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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #645 on: August 26, 2015, 05:24:30 pm »
Study: Mass Shootings ?Exceptionally American Problem?
http://www.newsweek.com/study-sees-mass-shootings-exceptionally-american-problem-365260

Seems like France is working hard to give us a run for our money.

not even close... where do you get your news?
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #646 on: August 26, 2015, 08:21:07 pm »
Study: Mass Shootings ?Exceptionally American Problem?
http://www.newsweek.com/study-sees-mass-shootings-exceptionally-american-problem-365260

Seems like France is working hard to give us a run for our money.

not even close... where do you get your news?

France a distant second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spree_killers_by_nationality

Though they need to update and add the Charlie Hebdo killlings. Thanks to three brave Americans, another one was narrowly avoided.

Still, with America's population being 5x that of France, it's comparing apple pies to frog legs.


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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #648 on: August 26, 2015, 08:38:51 pm »
 As usual Rhett is a complete piece of troll shit. Cites a neocon website who Jimmy rigged statistics with an odd set of years to get what they wanted. The fact the ONE mass shooting in Norway had so many fatalities because people were trapped on an island in no way counteracts the fact it was 1/38th as many incidents as the U.S. in the same time. Or that it in no way defines any terms. Nor is confirmed by any second party fact checking.

No reputable statistician would say the U.S. is seventh in mass shooting because of some esoteric breakdown of total deaths broken down per capita over a statistically insignificant time period at all. That's insane. It also can't fucking count to seven. That's Rhett's ace in the hole: a website that proclaims the U.S. Is at number seven in some insane metric multiple times but by their own fucking insane metric has them at six. Yes, let's listen to the defunct website assholes who lose count the second they have to count higher than the number of fingers on one hand.

I swear you're absolute human garbage.
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #649 on: August 26, 2015, 08:51:23 pm »
As usual Rhett is a complete piece of troll shit. Cites a neocon website who Jimmy rigged statistics with an odd set of years to get what they wanted. The fact the ONE mass shooting in Norway had so many fatalities because people were trapped on an island in no way counteracts the fact it was 1/38th as many incidents as the U.S. in the same time.

No reputable statistician would say the U.S. is seventh in mass shooting because of some esoteric breakdown of total deaths broken down per capita over a statistically insignificant time period at all. That's insane. It also can't fucking count to seven. That's Rhett's ace in the hole: a website that proclaims the U.S. Is at number seven in some insane metric multiple times but by their own fucking insane metric has them at six. Yes, let's listen to the defunct website assholes who lose count the second they have to count higher than the number of fingers on one hand.

I swear you're absolute human garbage.

I won't get into personal opinions of you, since we've never had the pleasure of meeting it wouldn't really be fair, but...

The total population of the other 11 countries on that list is about the same as the population of the United States (actually, slightly less). Those 11 countries have 18 rampage shooting listed. The US has 38. So yes, the US wins. But with nearly half the amount, it's not like rampage killing is nonexistent in the rest of the Western world.

Are you trying to imply that only center and left leaning websites are useful when presenting evidence to support one's opinion? I'm not sure what you're getting at there.


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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #650 on: August 26, 2015, 09:02:21 pm »
metallica - fade to black

led zeppelin -  in my time of dying

cutting crew -  I just died in your arms tonight

ke$ha  -  die young

ratm -  killing in the name of

gg allin  -  I want to kill you


There . . . I just out trolled space.

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #651 on: August 26, 2015, 09:04:07 pm »
As usual Rhett is a complete piece of troll shit. Cites a neocon website who Jimmy rigged statistics with an odd set of years to get what they wanted. The fact the ONE mass shooting in Norway had so many fatalities because people were trapped on an island in no way counteracts the fact it was 1/38th as many incidents as the U.S. in the same time.

No reputable statistician would say the U.S. is seventh in mass shooting because of some esoteric breakdown of total deaths broken down per capita over a statistically insignificant time period at all. That's insane. It also can't fucking count to seven. That's Rhett's ace in the hole: a website that proclaims the U.S. Is at number seven in some insane metric multiple times but by their own fucking insane metric has them at six. Yes, let's listen to the defunct website assholes who lose count the second they have to count higher than the number of fingers on one hand.

I swear you're absolute human garbage.

I won't get into personal opinions of you, since we've never had the pleasure of meeting it wouldn't really be fair, but...

The total population of the other 11 countries on that list is about the same as the population of the United States (actually, slightly less). Those 11 countries have 18 rampage shooting listed. The US has 38. So yes, the US wins. But with nearly half the amount, it's not like rampage killing is nonexistent in the rest of the Western world.

Are you trying to imply that only center and left leaning websites are useful when presenting evidence to support one's opinion? I'm not sure what you're getting at there.



Omg we should totally meet IRL so we can make this personal!

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #652 on: August 26, 2015, 09:05:40 pm »
metallica - fade to black

led zeppelin -  in my time of dying

cutting crew -  I just died in your arms tonight

ke$ha  -  die young

ratm -  killing in the name of

gg allin  -  I want to kill you


There . . . I just out trolled space.

LOL!  oh wee oh wee oh I want to eat your heart

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #653 on: August 26, 2015, 09:17:17 pm »
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #654 on: August 26, 2015, 09:59:48 pm »
Study: Mass Shootings ?Exceptionally American Problem?
http://www.newsweek.com/study-sees-mass-shootings-exceptionally-american-problem-365260

Seems like France is working hard to give us a run for our money.

not even close... where do you get your news?

This one puts the US at #7.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/348197-obama-said-mass-shootings-dont-happen-in-advanced-countries-like-in-us-one-chart-proves-him-wrong/

This is the same kind of pathetic rhetorical/statistical bullshit that desperate wingnuts use to try to paint Hitler as a liberal.
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #655 on: August 26, 2015, 10:20:09 pm »
I can,t tell, if your name is an ode to beets, or to beef.

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #656 on: August 26, 2015, 10:31:04 pm »
Study: Mass Shootings ?Exceptionally American Problem?
http://www.newsweek.com/study-sees-mass-shootings-exceptionally-american-problem-365260

Seems like France is working hard to give us a run for our money.

not even close... where do you get your news?

This one puts the US at #7.

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/348197-obama-said-mass-shootings-dont-happen-in-advanced-countries-like-in-us-one-chart-proves-him-wrong/

This is the same kind of pathetic rhetorical/statistical bullshit that desperate wingnuts use to try to paint Hitler as a liberal.

You can always win the internet with a Hitler reference, can't you?

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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #657 on: August 26, 2015, 10:42:08 pm »
You can always win the internet with a Hitler reference, can't you?

Not always. You still have to be correct, as I was.
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Re: When reality reflects The Onion (redux)
« Reply #658 on: August 26, 2015, 10:45:57 pm »
I can,t tell, if your name is an ode to beets, or to beef.

It's an old-style s that pretty much looks like f but without the horizontal bar: ſ
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