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Hell call the next… for the cretinous little buggers who thought it would be the funniest thing ever to head into central Paris last night and let off some nice noisy explody firecrackers.
They got arrested and hopefully they’re not laughing quite so much now.
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
What Ruth said. And they were freedom fries.
I recall they were to be eaten with cheese by surrender monkeys. Is that correct?
The problem you and Ruth have is that how would others possibly know what the majority of Americans think? Your media is our source. With Trump currently their darling.
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Alan Cresswell
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The easiest way is this. When you see the media reporting something which they imply is the "majority view" or "so obvious, who wouldn't think this?" then you disregard what they say. Get on line, talk to people from which ever group the media claim to be representing. You may find the media are right, mostly you'll find they exaggerated things to the point of being effectively false to sell copy, or promote a cause dear to the heart of the owners of that media outlet - usually his wallet.
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Gamaliel
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Thing is, though, No Prophet ... there are more US news outlets than the ones that tend to get villified over here - Fox - or those that get villified over there - CNN and MSNBC ...
My impression of the US news media overall is that it is just as varied as anything you'll find over here - with the range running from completely cretinous to actually really rather good ... which is also what you find here too.
What tends to happen is that it's the most cretinous elements that attract the most attention.
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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
The problem you and Ruth have is that how would others possibly know what the majority of Americans think? Your media is our source.
That you trust our media is not Ruth's problem. It's yours. You'd have to be an idiot to trust our media. And you'd have to be an idiot not to realize you'd have to be an idiot to trust our media. Thinking people on this side of the pond check things in world news against BBC, Al Jazeera, and other foreign media outlets as a reality check against our very twisted media. Not that all foreign media sources are perforce reliable. But they're not subject to the same pressures that American sources are.
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let me be clearer. Media in all its forms is the source of the world's information about other parts of the world. While shipmates may be excellent appraisers of the quality of that information, for the average person around the world, not so much. I personally knew that the anti-French sentiment of a dozen years ago was from a shrill and humour-mongering minority, but it was rathe dominant.
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RuthW
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no prophet: How stupid can you be? You're consuming a very narrow band of American media if you think Trump is their "darling." Try NPR. Or any one of a number of non-Murdoch-owned outlets.
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Gamaliel
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I have noticed a propensity among certain Americans not to trust ANY news media - whether left, right or centre in ideology - and to for them to turn to whacko nut-job conspiracy theory websites instead.
I say 'certain Americans' because it's not a tendency I've observed among most American I know in real life - nor those I encounter virtually here aboard Ship. However, it does seem pretty common among Americans I come across through various social media outlets.
I'd prepared to accept that an impression of similar numbskullicity might be gained if one were to browse the posts of certain Brits. You know the type they are ... the 'Kippers and the like - whether the Disgusteds of Tonbridge Wells or the 'They're all after our jobs' types of East London.
These days, though, we'd have to read the Telegraph for the splutterings of retired RAF wing-commanders and army colonels.
I'm not an expert on US media and much of what I've seen of it either leaves me cold or open-mouthed at the crassness of it - but then so do the British red-tops and the Daily Wail and Daily Excess.
I have come across some right-wing Americans who do watch BBC broadcasts - if only to pontificate, 'the BBC is as bad as MSNBC!'
The conspiracy sites and the sites with titles like 'American Patriot' or 'American Conservative' with crossed rifle logos and so on make me go ... ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif) ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
But I'd imagine we'd find equally eye-brow raising sites in Russia and China and other parts of the world.
Also, there are certainly independent websites and non-Murdoch news channels in the US which don't go down that kind of route and where you'll find as much - if not more - antagonism towards butt-brains like Trump than anything you might find in media over here.
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I have noticed a propensity among certain Americans not to trust ANY news media - whether left, right or centre in ideology - and to for them to turn to whacko nut-job conspiracy theory websites instead.
I say 'certain Americans' because it's not a tendency I've observed among most American I know in real life - nor those I encounter virtually here aboard Ship. However, it does seem pretty common among Americans I come across through various social media outlets.
