Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Frank said:
Just in case you weren't sure that ISIS wasn't run by great people, they just ordered the genital mutilation of about 4 million women.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-order-female-genital-mutilation-in-Iraq.html
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That's atrocious.

ISIS has just guaranteed they and their families all can get protection in the U.S. though, if they can make it here.[DOUBLEPOST=1406246611,1406246462][/DOUBLEPOST]
Frank said:
Now these fucking pieces of shit (ISIS) are blowing up their own history.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/featured/606976
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... that was priceless.[DOUBLEPOST=1406246699][/DOUBLEPOST]
sixpackshaker said:
Normally the only place that I heard of this is some Muslim states in sub-Saharan Africa.

Control and terror.
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It was common in several African countries for a long time, but in the last decade or so there's been a push by governments to put an end to it. Girls still get dragged off into the outskirts by traditionalist grandmothers and aunts, but the custom has been slowly waning, thankfully.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Looks like the genital mutilation thing may have just been a hoax. Some people are saying it's a rumor designed to cast ISIS in a bad light.

...like they needed any help.

--Patrick
 
Frank

Frank

PatrThom said:
Looks like the genital mutilation thing may have just been a hoax. Some people are saying it's a rumor designed to cast ISIS in a bad light.

...like they needed any help.

--Patrick
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Well, the destruction of the 1300 year old mosque wasn't a hoax.

In other history annihilating moves, ISIS has expelled all the monks from a 1700 year old monastery as well, so, likely the same thing incoming for it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28408926
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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That was funny as heck. I wonder how Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is coming along... last I checked there hadn't been a new chapter in months.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Frank said:
Now these fucking pieces of shit (ISIS) are blowing up their own history.

http://www.arabnews.com/news/featured/606976
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No they aren't. Yes, it's an ancient mosque, and to you, all mosques may look the same. It's the same thing as the protestants destroying catholic churches and cathedrals back in 1666 in the Netherlands though. Different subsets and versions of Islam. How many heathen/Cathar churches can you still find in Southern France? (hint: the number's smaller than 1, to the best of my knowledge)

Anyway, Belgian political debate is annoying me once again. The new Flemish government has to do some serious budget cutting. As a result, higher education (college and university) may have to increase their entrance fee from around €600 a year to, possibly, as much as €1.000 a year. To protect and help those with lower income,student loans and subsidies would be increased to match. Still, people are calling this "the end of public education", "the reintroduction of the rich elite and proletarians", "destroying the hopes of a new generation" and whatnot. Let's not bother with the fact that those fees have, adjusted for inflation, been lowering every year and even €1.000 is still lower than what it was in the '80s. let's ignore the huge problems we have with too many people having higher degrees and not enough having technical degrees. let's ignore the reason those fees are going up is because those same universities are demanding (not asking, mind you, demanding) more subsidies for laboratories and extra staff. let's ignore how the last government raised pensions for professors in a time when everyone and their dog was warning them our pensions were impossible to afford already. Nope, the new "extreme right wing destroyers of all that is good and holy" government is Evil and Oppressing the Masses, Keeping the Peasants Stupid.
Honestly, that's the rhetoric being thrown around right now, completely unironically. Socialist Belgium *really* can't deal with the first government in over 25 years without the socialist parties in them. And the media all seem to be a bunch of socialists.

I'm a leftie, really I am. But the left wing parties in Belgium really seem to not understand how the rest of the world works. Over 10% of our university students are foreigners who come here because our fees are so low for such high quality. A few hundred euros more won't change that.
 
Frank

Frank

Bubble181 said:
No they aren't. Yes, it's an ancient mosque, and to you, all mosques may look the same. It's the same thing as the protestants destroying catholic churches and cathedrals back in 1666 in the Netherlands though. Different subsets and versions of Islam. How many heathen/Cathar churches can you still find in Southern France? (hint: the number's smaller than 1, to the best of my knowledge)
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Bullshit, that mosque predates their sect or whatever splitting. It's (was) one of the oldest Muslim mosques on Earth. It would be like protestants blowing up the Basilica of the Nativity. It's still a barbaric desecration of their history.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Would an ad featuring the Democrat candidate for US senator prostituting herself on a street corner to the coal interests be going too far? Does it matter that the Republican candidate is also a woman?

To be fair, you'd need to have that lady on another street corner. And then the governor on another, Senator Manchin on another, Congressmen Rahall and McKinley on a couple of others, and so on...

