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Senate The Middle East Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'Community' started by Ghost, Jun 11, 2014.

  1. Saintheart

    Saintheart Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    Given ISIS seems rather determined to emulate the alien approach, I'd say that's appropriate. [face_plain]
     
  2. Vezner

    Vezner Force Ghost star 5

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    Are you as forgiving of past presidents? Be careful where you tread with such comments.
     
  3. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Be careful? Wtf is wrong with you?
     
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  4. duende

    duende Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    i watched some of the vice stuff about these guys. the fact that they seem to be these middle-class/hip-hop/punk rock/twitter/youtube/smartphone jihadists is fascinating to me.
     
  5. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU TREAD WITH SUCH COMMENTS DUENDES
     
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  6. duende

    duende Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    just finished level 2-3 on smb. got ALL the coins.
     
  7. Vezner

    Vezner Force Ghost star 5

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    Vivec, I see you're just as warm and friendly as ever. It's nice to see that some things never change. [:D]
     
  8. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    ISIS has beheaded freelance American journalist James Wright Foley, and uploaded video and images. Threatening to do the same to TIME journalist Steven Sotloff.
     
  9. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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  10. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    just goes by "abu bakr" seems a bit presumptuous
     
  11. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Watch the video. I don't know to what extent you have these cretins in the US, but in Australia and the UK (around Finsbury Park mosque in London for example) we have groups who actively support ISIS and who feel we should all live under Shari'a, like being unreconstructed savages is a good thing.
     
  12. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    For the record, he was arrested because he assaulted someone, not because of his religious views.
     
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  13. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Yes, and if you watch the video, his views are repugnant, modestly stupid, and full of sound and fury?
     
  14. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    We don't get a lot of that publicly in the U.S.
     
  15. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    His views or yours?
     
  16. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Oh I forgot; we're allowed to mock Christian extremists, because they're mostly white. But as on balance Islamic extremists aren't, we can't hold similar scorn for their views because someone might mistake it for racism. Racism is bad, and we must have the most socially acceptable views so our peers know we are both Intellectual and Progressive and Tolerant.

    I love how you've watched the 1hr video by now Vivienne and that's what's causing you to make these comments. A political VLM, that's you.
     
  17. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    Well, I can't imagine that working for them.
     
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  18. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    You just perfectly described your own posts on the JCC with that sentence, especially the "sound and fury" part. Instead of using my post as an opportunity to take a look at yourself, you decided to validate it even further. How predictable.

    Also, where do you get this impression that I only mock Christians or that I'm trying to be super progressive? The posts where I criticize Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhist extremists? The posts where I call out KW for being overly sjwish? Do you ever read my posts or do you just have some caricature of me that you respond to every time? You're such a joke.
     
  19. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    What the heck is even being argued here? Vivec clarified he was arrested for committing a crime, which seems a reasonable distinction, so the response is that his views are really wrong... but what's that have to do with a point just about being arrested for assault? It's tangential, and that clarification doesn't defend his views at all, it just points out he wasn't arrested for them.

    How do you need to MAKE UP stuff about this to argue about?
     
  20. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Vivec, you contribute nothing outside science threads except snide, apparently knowing comments and criticise others for that? In the words of a fat bearded home invader, "ho ho ho".

    No personal attacks
     
  21. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    yeah they dont even show up on the trashy 24 hour news channels. they usually just take progressive radical muslims and act like they want sharia law and yell at them to apologize for 9/11 and then act like they havent done so after they have

    i have seem this breed of extremist on The Big Questions tho, argueing with francesca stavrakopoulou aka my future theology wifey [face_love]

    [​IMG]
     
  22. Obi-Zahn Kenobi

    Obi-Zahn Kenobi Force Ghost star 7

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    Advice from an Iraqi Christian leader for Europe:

     
  23. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Ender Sai, I'd ask you to set your sound and fury aside and actually think about whether you're even close to characterizing me correctly. In the US Society vs Black Men thread I've called you out for mischaracterizing me and you vanished. I'll chalk it up to the fast paced nature of that thread. However, the issue remains that I don't think you're actually ever reading a post I make. Let's try it again.

    If you look at the link, it's to every post I've made in that thread. Not one post of mine even came close to addressing that topic. You're not actually reading posts I make; you just group me with people you disagree with on every topic regardless of what I've actually said.
     
  24. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    You are kidding, Point Given. You have to be.
     
  25. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    If you're gonna derail something, go back and derail that thead.
     
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