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    Just now, Lordship said:

    I play HotS, currently plat 2 in hero league (not even lvl 40 yet lol) I also play WoW and the occasional Overwatch game.

     

    Yes, I saw you at plat 2. I was trying to convince myself that that was totally silver.

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    8 hours ago, Lord Darien said:

    Didn't know the US owned the internet....

    US economic collapse would mean a world wide recession but not the end of the world, a new super power would emerge. 

    The US owns a large portion of the base infrastructure. You can look to ICANN as an example of that. There was some talk about other nations taking on some of that, but I don't know how far it went. However a large number of security certs, root DNS, and generic carriers would probably disappear. It would definitely have a *large* impact on global internet traffic.

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    in Poll of the Day

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    2 hours ago, Patrick MacFarlane said:

    There are a lot of violent illegal immigrants. Although I am not saying that all of them are violent I have to understand the stance that removing them from the country does eliminate violent crime to some level.

    Yes, Christians can be "radicalized" but those are people that are abiding here. If we had reason to believe that there would be an influx of radicalized Christian immigrants that wanted to harm our nation then I would lobby for the restrictions on that as well. Domestic radicalized people need to be thrown in prison. incoming dangers need to be halted at the border. It is about preservation and the simple fact is that right now there is a threat to our nation's safety from a radical Islamic caliphate which has stated they will send refugees to attack the western powers. Until we can determine which Muslims can be deemed a threat I think it wise to limit the potential dangers coming into our nation. It is not racist to protect your nation, the slander, yes, that is wrong but the intention here is to protect the nation from those coming in. Not to hate on Muslims around the world. 

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-immigrants-and-crime-1436916798 The comment about violent illegal immigrants is still wrong. Not sure why people repeat that line. I've seen research showing that descendants of illegal residents have a slight increase in violent crime, but they also mentioned confounding factors such as where on the poverty spectrum that tends to put them and where they end up having to live.

    Also, saying that an entire group needs to be kept out because they're more likely to do "x" is pretty much text book discrimination (racism when race is used). You can argue that it has a point all you want, but you're still saying that the individuals don't matter, only that they're "insert race, religion, etc. here".

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