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Odin2005
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July 28, 2012
The Brits are honoring the NHS, take that, wingnuts!
July 21, 2012
Guns are not the problem. a CULTURE OF VIOLENCE is the problem.
We Minnesotans and North Dakotans love our guns, but our rates of violent crime are as low as Western Europe. Why? Because we do not have a culture of violence. The most violent places in the country are:
1. Poor inner city communities infested by gangs.
2. Areas of the Deep South in which a violent "honor culture" inherited from Planter aristocrats and Scots-Irish ruffians runs deep.
Outside of those areas the rates of violent crime are much lower.
July 15, 2012
I call for a moratorium on the use of "-tard" as a suffix.
It is as insulting to the mentally disabled as "that's gay" is to GLBT folks and should NEVER be allowed on a PROGRESSIVE message board. I am sick of seeing the term "freeptard" and libertard" and similar words being used, and almost every time I have alerted on them the jury lets it go.
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Name: Taylor SelsethGender: Male
Hometown: Ulen, MN
Home country: US
Current location: Moorhead, MN
Member since: Fri Nov 11, 2005, 10:42 PM
Number of posts: 53,521