Posts by MeanMrMustard

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

MeanMrMustard

PeacefulPete - the problem with your checkbox is you can tick all the boxes for Hillary as well and probably write some extra ones on the back.

Whataboutism fallacy. Hillary sucks, I agree.

No, this is not correct. This line wasn’t a distraction or red herring. The point: If you can tick off all the criteria for “Malignant Narcissism” simultaneously for both Hillary and Trump (and probably a whole host of other politicians, if we want to be honest), and then assert Trump has the problem and Hillary does not, then it tends to show TDS is alive and well.

Notice: it is not agreeing with the assessment in any way for Trump or Hillary. It’s a test to see if his world view is internally consistent.

It wasn’t a fallacy.

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Big Meat Eaters?

by peacefulpete in

i was wondering how many of us have switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet and why.

i'm not doing it but have friends who do.

lovely people and seem very healthy.

MeanMrMustard

Tasty, tasty murder.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

I follow a YouTuber named Tim Pool. If you don’t know him, I think he’s worth following. Politically, he sits left of center. At least that is how he describes himself. To me, he is more classical liberal than modern liberal. Anyway, he was putting on an event in support of free speech recently, and he started to get some threats (#Antifa). A man showed up at his house @ 4AM, and then returned the next day as he was filming a video. The call to the police was captured live.

Later, he said, the officers were very helpful, and very quick to come to his house. But Tim admits, due to the threats, the officers kindly suggested that he exercise his second amendment rights. Sometimes you can’t wait for the police to arrive.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

Problem is that there some Americans who have an acute infliction of social apathy.

No Fink. Every policy I support, from free markets to gun ownership, is supported because it will have net positive effects on society.

I understand you’re motivation comes from a similar source. However, I just think you are incorrect - a product of not thinking through the net effects, not seeing past the first layer of cause and effect. It’s the same here as it is in economics.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

They are more concerned for themselves and their love of guns which they think is going to perhaps protect them one day.

Yeah... I wonder where they get THAT concern from? One peek at the Green New Deal, with *every* left Presidential candidate in support, and a majority of Democrats in Congress, and you wonder why some might be concerned about tyranny? Good forking lord, it is flat out socialism. If that was actually passed and signed into law, there would LITERALLY be no choice but to resist.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

Yea and cuz they are exactly like other rifles is exactly why they are the PREFERRED weapon for mass shooters and for, wait for it, crazy militia people, ...

Not true. The preferred weapons of mass shooters are handguns, by far. As for “crazy militia people”, I doubt that’s true too.

It's also why the military uses M15 (fully auto AR15s), just cuz they are like every other rifle.

Ok, so the M-15 is actually made by Armalite. AR-15s are a Colt product. Colt bought the rights to the name “AR-15”. So when Armalite came out with their own, they labeled it M-15. It’s a generic term for the same weapon, buts it’s not automatic. Did you mean M-16?

I have so had it with Gun Lovers (people haters), ...

Aaaaandd this is where I stopped. People haters, eh? I see, it’s your viewpoint or nothing. Are we also just like Hitler?

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How to avoid getting disfellowshipped for having a wordly girlfriend?

by cookiemaster in

hey guys, i've been pimo going on full inactive for a very long time, 5+ years.

pretty happy with the current situation.

over the years, i've gotten lots of grief from the local elders and cos for my inactivity, attending wordly public events and social media posts.

MeanMrMustard

No, don’t give them any money. Good forking lord. You don’t have to play the game.

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How to avoid getting disfellowshipped for having a wordly girlfriend?

by cookiemaster in

hey guys, i've been pimo going on full inactive for a very long time, 5+ years.

pretty happy with the current situation.

over the years, i've gotten lots of grief from the local elders and cos for my inactivity, attending wordly public events and social media posts.

MeanMrMustard

I agree with Fink here. Stop trying to beat the JWs at a game of who-can-be-more-legalistic. You’re not going to out-lawyer them.

You really don’t need to beat them at their own game. Just don’t play.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

Just for people reading this thread, this is what I'm talking about .

Ugg. I think we’ve been over this before. Is this an “assault rifle” because it has plastic in scary shapes? Or is there some other rational way you can define these types of weapons?

AR-15s function in exactly the same way as other rifles, and they are no more powerful than other rifles of the same caliber.

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

jw
friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

MeanMrMustard

Why ?
Because they can incite the psychological thinking of creating massacres with "Certain" held to owners.

The gun causes the mental illness?