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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107851: Jan 2nd 2016 at 11:04:32 AM

[up] Well she did make it up, and it was Al Shabob that did this not ISIS, and they probably use stuff like this all the time. Hell I'm sure you can find Clinton herself in several Jihadi propaganda videos. Mind you, if it's a lie that keep Donald Trump from the Presidency, than so be it.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#107852: Jan 2nd 2016 at 5:06:18 PM

No! What can be destroyed by the truth, should be!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107853: Jan 2nd 2016 at 5:19:15 PM

Apparently this is all a massive conspiracy to keep the only person capable of stopping a Paris-style attack from getting into office.

Assuming it's even true and not just something CBS made up since they're funding the Clinton campaign.

Just an example of the wild mass guess stuff you see on the internet.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#107854: Jan 2nd 2016 at 5:20:49 PM

Wh-but the US has this kind of attack every few weeks! Except with schools instead of stadiums!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#107855: Jan 2nd 2016 at 5:40:26 PM

No, that's just gentle misunderstood white men venting their feelings to people.

Terrorism is brownies with turbans only.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#107856: Jan 2nd 2016 at 9:55:07 PM

The sons of Cliven Bundy have taken over the Federal Refuge building in Oregon.

...is simply starving the occupiers by ensuring that they can't leave an option?

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107857: Jan 2nd 2016 at 9:57:18 PM

How is this anything but domestic terrorism and why is nobody reporting it?

I mean I know the answer to both questions but still.

Oh really when?
probablyinsane Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#107858: Jan 2nd 2016 at 10:40:24 PM

Trump: Clinton, Obama 'created ISIS

Okay, Trump. The next time I visit my friend who is into Wicca, I'm going to ask her for Wicca curses, cause you're "so special".

Usually, if I get annoyed enough with whoever, I just think "may you be an animal in your next life" (seriously, it's way way way way tamer than "go to hell").

But Trump is "so special", I need something with more poetic justice. Maybe a hell wherein all he hears and sees are headlines about himself. It will be a temp-hell, of course. (I do not believe in perma-hells.)

Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
Keybreak (Long Runner)
#107859: Jan 2nd 2016 at 10:44:35 PM

As I recall Wiccans aren't allowed to cast curses.

All I really hope for Trump is that he doesn't get elected and goes back to being a politically irrelevant billionaire.

Or, maybe less...

You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#107860: Jan 3rd 2016 at 1:23:17 AM

Not being allowed and being unable are two different things. I'm sure wiccans can transgress and sin as well as anyone else.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#107861: Jan 3rd 2016 at 1:26:00 AM

Occupying a building in itself isn't terrorism. If it is then every protester who's ever done a sit down type of thing in a building is a terrorist. And as they appear to have decided to stage this in what was apparently an unoccupied building that tends to fly in the face of other terrorist acts, which actively seek out places with a lot of people in them. In any case, this is six to twelve people and seems a good deal more containable than the showdown Bundy forced... however long ago that was. Seems like the police could simply way this group out, especially if the two that are supposed to report into the police don't.

Did the feds ever just... you know, figure out a way to seize Bundy's cattle or something? Did he ever get any sort of comeuppance or are we still waiting for that?

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#107862: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:37:43 AM

They called people to take arms against the US Government. Isn't that textbook sedition? Shouldn't they go right to fucking jail?

edited 3rd Jan '16 4:38:21 AM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#107863: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:41:20 AM

If Trump loses, do you think he has enough of an ego to try again in four years?

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107864: Jan 3rd 2016 at 5:19:35 AM

No, he'll just whine about demanding a revolution on Twitter then try to pretend he didn't when called out on it.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107865: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:06:57 AM

[up][up][up][up]The stand off ended in Bundy's favor, but the dispute is ongoing in the courts.

As for this stand off, I say storm the building and arrest everyone of them.

edited 3rd Jan '16 6:09:04 AM by JackOLantern1337

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#107866: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:16:26 AM

Well she did make it up, and it was Al Shabob that did this not ISIS, and they probably use stuff like this all the time.

