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  24. I was all for vaccinations in the past until my cousin got her daughter vaccinated and I saw what happened to her and the effect it had on all of us. Shortly after her vaccination, her 5-year old daughter began acting strangely, throwing tantrums, and speaking gibberish. A dozen psychologists and a handful of medical doctors had no answer for her bizarre behavior. When I was visiting things took a turn for the worse. She was acting violently and had to have her mother physically restrain her. It was then that I saw a glass pick itself up and smash itself into the wall. Needless to say we were all stunned and horrified. My cousin called in a local priest to have a look at her daughter. According to him the girl was possessed and the source of the possession was the vaccination. This was due to the Illuminati randomly putting demonically-cursed blood in the anti-vaccination serums to infect and possess children with a natural affinity to the supernatural.  In the subsequent exorcism, the demon manifested itself and created a wormhole which sucked us all in. We found ourselves in a magical land of elves, dwarfs, giants, goblins, and so forth all of which had their own repertoire of songs that were catchy at first but inevitably became gratingly repetitive after a few refrains. Apparently the father of my cousin's daughter was not her husband but a celtic folkrock guitarist she had a one-night stand with some 6 years ago who was secretly the last heir of the throne of this realm. The demon worked for the resident dark lord of this realm who was seeking to destroy the last heirs of Feornath or something stupid like that.  I groaned because I knew where this was all going and sure enough we had to go on an epic quest to recover not one but 5 sacred items scattered thru-out this magical realm of gnomes, elves, and fairy fucknits and all their fucking songs they kept singing every goddamn 5 minutes. After months of fucking walking because the giant eagles for some unfathomable reason wouldn't fly us around and horses apparently were priced too high out of the market, we finally gathered those relics, defeated the dark lord, and restored harmony and balance to the realm and had to suffer thru a series of celebratory songs. If the mead hadn't been strong in this world I don't how I would have gotten along. When asked if we wanted to stay in this enchanting realm we all jumped at the chance to get the hell out of Fairy Dodge except for my cousin's neighbor who had gotten sucked up along with the rest of us because he was really into the fairy cosplay of the place.  TL;DR: Long story short - don't get your kids vaccinated. Take it from me some random guy on the internet and not medical science lest you end up transported via Illuminati demonic energy to a cloyingly enchanting realm full of annoying fairy creatures rambling lore you'll never care to remember and singing songs you wish you could forget whiling having to engage in a convoluted quest to fix someone else's problem just to get back home. Not worth it in my opinion although my dragon mount is quite the conversational piece.
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  32. No second civil war? Speak for yourself! I was on the frontlines knee-deep in the bloody fields of Covfefe avenging the Massacre of Bowling Green... or trying to attempt another such massacre... it got so confusing in the fog of war. I wrote these lines during the Siege of Maralago: "My dearest, I think only of you as we prepare to lay siege on Piggly Wiggly to cut off vital pork rind and Mountain Dew supplies. If I should be so unlucky as to be run over by a motorized shopping cart remember I died for liberty and proper grammar." "Dearest Abigail, we advance upon Maralago having circumvented the 2nd FlatEarth Brigade. It is a sight to behold through the burning fields of covfefe! Demands for surrender have been rejected as we are told such terms need to be simplified to one page with pictures." "My dearest Abigail, Merlot and Quinoa run intolerably low in the Maralago Siege but our spirits remain ever high thanks in part to the 420th Denver Division. We raid the enemy's cheeto supply tonight." "Dearest Abigail, good news revive our spirits as we have learned that General Frederick Douglass has struck the enemy a grievous blow. He has forced spelling and grammar tests at the entrances of Nascar events barring entry to those who fail. Expecting the MAGA economy to collapse soon." "Dearest, I simply do not understand war. Red Hats attacked but not us rather crude straw caricatures of us they had erected in the field. They yelled "libtard!" and "snowflake!" seeming quite pleased with themselves as though they had won. Then we opened fire." The flags are furled, the guns silent, as Taps plays over the empty battlefield. Did it not seem real? Did we struggle here or was it all a dream, the feverish dream of a male-vitality salesman? I do not know but I will bear the scars of Covfefe forever on my soul.
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  86. What really is the problem is that people don't look beyond the surface to the real problems and instead just want to think of people as "bad guys who hate our freedoms." Every group that hater mentioned, she failed to see what caused those extremists to come into power in the first place and why they did what they did. The Nazis - they did not come into power (thru an election mind you) because the Germans wanted to vote for evil. After WWI the Allies kicked Germany in the teeth creating an atmosphere of resentment that the Nazis capitalized on. There's a reason 70 years on that a Nazi-like government hasn't arisen in Germany after WWII and that was due to policies such as the Marshall Plan. The Imperialist Japanese - this was a mixture of things internal and external going back to the overthrow of the shogun government but from the exterior Japan ran smack into western racism when they tried to be a part of the modern world. As it was they adopted many western customs including imperialism but they found that while the west could colonize and exploit Asia and the Pacific, Japan could not. What is often not talked about is their Greater Asia Co-prosperity idea which preached that western imperialism had weakened Asia (which it had) and that Asia should be united against it. It was horribly misguided of course because Japan just swapped one imperialist power system with their own and cost countless numbers of lives. Still their imperialism did not come out of thin air. Japanese imperialism was a mirror of western imperialism though a much more darker twisted version. And again it was policies like the Marshall Plan which helped Japan and Germany rebuild and 70 years have past without Japan launching a pearl harbor on someone (starting to sense a pattern?) As for the Russians killing 20 millions that was all on Stalin who rose to power because prior to Lenin they had an ineffective cruel backward government. A number of his victims were from upper class of the old society. Also a lot of deaths were the result of Stalin trying to modernize his country which the former ruling class had left in a backward state for their own benefit in order to catch up and compete with the western world. Same can be said with the Chinese. Like with Russia, the atrocities were a response not something which sprang out of the blue but to modernize the country in order to compete with the West. Now, I'm not trying give them a pass because at the end of the day the nazis, imperialist japanese, Stalin, and Mao were a bunch of despicable bloodthirsty cruel bastards but you have to look at the conditions which allowed for them to rise to power and what made them do what they did. This is very important with our dealings with the Islamic world. Radicalism didn't just spring up out of nothing because a couple of guys came to the conclusion they hated the West one day. Western powers have constantly interfered in muslim countries for the last hundred years from propping up the Ottoman Empire to carving up the middle east into weak puppet states to exploiting their oil resources. The Arab Spring was the awaking of many people that their governments did not serve the people's best interests and that they more often than not were being exploited by western countries thru their governments.  Also more recently the muslim world saw the US invade two countries and remove the governments. In the process far more people have died than died on 911. In addition, the US has a military presence in 150 countries. When people are up against this kind of overwhelming power they will look to ties that bind such as ethnicity, nationalism, ideology, and/or religion and this can lead to a form of collective madness whether it be guillotening the wealthy or suicide bombing (which is actually a relatively modern phenomenon in the islamic world.) Anyway for the TL;DR crowd - blaming a complex problem like radical islam on surface level assessments such as Islam or even religion as whole is simplistic and naive and nothing gets accomplished by it. We need to grow out of this child-like view of "bad guys" and "good guys" if we are to survive as a species.
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  127. Israel is a bizarre idea no matter how you slice it. Creating a homeland for people of one faith regardless of their ethnic background (though there has been internal debate over this) has never happened and no Saudi Arabia does not count as a homeland for muslims. There is no country that has been specifically set up as such. Then you top it off by creating that homeland on lands once occupied by people of that faith nearly 2000 years ago which had been long occupied afterwards. Also there is the whole fulfilling the "promised land" concept created by a rather cranky deity who advocated wholesale massacres of peoples living on said promised land. It's history repeating itself. "Israel" has long been a dream for Jews scattered about after the failed rebellions against the Romans in the first and second centuries when those who remained became a minority in their own country. Over the centuries small groups emigrated back but never created much of a problem. Many over the years were fleeing persecution in Christian areas and ironically finding peace under Islamic rule. It wasn't until modern zionism advocated for a Jewish state that it started to become an issue. Trying to force a romantic ideal onto a reality where people had been living for centuries and saw the "returnees" as foreigners at best and invaders at worse was never going to go down easily or peacefully. From 1919 onward, Nu-Israel has been a constant source of back-n-forth violence. Settlers compound the problem. Being inflamed by the homeland dream they want to reclaim ancient historical land that is or was occupied by Palestinians and no one not even their own government will stop them from achieving this dream. So what you have is a state set up as a refuge for Jews who until the 20th century were primarily persecuted in Christian Europe. For the most part the Jewish-Muslim animosity is a very recent thing so the realization of this dream has created an enemy that didn't really exist before.  Israel and her supporters really need to do some introspect to see what their homeland dream has accomplished. They have been in a state of constant tension and continuous flare-ups of violence for nearly 100 years now. They have made an enemy of much of the Islamic world where once Jews used to flee to from European persecution. They have had to militarize much of their population out of necessity. They have to guard their school children with machine guns.  And they need to look at their own history and understand that when the Jews were at their best was when things were at their worse - wandering in the desert, the Babylonian captivity, resistance to Greek and later Roman occupiers, the diaspora, the numerous persecutions up to the Holocaust, etc... throughout all of this Jews were able to maintain their identity, their customs, and their culture. Some of the greatest expressions of their faith come from moments of adversity - passover when they were captives of Egypt and hanukkah during the maccebean resistance. Whenever they had success such as having their own kingdom, it never lasted long. Ancient Israel split in two in less than a century. The Hasmoneans had about a half century run before the Romans showed up. Really the only area that had significant presence of Jewish rule was the much smaller kingdom of Judah which lasted about 300 years and even then was at the mercy of stronger neighbors. To judge by history, Jews have been made stronger as a people by hardships and weaker by success.  And what is the future of Israel and its dream? Will they continue expanding into lands that they believed they owned under King David and the Hasmoneans despite the fact that these never existed for very long? Will they split into two nations like they did after David? Can Israel sustain itself on this romantic notion of a renewed homeland?
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  191. I’m starting to question Bill’s 911 account from his upcoming autobiography - “It’s All Bill”: “I was there on that fateful day in the World Trade Center following a cryptic lead that said my quarry Mohammed Atta whom I suspected of being up to no good was flying into New York the same day. I was going to speak to one of my contacts who worked in the building when wham! The building shook and roar. Hot pieces of metal and jet fuel rained down on me.  There was nothing to be done. I had to get out of the building before it collapsed so I scooped up three burning orphans and an American flag which happened to be in the office.  Unfortunately, the stairwell was blocked by the fuselage of the burning jet but I was able to procure a long rope which I could use to escape the building thru the window. I couldn’t carry the orphans and the flag while holding the rope at the same time so I quickly wrapped the end of the flag around my neck as a kind of cape - stars up of course. With the rope fastly secured I bumrushed the window shattering it into a million pieces. I rappelled 80 stories down the side of the burning building little knowing I had minutes perhaps even seconds before it would crumble into a cloud of dust and broken dreams. I’d tell you about the sand ninjas who tried to stop me which I had to fight off with only my feet and my wits but I’m afraid the commie liberal press will accuse me of stretching the truth so I’ll save that story for another day. Brian Williams can vouch for that part, though.” I'm certainly even more dubious of his claims that Judas hung himself just as Bill arrived to question him on his involvement in Jesus's arrest.
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  204. Flying the Confederate Battle Standard (it wasn't the "Confederate Flag" which represented the Confederacy) should be a personal affair and not flown at a state capital under the federal government. That flag had been carried into battle against the United States and the side which carried it, lost. While some claim the flag simply represents heritage, it had been created specifically in 1861 to be used against the US in order to be able to continue slavery. Afterwards it was used by the KKK to spread fear and terror. To have had it flying on state capitol grounds sent a very mixed message especially as that tradition only started suspiciously during the Civil Rights Movement. Keep the "Confederate Flag" on your belt buckles, truck decals, dodge chargers, t-shirts, and Civil War re-enactments, etc... I can appreciate the cultural significance the "Confederate Flag" has in the private sector. After all, it was the "Confederate Flag" which gave the General Lee the power to jump over wide creeks and gullies to escape Boss Hogg and get the moonshine to Uncle Jesse. But again, it has no business whatsoever being near government property. And as a Southerner, to my fellow Southerners who won't let it go that we lost 150 years ago may I remind them that Southern Victory in the Civil War or the War Between the States if you prefer (or the War of Northern Aggression for those who really can't let it go) would have eventually destroyed Southern culture as it would have deprived future generations of southerners the joy of sitting around the potbelly stove sipping shine and eating moon pies whilst fiercely debating that "...if only General What's-his-name had turned left at the Battle of Whereverville, then the South would have won the war!"
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  207. From O'Reilly's upcoming memoirs: "It was a misty morning in April 1865 somewhere in the war-weary hills of Virginia. A ragged rabble of rebels waited for the inevitable - surrender. Having just come from the Last Supper with Jesus, my spirits were already low. I had been covering this war for four years with a quill (as these new fangled fountain pens are the tools of the devil) and now it appeared my work was coming to an end. What I wondered would the future be for the Confederacy, the South, the Cause, the Fox Confederate - the newspaper I worked for? Robert E Lee our noble leader astride his favorite horse Traveler rode slowly by me. His eyes were downcast and shoulders slumped with the heaviness of command. "Are we gonna whup 'em again, General, sir?" I said to him hoping to raise his spirits a bit. Lee looked up with sad grey eyes. Not even a flicker of that slight annoyance in his eyes was there which he usually had whenever speaking to me. "No, Bill. It's over. It's done. We've lost. I am on my way to surrender and I would rather face a thousand deaths bef--" "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Look, Bob, cut the dramatics!" I said exasperatedly. "Think about what you are doing! The North is just going to crow about this in the liberal press for the next century and a half plus they're going to make the South look like a bunch of slave owning despots." "But we have owned slaves, Bill, and South Carolina started the secession over fears that President Lincoln would curtail the right to continue that institution with -" "Horsepuckey! Have you been reading that liberal rag Harper's Weekly again? The right for one man to own another man is a sacred one from the Bible itself. Hey, we're not the bad guys here! They are! For going against God's plan. Come on, Bob. You know I'm right. Look, give me just one hour to sort this out before you go crying to Grant, alright?" Lee reluctantly agreed and off I rode. I had to call in a few favors that were owed to me which would be too long for me to go into here. Long story short, with the help of Moses, John Wayne, and the Duke boys I was able to split the blue tide in front of us and circle around the Union rear in the General Lee taking Ulysses S Grant completely by surprise. His bloodshot eyes couldn't believe it when he saw the General Lee jump the wide gully behind his camp with us letting out a boisterous Rebel Yell in mid-air. Another pull on the whiskey jar did little to belay his utter disbelief. Grant surrendered to us and we kindly gave him some of the moonshine the Duke boys had been running for their Uncle Jesse. When a flabbergasted Robert E Lee finally arrived he graciously accepted Grant's formal surrender. The terms they came to were pretty fair. Although we had licked Grant, the South admittedly was in no condition to keep on fighting so Lee agreed to stop the struggle. The South would end slavery on the condition that it would be allowed to keep blacks as lowly paid workers with no health insurance plus the right to impede their voting privileges whenever there was a liberal on the ballot. The North agreed so long as the South would also treat poor whites the same occasionally so as not to raise too much suspicion and they also agreed not to call the South a bunch of slave-owning racist cousin fuckers. A deal was struck and the rest is history or at least it would have been if the damn liberal media with their liberal communist gay French agenda had not gotten its hands dirty twisting true history with their lies and propaganda. Now here I am, Bill O'Reilly, on my lone crusade for Truth trying to set the record straight so help me God and George Washington. And if what I have written is not the God's Honest Truth, then may God strike Obama dead!"
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  291. In the 90s a segment of rightwingers got used to just being the group who complains about the Democrats who were in charge. When it came to the GOP getting back into the White House we ended up with a disaster because they really could lead. Had we had another 8 years of a GOP presidency it would have gone even further downhill and likely destroyed the GOP. Instead we got 8 years of Obama which led to a vitriolic rennaissance of blaming, projection, and tinfoil hat conspiracy theories. Now they are in charge again with a president who represents the ID of that mindset - he loves to complain but when he has to lead he fails at it miserably. Another factor is the MAGA folks realize deep down they are in the minority. Although they won the three branches, they only got this because of gerrymandering and a strong dislike of Hillary whom despite this still got the popular vote by over 3 million. All those who didn't vote or vote for Stein and Johnson do not share MAGA views and even those who voted for Trump don't all support it either. There is a deep seated fear in them which is manifesting in the alt reich protests in a desperate attempt to show they are relevant. They are wrapping themselves in the flag and ardent worship of a president whom they hope will lift them up with favoritism against their outnumbering rivals. This minority is dangerous because they have access to authority channels from the judicial system to the president. This is where tyrannies come from - not a majority but a strong frightened minority that fears the rest of the population.
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  393. The cruel fact that a lot of Southerners don't want to admit is that the war was a sham instigated by dipshit hotheaded greedy secessionist slave owners who got themselves worked up over paranoid baseless fears of Lincoln. Had they stayed put Lincoln at best probably would have only passed some half measures just enough to keep him in office for 8 years. The very fact it took him till Jan 1863 after the war was nearly 2 years old to sign the Emancipation Proclamation which didn't affect the slave-owning border states or already recovered area shows that Lincoln wasn't some firebrand abolitionist as those dunderheads thought him to be. They were so stupid to secede then shoot first at Ft Sumter without even trying to work with Lincoln before he took office. By doing so they showed themselves to be undemocratic and thus unamerican. They also set a precedent of doom for their new government if they had been successful that anytime there was a major disagreement any one of them could just take their ball and go home. The greatest irony is that the end of slavery has more to do with the rash decisions and actions of those secessionists themselves than Lincoln himself. He never would have been able to push through the 13th Amendment if there hadn't been a secession and an attack on Ft Sumter which was followed by four years of bloody war. Those wonderful idiots basically ensured slavery's end which should be celebrated - though it came at the cost of 600,000+ lives and untold destruction. So because of these greedy uncompromising idiots the South got dragged into a war that destroyed her cities and farmsteads, killed hundreds of thousands, left countless more destitute, and tarnished the South forever as a people who fought to keep slavery even though this not why many including my ancestors fought. CSA General Patrick Cleburne in desperation urged the Confederacy to emancipate the slaves and enlist them in the army in 1864 because he predicted the South would be forever branded as fighting solely for slavery if they lost with slavery still in existence. He was ignored and only towards the very end with everything crumbling was a half-ass attempt made. Too little too late. Modern confederates who whine about the Confederacy being labeled as only pro-slavery should blame those who had the chance to rectify such things but refused to do so because they were too greedy. I'm sorry but fuck the Confederacy, fuck South Carolina in 1860 for starting the bullshit rolling, and fuck the pigheaded greedy selfish cowardly plantation elite for dragging poor southerners into a war where many of the rich couldn't be bothered to fight for themselves. Any true Southerner with any sense should feel the same.  CSA Private Sam Watkins put it best when wealthy slave owners were made exempt from military service: "...there was raised the howl of 'rich man's war, poor man's fight.' The glory of the war, the glory of the South, the glory and pride of our volunteers had no charms for the conscript..." "From this time on till the end of the war, a soldier was simply a machine, a conscript. It was mighty rough on rebels. We cursed the war, we cursed Bragg, we cursed the Southern Confederacy. All our pride and valor had gone, and we were sick of war and the Southern Confederacy"
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  400. The rightwing militia need to be seen as what they really are - future brownshirts of a possible rightwing tyranny. They scream about federal tyranny but more than likely if a tyranny comes to the US it will be a rightwing one because of the money and guns to support it. These jokers will support this uber-patriotic religious version of America because they will benefit from it and be able to dominate minorities. Ironically they scream about Hitler and his bogus banning of guns but they deliberately fail to realize that Hitler loosened the post-WWI gun laws for loyal German citizens because he relied on popular support. He wanted them armed so they would help him squash opposition and keep political opponents in check. Hitler did not seize power with a small group of troops and subject the country to his tyranny. He was voted in and enjoyed immense popularity because he made people stop feeling ashamed to be German.  Listen to the rhetoric of the right directed at liberals who are basically the modern day scapegoat jews of the 1930s - Liberals are destroying America, Liberals hate God, Liberals hate the constitution, Liberals are racist (they are now saying because the KKK were democrat they were therefore liberal), etc... Then there is the mentality of "take our country back." Sound familiar? The right is going thru its own German disillusionment of the 1920s. They watched the country plunge after 8 years of a disastrous republican administration (which they won't admit to), they saw a black man and a democrat to boot win office not once but twice, they feel marginalized in this new society, they feel Obama and the liberals (even though Obama is hardly liberal) are anti-everything that makes America America (or rather 'Murica), they are seeing Obamacare which they think is godless communism is not the failure they hoped it would be, etc... Either the right is finally going to drown and this is their last gasp of air before going under or what we are seeing is a glimpse of the future-past where all the right needs is a charismatic leader to make America "great" again and the brownshirt militia will be marching right along
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  430. In the past would the Republicans have been so brazen in their actions of cutting support to so many Americans while pretending they care about Americans? I think they realize that their base is so brainwashed by 20 years of rightwing radio rhetoric that they can do and say anything because their base so hates and fears liberals to the point they think liberals daily conspire to destroy America. I mean look what they have done with Obama. They turned a moderate conservative into some arch-liberal communist. They are so blind and deaf to reality while claiming it's liberals who are such. Look at the number of TYT trolls who claim TYT loves Obama despite the number of TYT videos criticizing Obama. They refuse to acknowledge this because it doesn't fit the reality that has been fabricated for them. You could shove a TYT anti-Obama video in their face and they would refuse to accept it. People talk about how brainwashed North Korea is to the point where a number of them actually think their dear leader can read their minds. The rightwing in this country is not too much different. They live in a brainwashed paranoid fantasyland where a UN takeover is just a heartbeat away, where Obama is out to get all the guns, where most of the mass shooters have been Liberals despite conservatives constantly saying liberals also fear guns, where Obama and Hillary watched the people at Benghazi die doing nothing because they're evil of course, where Planned Parenthood hands out abortions like candy, where criminals are busting down doors to murder whole families like some Mad Max movie villains, where any regulation on guns is unconstitutional but depriving people the right to vote is constitutional, where refusing to help the poor is Christian, and so on and so on. There needs to be a major de-programming of much of the rightwing base 
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  547. The problem is a lot of the ardent Confederate Flag supporters will not admit that those flags on capital grounds were raised in defiance of desegregation and Civil Rights in the 1960s so the people who see that flag as racist have a pretty damn good reason to do so even more so than its connection with the pro-slavery nation of the Confederacy.  The self-denial of conservatives in the wake of shootings of unarmed black men and teens by police (and self-appointed neighborhood watchmen) and the shootings of black church members by a Confederate-flag-loving US-flag-burning racist-rhetoric-parroting psycho has been astounding to say the least. This will all just be added to the history of the gradual mental meltdown of rightwingers in this country of the early 21st century. I believe historians will look back at the bizarre reaction that Obama's presidency evoked from conservatives with amazement and bewilderment when they consider: *A number of conservatives who accused Obama of being foreign born with a foreign father and thus unfit for presidential office supported another foreign born candidate with a foreign father for president. *Southern conservatives accused the Democrats of creating the KKK and the Confederate Flag while ignoring their grandfather's robes in their closets and fiercely defending that Democrat Confederate Flag by placing it as a bumper sticker on their truck next to their old "Bush/Cheney '04" bumper sticker. *Conservatives screamed that liberals always play the victim card then around Christmas play the victim card on the war on christmas and the war on christians in a country predominately christian. *Many conservatives screamed that Obama wanted to enact sharia law then turned around to propose christian sharia law against abortion and gay rights. *Many conservatives screamed Obama was trying to destroy the country then conservative politicians in DC shut down the government because they wouldn't compromise while having the largest number of filibusters in US history. *Many conservatives hailed a tax-evading rancher and his armed posse of random anti-government militia members as heroes for pointing guns at authorities to protect trespassing cattle then said an unarmed black teen shot 6-8 times by a police officer was a thug who had it coming for swiping $50-smokes and allegedly charging the officer. *Many conservatives wanted the country to go back to God but when the head of a major Christian religion urged assisting the poor like Jesus actually said while not hurting the planet they turned around and called him a Marxist and the most dangerous person on the planet. *Many conservatives financially supported businesses that refused to serve gays but didn't help a fellow Obamacare-hating conservative when he was in danger of becoming blind due to his state not covering a part of Obamacare. *Conservatives complained about government spending by Democrats then wasted money on endless hearings about Benghazi that went nowhere while having ignored the attacks on embassies and consulates under the former President. *Many conservatives openly admired the dictatorial leader of a former adversarial country who openly discriminated against gays, used military might to invade former territories, and squashed free speech. Yes, historians will need to become psychologists to deal with all the self-denial, cognitive dissonance, lack of self awareness, paranoia, and projection swirling around US conservatives of this time period.
