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>Since the NICS system was started 20 years ago, the FBI has conducted 280,482,910 background checks. The FBI counts 1,504,808 "federal denials" over the years, most due to the individual's criminal history. Other reasons include "adjudicated mental health" (33,569 denials) and "illegal/unlawful alien" (23,279 denials).

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/gun-background-checks-florida-school-shooting/index.html

Sounds like they have done a little more than "shit". And I'd think a lot of people just didn't even try to get a gun in a way that would require a background check, if they knew that it would get denied.

> Man, I don't even know who this jackass is.

Walsh wrote a best selling satirical "children's" book called Johnny the Walrus (allowing himself to potentially claim that he's a best selling LGBTQ subjects author) and a made a film documentary called What is a Woman? where he interviews various academics asking them that question. He is an opponent of children being encouraged by adults to adopt trans identity, to put it mildly.

No. I'm tried to make several cogent points that you have very willfully ignored. Some were even explicitly posed as questions.

For instance:

>why someone would ask a question about comedians based on a false pretense?

>you're holding on to your false argument to use with someone else?

>Do you think people saying bad things should be provided a public platform?

>You mean like employees of McDonalds mouthing off to customers being called out by being fired because someone invented photography?

>Do you want to cancel social media and photography in order to end cancel culture?

>[Comedians are] always whining about free publicity and having people think they're relevant.

>Twitter polls are not actually used to determine how much people will be paid to tell jokes.

>[T]hey used to read the news on the radio.

>How far back are you proposing we regress in order to cancel cancel culture?

>[A]n example from after ~~2000~~ 1989?

>You're equating communication with cancellation.

>You're actually bitching that Karen was on CNN to begin with.

>Did you notice the publication date for the earliest [book written on the subject]? It was not 2000. [It was 2017.]

Feel free to actually address any of these... dare I suggest... in a mature rational way?

There is a book about it. I can't proof that it's true.

https://www.amazon.com/House-Trump-Putin-Untold-Russian/dp/152474350X

Plus the alt-right sounds like it came straight from the Foundations of Geopolitics. Trump becoming the defacto leader of that movement lines up with everything well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

It's all pretty circumstantial, but there is a lot of evidence. Add this to the Muller stuff and how Trump conducted himself around Putin. There is very little evidence against it and a lot of evidence for it

No, the US isn't fully fascist. But it would be an awful mistake not to be on guard against Ur Fascism, or proto-fascism, or actual hate groups.

Not true, the only verified test he took scored him at 135, although his memory was exceptionally good.

IQ is overrated though. It's helpful, but intelligence involves a lot of other factors, like rationality, intuition, experience, motivation, crystallized intelligence, and personal X-factors

I'm thinking the op is more along the lines of the book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America.

At one point the book brings up examples how, if you look at it via generations, they tend to be far more unified than political parties. Examples being huge bipartisan support for pay increases during the boomers early years, inheritance changes during the years their parents were dying, retirement changes when they started to retire (i.e. how almost every state now is in poor shape with guaranteed pensions which just happen to coincide with boomers starting to retire), etc. That they've held at least the plurality of power in the government since 1982, which is much longer than any other generation.

But I personally feel that almost no generation is really different, hence hostilities between generations. But like many athletes, typically they don't leave on their own, but have to be dragged out kicking and screaming. No one really wants to admit that their day is over.

I do have a horse in this race. I'm a Catholic.

Do I come on these forums to assert the existence of God? No. Arguments that can't be demonstrated true or false are fruitless.

But has Christianity been a destructive influence? Has it hindered the progress of science? That is another question. Historical evidence can be provided that the net effect has been beneficial. See How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods, for example.

And of course there's evidence that bad things have been done in the name of Christ. Inevitable given two thousand years and billions of people. But what is the net effect? That's an open question I'm willing to discuss.

But, as mentioned, Tyson's cautionary tales against religion are based on invented history. This is arguing in bad faith and his falsehoods need to be called out.

Also noteworthy is that Tyson's false histories have been widely embraced by the so called skeptic community. Year after year Tyson would deliver these fictions to large skeptic meetings like the JREF TAM conventions or Beyond Belief. Tyson's Bush and Star Names fiction had been a standard part of Tyson's routine for eight years before Sean Davis blew the whistle on him. A steaming pile eagerly devoured by "skeptics", no questions asked. What happened to their sanctimonious advice that we should demand evidence to support claims? Thrown out the window when a story seems to support their personal prejudices.

Pointing out their emperor has no clothes also serves to discredit those who've put Tyson on a pedestal. Krauss, Shermer, Harris, Novella et al are as credulous and dishonest as Trump's birthers. Tyson and his fans preaching skepticism is like adulterous Republicans preaching family values.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-WikiLeaks-Daniel-Domscheit-Berg-ebook/dp/030795191X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470263561&sr=8-1&keywords=inside+wikileaks

Was a good read despite the ratings imo.