sturg33
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A fun reminder that your "gotcha" list correctly posted the exact truth
"Vermont is not letting people buy seeds"
oppression AND tyranny
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A fun reminder that your "gotcha" list correctly posted the exact truth
"Vermont is not letting people buy seeds"
sturg33
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Why do you post this as if I would care?
There is not number high enough for me to give up my own right to defend my own and family's life, rather than rely on the defunded police or the Uvelde police
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I sympathize. My own hobby is jogging around the high school track during the day when the sun is out and the birds are singing. I feel this is vital to my mental, emotional and physical well-being. This is why I've started to bring an AR-15 with me on my daily jog. To protect my right to jog on that track should a tyrant try to abridge it. We each have things we feel strongly about.
sturg33
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"Here is some data I will correlate to my preferred political positions... "Because of this data, I support taking away your rights"
I suppose we could correlate that data to free speech, as well. Poof, need to ban free speech
There's a reason nobody takes the academic class seriously anymore
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
What is the number when all suicides are removed from both numbers, or included in both numbers. I'm certain no one here is silly enough to believe suicide goes away when guns do.
Also, what do the same inclusive numbers look like when comparing the US to other racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse countries, as opposed to Europe?
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Oh sure, as long as you're willing to accept the premise that people from similar backgrounds who look the same, like Hutu and Tutsi, are different races, but whites from northern Minnesota and Hispanics from Bolivia are not:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-most-and-least-ethnically-diverse-countries/
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
It would be interesting to see a "racial diversity index." I'm not sure one exists.
But I'm from a very small country whose population encompasses significant contributions from Europe, Africa, India, China and other places. And most people there are mixed, often without even realizing it. Brazil is another place with significant racial diversity and judging by the skin tones of many Brazilians a great deal of racial admixture.
This is not to deny the great diversity of this country and to celebrate it as something that contributes positively to our lives.
I would also add that some racially diverse countries are also highly stratified societies. And sometimes this stratification is based on race. So high racial diversity can go hand in hand with high degrees of racism.
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Tapate50
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Kinda what I thought.
Probably disproportionately raises the south a good bit as well.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Oh sure, as long as you're willing to accept the premise that people from similar backgrounds who look the same, like Hutu and Tutsi, are different races, but whites from northern Minnesota and Hispanics from Bolivia are not:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-most-and-least-ethnically-diverse-countries/
It's an interesting map. We don't think of Africa as diverse. But there is an enormous amount of ethnic and linguistic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa. And at the genetic level Africans are much more diverse than the rest of us, who descend from a small group that left Africa 60,000-70,000 years ago. Whenever a small group breaks off like that and becomes genetically isolated, a lot of genetic diversity is lost.
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Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Hahahahaha. That's actually good to know. Instead of reading the research papers to determine their conclusions, I can just look at who funded the research to determine the conclusions.