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  597. All the humorous not too mention repetitive South Park references aside, the whaling industry is a scam. The actual demand is relatively low that they would never survive on their own without government assistance. If it were made legal ironically they might go under. They need to maintain this quasi-existence to make money from the government and rich donors and what they make in sales from restaurants. Much of the whale meat goes to waste. Older generations remember it from their school lunches and it doesn't bring forth much nostalgia for that rubbery whale meat. As for the tradition cultural argument, when did samurai go whaling in the Antarctica? Modern whaling that went out into far waters didn't start till the mid-late 19th century with European help. Today's whaling is a legacy of the US occupation when MacArthur felt whale was a cheap alternative to beef in post-WWII Japan. When you dig into older Japanese culture you really really really have to dig to find the impact that whaling has had. It's impact is more locally with certain fishing villages rather than across the board. In contrast US culture was heavily impacted by our whaling. The east and west coast were dotted with villages that made their living on whaling. One of the first and finest works of American literature is all about whaling. Moby Dick has had a huge impact (tee hee!) on American culture where it has often been referenced in media, literature, movies, TV, etc... You can't really find this in Japan. And the thing is we gave it up cold turkey and haven't really gone thru any major cultural or economic withdraw. Interesting enough it was whaling that led to the opening of Japan in the 1850s. Part of the reason behind Commodore Perry's visit to Japan was to secure safe harbor for whaling vessels. Prior to that Japanese were forbidden to travel overseas for 250 years so any whaling done was not done that far off shore. Now while there are small seaside towns that depend on the whaling business for their survival, the vast majority of Japanese get by without the presence of whaling both as a commercial product and as cultural tradition. Despite the nationalistic fervor surrounding it by the conservatives, whaling is not a heavily entrenched economic necessity or cultural tradition that the lack of it would have any lasting impact. However; whenever money is involved as it is here every trick in the book will be used to keep it around.
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  621. The problem is while the rank and file of the conservatives are generally ignorant and many of them batshit insane, the Carl Rove-types who carefully orchestrate the public discourse know exactly what they are doing. They push non-issues to ridiculous extremes like saying ISIS is streaming across the border with Ebola. It's easy to look at this and laugh when Fox reports this but when you have supposedly objective news media like CNN reporting this as though it were a valid point of discussion it puts it out there in the general public discourse rather than with the looney fringe where it belongs. And with that then more discussions come out like why isn't Obama doing anything to stop these Ebola ISIS terrorists and so on to the point where political candidates like that pig-ball-cutting politician complains Obama isn't doing enough about Ebola despite only 1 person having it at the moment and this makes her constituents think this is a real issue so they vote accordingly and they vote stupidly. By driving these discussions so far to the right it makes it difficult to drive it back without being seen as a leftist extremist or a blind Obama-lover who can't or refuses to see his faults. This is where the Republicans know their marks. They know most rightwingers have no shame dressing themselves up in flags and bibles and almost no one on their side is going to think them extremist. They can be uber-patriotic and uber-religious and it's generally acceptable to rightwingers. Meanwhile liberals are suckers for this devious ploy. Ironically despite rightwing claims to the contrary, most liberals are not extremists and most importantly don't want to be perceived as such therefore they will water down their rhetoric with all sorts of disclaimers which is something most rightwingers don't do. These declaimers just serve to make it seem that there are more radical lefties than there really is and that these liberals don't want to be associate with them thus creating an atmosphere of division on the left. So when you push the public discourse so far to the right many of these liberals and liberal moderates will be reluctant to push back too hard for fear of being labeled an extremist. Many liberals feel compelled by principle to be objective whereas the opposition has no problem lying with fake scandal after fake scandal which they know will get their base fired up to act. Meanwhile many moderates who are liberal-thinking get exhausted and disgusted by the constant barrage of negative political news when arguments erupt between the sides over these fake scandals that they become apathetic and less likely to vote or participate in any form of activism. And this is the GOP strategy - exploiting the insanity and extremism of their base using it to fuel these ridiculous discussions and distractions to spread more apathy amongst liberals and liberal moderates while ginning up their base who have this warlike "us vs them" mentality. This strategy was very effective with a number of democratic candidates who stupidly decided to distance themselves from Obama and liberal principles while acting conservative to an audience who could care less because as far as they are concerned Democrats are commie nazis who kill babies. We are allowing the nutcases and the nutcases' handlers to dictate how we think, vote, and act because too many of us worry how those nutcases perceive us. We are striving to be liberal yet moderate in a country where the middle is nowhere near the middle but way to the right.
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  691. Look around at some the actions and rhetoric being espoused by the extreme anti-gun regulators. Are they really much different than the irresponsible Ms. Lanza? *Ted Nugent talks about shooting Hillary Clinton *Sarah Palin talked about a 2nd Amendment solution in Arizona *we had that one firearms CEO from TN encouraging people to start fighting and he was going to start killing people  *we had Alex Jones threatening Piers Morgan that 1776 would commence again (even though the actual revolution started a year earlier but whatever), *then you have a kindergarten-level speech from Lapierre that only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun *Grown men show up in a parking lot of a restaurant armed with an assortment of guns some of which they let their children handle in order to intimidate a handful of mothers *Gun enthusiast/conspiracy theorists harassed people from Newtown calling them fakes and that the whole thing was a false flag *Tactless gun owners wanted to have a gun appreciation day at Starbucks in Newtown *Many of gun enthusiasts are constantly pushing the idea around to "take back their country" and they don't mean through the ballot box *Just look at comment sections of any news article or youtube video about guns - you'll see paranoid gun enthusiasts worried about home invading ass-raping biker gangs and evil government troops who want to throw everyone into FEMA death camps. *Look at the number of gun enthusiasts who now act like they are victims of a perceived gun-hating society The behavior and words of these people shows severe irrationality and paranoia with delusions of persecution. They are like Ms. Lanza directly and indirectly influencing the mentally disturbed of our society.
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  698.  @JasonBoyce  I was being facetious. I always throw that out when the pro-Confederate side bring up states' rights as being the cause of the war but yes the hypocrisy of the CSA is hilarious. Another thing is they'll try to dance around the issue and say it was the firing on Ft. Sumter and Lincoln's calling up volunteers that started the war - conveniently overlooking the fact that the firing on the fort was related to the secession of South Carolina which was in response to Lincoln's presidential victory and it was the perception of his anti-slavery stance (which was mainly focused on slavery in Western territories not the country as a whole) that caused South Carolina to secede in the first place! Another hilarious aspect these neo-confederates overlook is that had the South stayed in the Union they could have stymied his administration with filibustering and other obstructive means. Lincoln was not really the firebrand abolitionist they made him out to be. He likely would have only gotten some concessions in western territories but slavery as a whole would have continued. By removing themselves, Lincoln and the Republicans after him were eventually able to get the 13th thru the 15th Amendments passed. The Confederacy in effect paved their own road to ruin. Israel should take a look at their own paved road to ruin. Netanyahu supported the Hamas in order weaken Palestinian leadership and legitimacy. The bulk of the IDF were in the West Bank on October 7th because they were assisting settlers in their land theft of Palestinian lands. This is why the Hamas were able to inflict so many casualties with little resistance. In addition, there is mounting opposition to Israel's bombing of Gaza and the long occupation and apartheid-like conditions of the Palestinians. This is losing them allies as more and more people are questioning their governments' support of Israel. Either learn from history or be doomed to repeat it.
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  826. I've been on Youtube near the beginning and it has definitely gone downhill for small and mid-level channels. I used to have far far fewer subs but every video I uploaded I could least expect a thousand+ views. Sure there was less competition then but there were millions of channels then too. Thanks to certain vids my overall count grew. Then it started slowing down when I ironically I was putting more effort into uploading more regularly and when I was getting more subs. However, out of the blue last year in spring I suddenly went from 5k a day views to 30-40k in a day. I thought my hard work had finally paid off. For a month the views stayed around this amount before dipping down to 5k-10k. At the end of August though I shot up again to those numbers but after a week it plummeted below 5k and has never come back. The whole thing was weird. It came out of the blue then it just vanished. It felt like someone either flipped a switch for the algorithm to actually like me or that someone forgot to flip the switch to make sure it concentrated on their clients and content creators who have big money sponsors. This year I have produced more content and have gotten far fewer views than I have ever had since my early days. Right now I'm running my own experiment with the algorithm by uploading shorts every day at the same scheduled time while throwing in a few pics on the community page and some long videos. So far a month down and it has barely had any effect. I'm getting the same views I was getting several months ago when I was rarely uploading. In short, I did less work in the past and got more views and money than I am now when I'm constantly uploading. Talk about frustrating!
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  839. Liberals need to come to the realization for those who haven't already that much of the rightwing hates us and hates us viscerally. Listen and look at the rhetoric streaming from the rightwing politicians, pundits, bloggers, down to the trolls. It's violent hate-fueled rhetoric which blames liberals or anyone they conceive as such even a moderate republican democrat President. You can see it in the criticism of Obama. Nothing he does will make them happy. Nothing. If he goes to war, they say he's war lover. If he doesn't go to war, he's a pussy. If he goes right, they say he should have gone left and vice versa. And he still tries to work with them!  And trying to work with these irrational people with their insane theories and uncompromising attitudes does nothing but hinder progress. They want to fight the government over taxes but use the government to legislate their brand of morality. It may be time to fight another civil war but this time to secede the deadweight. Let them have their neo-confederate theocracy. After a few years of drinking unregulated fracked water, educating their kids at religious indoctrination schools that focus on obedience more than basic grammar and mathematics, running around with guns everywhere, taking unregulated pharmaceuticals, working 6 days a work without benefits, driving unregulated cars that exploded periodically on unregulated roads and bridges that collapse occasionally most them will die off and the others will come to their senses if they survive untreated type II diabetes and obesity.  
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  949. To argue for the other side before tearing it apart - no, marrying 15 is not a pedophiliac but in our modern society it's just plain creepy as it is abnormal. 15 in our society is a lot different than 15 was in the 19th century and earlier. At that time both she and society viewed her as an adult. Today they can't even work part-time or drive without an adult. People say kids grow up fast these days especially with the internet but this is a faux maturity and not comparable to 15 of the past.  After WWII the "teen"ager was born and it changed our perceptions of what constituted adulthood and what was acceptable between adults and teenagers. In the 50s when that perception started to change Jerry Lee Lewis came under intense fire for his marriage to a 13 year old whereas a decade or two earlier probably no one would have batted an eye. Now most people alive today came of age as teenagers in the post WWII era and so because we passed thru that teenage state most of us feel strongly about adults having relationships with teens which is that most of us are against it because we know 1) the psychological damage such a relationship can have on a teen and 2) the adult has to be pretty fucked up to go after junior high school or high school students. An adult who married what we now consider a teenager in the 19th century did not have the same feeling or intention of an adult seeking a relationship with a teen today. Those adults of the past just thought they were getting a young spouse who would bear them strong children. Today these teen-seeking adults are getting off on the fact that the teen is a teen and thus these adults are predators preying on naivety and inexperience and they are rarely interested in marriage. There's a reason there are laws against this type of unhealthy behavior. It's abnormal in modern society. And the age gap doesn't have to be that great. If Robertson is advising young men in their 20s to marry 15 it's still abnormal. A 15 year old is a 9th or 10th grader with 2 or 3 more years of high school to go and along with that more maturing. A 20-22 year old has been out of high school 2-4 years and has more life experience. For maturing young adults, 13-22 is the biggest time of personal growth both physically and emotionally. There is a huge difference between a 15 year old and even a 20 year old. Besides both are too young for marriage these days that they'll more likely end up divorced in a few years anyway. Either way you slice it, Duck Dummie is giving horrible advice to creepy fucked up adults who should not be encouraged and to clueless young guys many of whom will be looking at divorce papers and possibly child support documents in the near future.
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  1114. My long response to the article: Is this article a satire piece of a desperate Clinton supporter or a social experiment in order for the author to skim through the comments for white male commenters and say "see this proves my point!" while dismissing their points as sexist? BTW anecdotal evidence is hardly evidence that there is a sexist conspiracy against Hillary Clinton. This is just a sad pseudo-intellectual fluff piece which ignores the issues at stake. The fact is Clinton's record is not a very progressive one - she only came out for Gay Marriage in 2013. She started her political career as a (in her words) "A Goldwater Girl" supporting a presidential candidate who voted against Civil Rights, she sat silently on the Wallmart board as they fought unions, as a senator she voted for both the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, as Secretary of State she supported the rightwing coup in Honduras, she supports the rightwing Likud party in Israel and the building of settlements in the West Bank, she risked National Security by using a private server without permission or notification, and her Superpac has spent over a million dollars to "correct the record" which sounds like something they do in China. But just dismiss these criticisms of her neocon-ish record with cry wolf accusations of sexism so that you can avoid actually debating these issues. I have to ask - are you actually a neocon pretending to be progressive? Do you own stock in Haliburton which you hope will go up if a President Hillary Clinton goes into Syria and wherever else her neocon heart desires? You would have us goosestepping off to war because the sex of the president has so blinded you to the inconsistencies of her record. I'm sorry but this article is actually more of an insult towards women more than it was intended to be for men. By the "logic" of the author, women should have supported Sarah Palin or Michele Bachman because to do otherwise is join the hordes of sexist white males who want to maintain the patriarchy or some such nonsense. And she actually defends the sexist comments of Steinbeck who claimed women supporting Bernie are only doing so for the sake of their libido! Seriously, is this a satire? As for Bernie, the reason he got into this race is because Elizabeth Warren declined to run. Warren would have (and may still) made for an excellent first female president with a much stronger progressive stance. I hope if Bernie gets the nomination or runs as a 3rd Party candidate that he appoints her as VP or to a position on his cabinet then supports her run for the Presidency. And the thing about Bernie's appeal which the author completely avoids in this strawman article is that thanks to the internet and not biased corporate-owned media, people have been able to see for themselves a candidate who has been consistent for decades in his fight for the people. Bernie is simply more progressive than Hillary by a long shot and this is why more and more people have begun to support him rather than the other white male Democratic candidates. However, instead of actually debating the issues and facts, should we take a page from the author's playbook and accuse her and other Hillary supporters as being anti-semitic to our first Jewish President? lol! Of course not!
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  1135.  David Renton  There's a difference between tweaking canon and outright changing it completely. Having women play male roles in Shakespeare is not an example of changing canon or having black actors play the Founding Fathers. Not anymore than setting Richard III in a WWII-ish setting. Those are not changing the fundamental aspects of the story in terms of plot and character. I think you are not familiar with what canon exactly is because your examples don't fit especially not with Doctor Who. Canon is the established story elements within the fictional universe ie a character's backstory and origins, the political situations, the history of the world, the history of characters, the character of the characters, etc... Basically think lore. For example with Doctor Who it was never really stated where the First Doctor and his granddaughter were from. This allowed the writers freedom to eventually create whole Time Lords and Gallifrey story elements which they added to gradually over the years careful not to give too much while not contradicting themselves too much. For a long long time the Time Lords and their history was the established canon of the show with occasional tweaks. This episode completely rewrote that history throwing out the original origins for something completely different and not offering up much of a reason as to why the established lore was incorrect. It also changed the Doctor's origins from being from Gallifrey into some strange entity making the Doctor far more important in the Doctor Who universe that he/she ever was throughout it's 50 year run. And a big change was making William Hartnell's doctor not the first doctor. When the writers first established the regeneration concept at the end of Hartnel's run it was not messing with canon as they had left the Doctor a mysterious character to whom they could add elements to as they went along such as a way to change the face of the character but make it part of the established lore. For decades it was established about the number of doctors, the number of regenerations, how the time lords came about then along comes Chibnail rebooting the show within the original show's framework changing this established lore that writers had been building on for half a century. Since he did not create the character and universe, it's not really his right to completely do so which is why people are angry. Previous writers might tweak here and there but they were careful not to do something that would throw already established canon out the window. One simple reason for this is that changing canon betrays the trust between writer(s) and audience. If Harry Potter suddenly became hard science fiction and that Voldemort was a cyborg the whole time, fans would be pissed as everything they had been told up to that point has been rendered moot and they essentially had wasted their time on a story that completely changed direction and character.
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  1307. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets as they were port cities used for transport of troops and supplies. Nagasaki was actually the secondary target but the cloud cover over the primary target was too great so Nagasaki was selected instead. If the US had specifically wanted to go after civilian targets with little military significance they would have hit Tokyo and the Emperor's palace and the cultural center of Kyoto but they didn't. If Japan had accepted the Potsdam Declaration, they wouldn't have been bombed but even the first atomic bomb did not shake their resolve. After Hiroshima the government was willing to endure what few atomic bombs they thought the US had so the idea that demonstrating the power of the bomb on an uninhabited island as some have suggested would not have worked. Even after Nagasaki, there were still some that wanted to go on. While I wish it didn't have to come down to this, it happened over 60 years ago so my supporting or not supporting the decision ultimately means diddly squat. Some things to keep in mind though: The firebombings of Tokyo killed about the same number of people as Hiroshima and more than Nagasaki. The whole firebombing campaign did far more damage to the whole country. This is where the true war crimes lie as they were less strategic in nature rather than the overly sensationalized atomic bombs. A good part of Asia feels little to no sympathy over the bombings. A Korean friend of mine once said "We wonder why you stopped at two." There's a reason for this.
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  1309. So illegal wars, political corruption, police brutality don't motivate the Bundies and the militia but when the federal government prosecutes people for burning public land (twice) and rounding up trespassing cattle over unpaid grazing fees then it's time for a revolution? These have to be the most selfish self-interested misguided revolutionaries in history but they are exactly what people like the Koch brothers want. The federal government if properly run is one of the few detriments to the uber-rich and their corporations from doing whatever they like so any chance to strip the federal government of regulatory powers is welcomed. Here we have ranchers wanting to steal public land and give it people they favor like some kind of feudal property or rather pirate loot. If they can get away with it then the rich will be buying/stealing up Yosemite and Yellowstone and you can say goodbye to ecosystems and hello to strip mining. This idea of private ownership of all the land is a dangerous one and all one has to do is look at the American West from the time of the Lewis&Clark Expedition to the close of the 19th century to see the huge amount of environmental damage that had been done in a century's time. Had Teddy Roosevelt not established national parks when he had there'd be next to nothing to preserve today. And these YallQaeda want to give public land to miners, loggers, and ranchers all of which helped to damage the land in the first place prompting Roosevelt to save it. These people are the true regressives.
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  1334. The conservatives of America are going out with a bang as they spiral out of control and dwindle out. They've seen how an 8-year Republican presidency left the country in one of the worst conditions it's ever been in and they can't acknowledge this without admitting their culpability. The past 6 years they've had to endure a black democrat president which has led them to come up with dozens of bizarre conspiracy theories with birth certificates, secret muslim identity, closeted homosexuality, communist supporter, etc... rather than just admit they hate him because mainly he's black and being a democrat which to them is the party of anti-american godless communist doesn't help. They lost the 2012 election which many of them actually thought they could win despite having a candidate like Romney. Many of these patriots patriotically signed petitions for their states to secede as a result. Now they're having to eat crow as Obamacare is not the failure than they would have liked it to have been. Their straw-clutching Benghazi has become such a joke that even some conservatives are starting to back away from it. Marriage Equality is gaining ground everyday and even some republicans support it. So with all of this, the diehard conservatives are losing their collective minds. They don't want to come to any realization and so they just flail about with guns, religion, global climate conspiracy theories, government conspiracy theories, and obstructionist legislation. It's their last gasp before they go under; however never underestimate desperate people especially if they are ignorant and insane. 
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  1413. One big problem in America is that the Right viscerally hates the Left while the Left just thinks the Right is stupid. The Left certainly has a problem of being elitist but many on the Left are self-reflective about their own problems (not HRC supporters apparently) but the Right is so convinced that they are right (pardon the pun) and that liberals are out to destroy America because they hate freedom (I wish this were more hyperbolic than dead on) due to 20+ years rightwing indoctrination, post-911 paranoia, denial of the sheer disaster of the Bush Presidency, and indignation at a black democrat President. Trump is the culmination of all this. We are dealing with people who are brainwashed to fight viciously against anyone labeled a liberal who tries to help them while they continually support those who actively work against them to benefit the corporate oligarchy . When Trump inevitably crashes and burns I suspect they will still find a way to blame liberals because they are so conditioned not to take personal responsibility but to project all their shortcomings onto others (which of course some responders will say - "you just described liberals!" because this part of their conditioning). It's a scary thing when you have people so convinced they are so right coupled with sheer hatred for their counterparts deluded into thinking they are in charge because their guy got into office. The last time you had this kind of situation where such angry indignant people who hated another group of people to this degree with all kinds of conspiracies of how this group was out to destroy the country and weren't really part of that country... well, it didn't go well for anyone involved in the end.
