# A thread for Gulftiger to discuss politics **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-gulftiger-to-discuss-politics/1005006 "2024-07-30T12:02:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-gulftiger-to-discuss-politics/1005006/31 "2024-07-30T14:31:11Z")
> [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/12451): > > we all know that trolling is not exclusive to the right. It’s a common tool used by all sides on the interwebs. It is not however supposed to be used by posters on these boards. And ‘all the other kids are doing it’ wasn’t accepted as an excuse when I was 9. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/12453): > > I may just give up arguing about it all. If the only way you think you can argue for your position is by trolling, then I’d advise you to seriously reconsider your position. You appear to be saying that you’ve got no actual arguments for it. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/12459): > > The best I can say about 2020 is that I don’t know who won. Every court appealed to, including those run by majority Republicans and by Republican judges, said it was Biden, no question. It wasn’t even a case like Gore v Bush, when the real answer was ‘too close to call by the counting technology used’ – and even then Gore acknowledged, once it had been through the courts, the validity of seating Bush. Unlike the case in Gore v Bush, Biden clearly had the votes, more than enough votes, and in more than enough states. Insisting that you still don’t know is willfull ignorance. > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/12464): > > All people have the right to keep their reproductive systems healthy and well. productive. Do you think people have no right to keep their reproductive systems unproductive? Do you acknowledge that keeping one’s reproductive system healthy and capable of producing in the future sometimes requires abortion of a current pregnancy, whether early or late in term? > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/12464): > > My critique of the 19th Amendment is that it stopped short of full equality. It should have tied the vote to draft eligibility. I suspect that ‘if men are to be drafted women should be too’ is a majority position on this board. > [@GulfTiger](#): > > The entire system dead ends in violence unless you obey. If police come to arrest you and you don’t obey, they will unleash violence upon you. We all know that. They are supposed to do so only when actually necessary, only to the extent necessary, and according to specific rules. They are most certainly not supposed to beat you into unconsciousness and possible death because you didn’t instantly do everything they said. And there are quite a lot of police precincts where they don’t; because no it isn’t necessary to behave like that in order to make civilization possible. > [@mjmartin](#): > > Then I guess I’m confused why you said that there is no such law? Because the law’s not about air fresheners; it’s about obstructing the driver’s view. Do you think it’s OK for people to be driving around with their view of the road and/or their mirrors obstructed? If whatever’s hanging from the mirror doesn’t actually obstruct the view, of course, that’s a different issue; and appears to be in process of being addressed in the laws. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-thread-for-gulftiger-to-discuss-politics/1005006)._