I'd prepared to accept that an impression of similar numbskullicity might be gained if one were to browse the posts of certain Brits. You know the type they are ... the 'Kippers and the like - whether the Disgusteds of Tonbridge Wells or the 'They're all after our jobs' types of East London.
From what I've seen, the rugged-individualist, conspiracy theory types ARE more prevalent in the USA than in the UK. A Little Englander will say something like "Bloody EU, trying to slap labels on all our dairy products and tell us what we can teach our kids in school", and leave it at that. Whereas an American of the "Paranoid Style" will draw in supposedly hidden global conspiracies of an occultic hue(eg. the Bilderbergers) to spice up his denunciation of the more visible threats.
Though I have heard that the Freemen On The Land, which is straight out of the American militia subculture, has developed a bit of a following in the UK. I don't know enough about the British domestic scene to know if this might be connected to an increased distrust in the police.
And of course, the UK has David Icke.
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One more thing...
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The conspiracy sites and the sites with titles like 'American Patriot' or 'American Conservative' with crossed rifle logos and so on make me go ...
The American Conservative tends to publish people like Pat Buchanan, Eric Margolis, and Rand Paul, who tend to be hostile toward increased American intervention in the middle east and elsewhere. This marks them apart from FOX News etc, who tend to just cheerlead for whatever the official Right is proposing(which almost always includes more war).
If I'm not mistaken, the Murdoch press in the UK is closer to FOX in this regard.
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Gamaliel
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Sure, I'm not saying that sites with titles like 'American Patriot' have the same agenda as Fox News ... which, as you say, has an agenda that is similar to Murdoch-media the world over.
I was simply using it as an example of the kind of US site/news and comment outlet that makes me go ...
If the title wasn't bad enough - isn't 'Patriot' in the US short-hand for gun-totin' US Particularist? - then it's the crossed rifles insignia that sends me heading for the hills ...
I don't think we've heard anything from David Icke for a while. I've only ever met one person in real life who took him seriously ...
Whereas I get the impression that were I to travel across certain States in the US I'd have to keep my mouth well buttoned up lest I be dragged outside and bull-whipped - or worse - for being a Goddamned Pinko Limey 'Enabler' or some such horse-shit ...
But that's just an impression ...
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Gamaliel
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Sorry Stetson, you mentioned the 'American Conservative' rather than 'American Patriot'. My bad.
Either way, rightly or wrongly, for better or for worse, the terms 'Conservative' and 'Patriot' are both terms I'd rather not see conjoined with American in a publication title.
'American Liberal', 'American Progressive' or 'American Inclusivist' or even 'American Commonsense Publication That Wants Everything to Be Just Nice' would fall easier on my eye ... and none of those are oxymorons.
I don't know what it is, but any combination of the terms 'American', 'Patriot' and 'Conservative' would turn me into a quivering wreck ... I hear the twang of banjos ... the ropes tightening about my wrists ...
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I'll wake up with a jolt and in a cold-sweat tonight ... (uncorks whisky tumbler) ...
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Stetson:
And of course, the UK has David Icke.
He may still be alive but he's certainly dropped completely off the radar. I don't think anyone's heard anything from him for years - though it's probably there if you actively look for it. No mainstream coverage, anyhow.
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Stetson:
And of course, the UK has David Icke.
He may still be alive but he's certainly dropped completely off the radar. I don't think anyone's heard anything from him for years - though it's probably there if you actively look for it. No mainstream coverage, anyhow.
I'm sure you're right.
Icke is basically the equivalent of Alex Jones in the US. I think Jones has a bit of a higher profile(he turns up playing himself in Hollywood films occassionally), though nothing approaching mainstream acceptablility.
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Golden Key
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Errr...how did a thread to rage about the Paris attacks turn into *another* trash America fest?
And no, The Donald isn't enough of a reason.
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Again, my particularly take on things is irrelevant as they come from American meda. What is important is what the typical person understands. Telling me to attend to NPR or that I'm stupid not to go online to check it all out doesn't answer for the average person who looks at some trending idea or meme.