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  1606. exactly! Having the 3 forged first with a lot of Sauron's direct influence not too mention him pawing the tools and raw materials that made them completely ruins the nature and purpose of these 3 rings. Tolkien doesn't state it directly but one can infer because the 3 were made in secret and after the creation of the 16 Great Rings when Celebrimbor reached the height of his craft that these 3 allowed the elves to perceive Sauron's intent the instant he put on his One Ring and made his incantation to ensnare the rings. I don't think the elves with the 16 rings made with Sauron's direct involvement would have been able to do that as this was all part of his plan from the get-go. Celebrimbor wanting his own masterpiece he could call his own completely wrecked Sauron's scheme. We can imagine both parties were surprised at the same moment - Celebrimbor realizing Annatar is Sauron and Sauron realizing the gig was up after all his careful planning because Celebrimbor unwittingly outsmarted him. That would have made for a great dual scene seeing both of them realizing they had betrayed each other and Sauron absolutely furious. Perhaps this is what took him so long as well to get his war with the elves started because he was so distraught and needed time to rethink his strategy (plus he might have been hesitant in case the Valar chose to intervene). In the Tale of Years nearly a century passes between Sauron's ruse being discovered and him invading Eregion. This shows that Sauron was so confidant in his Ring plan that he hadn't built up an army because he felt he didn't need one. Then as you say he came up with a Plan B - capture the rings and use them to dominant the other races. The fact he didn't just abandon the whole ring thing shows a dogged determination to see it through one way or another. This also explains why he hated Celebrimbor so much that he used his corpse as a banner. Amazon already had the working of a good story of deceit and surprise deliverance just from the Appendices and LOTR text but they completely and utterly botched it.
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  1735. Trump doesn't scare me, his fascist supporters do. Hillary doesn't scare me, her big money donors do. If Trump wins, his supporters will feel embolden to discriminate and acts of violence towards minorities will sky-rocket. If Hillary wins, her big money donors will carry on increasing their controlled wars in order justify lucrative defense contracts while others will work at eroding national protections against corporations. I think Wes is wrong though about Trump. Don't listen to what he says because Trump is a con man. Instead compare what he said in the past to what he says now. He says what he says now because the conditions are ripe for the kind of dogmatic simplistic rhetoric he's been spreading. Like a con-man/business man, Trump saw an opportunity created by two decades of Republican propaganda and the over-the-top rightwing reaction to an Obama presidency where facts were ignored in favor of tinfoil hat emotional paranoia. His "Make America Great Again!" is just echoing the rightwing sentiment of "We Want Our Country Back!" that was around before Trump threw his glove into the fray. Look how different he was in Mexico compared to how he talks to his supporters. When he says he could shoot someone and it not affect his popularity he's basically saying his supporters are idiots for whom facts don't matter. He's using his supporter base as a bunch of suckers and win or lose he'll probably get those numbskulls to invest in some Trump venture that he'll eventually go bankrupt on. With Hillary you actually have the more slick fascist in charge. The powers-that-be realize that with a Republican in office, there's actually a much larger liberal base in the country that gets unified in protesting Republican-led initiatives especially war. Bush was only able to stretch 911 so far and by the end of his administration nearly everyone had abandoned him. Obama on the other hand has been able to get away with more war actions than Bush because on one hand conservatives like war so they couldn't complain too loudly about it while many liberals overlooked this because they were too busy defending Obama over stupid bullshit scandals that Fox kept coming up with. Meanwhile in the Middle East, people were having a hard time distinguishing between conservative and liberal drones and bombs. With a Hillary presidency, this will increase as once again a number of deluded liberals will be busy fighting some stupid shit Fox will eventually say about her and ignore her wars. Hell, you'll probably have liberal publications like Mother Jones defending Hillary's decision to go to war in Syria or Whereverstan because it would be sexist if you say women leaders can't be war-mongers too or some such shit. The basic fact is that the Establishment wants Hillary and this alone should make you pause. To them Trump is an uncontrollable wild card who would unify the left as well as bring in many conservatives to protest his actions thus making it difficult to get anything done. Hillary however has that thin veneer of society acceptability provided by the paid-for media from CNN to liberal talk show hosts all of which will spin things to divide and confuse the Left. Her support and her critics will be too weak to curtail the Establishment's goals unlike Sanders who would have had a lot of popular support which he could have used to pushed forward a progressive agenda. Hillary's support will be apathetic lip service from a paid-for choir which is how the Establishment wants it. And come November, do you honestly think the vast amount of money invested in Hillary is really going to left up to chance of a general election? They stole the primary for her, they'll steal the general as well. They just need enough votes so it won't be as obvious as it was in the primaries.
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  1787. Have to disagree. It comes off as high-n-mighty and cultural imperialism to basically tell 1.5 billion people that their core belief is the motherlode of bad ideas while our country bombs, occupies, and exploits a number of Islamic countries yet is also supporting the most repressive of Islamic regimes. When criticizing christians we are essentially criticizing ourselves ie members of our own socio-political culture and we are in more danger of losing rights if certain fundamental christians get their way. If muslims were pushing the political legal system to enforce sharia law on everyone in the US, I'd be equally critical of them and their individual actions. As it is blanket criticism of Islam is pointless and will have little affect except to preach to the choir - a choir primarily of westerners who many have little knowledge of the individual countries under this broad umbrella of Islamic nations.  Rather it would be more productive to criticize the individual governments of those countries in support of those who are protesting for their rights and urge them to pass laws for equality. And this is where Maher and Harris are so ignorant. There are liberals involved in NGOs and individual organizations aiding such causes. Just because they aren't screaming about it or the media isn't focusing on them, doesn't mean it's not happening. Harris&Maher actually represent the more useless aspect of liberalism - criticizing for the sake of criticism and doing fuck all at the end of the day except writing a book or two.
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  1810. wooo weee irrational hateful people? Tell that to the villagers of Deir Yassin or the victims of the King David Hotel bombing. The irrationality and hate exists on both sides as Ayelet Shaked recently shows. You scream Israel has a right to exist but to what purpose? To live forever under fear of the original inhabitants (and yes they are the original inhabitants of the last 2000 years) who want the land that was taken from them starting in 1919? To live in a state perpetual fear and mistrust of their neighbors?  The current system is not working and has not been working for a long time.  Your attempt to compare european countries to present day Israel I'm afraid falls rather short. The 100 years war was primarily a war between aristocracy whom many shared the same bloodline. But lets say we try to compare - England is a partially a product of the Norman Conquest. The Normans were viking pillagers that the French king in desperation gave royal title and land to in order to appease them into becoming allies. The Northmen who were the minority adopted the language, culture, and religion of the area which became known as Normandy. By 1066 they were for all intents and purposes French. It was this tenuous connection along with a few marriages afterwards that led Edward III to make a claim on the French throne starting the 100 years war. Over time his descendants gave up the claim as the Anglo-Norman aristocracy became Anglo-cized. Does Israel have any intention of doing so in the Middle East? The early re-emigrants prior to the zionist movement to Palestine were able to maintained their customs and religion but they did not take land from others and were not seen as a threat. Modern Israel sticks out like a sore thumb - a bit of Europe in the Middle East. A better historical example instead of the 100 Years War is the Crusades. Sure it was Christians back in the day but from the mind's eye of the Middle East Israel is the Crusades all over again. The religion may be different but it is still a western invasion and occupation. Israel has done little to dispel this. Personally I think both the Israelis and Palestinians need to have a long drawn out heart-to-heart and throw out this concept of a separate Jewish-Palestine state but rather create a mixed country where there can one day be a native-born muslim prime minister voted in by resident muslims, jews, and christians based on their policies and not their religion and ethnicity. 
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  1818. I think both of them are needed by the left. Sam is the intellect and Jimmy is the raw anger. On one side you need Sam's rational approach to nuanced issues but you need more Jimmy Dores than you do the Hillary Corporate shill Joy Reid crowd or the SJW crowd to blast both the Right and the Left. The problem with the Left as a whole is that it's a nebulous group of different people who are relatively spineless in the eyes of the rightwing. The rightwing is by in large a bully and bully picks on targets they perceive as weak. As angry as SJWs get their anger is still that of a victim and a lot of their anger is misdirected in minutia. The rightwing despite being actually a minority in the country have been able to push their agenda repeatedly over the last few decades making liberals concede to their ridiculous points out of fear of being labeled biased. The problem with Sam is he doesn't seem to understand exactly the foes he's fighting. One foe is the entrenched conservative mindset riddled with cognitive dissonance, indignation of losing a rose-tinted country of the past that never existed, paranoia, and deep vitriolic hatred of the Left. The other foe is the elite who are manipulating both the right and left dividing them on minor socio-political issues so that they ignore the more important issues. For example everyone is in a tither about Trump's words to a war widow and not why the fuck are we in Niger at all. You have your establishment shills who only dither about minor social issues with the Right and your misguided SJWs whose perspective is limited by their experience and knowledge. At least Dore is hammering at the doors of the real foe and for that he deserves credit rather than bickering over the type of hammer he uses and the way he swings it. Sam I fear will remain intellectually cool making great rational points for a passive audience as the country further slides into a neo-liberal nightmare of an increasingly impoverished population bereft of proper healthcare saddled with debt as the military industrial complex continues to wage war for the profits of the wealthy few.
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  2177. I generally hate the pseudo-intellectual arguments that surrounds the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombings as there is too much ignorance coming from both sides and it doesn't change what happened 70 years ago anyway. I saw a picture once in a small museum in Tokyo from 1945 showing school girls being trained to use bamboo spears in order to resist invaders. The Okinawan campaign was one of the deciding factors in dropping the A-bombs in the hopes of avoiding a land invasion. Japan was not like Germany at the time. They had a cult of the Emperor that permeated much of the society. While the Nazis did have their fanatics their indoctrination was barely a decade compared to the decades behind the Imperial cult. When Japan opened up in the mid-19th century, they needed a national unifying symbol and they found it in the Emperor. Granted the Emperor had been see as a god for nearly 2000 years but for 800 years the country ruled by generalissimos called Shogun who united the country out of loyalty to them or fear of them rather than to the nation. The reformers wanted to renew the symbolic relationship of the Emperor to the country to form a new national identity, unity, and loyalty. It seemed like a good idea at the time but when that generation died off the next generations became more and more cult-like as they never had been before in previous centuries. By 1945 thousands if not millions would have fought tooth and nail or committed suicide if they were told the Emperor wanted them to do so. As pointed out even after Hiroshima, the Japanese high command was willing to fight on so these ideas some people have that we could have dropped the bomb on a deserted island as a demonstration are rather absurd. They had already gone through the horrific firebombing of Tokyo which killed more than Hiroshima and were willing to keep going. What people have to realize is that both with Germany and Japan nothing short of unconditional surrender was the goal. Both countries had pushed an unwilling world to war and as a result millions died. There was no way of letting either retain control of their respective militaries after all this. And after defeating Germany, many people didn't want another prolonged bloody invasion and especially not after Okinawa. Basically the A-bombs were a necessary evil needed to stop a greater evil which would have killed far more on both sides and probably would have resulted in Russia taking Hokkaido and perhaps some of Northern Japan thus creating another West-East Germany situation. I don't think the bombings should be celebrated like putting them on stamps and shit because a lot of people died who had nothing to do with the war but telling that to conservatives often falls on deaf ears because despite the Bible they like to wave around about a guy who preached mercy and forgiveness, they tend to be a bloodthirsty lot.
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  2347. To get an understanding of the roots of the protests and to counter those rightwingers airing Freddie Grey's rap sheet, here is just a small selection of the Baltimore police force's rap sheet: 11/1/05 Dondi Johnson dies from injuries from riding unsecured in the back of a van 4/11/07 Terrel Jenkins beaten during questioning 8/10/07 illegally arresting elderly couple the Knoxes on kidnapping charges of their own grandson who wasn't with them. The grandfather was beaten in jail with no protection from the police 1/3/08  Edward Lamont Hunt is shot three times in the back and killed fleeing from an officer 1/5/08 Cops illegally strip search and plant drugs on Jennelle and Shakita Causey 5/13/08 Police beat Wesley Williams and Shana Pendleton in front of their home and their kids 8/7/08 Daudi Collier face smashed by radio and punched in the eye 1/9/09 Jerriel Lyles is struck in the face with a radio and gets a fractured nose and bruised eye 3/31/09 Barbara Floyd face grounded into concrete 4/22/09 Deacon Lornell Felder beaten when he ran for what cops thought was a joint he was rolling 4/27/09 Donte Harris tased and sexually assaulted for loitering 7/26/09 Venus Green broken shoulder from being thrown to the ground after calling cops about her grandson being shot 9/18/09 Starr Brown thrown to the ground and beaten when she was pregnant 6/17/12 Bolaji Obe beaten while handcuffed These are cases where police wrong doing had been acknowledged. It begs the question how many other incidences major and minor have gone on over the years unpunished and unrecorded.
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  2537. Normally, I'd say who cares about the scandals of celebs but this was an important socio-political event wrapped up in metoo. Even someone like Johnny Depp with 4 decades of work playing iconic characters beloved by millions and was rich and handsome was suddenly dirt within days of Amber Heard's accusations. I remember some of the woke twitter mob threatening to block followers if they supported Depp (those tweets aged well). The point of this trial win or lose was to get back his reputation but the bigger point is that if it can happened to someone like Depp it can happen to anyone. The power of accusation is too strong for opportunists and abusers to ignore and in this particular type of situation those would be women exploiting society's double standards and virtue signaling of going after the bad man to save the poor innocent girl. Had Depp not made these recordings his career and reputation would still be in the dumps. As for Metoo or this version of it while it did take down men that needed to be taken down like Weinstein, at its core it was bound to fail because it was rotted from within with selfish purpose. The first person to suggest the phrase was ignored by the media because she was an unfamous black woman but a decade later once privileged famous white women started using it suddenly the media was all over it. And this version only got rolling because Rose McGowan left her purse with drugs on a plane. Later another leader of the movement was revealed to have had sex with an underage boy. And during that time in the Metoo frenzy where a bad date could be considered something more sinister (Aziz), Heard decided to use the socio-political climate to her advantage against Depp and as mentioned above despite all his advantages, he was suddenly Quasimodo overnight to use his own words. In the end, I think this mess should teach us to take each incident on a case by case basis, not rush to conclusions with pitchforks and torches, and to be aware there are always grifters and opportunists out there willing to exploit such social climates.
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  2936. Guilherme Verri now you are waffling all over the place. It's hard to follow where you are going with your "point" if you truly have one. "Are you kidding me?! The fact that there's no "muslim missionaries in alabama beating down doors forcing people to convert to Islam", doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all. I suggest you do a research on Islamic terrorist attacks on Myamar, India, Turkey, Lebanon, Algeria, Bangladesh, Philippines. None of which are western countries." And you just proved my point - you don't make people into muslims by blowing them up. You cannot "spread" an ideology by killing people. Another thing you are talking about actions spread throughout the world. You have to look at each area and understand the socio-politics going in each area. For example with Myamar you have buddhist priests advocating violence against muslims so it's not one sided. India is another place of extreme western meddling under the British. In short you cannot just throw these places out in a generalized fashion to say that Islam as a whole is terrorizing the world. "how can we stop the spread of terror in a peaceful way, that doesn't lead to more radicalism and terror?!" You seriously expect me to magically come up with the solution? That is beyond my capabilities on my own. My point which seems to keep escaping you is that by being aware of what led to this and what we are continuing to do we can make better decisions together but as long we think in terms of "good guys" and "bad guys who hate our freedom" we will continue to make bad choices.
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  2961. The NRA and their hardcore supporters have lost it. The NRA is a shill organization for the gun manufacturers who are the opposite of what the NRA started us. It may shock some good ole boy Southerners but the NRA was started by Yankee veterans who saw a lot of gun misuse and poor targeting during the Civil War and wanted to fix that. They were not a political organization. Meanwhile out west, towns were getting tired of drunk cowboys shooting up the place so they pass strict ordinances where guns had to be check at the entrance of the town or at an establishment like a saloon. The OK Corral shootout was started over the breaking of the gun ordinance of Dodge City. The ordinances were practical solutions to a current problem at the time. Flash forward to the 20s and early 30s. Gangsters and bank robbers were using military grade weapons. Clyde of Bonnie&Clyde fame had a BAR and Thompson submachine guns were all the rave. In response, the NRA pushed for stricter regulations resulting in the National Firearms Act of 1934. Again a practical solution to a current problem at the time. Now we have the current problem of people with mental health issues and people with terrorist sympathies getting easy access to guns and enacting horrific mass shootings. Instead of offering practical solutions, the NRA and its hardcore supporters do nothing but scream the 2nd Amendment and obstruct any effort or even discussion of dealing with the issue. And this has been their response to every mass shooting for years and mass shootings continue. We need the old practical common sense we had in the past because this shit ain't working.
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  3060. As for suicide bombing and this notion that paradise is a driving motivation for doing it - first off when did these suicide bombings take place? The latter half of the 20th century - now this isn't just because of technology advances as there were means available earlier. If suicide warfare was so popular due to the promises of paradise then why weren't there suicide squads in Islamic history like they had China in the Korean War? And why have there been female suicide bombers? What are they getting out of it? If you want to understand suicide bombings you need to look at several factors. One is similar to the Japanese kamikaze of WWII. Now, their targets were solely military so comparison is tenuous but the idea behind it was protecting their people and their fellow soldiers from the enemy. Some suicide bombers think they are helping their people and in the case of Palestine striking back at who they see as their oppressors. It's both an act of protection and frustration. Second - helping their families. A number of bombers are told their families will be looked after if they carry out their attack.  Third - recruitment. This is the biggest factor. Why are most suicide bombers not main fighters, politicians, demagogues, etc...? They prey on those in desperate straits and are easily malleable. This is where the paradise aspect comes into play and has its roots more in the history of the Assassins than Mohammed. In the 11th century, the cult of the assassins was set up in Iran and the leader known as the Old Man of the Mountain kidnapped youths and made them into suicide killers. He would drug them and give them visions of paradise with girls and food and promised them all this if they would carry out his assassination missions which would knowingly lead to their deaths. Modern day suicide bombing recruiters aren't much different in this by recruiting disenchanted individuals with promises of family support and glorious martyrdom for the sake of their people.  Needless to say it's more complex than just "it's a muslim thing."
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  3377. Mattheaus The Apostate "they were Romans, and they represented the peek of Western civilization at the time(not to mention that they did rule large swathes of Europe Right when Islam rose)" No they did not and its immaterial what they called themselves which they would have done so in Greek not Latin. And by the time of Muhammad's death, Byzantine had a only a presence in Italy and sicily. Anyway this isn't the place to haggle over unimportant historical details but to show the notion that Al Queda is trying to resurrect the caliphate based on their strict interpretation of the Koran is based more on modern radicalism than medieval belief . My point is such that Al queda wants to resurrect something which did not exist and changed over the course of time. It's like protestant sects trying to go back to the bare bones of christianity or tea partiers going back to their imagined golden age of the Founding Fathers. Sharia Law has changed and been adapted in every century and every area where muslims have lived. Muslim scholars have constantly debated over it. It's not some blanket set of laws that every muslim everywhere rigidly follows. Whereas in the past Islamic areas where progressive and flexible in contrast to Western Europe they have fallen prey to conservatism in modern times and from that comes radicalism and this was in a response to encroaching western imperialism. Remember Al Queda came about as a result of Cold War politics between the Soviet Union and the US. They did not spring out of the dust because they felt like going back to the good ole Caliphate days. Also keep in mind - what and who is Al Queda? They aren't one solidified group.  "nd after the the Rise of Muhammed to see how "peaceful" Islam could be. " Never claimed Islam was peaceful only that Islam was not any better or worse than its counterparts. Christians slaughter pagans, heretics, and Jews. Jews slaughtered many inhabitants of the Levant to claim their homeland after they left Egypt. "Caliph means the ruler of a nation governed by Sharia holy law, the successor to Muhammed. " Which is why I asked which one? In the 10th Century there were three rival Caliphs in Baghdad, Cairo, and Cordoba. My point is show the ignorance people have of muslims seeing them as some kind of unified homogenous force when in fact they are comprised of many different peoples and they have fought amongst themselves as much as western europe has.  Al Queda is just one group (or rather a loosely defined umbrella term for a decentralized group). They do not represent the whole of Islam and trying to blame them on the foundation of Islam when many muslims don't like them either is both baseless and just plain dumb.
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  3378. Mattheaus The Apostate "Your whitewashing of Islamic history does your argument no credit, nor does brushing over how advanced their contemporaries were and dismissing the idea of an advanced european society( Rome). " Which I did neither. You want to be pedantic over Byzantine/Rome fine. It doesn't change the fact that western europe whose imperialism not eastern europe of the old bzyantine empire had a major impact on the muslim world and elsewhere. You only want to paint a picture of barbarism and fanaticism in order to demonize Islam. "I already disproved this, and you did not address my counter points. Stop being dishonest. The Muslims were not the most advanced kid on the black when they sprung from Arabia. " No you did not. I never said Muhammed was more advanced than his neighbors but that Islamic areas were more advanced than Western Europe. This was due to the Persian influence. By the 10th century Islam was on par with Byzantine. But again you are quibbling over unimportant details. "The vast majority of Sharia(particularly concerning women) has historically been strictly followed by most Islamic Empires. " No it has not been strictly followed historically. For one example the desert castles of Jordan which were built by the Ummayyad princes. Their walls had paintings which is forbidden by the Koran but like people in every religion they tended to ignore things here and there. You make sharia law like some set of laws that every muslim follows and has followed like a robot. As for women until the modern era woman had more rights than many European women. What Al Queda and the Taliban represent are extremists who pine for a time that never really existed. They are more conservative than medieval muslims because the thing is back in those days from Muhammed until about the decline of the Ottoman, Islamists were generally progressives in mathematics, medicine, philosophy, law and they were far more tolerant than their christian counterparts in western europe - western not eastern. Al Queda and Taliban are nothing like what they want to be. In many ways they are very much like American conservatives particularly the Tea Party who pine for a time of the Founding Fathers that didn't really exist either.
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  3404. There's a difference between Yasukuni Shrine and the Confederate Flag and even the Swastika. Yasukuni Shrine pre-dates the war by nearly a century having been originally constructed for enshrining the souls of those who died in restoring the Emperor to power in the mid-19th century. Yasukuni wasn't controversial even after WWII until the 1970s when the war criminals were enshrined there. A bigger issue IMHO are school text books and that the adjacent museum treats the war very lightly without acknowledgement of atrocities committed in Asia particularly Nanking. The Nazi Swastika is a perverted symbol of a very ancient religious symbol which can be found all around the world including the ancient Americas. We cannot react to all swastikas in the knee-jerk fashion we do with the Nazi one; however the nazi one can burn for all I care. That one was specifically design to represent the ideals not of Germans but of a political racial ideology which was morally bankrupt. Now with the Confederate Flag - both the one people think is the confederate flag but isn't and the actual one which was too confusing to take into battle - was designed in 1861 to be specifically used in armed opposition against the United States; just that fact alone is grounds for not allowing it be flown on government land. Another thing that has to be taken into consideration is that despite the fact a number of people who fought under that flag from generals to privates did not own slaves nor supported slavery it cannot be argued that Confederacy as a whole body was not a pro-slavery nation. Had the Confederacy abolished slavery in 1861 or even 1862, it would have been a different story. CSA General Patrick Cleburne warned them that by not emancipating slaves they would be doomed to be damned for it by the winning side. Anyway, then you have to add the fact that KKK has carried that flag for over a century and has been responsible for so many atrocities that naturally people are going to associate that flag with racism first rather than a symbol of heritage.
