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thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#134076: Aug 3rd 2016 at 6:01:07 PM

A stupid amount of people still think Obama was born in kenya and is a secret muslim so for your sanity it's probably better to avoid the idiots. Unless they're your friends and family in which case im so sorry.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#134077: Aug 3rd 2016 at 6:02:13 PM

Nah. Clicked on Khan's name in the fb news feed, and those were among the only non-news posts on the Khans.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#134078: Aug 3rd 2016 at 6:19:31 PM

You can do that? Facebook's gotten fancy since I started using it as a shitty messenger service.

And to open a side topic: Does anyone remember when people needed to hide behind anonymity to be racist shitbags? I basically checked out of mainstream internetting a few years ago but facebook was supposed to be your squeaky clean front for when employers google you. We made reddit for a reason, dammit!

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#134079: Aug 3rd 2016 at 6:36:04 PM

[up] That particular aspect of facebook has been more or less subsumed by LinkedIn in my experience.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#134080: Aug 3rd 2016 at 7:16:30 PM

[up][up]I recently watched a documentary on Youtube about the Oslo/Utoya terrorist attack. I made the mistake of looking at the comment section. People, under their own names, were calling Brevik a hero. It was nuts.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#134082: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:11:53 PM

[up]

Breivik was the asshole that killed 70+ children because he hated liberals "polluting" his country.

And regarding Khan's alleged support of Sharia (which is the narrative being spun by spokeswoman Katrina Pierson [only after she got fact-checked by Wolf Blitzer for blaming his death on Obama, in spite of his death occurring 5 years before Obama took office] and Breitbart), I looked up Breitbart's sources, both of which dated back to 1983.

First is a short paper on a Human Rights seminar held in Pakistan, in which he did give praise to Dr. Brohi for making a "convincing argument" - what said argument consisted of is omitted from the paper, but Breitbart alleges that it later inspired the Taliban's system prior to the US invasion.

Second is the much longer Jurisitic classification of Islamic Law which is A) dry as sand, and B) basically a scholarly examination of the sources of Islamic laws, their later effects through the centuries (including a citation of the early caliphates who basically utilized the same setup of Precedent that the US Supreme Court does, but no direct comparison is made), and as for Breitbart's claim that Khizr Khan Believes the Constitution ‘Must Always Be Subordinated to the Sharia’? The text never once mentions the Constitution, and after reading most of it it doesn't seem like he even mentions secular law at all while examining Islamic Law... which kind of makes sense, given the narrow scope of the paper.

And complicating the right-wing interpretation is the fact that the text takes a distinctly objective tone, as indicated by use of phrases like "The present form of the Quran is one and the same in every part of the Muslim world, and it has been so through all the centuries. This, Muslims believe, is due to the fact that the compilation and arrangement of chapters was completed—under divine instructions—by the prophet himself." Seriously, the paper could have been written by a Christian, Buddhist, or Atheist with the type of dry tone it utilizes.

edited 3rd Aug '16 8:18:15 PM by ironballs16

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#134083: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:15:53 PM

People, under their own names, were calling Brevik a hero. It was nuts.

They endorse infanticide?! What's this, The Turner Diaries?

edited 3rd Aug '16 8:16:16 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#134084: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:16:32 PM

Anything cited by Breitbart is going to be nonsense by definition.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#134085: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:20:34 PM

Oh, and there's also one major caveat that Khan puts down into that paper after discussing the history of the Quran.

It has to be admitted, however, that the Quran, being basically a book for religious guidance, is not an easy reference for legal studies. It is more particularly an appeal to faith and the human soul rather than a classification for legal prescriptions. Such prescriptions are comparatively limited and few. Family law is laid down in seventy injunctions; civil law in another seventy; penal law in thirty; jurisdiction and procedure in thirteen; constitutional law in ten; international relations in twenty-five; and economic and financial order in ten. Such an enumeration, however, can only be approximate. The legal bearing of some injunctions is disputable, whereas in some others it simultaneously applies to more than one sphere of law. The major portion of the Quran is, as with every Holy Book, a code of divine exhortation and moral principles.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
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
#134086: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:23:11 PM

[up]Funny how Trump supporters keep claiming that the mainstream media is peddling lies to make Trump look bad, when it's their dispenser of truth doing the mental gymnastics. This would seem appropriate.

