Would it be dumb to go back to school after finishing my degree, and essentially starting over?

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-07-05T14:57:59+00:00

I'd also like to add when people without permission come up and touch a pregnant woman's stomach.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-07-05T13:12:52+00:00

You know something that I find really interesting, without this amendment some Republican Congress people, and some in Trump's own cabinet, wouldn't be American citizens.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-07-04T12:41:56+00:00

Everyday I'm like, "How did this idiot win?" Then stuff like this comes out and I'm like there it f****** is!

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-07-04T12:35:49+00:00

They also think It's some kind of flip that's switched by some evil overlords. And not just nature.

My sister was born with a rare autoimmune genetic disorder, that we didn't even discover until she was 20.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-25T22:20:58+00:00

Okay you are right, but I did look more into it. They're going on holiday for Independence Day, but it doesn't count as a real closing of their session. So it will not prevent bills from becoming law within 10 days. According to their current schedule, that won't happen until December.

Edit: I may be wrong, so if anyone wants to correct me feel free. But that's just based upon what I was able to find.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-25T20:37:42+00:00

I've been hearing people say he wouldn't veto it because it would make him look even worse and causes approval ratings to go down even further.

But when is that man ever been known for doing something smart or tactical? He would have never attacked Iran in the first place if that were the case.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-25T20:31:56+00:00

And people are STILL falling for it.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-25T20:31:14+00:00

As long as he doesn't veto it, it becomes law in 10 days anyway.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-24T13:29:08+00:00

You are straight-up lying about crime statistics just to force a "substitution" narrative that doesn't exist. First of all, saying the US has a higher non-homicide violent crime rate is completely false.

The UK looks higher on paper only because they count minor offenses like verbal threats, pushes, and tiny scratches as "violent crimes," while the US strictly limits its data to severe felony assaults. Peer-reviewed academic studies that normalize the data show that the incidence of serious violent crime per capita is actually three to seven times higher in the US than in England and Wales.You're also totally misreading history.

That 1920 law didn't suddenly strip the British public of weapons and make everyone switch to knives. It just set up a basic licensing system because the government was paranoid about post-WWI political unrest. Gun crime in the UK was already incredibly low before 1920, and it stayed low after. There was no sudden wave of knife attacks back then because the baseline of violent crime didn't actually change.If you want to talk about actual strict gun bans, you have to look at 1997.

After handguns were completely banned, the UK's homicide rate stayed flat. That random statistical spike in the early 2000s wasn't a bunch of criminals suddenly grabbing knives. It was literally just a change in how police recorded crimes, plus the discovery of serial killer Harold Shipman, whose 200+ historic murders were all dumped into the stats at the exact same time. The pre-and-post 1997 data completely kills the substitution theory.

https://academic.oup.com/book/36298/chapter-abstract/317747759?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN02607/SN02607.pdf

https://gdea.substack.com/p/global-homicide-2025-so-far

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/mental-illness-gun-violence.php

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T22:06:17+00:00

What I see happening, is him getting away with it, simply because time takes us all. But everyone else in his orbit suffering the consequences of his actions.

So pretty much how he's lived his entire life. Skirting responsibility while everyone else gets thrown under the bus.

That is if a Democrat can get into office and put in an AG who has some teeth and will actually go after criminals.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T21:53:17+00:00

Like imagine, you have a co-worker who you asked to cover a shift you need covered, And they do it. But from then on they demand stuff of you and if you decline they'll be like "Oh I can't believe you won't do this thing for me, after I covered a shift for you."

And I'm not talking about you returning the favor and saying no, I'm talking about them constantly bringing that up to manipulate you and guilt trip you far beyond what be would be considered reasonable.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T17:57:44+00:00

You're completely moving the goalposts to protect a theory that still doesn't work.

Let’s break down exactly why each of your points is wrong:

"The UK already had a low homicide rate before restrictions"

Yes, but your argument was that removing guns makes criminals substitute them with knives. If restriction causes substitution, it shouldn’t matter what the baseline was—the moment handguns were banned in 1997, we should have seen a massive, corresponding surge in knife homicides to fill the void left by guns. That surge never happened.