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  3471. Which group has caused more death and destruction and global devastation? The Islamic world as a whole has not been in a position of global power for centuries meanwhile the Western world from Europe to modern day US has indulged in 5 centuries of imperialism, exploitation, forced conversion to both religious and cultural ideology, massive deforestation, mass genocides, indigenous cultural destruction, global wars, and in general has caused more death, destruction, environmental devastation than any other group in human history and becoming more secular hasn't changed much in the way of those policies; and yet Islam is seen as "the problem." The terrorism of Islamic extremists should be seen for what it really is - mosquito bites on an elephant. Sure people die but those are expendables in the eyes of the western corporate elites. The financial institutes generally profit from these acts particularly the military industrial ones. And then in retaliation for these bites, the West responds with sledge hammer strikes killing thousands of people who had nothing to do with the bites all the while saying "we're the good guys" and wringing our hands about our much smaller losses. We lost 3000 on 911. Iraq and Afghanistan have since lost hundreds of thousands. If you want to paint Islam with a broad brush than be prepared to be painted by a much larger one. Yes Islam has problems but on a global scale, they aren't the ones who are really the problem. The Western world has become a vulture and a parasitic leech draining the natural and labor resources of poorer countries while fomenting so many of today's conflicts. Much of the middle eastern conflict today is a direct result of Western meddling and the drawing of lines in the sand. Much of the conflict in Africa is also a direct result of Western meddling and influence.  For all our achievements we have to reflect that the Western world may have put a man on the moon but we have also put a hell of a lot of people in their graves in one way or another.
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  3694. From the Christmas War Diaries: "I'll never forget the day when victory was announced and Operation Merry Christmas declared a rousing success. My hands are still stained with the red and white of candy canes and blood that'll never wash out. My ears still ring with the screams of carolers as they fell in battle during the Kwanzaa Purge of '09. The day before the war ended orders had come down from the top brass of Fox to make a Starbucks disappear with extreme prejudice. Captain Claus ordered me and Private Rudolph to spread Christmas Cheer which was our word for flame throwers. I was knee-deep in burning cups of green and red with their immorally absent "Merry Christmas" greetings when a crazed purple-hair barista screaming "Happy Festivus!" leapt over the counter armed with a frothing spatula and impaled Rudy in the face turning his nose bright red with blood and brain matter. I gave them both a bit of Christmas Cheer to put poor Rudy out of his misery. The chestnuts in his pockets started to roast in my open flame thrower and the barista exploded in a shower of blood and nutmeg. I still choke up whenever I hear Nat King Cole sing The Christmas Song. The next day I was in a hospital tent nursing a medicinal eggnog with the visions of sugar plum bombs dancing in my head and the memories of horrors witnessed during this long cruel war like the time I had to crush the skull of a gay atheist mercenary socialist with a piece of fruitcake in the Battle of Gingerbread Street. Suddenly our Twitter feeds lit up like a mandatory Christmas Tree. "Merry Christmas!" President (now Saint) Trump's tweet read. "It's all changed. No more will people say "Happy Holidays!". It may be a sweltering hot August but..." [next tweet] "...but I want you all to say "Merry Christmas!" without the fear of the violent Left and the Fake News Media stomping on your 1st Amendmentable Rights. It's all thanks..." [next tweet] "...thanks to me! You're welcome, America, and before I forget - "Merry Christmas!" Take that, fake CNN! I mean the real CNN but you're fake because you run fake news stories about..." [next tweet] "... me. Fake news! Loosers!!!! Merry Christmas and all of you have my permission to execute anyone from here on out who says "Happy Holidays" or some crap like that. Merry..." [next tweet] "...Christmas!" We furled our flags, executed prisoners who refused to accept the mercy of Baby Jesus, and went home war-wearied but satisfied with our victory. Christmas had come early that year and God had blessed us everyone (except for the commie godless liberal of course). Merry Christmas!"
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  4088. Well said! In the fear of being seen and labeled as an extremist, many liberal-minded people have allowed the right to drag the national discourse further to the extreme right to the point where we treat insane rightwing talking points with far more legitimacy than any other sane rational country. Talk to people from other countries about their politics. They don't have the same level ignorance and lunacy that comes out of the mouths of elected officials like Gohmert, Bachman, Palin, Cruz... and neither did we 20 years ago. We need to stop trying to be "moderate" and saying bullshit like "both sides do it!" because they don't. What crazy voices you may have from left are not voices that are given much credence to or in today's time some of those who are seen as "crazy" lefties would have been seen as more moderate 20 years ago. In our current atmosphere even moderate rightwing politicians and pundits will echo the more radical sentiments because those sentiments are not seen or treated as radical (not too mention often ridiculous) as they would have been in the past. When you have someone like Mitt Romney echoing the birthers about birth certificates and not be called out as a tinfoil hat looney and laughed out of his presidential campaign, you can see the problem clearly. Meanwhile weak liberals will meekly concede and modify their speech when making their talking points and they'll often throw other liberals under the bus who are deemed as too radical. Fuck that. It's time to take back the reigns of the discourse and labeling loonies for what they are and stop treating their insanity and stupidity as though it were valid.
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  4131. Look at most of the coverage of Trump on MSNBC, CNN, Slate, etc... - it's fear-mongering and it's posted all over the place to ratchet up that fear. Perhaps my tinfoil hat is a little tight but it seems a bit too coincidental and convenient that the candidate who has more favorable media coverage and is supported by Superpacs which pay for internet "corrections" is running against this archetypal rightwinger so over-the-top to the level of a one-dimensional cartoon villain. Then when you remember that this "rightwinger" is a friend and donor of said candidate and has expressed more liberal views in the past you have to smell a rat where they had to create a candidate so terrible that we all simply HAVE TO vote for this candidate to prevent the Anti-Christ from becoming president. Either Trump is in on the scam or his ego has been manipulated to fulfill this role. Don't fall for this forced narrative. This isn't day vs night but more like dusk vs night given HRC's inconsistent and often neoconish record. If she had to run against any other Republican candidate, people would have had a hard time telling the two apart but with this ridiculous caricature played by Trump, people are fooled into thinking she is the only one who can "save us!" However no one saw the popularity of Bernie coming out of left field with his decades of consistency that appeals to many people tired of ye olde two-party system and the establishment in general. Bernie vs Trump is more like day vs night. Bernie inspires people to improve the system while Trump brings out the worst in people. They and their supporters are the opposite side of the spectrum while Clinton supporters have adopted defeatism masked as pragmatism.
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  4464. NotUsHer. Is she thinking she can win if she is only up against Pence or someone else if Pence is also out of the picture? She's a terrible candidate and an uninspiring leader. She lost to a dark horse candidate in 2008 and came close again in 2016 to the point she got the DNC and media to side against her dark horse opponent before going on to lose to a D-list reality tv celebrity star. Yeah, hard pass there. Warren is not the threat to Wallstreet she is being touted as. That is briar patch strategy to fool centralists with progressive leanings. The media is far more favorable to Warren than Sanders which is very telling. THEY DON'T WANT SANDERS. They will tolerate Warren because she has a record of waffling and working with the centralists as we saw in 2016. A watered-down version of Bernie open to negotiation is preferable than the real deal. If she gets the nomination and Trump is still in the running, he will attack her from the Left like he did with Hillary - her once being GOP, voting for his military budget, giving him a standing ovation when Bernie clearly did not, flipping foreclosed housing, and the DNA nonsense. He'll also attack her and her base as elitist which never fails to gin up the working class of the GOP. It'll be enough to turn off independent voters enough perhaps to get Trump the Electoral College again over the popular vote. Bernie has the most individual donors, the most electrified base, has raised the most money by low money donations, got major progressive endorsements, and just held the most attended rally of all the other candidates including Warren who recently had troubling filling a 9k venue after the debate where she had faltered. He's knocked it out of the park at the Fox News Town Hall where the other candidates refused to go making them look weak and elitist. His Joe Rogan appearance got over 10 million views in less than 2 months with a lot of positive comments from non-Democrats. Both of these things means that he would do well with independents which is needed to to defeat Trump. To defeat a fake populist with an inflamed base, you need a real progressive with an inspired one.
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  4529.  @patmos09  didn't say that about Bladerunner certainly not the original but I was addressing your argument where you are going on about the replicants having feelings and such which was already established in the original so no new ground there. What you are describing is a different film that doesn't really fit Bladerunner the original which didn't need a sequel. The original deals with the themes of humanity and mortality. The question of Deckard for example being human or not was not a literal one but there to make the audience question what it means to be human. Overall the brilliance of the film is that the antagonists really are the protagonists as their quest for longer life is a very human and understandable goal one that has been echoed in many stories since the time of Gilgamesh and the Sumerians. The humans are the unfeeling and uncaring creator gods who made the replicants for single purposes then have them expire with a short life span. The confrontation scene of Roy and his maker Tyrell is such a powerful scene drenched in metaphysical trappings of man meeting his creator then killing that creator in act of agonizing disappointment when robbed of his last chance for some semblance of happiness. And there's the theme of mortality, the irony that even the human creators will also die is inescapable - [no one] lives forever, but then again, who does? Roy Batty after going to great lengths to stay alive finally accepts death and in a final act of humanity shows empathy for his foe. Batty/Hauer's death brings everything together. He is like a futuristic Gilgamesh, a bad character at first who failed in his quest for immortality and finally accepts his inevitable fate with a very human show of mercy. This is what makes Bladerunner transcend what could have been a surface-level sci-fi action story of killer androids and a bitter alcoholic film noir detective tracking them down to exterminate them. With 2049 there's really nowhere to go as the original said what it needed to say and we didn't need more. However in our time of mining the past for creativity, it couldn't be left alone if there was something to make money on so now we have a potential war between replicants and humans which wasn't there before and the chance replicants can have offspring -- um, ok? They did a good job capturing the visual and slow pacing of the original but that's just it, like a JJ Abrams film, it relies too much on the original to be its own original thing and hopes audiences will think it's on the same level like the original. And because many movies today are shallow, it appeals to those wanting something more but it's a cinematic Emperor's New Clothes and unlike the original will be forgotten.
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  4694. Here is the logic of conservative whites - after countless years of oppression, enslavement, murder, genocide, discrimination of non-whites, if those non-whites react violently against the white powers-that-be they are terrorists. If and when those white powers-that-be stop oppressing then those formerly oppressed people are expected to let bygones be bygones and even be grateful that their oppressors finally stopped being dicks even if it was by force physical, economical, political, or social rather than a genuine desire to be good - case in point: South Africa didn't stop apartheid because they suddenly realized it was wrong to treat other people horribly nor did the American South stop lynching and pursuing segregation policies because they suddenly found Jesus. This is why people admire Nelson Mandela. He had every right to hate and wish violence on the former South African government and its people who allowed apartheid to continue. After 27 years of imprisonment and countless years of oppression of his people, Mandela could have launched a reverse apartheid on whites or killed them or physically removed them from the country. History is filled with such examples of formerly oppressed peoples destroying their old masters. The fact that he didn't and even promoted unity is an amazing testament to his character. The fact that there is violence towards whites today shows that not everyone is willing to forgive nor has the moral fortitude of Mandela hence why people admire him. Honestly if any of you had been imprisoned over two decades for fighting for the freedom of your people against an oppressive regime of apartheid implemented by a government of people who basically invaded your land years before would you be so quick to offer an olive branch to your former oppressors?
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  4789. Blitzer is so disingenuously thickheaded. If there weren't riots would they be giving this kind of attention to Baltimore? They ignored Occupy Wallstreet until there were confrontations. It's unfortunate that it takes property violence to get national attention. In this case the agent provocateur actually aids the cause because they bring that attention that otherwise would be lacking. The problem is of course that it gets out of control and usually it's the poor people in the community who suffer as a result. But as for how the protests look in the media, why bother trying to get Fox or even CNN on your side and report you fairly? They're not. Unless you're a tax-evading federal government-hating conservative, Fox is going to demonize your protest no matter how peaceful or legitimate it is. They had their minds made up before the first stone had been cast. There's no point in trying to win them over even to a neutral position. CNN is so weak and afraid of being called liberal news by Fox&friends they have adopted this faux neutral stance rather than a truly objective one. They'll focus more on the violence acting disingenuously surprised by it in contrast to Fox's "I told you so" approach and they'll give less attention to the underlying issues. So basically whether your protest is peaceful or not, you're damned either way. If you're peaceful, you won't get attention. If there are violent people in your group you will be demonized. Might as well use the latter to push the agenda forward and ignore bullshit distracting questions from the likes of Blitzer. (However on a side note, I'd record all the vandals and expose the agent provocateurs. Get them arrested as private citizens for vandalism and instigating.)
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  4852. I'm mixed on this. People should have the freedom to wear what they want but let's face it high school is a lousy atmosphere for that kind of experimentation and expression as it can often lead to stupid petty violence. We have schools throughout the country which ban certain colors in order to curtail gang violence. At the end of the day the school just wants to make it thru the day without a fight breaking out and a dozen irresponsible parents threatening to sue the school over not being able to control the kids. This flag t-shirt issue is really just the tip of an iceberg of fucktardary. Our education system is fucked in so many ways - * we have underfunded public education institutions staffed by powerless teachers mercilessly controlled by spineless administrators afraid of irresponsible parents who expect the schools to do what they cannot which is to control their unruly brats. *schools are like temporary prisons where we cram so many student/prisoners into one place where many of them don't want to be. Small wonder tempers flare over trivial things. *We live in a society which spurns intelligence and responsibility and instead embraces shallow materialism and coolness. *We reward stupidity with fame and fortune. *We worship celebrities and sports stars and ignore the people who actually have the ability to change the world for good or ill. *We have a whole system of marketing specifically targeting youths with all kinds of warped self-empowerment marketing techniques designed to make them think they don't need authority and education (because stupid people are easier to market stuff to) which reinforces a disdain for educators and education. After a certain of age, it becomes harder for parents and schools to connect with kids as they become more plugged into this fabricated reality of marketing that fills them with false expectations and the notion that all adults are stupid. *We have practically cut teens off from society and put them in this weird limbo where they are neither kids nor adults and our treatment of them varies with such inconsistency. Left on their own they partially create their own society based on a distorted view of adult society filtered by the aforementioned marketing with their own rules and morals which are often harsh and unforgiving - case in point those who scorned the girl who drank bleach over bullying she received at school; there were a lot of teens who were unsympathetic because she tried to hit on another girl's boyfriend. In their high school world viewpoint, she deserved death or at least didn't deserve sympathy because her peers had judged her a "whore." *High School has become far more important to many and become its own little world. Many of students cannot conceptually understand that one day it will end so they get bogged down in the ridiculous day-to-day drama which leads to so many fights, suicides, drug use, bullying, lack of empathy, gang slayings, and school shootings. *Social media makes it where now that high school world can follow students 24/7 and so it compounds the problems even more so. So this argument about flags on T-shirts on a certain day is really just dramatic fluff that ignores the retarded elephant in the room which is suffering from diarrhea. 
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  5091. The Fox News traitors once again miss the point by a mile.  1) Abdullah can say this more easily because he's a muslim and a Sunni one at that who is head of a predominately muslim country. When he quotes Eastwood everyone knows he means ISIS and not every muslim in the world. This is the problem with the US President particularly Obama. Despite doing more against ISIS than anyone else, he can't take that gungho kill them all approach because he is the leader of a country where we have from elected officials to media pundits down to conservative morons in the street who misunderstand, fear, and hate the whole of Islam and such rhetoric would possibly only confuse and frighten many as to the ultimate aim. Obama has to take the high road to keep more muslims from buying into the propaganda of the likes of ISIS while assuring our muslim allies that we are not going to bomb Mecca despite what the idiots on Fox say.  2) Abdullah's speech should not be praised because it smacks of justifying collateral damage on a grand scale. Instead of going specifically after the main war criminals of ISIS, he sounds like he is just going to bomb the hell out of them and let Allah sort out the innocents. Fox and morons forget this is how we got into this mess in the first place. I have no problem killing the main ISIS instigators but just bombing the shit out of them isn't going to work because it hasn't worked. 3) War created ISIS but war is not going to kill them because it has become an idea and idea which is constantly being reinforced by the realities of the Iraq War and its aftermath along with anti-Islamic sentiment being pumped thru the media. ISIS has been playing the martyr card and we need to stop them from stacking the deck by constantly doing what they want which is responding to violence with violence. As long as they have an "other" to fight they can keep their people's minds occupied while appealing to the disenchanted elsewhere to join them. Keep them contained and from spreading. Let them run their little caliphate into the ground to the point where their own people will turn against them while their leaders begin squabbling over power and the finer points of the Koran. They'll kill each other and do the job for us. And the survivors will be easy to round up and put on trial for war crimes.
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  5501. They wanted a younger Galadriel to create the modern image of the young woman fighting against stuffy traditionalism hence why Gil-galad comes off as an out-of-touch slightly incompetent manager who ignores the brilliant ideas of the spunky new employee. It's like Emily in Paris but Galadriel in Lindon. Problem with that is Galadriel by this time was already ancient. She's Gil-galad's aunt or great-aunt depending on which lore notes you look at. She was born a thousand solar years before him and she is one of the few elves left in Middle Earth who could remember Valinor before Melkor was unchained and started spreading dissent amongst her people. She should be similar to her persona in LOTR - wise and unearthly even to other elves not this piss&vinegar headstrong sword-swinging unlikeable Karen. What's ironic though is in their effort to create this strong woman character they made a character who made wrong decisions at nearly every turn. She was willing to leave a soldier behind to die in the snow on a quest that had been going on for centuries and was not time critical. As it was a few steps later they found a castle thing they could use for shelter. At the castle thing Galadriel was wanting to continue the quest - further north. Had her men not mutinied, she'd have spent all of Season 1 with Santa Claus. For Middle Earth it would have been better because her next brilliant decision was to jump into the sea to her certain death but miraculously bumps into Sauron on a raft and through more brilliant decisions drags him back to Middle Earth which leads to him getting his evil hands all over the materials and tools for making the 3 Rings. She also sets up Numenor for their downfall by convincing their Queen to send a military expedition that ultimately failed because the bad guy got what he wanted - turning on Mt Doom - while several Numenoreans got fried and the Queen blinded. No doubt Pharazon will use this as a pretext to seize power which eventually leads to the downfall of Numenor. You go, girl! And to top it off she doesn't bother telling anyone that Sauron is back and continues the project he was working on despite the possibility of it being part of a diabolical plot (in the books, it was). Rings of Power meant to make Galadriel the villain, right?
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  5695. ***** Yes, you do because that is the point you keep coming back to. You're like Governor Pence saying he is anti-discrimination but signs a discriminatory law. ISIS is not the only example. I shouldn't have to point out the obvious history that is available to you. Al Queda - formed in the aftermath of the Russian-Afghan War which we trained many of. When the Saudis ignored Bin Laden's request to handle Saddam preferring to use the US which led to US troops in Saudi. This Bin Laden used to steel resolve to resist the West. Al Queda did not spring up out of just some dusky dark age texts. Taliban - came into being during the local wars waged in the vacuum left after both Russia and the US abandoned the area. PLO/Hamas - these came into existence in direct reaction to Israel which they saw wrongly as a neo-crusader state. People voted for the Hamas in reaction to what they see as continual occupation and oppression and erosion of their land to settlers which the Israeli government does little to curtail. Boko Haram - only started in the 2000s in Nigeria a place which has had a long history with colonialism. They formed in opposition to corruption and poverty where most of the wealth is held by westernized christians while the rest of the country gets by only barely a dollar a day. Hezbollah - came into creation in response to the Israeli invasion in the 1980s. Iran - Iran had a democratically elected government which the US overthrew in the 50s installing a dictator who had protestors gunned down. When he was overthrown the US supported Iraq in their Iraq-Iran War which killed hundreds of thousands. Is there little wonder why they distrust America and fund any anti-american terrorism to get some payback? The Muslim Brotherhood - formed in the early 20th century with the stated goal of resisting foreign imperialism. Now given that most if not all of these groups arose as reactions to situations around them would it not lead one to think that perhaps just perhaps Western meddling has had more influence in creating these terrorist groups and their extremist mentality than just some particularly harsh lines of text? Also your anecdote of burning a woman alive for burning a koran where did that happen? Afghanistan - a place torn apart by war for decades but before all that in the 50s and 60s it was a more tolerant place making an effort towards modernization until it all went to hell in the 70s with Cold War shenanigans.  Lebanon was as well until the Israel bombed the Beirut airport in their crackdown of the PLO. This helped to lead to the inevitable civil war. Even countries not affected by all this are not blind, deaf, and dumb. They have watched the West on one hand say they are not at war with Islam yet get involved in one war after another in Islamic countries while politicians/pundits/citizens on both sides of the political spectrum disparage Islam blaming the Koran and the Hadiths for the violence.  Even people like you and Harris while acknowledging western influence will still primarily rest your case on the roots of Islam which does little to make muslims want to reform themselves because of the disingenuousness of your arguments. They see western imperialism as a greater area of concern than they do the need to reform because if they reform there is no guarantee whatsoever that western meddling and exploitation will stop and right or wrong at least the extremists in some of their minds are the only ones resisting out-of-control greedy western capitalism.
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  5696. ***** I gave you example after example and you do a Governor Pence. Spare me all the bullshit "I realize western influence but..."  People like you are not needed in this discourse because you unwittingly and stupidly add fuel to the fire with your lack of empathy and knowledge. If Islam reformed itself tomorrow western meddling would not cease and they would just become secular terrorists fighting western imperialism. We'd be back to where we started because we refuse to change the way we do business which is to exploit developing countries and prop up corrupt dictatorial governments. It's not just history but now. Can you not get that thru your thick skull?  Fuck being polite. You are infuriating in your disingenuous return to the same fucking talking point again and again which I have repeatedly rebuked. Do you not get this? Nothing you say will change my mind because you have nothing except some out-of-context dusty texts that a billion people follow to various degrees and hell you hardly have that as you just paraphrase what you have overheard. I want to defeat these groups but I know going after the Koran is an idiotic military blunder as we have already seen ISIS and Boko using anti-islamic sentiments from the likes of Fox and Harris to recruit followers.  Rule of war, kid, you don't aid your enemy by helping his cause thru stupid PR that they turn around and use against us. "One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage." - Sun Tzu This is why blaming the Koran at this point in time is foolish and counter-productive. If this were Ancient China Sun Tzu would have muppets like you executed for impending victory. First we need to assure the countless numbers of muslims we are not at war with Islam and put pressure on muppets like Fox and Harris to shut up, build up their infrastructure and let them have elections even if they are against us, slowly sap away the terrorists' recruitment strength by aiding not bombing, and as they begin to lose numbers quietly track down and arrest the ones we know for a fact committed the atrocities but let the locals try and execute them. I particularly want Jihadi John to be executed no matter what peace arrangements we make. While on the homefront, we publicly slam blatant anti-muslim sentiments and actions showing such will not be tolerated. Then we need to stop meddling in their affairs for our own gain without their say-so - however this won't happened until we reign in Wallstreet and the World Bank. Only after that when the dust settles and wars are not raging and we aren't seen as imperialists do we aid the reformers thru non-profit organizations and send in Amensty International and the like to help the persecuted minorities. And then we begin open discussions about the reforming of Islam and shaking off Wahabism. 