A former US nuclear launch officer on why it would be extremely disturbing if Trump's alleged belief in nuclear first use is true. How sheltered must you be to think that nuclear weapons can be used with minimal provocation? How sheltered must you be to think that this is "just another smear campaign" and not think of why this would even be brought up?

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#134087: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:30:50 PM

I cannot believe that there is a person who might become President in three months that doesn't understand why we can't just lob nukes around like fucking water balloons.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#134088: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:33:35 PM

[up][up][up]The major portion of the Qur'an is God tooting his own trumpet. But that's neither here nor there.

[up]I dunno, he should ask Mc Arthur.

edited 3rd Aug '16 8:34:46 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#134089: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:36:34 PM

[up][up] I'm sure most reasonable regularly question how it was that the US' current election came to be the way it is. They might have answers, but it's still hard to fathom that a complete buffoon like Trump could be a nominee. It's almost cartoony.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#134090: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:38:19 PM

Even Lex Luthor is more credible as a POTUS candidate.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#134091: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:42:18 PM

It probably goes without saying that Trump has never been anywhere near a dynamite blast in his entire, sheltered, privileged life. A single kilo of TNT makes a mighty big bang, if you're standing too close to it. He therefore cannot fathom what a multi-megaton nuke would do...

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nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#134092: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:43:02 PM

[up][up]Hell, Lex Luthor would be a better president. At least he knows how to make plans and stick to it and not constantly shoot himself in the foot.

edited 3rd Aug '16 8:43:08 PM by nightwyrm_zero

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#134093: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:43:36 PM

Trump won't use any nukes. They'd kill him before they let him do that.

Still shows how thoroughly unqualified he is to be doing, well anything.

Oh really when?
SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#134094: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:44:35 PM

[up]x4 Cthulhu is more qualified than him.

"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."
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
#134095: Aug 3rd 2016 at 8:53:02 PM

I am more qualified than him based on my countless failures in playing Sim City.

On mental gymnastics the argument I hate the most is how Trump supporters want to pin the Iraq War II: Electric Boogaloo, solely on Hillary when 77 people voted for the War and a couple dozen didn't, as if she was the one who proposed and was the only one responsible for green lighting the war.

Inter arma enim silent leges
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#134096: Aug 3rd 2016 at 9:00:15 PM

You know the weirdest thing about that? Trump's a New Yorker (even if he makes people think of New Jersey). He, of all people, should know that New York City didn't just want to deal with Al Queda, they wanted revenge. If the state senator moved against that, they'd be in so much trouble.

Although, I'm betting that Trump wasn't all that effected by 9/11 because he seems really flippant about it whenever it comes up. Even in old interviews, when asked about war with Iraq, his response was basically "yeah, sure, whatever. Next topic."

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#134097: Aug 3rd 2016 at 9:00:29 PM

[up][up]Vote Loki.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#134098: Aug 3rd 2016 at 9:02:49 PM

[up][up] Trump once confused 9/11 with 7/11.

He's not a human being. He's a mountain of lies and apathy.

My various fanfics.
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#134099: Aug 3rd 2016 at 9:03:57 PM

IIRC, Trump was actually supporting the Iraq war before Bush was.

On a side note, I'm really good at Democracy III, so you should vote for me. Seriously, I got 95% popularity before I was assassinated by liberals.

edited 3rd Aug '16 9:04:54 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#134100: Aug 3rd 2016 at 9:07:26 PM

The key to winning that game is to change the demographics by pushing policies that make people like your ideology more.

But, yeah, if you try to go too fast, those being left behind get murdery, and there's only so much a Secret Service can do.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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