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After reflecting on this, I now realize that this poor man probably just felt isolated and alienated from Alberta's cowboy culture.
During his incarceration I think he should be fed delicious Alberta bacon and made to watch Brokeback Mountain over and over, so that he will learn to feel more at home.
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21 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
What political side does the military represent?
Which political side supports police brutality?
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If this is the best the Islamic State can come up with, I don't know why anybody is scared of them. Some sad loser who decided he would go on a terrorist spree because he couldn't do anything else right, and he couldn't even do this right either. He couldn't even kill pedestrians with a truck. What a failure. ISIS are a bunch of losers.
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1 hour ago, Hal 9000 said:
I don't like sports mixing in politics at all.
Does that include the big military ceremonies the armed forces paid the NFL to host?
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Yes. When Tim Thomas refused the White House invitation in 2011, many conservatives applauded him for taking a stand for his personal beliefs. And many liberals were miffed that he was disrespecting the President or creating disunity or whatever.
Here in 2017, liberals are applauding people like Steph Curry for declining the White House invitation, and conservatives are miffed at people like him for disrespecting the President or creating disunity or whatever.
Same old, same old. When the our side does it, it's courageous and great! When the other side does it, it's offensive and terrible.
In regard to Sidney Crosby, I share the view expressed by William Shatner and echoed recently by PK Subban regarding the anthem controversy. The Shat's view is: "I'm a guest in this country." Subban said basically the same. Sidney Crosby knows this as well.
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It looks like Viserion leveled up...
So Jaime is heading North with no army and no Cersei, to keep a promise? Maybe he's finally done with Cersei. You know those cartoons of a guy with a little angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other shoulder, both trying to influence him? For Jaime, Brienne and Cersei are the little angel and devil on his shoulders. Ever since they first met, Brienne has helped him rediscover his conscience and put him in touch with the man he could have been instead of the man he turned out to be.
Littlefinger made Sansa into sort of a protege... like Roose Bolton, he got ended by his own creation. From the things Sansa said during the "trial", it seems evident that Bran has been sharing some of his knowledge with his sisters. Perhaps he is the one who sorted out the rift between Sansa and Arya. Littlefinger should have hightailed it out of Winterfell right after Bran said "chaos is a ladder" during their little chat.
And Samwell and Bran put together the pieces of Jon's past. Auntie Danaerys. You've fallen in love with your auntie, Jon. When Jaime reaches Winterfell, he and Jon can commiserate.
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They made it seem like Dany and the dragons got from Dragonstone to Eastwatch in about 5 minutes. I assume these ravens also travel at supersonic speeds. They seem to be faster than FedEx and more reliable than Verizon.
I can't tell which dragon is which, aside from Drogon is the one Dany rides. I assume the one that went down was Visarion, because Visarys was a loser.
Yeah, Arya's being dumb. "Alright, House Stark is back in charge, the North is reunited, and I'mma screw everything up by sowing discord among the Northern lords." This feels fairly slap-dash... something they just put together to create some tension for characters who aren't involved in the major storylines at this point.
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3 hours ago, betsy said:
The big question:
Why are the leaders of these places - Charlottesville and Montreal - allowing these kind of vandalisms to happen?
Why is the alt left, given such kind of destructive freedom?
The Jefferson Davis plaque on Hudson's Bay building in Montreal was removed by decision of The Bay, not by vandals. It wasn't a great historical piece, it was donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1950s. There wasn't really a good reason for a Canadian department store to display a plaque honoring a Confederate leader, especially a plaque donated by a shady group.
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1 hour ago, taxme said:
I am just where that ass hole of a king just got poisoned. I did not think that he was going to die the way he did. I was looking more towards a more gruesome revenge end for that little scum bag. Aw well.
But it was sure satisfying seeing the little puke turn purple and choked to death, wasn't it? Fun times!
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Just now, DogOnPorch said:
I can't help but notice you didn't unequivocally denounce Nazis in your post.
I wasn't endorsed by Nazis. I wasn't asked whether I accept their endorsement. If you ask me my opinion about Nazis 50 times over the next few days, I promise I can give you a clear and direct answer each and every time.
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7 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:
About Trump, he's gets asked the same question 50 times in the hopes that he may say the wrong thing or leave room for confusion - the media disregard his solid answers and quote his "not good enough" answers, try and find "dog whistles" - it's quite tiring. The bottom line is; Trump thinks Duke is a racist and clearly he has always thought that.
Again: why did he give all those ambivalent responses? "I don't know anything about David Duke," etc? If he had been clear in the first case, he wouldn't have been asked the question so many times afterward.
You make it sound like this was a media plot to get him to trip him up, but again: it's not a difficult question to answer. It's an incredibly simple question to answer. Trump himself gave a very clear answer to that question in 2000. If he'd been that direct in the past election, the issue would have gone away. He chose to give those ambiguous answers, for reasons that are obvious to everyone, including yourself. And that's why the media kept hounding him on the subject.