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  6212. The violence is inexcusable but to get an understanding of the roots of the protests here is just a small selection of the Baltimore police force's rap sheet: 11/1/05 Dondi Johnson dies from injuries from riding unsecured in the back of a van 4/11/07 Terrel Jenkins beaten during questioning 8/10/07 illegally arresting elderly couple the Knoxes on kidnapping charges of their own grandson who wasn't with them. The grandfather was beaten in jail with no protection from the police 5/13/08 Police beat Wesley Williams and Shana Pendleton in front of their home and their kids 1/3/08  Edward Lamont Hunt is shot three times in the back and killed fleeing from an officer 1/5/08 Cops illegally strip search and plant drugs on Jennelle and Shakita Causey 8/7/08 Daudi Collier face smashed by radio and punched in the eye 1/9/09 Jerriel Lyles is struck in the face with a radio and gets a fractured nose and bruised eye 3/31/09 Barbara Floyd face grounded into concrete 4/22/09 Deacon Lornell Felder beaten when he ran for what cops thought was a joint he was rolling 4/27/09 Donte Harris tased and sexually assaulted for loitering 7/26/09 Venus Green broken shoulder from being thrown to the ground after calling cops about her grandson being shot 9/18/09 Starr Brown thrown to the ground and beaten when she was pregnant 6/17/12 Bolaji Obe beaten while handcuffed These are cases where police wrong doing had been acknowledged. It begs the question how many other incidences major and minor have gone on over the years unpunished and unrecorded.
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  6337. Reza dangerous? For telling people to look beyond superficial easy conclusions that "religion is muhahahaha baaaaad!"? What is dangerous in getting people to understand that Islam is not some monolithic cultural political religious entity but rather a diverse multi-ethnic multi-cultural multi-national and multi-sect collection in which individual circumstances need to be look at? This has been my biggest gripe over the whole fiasco. I find many of Harris' fans willfully ignorant of the various peoples under the umbrella called Islam as they just want to focus on written (translated) 7th century text without any of the cultural and historical context and start slinging barbs. Harris fanboys need to understand it's not so much people like myself are saying "don't criticize Islam ever!" We are saying if you are going to criticize Islam make yourself available to the information that is out there in order to make better informed criticisms otherwise what really separates you from Fox news and their ilk? Also be cognitive of how you come off. The problem with Maher and Harris is they come off as ignorant outsiders who are seen by some as Israeli apologists and so their message of criticism just aimed at the ideology and not the people is going to fall on deaf ears of many muslims. What you had that night on Maher was basically outsiders arguing for and against a person who wasn't in the room. And at the end of the day this notion of Reza's thinking being dangerous ignores the real danger. Islam as a whole hasn't pushed us to the brink of environmental disaster with global warming nor are Islamic countries bombing, droning, occupying other countries (most of them muslim) while controlling and exploiting their resources all the while supporting both the most oppressive regime in the Islamic world and what is perceived by many in the region as an expansive European/American Jewish colony.  That is the real danger - a befuddled foreign policy driven by a muddled myriad of purposes both out of greed and ideology. This more than the Koran or Reza is what ISIS is using to justify their actions and recruit impressionable people to their cause.
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  6615. The title doesn't match the video but that doesn't seem a reason to mass dislike the video. TYT doesn't say all of Japan is into kid porn and they don't say it was outlawed in manga despite the misleading title (which seems written by a staff member who wasn't paying attention - much like most of the trolls that infest TYT videos.) Just make the title match the actual video - "Possession of Child Porn Finally Banned in Japan but Manga Gets a Pass" or something along that line. No need for the knee-jerk dislikes. You have to admit though only finally getting around to banning the possession of actual child pornography this late in the day is rather unbelievable. Forget all the manga butt hurt going around here, you have to agree that this is rather shocking. This should have been a no brainer ages ago. Someone who possesses child porn has issues and I'm not going to trust that they won't act on these issues. If they know they have this problem and seek help for it then fine but possessing such material which only fuels the supply-side of cretins who make the stuff is unforgivable. And again I'm talking about the real stuff not the manga so put away the torches. But I have a question - as to real child pornography not drawings that exists in NSA-USA why does it still exist? With all the spying they do couldn't they rather easily spot that stuff and bust people?  I think many people wouldn't feel as pissed off if the NSA used their powers to bust the true vile criminals - the ones actually abusing the minors. Run faces on databases of missing kids and/or school year books. Investigate the adult "actor" for any distinguishing marks if their face is hidden, look for any clues of the locale of the shoot, chase down the distributors and trace it back to the source then move in and arrest the producers and if the evidence is overwhelming, execute them because fuck the sick bastards. But no, instead of doing some good and saving kids from a hellish existence, the NSA has got to spend massive amounts of time and money scouring the data of millions of Americans looking for boogeymen and if need be sabotaging political opponents by putting child pornography into their files. Useless bastards.
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  6699. jack cogburn 12 over 17 years is not a good track record - better gun regulation to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable along with better mental health care would go further than just arming everyone and their dog. BTW it was more like 11 as the Pearl High School shooter was leaving after his attack http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/pearlhigh.asp or 10 as the Parker School shooter left the dance hall before he was confronted and told to drop the gun http://www.nap.edu/read/10370/chapter/6#73 or 9 as the Law School the shooter was subdued by unarmed police officers before the one with the gun got back http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/us/3-slain-at-law-school-student-is-held.html "We're trained to run into the situation instead away from it,'' said one of the three, Mikael Gross, 34, of Charlotte, N.C., who ran to his car for his bulletproof vest and service pistol before tackling the suspect. Mr. Gross said that when he returned to the building he saw the gunman strike Ted Besen, another former officer, in the head. Mr. Gross said that he and another former officer, Tracy Bridges, then tackled the man." or 8 as the New Life church shooter was killed by a security guard who was doing her job not a random gun owner http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6-shot-at-new-life-church-gunman-2-churchgoers-dead or 7 as the AT&T shooting involved an off-duty police officer i.e. a trained professional http://www.lonelyconservative.com/2010/05/off-duty-cop-shoots-and-kills-gunman-in-upstate-new-york-att-store/ or 6 as the Clackmas Shooter killed himself http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2013/05/clackamas_town_center_shooting_84.html "We have no information that the suspect's -- Roberts' -- actions were ever influenced by anything Mr. Meli did. But I also can't deny it." or 5 as the Cache Valley hospital shooter was stopped by a security guard as is his job or 4 as the Sullivan high School shooter was stopped by a security guard. The argument that guns in the hands of random citizens will stop mass shooters is rather weak especially using this article as in 2 incidents the shooter had stopped their attack and 6 of them were stopped by trained professionals doing their job. That leaves only 4 examples and even the strip club shooting was a bouncer who stopped the shooter not a random citizen.
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  6745. ***** whatever, dude. I find it ironic that you keep saying Aslan is detrimental to the FGM issue when it was only a talking point made to show how Maher and later the CNN hosts were ignorant of both Islam and that part of the world. In fact it is you who are detrimental to the FGM problem with your obsessive mountain out of a molehill over one talking point. Had Alsan made numerous attempts to stop people from discussing FGM you might be on something (other than your medication) but that is not the case here. You refuse to look beyond the fact that FGM predates Islam and originated on another continent and is not heavily practiced in the areas where Islam first began and had its centers of power and influence from Mecca to Damascus to Baghdad to Istanbul. It originated in Pre-Islamic/Pre-Christian central africa. The Greeks wrote about the practice in Ancient Egypt. The influx of those religions and modern influences have had little affect on stopping the practice despite christian and islamic leaders preaching against it.  Attacking Islam and Aslan(?) over FGM is missing the target by a mile. I think you care less about FGM and care more about using it to sling mud at Aslan and Islam. This is why you not Aslan are ultimately detrimental to the discussion. You want to focus on the superficial and play your cute pseudo-intellectual word games while refusing to acknowledge that FGM is a deeply rooted issue not to be simply solved by blaming a religion that came long after it. I'm sorry but you offer nothing and are as clueless and useless as those CNN hosts - plus I think you have some issues you need to work out with a professional.
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  6756. This video should have been about 15 seconds. "Why Do Average Joe Republicans Think The GOP Cares About Them? Because they're morons! Thank you! And turning to other news...." But seriously this is a long running thing that LBJ touched on during the Civil Rights Era when he said - "If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you." The GOP courted the conservative base particularly in the South with their Southern Strategy in the wake of indignation that erupted after the Civil Rights Act was signed. Then with Reagan they wrapped themselves in the flag and thru patriotic platitudes made the descendants of those who fought to leave the country into fierce loyalists to the country while still hating the government which they equated with the Democrats. Cognitive Dissonance became the order of the day as they blamed and continue to blame the Democrats not themselves for all the racism of the past while ignoring their present-day racist policies and thoughts and ignoring the fact that either they or their parents or grandparents were once all Democrat-voters stretching back to the time of Andrew Jackson. The reason they hate big government now (but not when it helped them under FDR) is because the federal government forced the South to end slavery and later forced desegregation in schools under Eisenhower and then under LBJ signed the Civil Rights. States Rights is really just a sham. What they want are local good ole boy systems free from an overseeing body that can stop them from abusing their local power. For minorities the federal government has always been their go-to place to get things down hence all the marches throughout the country's history in Washington. The local powers generally failed them or actively worked against them so they went to DC to have their voices heard and get something down on the national level. Meanwhile the GOP wants less regulation that only the federal government has the power to enforce (ironically put in place by Republican Teddy Roosevelt) so they have convinced their base that the federal government is this evil corrupt organization which is out to give minorities privilege over them. Added to this is all the insane conspiracy theories to keep them ginned up since collectively they are a minority. What's hilarious is that this almost bit the GOP in the ass with the nomination of the base's insane ID, Trump, but with him appointing swamp fillers to cabinet positions it shows the GOP has adjusted to the change and are now back in charge. Trump will probably be impeached or persuaded to step down and complete GOP control will be had. On the federal level, deregulation will be the law of the land while at the local level there will be small tyrannies tolerated so long as they don't interfere with the main goal.
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  6870. I'm not voting for someone who is backed by an establishment that absolutely despises the progressive movement. This primary's underlying sinister agenda has less been about beating Trump but breaking the back of the progressive movement. The way they attacked Bernie and his supporters was worse than 2016. You have to hand it to Bernie staying in as long as he has considering all that has been leveled against him: First you had all the candidates adopting progressive stances which begged the question from the biased media "do we need Bernie now?" When that didn't blunt Bernie's momentum, the candidates began to walk back those stances while the media began making the primary about beating Bernie as though he were another Trump Bernie's heart issues prompted vicious and concern trolling responses to drop put before the first votes Hillary's mean-spirited comment about "no one likes him" which was echoed by centrists on twitter and hack journalists in the media Warren's backstabbing behavior. At first it seemed the progressive candidates were going to fend off the centrists then out of the blue the he said/she said nonsense which she didn't even take a stand on but felt the need to ambush Bernie with an accusation that he called her a liar on a hot mike. And now she won't endorse over snake emojis on twitter. She'd rather blame him for random tweets from his supporters (some of whom are trolls and not real supporters) and let a man she has been diametrically opposed to become the nominee. His supporters have called brown shirts by media pundits His win in Nevada was compared to the Nazi invasion of France He's been called an anti-semite as have a number of his high profile supporters over their views of Israel and AIPAC He has been asked to constantly drop out through out the primary while other candidates despite how low their numbers and chances were still given the benefit of the doubt (a strong 4th!) The media has continually ignored or downplayed any wins or positive news about Bernie Constant vicious negative attacks by pundits saying he makes their skin crawl or unhinged twitter trolls like mendozza who are not banned despite violating the TOS repeatedly Constant attacks on bernie bros including by Warren The constant assertions of Bernie being a Russian asset After Biden's SC win the DNC threw everything behind a candidate who was on his way out by getting Buttigieg and Klobuchar to drop out before Super Tuesday to drag Biden into the lead thus creating a narrative of a sense of momentum that the primary was over and all the players were coalescing behind the presumed nominee Despite a pandemic the DNC is hellbent that elections still take place to ensure Biden's delegate count in the wake of the chaos that benefits them Even the rightwing and rightwing media were never this vicious against Trump in the 2016 primaries because they knew they couldn't alienate the base but the DNC and their corporate bought media have shown little of this common sense as they have gone all out to viciously attack and smear Bernie Sanders and his supporters effectively scorching a lot of bridges to the point they cannot be repaired.  In the end I'm not about to argue with Trumpsters about the validity of Biden over Trump after what the DNC did to put him into the nomination position.
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  8047. I said it before that many on the right are just waiting for a charismatic bombastic leader whom they would slavishly follow like the little brown shirts they are (not so) deep down inside. I just never guessed that leader would be the Trumpster. I think however in this case he's the closest they can get and any port in a storm to avoid Hillary. Nazi analogies are passe (especially when used by people on the right with strong affinity to them and a lack of irony) but I think people should look less at "Nazi" Germany and more at pre-Nazi Germany to see more similarities. You had a group of disgruntled, intolerant, racist, violent-prone, anti-government yet patriotic people who were predominantly men who felt they had been humiliated and they had a love for forceful symbolism likes flags, weapons, uniforms, etc.... They were supported primarily by the less educated lower class and war industrialists. When they came into power they practically worshipped their country and their Furher like a religion. Compared to today when we have a group of disgruntled, intolerant, racist, violent-prone, anti-government yet patriotic people who are predominantly men who feel they have been humiliated and they have a love for forceful symbolism like flags, weapons, and uniforms who are supported by the less educated lower class and war industrialists. They already worship their notion of the country, the founding fathers, and Ronald Reagan like a religion. Rightwingers aren't Nazis, they're brown shirt caterpillars in waiting who one day may metamorphose into Nazi butterflies with machine gun wings.
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  8052. The system has figured out that leftists more so than rightwingers are a threat to the system because they attack the profit-generating organizations from defense contractors to oil pipeline builders to exploiters of workers in and outside of the country, etc... Rightwingers are fine so long as they get to keep their guns and you throw a few Bible verses at them but lefties needed to be divided and unfocused hence the bullshit controversies and fearmongering. Look at the Obama presidency. The rightwing did more to enable his administration in pursuing neo-con polices without much liberal protest. How? Because many liberals were distracted by bullshit rightwing outrage and conspiracy theories from birth certificates to secret islamic identity to how he salutes soldiers with a latte in his hand. All of that was distraction and to get liberals to stand behind Obama against the onslaught of rightwing lunacy while ignoring the continual wars in the Middle East. I think the same thing is shaping up with Hillary. If elected, she will face so much Republican opposition and the media is ready to report on that rather than her inevitable expanding of military operations in Syria, Yemen, Iran, and wherever else. We'll have pundits fiercely debating her involvement in Bill Clinton's affairs and there'll be shouts of misogyny from the 3rd wave feminists as the MRAs will be screaming misandry back at them. The more conspiratorial minded will be screaming election fraud. There'll be so many non-issue issues streaming about in the press and on social media which will cause most to overlook how many times our Saudi Arabian allies bomb hospitals and Israeli settlers seize more Palestinian land while US drones mistake weddings and funerals for terrorist gatherings. That stuff will be page 3 news compared to the front page news of the latest Republican outrage and subsequent Democrat response to that outrage over what dress Hillary will have worn at whatever function. This nonsense will keep liberals distracted as they scramble to defend Hillary from rightwing attack after rightwing attack much like they did with Obama. And those few brave progressives who have the nerve to criticize Hillary on her policies will be lumped in the same category as the crazy hate-filled rightwingers and their criticism will dismissed out of hand.
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  8263. If we were looking at this decades or centuries later there would be more consensus of doubt that Trump was a legit candidate with all the suspicious circumstances and coincidences surrounding his campaign. At first I thought we were going to have a situation of voting for either a puppet, Clinton who took donations from Trump and went to his wedding in return or a puppet master, Trump who has donated and bribed politicians in the past. Now I think it may be the other way around because on the one hand the Clinton Foundation has raked in like 3 billion from industries and countries like Saudi Arabia in a huge back-scratching network of influence and power hence the reason she needed a private server to conduct these deals and subsequently delete them afterwards. So she has a lot of money and influence through the Clinton Foundation and her connections. Trump on the other hand claims to be a billionaire but the way this Trump University thing has come out he's more of a petty conman nickel-and-diming every cent because he's probably worth less than a billion, much less in fact which is why he is reluctant to show his tax returns which would prove his failures have been costly. Ironically had he just sat on the money he inherited living off the interest from his dad he would probably be richer than he is now. Anyway, having been long time friends of the Clintons there was no doubt a lot of mutual backscratching going on with Trump probably helping the Clintons out at first and they helping him out later especially when they were richer and more influential. 2008 rolls around and everyone thought Hillary was going to get the Democratic nomination. SNL even made a skit in early 08 about how the media was ignoring everyone else. Everyone was sick of the Republicans after 8 disastrous years of Bush so it looked like Hillary with name recognition and light media support would easily win. No one expected Obama to gain such popular support and actually win the primary. So they learned a lot of lessons from 2008. For 2016 they would use the so-called liberal media full force like Slate and Salon with straight-up pro-Hillary articles while CNN owned by Time Warner a Hillary donator has been used to constantly focus on Trump to ratchet up the fear in liberals while framing the narrative of Hillary as the first woman presidential candidate of a major party (but not the first female presidential candidate but whatever). Once again no one expected the out of left field candidate Bernie Sanders who started with very little name recognition (remember he only ran after Warren declined who would have been more a rival to Clinton from the beginning having more name recognition and a reputation for taking on Wallstreet) and little media support. When his popularity began to soar the Hillary camp probably went "shit! here we go again!" So they pulled out all the stops to prevent another out-of-the-blue popular candidate snatching victory from the ordained nominee. Media attacked Bernie for staying in the race, for making it hard for Hillary, and being sexist rather than confronting him on the issues. The establishment DNC locked arms to screw with polling and voting places in key areas while decrying Bernie and his supporters any chance they got such as with Nevada. Meanwhile Trump has been making a fool out of himself with ridiculous statements that in past elections would have put him in the lunatic fringe and thus ignored (like the Libertarian debate). The media though lapped it up and every time he said something stupid they ran with it because it was ammunition for Hillary and her supporters with the message - "oh but we got to defeat this big bad Trump!" If Trump were not in the race Hillary would have been up against establishment Republicans like Bush, Cruz, or Rubio and many progressives would not have found her all that dissimilar from them especially during the primaries with a very progressive candidate like Sanders. She needed this ridiculous caricature of rightwing ID gone amok to fear-monger people into voting for her (despite her nationally doing much worse than Bernie in the polls against Trump but whatever). All of it just seems too coincidental. When Bernie started making more headway, Trump seemed to get more headlines as he and/or his rallies were always getting in the news for some spectacle. The media has been conveniently helping him while hurting the other Republican candidates. Now as to why Trump has been successful - it doesn't take a savvy political strategist to realize the base of the rightwing is strongly anti-establishment thanks to 20+ paranoid rightwing radio rhetoric and 8 years of paranoid Obama hatred. Trump whether plant or not is a conman opportunist and he hijacked the base right from under the establishment Republicans by going so far to the right while downing the establishment. And thanks to either a duped or willing media he was able to get his message out there largely for free. So did Trump decide to run as a favor to Clinton and create this over-the-top rightwinger whom Hillary could easily knock down both for the primaries and in the general election or was his ego slyly manipulated and he's being played for a sap? Trump never would have been able to get away with this schtick in 2000 or 2008 as he would have been seen as too silly and in 08 there was more animosity towards the Republicans for this to have worked. These 8 years of Obama have been a boon for him allowing him to snatch away the rightwing base fueled on visceral hatred of Obama and democrats. Even his criticism of Hillary seems staged and part of the overall scam as they just make criticism of Hillary the same as much of the rightwing criticism of Obama has been - silly and not worth debating. So when Trump says the system is rigged against Sanders you have to wonder does he actually believe that or has he been told to say that with the hope that Trump chiming in to support Sanders would make Sanders and his supporters look worse? Even being disparaging her vote on the Iraq War it seems to be for making her supporters willing to justify such actions as necessary (- thus setting the stage for future justifications when Hillary goes on the warpath?) I know it sounds tinfoil hat crazy but when you have a foundation worth billions with influential connections all over the place from Wallstreet to Saudi Arabia to the media and people willing to aid the Clintons in return for favors it's not really that far out of the realm of possibility especially when you add the fact that Hillary had a private server as Secretary of State to send unobserved emails to folks which were likely quid pro quo message which she had to delete. Hell one of the emails may have been to Trump directly telling him to run for office! Also keep in mind that this is a candidate whose SuperPac has spent a million dollars to hire people to police the internet and "correct" criticism of the Dear Leader. There's plenty of shady stuff surrounding the Clintons that Trump being a plant either directly or indirectly is not really that farfetched.
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  8273. Any southerner with confederate ancestors really should be mad as hell at South Carolina and the plantation class in general who favored secession. South Carolina kicked off the whole thing by seceding first over slavery concerns then firing on Ft Sumter which prompted other southern states to follow suit when Lincoln called up volunteers to put down the insurrection as any national leader would have done in his position. So basically South Carolina helped to start a war that South couldn't possibly win due to a lack of manpower and resources and could only hope they would tire the US out into giving up. It's true the latter states didn't have to secede but with SC's actions it gave the secessionists of those states more power to enact secession. And what followed was a long war that killed a large number of southerners, destroyed their homes and towns, and ended the institution a number of them sought to preserve. The reasons many of them fought like my great great grandfather who lost a leg over it such as states' rights, to protect their homes and local states, and foolhardy honor would not have been necessary had SC not started the ball roll followed by the secessionists of the other states. And all over the fact they pigheadedly refused to give up their slaves. They doomed their people, their land, and their culture for their selfish greed which they disguised as "States' Rights." One Confederate general, Patrick Cleburne, said it best when he urged the Confederacy to abolish slavery and enlist former slaves to fight: "It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision. It means the crushing of Southern manhood, the hatred of our former slaves... ...It is said that slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties." He was ignored and sure enough that was what happened and with good reason. Any true Southerner should be livid at the slave owners and the Confederacy for dragging them into a war because some selfish slave owners wouldn't even try to work with Lincoln and left in a hissy fit before he got into office. They doubled down on their racist rhetoric and held onto their slaves till the bitter and thus ensuring the Old South would always be seen as a pro-slavery nation that only fought to preserve slavery and everyone who fought for it even if they didn't do so for that reason.
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  8432. This should be a no-brainer but there is a lot of ignorance coming from conservative bigots and certain pseudo-intellectual lefties who hate all religion and the useless neutral media does little to change this ignorance. Is religion a factor? Of course it is but to focus almost solely on that is a waste of time because unless you are proposing final solutions like some kind of fascist mandatory re-education policy or genocide, you have no real practical solutions nor any real insight. Pointing at a dusty passage in the Koran to explain the situation in Iraq is like using the Bible alone to explain the troubles in Northern Ireland. Granted it's a good place to start but too many stop instead going any further due to bigotry and/or intellectual laziness. It amazes me that we have been at this war of terror for 14 years and we as a society are still so ignorant of the enemy and the peoples in the lands we have been bombing, invading, and occupying. And this isn't just the general public but also many elected officials who create and vote on policies that affect this war. We have morons from top to bottom who see muslims as some kind of simplistic monolithic force and not a wide variety of cultures and sects. This war didn't start with 911 by some crazy religious nuts crashing into buildings just for Allah and celestial virgins. What helped to get Bin Laden going was the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in which the US funded and trained the resistance. After that the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia with the first Gulf War turned him against the US and the Saudi government. He was a product of his time not some hermit who was reading the Koran in the desert and just woke up one day fired up with Allah wanting to blow shit up. The just blaming religion angle of conservatives and the likes of Sam Harris does little but fuel this endless war while avoiding admitting our own hand in meddling in those areas. They will label those of us who want to look deeper and discuss the nuances as muslim-apologists, regressives, and white guilt sufferers because they seem quite comfortable in alienating and demonizing people while making shallow conclusions.
