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  • #91
    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
    It's essentially an admission that he's not confident he can hold his own around here.
    Let's see you provide the premisses that necessarily lead to that conclusion.
    "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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    • #92
      Originally posted by The Atheist Pope View Post
      Yes. TWeb's password recovery feature doesn't appear to be functioning properly, so I can't access my Starlight account, and have no interest in any permanent return to the site anyway. But I spotted I had made this parody account for a joke post once, so thought I'd use it for this thread.
      00000000000000ab000-00ax.jpg

      I'm always still in trouble again

      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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      • #93
        Originally posted by Charles View Post
        Great to see you again. I haven't been here much recently. Partly because you haven't.
        And you just happened to return at exactly the same time he returned.


        I'm always still in trouble again

        "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
        "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
        "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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        • #94
          Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
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          Starlight probably did not use the same password for the account all the time...
          "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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          • #95
            Starlight you will be getting an email from Mossy at your email listed on your Atheist Pope account. Respond to it and we will get this straightened out.

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            • #96
              Originally posted by Charles View Post
              Great to see you again. I haven't been here much recently. Partly because you haven't.
              Thanks, but responses in this thread plus behind-the-scenes are reminding me why I left. I really only returned for this thread to correct the woeful misinformation about my country's gun buyback.


              Rogue, the two accounts had different passwords. Furthermore TWeb's password recovery feature worked for one account and not the other, seems like a weird bug.


              Raphael, further to our discussion, I would argue that voting should not really be based on whether one 'likes' the politicians in a party or whether one thinks they are 'good people' and that doing so is close to as bad as voting based on leadership-cult. Politicians aren't people you have a beer with or whom you're voting to socialize with. They're people enacting policies. Any person should cast their vote, IMO, primarily based on the policies they think that party would enact. IMO any feelings about personalities etc should be very much secondary to the legislation that's being passed. That said, I'll admit that I've personally been lucky enough that the parties I've voted for (Green in the last decade) have had MPs who were inoffensive, so I didn't have to ever hold my nose at the people while I voted for their party on policy.
              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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              • #97
                Article from a couple of hours into the first buy-back event seems positive...

                Long queues at Government's first gun buy-back event:
                Acting Canterbury District Commander Mike Johnson said police were "really pleased" with the turnout.

                "Police recognise that this is a big change for the law abiding firearms community and we are hearing really positive feedback from people as they come through today that they are finding the process works well for them."

                Ray Berard, who moved to New Zealand from Canada 25 years ago, said he "almost" got what he paid for his AR15 because he had kept it in good condition... He believed there was no need for military-style firearms in modern society... "[You can] do a lot of damage to a lot of people ... if you're mentally unwell and you have a weapon that can shoot 100 rounds a minute. How do you police that?"

                Recreational hunter Nathan Dougherty said he felt good about the buy-back "because it's the right thing to do"... "At some stage the community has to say there is a risk where these weapons shouldn't be held and let's take them all out ... I'm really OK with that. [The March terror attack was] such a terrible thing to happen that we all need to play a part in making society a little bit safer. We give up something but we make each other safer."...

                A competition and recreational shooter, who was second through the door and asked not to be named, said the buy back had gone "really well". He believed he had received a fair price for his mint condition, Russian-made AK47, which he had customised and used to shoot wallabies. "Some of my friends said it would a debacle and I wouldn't get a fair price but I think the price was good enough. I'm not going to buy another gun. I've still got two in my safe anyway."

                All of the gun-owners they interviewed seemed to be happy with the price they were being paid for the weapons, even those who had been initially worried about this (which makes me wonder as a tax-payer if the govt is paying too much for them). Apparently this first buy-back event runs all weekend.
                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                • #98
                  Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                  Thanks, but responses in this thread plus behind-the-scenes are reminding me why I left. I really only returned for this thread to correct the woeful misinformation about my country's gun buyback.
                  Less than a week to find a thread that directly mentions you? Looks like you've been floating around TWeb longer than you're letting on. What's the saying around here? "You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave!" Contrary to your declarations, you're not going anywhere anytime soon.

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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                    Less than a week to find a thread that directly mentions you? Looks like you've been floating around TWeb longer than you're letting on. What's the saying around here? "You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave!" Contrary to your declarations, you're not going anywhere anytime soon.
                    And that's a good thing, right?

                    Welcome back Star.
                    “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                    • Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                      And that's a good thing, right?

                      Welcome back Star.
                      Let there be Starlight.
                      "Yes. President Trump is a huge embarrassment. And it’s an embarrassment to evangelical Christianity that there appear to be so many who will celebrate precisely the aspects that I see Biblically as most lamentable and embarrassing." Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler Jr.

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                      • Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                        Less than a week to find a thread that directly mentions you? Looks like you've been floating around TWeb longer than you're letting on. What's the saying around here? "You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave!" Contrary to your declarations, you're not going anywhere anytime soon.
                        You have to say his name 3 times, while staring at a mirror, in a darkroom, to properly summon him. So who did it?
                        "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                        GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                        • Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
                          You have to say his name 3 times, while staring at a mirror, in a darkroom, to properly summon him. So who did it?
                          If you're in a dark room can you be sure that you're staring at the mirror?

                          I'm always still in trouble again

                          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                          • Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
                            Article from a couple of hours into the first buy-back event seems positive...

                            ...

                            All of the gun-owners they interviewed seemed to be happy with the price they were being paid for the weapons...
                            Perhaps because the people they interviewed who weren't happy never made it into the finished article?

                            You gotta be smart about how you read this stuff. It's like trying to figure out a magician's trick, never look where he's telling you to look.
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                              Perhaps because the people they interviewed who weren't happy never made it into the finished article?
                              Well that would fit with your preconceptions, but there’s no good reason to doubt the facts as presented. Especially as they conform to the successful Australian gun buy back in 1996 for a similar reason. Namely public shock at a horrific gun massacre and desire to do something constructive about it.
                              “He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.

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                              • Originally posted by Tassmoron View Post
                                Well that would fit with your preconceptions, but there’s no good reason to doubt the facts as presented. Especially as they conform to the successful Australian gun buy back in 1996 for a similar reason. Namely public shock at a horrific gun massacre and desire to do something constructive about it.
                                As discussed earlier, while gun crime in Australia has gone down, overall rates of violent crime, including homicide and mass killings, are just as high as ever. Like most anti-gun legislation, it's a feel-good law that does nothing to actually improve peace and safety.

                                https://thefederalist.com/2015/09/03...n-ban-conceit/
                                Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                                But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                                Than a fool in the eyes of God


                                From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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