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Brickbat

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11. Glad you enjoyed it, no matter the title.

Reply to petronius (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 12:04 PM

Dec 2015

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"Fuck the NRA, fuck the Republicans. Fuck you and your fucking guns." [View all] Brickbat Dec 2015 OP

Other than the people who live for the gun debate pintobean Dec 2015 #1

Glad you enjoyed it. It's really, really hard for most people to talk about guns without getting Brickbat Dec 2015 #2

Politics don't mean much when you have a bullet in your chest now does it? 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #5

Well, it's always good to know where people stand. Brickbat Dec 2015 #9

"I'm done hearing...". Thats appropriate, since you never seem to have listened. beevul Dec 2015 #10

Guns are Guns, Firearms are Firearms and Guns aka Firearms are used in war. 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #15

If one hates guns I suppose. beevul Dec 2015 #17

Spot on! Lizzie Poppet Dec 2015 #14

Kick for the grabbier title! Brickbat Dec 2015 #3

LOL! For the record, I did click and read the linked column with the earlier title, petronius Dec 2015 #4

Glad you enjoyed it, no matter the title. Brickbat Dec 2015 #11

Sex sells pintobean Dec 2015 #6

It's a gun thread, so might as well... Brickbat Dec 2015 #12

We've had plenty of tone policing over the years. Orsino Dec 2015 #7

Does peaceful change come from insults? Brickbat Dec 2015 #13

Yeah, from enough of them. Orsino Dec 2015 #18

Keep up the good work pintobean Dec 2015 #23

Is that movie an argument for or against politeness? n/t Orsino Dec 2015 #25

Actually, an illustration of the "tipping point." Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #31

When was politeness tried? pintobean Dec 2015 #32

Shame is an underrated tool Blecht Dec 2015 #20

Yep. Jon Stewart dropped a shame bomb on the Daily Show the other night. Orsino Dec 2015 #24

Wow! First "Tone-Policing," and now "Culture-Bundle." Paladin Dec 2015 #8

My safe-space isn't big enough for all this new terminology. Dr. Strange Dec 2015 #16

"Reasonable" Blecht Dec 2015 #19

People lecturing me that I can or cannot change a thing bemuse me. LanternWaste Dec 2015 #21

How DARE we speak up, how DARE we fight back, how DARE we "say what we think"?!!?!?? hatrack Dec 2015 #22

Ironic on so many levels. Jesus Malverde Dec 2015 #26

I prefer the words "cowards" or "fraidy-cats" to "pussies." Iggo Dec 2015 #27

Here is what Trevor Noah thinks of that term... lame54 Dec 2015 #29

Calls for gun control Elmergantry Dec 2015 #28

Other than the F-word and the vaguely sexist reference to "p------," nothing new from media... Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #30

missing a big point here KT2000 Dec 2015 #33