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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#107901: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:08:24 PM

And it's not even good graffiti.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107902: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:12:18 PM

[up][up] So why not here. And by occupying federal property, they are preventing federal officials from carrying out their duties. And they are undoubtably copying Bundy. If this is allowed to slide, more such occupations will occur.

[up] It looks like something a kid would have drawn, guess that's the point, to make people feel guilty, and thus less likely to shoot, when they see the thing.

edited 3rd Jan '16 2:13:29 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#107903: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:14:41 PM

I'm fairly certain I've heard the building wasn't even in use, though that could be wrong.

They should starve them out, I'm just saying a guns blazing raid isn't called for. People occupy federal buildings occasionally. Not regularly but it happens.

Given the whole things about the rancher who might turn himself in anyway, I'd say at least give it till Monday. Them giving up and going home will be better than people seeing them as a icon

edited 3rd Jan '16 2:20:06 PM by Joesolo

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AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107904: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:45:53 PM

Oh, so this is the US political thread?

Can I say a bunch of insults towards Donald Trump? Because I'm half-Mexican, and I hate him.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#107905: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:47:06 PM

Be my guest. I'm not aware of anybody here who likes him.

In fact, I don't know anybody anywhere who likes him.

edited 3rd Jan '16 2:49:42 PM by pwiegle

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#107906: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:55:39 PM

[up][up]Go ahead, but there might be hell toupee. (That pun was used upthread, I'm sorry everyone.)

@Greenmantle, Fighteer, joesolo: Let me say this. I want these asshats dealt with by due process of law. That means police officers to come in and arrest them by force, as there is probable cause that they are (obviously) committing a crime. If they violently resist arrest, then the police officers have the legal and moral right to use deadly force to either arrest or kill them.

If people rebel violently because these people became martyrs, then it is lawful and proper to send in SWAT teams to use deadly force against the new insurrection, and to not stop until every member of the groups in question has surrendered or been killed.

edited 3rd Jan '16 2:56:08 PM by Ramidel

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#107907: Jan 3rd 2016 at 2:57:51 PM

I say we pull a Nifty Package on them.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107908: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:09:59 PM
Thumped: Wow. That was rude. Too many of this kind of thump will bring a suspension. Please keep it civil.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#107909: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:16:57 PM

Lots of people in my school say they support Trump, mostly for shock value. They usually get serious when I point out that some of our Latino friends, none of which are actually illegal mind you as if that would stop Trump, would face deportation if Trump won.

Edit: Oh and I think my mom may be a closet Trump supporter, so that's nice.

Edit 2: Here, have Trump as the Grinch.

edited 3rd Jan '16 3:21:29 PM by JackOLantern1337

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#107910: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:23:38 PM

One of my college suite mates is one of those seniors who thinks that he knows everything because he's a senior, and he supports Trump. I asked him: "Why? He obviously doesn't know anything!" He just answered, "Exactly".

:|

Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#107911: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:26:17 PM

I think everyone who posts here hates trump to varying degrees, so feel free to join the circle jerk tongue

@jack I'd just like to see it ended without bloodshed. I'd very much like to see the militia movement die, but "by killing all the members" isn't my preferred method.

edited 3rd Jan '16 3:32:33 PM by Joesolo

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Artificius from about a foot and a half away from a monitor. Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Norwegian Wood
#107912: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:28:32 PM

Yup, arrest those assholes. Roll out the police and SWAT teams and stop that shit cold now. I don't like the idea of them being shot and carried into the afterlife in the arms of Saint Reagan, but an unchallenged and armed occupation of federal land is a dangerous thing to ignore.

edited 3rd Jan '16 3:29:28 PM by Artificius

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107913: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:31:42 PM

Anyone noticed how douchebags like Trump have really squinty eyes and pouty lips? Like, Bill Maher, Denis Leary, and that medicine guy who jacked up drug prices that one time all have squinty eyes. People I knew in middle school who bullied me had squinty eyes. Is it just a coincidence or are douchebags genetically squinty eyed?

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#107914: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:34:32 PM

Guess it would explain why they're narrow sighted tongue

People in bad moods do seem to tend towards squinting.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#107915: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:38:30 PM

@Adric: You may criticize Trump if you wish, but let's not use unnecessarily vile language, okay? The rules don't go away because he's an acceptable target.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107916: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:39:22 PM

I am sorry, sir. If I knew how to link my text to sincerity mode, I'd do so.

Edit: No seriously, how do I do that?

edited 3rd Jan '16 3:44:32 PM by AdricDePsycho

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107917: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:47:03 PM

[[SincerityMode Text]]

Oh really when?
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#107918: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:47:19 PM

NVM.

edited 3rd Jan '16 3:47:55 PM by LSBK

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#107919: Jan 3rd 2016 at 3:48:35 PM

OK then.

I am sorry, Mr. Fighteer, and I will try not to do that again

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#107920: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:52:40 PM

Do politicians still subscribe to the theory of the balance of power?

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#107921: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:54:18 PM

No, that one died with World War I, more-or-less.

Now the idea is that war will be prevented either by international institutions or by the power of America Fuck Yeah!

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#107922: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:56:30 PM

Edit: wrong topic, nevermind.

edited 3rd Jan '16 6:19:06 PM by pwiegle

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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#107923: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:57:43 PM

My Stepdad thinks that the balance of power is shifting away from the US and towards China. He also thinks that Russia is willing to wage war against NATO, possibly over that downed plane

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#107924: Jan 3rd 2016 at 4:59:27 PM

Your stepdad is dumb

Oh really when?
Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#107925: Jan 3rd 2016 at 5:01:06 PM

Hey he's not dumb. He has access to a bunch of classified info, so he thinks he knows more about given situations and interpol than most other people. Like how he said Snowden was selling intel to the Russians, and that's part of why they've been more aggresive in interpol lately

edited 3rd Jan '16 5:01:41 PM by Xopher001


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