Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "VICE News" channel.

  1. Trans were banned up until a couple years ago and have been abusing the system ever since. False. One of my S-4 senior NCOs (E-8 Master Sergeant) was the highest ranking trans I had met in 1st Cavalry Division when I was still just a young corporal in the mid 90's. She began hormone treatments (on her own dime) at the turn of the century. Served another 11 years before retiring after moving up to the Brigade during our first deployment in '03. Fun filled fact that should piss off both libs and neocons: Don't ask, Don't tell was put in place to protect gay (and other) members of the military from active investigation into their sexuality. It wasn't enough for liberals, so they were pissed. It protected gays, so conservatives were pissed. In the end, it was demonized somehow.
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  2. Wait, Nunes is a 3rd generation Dreamer? DEPORT HIM TO PORTUGAL
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  3. I don't care to hear another word about the life or motivations of Paddock. Ever. He deserves not one iota of remembrance. What I do want to see is at least a few minutes each day about every person we lost in Vegas and in Puerto Rico. Who they were, their yearbook and childhood pictures, what they did both good and bad. I want to have a REAL FUCKING THOUGHT for victims, Media. No more lip service, no more victim-mandala pictures and-then-move-on bullshit. Stop saying thoughts and prayers when you have no idea who to pray for when you have not one name in your thoughts. Jeremy Christian's name is forever known for the stabbing of three men who stood up to his Nazi ass on a train for two scared girls, but people have to google THEIR names. Ricky Best, dead. Taliesin Namkai-Meche, dead. Micah Fletcher, who survived. But all people will know is Christian's name. Stop giving perpetrators their 5 minutes of fame, and start spending it on those we lost, Media.
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  4. Because she's cut from the exact same cloth as Hillary Clinton. That's why we don't want her. An entitled, out of touch relic who think she is owed the position.
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  5. Too cynical to be true, thankfully. And also a sh*t alibi for being miserable & aggressive towards everyone else, otherwise known as a sociopath.
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  6. The inspector might be a large & intimidating man, but he seems honest, bright, and realistic, and stuck in a damn tough situation. There's Adam Henry cops who screw harmless people over for their own sense of power (like in alot of American cities that don't need the Dirty Harry treatment), and then there's places like this where a pushover legal system full of loopholes just causes the whole place to go to hell, and needs tough officers.
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  7.  @LastTryNoHeart  JFO in my case, the Dollar Store JTAC
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  8. That's a fact. When they covered Charlottesville, it was all the same people pissing and moaning about liberal bias. They just want to hear that Brown People Bad
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  9. Show him the infinity symbol and he will just say it's an immigrant 8 that's too lazy to work and wants a handout
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  10. When you think being uneducated trash is a virtue, and try to make everyone else into uneducated trash to feel better about yourselves, then yeah, that makes someone worse.
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  11. Sounds like a training camp for potential GOP congressional candidates
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  12. Yhwh is a pretty negligent CEO. The Board of Directors aughta remove him for the good of the company
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  13. I could spend millions of dollars. OR I could google the predicted fallout maps for my area, have a plan, and head to a non-targeted area with prevailing winds that push all the fallout away from livable land. Assuming survival from a first strike, the sanctuary area for me is the Oregon Coast, not a bunker. And it's about a 30 minute drive with lots of rural highway routes to choose from through the mountains. Powerful constant winds push all the fallout the opposite direction, precipitation coming from the ocean, fish, timber, no major targets, almost entirely public land that won't have entitled, crazy, gun waving nuts "standing their ground".
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  14. Pooh Bear's China = The Borg You will be assimilated. Resistance...is futile.
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  15. His supporters are just discovering All Your Base memes and /b/, while checking their AOL mail
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  16.  Mr Leong  <--- Government agent
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  17.  @dictatorsith1795  Republican tears taste like someone left a cheeto in a lukewarm, day old Natty Ice
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  18.  Millenial Picasso  Alex who?
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  19. Hilarious, Starwayal's other posts are all about how he supports Putin. Please explain: I didn't realize the EU existed during WWII, and I guess the tanks, planes, supplies, and money the American supplied a very un-thankful Stalin were never talked about in Russian schools? Maybe the Americans should have waited a bit longer to launch D Day, and not lifted a finger to aid the eastern front until they had effectively destroyed each other, THEN attacked a tired Germany. Russians are like Italian Mobsters on PCP and threated everyone with nuclear weapons. At least Russian soldiers on the ground are trying to play it cool, they're clearly more level-headed than their civilians, like you Starwayal.