DINOs and RINOs, every one. They should go by which coal or chemical company owns them.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

It sounds like you're trying to take the money out of politics. That doesn't sound representative of the Will of the People, Inc.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Cops using a guy to repeatedly cross a crosswalk over and over again until they can bust someone and give them a ticket.

 
Terrik

Terrik

Frank said:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/livin...tml?sr=fb080114momarrestedpark1130aVODtopLink

So, uhhh, this is shitty. My parents too would have been arrested about 12000 times.
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Same here. Honestly not the kind of environment i'd want to raise a kid in. I can't tell if the country is getting more unsafe of if the government is getting more overzealous in its "protection". Lets make parents nervous as fuck about letting their kids do a damn thing for fear of getting arrested. This will be fun when Jun and I have a kid one day: "Remember all those things you were allowed to let children do in China? None of that here in Freedomland."
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Frank said:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/livin...tml?sr=fb080114momarrestedpark1130aVODtopLink

So, uhhh, this is shitty. My parents too would have been arrested about 12000 times.
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This is why we're raising generations of coddled, unstable snowflakes who turn into imbalanced 20 year olds who snap the first time they deal with real world difficulties. Everybody's hysterical about how dangerous the world is out there due to the media's yellow journalism, when the reality of the situation is we've got the lowest crime rate we've had since the early 70s. Let's stop giving participation trophies and keeping our kids in plastic bubbles until they're maladjusted teens, and start getting kids outside, active, independent, and learning how to deal with the world.
Terrik said:
Same here. Honestly not the kind of environment i'd want to raise a kid in. I can't tell if the country is getting more unsafe of if the government is getting more overzealous in its "protection". Lets make parents nervous as fuck about letting their kids do a damn thing for fear of getting arrested. This will be fun when Jun and I have a kid one day: "Remember all those things you were allowed to let children do in China? None of that here in Freedomland."
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We live in the age of the 24 hour news cycle and the twice-daily amber alert. My friend's wife is so terrified of her affluent suburban neighbors that she won't let their 5 year old play in the front yard lest "somebody grabs her." I'll tell you, when I was 7 like the kid in the article linked, I was easily walking over a half mile every day, not to a public park, but into a freakin' forest where my friends and I built a clubhouse out of scrap wood. I can just hear today's moms shrieking "OMIGAWD PEDOPHILE BEAR TETANUS!"
 
Frank

Frank

GasBandit said:
We live in the age of the 24 hour news cycle and the twice-daily amber alert. My friend's wife is so terrified of her affluent suburban neighbors that she won't let their 5 year old play in the front yard lest "somebody grabs her." I'll tell you, when I was 7 like the kid in the article linked, I was easily walking over a half mile every day, not to a public park, but into a freakin' forest where my friends and I built a clubhouse out of scrap wood. I can just hear today's moms shrieking "OMIGAWD PEDOPHILE BEAR TETANUS!"
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Same here, where else is a kid going to find shredded forest porn?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

It's bad enough parents coddle the kids, or have to listen to shitheads tell them to, but now it's being lawfully enforced. In one of the links in the article, a mother even lost her job and custody of her kid for letting her play in a park.

Does CPS ever do anything to protect abused kids? Because I feel like the only news stories I hear are of them taking kids away for something stupid, whereas I don't have enough fingers to count the personal stories I've heard firsthand of CPS failing to help kids who were actually being abused and they or people they knew requested help.

And then there's the officers in question. Did you Florida cops run out of minorities to harass for no reason? Or is someone higher on the chain of command helping to enforce the nanny state? "Shit, that mother isn't turning her kid into an incapable waste of space--ARREST HER."
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Zero Esc said:
With leniency, I'm guessing.
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That's the thing... you really can't show leniency to police when incarcerating them. You ether put them in isolation the entire term, let them go, put them in gen pop... which is a death sentence, or send them to a country club prison. NONE of those are justice.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

AshburnerX said:
That's the thing... you really can't show leniency to police when incarcerating them. You ether put them in isolation the entire term, let them go, put them in gen pop... which is a death sentence, or send them to a country club prison. NONE of those are justice.
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I guess just by what's been going on in NYC for as long as I've been following police cases of murdering people there, since I was probably 13, I haven't seen the police go to prison for a high stakes case, so I have trouble wrapping my head around the idea that they'll go to prison at all.

That video may be the only way it happens, and if it does, I expect laws to be passed that further restrict when people are allowed to take videos of officers on duty. That'll prevent this from ever happening again--not the murders, but from police being punished for it.
 
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