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  8827. Trump is the bastard lovechild with webbed toes of Fox and Rightwing Talk Radio conceived on the drunken honeymoon of paranoia and fear in the aftermath of 911 and born in the wake of indignation when a black democrat took office. 15 years ago if Trump had been seriously running for presidential office, he never would have gotten away saying what he's been saying recently and be leading in the Republican polls as a result. What his popularity shows is the result of years of Fox and rightwing talk radio rhetoric seeping into the minds of conservatives while weakening the defenses of liberals and creating a bullshit "neutral" media which treats insanity as legitimate talking points. His kind of talk was the lunatic fringe of the past but now it's the leading center with the Republicans. Who would have talked about building giant border walls in the late 20th century and expecting a poorer nation to foot the bill? More importantly - who would have taken such a person seriously? Some say it's a result of people's disgust with politicians which is understandable but dumping them and embracing a blowhard fascist is lunacy. Even if Trump were to drop out tomorrow it would matter little at this point as we have seen the scary side of the Republicans truly unmasked in its severe cognitive dissonance. That genii cannot just be easily placed back in the bottle. I'm sorry but the conservative element of the country has gone too far off the deep end and it's high time we cut them loose and let them sink into the Abyss of Insanity before they pull us all in. Turn the blue dog corporate shill Democrats into the new Republican party (which they practically are anyway) along with moderate Republicans and put people like Sanders into the new Progressive Party. Then lets have real debates that don't center around giant walls and who loves Jesus and George Washington more.
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  9203. I'm not saying it's obvious the Russians interfered or straight up hacked the election but in light of all the smoke some hardcore (ie unhinged) MAGA folks surprise me. They'll grasp at ethereal straws and come up with satanic pedophile rings being run out of non-existent pizzeria basements or that Hillary had DNC staffer Seth Rich killed and inconceivably didn't make it look like a robbery - you'd have thought 8 years of Birther nonsense that went nowhere would have learned some of them. Yet on the flip side when Trump fires the Director of the FBI while he's investigating Trump's former National Security Advisor (who served about three and half hours in that position) over ties to Russia and after Trump asked that FBI Director for a pledge of loyalty like some kind of Mafia boss not too mention suggesting the dropping of the Flynn investigation, they act like "Nope! Nothing suspicious here at all!" Either Trump is hiding something or he's just massively incompetent and doesn't understand you can't solve political problems firing people like they were Gary Busey on Celebrity Apprentice. What other president has fired an Attorney General AND the Director of the FBI within the first 6 months of their Presidency? Yet some of those MAGA folks assured us Obama the secret Muslim Kenyan was a power-hungry dictator and would go so far as to suspend the elections in '12 and then '16 to keep perpetual power. Meanwhile Trump has signed executive orders that are unconstitutional. Uh...yeah...I think it safe to say we can stop (and never should have) giving ear to these folks from now on till forever. However that being said it still doesn't change the fact that the DNC screwed over Bernie, pressured the media against him, and ran a terrible campaign against Trump ignoring key areas. IF the Russians were knee-deep in hacking the election they would have had their work cut out for them if Hillary campaigned better.
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  9342. TheHandofMan no your lack of understanding does not make my criteria flawed. I know you think that makes you sound intelligent but it doesn't. America and the other countries you mentioned were not founded as a refuge for people of one particular faith or ethnicity. With Pakistan, that area had been predominately muslim to begin with since the 8th Century. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc... were more the result of European meddling and its aftermath but at the end of the day it was the people within those areas who made the decisions for themselves. Even with America, it began as a British colony and first actually bought the land off of the Native Americans. It was not until more than a hundred years after the colonies started that the area became independent and started spreading westward to the dismay of Native Americans which policies I don't support - however one difference is that Native Americans still live in America and aren't being shoved into Mexico or Canada saying they're all the same like some pro-Israelis are saying should be done with Palestine. In contrast, modern Israel began as a dream of late 19th century European zionists and preceded much faster than the US. At first while the area was controlled by the Ottomans they existed as only a colony without political power but after WWI began exerting pressure on their British overlords and their Arab neighbors. After WWII a huge bulk of Jews poured in from primarily European (hence why they were seen by some as crusaders of yore). And here is the other difference - none of the countries you mentioned (all muslim oddly enough save the US) were not founded by some principle of regaining some ancient long-lost homeland which had been originally taken thru bloody conquest. Anyway, history lesson aside, do you really want Israel to be as bad as 19th century America? Even most Americans are rather ashamed by what happened which is why Custer isn't terribly revered in modern times.
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  9525. People got sick of me complaining about Prometheus because I couldn't get over how stupid it was and how pretentious twats could defend it with pseudo-intellectual posturing. One of biggest problems I had with the story was the overall premise that started the story - two scientists with no evidence other than a cluster of circles in various ancient depictions concocted a story about the Engineers (a name that made no sense) who created humanity and apparently told ancient humans offscreen about their planet. Even the Ancient Alien guys try to come up with more evidence for their theories but these guys didn't even back it up with myths or hieroglyphs. It was just "these circles mean aliens created us and want us to visit them" and that was enough for a multi-billion project funded by an old man who thought this would also mean these aliens would know how to save him from death. Who needs logic anyhow? Then it turns out the planet is a military science experiment lab - why would they have told ancient humans about that place? They wake up an Engineer and instead of being amazed at humans being there and 2000 years having passed decides to kill them and launch on his original mission of destroying Earth for some unknown reason (funfact - it's been hinted that the death of Jesus was their reason for destroying Earth. So Buddhists, Hinduists, MesoAmericans deserved to die for the death of someone in a backwater area of the Roman Empire? FFS) without bothering to check if his home planet was still around, if the mission still had the go-ahead, and if he was going to get 2000 years of back pay. So the Engineers apparently told humans about the lab planet and when they show up, they get mad at them for doing so? And finding out the creepy xenomorphs of the original was the creation of black goo made by angry careless Engineers and a wayward android kind of ruins their mystery.
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  9869. The issue about the polls is they don't seem to line up with what a lot of people are seeing for themselves and seem more in line with Chomsky's manufactured consent. That some of the polls are finally showing some love for Bernie is likely a sign that support for Bernie is so strong that it's difficult to mask effectively anymore. Even with negative or no press, Bernie has been hitting it out of the park a lot unlike the other candidates. He went on Fox NEws where the other candidates refused to go which made them look both scared and elitist and he did very well getting a number of people in GOP country to rethink their evaluation of him. He had a great interview with Joe Rogan that got over 10 million views in less than two months with more positive commentary from people saying it opened their eyes. Bernie has more followers on social media and a more active reddit forum than the other candidates. One of his tweets not so long ago on climate change calling Trump an idiot got over 1 million likes. He's got more individual small-time donors than any other candidate and has raised the most money. Despite the heart attack and the negative press that followed, Bernie went on to hold the largest attended rally of any candidate in the primary while getting major progressive endorsements. And these are just some of the amazing things that have happened. What other candidate can compare to all this? If the DNC and the media weren't so corrupt Bernie would be far higher in the polls even as questionably done as they are.
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  10179. With dramas I generally roll my eyes at all the armchair historians pointing out the obvious historical inaccuracies big and small (kilts in Bravehearts, wrong shields in Gladiator. etc...) but a historical drama you expect better. I can even give a pass to inaccuracies with costumes if they just didn't have all the set pieces but actual historical details that are blatantly wrong and fabricated are not so forgivable. First episode states Okehamaza was a night battle and shows (fortunately doesn't actually say) that Toyotomi Hideyoshi killed Imagawa Yoshimoto. People might try to brush that off as artistic license which would be fine for a drama but not for a "historical" documentary. Imagine if another country did a documentary on a piece of your country's history that was so well known by even the lowest educated in your country and got the basic details wrong, you wouldn't take it seriously. A Japanese person once they got over the visual inaccuracies would be scratching their head at Okehazama being treated as a night battle when they grew up hearing it was in the afternoon after a thunderstorm. Granted, the actual details are murky and the accounts rather apocryphal (the timely thunderstorm in particular) but a documentary should address this if it were a misconception (and night battles weren't so unconventional - hello, Battle of Kawagoe? Hell, the Hogen no Ran). And Toyotomi (forget he wasn't called that at the time but whatever) killing Imagawa? Might as well have Lincoln riding into battle at Gettysburg and executing Stonewall Jackson on the battlefield (like they did with Ishida at Sekigahara). I give them a "C" for effort but it's obvious this was for a largely American audience with only the faintest of knowledge of the history and for many whom "katanas F'ing rule!" However, I hope they use the momentum of the series to make better and more detailed documentaries that don't squish more than half-a-century worth of events.
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  10448. ***** Try to put yourself into someone else's shoes for once. You're not saying their culture is shit? Well good for you! That is not coming across at all. Remember Harris' words? Motherlode of bad ideas. That doesn't sound like someone who has an interest in reforming Islam and try try try try try to get it through your head from a muslim perspective they are seeing the West invade, occupy, meddle, detain, etc.... while people like you are telling them that they have some bad ideas at the core of their religion. Where the fuck are your sense of priorities? "Leaders in the West and most of the Western media have been pathetic in their attempt to address this issue. " You're an idiot. How is a broad criticism of Islam going to make any difference with ISIS and the like? You're not going to convince people who are outside of your group to change when you belong to a group with a history of exploitation, meddling, invasion, etc.. of the previous group. Can you not see how Harris and people like you just unwittingly aid ISIS? What would be better is to treat each country individually and apply pressure to those respective governments to respect the rights of the oppressed while aiding those liberal progressive groups in those countries. Yes, there are liberal movements in Islam but IMHO Harris' approach makes their job harder. What you and he show is an outsider's ignorance because it comes off as though you are treating Islam almost like it were one country, culture, and people. You already showed you didn't understand the situation of Iraqi and the divide amongst the people there. It's like treating all medieval Europe the same because they were all Catholics while ignoring their different languages, cultures, customs, etc...
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  10919. Evirthewarrior If you so live in terror of a home invasion first I might suggest switching to decaf. Second be aware that most burglaries are just that - burglaries. These are people who want to get in and out quickly with something they can pawn for quick cash. They aren't looking to kill someone over a playstation because that would make cops be more on the look out for a killer than they are for someone who grabbed some jewelry plus there's the severe punishment if caught. Third if you are so worried about the likelihood of burglary, get insurance. Don't risk your life protecting property that you can get back one way or another. Fourth, invest in a security system. Again a lot of burglars aren't going to bother breaking into a home with flashing lights and sirens going off. Fifth, if you are so concerned about violent burglars, get a shotgun. The sound of cocking a shotgun would send most burglars away who don't want to risk their life over some petty cash/trinkets that they could easily swipe from a home where the resident is out. If you happen to strike the lottery of getting that one (or 5) burglars who are armed or are undeterred you don't have to aim like you do with an AR15 and you can hit multiple targets with one shot without risking a round punching thru a wall and killing your neighbor's dog. If your home invaders are undeterred at a spray of metallic spheres flying in their vicinity at a high velocity then you are probably dealing with zombies in which case your precious property is fine and you should go for head shots or just run. 
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  11017. The DNC served themselves a loser who even if she does manage to win will barely do so and will have little support from the general public. In the primaries, Bernie had very little name recognition opening his campaign with a handful in his audience and ended up filling stadiums while breaking records for fund raising from the donations of average citizens. He had little press coverage and certainly no support from the DNC. Despite all these disadvantages he became a major contender and nearly won (and some say he did) the primary against a candidate with 20+ years of name recognition, press support, Super Pacs, and full DNC support. And now Hillary is tied or trailing to a buffoon with no political experience who has two court cases coming up - one for fraud over his scam university and other for the rape of a 13 year old and again this is with those aforementioned advantages plus the dangling carrot/stick of not voting for Trump. She even has popular politicians campaigning for her like Obama, Warren, and Sanders and it still hasn't helped her much. Man, did the DNC back the wrong horse or what? What's pathetic are the few HRC shills left who are feebly trying to say Trump would have labeled Bernie a communist and that somehow this Cold War term would have resonated with people under the age of 60 for whom the Cold War is relatively a distant memory (despite Hillary and the DNC trying to warm it up). That would have been about the only card Trump had against Bernie while with Hillary he has wikileaks, her 30 years of being an insider, the corruption of the Clinton Foundation, her Wallstreet ties, the evidence of the press helping Clinton out, and so on. The irony is that if the Republican base hadn't nominated Trump, just about any other Republican candidate would have already mopped the floor with this horribly flawed candidate.
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  11055. Republicans haven't had a decent President since Eisenhower. Nixon abused his authority and was the first president to resign before he could be impeached. "Saint" Reagan was an actor asleep at the wheel half the time with Alzheimer who colluded with the Iranians to sabotage Carter's hostage negotiations not too mention did much to enrich the 1% at the expense of the 99%. Bush Senior went to war on behalf of the Saudis against Iraq which in a roundabout way led to the rise of Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden who used the presence of US troops in Arabia to gain followers. GWB started out with a surplus and a relatively peaceful situation then fell asleep ignoring the previous administrations warnings which led to 9-11. Then the Patriot Act went through taking away civil liberties, we went to war with Iraq who had nothing to do with 9-11 which led to the rise of ISIS, and then our economy collapsed because no one was keeping an eye on Wallstreet. In comparison, even the weakest Democrats come off much better historically-speaking. JFK is still a highwater water mark for presidents to follow. LBJ despite all his flaws and esculating Vietnam had the balls to sign the Civil Rights Act despite knowing he was losing the South. Carter brokered a peace between Egypt and Israel and has become the best former president we have ever had who has done a lot for people all around the world. Clinton despite the scandal is highly respected around the world and left the country with a surplus (though repealing Glas-Steagel hurt us down the road). Obama though really a center right politician was a breath of fresh air after GW Bush and is also internationally respected. None of those presidents were without faults (especially Clinton and his corporate friendly ways which rubbed off on Hillary) but they did not hurt the country or the legacy of the presidency the way some of the Republican ones have. And now the current one is shaping up to be the worst of the worst and Pence will unlikely be much better as he'll no doubt move the country backward. We'll need a Democrat president hopefully a progressive one this time to get the country moving forward again.
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  11530. Historians will look back at these people and after a long belly laugh will say... "never in the history of human beings did you have people who were the exact opposite of what they claimed to be while suffering from cognitive dissonance, delusions, paranoia, and sheer ignorance of the religion and country they claimed to love. They claimed they were anti-big government but supported the government in building giant walls to keep out refugees fleeing the violence of a drug war created by the US, they supported the government in legislating morality, and they supported conducting huge expensive wars which requires a strong government. They claimed they were Christians yet demonized the poor and cut any government social assistance programs while also supporting those aforementioned wars which weren't very christian-like. They claimed they were patriots but with the exception of the 2nd Amendment they had no problem bending the other rules if it was in their favor even with the 2nd Amendment! They claimed they were anti-tyranny but 1) had no problem with american imperialism elsewhere and 2) by all accounts were in favor of a theocratic government run primarily by white people. They also defended police brutality against minorities but when federal officials tried to remove trespassing cattle of a tax-evading rancher, they wanted to start shooting. They also claimed they wanted their country back but not being Native Americans this was unclear. Did they want the country "back" as it was in the beginning when only 21 year old land-owning white males could vote and slavery was legal? Did they want their pro-slavery Confederacy back which lasted only 4 years? Did they want the country back as it was in 1950s when blacks and women were largely second-class citizens but the economy was in good shape due to the previous 20 years of Democratic leadership that saw us out of the Depression and thru the Second World War? Did they want the country back from the 1980s when it was headed by an actor of questionable mental fortitude whom they adored as president but some of whose policies 20-30 years later would seem the equivalent of Karl Marx in their eyes if proposed by a Democrat in the 2010s? Also that rightwing mythologized president sold weapons to terrorists as well as negotiated with terrorists for political gain. We have yet to discover this country that they believed they had lost. Fortunately, most of them succumbed years ago to the natural effects of stupidity and offed themselves in spectacularly stupid ways usually with their own guns in bizarre accidents or by choking to death on mouthfuls of processed beef and cheezewhiz. Basically, when it was realized that they would do the exact opposite of whatever progressive-backed doctors and scientists said the Great Stupid Purge began. The "Stop Drinking Gasoline while Smoking" health campaign launched by Obama in the last months of his presidency was particularly effective in removing large amounts of stupid in the general populace."
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  11599. Sailor Man I was being kind in giving them 30 seconds. 15 seconds of arrival and shooting him to death makes them look worse especially as it fucking contradicts everything the police chief said afterwards! Did you not pay attention to the video at all? The chief lied about the account that the cops repeatedly told the man to drop his weapon and gave him the every chance to do so. No, they showed up, said drop it once, and shot him up - shot him when he was down on the ground I might add. You can see him on the ground and still shots are heard. How is shooting at him when he is on the ground part of procedure?  And you know the best thing to do with a knife wielder? Back up. Your bullshit of a person able to cross a certain amount of distance in a certain amount of time is moot when the other person can do the same in the opposite direction and meanwhile have their partner taze/tackle the guy from behind. "you refuse to listen to any reason or get educated on how police handle situations. " FFS will you get it through your fucking thick head that it is precisely how police handle situations that is the fucking problem. FFS how many times do I have to tell you this? You are the child with your fingers in your ears. FYI I'm not the only person complaining about police procedures. You need to open your ears, eyes, and mind and come to this realization. This wasn't a solitary incident by far and shows how the problem is systemic and people like you are part of that problem but you can't see it.
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  11800. Every myth has some grain of truth that grows as the generations pass. Most of your pagan gods no doubt come from legendary tribal leaders from the misty past who got mixed with their tribal gods as time wore on. With Jesus you have a much more narrow window when there was no Christian cult to when there was - roughly a 50-year span. I don't think someone just made up a Christ Messiah out of the blue in that short period.  As to often cited why first century writers make little to no reference to Jesus - 1) you have to realize not every written source survived the ages; 2) the Christian cult began from a very very small group who really had very few followers until after the death of Christ; 3) this small cult began in what to Rome was a backwater province - we tend to over emphasis the importance of Israel retrospectively - so why would roman writers during the time of the historical Jesus write or even be aware of someone in the outskirts of the Empire whose miracles weren't all that spectacular for a people whose gods fought hydras and dragons. Other factors to consider why there is little contemporary physical evidence that we can find today - 1) the Jewish Revolt which led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Any written records of a Jesus having been there, having a trial, and being executed would have gone up in smoke which again from the perspective of the Romans and even the Jewish leaders previously would have been a small affair of one rabbi and a few followers. For contemporaries, the burning of Jerusalem eclipsed those events that today we give so much attention towards. 2) Christianity was small group which grew slowly as underground undesirable misunderstood group in the shadows of the Empire. They spent more time worried about lions than the reality of historical Jesus. By the time Christianity had become official nearly 3 centuries had passed and there was a lot of murkiness which required a lot of hammering out to the satisfaction of an Emperor who did not want a chaotic mess of varying dogma floating about. 3) The destruction of the Library of Alexandria and the Dark Ages. Here again we have a lot of written records going up in smoke and later literacy drastically falling in society. We lost a good chunk of ancient writings thru the wars, sackings&burnings, and just the passage of time so to say that the lack of contemporary writings on the historical Jesus is proof there was no historical Jesus really is no proof of anything at all except proof of a very poor understanding of how history works while putting too much modern emphasis on people and events that contemporaries of the time would not have. Laying aside divinity, even going by the Gospels, Jesus was one spiritual leader among many whose core followers amounted to a dozen who preached to a number of people primarily in the countryside before going to the big city of Jerusalem and being crucified shortly after arrival. The historical impact would have been minimal to the people living at the time so there would have been few written accounts made and those few which had been made could have easily been destroyed over the years from the wars and the passage of time.  Also important thing to keep in mind, both the writers of the Gospels and the early Christians were more focused on the spirituality of the message of Jesus rather than the historical reality. Do we just 40 years after his death, debate the existence of Martin Luther King, Jr or do we focus more on his message of equality? Anyway,TL;DR -  it's just pseudo-intellectual posturing to make a quick buck on a popular subject
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  12568. The last thing the people of France need is Americans like Cruz and Mario using this tragedy to advocate a blind retaliation against bad guys in some place most of their constituents can't find on a map. The ignorance streaming out of them is unbelievable (though not surprising). Rubio is really fucking up though by saying: "They hate us because of our values. They hate us because young girls here go to school. They hate us because women drive." That's Saudi Arabia, you doofus, you know - our oil buddy whom we look the other way with their atrocities. Not every Middle Eastern country is the same but try telling that to morons. Women drive in many Middle Eastern countries but Rubio knows most of the Republican base has no clue of the reality of the situation any more than they understand the Shia/Sunni divide. Then you have Cruz saying: "[Terrorism] will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties" which means massive carpet bombing. This is why they hate us because we are ok with killing them, any of them - man, woman, and child - yet we have the audacity to call ourselves the good guys. A decade long war did not reduce the terrorists but somehow massive bombings and invasions will? Will those fabled FEMA Death Camps rightwing tinfoil nutters fear actually become modern day internment camps for muslims in the US and Europe? We did it once before and with people like Cruz, Rubio, and Trump ginning up people with fear, hatred, and ignorance it could easily happen again under the guise of securing our borders and making us safe.
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  12914. weareallanimals the fact that a jaywalking turned into a fatal shooting in less than a few minutes. According to Johnson, Wilson told them to get the fuck on the sidewalk then used his vehicle to block their path. According to Wilson's leaked testimony he said he pulled his gun after Brown hit him and then Brown allegedly went for his gun. I think it was a case of mistaken intent on both parties. I think Brown hearing too many stories of police shootings and living in Ferguson a town already simmering with animosity towards the police thought the cop was going to shoot him and Johnson and overreacted. Meanwhile Wilson thought Brown was some crazed person looking to kill him and he overreacted. Imagined if he had started with - "guys, could you move over to the sidewalk. You're blocking traffic and you might get hit" instead of shouting at them then blocking their path with his car which stupidly put Wilson at risk in the path of danger? And if they cussed him out he responded with "look, I can arrest you for obstructing traffic. Do you really want me to have to do that? Do us both a favor and just move over a bit, will you?" No, Wilson approached a jaywalking situation (he did not know about the shoplifting) with the attitude of an occupying soldier rather than someone charged with protecting and defending and in the span of a few short seconds from his perspective he shot 6 times and killed a young man over an altercation over jaywalking. It's only reasonable to suspect had Wilson approached the initial situation differently it would not have come down to this.
