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    Pretty standard Republican beliefs. What I always find odd is their incredibly romanticized, rosy view of the past - apparently back in the Good Ol’ Days, there was no murder, rape, physical or sexual abuse, wars, lying, stealing or horrific institutions like slavery (I assume he’d say it was actually a good thing) because Americans at all times revered the Lord, so of course they didn’t do any of that.

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      Looking at election results, the vast majority of Republican voters live in rural or at least suburban areas. Those feature both low population densities and isolation. This can make the crime rate in instances of violent crime per year low compared to an urban area with the same crime rate per capita. It also means that when someone does her killed, The average distance in feet (or miles) from the crime scene to your house is larger. This can affect perception of crime a lot

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    Explains all the school shootings in those other countries that allow abortion and evolution.

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      Never for even a millisecond buy the lie that they don’t see the absurdity in their reasoning.

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    It’s the age old argument of “if there is no God, how do we teach what is right or wrong?”

    Yes we can teach morals and ethics without a creator in place. As Penn from Penn and Teller would put it. “I don’t need the fear of eternal damnation to tell me that I shouldn’t murder. I shouldn’t murder because it’s wrong”.

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    I had a feeling it wasn’t going to take long for me to hate this guy but it happened even faster than I expected.

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    Is this guy really just an idiot, or is he simply pandering to the uneducated to get re-elected?

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      You thought they’d jump up when reaching the bottom of the barrel, but they took out the shovels.

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    Cool cool cool so this dude is unable to comprehend how one can have morality or ethics without an imaginary friend who is constantly threatening to torment them for all of eternity and thus is actively hostile to me as a person because I don’t believe his imaginary friend exists in the first place.

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      The imaginary friend also tells people to murder their kids and shit “as a test” to prove their faith. This guy said he heard voices telling him to kill people, so if their god is real I more suspect he’s the cause of this, not the solution.

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    The school shootings weren’t a problem until after we started putting In God We Trust all over our money.

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    Ok, let’s agree that humans evolved to become school shooters, but how does abortion play a part in it. Abortion actually eliminates possible school shooters, so it balances it out.

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    This guy is looking worse and worse. He’s already an insurrectionist, he’s basically a christo fascist nutjob

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    Just when I assumed the person swinging the hammer couldn’t get any stupider… along comes this guy and proves me wrong.