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Nice Planet X: I knew it, I'm surrounded by a-holes!

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ScoobyDoo said:
Doesn't qualify for either. It does qualify as BS.
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Like most slogans, there's a kernel of truth to it. But politically it gets deployed with zero regard for context. It's just a way of rationalizing a particular callous mindset by relabeling it as "tough love."

One thing that people who actually study the psychology of happiness have determined is that there are minimum conditions of health and welfare that have to be met before most people can even be happy. The "turn that frown upside down" types do have a point, once those thresholds are met. But it's a First World Problems philosophy -- it has nothing to say about people who are genuinely f_cked from birth.

But if you believe in the magical power of the market or the inherent justice of the invisible hand, you avert your eyes from those people. They don't count.
 
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Kepler said:
No. The boys (and I'm sure they were boys) who did this aren't humans. They're a different species. Hopefully someday we'll find their DNA marker and just flip that bit from 1 to 0.

I am convinced that 90% of the misery in the world is caused by 10% of the people.
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It's a proven fact that many mass murderers begin as animal killers :mad:
 
unofan said:
What a perfectly meaningless platitude.
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Right now that's all they have. And a shat-ton of irony. I'm sure he holds the same opinion of those harmed by Isis, heteros whose marriages are under attack by them daggum gays, confederate flag bearers, Christians that want to pray in your face, the 1% that can't keep all 99%, and all those fetuses that never made it to conception. You're all on your own. Ttat is unless a fundie is the one under siege.
 
St. Clown said:
These boys, and yes, they're likely boys, are also likely displaying sociopathic behavior. If any of them (assuming more than one) also wet his bed late into his childhood, then we should expect to hear of a new serial killer in that area of the country within the next 20 years. (There's a third indicator, but I forget what it is.)
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Fascination with fire.
 
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SteveP said:
It's a proven fact that many mass murderers begin as animal killers :mad:
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Makes sense: these are people who enjoy using power to inflict pain. Men who hit women, parents who abuse kids, priests who diddle children, cops who torture prisoners, it's all the same deal. Some of us never made it out of the trees.

"Evil" isn't supernatural; it's bio-chemical.
 
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CC insanity.

Whereas political correctness attempts to minimize offense through the rebranding of certain words and terms to be neutral or inclusive, its conservative counterpart rebrands terms to include extreme political bias. Concepts which are liked are Americanized or linked with positive thoughts such as freedom or liberty, while the disliked terms are rebranded in the most negative light possible (describing homosexuality as an "unnatural vice," for example). "CC" is especially hilarious considering that the most heated decrying of "PC" usually comes from conservatives.
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When wingnut memes collide.

The owners of a Montana gold mine sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service earlier this month warning its employees to stay off the owners' property.

"Anyone entering onto the White Hope Mine, without previous coordination, will be charged" and arrested under Montana code, the letter read, according to court documents.

"At no time will weapons be allowed onto the White Hope Mining Claim," the letter concluded.

Except there are weapons on the White Hope Mining Claim, in the hands of armed militia members the mine owners recruited to protect their claim. And the feds aren't letting the aggression stand.

U.S. Attorney Michael Cotter filed a civil suit Tuesday in federal court in Helena, Montana against George Kornec and Phil Nappo, owners of the White Hope Mine near Lincoln, Montana. The suit alleged the miners opened a road, built a garage and cut down trees on their mining claim without authorization, stored another individual's explosives on the site, and illegally turned members of the public away from the land by locking the gates to the property shut and posting no-trespassing signs.

"The unauthorized and illegal actions of Defendants have interfered with and damaged National Forest Service land," the complaint stated. "Because the non-compliance has not been resolved, and because members of the public are still being threatened or blocked from access, it is necessary for the United States to bring this action."

The suit also noted that defendants and the Oath Keepers, a loose-knit national organization of current and former U.S. military and law enforcement officers that pledge to uphold the Constitution, were "acting in concert or joint participation, in interfering with public and Forest Service access on public lands, including the White Hope unpatented mining claims."
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Re: Nice Planet X: I knew it, I'm surrounded by a-holes!

So what are the two colliding memes? I see a bunch of wingnuts a la that rancher down south.
 
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