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Delta and United join growing list of companies to cut ties with the NRA
| United Airlines (UAL) followed a short time later, saying the company will no longer offer discounts on flights to the NRA annual meeting. And TrueCar (TRUE), a car buying service, said late Friday that it would end its deal with the NRA as of February 28.The companies were the latest to abandon partnerships with the NRA amid a renewed public debate over tightened gun laws following a school shooting in Florida last week that left 17 dead.
| First National Bank of Omaha on Thursday pledged to stop issuing an NRA-branded Visa card. A bank spokesperson said "customer feedback" prompted a review of its partnership with the NRA, and it chose not to renew its current contract.There was also a wave of car rental outfits. Enterprise Holdings, which runs the Enterprise, Alamo and National car rental groups, announced that it will end the discount deal it has with the NRA on March 26.
| On Friday, car rental company Hertz (HTZ) said in a tweet that it's also ending its NRA rental car discount program. More big names followed suit.A spokesperson for moving van lines Allied and North American, which are both owned by Sirva, said Friday that the brands "no longer have an affiliate relationship with the NRA effective immediately."
| "We have asked them to remove our listing from their benefits site," the spokesperson added. The company did not describe what kind of benefits had been offered to NRA members.Insurance giant MetLife said Friday that it's ending its discounts on home and auto insurance for NRA members. http://archive.is/SYayZ
| Sick
| I see.
| What's the opinion of the NRA now from those of us that are pro-gun? I personally feel they have not been doing enough to protect our rights.
| Why do those big companies interfering into politics? What is their profit from that?
| An airline supporting gun owners seems like a recipe for disaster
| National Rifle Association.
I just envision a herd of people with idiotic semi autistic smiles going around with rifles and when asked about the reason of their happiness they light up even more and answer 'because we are shooting and we like to shoot'. Half of them with cowboy hats on them.
The trigger happy morons of modern times.
| >>163846 lmao ever heard of lobbying? Big companies are always involved in politics, atleast in Capitalism.
Be happy that coca cola hasn't hired assassin's to kill people in the US lmao
| >>164054 Corrections.
Big companies in America are always involved in politics, at least in oligarchy.
Because in america you are encouraged to sell your grandma for profit.
There fixed it for ya.
| Haha, you gun supporters are so unbelievable stupid. It's like the whole spectrum of right-winged assholes from libertarians over neocons to alt-right assholes.
>>163454
The NRA is not protecting anyone's rights. They are a lobby organization of profit oriented weapon industry, not for human rights.
>>163846
Wow, either you just came from a mirror universe or you wake up from some kind of sedation.
I really whish that every day some of you get shot, since you're immune to logic.
| >>164205
And what are you? You're probably one of those people that needs to show power symbols like money, cars or weapons to get touched by people with low self confidence, because of your own low intellect, inner emptiness or ugly character.
| >>164222
Sounds like I nailed it. Don't worry, I'm sure the government will fuck you once you are done signalling weak subservience you slave.
| >>164298
You nailed it with what, a Magnum or Beretta? Watch out, your cowboy hat has a pigeon shit stain on its left.
| >>164207
NRA represents American gun manufacturer's interests as well, but you're foolish if you think NRA-ILA doesn't play a huge role in fighting anti-gun legislation and bringing cases to court to defend the constitutional right to bear arms. Have fun being a statist, though. You seem to get awfully butthurt about other people's business.
| >>164970
>defend the constitutional right to bear arms
Well, these "constitutional right" is a historical rudiment that does not belong into a modern state. The only reason it exists was the war with england and it was kept to ease land-grabbing from native Americans and for cowboys and farmers to "protect" themselves from each others and native Americans, which land they grabbed.
Its an anachronistic, reactionary thing that does not fit to a modern, advanced and civilized society.
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| >>165094
The bill of rights wasn't written until almost a decade after the war ended, specifically because of concerns that the constitution didn't do enough to protect the very same rights that the colonists had revolted over to begin with.