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  13140. Considering how internet savvy ISIS has been on social media I wouldn't put it past them trolling the comment sections of such videos with neocon anti-muslim comments because it helps their cause. And they know they can count on rightwing and harris fanboy nitwits to echo their sentiments. I wouldn't doubt if they were bankrolling Trump with oil profits as he's one of the biggest recruitment tools they've ever had. What the their dupes don't get is the type of war we are fighting. ISIS is fighting a war that is both physical but also propaganda and they have been winning in this latter regard due to stupidity on our part. We don't need to be fighting the entire muslim world of 1.5 billion because of idiots who cherry pick the koran and only know muslims from what they see in the news. And we don't need to call it radical islam for the simple fact our enemies want us to. What idiot does what their enemy wants? They want validity which further helps their cause and gives their followers more resolve something we don't want. We want to isolate them and cut off their support both physically and mentally. We want the people to turn against them completely but this almost impossible to do when idiots like Trump and Harris say ISIS represents Islam thus creating more of an "us vs them" mentality. Does that mean we turn a blind eye to human rights abuse particularly in countries like our ally Saudi Arabia? Of course not but we use our ally status to pressure them and meanwhile we don't tolerate anti-muslim behavior in the States as we have seen what that leads to where anyone vaguely Middle-Eastern looking is in danger of being killed by a moron. We need to sap ISIS's support and most importantly their morale and as both decline quietly move in and round up the ones we know who are war criminals, try them, and execute them. Then we need to reassess our foreign policy and stop fucking around in other people's home which has more helped to cause this ISIS mess rather than some dusty text.
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  13142. The parties aren't what they used to be. The Republican party of Lincoln which freed the slaves, gave them citizenship, and the right to vote has been overtaken by embittered racists courted away from the Democrat party by the Southern Strategy in the wake of the Civil Rights Act. The same party which produced Teddy Roosevelt and his regulations to create national parks, break up big companies, stop harmful unregulated food production has been hijacked by corporatists who want to overturn a lot of the regulation he set up and would strip mine Yellowstone in a heartbeat. The party of Eisenhower who forced desegregation in schools and warned us of the military industrial complex has been taken over by the aforementioned racists and has become a vehicle for the industrial military complex who pushed Bush into going into Iraq on bullshit premises. The Democrat party which while founded by racist genocidal slave-owning Andrew Jackson was founded in contempt of the banks and in favor of the common man (just at that time meant only white) has been replaced by wallstreet-paid bank-loving corporatists who screw over the common man on behest of their banking bosses. The party of FDR who pushed for progressive reform and helped to create a strong vibrant middle class has been hijacked by neoliberals who want to overturn and have overturn his regulations against Wallstreet and the banks destroying the middle class in the process. The party of JFK who avoided war with Russia and created the Peace Corp to aid developing countries has been taken over by warhawks wanting to heat up the cold war with Russia over leaking their shenanigans and have no problem with the continual bombing of developing nations while their banking wallstreet masters continue to exploit third world labor in sweatshops. Both founding members and later heads of these parties would be aghast at the state of the parties today and overlooking the social issues which are little more than a bone thrown to the followers would probably see little difference as the same neo-con policies which benefit the 1% are being pursued by both parties. A sad state of affairs.
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  13143. #FireColbert's heater up! It's getting chilly from all the conservative snowflakes falling down in faux outrage. Suggesting a man enjoys oral sex with another man is not homophobic - saying that it is morally/illegally wrong is which Colbert did not do. And women can be cock holsters too - it just happens that Trump and Putin have this very "curious" relationship. The only people "offended" are those conservatives faking it who for the most part think gays are going to hell anyway and those clueless easily triggered SJWs - however I have found far more of the former than the latter. The subreddit "The_Donald" was a leading instigator in getting the hashtag trending (which later got highjacked to laugh at conservative hypocrisy). I got banned by them after two comments poking fun at them because they can't handle criticism any more than their thin orange skinned leader. If anything, this tempest in a teacup reveals the homophobia of the right yet again because they think that saying someone is gay automatically means they are a bad person because that's how conservatives view homosexuals. It's like whenever they would call Obama a muslim because in their mind anyone muslim is inherently bad by default. At the end of the day Colbert is not homophobic and any on the Left thinking that needs to pop a chill pill. If tomorrow Trump and Putin decided to throw caution to the wind and embrace each other in a sweaty tussle before getting married I'm sure Colbert would be honored to serve as their Best Man provided they promised to get out of politics all together.
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  13392. Orwellian news at its finest from the mainstream media. Let us tell you what you are thinking and what you will do. Was it 85% of all Sander supporters or Democrat Sander supporters? Bernie brought in a lot of people who had no interest in Hillary to begin with. Why would they switch to her after all the shit that has gone down? Many if not most Sander supporters are progressives and they will support Jill Stein before they support a non-progressive candidate with a history of neo-con foreign votes and policies. The fix is in and has been for quite sometime. They just need a plausible reason why this unpopular candidate will have won the popular vote in November and they will point to such polls as proof. The fact is Hillary is heavily supported by big money and the establishment from Wallstreet to Time-Warner who owns CNN to the DNC which has been nearly 100% for her before the race even began to neo cons who don't like Trump. There is no way with this amount of support of money and people with connections (hell two of the three voting machine companies are Clinton donors) that Hillary will lose to a largely unsupported candidate whose party establishment hates him. The narrative is Trump is some boogieman giant to be feared and that he has a strong chance to win the election but as I pointed out before it's Hillary who has all the big support. This isn't David vs Goliath. Hillary is Goliath backed up by Goliaths fighting the Village Idiot supported by other village idiots.
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  14237. mars Cubed your faith in archeology is almost on par with that of a religious person with their Bible. Archeology can only find what's there to be found and is always changing. Next year, 5 years from now, 20, or 50 someone may stumble on some bit of pottery and all the old theories will be thrown out as has happened before. And of course there's the matter of survivability of material evidence such as those records of egyptian military forts. Trying to dispute the literal Exodus with literality is literally dumb. Exodus as we have it was written down in 500s BC from earlier written records and oral traditions by people who were less interested in historical detail than the message nor would they have been able to understand that history. They would not have been able to accurately set Moses in an exact timeframe nor would they have really cared. As for numbers those are modern estimates based a number that was written down by those for whom such details were of less important and which had obviously been exaggerated, misunderstood, or mistranslated. It's more than likely the Exodus was a tribal memory of one or several tribes of the original 12 tribes of Israel which echoed the expulsion of the Hykos or the Sea Peoples or just any group of semi-nomadic migratory people which wasn't written about by the Egyptians or it was lost or has been misinterpreted. I don't think the Exodus writers just decided to make up the entire egypt story out of the blue for no reason then foist it on their people who would have up to that point not been aware of it. Obviously there was some connection with Egypt that was in their tribal memory and oral traditions. Moses and the exodus is memory coming from a time period when there a number of semi-nomadic, migratory, and invading groups of people wandering around in the ancient world from the Hykos, the mysterious Sea Peoples, the Dorians, etc...
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  14307. To get an understanding of the roots of the protests here is just a small selection of the Baltimore police force's rap sheet: 11/1/05 Dondi Johnson dies from injuries from riding unsecured in the back of a van 4/11/07 Terrel Jenkins beaten during questioning 8/10/07 illegally arresting elderly couple the Knoxes on kidnapping charges of their own grandson who wasn't with them. The grandfather was beaten in jail with no protection from the police 5/13/08 Police beat Wesley Williams and Shana Pendleton in front of their home and their kids 1/3/08  Edward Lamont Hunt is shot three times in the back and killed fleeing from an officer 1/5/08 Cops illegally strip search and plant drugs on Jennelle and Shakita Causey 8/7/08 Daudi Collier face smashed by radio and punched in the eye 1/9/09 Jerriel Lyles is struck in the face with a radio and gets a fractured nose and bruised eye 3/31/09 Barbara Floyd face grounded into concrete 4/22/09 Deacon Lornell Felder beaten when he ran for what cops thought was a joint he was rolling 4/27/09 Donte Harris tased and sexually assaulted for loitering 7/26/09 Venus Green broken shoulder from being thrown to the ground after calling cops about her grandson being shot 9/18/09 Starr Brown thrown to the ground and beaten when she was pregnant 6/17/12 Bolaji Obe beaten while handcuffed These are cases where police wrong doing had been acknowledged. It begs the question how many other incidences major and minor have gone on over the years unpunished and unrecorded.
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  14464. Tyrion I didn't say I believed all 25 of them only that all 26 couldn't be lying. Also we know from former NBC aide Frank Scotti about Cosby's numerous womanizing and infidelities: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/ex-nbc-employee-frank-scotti-bill-cosby_n_6212860.html I dismissed the allegations out of hand the first time I heard of them in 2006. In fact I basically forgot about it because it seemed so absurd and I didn't want to believe it. I grew up with Cosby on TV both live and in syndication. No way was my initial response and remained that way for another 8 years. When it came up again this year I still rolled my eyes but as the ball got rolling I couldn't argue out of ignorance that it was all lies. The first time these allegations came out it was pretty quickly squashed - Cosby gave an exclusive interview with the National Enquirer to squash a story from another accuser. This time it started because comedian Hannibal Burgess's bit went viral and now more have come forward. And the thing was they weren't all just stories of a bit of excessive groping that could be passed off as drunken behavior or pushing forward because of mixed signals, it was the claims of being drugged that made me pay more attention. Plus there was the whole Jimmy Savile thing that blew up last year that had my British co-workers reeling. I don't know, maybe Cosby thought he was actually using Spanish Fly and loosening these girls' inhibitions not understanding from the other perspective they were waking up not remembering anything. He may actually believe he didn't do anything wrong especially as no one really called him out about it and that there were girls more than willing to be used for the sake of their career. This I admit I don't know.
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  14541. The problem is there are too many people with childish mentality who cannot do nuance for whom this long video goes over their pinheads. All they hear is "Cenk is voting for Hillary because he likes everything about her" instead of actually listening to what he said. That being said I voted for Jill Stein for two reasons - 1) first and foremost the behavior of Hillary, the DNC, and her supporters was deplorable during the farce of the primary and my vote for Stein is a Fuck You to all of them and 2) I'm registered in a Red State so it makes little difference overall. However, if I lived in a swing state I would hold my nose and vote for Hillary not because Trump scares me but because I don't want his looney fascist racist followers to feel embolden by a Trump presidency. We've already seen their deplorable actions before throughout this election cycle and if Trump gets in they will feel they have the green-light to discriminate and roll back decades of civil rights while attacks on minorities will skyrocket. Hillary is corrupt as they come but seriously a corrupt politician is something new? She'll be in fine company with other corrupt political leaders and who do you want dealing with world leaders - someone who already has experience and knows many of them (and who have no doubt contributed to the Clinton Foundation) or this blowhard buffoon whom many around the world think is a joke? Don't get me wrong Hillary is a terrible candidate and her polling shows this. Who else would be barely tied to a candidate with no experience and has two pending court cases one for fraud and another for rape of a minor? In some ways victory of either seems necessary for idiots on both sides to have their noses rubbed in it. If Hillary wins, she'll likely be terrible and progressives will shame HRC supporters for choosing her over a real progressive. If Trump wins, he'll most undoubtably be terrible (if he doesn't delegate everything to Mike Pence) and rightwingers won't be able to project themselves out of a disaster of their own making and the country can finally shove them aside and focus on real progress. There's little doubt that they'll be a one-term president when the other party puts up a half-decent candidate. At the end of the day I'd like to take the ardent supporters of both candidates the ones who helped make this election such a shit show with their childish antics and put them all on an island and let them fight each other to the death then nuke the island.
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  14800. Thought I would share this from a FB post: Q. Why did Bernie endorse Hillary now? A. They threatened to completey shut him out of the convention if he didn't. Q. Couldn't he have said screw them and go and fight at the convention anyway? A. No. Hillary has more delegates, Superdelegates, and supporters on the DNC rules committee. They would have voted down every one of our platforms, denied Bernie the opportunity to speak, and basically shut him out of the entire process. All the leverage he has gained up to this point would be gone. Q. So wait, Bernie DIDN'T quit today? A. No. He had to say she won the primary, he endorses her and will help the party defeat Trump, yadda yadda but he DID NOT concede. There is a very big and important difference. Had he conceded, all of his delegates would go to Hillary and he would no longer be an option for nominee. Q. So Bernie can actually still win?? A. YES. And if he wasn't still TRYING to win, he would have conceded. The ONLY option he had to get to the convention with his delegates behind him and have a chance to still win was to do what he did today. He is not a traitor. He didn't sell us out. He did the only possible thing he could have done to keep fighting for the nomination. Q. So how can Bernie still win if he's losing the delegate count and he just said he will help Hillary win the election? A. By far the most important thing to the DNC, even more important than making sure Hillary beats Bernie, is making sure the Democratic nominee beats the Republicans in November. They scrutinize every poll, every opinion of the public, every event to judge whether a candidate is strong enough to win in November. There are A LOT of things going on right now that show how weak of a general election candidate Hillary Clinton is: -66% of the country sees her as untrustworthy -60% thinks she should have been indicted for the email scandal -A lot of Bernie supporters won't vote for her -Congress has requested the Department of Justice investigate her for lying under oath about the email scandal -There's a possibility more emails will be leaked by wikileaks or hackers further proving her guilt -Many believe the FBI is secretly investigating the Clinton Foundation -Her "wins" during the primary have been tainted with accusations of fraud, suppression, lawsuits, and investigations And then there's Bernie. An honest candidate people trust and whose approval rating and trustworthy rating crushes Clinton's. This is the argument Bernie will make at the convention. With all his 1,900 delegates inside arguing this case and 100,000 supporters outside arguing this case, we hope the DNC realizes he's the only choice. He CAN win the convention, but he has to get there first. That's why he endorsed her today. Q. So it's still important that all of his delegates go to the convention and we all still March on it like we planned? A. It's more important now than it ever was before. Q. What if the DNC still refuses to nominate him at the convention? Can he still run third party now that he endorsed her? A. Yes. In fact, running third party has never been an option until AFTER the convention. We need to stick with Bernie and see this through to the convention. He's led us this far. Do not abandon him now. Q. What if he loses at the convention and doesn't run third party, but instead endorses Hillary 100% and asks us to vote for her? A. Then our revolution continues without him and we continue to fight against Hillary Clinton and the DNC all the way up to November and beyond by voting for someone like Jill Stein or writing Bernie in. But the time for that is NOT here yet. Q. So what did Bernie accomplish with this move? A. Backed into a corner, facing the entire political pressure of the Democratic Party and the DNC, robbed of a right to claim he should be winning if not for a rigged process, and faced with the threat of being shut out of the convention completely Bernie: 1. Managed to stay in the race and secure a prime speaking slot at a contested convention which he can turn into a floor fight 2. Kept all of his delegates to use as leverage in that floor fight 3. Got tens of thousands of people to "Like" and "follow" Green Party candidate Jill Stein on social media 4. Amplified the #NeverHilliary screams of his supporters for all the media and Superdelegates to see 12 days before the convention. Anyone trashing Bernie today needs to wake up and respect the masterful chess move he just made.
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  15011. Trump recently hit Hillary on her neocon foreign policies and he actually sounded like a liberal or liberal-ish as he blamed Hillary's vote on the Iraq War being responsible for the deaths of millions, whole-scale destruction, and the rise of ISIS. He got the most rightwing of the Republicans to agree that the war in Iraq was wrong, that they had nothing to do with 911, and ISIS was a result of the war not Islam itself. If that had been a Democrat railing against Bush, they would have stopped up their ears and screamed Benghazi but their hate of Hillary and their love of Trump is so great they went against years of Republican views/indoctrination. And how many progressives can disagree with his points here? That's the problem with Hillary - she is vulnerable to the truth and Trump can attack from both the right and the left to get at her. You can bet he will attack her next on her Wallstreet speeches if he doesn't already have a transcript/video which he plans to drop like a bombshell in the general election. It's not a matter of Bernie or Bust but that supporting Hillary with her record that can be attacked from both the right and the left along with a looming indictment make her campaign a bust and a Trump presidency a sure thing. She even has the Koch Brothers saying nice things about her! You don't think Trump won't exploit that!?! On the other hand Bernie keeps rising in popularity despite not starting with name recognition or favorable media coverage or a superpac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIg5ntYCL-E
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  15016. FFS you're an ignorant one, aren't you? Continent? Since when is Israel or even the Middle East a continent? And going by the history or mythology of the Bible, the Hebrews/Jews were first invaders who killed, enslaved, and drove off the original inhabitants. And much later it was the Jews who helped to instigate their own kicking out by rebelling against the Roman Empire; first in 70 AD which cost them Jerusalem and later in the 2nd Century which got many of them killed and many of the rest dispersed - all of this centuries before the Arab Muslims arrived which by the time they did the Jews were minorities in their own homeland. The Jews and early christians living in Israel were not forced to leave or convert as they were people of the Book. When European Crusading Christians arrived they slaughtered Jews on purpose and some nestorian christians by accident. They were kicked out because they were invaders and many Jewish and some eastern Christians aided in kicking them out. When European and North American Jews began "returning" to the Holy Land in the late 19th century and early 20th Century they weren't descendants of those "kicked out" at least not by Muslims. They were descendants of those who left or were forced out long before Mohamed was even born. When they got to their fabled home land they found people already living there as they and their ancestors had been doing so for over a thousand years if not longer (FYI Palestinians are not directly of Arabic descendent but many go back to pre-Hebrew times). Being that much of their culture was Western and they were supported by Western powers, these "returning" Jews were and still are seen more as Crusaders Reborn rather than returning original inhabitants. Invasion and occupation and expansion much like the original crusaders as opposed to peaceful co-existence with its neighbors seems to be the goal of modern-day Israel and the settlements grudgingly tolerated by the government and protected by the military do little to dispel this notion.
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  15455. Quite a number of female heroes these days have the backstory and motivation of classic villains. Villains often have a victim complex which is why they want revenge on the world in some fashion. They're self-centered with fragile egos surrounded by yes men who constantly praise them. The only reason they are the hero is because we the audience are told they are hero despite being presented without much in the way of heroics or a hero's journey of discovery or trial and error. Captain Marvel is a great example of this. Her whole backstory was that she always got up and never gave up not that she was selfless and willing to help others like a skinny Steve Rogers jumping on what he thought was a live grenade to save others. She finds out she was working for the Space NAzis and instead of being humbled by this she just shrugs her shoulders and decides to switch sides without much moral reflection. The humbling experience is also often missing from these modern day female heroes. Tony Stark, Dr Strange, and Spiderman had humbling experiences that changed their previous selfish self-centered ways and made them into heroes. Stark was a billionaire playboy weapons dealer who after getting nearly killed by his own weapons becomes a hero to stop weapons being used against innocents. Strange was a narcissistic surgeon who loses his abilities in an accident which sends him down the path of mystic arts. In the comics it was his willingness to save the Ancient One and in the movie to sacrifice himself to prevent the world being destroyed that made him a selfless hero. Spiderman went from meek to superpowered and became a self-centered jerk. His uncle being killed by a criminal he could have stopped completely shattered him and made him realize the classic Uncle Ben adage "with great power comes great responsibility." This kind of hero's journey is missing in many modern female hero stories as they are often presented as perfect already, that their flaw is allowing themselves to be held back by the patriarchy. Again, very super-villain-y.
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  15923. There's nothing to the overall story to look forward. Empire Strikes Back had a lot of momentum to get people back into the theater to see how they would rescue Han and how Luke would deal with the revelation of (spoiler!) Vader being his father. As much as I don't like the Prequels from a story-telling perspective there was momentum leading to the next movie - Anakin's continuing struggle with his dark side, the beginning of the Clone Wars, and the Palpatine's plans coming to fruition. What is there in the new series to take the story into the next film? Snoke is dead, the new Empire is run by a whining indecisive emo vader and a shouty slapstick too-young-for-his-position general, most of the original characters are dead in film or real life, the new characters barely know each so there's not much chemistry unlike the characters in the originals and prequels, there's nothing there for Rey to do or to develop as a character, Finn has no arc to fulfill since they robbed him of that at the beginning (ie a fish out of water who grew up brainwashed by a military order and now is confronting them), Poe has no arc to fulfill since he was supposed to die in the first film originally, he only made Rey at the end of the last film, and with Leia gone he has no one to play of off with brash pilot vs wise authority figure, and the Resistance has been reduced to about a dozen people. I just have no interest in where they are going to take this story, the last story of this trilogy, a trilogy with little story or character development.
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  15951. With the failure of so many linear story series promising answers to gimmicky mysteries I'd kind of like going back to old episodic TV shows where everything is pretty much wrapped up by the end of the episode unless it's a special 2-parter. So many of these shows are good at grabbing people's attention and creating a cottage industry of websites and youtube videos dedicated to dissecting the story and characters and musing about the answers to the mysteries (which in turn can lead the writers to make shitty decisions to try and fool audience expectations). Eventually it all dissolves into a soap opera where things happen more for emotional catharsis and "shocking" twisty twists rather than narrative sense. These shows (GOT, LOST, Westworld, Walking Dead, Sherlock, new Battlestar Galactica to name a few) start off with random unassuming characters who eventually become the most important beings in their universe where every event and other character revolves around them (and the fan's ego who identifies with those characters). And as the story goes along it begins to unravel as you realize the writers' really had no answers to the original mysteries or changed them because some autistic nitpicker on youtube figured it out. To cover up the main narrative's deterioration you get a lot of soap opera vignettes focused on characters who are fan favorites from badass fight/kill scenes to "shocking" romantic trysts none of which advances the story that is floundering anyway. And then add a thick gooey layer of pseudo-intellectual hamfisted socio-political analogies, allusions, and commentary to give the show and the dull-witted fans an essence of cleverness which will be helped by overthinking (yet amazingly shallow) media critics and vloggers. Viola! TV writing in the 21st Century! And who's going to rewatch these shows down the road? Or get into them for the first time if they already know it fizzles out? I don't see many fans of GOT going back to rewatch the series knowing how it ends nor people who never watched as they know going in the show devolves into a mess. Conversely, old episodic shows are easily re-watchable as you can jump in practically anywhere and enjoy a compact story without all the bullshit pretense of cleverness.
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  16228. If Slow Motion made a movie, it'd be Black Adam. Holy Sheeeet if you cut out the slow-mo it'd be barely one hour. The rest of the story is completely nonsensical. Amanda Waller is somehow the Nick Fury of the DCU telling the Justice Society to go after Black Adam just hours after he was freed because...reasons. Meanwhile, a corporation has occupied a country for 27 years without UN saying anything apparently and for some reason they have orders to detain an academic whom the leader of that corporation happens to be with for some reason so there was no reason for those detainment orders. She finds the sought-after crown that was just floating on the air for 5000 years and thank goodness Black Adam was buried/imprisoned there with the words needed to free him on his tomb so when the bad company mercs show up with a small army she can release him. How or why was he imprisoned? Don't know! How did Amanda Waller know so much how about him within hours of him being released? Don't know! How does he start speaking English in a Middle Eastern country within hours of being released to the point of mastering sarcasm and quips? Don't know! And why was there western showdown between Adam and half a dozen mercs complete with the soundtrack from the Good, Bad, and the Ugly when we had already seen him take out half an army 10 minutes earlier including attack helicopters and tanks? Was there supposed to be tension in that scene? Was it filmed before the other wipe-out-hundreds-without-breaking-a-sweat scene? Is Hawkman just Batman with wings? Nothing in this film makes any sense and people praising it or not calling it out for being a illogical narrative mess have let themselves become too blinded by the culture wars.
