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Gun nuts

mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 01:00

US gun nuts tell Mr Pring, "How dare you give up your guns? We will shoot you to teach you a lesson."

This raving evil shows up in all right-wing causes. People like that are the last ones we should allow to have guns.

Pring sought to reduce the number of guns in the US, but he chose an ineffective method to achieve it. It is pointless to surrender your guns to someone that will resell them. You need to destroy them instead.

More broadly, it is not very effective to eliminate a handful of guns while new guns of similar models are being sold every day.

Mine cleanup costs

mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Saboteur Pruitt has given US mines the right to shut down and dump cleanup costs on the public.

Cornel West on Ta-Nehisi Coates

mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Cornel West says that Ta-Nehisi Coates' intense attachment to Obama has clouded his understanding of politics as it affects American blacks, blocking him from relating racism to militarism and plutocracy.

Obama showed that racism in the US has decreased to the point that a black can be elected president. Obama also showed that you can't assume a candidate is progressive just because person is black.

Libraries and net neutrality

mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 01:00

What Public Libraries Will Lose Without Net Neutrality.

Convictions from flawed software

mardi 19 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Black Americans are in danger of being convicted of crimes based on flawed face-recognition software that says they resemble a photo of the suspect.