from urban taxpayers.

    You are simply deluded if you believe rural America is in any way superior to urban America. The only way to explain this thinking is the Kundaraesque thought that anything under the sunshine of nostalgia shines, even the guillotine.

    Urban economies in America are manifestly superior to anything happening in rural America, in any measure--gun violence, rates of death, health outcomes, economic metrics, % contribution to GDP, educational attainment, dependence on federal funds, drug usage, life expectancy...to deny it is to deny fact and reason.

    I'll end off by quoting the National Review, which makes no bones of its elitism and classism in laying out the bare truth on this topic, because f**k political correctness:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...dysfunction-real-opportunity-needed-not-trump

    and the coup de grace:

    The best rural America can expect is a strong social safety net funded by the creative classes within cities. Even the urban underclass isn't as desperate as the dying communities that dot the middle of nowhere. Manufacturing isn't coming back. And fossil fuels won't last forever. We are right in between major structural changes in the economy--the eye between the storms of integrating a global economy and automation.

    Even without the storms having truly started, rural communities are struggling for their lives. The worst that can be done is what they are doing to themselves already by staying.

    ...now back to your regularly scheduled programming about a near-null statistical risk that kills orders of magnitude less people than the discrepancy between rural and urban economies.
     
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    Wow that is dumb. Makes me want to vote for Trump
     
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">US Supreme Court won't hear challenge to a ban on semi-automatic rifles. <a href="https://t.co/1DjQDPHsj8">https://t.co/1DjQDPHsj8</a></p>&mdash; NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/744963326266875906">June 20, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
     
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    I'm fine with things like that happening at the local level, just not at the federal level. If certain states want to ban certain weapons, I think that's their right....within reason.
     
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    The obama administration is embarrassing themselves. What a ****ing joke.
     
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    This administration should be c[omitted].
     
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    So funny because Trump claimed it was the guy who sold the guns who reported him, and that Muslims needed to say something.

    Turns out Trump had the facts all mixed up - no surprise. Trump is way too reckless with the truth - the man is definitely not fit to be president or hold any office for that matter.
     
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    I think the piece is a good read. It gives you a window a Muslim perspective living in America. And again, these the people we do not want to alienate. We also see the potential dangers of islamophobia.

     
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    Backboard shattering post that soars above thinking that is the intellectual equivalent of Harden's defense.

    Sweep up the glass, necks.
     
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    Agreed. He did the right thing by reporting him.

    However, I would be curious to know the percentage of Muslims who - at least to some extent - feel like Mohammed A. Malik was a traitor by reporting a fellow Muslim to the FBI. I hope this gentleman is safe from backlash and threats from certain elements of the Muslim community.

    There is nothing wrong with being highly critical of Islam, as long as Muslims are treated with respect and equally to others (with the potential exception of some profiling at airports being justified). "Islamophobia" is an invented term used to try and prevent valid criticism of a supremacist ideology.
     
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    This was about Islam, sammy. Come on. You are better than that. Yeah, him being a self-hating gay might also have played a role, but...
     
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    Snitches get snitches wasn't invented by Muslims.
     
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    Islamophobia is not a real word
     
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