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Gamaliel
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I can't speak for No Prophet, but I'm not trashing America ...
I am surprised that No Prophet can speak at all, though, as his flag is clearly set so high up the particular orifice that he speaks out of that his words probably don't have room to emerge from between the cheeks of his butt.
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“The killing has to stop and world leaders must find a way forward that defeats ISIS using the weapon that these terrorists fear most of all, peace talks.
“There were signs over the weekend that those talks may now have some new foundation and I would encourage presidents and prime ministers to recognise that the drones cannot provide a solution and pick up the phones and find a way of halting this never ending circle of death.”
I thought this was a spoof quote when I first read it. Turns out to be true.
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Alan Cresswell
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And, why may I ask, have you shared that in Hell? Not that I object to the opportunity to read wise words. Maybe the Greens could win my vote back from Corbyn (at the moment I wouldn't say Labour, because I'm not convinced the party has seen the light and got behind Corbyn).
"We cannot let a handful of terrorists dictate ...", well it doesn't really matter what follows that phrase, it's a good thing to say. The terrorists win if we let them change us.
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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
And, why may I ask, have you shared that in Hell?
Presumably because he wants as many dead civilians as he can possibly squeeze out of this fuck-awful situation, and his tiny mind can't quite envisage a scenario where bombing the crap out of towns and cities isn't going to bring peace.
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Here's the kind of thing that gets represented as news and media online: "...selfie altered to look like Paris suicide bomber". This is an equal opportunity offence, this time by a Spanish news source, with the error pointed out by a Canadian one.
Gammy thinks she's cute liking my gams, but continues to miss the point that regardless of the sources of news online it is what people accept as truth. It isn't truth.
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
I can't speak for No Prophet, but I'm not trashing America ...
No, and you displayed a great deal of insight. (Meaning, of course, that you said some things with which I agree. ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
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Maybe people are just starting to notice the inconsistancy in you aping the behavior you claim to despise. As for your dismissal of NPR, it only you prefer American news outlets that confirm your biases. Like Fox.
For the record Gam, he three words you mention have been so co-opted by assholes that they tend to give me the wilies, too, although i stared calling myself a patriot again when Ani DiFranco reclaimed the term.
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I am not dismissing NPR, they just aren't on the radar for the younger people who happen to have set me straight on where they get their info. Here in Canada, they pay a wee bit of attention to CBC as a standard news outlet, but seem to attend to headlines only, and all the rest is quick and short tidbits of sensational. That may be logically and internally and anally inconsistent with something of concern, but it does seem important about what passes for news and general public opinion.
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
I have noticed a propensity among certain Americans not to trust ANY news media - whether left, right or centre in ideology - and to for them to turn to whacko nut-job conspiracy theory websites instead.
I say 'certain Americans' because it's not a tendency I've observed among most American I know in real life - nor those I encounter virtually here aboard Ship. However, it does seem pretty common among Americans I come across through various social media outlets.
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News Flash; there are lots of trolls on the internet.
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I am in rare agreement with President Obama;
Jeb Bush saying that the US should only take Syrian Refugees who are Christian is shameful.
I keep finding it hard to decide which of the Republican Presidential Candidates is the least loathsome.
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Looking at the field, I'm somewhat relieved that that is a decision I don't need to make.
As a furiner, I'll only have to bear the consequences if you get it wrong.
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Jonah the Whale
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Errr...how did a thread to rage about the Paris attacks turn into *another* trash America fest?
And no, The Donald isn't enough of a reason.
This thread has never really been for raging about the Paris attacks, except for La Vie en Rouge. From the first couple of posts it has been about romanlion and about how awful so many of us are in the West. Trashing America seems to me to be just another way for us to aim our rage at anyone but the sick bastards who carried out these attacks.
