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Old 03-17-2023, 08:55 PM   #16
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Maybe if the average life span in France is only 70 or so. I mean...62 is hardly old age.
I agree but when the government takes something away from you, people get pissed off.
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⅞I used to work for a French owned corporation. They work Americans very hard (on our soil). It's an allure. They can get a LOT more productivity moving some of their operations to the US

The corporate culture there (in france) is interesting. If you're in a leadership role you work like a dog but rewarded well. Long hours, lot of pressure. Rank in file employees have it too easy. Flexible hours, low pressure. Pretty easy to see why they aren't as successful a nation as they could be
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I don't know. If you were near retirement and they added 2 years to it would you not be upset. I wouldn't call it woke or wimpy.
Sure, I would be upset, but not to the point of wanting to go out and destroy the city over it.

This protesting overkill for the slightest reason is a "woke" mindset, IMO. Pre-woke generations just simply had more common sense.

As well, "wimpy" people are quick to run from responsibility; or, as in this case, more responsibility.


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Old 03-18-2023, 09:22 AM   #19
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Sure, I would be upset, but not to the point of wanting to go out and destroy the city over it.

This protesting overkill for the slightest reason is a "woke" mindset, IMO. Pre-woke generations just simply had more common sense.

As well, "wimpy" people are quick to run from responsibility; or, as in this case, more responsibility.


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Ok lets use your country as an example. If the U.S, raised the age of owning a firearm to lets say 21. Do you not think there would be protests, possibly violent ones? I still wouldn't call it woke.
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I agree but when the government takes something away from you, people get pissed off.
Well then...maybe the French need to grow up and learn how to put things in perspective.
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Ok lets use your country as an example. If the U.S, raised the age of owning a firearm to lets say 21. Do you not think there would be protests, possibly violent ones? I still wouldn't call it woke.

I believe a lot of states have already done that. I don't think if they made it federal law, there would be violent protests. The people prone to protest violently are either for raising the gun buying age or won't obey the law.
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I believe a lot of states have already done that. I don't think if they made it federal law, there would be violent protests. The people prone to protest violently are either for raising the gun buying age or won't obey the law.
I'm not so sure about that
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Well then...maybe the French need to grow up and learn how to put things in perspective.
How about if your country grew up and banned assault rifles or military rifles, or if your country didn't force women to have unwanted children? Would you be OK with that?
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Ok lets use your country as an example. If the U.S, raised the age of owning a firearm to lets say 21. Do you not think there would be protests, possibly violent ones? I still wouldn't call it woke.
Changing gun laws is mostly a conservative issue; so, although there probably would be protests, they wouldn't so easily become violent.

There is no clear definition of what being "woke" is; however, the term is generally applied to progressives.

Progressives supporting "woke" issues tend to express discontent using or encouraging violence more often than not and certainly more often than conservatives.
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How about if your country grew up and banned assault rifles or military rifles, or if your country didn't force women to have unwanted children? Would you be OK with that?
Insults, especially coming from a foreigner, will not go over well here. Take heed!
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How about if your country grew up and banned assault rifles or military rifles, or if your country didn't force women to have unwanted children? Would you be OK with that?
Look no one forces women into anything, people are free to move to Canada to be with the socialists or any state that better suits them. Your value system is not needed down here in these United States. You pop up like a nasty fly looking to feed for your short time to fly. All of this backfires and you go away to decay as father time intends for you.
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How about if your country grew up and banned assault rifles or military rifles, or if your country didn't force women to have unwanted children? Would you be OK with that?
Don't worry...many of the people in charge here worship your country, so all this stuff isn't too far off.

Many see that idiot tool you call a Prime Minister as some sort of hero.
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I'm not so sure about that

It looks like federal law is 21 for buying handguns from federally licensed sellers as in at a gun store, many states do not allow private sales.


It looks like 7 states the law is 21 for handguns, rifles, and shotguns.


I just counted to 7 off a list I found.


Honestly, gun laws, especially those effecting purchases have no effect on crimes using guns and homicides in this country. I have lived as a gun owner in two states, California and Virginia, that are on both ends of the gun law spectrum. California gun laws are some of the toughest in the land, and get tougher by the day. Virginia's gun laws are about as lax as can be the only requirement a buyer needs for a private sale is a valid state I.D. and to be 18. I can shoot sitting on my back porch, gun fire is heard daily here from target shooters and hunters. In California areas where shooting is allowed is constantly shrinking. If you compare murder rates between the two states they are very similar.
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Changing gun laws is mostly a conservative issue; so, although there probably would be protests, they wouldn't so easily become violent.

There is no clear definition of what being "woke" is; however, the term is generally applied to progressives.

Progressives supporting "woke" issues tend to express discontent using or encouraging violence more often than not and certainly more often than conservatives.
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I don't think Progressives encourage violence more often than not. That's just false. They are pissed off about a lot of things but rarely get violent. I don't think you can say one side is more violent than the other. If you took the Conservatives guns away, I'm pretty sure they would get violent. Trump got taken away and they got violent
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Insults, especially coming from a foreigner, will not go over well here. Take heed!
I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of an American telling the French to grow up.
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