When Trump kept shrugging off those questions, what he was really saying is "I don't want to be associated with white nationalists, but I won't reject that endorsement because I still want white nationalists to vote for me."
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8 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
First off, Trump disavowed Duke many times throughout the election. It was the media buzz for awhile, everyone tried trapping him on that one - I'm not surprised that his answers weren't good enough, when are they?
Maybe the reason nobody thought his answer was good enough is that his answer wasn't good enough?
How freaking hard is it to say "I reject David Duke"? He said it clearly in 2000... why couldn't he say it clearly in 2016? Why go through the pathetic sham of "I don't know anything about David Duke" when he certainly did know enough about David Duke to reject him?
We both know the answer to the question. We both know that the reason Trump wouldn't say "I reject David Duke" when asked about it over and over again was not because he didn't know anything about David Duke. We both know that the reason Trump wouldn't say "I reject David Duke" is that Trump still wanted the knuckle-draggers to vote for him.
8 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:As for the murder, it was committed in a moment of rage, a crime of 'passion" even. There is no evidence that it was pre-planned. I get why everyone on the left wants "terrorism", but the charge of 2nd degree is appropriate. He might have killed many more, but he's gonna get 30+ years, so what does it matter?
No. If you kill somebody during an argument, that's a moment of rage or a crime of passion. If you leave the scene, go get a weapon, and return and kill somebody, you're not "in the moment" anymore. You've had time to get "out of the moment", cool off, think better of your decision, etc etc. He could have decided "I'm going to drive back home", but instead he decided "I'm going to drive back there and kill those guys", and that's why there's an argument to be made for premeditation.
It doesn't matter much-- as you say, he's in a heap of trouble either way-- but Argus was presenting this idea "maybe he'd been beat up earlier"-- as if it were a mitigating factor, and it really isn't. If you get beat up, that's very unfortunate... but if you get beat up and you return to the scene of the altercation with a weapon and kill somebody, you're ruined.
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12 hours ago, Boges said:
In the books there is a prophecy that Cersei will be killed by her younger brother. Technically Jamie is her younger brother.
The witch also told Cersei that she'd have three children. If the witch is right, that would tell us that either Cersei isn't actually pregnant, or that she isn't going to live long enough to have her 4th child.
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Ok, you found Trump denouncing David Duke as a racist and bigot in 2000. And yet, when asked about David Duke's endorsement during this election, many times in 2015 and 2016, Trump said he couldn't comment on that because he didn't know who David Duke is. He knew him well enough to comment in 2000, but 15 years later he doesn't know the guy, can't comment on it.
Look at all the ducking and dodging of that question he did in a series of interviews on the subject:
Can't comment, don't know the guy, can't disavow the KKK because there are so many groups and I don't know all of them, I have to do research on the groups, don't know David Duke, don't need his endorsement, don't know anything about David Duke, I don't have anything to say about that... finally after 3 days of this, gets asked point blank to renounce the support of all white supremacists, he says:
“Of course, I am. I mean, there’s nobody that’s done so much for equality as I have. You take a look at Palm Beach, Florida, I built the Mar-a-Lago Club, totally open to everybody; a club that frankly set a new standard in clubs and a new standard in Palm Beach and I’ve gotten great credit for it. That is totally open to everybody. So, of course, I am.”
What a guy! He turns his renouncement of white supremacists into an ad for his golf club!
Look how he tried to squirm out of responding to the David Duke question over and over again without denouncing Duke or white supremacist groups. Finally, grudgingly, he gives in. Much like the way he handled the "birther" conspiracy. He hustled those dumb saps for 6 years, and finally when he realizes he can't duck the question anymore, gives the bare minimum response to make the question go away.
2 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:As an edit - what you describe is actually 2nd degree murder.
If you're in an altercation, leave, return with a weapon, and kill somebody, there's a strong argument to be made for premeditation.
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21 minutes ago, Argus said:
I really don't get where this fixation with Soros came from. I mean, yes he's a billionaire who gives money to political groups, but there's tons of those and most of them are on the right. But you don't see people making up conspiracy stories about the Koch brothers funding Nazis. Well, maybe bad comparison given they're Jews.
I think the Koch brothers are actually a pretty good comparison... they were the go-to right-wing billionaire boogeymen for a long time. Except that most of the stuff that the Koch brothers were accused of doing, they were actually doing. There was a factual basis behind it. Unlike the current Soros obsession from the Alex Jones types who think Soros is responsible for everything from funding violent protests to creating more-potent marijuana.
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11 hours ago, Argus said:
I think it more likely this was unplanned, and that it was spurred by him being worked up by/enraged by the fighting, probably because he got beaten (speculation, I admit).