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The thing is, Jonah, whilst it's certainly true that the internet is full of trolls and nut-jobs - as I have helpfully been reminded here - one rarely comes across anyone so manifestly despicable as romanlion - so it's hardly surprising that this thread has veered from outrage at the terrible events in Paris and the sick bastards who carried it out - to observations about the kind of views that romanlion and his ilk tend to promote.
There's also been the matter of No Prophet's Flag Distorts His Farts reducing US public opinion to what's found on internet memes or on Fox News - and sure, a lot of people go along with that but as Kelly Alves, Ruth and others have been pointing out this doesn't mean that everybody does ... any more than it means that all British people believe The Sun, the Daily Wail and the Excess ...
So no, I don't accept that this thread has descended into a 'let's bash America' thread - rather it's become - inevitably - a clash between more liberal and more conservative types ... with various gradations between the extremes.
Romanlion is out on one limb ... way out on one limb. So way out I'm surprised it hasn't snapped.
As for No Prophet, all he seems to be doing is taking soundings from things he sees on-line or people he knows within his immediate circle and extrapolating that to suggest that everyone - or the vast majority of people - think the same.
He's done this before, I've noticed, on threads about evangelicalism (to take one example) when he assumed that evangelicalism the world over was exactly the same as the version he'd encountered within 200 yards of his own front door.
Sure, we can all do that to a certain extent with various pet peeves, but No Prophet specialises in it - to the extent that I no longer take him seriously.
I assume I'm the 'Gammy' he refers to, in which case I'm a he and not a she ... so he can't even get that right.
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FFS. Komensky and Steve Langton exist in parallel universes that are so populated by the ghosties of their own imagining that I'm surprised they can take time out from their crusade to hunt out a) Constantinian Christianity or b) the influence of Holy Trinity Brompton to wipe their own backsides, never mind engage in a sensible conversation.
Of course their analysis has some validity, but they both attack every possible conversation with the vigour of a rabid dog seeing the threat of a postman's leg.
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mr cheesy
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
John Oliver covers it best.
I saw that, but thought it didn't really deserve the publicity it generated in the media (Guardian, New Yorker etc all praised it almost instantly).
For one thing, it is a fucking stupid line of argument. The lives of the French are never going to be destroyed because they have a nice brand of cigarettes, a half-baked existentialist philosopher and some over-sweet confectionary? Have you heard of Vichy, John? Or do you think that these things have only existed in the time since you were in short trousers?
For another thing, I don't see the publicity for a cable channel praising Russia for having great vodka and potatoes in solidarity with their plane loss, or discussing falafel and humus in response to the attacks in Lebanon.
Maybe he did. Maybe John Oliver is an equal-opportunity satirist, but I'm pretty damn sure the NYer and Guardian didn't splash his words all over their website.
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Re more variety in news sources:
Check out the many links at the bottom of HuffPost's front page.
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Gamaliel
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What are you on about, mr cheesy?
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I don't see either Komensky or Steve Langton anywhere on this thread - it's got nothing to do with HTB for one thing and probably isn't Constantinian enough for Steve (although give him time ...)
As for the John Oliver thing - how literal can you get? It's satire FFS ... do you think he really believes that France will be saved by the ghosts of Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, by iconic brands of cigarettes and cones of fancy pastries?
You sound like the sort of person who'd read Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' and say, "This is disgusting, he's actually proposing that we eat Irish children ..."
Or like the Anglican bishop who is said to have had looked for Lilliput on his globe when 'Gulliver's Travels' came out.
Or have I got the wrong end of your stick?
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Gamaliel
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Ok - so I've just bobbed over to the Purgatory version of this thread and so can see what you're getting at about Steve Langton and Komensky.
So, yes, point taken and point well made.
What particularly struck me was Steve's helpful comment that all Christians who have found themselves in some kind of 'Constantinian' set-up are ipso facto 'bad Christians' as a result of that irrespective of how well-meaning they might be otherwise.
Yeah, right ...
And this is the guy who took it badly when I quoted Richard Baxter to the effect that - sincere though they might very well be - the besetting sin of Anabaptists was to be overly judgemental and holier-than-thou. QED.
