The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

[dead0man]

The entire mainstream media is biased towards Republicans, not just Fox, Newsmax, and OAN.

[dead0man]

Of course the guy who wanted to ban vapes is the Democratic co-sponsor.

Oh no! He wanted to ban vapes! How terrible!

If we oppose cigarettes - and the government absolutely made the right move in opposing them back in the '90s - we should logically oppose vapes. They're cigarettes in another form, only more dangerous and 'cool' and 'flashy' (the same way cigarettes were before the government launched infomercials to send lung cancer permanently out of fashion).

If you're trying to discredit Krishnamoorthi's credentials and make an 'ethos' argument against this, you're failing completely, at least as far as I'm concerned. Yes, vapes should be banned.

  Care to defend vapes and say they're not at all harmful, then? Because if you do, it'll be neat enough since you'll be posting directly into this thread.

suggesting vapes are not harmful at all would be almost as dumb as saying they are "more dangerous than cigarettes".

[dead0man]

Except you quite explicitly did. In plain english. And then double down and defended the genocide of Native Americans as just one of those things that has to happen and pointed to the economic prosperity of America and Canada as proof it was necessary.

I'm not touching the other stuff, but the fact that most people in the western hemisphere were going to die when east met west is true.  Even if it was on the best of terms, disease was going to wipe them out one way or the other.  Maybe, maybe if we wait until we had a better understanding of the diseases and had some vaccines to give them before we introduced ourselves we could have prevented it from being a genocide, but how would we even know to do that?


(and that in no way excuses how we treated the natives, which was 50% horrible, 45% apathetic and 5% helpful (at best), it's a shameful history.  On the other hand, they treated their own poor like sh**t (for the most part) then too, but that's also not an excuse.)