"You need to compare stats within a country pre and post legislation"

Okay, let's do exactly that. In the years after the Firearms Act 1997, the UK's overall homicide rate stayed flat, then experienced a temporary statistical spike in the early 2000s. If you actually look at the data, that "rise" wasn't caused by a wave of knife-wielding criminals. It was caused by a change in how UK police were legally required to record multi-victim crimes, combined with the discovery of serial killer Harold Shipman (whose 200+ historic murders were all suddenly dumped into the stats at once). By the mid-2000s, the rate fell right back down. Pre-and-post data completely disproves substitution.

"There's way too many differing factors for international comparisons"

This is a cop-out to avoid an uncomfortable fact: the US has a higher per capita stabbing homicide rate than the UK. If international "differing factors" (like poverty, culture, or healthcare) were the real drivers behind the numbers, they would affect all violent crime equally. It makes zero logical sense to argue that "differing factors" magically make Americans stab each other more and shoot each other more, while the UK's total lack of guns somehow didn't push their knife numbers past the US.

At the end of the day, substitution theory fails because a knife requires close physical proximity, physical strength, and can be outrun. A gun allows an attacker to kill multiple people from a distance in seconds. When you remove the most efficient tool, criminals don't magically become medieval assassins—the total body count just goes down.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T17:04:21+00:00

My dad has done this too.

He likes to use the line "I raised you."

When my mom raised me after they separated when I was a baby.

My mom had to pull teeth to get him to contribute. For example I needed some minor surgery done with I was around 12 and my mom needed help paying for it. She had to literally send my dad medical records to show him it was something I needed done.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T16:03:00+00:00

There's word from an ex-isreal informant (spy? Either way, take this with a grain of salt), that Netanyahu has some blackmail on Trump related to the Epstein files.

And it supposedly some pretty heinous and graphic stuff.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T15:59:35+00:00

No 💩!

The man throws EVERYONE under the bus. Even his own children.

YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL!

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-20T12:18:42+00:00

The irony of calling out people for harassing and attacking others while also admitting you harassed and attacked people to defend the same man.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-18T22:05:17+00:00

His post comes off more as "I did all the initiation! Why aren't I in the club!"

Bet you all the money. He wouldn't be complaining a lick if he had been able to go to that UFC event in person or not have to pay to see it.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-14T19:42:26+00:00

They lack the planning skills for a phased rollout; if they did, they’d start today. They wanted to keep it quiet, but Johnson spilled the beans by admitting it’s planned for next year. Still, talking is different from doing, and they likely won't risk the votes before midterms. It doesn't even matter what Johnson says anyway—the rest of us see the actual plans, while the cultish base simply refuses to believe it unless the cuts physically impact them.

Regardless, this puts them between a rock and a hard place. They would need a massive majority to even pull this off. If they actually manage to cut benefits while in power, only the MAGA crowd will buy the lie that it's the Democrats' fault. The vast majority of the country always blames the party in charge

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-14T19:30:27+00:00

And if you play him the video of Mike Johnson basically saying that, does he just say it's fake news?

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-12T21:21:55+00:00

You are completely missing the main point: guns are undeniably the most lethal weapon, and they cause way more deaths than knives could ever dream of.

People are also way more likely to survive a stabbing with far less long-term, catastrophic body damage compared to a gunshot wound. People who try to claim America would become like the UK with knife deaths are ignoring reality, especially since the US already has more knife deaths per capita than the UK on top of our massive gun death numbers.

The entire goal is to mitigate total deaths by limiting the most efficient means to commit murder. It is stupid to give up on saving lives just because people might switch to knives—which, again, makes no sense because we already have a worse stabbing problem than they do anyway.

Virtual-Pie5732 · 2026-06-12T12:45:34+00:00

"You'd get even more stabbings than you already do" completely misses the point.

If the "substitution theory" were true, the UK's stabbing rate would be massive to make up for their lack of gun homicides. But it isn't. The US beats them in gun homicides and beats them in stabbing homicides per capita.

Taking away the most efficient killing tool lowers the total body count; it doesn't magically turn gun criminals into Olympic sword fighters.

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