Politics Thread

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Your anecdotal evidence is trumped by objective evidence. You must have lived near a cult.

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Love it when articles by journalists are trumped by anecdotal evidence because it doesn’t support your narrative. You do know that church attendance and religion are two different things.


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Originally Posted by ChicagoX

Guess where they get their guns? Indiana, Mississippi and other states and counties that have lax gun laws.

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This, when you live in a country where there isn’t any kind of universal gun control to make that kind of correlation is just recklessly stupid.


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Originally Posted by ArizonaXUGrad

Love it when articles by journalists are trumped by anecdotal evidence because it doesn’t support your narrative. You do know that church attendance and religion are two different things.


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These articles are based on studies by researchers. Sorry you hate science.

Listen, there is zero question that America (and most places on the globe) are more religious than Europe. The fact that anyone would debate this is kinda weird. But if you want to believe otherwise, more power to you.

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Originally Posted by Xville

Or here's a crazy thought...(speaking of consensual sex only here) that woman decided to have sex, and there are consequences to doing so...she already made a choice. Maybe take some personal responsibility instead of committing murder...crazy thought!

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Seems a touch extreme. Hopefully you are including males in the responsibility equation as well. Also, there doesn’t need to be a choice between abstinence and pregnancy. We should be handing out pills like candy to women who want them.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Seems a touch extreme. Hopefully you are including males in the responsibility equation as well. Also, there doesn’t need to be a choice between abstinence and pregnancy. We should be handing out pills like candy to women who want them.

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Meh....in the end, males dont really.get.to decide what a woman does (every guy knows that)...and yeah I agree with the pill but yet it's not 100 percent effective obviously so gotta accept the consequences if it doesn't work.

[QUOTE=GoMuskies;62636 should be handing out pills like candy to women who want them.[/QUOTE]

If you want to continue to lower the abortion rate, easy access to birth control is the way to do it. Something like 95% of Americans have sex before marriage, so the abstinence schtick has always seemed a bit hypocritical.

Interesting read on the worldwide reduction in abortion rate:

https://www.usnews.com/news/data-min...theyre-falling

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Originally Posted by ChicagoX

Guess where they get their guns? Indiana, Mississippi and other states and counties that have lax gun laws.

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Oh brother...that's my point...they will find a way to get them. Universal gun control law in the USA, they will get them from Mexico or some other way.

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Originally Posted by XU 87

You're a liberal economist. And you think Paul Krugman is brilliant.

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I rest my case. If this is how you "know" things, then no one should listen to anything you say.

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Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I understand where you come from on the economic spectrum so your take is expected (you're biased politically yourself). I was actually taking Grad level Econ at in 2010 and we had many discussions about the policies of the time. The professor I had at the time would joke about how silly the policies were and we'd be better off doing nothing except rolling back corp taxes. That said, what exactly was Obama's fiscal policy? Spend trillions on gimmicks, keep interest rates at 0 (actually agreed with that one), print tons of money and regulate the energy sector so that energy prices soar hurting the purchasing power of consumers (esp poor ones). Yeah, recipe for a boom time for sure..

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C'mon, Brew, still waiting for you to tell me where your "grad" econ instructor falls on the economic spectrum...and how you know it.

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Originally Posted by Xville

Meh....in the end, males dont really.get.to decide what a woman does (every guy knows that)

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The whole abortion question aside, this is just plain wrong. Fear or uncertainty over the man’s desire for a child is an enormous factor in whether or not a woman gets an abortion. Plus, in the end, it’s really about prevention and that’s on the man as much as the woman.