@hoo why do you trot out the name Nelson Mandela in the context of these self-proclaimed 'Proud-Boys'. Is it to demonstrate your ignorance or absence of reasoning power? That you do with great skill. He was surely one of the men of the century. These ol boys are at most 'damp penny bangers'
@luk what do you mean? Approximately 40% of adult Americans own an average of 3 guns each. SA has fewer than 6m weapons for 40m adults - by comparison US is armed to the teeth.
@ken your 'by far' is an overstatement, although it is indeed a small majority - 54% are suicides, 43% murders. The institutional legal shooting is in fact excluded, but amounts to around 1000 shot by police. The FBI figures quoted above are strictly murders.
@hoo Oh, I see Texas accounts for 10% of US murders, whereas Arizona only contributes a meagre 1%! You Good ol boys need to get a move on! Texans murder at more than double your rate per capita, shame on you!
@hoo curious piece of cherry-picking indeed. Why didn't you choose shotguns with even more favourable statistic? of the 14 odd thousand counted in that table 11.5+ thousand were by firearm - around 80% - and knives were about 7%. But you want to quibble about knives? Statistics is clearly not a forte of yours, hmmm? For comparison, murder weapon of choice in Australia is indeed knife (38%), followed by beating (27%). The gun murder rate (per 100k) in Oz is < 1.0 whereas it is >12.0 in US @riz The numbers are inconsistent however since the same site quotes 21k for 2020 and an increase of 6% for 2021 (also 21-22k), yet the numbers displayed amount only to 14k or so.
@rizAround 80m back in 2016, whether in right mind or not did, however, and there is no sign that their minds have righted in the meantime. One hopes that many have changed, and simply refrain from saying so because of the climate of threat and bullying. I think you may attribute too much power of thought to that population.
@chancer still harping on with the demented deluded 'stolen election'? What nonsense!. Partisan judges? You are mind-bogglingly absurd really, really really.
@jac What nonsense! Tommyrot. Nothing of the sort. Nor is it dismissing the event. You do grab the wrong end of the stick at times. I note too that he happened to slap her on the behind as she walked away. Also extremely inappropriate - it was grossly stupid behaviour. To destroy someone's career however over a moment of exuberant folly is to my mind over the top. It calls to mind that Oscar 2022 event 'Will Smith SLAPS Chris Rock at Oscars 2022'.
China does in fact rent or lease vast tracts of arable land in southeastern Russia, in the Trans-Baikal and Amur regions, much of which was seized from China at the end of the Qing dynasty.
Strikes me as a silly enthusiastic impulsive reaction, highly unwise - but a storm in a teacup. Stupid thing to do in the public eye, now grossly overblown ... but now then all the actors are armed and in battle array. That's just a spur of the moment reaction.
Harvesting of executed criminal organs probably/perhaps occurs. Western press claims of more extensive practice are even more probably untrue, biased, prejudicial, anti-China. Perhaps if you believe Epochtimes you might think otherwise, but you would need to be particularly gullible to do so.
No it was not to discuss America but simply to put the concept of Russian democracy alongside that of America in the current context. You raised the question as to whether Russia is a democracy. I continue the question. Read again in context.
So is Russia a Democracy? Few I think would assert so, given control of the media and silence of the majority. Western countries of course trot out 'Authoritarian' or Totalitarian' and given suppression of Russian opposition by court, public silence, and intimidation by the major Russian employer, it is hard to deny such claims. On the other hand, the American government is scarcely democratic, with presidential manipulation of the Supreme Court, division of powers is non-existent in America. Opposition figures, and media, still disappear (though less often) in Russia, don't they? Contra-thinkers in America are still as a matter of course labelled Commies or China lovers. As far as democracy goes, America sets a low standard and a deplorable example. So is America a Democracy then?
An interesting thing that the journalist should choose 'feared' in the headline - lazy cliche journalism perhaps. Why feared instead of believed or reported for example. I wonder who would be afraid he might have died?
Children have compulsory vaccination with MMR for schooling. You further demonstrate your language incomprehension - read and try to understand. Where do you see the word dangerous? Deliberate misrepresentation.
Fortunately the sensible percentage of the population usually exceeds the foolhardy by a large enough percentage to provide community immunity to most. Vaccination is not compulsory in Australia either, but if you wish children to attend public school, the child must be vaccinated. That works. For covid there is no such requirement, but I for one would avoid the likes of you as though you had the pox. England by the way has fallen well below the WHO target for MMR largely due to your kind
@OP you cannot start such a blog under the terms set by CS - no names. Probable scammers are for me trivial to identify. Anyone under 50 looking amazing, or writing some silly mail. 'Hello how are you?' Or 'I like your profile' or commonly 'Hi' is guaranteed zero response. But I cannot be bothered reporting, it is too too obvious
Ah, see! there MUST be a new outbreak. I know because there is a renewed outbreak of the idiotic anti-vaxxers! Polio Smallpox Measles Chicken Pox Hepatitis Pertussis Diphtheria TB... Why not go and pray instead, sure to be a superior approach!
Let's be honest about this money. It is Investment money, it belongs to the investor, and is definitely not money given or donated. No doubt it is also buying influence, but that is business practice, and no crime. Presumably it will generate profit, but that is not prosecutable either.
The sound of one hand clapping in braces cuffs or brackets punctuated with plosives perhaps? Or speaking in alphabetical tongues perchance? Babble away bub.
@gonelike an inescapable part of out two-party dominated democracy is its adversarial format - government and opposition. How rarely the governments are bipartisan is at the base of the problem. Should Potus45 happen to become Potus47 by some dreadful mistake, the only hope is that one of the two houses is contrarian. That situation crippled Obama and made his successes few and far between, and commonly happens in Western governments.
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@hoo why do you trot out the name Nelson Mandela in the context of these self-proclaimed 'Proud-Boys'. Is it to demonstrate your ignorance or absence of reasoning power? That you do with great skill. He was surely one of the men of the century. These ol boys are at most 'damp penny bangers'