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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#105501: Nov 30th 2015 at 7:24:56 AM

[up]Effectively the same thing in my eyes. He said it implicitly.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#105502: Nov 30th 2015 at 10:13:44 AM

"a bunch of idiot pro-lifers took to twitter to cheer on the gunman."

Various people in the comments section make good points: Notice how most of the people in support of the shooter are men. This isn't about right to life at all. It's about controlling women.

There's also a sadly true political cartoon in the same comments section if you look for it.

edited 30th Nov '15 10:16:51 AM by speedyboris

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#105503: Nov 30th 2015 at 11:14:58 AM

Shooting up an abortion center isn't pro-life anyway, it's pro-baby.

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#105505: Nov 30th 2015 at 11:16:16 AM

And thus doubly ironic.

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#105506: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:32:54 PM

Americans... fucking hell... not only is the irony of shooting an abortion centre lost on the far right, but a potential presidental candidate says what has to be the stupidest thing in the history of the Republican party, and that includes every time Ben "the Pyramids stored grain" Carson and Donald "too many things to list" Trump open their mouths... at least our nut jobs are only vaguely racist!

edited 30th Nov '15 12:46:14 PM by FieldMarshalFry

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#105507: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:34:57 PM

But the Pyramids DID store grain.

...

In Civilization III.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Know-age Since: May, 2010
#105508: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:36:02 PM

lol, maybe this carson guy isn't so bad after all, at least he has good taste in vidya gams

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#105509: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:44:10 PM

[up]X3 We have plenty of out and out racists, Farage for one.

The tendency of American nuts to shoot people though is a noted thing, when it turned out that the guy who hacked a phone company over here was a moody, isolated teen who played video games it was commented "if he was American he'd have gunned down a school".

edited 30th Nov '15 12:44:20 PM by Silasw

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#105510: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:48:48 PM

the racist toad was who I was referring to, but he has managed to tone down the racism from "we don't need to worry about the n*gger vote" levels in the 90's to "all Romanian's are thieves" these days, and in the backlash against any level of political correctness, people refuse to acknowledge that as out and out racist, but American's and guns... you'd think they would have learnt their lesson by now

edited 30th Nov '15 12:48:59 PM by FieldMarshalFry

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#105511: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:51:33 PM

Learning a lesson is hard because these gun toting whackjobs and racists aren't a couple outliers, they represent a very large and powerful portion of the nation.

Oh really when?
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#105512: Nov 30th 2015 at 12:54:52 PM

does anyone else ever think the whole "Independence" thing may have been a mistake after all? I am not entirely comfortable with the most powerful nation in the world having to cater to lunatics of that calibre...

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#105513: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:00:27 PM

Catering to them implies that they don't hold most of the domestic power in the country and that they don't have Congress.

Oh really when?
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#105514: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:09:05 PM

I was being nice, I like to think the fate of the world isn't in the hands of people who ignore all evidence for their own crackpot theory or think that their company going bankrupt several times is perfectly normal...

I blame the French, the helped the Yanks get Independence

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#105515: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:09:31 PM

[up][up][up] Probably a lot of people. In the back of their minds they imagine that if only Howe hadn't attacked Philadelphia,or Cornwallis hadn't pulled his army into that dam port than we would have ended up like Canada. I remember reading several articles suggesting that if Scotland left the UK we should use the opportunity to come crawling back to merry old England.

[up] US foreign policy is almost entirely controlled by the President, and they are usually sane, yes even Bush.

Edit: If you want to blame anything blame the British policy of benign neglect, and their latter decision to reverse that policy. It led to the colonies developing separate institutions and ideal. Thankfully you learned with Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and they have stagnated into good obedient little colonies[lol]

edited 30th Nov '15 1:12:59 PM by JackOLantern1337

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#105516: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:12:16 PM

oh I know Bush was sane, just an idiot to such a degree that comparing him to a chimp was insulting to chimps, Carson and Trump though...

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#105517: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:13:41 PM

[up] Carson and Trump will not win the election, and maybe not even the Republican primary.

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TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
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#105518: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:14:14 PM

Meanwhile, someone is going to sue Obama...

...for not being active enough on climate change.

(I bet you thought after reading that first part that it was a Republican ploy, huh? tongue)

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#105519: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:18:13 PM

[up]I've said it before, and I'll say it again... you Yanks be crazy

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#105520: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:22:02 PM

[up] And yet were the most powerful country on Earth, while Britain struggles to maintain second rate status. I'm guessing this is some sort of divine punishment for you guys, as if English weather wasn't enough.tongue

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#105521: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:23:38 PM

[up]that's why we're shacking up with the rest of Europe, alone each of the powers controlled a large chunk of the world, and some of the most devastating conflicts in human history were fought between us, imagine what we can do united...

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#105522: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:23:44 PM

Can this not turn into an argument over whether the U.S. or U.K. are a shittier people? Thanks.

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#105523: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:24:41 PM

Everyone is crazy in their own way. Even Canada has unleashed horrors to the world, such as Justin Bieber. Even poor little silly harmless Belgium has its history of bloodshed and mutilation and massacring in Congo.

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#105524: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:24:55 PM

We got better food and that's all that's important.

Oh really when?
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#105525: Nov 30th 2015 at 1:24:56 PM

[up][up][up][up] I've seen what you guys have been doing united, so far not impressed. (Okay last jab I promise)

edited 30th Nov '15 1:25:17 PM by JackOLantern1337

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