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  16745. "No hieroglyphs in the Great Pyramid" - this doesn't get stressed enough nor how little is said about this complete absence of hieroglyphs and anything else in them whereas tombs/pyramids built before and after them have been found with artifacts despite being looted in the form of statues/figurines and most importantly reliefs, paintings on the walls, and especially hieroglyphs. Ancient Egyptians from before the 1st Dynasty down to Cleopatra loved covering their structures inside and out with all kinds of reliefs and hieroglyphs but for some reason they took a break from this during the 4th Dynasty in regards to the interior of the three Great Pyramids. The silence surrounding this complete absence is perplexing because historians/archeologists are keen to label any change, development, or break of established patterns of behavior in the archeological records of ancient and prehistoric cultures hence Old, Middle, New Kingdoms and Naqada I-III. From the conventional timeline the Step Pyramid of Djoser was built over a century before the Great Pyramids. Inside or rather under the Step Pyramid (as there is no chamber in the structure unlike Khufu's) there are reliefs and in the burial chamber there are 5-point stars which Wikipedia has this rather telling statement: "[Jean-Phillipe Lauer - Egyptologist] found interesting evidence of limestone blocks with five pointed stars in low relief that were likely on the ceiling, indicating the first occurrence of what would become a tradition" First occurrence of a tradition - that's interesting... Now jump two centuries after the Great Pyramids to the Pyramid of Unas where the inner walls of the subterranean chambers are covered with hieroglyphs from the Book of the Dead. So in the span of a few hundred years you had pharaoh tombs (pyramids) with interior decorations of some sort before and after the Great Pyramids (and I stress interior/inside as anything outside could have been added at a later time) but there is nothing, not a stitch of anything in the Great Pyramids. Did looters chisel out reliefs from the very smooth interior walls of the Great Pyramids? Only Menkaure's had a body but it was a much later burial from the 26th Dynasty. Normally with a break in tradition and its resumption there would be all kinds of theories trying to explain this discrepancy from religious reforms to artistic style trends to foreign invasion but there's nothing as far as I can tell. For some reason no one cares that the Pyramids were completely bare of any material whatsoever from the time period they were (supposedly) built unlike those tombs shortly before and shortly after them. Then there's the mastaba tombs of top officials from the 5th-6th dynasties (so shortly after the Great Pyramids) at Saqqara and again they are full of artifacts and reliefs and they weren't pharaohs. Plus at Giza there's the 4th Dynasty mastaba tomb of Prince Khufukhaf I the son of Khufu himself which has reliefs depicting him and his family. How does he have reliefs of himself in his tomb but his dad has absolutely none in his own magnificent tomb? If they decided to put it all on the outside of his pyramid and on the outer structures this is still a break from tradition and you'd think a dozen Egyptologists and archeologists would put forth a reason for this departure from tradition which as mentioned was a tradition returned to in the 5th Dynasty. I'm not saying aliens but the absolute complete absence of any artifacts of any sort from the 4th Dynasty in the Great Pyramids and the accompanying silence on this unexplained change in tradition, I'm saying aliens! Or rather older structures of an earlier human civilization which the Ancient Egyptians borrowed from and likely did some restoration work on which is why you have the builders' tombs and villages close by and those very crude hieroglyphs hidden in the relieving chambers of "Khufu's" Pyramid but not in the main passageways and chambers. Incidentally, if you check Quora you have people saying having hieroglyphs and the like inside only started later. They base this on nothing.
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  16793. Israel is the product of the Zionist movement to reclaim the Holy Lands. It originated with Christians who wanted to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus. What was needed was a return of the Jews to the Temple Mound. To that end Jews in Europe were funded to begin settlement in then Ottoman-controlled Palestine. WWI changed everything as Ottomans were fighting the British and the French. This led to promising Arabs independence for revolting against the Ottomans but this was reneged with the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 followed up by the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The Jewish state was seen as European colonialism and part of the betrayal of the original agreements. With more immigration of European Jews following WWI it was more evidence of this resulting in hostile reactions of the Muslim inhabitants of the area. After WWI atrocities were committed on both sides with militias attacking each other and civilians. Several Jewish militias conducted terrorist actions against the British - bombings, assassinations, and of course the King David Hotel bombing. They were angered that the British restricted Jewish immigration which was angering Muslim inhabitants. When the Brits cut and ran, the Arab-Israeli War started and Jewish militias dispossessed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes - an ethnic-cleansing policy that had begun before the declaration of the nation of Israel which was one of the causes for the Arab League going to war. So when you talk about theological purposes and ethnic cleansing - that is the history of the current state of Israel (and really the ancient as well). You have the Finance Minister saying there are no Palestinians while others want a Grand Israel taking land from the Nile to the Euphrates. But the irony is that the October 7th attack that Israelis are wringing their hands about wanting to pulverize Gaza into the dust over is partially their own fault. Netanyahu and rightwingers funded the Hamas' rise to power in order to weaken Palestinian leadership and legitimacy to a 2-state solution. The hamas were able to inflict a lot of damage in a small amount of time because the bulk of the IDF were with settlers in the West Bank who had been killing Palestinians in the months leading up to 10/7. Had they not been concentrated there they likely could have responded quicker to the attacks and saved more lives as a result. Another aspect due to Israel's compulsory service it makes nearly every civilian a potential military target such as at the music festival. The majority were Israelis between 20-40 meaning they were either in the military or were former military with military training. But Israel would rather blame and bomb Palestinians than take accountability for their own actions which helped lead to October 7th.
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  17001. If you want to have fun watching heads explode, say or post something like "Historically speaking, Democrats have been the worst traitors in America history!" Then after the inevitable argeements and head nodding, launch into the fact that the Democrats refused to acknowledge the election results and some didn't even put the Republican candidate on the ballot in strong Democrat places. And as they get fired up imagining 2016 and 2020 hit them with "Then when the Republican candidate won fairly by due process, the whiny Democrats couldn't stand it that they actually seceded from the country and fired first upon a US military installation risking the lives of US servicemen and starting a war that killed so many Americans. The Confederacy was entirely a treasonous Democrat creation and everyone who fought for it were Democrat traitors to the USA and its Republican President whom they later assassinated!" Their programmed cognitive dissosance will send them reeling by linking Democrats to the Confederacy and thus to a lot of great-great-grandpappys who fought for it and whose swords still hang over many a mantlepiece. This will make them twist their brains into mental pretzels trying to defend said ancestor from the tarnish of being associated with the Democrats. And when they inevitably bring up the Democrats created the KKK as a lame rebuttal, go: "yeah most of whom where Confederate veterans that violently harrassed Republican voters in the 1868 elections even murdering a GOP organizer. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a traitor who killed American soldiers and after the war was a domestic terrorist leader. We should tear down all those monuments to Democrat Conferate traitors which put up by pro-Confederate Democrats in the first place after the war because they didn't like losing to a Republican-led military. No true American or Republican for that matter should tolerate the honoring of traitors! Oh, and did I mention they were Democrats as well?" Maybe you'll net a couple of brain aneurysms.
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  17925. exactly. Part of the purpose of the primary is to win the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates to determine who has the best chance in the General. This isn't 2016 where we didn't know Trump would win until later. We know baring removal he is the opponent. We know what he is like. We know his style of attacks. He'd attack Biden on corruption, use his base's hatred of Obama to gin them up, and mock him for low energy and Biden is likely to lose the popular vote out of apathy. With Warren, Trump will attack her from the Left like he did with Hillary. He'll attack her for being a Reagan-era Republican, flipping foreclosed houses, voting for his military budget, giving him a standing ovation when Bernie didn't, voting to confirm Ben Carson, ginning up his base and independents for her connections with Hillary and for stabbing Bernie in the back in 2016, and of course he'll bring the whole DNA thing and how she didn't prove anything with the test results except that she was willing to play Trump's childish games. It'd be brutal. I can see her winning the popular vote but like Hillary losing the Electoral. With Bernie, his main attacks would be socialism and crazy. He can't really attack him on health and age given his own situation. The weaknesses of Biden and Warren are too vulnerable to Trumpian attacks and their strengths are not enough. Biden doesn't inspire anyone. Warren comes off as stiff and not authentic - I'm still haunted by her drinking a beer (like humans do). Bernie inspires people like none of the other candidates do. We need him both to defeat Trump to make changes we desperately need.
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  18040. Anti-anti-sjws are ruining actual critiques of the movie and the new series as whole and their whinings are being used to paint much if not all critics as rightwingers afraid of diversity. What is ruining Star wars is lousy unoriginal writing, characters without motivation or purpose, a focus on spectacle over coherent story and likable characters, and a soulless milking to death of an old cash cow. The movie sucked - not because of diversity or SJW crap but as a Star Wars continuation film and just as a movie itself. It dropped plot threads that had been dangled for two years just to slap film theorists in the face - alright I admit a bit of schadenfreude at all those Snoke/Rey theory videos people put hours into making but that's because I'm cynical and was expecting a lousy resolution but even in my most jadedness I did not expect them to just toss them aside like a bored old Luke tosses aside a lightsaber his father once owned. It stole the new Battlestar Galactica episode storyline with the Empire tracking them thru hyperspace then it became Fury Road in Space - CORRECTION! a slow Fury Road in Space. Did Dern have her turn signal on the whole time? It had a grumpy get-off-my-lawn-you-darn-jedi-kids completely out-of-character Luke Skywalker who despite going to great lengths to save his friends and save his father's soul in the originals and having left a map before the last movie inexplicably contemplated killing his own nephew, abandoning his friends and the Republic when they needed him, and did nothing productive on the island and got mad when someone actually followed the map he had left. It had a B story to knock out the Battlestar Galactica device which failed utterly and did not advance the story at all except to reintroduce and possibly kill off (again) Captain Fizzle. It had several endings and refused to end when it should have with the destruction of the flagship and the (lame spoiler!) death of Snokes dragging itself out another half-hour so we could have the Battle of Hoth Redux. At the end of the movie we are left with a Resistance of about a dozen people - one cannot come back for real life reasons (Carrie Fisher) - being lead by a hotshot pilot, a First Order deserter, and Junkyward Jedi all who barely know each in sharp contrast to the end of Empire where the core group had been together for two or three years so you felt their ties to each other. And on the other side you have the evil Nu-Empire led by a buffoonish admiral who falls for cell phone pranks and Emo Vader with anger management issues neither of which are very intimidating villains. So you see you don't have to be an SJW-hating Trumpster not to like a bad movie and if you look at a number of negative audience reviews on Rotten Tomato and elsewhere you will see far more critiques like mine than just - "Star Was suxs! Feminazis ruinsed it!!!" But Disney will sweep those critiques under the rug like Sony did with Ghostbuster 2016 critiques in the same vein and just focus on the fewer moronic rightwing complaints about Mary Sue Rey (she is but not because of feminism but because of bad writing) and claim the movie a rousing critical success while damning any who dare says otherwise.
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  18134. I'm with Dixon on this. I wanted Warren to run for 2016. When this Bernie guy did instead I thought it was a joke as he and the other 2 not-Hillary candidates were largely unknowns and nothing seemed special about them. Partially thanks to the toxicity of Hillary fans, I looked more into Bernie's record and listen to his present speeches. I couldn't understand the visceral hatred that was being lobbed at him unlike the other candidates against Hillary. Then I discovered why - he made Hillary look really bad in comparison because he was more like what I and many left-leaning people thought was what a democrat should be in policy, record, and vision. Hillary came off as a lite-republican in many regards. When Warren endorsed Hillary, it upset me because Bernie was more in line with her progressive principles so it made no sense her endorsement especially as I learned that Bernie only ran because she didn't. It seemed like a stab in the back. When 2020 campaign started I wasn't completely against Warren as I hoped the two could reconcile their differences. At the beginning they seemed to be working well together then bam! the he said/she said sexist accusation without a shred of evidence and snake emojis flowed. She has done a lot to hurt the movement that once embraced her as a viable presidential candidate. As Dixon said even if warren lost the primary in 2016 it would have been her in a very strong position for this primary and she would have easily beaten even establishment-supported Biden. However, Warren made too many mistakes not just in not supporting Bernie but backtracking on issues important to progressives. We've had enough of centrists who won't fight for us. Overall it's just disappointing to see Warren fall so far and for what? Even if she does come around and support Bernie she won't be welcome with huge amounts of love as the bridges burned will need some major repair work.
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  18789. In order to properly fix GOT, you'd have to start from Season 5 with a clear cut end in mind for the overall story and the characters and work towards that goal likely taking an extra season or two like HBO wanted. But if you can only start with Season 8, the way I was hoping the Battle of Winterfell would end is that the Nightking doesn't appear. They defeat his second in command with several character losses but the question raised by Jon at the end is where is the Nightking? Cut to the Nightking further south and before him is the Golden Company sent by Cersei to wipe out Danni's remaining forces if they are victorious. Episode 3 ends with Golden Company surprised by their arrival and the last scene is on the Nightking's face with a faint look of smugness having outsmarted his enemies. Next episode Cersei sees the Golden Company returning to King's Landing but it doesn't take long to realize something is wrong. The men are all wights riding on skeletal horses and even skeletal elephants. When the people realize this suddenly the sky turns black and cold. The army of the dead has cut a fast and narrow way to king's landing obliterating everything in their path and driving others to the sides with no way of communicating - a scene can show undead birds killing messenger ravens. Now King's Landing is under siege. With this we can see the strategic sense of the Nightking - take out the central authority then the rest of the 7 Kingdoms will be easy to overwhelm. Also this would punish Cersei for playing the Game of Thrones instead of focusing on the existential threat. Euron then proves how much of a coward he is pulling up anchor and abandoning Cersei to her fate and once again humbling her in her poor choice of allies. Danni and Jon race south on their dragons while the rest of their army sails south. They meet Euron where he is humiliated for fleeing. He is executed and Greyjoys take the Iron Fleet with them to Kings Landing. There they help evacuate much of the people to their ships as the White Walkers overwhelm the defenses. When the undead reach Cersei's last refuge she then unleashes the wildfire killing herself and much of the undead army. Jon and Bran are left to confront the Nightking in the end to stop him from raising the dead who weren't burned up in the wildfire. Bran goes into the past to find a weakness of the Nightking then he wargs into Drogo to fight the ice dragon while Jon finishes off the Nightking. in the aftermath where several characters have been killed along the way - Jorah, Theon, Beric, grey worm. Jon and Danni are chosen as co-rulers and although Danni is fine with a marriage Jon is not which could lead to trouble down the road. Sansa becomes Warden of the North, Tormund is made king of the Wildlings with his people to live above or below the Wall, Sam becomes a Grand Maester and one of the small council and he's the one who records the history that we've been watching. Bran leaves to go North to become a guardian in case the white walkers should ever rise again. He promises to return in case of trouble. Jaime survives but quits the service and he decides to do the Arya thing and find some kind of peace in distant unknown lands. He gives Brienne his blessing to become the head of the Kingsguard. Tirion who actually gives good advice this time around is both lord of the Lannisters and King's Hand. The show can end with him and Varys mirroring Littlefinger and Varys from earlier seasons watching the coronation of Danni and Jon in the background speculating on the future and what troubles might arise. Not saying it would be great but a damn sight better IMHO than the crap we got. You could also throw in something about the Mountain being turned into a slave of the White Walkers and killing his creator then in the aftermath put out of his misery by the Hound who realizes the brother he has long hated is truly gone. He gives up his vengeance which makes Arya do so as well. At the end they become healers and protectors of the sick and poor forsaking their former violent paths. anyway, just an idea.
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  19566. The problem with the Left and the non-Right who don't care about labels is that from top to bottom they're emotional pseudo-intellectual idiots easily turned off and easily given in to apathy. The top keeps running terrible campaigns, not listening to their base, and offering little choice while too many of the voting class are too picky to the point they won't vote at all if a candidate doesn't fit their particular want. This is why the Right which is actually a minority keep winning. Even if they don't particularly like a candidate, GOP voters will vote because they are scared of a democrat win and many of them hate liberals with a passion hence why they voted for a thrice-married man with infidelities under his swollen belt and why they vote for candidates like Dejarlais in TN who urged both his wife and mistress to get abortions. The Left refuses to get it and so everyone suffer because instead of the lesser of two evils we get the worst of both evils but hey we got to virtue signal that we kept our principles in the face of an opposition that has no problem whatsoever sacrificing their principles at the drop of the hat if it means sticking it to the liberals. Was campaigning with Hillary a bad idea? Shit yeah it was! Was not voting for him because of it so an outright racist won a bad idea? Oh, fuck it was! The time to lambast the inept Democrat leadership (and throw them out) is before and during the primaries and then after the general election to push them to progressive policies. Knocking holes in the boat before it reaches port is not a sensible course of action.
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  19872. It's weird that this Batman movie made the Nolan films look cartoonish in comparison IMHO. Nolan was trying to make a grittier more realistic Batman but in the end failed to do so because it tried too hard especially with Bale's goofy voice. I can't listen to him without seeing the College Humor parody of him. Even the much vaunted Dark Knight seems silly despite Ledger's performance. A friend of mine long ago dismissed the film as ridiculous because - "where does a psycho clown get rocket launchers?" That's more inline with the 90s Batman films but they weren't trying to be something they weren't. The first film has Batman in a magic ninja training camp FFS which is something I hope they don't do with this version. And the less said about the horrendous Dark Knight Rising the better. I like that this Batman is damaged borderline autistic. He comes off as creepy and eerie especially to the characters around him. He's understated not over-the-top because he lives in his head more. Other characters don't know what he's thinking. All this makes the Riddler a good mirror of his character something that didn't come off as well between Batman-Joker in Burton or Nolan. The Batmen in those films were more different than their Joker counterparts but here Riddler's insanity was much closer to the Batman's own mental state. Also his motivations were so closely aligned to the Batman that the Riddler truly was a dark mirror version - of what the Batman could become if he didn't keep tight control of his mental abilities. This Batman unlike the other ones is truly teetering on the edge struggling not to become the monsters he is fighting.
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  20443. This movie was filled with forced plot devices and contrivances to make it bumble slowly forward like a drunken sloth with dementia. Batman somehow knows the parademons are attracted by fear because...? Fortunately he was able to snag a random burglar on a random night in order to snag a random parademon which randomly exploded into a plot point. Had that not happened, there'd be no movie because it was that thing that made Batman seek out Wonder Exposition Woman who sets up the premise for the whole movie making him go on a quest to put together a team (while Steppenwolf graciously took his time rather than just doing what he eventually did - popping in and mopping the floor with everyone) Why weren't those parademons as easily destroyed later and why didn't they all explode with mother box emblems and why did the first one do so in the first place? How was Steppenwolf defeated the last time if he showed up with all 3 motherboxes ready to transform Earth? It would seem to organize a huge army of different forces would have required some time and the movie implied that Steppenwolf would have transformed the Earth in a short matter of time. Everything is written backwards to explain the present situation - there 3 motherboxes on earth - why? Uh...because Steppenwolf came to earth before, was defeated, and the boxes were separated kept hidden for thousands of years (but really easily recoverable). Batman needs to create a team - why? uh...Because he discovered that Steppenwolf is coming back -how? Uh... he found out from a parademon - how? Uh... he discovered that they are attracted to fear - how did he figure that out? How the fuck should I know?
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  20451. The fix is in. The DNC are going to pull out all the stops to end Bernie's campaign particularly in Michigan which he won last time. It'll be a crushing symbolic blow. Meanwhile they'll continue to support Joe Where Am I Biden because enough voters are stupid enough to focus on Obama nostalgia and getting rid of Trump than to be concerned about actual policy and any kind of future. A month after the convention when they have taken care of any loose threads Biden will have a suddenly medical emergency where it's discovered he has dementia and cannot possibly run for President. His VP, one the unelectable ones like Harris, will now be the presidential candidate and who will she name for VP none other than Hillary Clinton! (cue ominous music) They'll cut a backroom deal with Trump so that "loses" in the election in return for amnesty for his financial crimes and then they will go on to run one the most corrupt yet slick administration ever until Harris has an unfortunate accident half a year later leaving Hillary to bravely assume the office of the president for the good of the country. Liberal and conservative opponents will begin dying in mysterious circumstances. Bernie will flee to Switzerland under an assumed name. The Obamas will have one their daughter work at the White House but really she is a hostage to ensure their compliance. Bernie bros will be hunted and exterminated. Those of us who live will have to put on forced smiles and say loudly in public "Isn't a good thing Hillary is President? Yes, it's a very good thing!"
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  20504. If she had casted someone with Ethiopian ancestry to portray Hatshepsut it wouldn't have caused as much of an uproar as 1) Ethiopia is closer to Egypt and 2) many of the "Cleopatra was born in Egypt which is in Africa therefore she is black" crowd most likely never heard of Hatshepsut (who more than likely shared genetics similarities to the peoples of Sumer and Akkadians). What this whole thing is about is once again us Americans superimposing our internal issues onto the world along with our general ignorance of geography and history. There's a prevailing thought that Africa is apparently one country with a monolithic people and culture instead of a huge continent with much diversity in ethnicities, cultures, histories, and languages. Some fun facts that would ruin the racial feminist narrative of this "documentary" - Cleopatra was from a three-century long line of Greek Macedonians who never bothered to learn the language and were massively inbred. They culturally appropriated elements of Ancient Egyptian culture and religion to make themselves more powerful not out of a sense of belonging. There was a rogue state within their kingdom of rebellious native Egyptians for 20 years a century before Cleopatra that nearly drove the Ptolemies out. Cleopatra was married to her brother. While she was the only one of her line to learn Egyptian (which was probably political to gain popular support against her brother-husband) she backed the wrong horse in her attempt to undermine Roman government and in the end made Egypt into a tributary of Rome bereft of autonomy.
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  21175. This is the old debate of Rey vs Luke and the question of Mary Sue. Some Rey supporters fired back at the criticism that Rey was a Mary Sue by saying so was Luke (as though two wrongs make a right). They missed the obvious difference that Luke struggled through out the films especially the first one. This made his ultimate win seem more of an achievement. He got beat up by Tuskens, bar patrons, snow monsters, Darth Vader, etc... while being derided by even his own friends. Rey on the other hand barely struggled, was praised by everyone on both sides, and outdid everyone on everything from improving the Millenium Falcon to besting Luke and Kylo in fighting and using the Force. She was even called the best fighter. Another thing is she barely needed help from anyone unlike Luke. A theme in the originals was the importance of friends which Luke chose even over his Jedi training. This made him a more likable character. He was willing to risk his life to save Han from Jabba even with a whole Empire out there. In TROS in an effort to explain Rey being good or now better at the Force was her year of training with Leia which was done at the expense of her friends! Anyway, what the proponents of these uberfemsch characters fail to understand is that characters without flaws (or rather flaws that are praised - arrogance, emotionally-closed off, general bitchiness etc...) who don't have to struggle are boring. Even James Bond gets his ass kicked in every one of his films and he's an experienced trained spy
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