It wasn't about Cowboys and the wild west, that's why Ben Franklin wrote shit like this “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
| >>166642
Don't make me laught. Benjamin Franklin is not really a positive Example. He is the early personification of the false belief, that you can build up a civilization with humanistic ideals based on the assholishness of its members, like described in >>164176
This is the hypocritical pseudo-humanist liberalism everybody in the world hates the US for, even US citizens across the whole population hate it.
The weapons article in the bill kept the the spirit of this: >>165094
| >>166642
btw. the right for every douchebag to carry almost any kind of weapon is no "essential" liberty and to live in a society without any asshole carrying any kind of weapon is not just "temporary safe"
If I lived in the US, I probably would carry a gun arround to protect myself from racists-rednec-kkk assholes, policemen and mentally disabled maniacs (which even can be all in one person) because they also carry around weapons. I'm glad I live in not such a country.
| >>166726
>the right for every douchebag
Unhealthy contempt for fellow man.
>to live in a society without any asshole carrying any kind of weapon is not just "temporary safe"
You're right, it's no kind of safety. Enjoy being defenseless.
>If I lived in the US, I probably would carry a gun arround to protect myself
Sounds like the Constitution at work. I prefer to be able to protect myself. When the police are minutes away, I'd rather everyone be armed then no one.
| >>166995
Man, you ppl are so unbelievable dumb without realizing it. No wonder that you always elect so dumb presidents. Your country holds the most shizophrene society one could imagine. There are great ppl of culture and science on the one side and cultureless, superstitious idiots on the other side. But the balance is massively broken. A maniac society producing maniacs. People in the US will drown in their own shit if they continue this wild-west behaviour.
| >>166722
Just about all the framers of the constitution had beliefs in the same vein.
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms" - Jefferson. Thankfully for him they didn't have the NSA eavesdropping back then.
>>166726
>>167697
Don't you have somewhere else to be a retard? Come back when you learn English and how to type full words.
| >>168026
You bash >>167697 for speaking the truth. While he/she speaks English as a foreign language, I wonder if you have such a skill. And no, I do not count spanish because your parents are fugitive mexicans and you just happen to speak it. In most parts of Europe people speak 3 languages at the level of being able to understand and being understood. Mi capisci? Wa karimaska? ming-bai le ma? Kuptove?
| >>168026
>Come back when you learn English and how to type full words.
Talking about learning English: Why does a specific kind of US-americans just look like the result of degenerated inbreed and sound like having a big fat chewing gum in their mouth? At least the spanish/portugese populated with fresh genes from native americans (or vice versa) while white american pilgrim assholes just inbreeded. Thinking about it, this is a very logical explanation.
| >>168071
I was an immigrant - a legal one - and English is my second language.
Spanish, by the way, is my third, though I'll admit I'm not as freely fluent. Good enough to spend half a year in Colombia, though.
I'm not terribly impressed by you Google translating some blurbs in other languages in any case.
>>168082
It's nice that you continue to demonstrate how little you know. Please, continue making a fool of yourself.
| >>168397
No g/u/rl, you are wrong. I speak a total of 6 languages myself, 4 of them fluently and the other three enough to get me by. I do not google for things like these because I do not need to.
The point is, do not be so quick to teach others what you do not know.
| The other two that was. I counted my native language twice.
| >>168397
Oh you were legal? That is a real great achievement. Congratulations. May I ask what you did to achieve this desireable status? Must have been hard work that you spread it around proudly. Did you suck your masters dick to become legal or do you just have rich parents?
Where law becomes oppression, resistance is a duty!
To distinguish between „legal“ and „illegal“ persons is just a chiffre for racism and/or oppression.
| >>168397
Arent you afraid your nazist children in mind will form a lynchmob and hang you as soon they see the multicultural „globalist“ in you? You should be.
| >>168877
Had a master's degree, USSR collapsed, decided it was time to leave because breadlines are not fun, got a work visa, and later a green card and naturalization.