Al-Shabaab is an al-Qa'eda offshoot, just like ISIS, and its senior officers started pledging allegiance to ISIS in October. Pretty sure I'd count this one as 'close enough', even if you can split a few hairs about their precise relationship.

What's precedent ever done for us?
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#107867: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:17:53 AM

[up][up] If there are any left alive.

edited 3rd Jan '16 6:18:03 AM by Greenmantle

Keep Rolling On
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107868: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:30:13 AM

[up][up] Pretty sure it's a defecting faction of Al Shabob that's swearing allegiance to ISIS, not the main group. I don't know which one released the video. Regardless, Trump was featured in no Jihadi propaganda at the time Clinton made the accusation. And again, US officials, including Bush, Obama, and probably Clinton herself often feature in these things. And I doubt anyone becomes a terrorist because of Donald Trump. They become a terrorist because their house got droned. Or because they desperately wanted a sense of belonging. Or they just felt a sense of Arab racial superiority and Muslim religious superiority and decided to go kill the infidels, that is a thing you know, much in the way of other supremacist ideology's like the Nazi's or the KKK.

Again, Clinton made a bald faced, easily verifiable lie. And as long as it keeps that racist, incompetent, arrogant, thieving lunatic Donald Trump out of the White House, I'm okay with it.

[up] If they are all killed it will send a message to others like them that it is not "their country" anymore, and that they and their views are no longer wanted or will be tolerated. This will hopefully discourage such action in the future.

edited 3rd Jan '16 6:33:26 AM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#107869: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:41:19 AM

[up]Discourage? That is exactly what they want, the casus belli they've always wanted to justify rising up against the US government in deed.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107870: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:44:18 AM

[up] But then the US government would crush said uprising, and if Reconstruction was done right, their ideology would be destroyed for good. It's often said that many Abolitionists were praying for the South to secede as it would provide the excuse the government needed to abolish slavery. And besides, the more I think about it, the more it seems these guys aren't the sort to fight. Their just a bunch of redneck ranchers who have various disputes with the Feds over land rights, and are trying to rip off the Bundy stand off in order to gain attention. Faced with a serious threat of force I have little doubt they will surrender.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#107871: Jan 3rd 2016 at 6:51:49 AM

When Trump loses the nomination I'm half expecting him to do a third party run.

As for the Bundy stuff, yes the US military would win, but it would be bloody as hell, and I belive our Southern Tropers have said they'd rather not having their homes turned into a warzone, even if that would get rid of these assholes.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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#107872: Jan 3rd 2016 at 7:00:36 AM

Few people become terrorists for only one reason. Extreme action is generally a product of multiple factors, one of which is worldview. Worldview is influenced by the way the world is portrayed in media - both news and fictional.

Sure, nobody's going to run out and join Al Qaida because Trump keeps threatening to turn the country against Muslims, but those threats will make them feel isolated and afraid. Drafting a narrative in which President Trump will throw all the Muslims in concentration camps - a narrative that Trump himself is eager to help create - sends a message that American Muslims must be afraid of their own government, and that foreign Muslims cannot turn to the U.S. for help.

It encourages desperation. Hate groups thrive on desperation. Their numbers swell when their demographic experiences fear and despair, and believes that there is no one else who will help. So no, nobody's going to run out and join Al Qaida because Trump said some shit about Muslims, but the next time Al Qaida or ISIS or al-Shabab talks to them, they might be more inclined to listen.

edited 3rd Jan '16 7:03:15 AM by TobiasDrake

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#107873: Jan 3rd 2016 at 7:25:10 AM

These militia screwed up. Last time they were on a ranch, kept themselves fed. If they want to starve them out it wouldn't be hard.

At the same time, if the government wasn't even using the building, let the screw ups camp out. They'll get bored eventually.

I'm baaaaaaack
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#107874: Jan 3rd 2016 at 7:25:27 AM

Obama will hold a 1 hour town hall on gun control. Hosted by CNN. What exactly can a President do with executive action?

edited 3rd Jan '16 7:27:43 AM by JackOLantern1337

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#107875: Jan 3rd 2016 at 7:36:35 AM

Boost up the ability to collect information and enforcing existing laws.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

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