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Old 11-20-2019, 08:55 AM   #61
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True, but kinda beside the (my) point.
Okay, I see your point. I just don't agree.
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Old 11-20-2019, 09:30 AM   #62
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Okay, I see your point. I just don't agree.
Really? It's perfectly acceptable to whack the hell outta somebody for 'thought crime'?
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Old 11-20-2019, 09:48 AM   #63
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Really? It's perfectly acceptable to whack the hell outta somebody for 'thought crime'?
Last time we waited for Nazis to behave, they burned Europe down.

And ISIS kinda speaks for itself. Their idea of behaving is to kill a person prior to cutting their head off with a pocket knife.
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Old 11-20-2019, 09:53 AM   #64
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You make an excellent and convincing case for more foreign wars.
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Old 11-20-2019, 10:00 AM   #65
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You make an excellent and convincing case for more foreign wars.
Now all I need is for everyone to agree with me, elect me president, and hand me a friendly congress.
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Old 11-20-2019, 10:04 AM   #66
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I mean, in my opinion, we have been in exactly two justifiable wars since the end of the war of 1812, which would be world war two and the Korean war.

On the Iraq thing, our adventures allowed ISIS to become a threat, by creating a power vacuum.
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Old 11-20-2019, 10:11 AM   #67
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Last time we waited for Nazis to behave, they burned Europe down.
But we're not talkin' about then, we're talkin' about now; we're not talkin' about an army or government, we're talkin' about some nimrod sportin' a swastika.

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And ISIS kinda speaks for itself. Their idea of behaving is to kill a person prior to cutting their head off with a pocket knife.
Okay, you're havin' lunch, at the table next to you a fellow is spoutin' off about his admiration of ISIS and how he plans to join them. You gonna punch him in the head? For bein' stupid?
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Old 11-20-2019, 04:32 PM   #68
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You gonna punch him in the head?
Punch him in the head! How crude.

Through the town, we are stalkin'
ISIS recruit, while he's walkin'
A first round kill from the top of a hill
Walking in a sniper wonderland

Or in his dwelling we could plant a time bomb
And we'd set it to go off at twelve
He'd be leaving in a million pieces
When it goes and blows him all to Heh, eh, e...

Later on, we may conspire
Instead to set his place on fire
We'll laugh as he cries
While we burn him alive

Walking in a sniper wonderland
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Old 11-20-2019, 04:48 PM   #69
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plug him after he joins, not before

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Old 11-20-2019, 04:50 PM   #70
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Punch him in the head! How crude.

Through the town, we are stalkin'
ISIS recruit, while he's walkin'
A first round kill from the top of a hill
Walking in a sniper wonderland

Or in his dwelling we could plant a time bomb
And we'd set it to go off at twelve
He'd be leaving in a million pieces
When it goes and blows him all to Heh, eh, e...

Later on, we may conspire
Instead to set his place on fire
We'll laugh as he cries
While we burn him alive

Walking in a sniper wonderland
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Old 11-20-2019, 05:09 PM   #71
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Either way.

If Allah wills that he be ISIS, he'll survive it.

If he dies, it's because Allah decided he was too stupid to live anyway.
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Old 11-20-2019, 05:10 PM   #72
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"Last time we waited for them to behave" is a case for more foreign intervention. There are power vacuums all over the place, and Nazis of different stripes all over the place.

Kosovo was certainly defensible from that perspective
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Old 11-20-2019, 06:14 PM   #73
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Either way.

If Allah wills that he be ISIS, he'll survive it.

If he dies, it's because Allah decided he was too stupid to live anyway.
HA!
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Old 11-20-2019, 06:30 PM   #74
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"Last time we waited for them to behave" is a case for more foreign intervention. There are power vacuums all over the place, and Nazis of different stripes all over the place.

Kosovo was certainly defensible from that perspective
When we *know a jackhole nation is gunnin' for us or our friends, actin' preemptively can be justfied. When we get all adventuristic that's when we screw up.









*not 'suspect', know...Iggy Rabinowitz: If you know someone is coming to kill you, get up early and go kill him first....know is a high standard and we ought to work hard to meet it, without exception
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Old 07-09-2020, 05:22 PM   #75
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How about having your heart broken for a little bit today?

Here ya go.



From this story on NPR.ORG today. Very, very worthy.

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As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, Elliott first conducted the anti-racism experiment on her all-white third-grade classroom, the day after the civil rights leader was killed.

She wanted them to understand what discrimination felt like. Elliott split her students into two groups, based on eye color. She told them that people with brown eyes were superior to those with blue eyes, for reasons she made up. Brown-eyed people, she told the students, are smarter, more civilized and better than blue-eyed people.
She says we're repeating this blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment every day.
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