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  20. When Americans are the ones growing and shipping the opium, then I'll point the finger that way. Stick to the hard facts and stop trying to impress everyone with your conspiracy theories. 1. Afghans grow Poppies because it's 7 times as profitable as food. The US tried that trick already, and Afghans aren't known givers of fucks about what they do to others when they can line their pockets. 2. Iran, known to nab anyone the moment they get within a kilometer of their border, is somehow, inexplicably, being flooded with Heroine making it across the line that a gnat couldn't sneak across. 3. The US isn't known for "final solutions", such as sowing the fields of Afghanistan with salt. They simply aren't hard-core enough to take the harsh actions necessary to stop this, probably because they would be perversely condemned even more (if such a thing were possible) by everyone for it. If a country's major export were Chemical Weapons, would you still have the same reservations about destroying that economy? Is it really so far off? 4. Historically, Afghan poppies were shipped East to be refined and shipped out of the Golden Triangle. If it's going West instead these days, it's because of either a change in Chinese/Triad policies, or a spike in other markets.
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  21. Violent right wing demonstrators existed before the Antifa kids. Last time I checked, staging an armed takeover of a wildlife refuge and running around Burns brandishing guns and trying to intimidate the local residents and sheriff with a bloody "last stand shootout" is a violent threat. Pity they didn't bring enough snacks, though.
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  22. Amazon. Just like everyone else. Probably a DJI Mavic. They use them nowadays to watch for security forces on patrol in their area
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  23. Came for "Americans" copy-pasting anti-Obama comments handed to them by the current version of the Politburo. Was not disappointed.
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  24. You don't need to be when you can bootstrap the word Harvard alongside "The 3rd" in your name People take that as a report card unto itself
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  25. "Why these Alabama voters are sticking by Roy Moore" Because they too want to hide behind the Bible for their crimes that you don't know about, so they relate to him. And they still don't believe sexually exploiting children is a crime. They would base it on how big that 15 year old's tits are.
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  26. I prefer to search for concrete information on a little more than kitschy feelings-based buzzwords being salad tossed by a rando counterculture poseur
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  27. i.e. Whiskey flavored vodka.
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  28. Rich old evangelicals who think they're going to inherit a "purified of sinners" earth are easily parted from their money.
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  29. Try a bag of weed and an application for an Art degree
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  30. I think the real point is noone can imagine a male director being patted on the back for saying he wrote a movie because "I want an all male cast". They would be immediately shunted into the "Weinstein" column. Unless it was about gay men. And then it goes into the "Spacey" column.
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  31. Because she's right, and retards hate people who are right. They like dating older men with good credit.
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  32. Iran's endgame here is to have a freeway leading straight to Israel for military forces, and nuclear ordnance if that fails Khamenei has nothing if not a one track mind for many decades
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  33. Re-up? You're outta yo mind! Bless you, DD-214 woobie. You keep me warm and happy.
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  34.  @AnEvolvingApe  Anyone who has the knowledge and (pardon the pun) grit of a coal miner is a desirable commodity in other fields, already. It's not some dumbshit chain gang job, you have to have your head screwed on right, some engineering knowledge, a crap ton of safety training (ask anyone who works for the Railroad what that's like) and a penchant for dealing with enclosed space hazards. Construction. Sewer and other below ground maintenance. Other Petro based jobs cross easily, particularly natural gas. The list they could cross into with almost no retraining is long. The problem isn't training or desirability, it's that the workers fight change and refuse to keep up with the times
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  35.  @RebornLegacy  You really missed the point. They all started out as legal guns, that can be found anywhere. What starts out legal doesn't take much to move into Illegal. Sold, traded, stolen, uncontrolled and untraced. The number of legal gun sales is intertwined, and inseperable, with the number of illegal guns. But there's a difference: You slow the sale and lethality in new, legal guns and you exponentially reduce the dangers of illegal firearms making the rounds. Because as time ticks on, and illegal guns get confiscated, they become an endangered species compared to legal guns, which do not get confiscated, if you can stop them from breeding on the factory floor. And the more endangered a hot gun gets, the more it's black market value goes up, which means it will trade hands even less. England already figured this math out in 1996 after a school massacre. You can sit there and deny that, and you will, and talk about knives and trucks, but they don't have our gun problems. The only massacre they had after that? By a legal gun owner. In 2010. 23 years, and only a single mass shooting that killed 12. And it happened because they let that guy have his guns LEGALLY. Here, in 'Murica, we could almost envy those kinds of rookie numbers.
