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#108476: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:41:45 PM

It's vegan jerky. They sent a bunch of gun-toting cowboys vegan jerky. I'm honestly not sure if this was meant as a show of support for Y'all Qaeda or if they were trying to be snide and the Yeehawdists were too hungry to realize they were being made fun of.

edited 11th Jan '16 2:42:26 PM by TobiasDrake

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#108477: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:43:50 PM

they fed them, you do not feed trolls

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#108478: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:44:44 PM

I hope they are being mocked.

Y'all Qaeda being mocked by PETA would be hilarious and it also would allow us to document the relationship between the insane groups of the U.S in 'pecking order' fashion

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#108479: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:48:14 PM

[up]X3 I'd say it's a publicity stunt, if they just sent regular people the stuff it wouldn't make headlines, but sending it to terrorists gets PETA in the headlines. I'm sure they'd send it to other terrorists if they could find a mailing address.

edited 11th Jan '16 2:48:33 PM by Silasw

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#108480: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:52:27 PM

[up]Then why does it not make the headlines when PETA feeds itself?

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#108481: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:54:24 PM

no, PETA are just a bunch of idiots, they're not actually hurting anyone who a shred of common sense of intelligence, Darwin and all that

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#108482: Jan 11th 2016 at 2:54:25 PM

Who says PETA eat it themselves? They probably feast on the corpses of all the animals they kill.

[up] Id say that many of the animals they kill have "a shred of intelligence".

edited 11th Jan '16 2:55:03 PM by Silasw

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#108483: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:13:24 PM

[up][up] They've also blatantly been backing the animal liberation front. The term Eco Terrorist exists for a reason.

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#108484: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:30:07 PM

So what exactly was this thing going on with El Chapo getting interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine and then arrested?

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#108485: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:34:08 PM

[up]Sean Penn in his full retardness decided to interview Chappo and the US and Mexican intelligence and Police forces tracked him down to where Chappo was.

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#108486: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:42:39 PM

Was it for some kind of sting operation or was it just to do it?

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#108487: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:48:33 PM

Probably just to do it,

Anyway, I feel like you guys are too busy laughing about Peta to get to the latter half the article dealing with the Paiute's response to this situation. As well as Ammon Bundy's snide, tone deaf response to that response. Basically no one in that area wants a bunch of armed assholes from Nevada up there. For guys who are all about freedom they're ignoring the hell out of the opinions of the people who actually live in this place.

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#108488: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:50:10 PM

[up][up]Sean Penn has been roaming Latin America interviewing people he see as underdogs under the US pressure, like a couple of years ago he visited Venezuela to defend Chaves and Maduro, so he really went for the interview but certainly wasn't aware the US and Mexican authorities would follow.

edited 11th Jan '16 3:50:25 PM by AngelusNox

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#108489: Jan 11th 2016 at 3:58:36 PM

Apparently he wasn't acting when he played Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and he's continued to not-act ever since.

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#108490: Jan 11th 2016 at 4:01:38 PM

He also beat Madonna when they dated, so fuck him. And if he's interviewing people under "US oppression", he sounds a lot like an over-the-top Tumblr junkie.

Though he did an alright job in Harvey Milk, didn't he?

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#108491: Jan 11th 2016 at 4:06:26 PM

Madonna says he didn't hit her but he does apparently have a record with violence. Something about him has always rubbed me the wrong way but I can't exactly describe what.

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#108492: Jan 11th 2016 at 4:08:46 PM

I think it's the eyes. He has the same kind of squinty eyes that Donald Trump has.

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#108493: Jan 11th 2016 at 4:15:13 PM

[up][up]I DID NOT HIT HER I DID NOT

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#108494: Jan 11th 2016 at 4:23:20 PM

[up]

O hai, Mark.

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#108495: Jan 12th 2016 at 12:07:53 AM

@Fighteer: Unfortunately, Sanders is (as you've noted before) so focused on systems and causes that he fails to note that ISIS-as-it-exists needs to be dealt with.

Honestly, though, from Sanders I would accept a Desert Storm III IFF he went in with a plan for wiping ISIS off the map, getting our troops out immediately and getting his economic solutions in. (If he said "We are going to have the Army in Iraq for ten years and support for twenty more," he'd get points for honesty, but nobody wants a plan like that.)

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#108496: Jan 12th 2016 at 12:54:17 AM

getting our troops out immediately and getting his economic solutions in
From what I've read in OTC, this does not compute: Nation building requires an actual military presence.

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#108497: Jan 12th 2016 at 1:08:45 AM

[up]Yes. And the non-military part of the solutions also has to take into account the locals. Big part of Bush's issues in Iraq was force feeding the American Way.

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#108498: Jan 12th 2016 at 1:19:46 AM

Nobody may want a long term state building mission but it's that or playing terrorist whack-a-mole forever.

Nobody wanted to invest in stabilising Afganistan after the Soviets left, they got their way, it didn't work out well for us though did it?

We can do it properly once or we can keep doing it over and over again and again.

Luckily the area that needs work is shrinking, the Kurdish areas wouldn't need the US there, they can manage themselves. But if Bagdad retakes the Sunni areas and wants to avoid another terrorist group taking ISIS' place a few years down the line, (which it has done in part) then it's going to need to reform itself (unlikely) or be reformed by outside powers.

edited 12th Jan '16 1:26:06 AM by Silasw

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#108499: Jan 12th 2016 at 6:45:52 AM

It strikes me as a little condescending for first nation citizens to talk about reforming troublesome regions of the globe when their own political houses aren't exactly in order. The US currently has xenophobic fascists as 'serious' presidential candidates, Canada only fairly recently just got out of Harper's boondoggle, and most of Europe doesn't seem particularly happy with their current state of leadership.

I know that we'd be waiting forever if we waited for a perfect country to have the moral right to intervene in other nations' affairs, but how many political issues does a country have to have before intervention in a weaker party's affairs crosses the line into being hypocritical? I would feel a lot better about intervening if I weren't afraid that practically any given country could flip the switch over into crazy town in any given election. A little political stability of our own would be nice before we go sallying forth to impose theoretical order on others.

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.
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#108500: Jan 12th 2016 at 6:54:11 AM

That runs on the assumption that Trump stands a chance though. He does not. And even if he does, there is absolutely no excuse that could ever validate not acting at this point given all the troubles it rises, not just in the region, but in the U.S.

Besides, you cannot deny that the existence of these terrorist groups are also fuel for the fear propaganda machine of the extreme right wingers, so shutting them down is not only better to do, it is also working on YOUR problems.

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