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    also the shooting of the day thread. smugly cracking jokes about the death of innocent people on the flimsy grounds that it supports some political stance on gun control. it should fall under the politics clause

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    • btw, i support gun control, my suggestion does not come from any personal political biases but from a desire for qbn to be a better placeterry_cloth
    • Rome wasn't built in a day - let's just enjoy the calm and peace that has returned after today's events.fadein11
    • i haven't noted much jocularity in that thread — for me it serves as a somewhat grimly-ironic reminder of just How Fucked Up Things Are.detritus
    • yea, the mods are on a roll today though, tryina harness this forward momentumterry_cloth
    • please explain to me the irony of innocent people dying and i will explain to you your inappropriately timed political posturingterry_cloth
    • if you wish to be obtuse, fine, but I clearly meant the tone of the thread and its title is the grim-irony, not the tragedies themselves.detritus
    • Or, censor away. I thought you lot were against that sort of thing.detritus
    • what a ridiculous distinction. it is one in the same, these are human beings we are talking about, often whose corpses are not yet cold and you want to tell meterry_cloth
    • about irony. ridiculous, it is ambulance chasing and political posturing and nothing moreterry_cloth
    • wow, he said "you lot". way to make my point detritusterry_cloth
    • hahahaha, sorry, i love throwing 'you lot' out there. always gets a response. shallow of me, i apologise. a little.detritus
    • Perhaps you misunderstand me - I merely think of that thread as being a grim and ever constant chronicle of Yet Another One.detritus
    • I have not particularly noted, nor have engaged in (I think?) flippant discourse within it.detritus
    • Yes, the title is terrible.
      That's kind of the point.      detritus
    • right, the whole point is to facetiously point out how violent america is. obvious political intent is obviousterry_cloth
    • the title probably should have been "mass shooting of the day" so it didn't devolve into any old one-offmonospaced
    • I started it in hopes of discussing the mass shootings (schools, theaters).monospaced
    • Not necessarily America, dude. Just, statistically, sadly - yeah, more so. i'm not gloating over that, man.detritus
    • And you imply facetious, not i.detritus
    • "Yes, the title is terrible.
      That's kind of the point."
      -detritus

      so what was your implication then?      terry_cloth
    • ok mono, maybe your point wasn't to facetiously gloat and wax political but that's all anyone ever does in there so it should goterry_cloth
    • normal people can discuss gun control in the politics thread and the people who post in your thread who to giggle about how violent america is can take that shiterry_cloth
    • I.. i.. You're... You're..
      wtf, man? You can't be that daft?      detritus
    • -t to stormfront or somewhere else with like minded sick puppies who revel in the epidemic of gun deathsterry_cloth
    • ok, bro. ^5!
      'clink      detritus
    • are you really going to attack my spelling and grammar now detritus lol, patheticterry_cloth
    • wat? my 'daft' post was a response to 'so what was your implication then?' - i don't give a fig about your grammar or spelling. have you seen mine?!detritus
    • I saw no error in terry's use of yourmonospaced
    • oh, i see. well. . .i guess my point in quoting you was to say that even the name of the thread itself is facetious, doomed from the start to draw in all the siterry_cloth
    • -ck puppiesterry_cloth
    • but mono already addressed that in hindsightterry_cloth
    • Terry, are you not aware of irony and how it can enforce the seriousness of an issue not diminish it. But I am British, it's a huge part of our culturefadein11
    • i'm not interested in playing semantics, the 'if only the ___ had a gun" statements after every murder victim are politically motivated statements on gun controterry_cloth
    • -ll. that's pretty much the entirety of the content in that thread, therefor the thread is political in nature and should fall under the new rule. if people wanterry_cloth
    • -t an honest dialogue about gun controll than they should do that in the politics thread. the reality of the situation though is obvious. the people who consisterry_cloth
    • -tantly post in that thread are doing so to be facetiousterry_cloth
    • *thenterry_cloth
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