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  36. People take the easy path every time Give people easy access to things which make killing easy = people easily choose to kill
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  37. Horseshit. PGE has thousands of turbines in the Columbia River Gorge, and the bulk of them are stopped because they generate too much juice for the demand, most of which gets sent to California and Idaho. That's year round. California has a problem with excess power generation in certain seasons, and can't figure out what to do with it. That was a VICE story just a few months back. Diesel generators comprise the bulk of fossil fuel generation around the nation, and coal plants are only going down. Even Diesel plants are falling off.
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  38. Wagner Group mercenaries. Same guys who attacked US troops in Syria at the battle of Khasham, same guys who helped invade Ukraine, same guys who had business dealings with Blackwater, and owned by Putin's "Chef", Yevgeny Prigozhin. Putin's unofficial army. Prigozhin, btw, owns the troll farm in St Peterburg. And they're here reading this right now.
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  39. She's a proven sellout. There's a difference between reasonable compromise, and taking every large check a donor can wave in your face. That costs her Democrat votes. As an example, she sold out her pro choice base on ACA coverages. But there is no denying she is an effective fundraiser, and even as minority party leader she gets legislation through because Republicans know she's got her price too, and they'll pay it. She's an Old Guard politician, playing the old game.
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  40. Insert applause for a professional post here
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  41. Dummy, you don't need anything more dangerous than a gun from the Old West. If you're so bad with firearms you can't make do with an M&P Bodyguard, a .38 Snub, a Remington no-magazine 700 and a double barrel 20 gauge and NOTHING ANY DEADLIER, you are officially so bad with firearms you shouldn't be fucking handling one anyways. Time to take anything more off the shelves, grandfather in what we already have, but make them non-transferable from those of us who already have them. Not a gun grab, but also not a market for AR's to fall off the trees anymore.
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  42.  @chronic2001n  Nobody said it was a high bar, baby
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  43. Because false equivalency is how they back up their bumper sticker philosophies. Hence they say taking Semi Auto Rifles and high cap mags off the shelves somehow equals a gun confiscation. Lying is how they've stayed in power even though they are a minority operating inside the loopholes of a democratic republic, so they stick to it.
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  44. I'm pretty sure you're already banned you murdering people, Ian. If you didn't know that already, then, well, maybe you should have a seat... It's just a question of how many people you should be able to easily murder the instant you decide to start pulling the trigger and become a criminal instead of the "good guy with a gun", who sailed through the background checks. 1. Loser militia nut who could only legally buy an M&P Bodyguard and double barrel 20 guage = Managed to murder 6 people before being beaten to death by the crowd while reloading. 2. Loser militia nut with 60 round Pmag drums on an LWRC-built AR and a Surefire Suppressor = Managed to murder 60 people before the SWAT team figured out where he was and killed him. Noone needs anything more dangerous than shit people had in the Old West to defend themselves in public or in their home. If you're that bad with a small caliber basic revolver, subcompact auto, or limited capacity shotgun then you're fucking hopeless no matter what gun you have.
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  45. Quite aside from your exhaustive explanation of the planet's curve being visible from angels 80, you simply didn't stop to acknowledge a joke at the expense of actual flat earthers, most of whom or just trolls anyways, and don't believe in it any more than you do.
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  46. It's unfortunate that certain police Vice sections use legit human trafficking, pimps, and kidnappers as PR and a political headline to hassle non-trafficked sex workers. Last week our city police were trumpeting about breaking up a "human trafficking ring" that turned out to be a dirty massage parlor crewed by three 40+ year old Vietnamese women who were trafficked by.....noone. It was a convenient way to get hero points and make points with the Starbucks Soccer Mom church activists. There's a pretty big difference between indulging in "cleaning up" strip clubs and things that offend conservatives that your local department kisses ass to, and bringing home kidnap victims and desperate runaways.
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  47. I've been Triggled
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  48. This is not what we meant when we said we would free the shit out of you
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  49. Well played, sir.
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  50. one might argue that a guy named "russianbuds" is a bit biased and wants news produced that he "approves of".
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