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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#98401: Aug 11th 2015 at 3:59:06 PM

This is really why BLM can't target Hillary, Secret Service will nope that shit from orbit.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#98402: Aug 11th 2015 at 4:04:30 PM

@Morgikit: Just busting out your guns and shooting cops is a lot simpler.

Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#98403: Aug 11th 2015 at 4:17:30 PM

[up]Wow...and yet we're expected to believe the protesters are the violent thugs with no respect for authority.

tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#98404: Aug 11th 2015 at 4:41:34 PM

Arlington, Texas's police chief has fired the officer who shot and killed an unarmed Angelo State University football player.

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#98405: Aug 11th 2015 at 4:42:58 PM

Good

Oh really when?
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#98407: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:03:11 PM

Better later than never I guess.

Inter arma enim silent leges
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#98408: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:09:52 PM

Is it okay if I ask a certain question about this issue?

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#98409: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:15:34 PM

Seems like a few Clinton emails were found which should have been classified top secret, but weren't.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#98411: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:21:54 PM

Heh, I remember back when the oathkeepers were considered the saner of the militia-types (started off composed mostly of LEO sorts). Seems they've gone downhill a bit since then.

Aprilla Since: Aug, 2010
#98412: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:23:01 PM

[up][up]Uh...No?

One group actually has a notable military/LEO training set with lethal weapons and the support of a well-known and highly regarded (in his circles) conspiracy theorist. The latter are primarily made up of unarmed minorities who have likely faced greater economic and social disadvantages.

Their political objectives aren't even that similar.

edited 11th Aug '15 5:24:37 PM by Aprilla

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#98413: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:40:16 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]Ask away. Questions are always nice.

And the Oath Keepers are a bit more than bomb throwing anarchists, they're a very serious and very professional threat. Don't make the mistake of writing them off as some random nutjobs.

Oh really when?
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#98414: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:45:26 PM

Uh, Protagonist; the bomb throwing type of anarchists tend to be very few and far between these days, so I'm not even sure how you came up with that bullshit comparison. Especially when we're talking about two completely different groups, one of which HASN'T made a pointed habit of carrying around fucking guns for their protest, and one which has.

Seriously, how did you come to that? It's damn near insulting.

Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#98415: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:47:40 PM

[up][up]If they're that serious I wonder why I haven't heard of them.

So are these the kind of types that would actually try to start a revolution if sufficiently provoked?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#98416: Aug 11th 2015 at 5:50:52 PM

Oh definitely. It's in their charter.

And you haven't heard of them because they're usually excluded from news reports and so on. White terrorist groups are never terrorist groups. They're concerned and vigilante citizens.

Oh really when?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#98417: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:00:25 PM

[up] Not where I'm from. They are usually excluded form news coverage because they are dismissed as just a minor threat form a bunch of nut jobs with no lives, as opposed to Islamic terrorists. But believe me they are not admired.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#98418: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:22:53 PM

[up][up] Now to be fair, the Oath Keepers will remain secure as they are as long as they limit their actions to strolling about or standing in place, which technically does qualify was lawful open carry - it's when they start heckling or trying to order the protesters around that they overreach their space.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#98419: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:47:14 PM

Even if you give them the benefit of the doubt it isn't unfair to assume they will screw up if given the chance.

Since that dipshit Alex Jones is behind supporting them it doesn't ring well because he is a conspiracy theorist with neck deep in shit beliefs and rhetoric, but if they do manage to stay out of trouble and antagonize the protesters, maybe just maybe they can stand up for something good for once.

All we can do is hope for the best for now.

[down]As I said, we'll only know what they are up to when it is over. I just hope it doesn't turn bad.

edited 11th Aug '15 6:54:08 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#98420: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:50:04 PM

They're not out to stand up for something good. They're there to terrify the locals and try to force the cops into a shootout. That's their goal.

These aren't good intentioned but misguided people. They're monsters.

edited 11th Aug '15 6:50:29 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#98421: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:51:56 PM

@Ace Of Spades: Carrying around guns is legal, rioting is (by definition) not. As said by Fluffy Mc Chicken, they haven't really done anything particularly illegal yet.

I'm being hyperbolic when I call them "Bomb Throwing Anarchists", A more accurate statement is "Nutjob Libertarian/Radical Anti-Authoritarian".

edited 11th Aug '15 6:55:01 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#98422: Aug 11th 2015 at 6:54:56 PM

Rioting may be against the law, but protesting is not.

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#98423: Aug 11th 2015 at 7:05:01 PM

Considering that most protests don't turn into riots, that Ferguson protesters have been pretty determined not to riot, and that a riot on this anniversary thing hasn't actually happened the comparison is still damned insulting. Plus, the protesters aren't actually even anarchists of any sort, they want to improve the government that they have, not do away with it.

Being hyperbolic is not making you look like you know what you're talking about in this case.

edited 11th Aug '15 7:05:45 PM by AceofSpades

probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#98424: Aug 11th 2015 at 7:36:27 PM

Just want to comment on Re: English and Math skills in the USA.

You Americans are not only grabbing our nurses but also our teachers. PBS has articles about Filipino teachers teaching in the USA.

Nurses - I'm like OK, we'll just have to be healthier (or else), but our Teachers - and I'm more of - oh fuck it.

Here's me hoping that we'll somehow make up for the brain drain in our education sector. (groans)

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
BAFFU Since: Dec, 2012
#98425: Aug 11th 2015 at 8:25:19 PM

Now Trump is saying Sanders is "weak" because of what happened in Seattle.


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