It sounds like you're actually arguing that this was premeditated. If he got beat up, went back to get his car, and ran over a bunch of people to get "revenge", he should definitely be charged with 1st degree murder, not 2nd.
9 hours ago, Argus said:Counter rallying is one thing, but when you show up with bricks, bottles, helmets, masks, shields and clubs, that's not a rally and you should all be arrested on the spot.
Here's a picture of James Field (center), the driver of the car that struck the crowd, taken earlier that day. As you can see, he and his friends had riot shields decorated with white power symbols, some of them have ballistic eyewear and helmets, and metal flag-poles... you can't tell me these people weren't ready for a fight.
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4 hours ago, LonJowett said:
Can you provide evidence from a reputable source that Soros paid for the protesters? If you can't, do you have the integrity to admit you have no evidence?
Alex Jones has claimed that George Soros is behind the anti-racist protests.
So mostly just a lot of mentally impaired people are going to be saying Soros is behind it.
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3 minutes ago, Argus said:
And what is his word worth anyway? It's meaningless. He's a congenital liar. And given his history, his sympathies are certainly on his side. Remember, this is a guy whose company had to be sued twice by the justice department for not renting to Blacks.
Certainly. I think this is much like the Obama "birther" conspiracy theory... he pandered to the true-believers for 6 years, and only disavowed a personal belief in it when it became a political inconvenience to him. This is the same. I don't think he's actually a white supremacist or a birther, I just think he likes having the votes of people who think he is. Look at all the pressure it took for him to grudgingly throw those people under the bus. Even Jeff Sessions, who was once deemed too racist to appoint to be a federal judge, had no hesitation in denouncing the white supremacist groups and saying that yes, the justice department was investigating every possible legal avenue including terrorism. I think that it annoyed Trump that he was forced to sell out bigots that voted for him today, because he needs their vote next time too.
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2 minutes ago, Argus said:
My allegiance is to neither group. My allegiance is to free speech and peaceful coexistence, to discussing differences openly without violence. I'd frankly like to see everyone on the street there, Left and Right, scooped up in big dump trucks and carried out to the farms to pick cotton for the rest of the summer.
I think there's a limit to peaceful coexistence. I don't think I could peacefully coexist with a Wahabbi Islamist who thought people like me should be put to death, for example. I don't think I can blame people for not wanting to coexist with people who march around advocating that blacks belong in cotton-fields or Jews belong in gas-chambers.
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1 minute ago, Argus said:
Now that he's finally singled out the White supremacists they're bitching that he didn't use the word terrorist.
People like Richard Spencer and David Duke have been calling Trump a friend and ally since long before he was elected, and today is the first time he's actually disavowed them.
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1 minute ago, Wilber said:
Does anyone dispute that if the driver of that car was a Muslim instead of someone with know neo Nazi leanings, people would be calling it an act of terrorism?
We need to find out how he became radicalized. Why didn't James Fields' family and his pastor alert authorities that he'd become radicalized?
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2 minutes ago, Argus said:
She'd make a fine lieutenant, the cold hearted bloodless bitch.
Oh, speaking of that. She now says she has a bun in the oven.
Does she? Or is this just a ploy to retain Jaime's loyalty?
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22 minutes ago, Argus said:
I'm thinking that, given the options of submitting to Danys and getting executed, and fighting her and losing and getting executed, Cersei might even try to reach an 'accommodation' with the Night King. If he's willing to kill her but bring her back as his chief lieutenant, say, so she can get revenge on everyone....
My impression of how that negotiation would go:
Cersei: "Your grace. I wish to discuss a proposal. An alliance of sorts."
Night King: " ."
Cersei: "A man of few words. I respect that. You are King of the lands beyond the wall. I am the Queen of the lands south of the wall. By combining our --- errrr, what are you doing?"
Night King: " ."
Cersei: "Well. As I say. If we combine our forces, we could crush our enemies, as--- excuse me! What are you doing? Unhand me, sir."
Night King: " ."
Cersei: "... braiiiinzzzzzz"
Ser Gregor: "... braiinnnnzzzzz"
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14 hours ago, Argus said:
The names on Arya's death list, who thinks Sansa's is one of them?
I read your comment before last night's episode, and I thought "that would be a huge shock, but it would make a certain amount of sense." One could make the argument that bad decisions Sansa made in season 1 caused Ned to be executed, and it could have been that Arya held her responsible.
After last night's episode, I think the answer to your question is "she wasn't before, but she probably is now."
The letter that Littlefinger found and leaked to Arya was the letter Sansa wrote under duress in season 2 (I think it's season 2, anyway) urging Robb to come to King's Landing and surrender.
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The Crosby Issue
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Oh. That's an issue of bi-partisan agreement? Ok, then. So why do people keep saying that protesting police brutality during the anthem is political and divisive?
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