But of course, Baxter himself is beyond the pale because he served as an army chaplain for the Parliamentarians during the Civil War.
But my point about John Oliver and satire still stands.
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mr cheesy
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quote:
Originally posted by Gamaliel:
But my point about John Oliver and satire still stands.
I think I was pretty clear that my beef was with the media - including the media in countries where Oliver's programme cannot even be seen - giving saturation coverage to a a short monologue which cannot have been written in much more than 24 hours, and with the apparently widespread view that this was the best response to the atrocity.
I don't think it was. I thought it was bollocks. Not very funny, not very clever, not very insightful, not really worth reporting in the international media.
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Haven't seen that John Oliver piece yet. But as to him, and satire in general, ISTM this is where the persuasive voice of change is coming from. John Oliver played a larger role in the American Net Neutrality battle than almost any American. Satire has power because it is not establishment and it entertains.
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I didn't think it was particularly clever or funny either, mr cheesy - but at least I didn't take him literally as you appeared to do ...
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Allow me to summarize the key parts of the Last Week Tonight bit:
1) This was done by fucking assholes. Possibly aided by other total fucking assholes, in accordance with a philosophy of utter assholery.
2) Fuck those assholes.
There was then some droll allusion to Jihadists trying to have a "culture war" with France, and asserting "good fucking luck".
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
I didn't think it was particularly clever or funny either, mr cheesy - but at least I didn't take him literally as you appeared to do ...
I invite you to read the reports of this in The New Yorker, the Guardian the Independent, Buzzfeed etc etc and so on..
And then you might understand what I'm saying.
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Originally posted by RooK:
Allow me to summarize the key parts of the Last Week Tonight bit:
1) This was done by fucking assholes. Possibly aided by other total fucking assholes, in accordance with a philosophy of utter assholery.
2) Fuck those assholes.
There was then some droll allusion to Jihadists trying to have a "culture war" with France, and asserting "good fucking luck".
It sounds like it wasn't the kind of satire where you say the polar opposite of what you believe(eg. A Modest Proposal), but rather the kind where you say what you do believe, but in an exaggerated and/or light-hearted manner.
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Well yes, that's exactly what it was Stetson.
I have some sympathy with mr cheesy's view that it wasn't particularly clever or original and that the media coverage it evoked was rather OTT ... but I suspect it acted like some kind of safety valve or release ... like when someone swears when they bash their finger when hanging a picture on the wall ...
I don't have an issue with mr cheesy's overall point, but his 'what a stupid argument' schtick seemed to miss the point somewhat from my reading of his post ... but hey ... it's no big deal.
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I believe the time for France is now...
They left NATO to decide themselves how to deploy their own buckets of "Instant Sunshine".
What are they waiting for?
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Unlike you, the French government aren't homicidal maniacs.
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Unlike you, the French government aren't homicidal maniacs.
Yes they are. History shows they are EXACTLY as homicidal as me. Especially if they or (if I win the EuroMillions this weekend) me decide to get MEDIEVAL on their asses!
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By all means, go after them swinging a morning star.
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
By all means, go after them swinging a morning star.
Hmm. What about Conrad III having a few buckets of uncontrolled neutrons? What would he hav done?
I'm with him.
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deano, go to bed, you're pissed as a parrot.
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We're civilised human beings, not criminal thugs like Daesh. We don't, or shouldn't, set out to target civilians. It's highly unfortunate, and reason enough to reconsider our tactics, that conventional "smart" bombs kill the innocent along with the probably guilty. And, you propose we extend the range of our crimes against humanity by using nukes?
Go home, and repeat at least one thousand times "Two wrongs do not make a right".
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Originally posted by deano:
I believe the time for France is now...
They left NATO to decide themselves how to deploy their own buckets of "Instant Sunshine".
This might help you sober up.
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France withdrew from the integrated military command in 1966 to pursue an independent defense system but returned to full participation on 3 April 2009.
So you're ignorant as well as stupid. Good work.
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