TYT 12.18.12 Hour 2

In [DEAD] Main Show, Membership by glmulhern13 Comments

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Hour 2
Segment 1
Images of low-life real estate agents who tried to sell homes by themselves. Walmart in Mexico bribery story. Story about Sweden, an internet post calling 13 year old girls sluts. Instagram users are fighting back after privacy changes made by Facebook/Instagram.

Segment 2
People turned the Starbucks “Spread the Cheer” Twitter campaign against them. Noah Posner, CT shooting victim. Jet Blue delivered some letters to his memorial. Discovery decided to cancel their show about guns. Discussion of hand guns. Christopher Chaney the hackerazzi, entered the accounts of celebrities and others. Sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

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  2. Ben, on the pronunciation of Gothenburg, in Swedish it’s not spelled (Göteborg) or pronounced [never mind] any way near the anglicized version. Ana’s take is the one you usually hear.

  3. Mandatory liability insurance for ALL gun owners.
    Minimum pay out per event = $100,000.
    For vehicles.
    Why not guns?
    Best of all:: it would be loved by the insurance companies and they are a mega lobby. Get ‘er done now!

  5. For anyone who might want to leave a message about assault weapons or social security cuts or whatever at the White House
    comment line – the number is 1-202-456-1111.

  6. I am glad you mention the buy back. I am Australian so pretty happy with how effective our laws have been in preventing these kind of tragedies (and seeing how completely ineffective American politicians have been on the issue I am proud that we we managed to get our shit together and put and end to it). But without a buyback or a repossession of Assault Weapons and High Capacity Mags then any new bans will be just token regulation. I mean, sure, its a great step forward in the cultural and political climate, but as you keep mentioning, there are already 300 million odd guns in circulation in the USA which will all still be there regardless of any new bans that are implemented. The radical right wing media has a lot to answer for I am afraid, given all the loony conspiracy nuts who listen to shows like Alex Jones and right wing christian extremists, who all seem to think the government is embroiled in some plot to round them up in to camps and take their freedom away, I just have this horrific vision of Waco, with armed rebellions and siege’s in response to any effective legislation. That kind of ingrained mindset will take a generation or so to erase. It needs to start with whatever gun regulation that can be forced through ASAP, followed by spending the next couple years neutering the NRA and their propaganda. Next step would be for Obama (and/or hopefully Hillary after 2016) appointing a few more progressive justices onto the Supreme Court, getting a clarification on the limits of the 2nd amendment, making these limits the talking point for the next 20 or so years to hammer it into everyone’s head that the amendment deals with militias, not private weapons. Now I may seem like I am being a bit harsh at the US, but seriously guys, get your shit together. It is just heartbreaking watching these tragedies unfold and seeing your ‘representatives’ doing absolutely nothing about it.

    I read a good line the other day in the huffpost comments:
    This is the new age of American exceptionalism. The rest of the developed countries seem able to address their issues EXCEPT America. Be it healthcare, education, taxes, corporate money in politics, gun violence etc etc. After WW2 America was a beacon, an example of what to do. Now days, to give you the brutal truth, the rest of the western world looks at America as an example of what to avoid.

      1. Yeah Abbott is a tool and Katter is a clown, but just look at Abbott’s ratings, it is pretty clear that he is intensely disliked. I don’t think that the ALP will lose by as much as expected and if they replace Gillard might even have a chance of scraping through again. The best way to prevent Abbott from becoming PM is to do just that. As soon as the ALP changes leaders the Libs will be pretty much forced into dumping Abbot and probably return to Turnbull (which wouldnt be too bad) since Abbott would not be able to beat Rudd. As for Katter, well it is easy to win a few seats in a climate like QLD when your only argument is you aren’t the ALP (i.e. running on being against the guys that were there rather than running on your own ideas). I think they will end up going the way of One Nation, win a few seats for a couple years then fall by the wayside once people realise how ridiculous their ideas are once they actually have some seats. Now I think the unions have a great role to play in the Australian workforce, I am not entirely sure that the current arrangement between the Unions and the ALP is viable for the long term prospects of the party since it is a very undemocratic process that doesn’t serve either very well. You end up with Union bosses who have never even worked the shop floor of the industry who care more about setting up their political future than they care about looking after the workers they are supposed to represent, and you get a bit of subversion in the policies within the party which ignore other segments of the population. I honestly hope the Democrats can have a bit of a resurgence and pick up a seat or two next year, get themselves back on the radar.

  7. Hmm. I’ve played all sorts of gory games, laughed sadistically as I personally piled up hundreds of pixelated bodies. I played a level in a Call of Duty where you shoot people from a plane, through night vision.

    When I saw the same exact thing from the wikileaks leak, knowing it was real people, (I’ll admit it) I teared up and cried. I’d say playing video games has not “desensitized” me at all.

  8. I agree with Ben though that it does desensitivities individuals, the Military promotes games and encourages violent games for soldiers so that the solidier’s can kill without remorse. For soldiers with PTSD violent video games bring back memories, so their is a link between violence in individuals and video games but for a select groups.

    1. I’m curious if desensitization to violence actually correlates to less empathy. Is it a big deal if I can handle watching some pretty gruesome stuff because I’ve, in a sense, been trained to handle it through videogames/media? Is that also to say I won’t care as much about kids being murdered? Seems like they are separate issues, but get lumped together under desensitization. Are these soldiers just better able to handle the issue, or are they then pre-disposed to acting on it?

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