>immigration control is oppression
No, it's not. There's a lawful process to immigration that millions of people obey.
>resistance is a duty!
Even though you're just full of hot air, how would you arm your resistance if you ban all guns? Rubber dildos?
>>168880
No, not in the least bit. Do you really believe this?
| >>169390
>Do you really believe this
No, I KNOW this. Also the correlation of weapon owners and right winged conspiracy theorists is very high. Trust me, I have my experiences with this kind of people, which are gaining more and more self confidence due to the rise of right-winged movements. If they see you, traveled around the world, speaking multiple languages, having a Master degree, they will see you as "rootless, liberal/globalist/communist man of the establishment".
| >>169390
>immigration control is oppression
It is not what i wrote. Don't twist my words.
>Even though you're just full of hot air, how would you arm your resistance if you ban all guns? Rubber dildos?
I have to admit, that in theory you're totally right about this one. But in practice I prefer a civilized, democratic and peaceful way over a violent revolution, which always tended to eat its own children.
| >>169636
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj12LaDvwKA
this is you anon.
willing to bet you didn't actually "lose friends" either. unless you consider people you met in a chatroom "friends"
| >>169640
Your comparison doesen't make any sense, except you are massively stupid or just a troll.
| >>169644
so you don't deny that you made up a sob story because you were losing a battle with an anon that was pointing out how retarded you sound? k then
| you get so angery its as if the american uncle sam came over and fucked your face repeatedly. yer too ashamed to even admit what "shithole" country you came from even though pretty much everyone agreed at the end of that thread that we all live in shithole places.
| most gurls dont take the time to point this out because arguing with you is exhausting as hell, so its extra funny too when the subjects of your random sperging arent even americans or are immigrants too. half your arguments are either straw manning, begging the question, or from unearned positions of authority
| the literally only difference from you and alex jones is that alex jones is funny and great for memes.
meanwhile you belong more in the kiwi farms.
| even Chris-Chan makes better arguments than you and thats saying something
| >I am delusional because of YOU ASSHOLES DESTROY EVERYTHING WHAT IS GOOD. You trumple around the world like ignorant assholes only bringing pain and destruction to people. I've lost people I love because of your ignorance and blindness. FUCK THE USA AND THEIR FUCKING MILITARY!!!
nevar forget
10/10 thanks for the copypasta
| >>169656
You think this is fun? Why not come back to Cambodia and help demining the landmines you sold to the khmer rouge?
No, there was not ever even an apology, or financial help for removing it.
Btw. I don't live there anymore.
Calling other countries that you've ruined with your interventions as "shitholes" is just the tip on the iceberg. Comparing me to an asshole that's raging around totally unjustified against immigrants etc. is just unbelievable. Ignorant stupid assholes!
| >>169720
I'm glad that you recognize that the Chinese-backed Maoists, the Khmer Rouge, were absolutely vile and evil in the way they fought the Soviet-backed Vietnamese, when they weren't busy committing genocide, but I'm not sure how you manage to blame the US for it all.
| >>169835
In the sowjet-chinese shisma the US was on Chinas side. After Pol-Pots (a really scary figure) dead the US supported the khmer-rouge to piss of the sowjets and take revenge on the Vietnamese, when they liberated cambodia. My mother is vietnamese and my father cambodian. We left this country when I was a child after my older sister died on a landmine, made in the US. This is why I'm really upset about the ignorance and assholishness of a specific kind of ppl in the US.
| >>169852
Sure, I don't doubt that the US exploited commie infighting to their benefit, the same way they backed the Mujahideen along with China during the Soviet-Afghan war, but you're talking about it like Uncle Sam himself came and planted a mine on your doorstep after slapping you in the face with his dick. How do you even know that it wasn't planted by the PRK, by the Vietnamese, by KPNLF, or whoever else? All sides used mines, and most were Chinese or Soviet in origin.
| >>169860
He can't, lol. He was "a child at the time."
The US just makes a convenient scapegoat when it could have been literally one of many powers that was shitting on Cambodia at the time.
| >>169862
Scapegoat my ass. Why is it so hard to accept that the US did massively a lot of shit in the world without ever taking responsibility for it?
Where one mine goes up the terrain arround it gets marked and the demining forces come (which cant take a while) and find similar land mines around the one that blew up. It's not to hard to recognize their origin then. Demining forces in cambodia are probably the most expirienced in the world, which is a pretty sad fact.
| >>169956
It's not a matter of acceptance- what you describe is a common practice by all major nations, and doesn't really do much at the end of the day. No amount of reparation money or apologies or political jockeying is going to change what happened, especially when the officials responsible at the time are usually long gone- either having retired to a comfortable life, or died, or lost to history. US, China, and Russia are always the scapegoats because its easier
| to use them than to get to the bottom of the scenario, and even then, it's not like most people actually care- it's just political pandering.
| Governments and politicians will give a shit when it suits them and then forget about it when the controversy blows over. Then when it's brought up again, usually by people far removed from tragedy, they'll say, "what do you care, you weren't even born yet," or other similar excuses.
And they're right. The world's moved on, the people have moved on, the original victims have passed on. Time to let go and get on with life while you still have it.
| For example, the 9/11 victims are up to this point still trying to sue Saudi Arabia (from whence the terrorists originated from) into giving them reparations for their deceased loved ones. It's been seventeen years- what in the world is that money supposed to do now? Bury bodies? Build memorials?
Pointless. It's solved nothing except to piss off people and to bring up concerns about national sovereignty. Mourn the dead if you must, but get over it- their concerns aren't worth more
| than a country's rights.
Even if the Saudi's could probably afford what they're asking for, lol.
| No offense to your dead sister, assuming anything you've said is true. But that's the way it is. Be glad you hopefully don't live in Cambodia still, but i'm sure if you looked hard enough, you'll find plenty to hate about your current country.
| >>169983
>US, China, and Russia are always the scapegoats because its easier
You're just ignoring that they major powers are in fact more responsible what happens in the world than minor powers
It's like in the last economy crisis: Managers are reasoning their fat income with the "responsibility" they have, but when it is about taking the responsibility they all cry for the evil state to rescue them.
With great power comes great responsibility. Has nothing to do with scapegoating.
| >Saudi Arabia (from whence the terrorists originated from)
Haha, nice joke. You just cut the line of continuation as you wished. You sure the terrorists "originated" from Saudi Arabia and not in order of the shitty US foreign policy of train and equip Islamists to fight the USSR?
| >It's been seventeen years- what in the world is that money supposed to do now? Bury bodies? Build memorials?
In the case of cambodia and all the other countries the US invaded, destroyed or put dictatures it could be used for reparation and measurements like demining. Do you have any clue how many effort it takes to do that? Also people are still traumatized and even phyisically injured from war and dictatureship - even in newer generations. You ever heard about "agent orange"?
| >Time to let go and get on with life while you still have it.
Are you as relativistic too when it comes to crimes that were done in the name of communism/socialim? Usually there is a huge bias blaming new generation socialists and communists for stuff they also condemn about failed approaches.
| >>170062
Wahabism has been around for two centuries, are you saying that it's the fault of the US?
Mujaheddin were "the enemy of my enemy is a friend" and the US supported them in that context, since most Wahabis saw the Soviet-Afghan war as Jihad. After that was over, they stopped giving a fuck about the US one way or another until the First Gulf War, when Saudi Arabia asked the US to intervene in Iraq's invasion of their mutual ally, Kuwait. US Troops in SA pissed off the Wahabis
| >>170070
so much, for the simple act of daring to set foot on their holy sand, that they promptly became US enemies. By this point, Wahabists and Saudi Arabia had a love-hate relationship themselves.
>>170066
The US's role in Cambodia is barely a footnote, yet you single it out for blame. Why don't you spare some hatred on Beijing and Moscow who turned it into a Sino-Soviet proxy war to begin with?
| >"what do you care, you weren't even born yet," or other similar excuses. And they're right.
Thats the wrong Signal to what should be accepted in politics (and also economy, which is also politics).
There are political movements that mobilize the mob against every pickpocket, while the really big criminals are almost ignored, because their crimes are "passed". And as long this is the case the same shit will happen always again and again.
| >>170070
>Wahabism has been around for two centuries, are you saying that it's the fault of the US?
No, thats not what I said.
>Mujaheddin were "the enemy of my enemy is a friend" and the US supported them in that context
This kind of policiy is what I never will have appreciation for and I want to be punished and stopped.
| >The US's role in Cambodia is barely a footnote, yet you single it out for blame.
Yeah, that is what lots of US-americans believe. They're role in doing bad stuff is maximum just a footnote and necessary evil to stop all the other super villains, especially the "red threat".
>Why don't you spare some hatred on Beijing and Moscow who turned it into a Sino-Soviet proxy war to begin with?
Because most People in Cambodia and Vietnam have a very positive reception of the soviets.
| >Why don't you spare some hatred on Beijing and Moscow who turned it into a Sino-Soviet proxy war to begin with?
Also Beijing and Moscow may be do bad and even don't apologize to their victims, but the USA just does it in a much higher scale plus its spits in the face of their victims additionally e.g. by calling them "shithole countries". Never heard or read that by soviet or chinese politicians. It's just disgusting.
| >>170088
So shit on China, then. The Khmer Rouge were a puppet of Beijing.
The Soviets were no angels either, though.
Seems to you, everybody is blameless except for the US, which may as well be "Literally Hitler" and would seemingly be solely responsible for every single wrong that has ever happened, ever.
| >Seems to you, everybody is blameless except for the US, which may as well be "Literally Hitler" and would seemingly be solely responsible for every single wrong that has ever happened, ever.
Thats so not true. It is just the relationship between the self-perception/representation and the massive ignorance about what they've done which has a unique quality of hypocrisy/bigotry. "We are the good, all others are the bad, and we will continue do wrong without questioning/changing"
| >>170102
Yes, of course, lets paint with broad brush strokes.
All 330 Million Americans may as well be clones of Donald Trump. No, it's not the fault of the United States, it's just that every single last American is hypocritical, bigoted, stupid, and evil
Next time just own it and say "Yes, I hate the US", since it's clearly what you meant anyway.
| >>170114
So you would say, that the majority is not responsible for politics in the self-proclaimed world-wide ideal model of democracy which seems to justify everything, even destroying other democracys again and again over decades with no stop in sight?
I bet most people in the US don't even know where cambodia is... Or all the other countries that had to suffer from them. The only thing they "know": the enemy is red and they are the greatest.
| G/u/rls, as you can see an american will go to great lengths to justify every person keeping a gun and paint their wars with bright colours. They will even rewrite history for you if required.
| inb4 Republicucks call multinational corporations practicing capitalism cultural marxists who hate America.
| 911 sounds less like an emergency call and more like a botched job
| >>173911
>Republicucks call multinational corporations practicing capitalism cultural marxists who hate America
Its so sad, that people can rule a country that don't even know to use the proper words for what they want or what they don't want.
I've heard about this "cultural marxists" bullshit from some rightwingers which is basically a critique on materialism. On the other side they blame leftists for beeing idealists all the time, while beeing No1 "pragmatics". Thats so bigot.
| >>174137 They got to invent words and terms and associate them with absurdities. If you do not constantly feed those to a dumb population they risk starting to have time to educate themselves and notice there is a world out there. All they need to know is that Eurasia is At war with Oceania, Winston.
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| Two major airlines. A cybersecurity firm. Six car rental brands. A home security company. An Omaha bank. Companies have scrambled to cut ties with the National Rifle Association over the past couple of days, and the list continued to grow into the weekend.Delta Air Lines (DAL) announced Saturday morning that it's ending discounted rates for NRA members. "We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website," the company said in a tweet.