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RagnarokAngel posted:This one isn't inherently bad, not even close to some of them in here. But it does have a few tropes that fit this thread. Namely "The mainstream liberal media doesnt report this!". Yeah seven park rangers taken care of children don't give conservatives a hard on like fourty Marines do. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/glurge/daycare.asp
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 07:11 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:25 |
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The US Marine has essentially become a stock Mary Sue-type character for every shitthatdidnothappen.txt email that every conservative sends out these days.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 07:55 |
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Surely the more accurate Marine story is the one where they shoot the supervisor and some of the kids and try and cover it up and get a slap on the wrist?
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 09:10 |
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Trouble Man posted:Surely the more accurate Marine story is the one where they shoot the supervisor and some of the kids and try and cover it up and get a slap on the wrist? Yeah no. I know you want D&D cred but this isn't really how you get it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 18:04 |
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You know who else used wagon circles? The Boers.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 18:24 |
I would think that the media would WANT to report on a story of 40 Marines charging in and saving kids since that's the feel-good story every newscast needs to round out their day after 20 minutes of death/theft/rape/murder. If that really happened I honestly think it would have been reported.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 18:31 |
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Toad on a Hat posted:I would think that the media would WANT to report on a story of 40 Marines charging in and saving kids since that's the feel-good story every newscast needs to round out their day after 20 minutes of death/theft/rape/murder. If that really happened I honestly think it would have been reported. I don't think you understand. You see the media is run by...liberals.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 20:01 |
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The awesome thing is that you can make up any old story you want and claim it's true but just wasn't covered by the LAMESTREAM media, who's to say you're wrong? It's easy! You try one!
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 20:45 |
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Tesla Insanely Coil posted:He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff. This almost feels like a high school debate topic, where some poor bastard got the poo poo end of the stick and was tasked with defending Arpaio. There's just so much twisted logic in there it's hard to believe someone wrote it with a straight face - it's impossible to have researched him this much and not also seen all the reprehensible poo poo he's responsible for. I was at a party recently where someone was laughing at Joe, saying "Haha he's the guy who makes the inmates where pink underwear, he rules." I said "Haha, he's also the guy who made a woman give birth shackled to her bed and wouldn't let her get up to pee or hold her baby, so eat poo poo."
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 20:52 |
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Triple20 posted:I would like to have the links, if it isn't too much trouble. Nice e-mail. Okay, I added the links. Here is a handy link to my post even: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3186581&pagenumber=49&perpage=40#post377474213 I haven't received any responses - I'm kind of disappointed.
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# ? Jun 2, 2010 22:39 |
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quote:LEADERSHIP BRIEFING
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# ? Jun 3, 2010 01:56 |
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Econosaurus posted:Wrong thread? Not that I disagree it's crazy (as anything rabidly and blindly pro-Israel tends to be), this just doesn't seem to be the right thread for it.
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# ? Jun 3, 2010 07:34 |
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If I have to get shot with anything I think "hand-made weapon" would be near the top of the list. Unless these people were AK-47 kit nerds or goons with neighborhood endangering flamethrowers and potato guns.
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# ? Jun 3, 2010 17:54 |
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I've been getting some crazy ones from my Mom for awhile. Usually I just spend 5 minutes disproving it and telling her not to bother me with them anymore. I got this one today. Loving that awesome first sentence to kick things off. quote:The BIG question is what can be done to help besides forwarding this email which I hope you will consider doing? Didn't really find anything about it other than disputes over who wrote it: http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1575 Forget for a minute that the Nazi party was elected with a majority vote iirc and Stalin was time man of the year, what the hell is this suggesting? All Muslims are bad because of a minority of fanatics? The same logic could be applied to any group ever. I hope my Mom isn't out killing irrelevant peace-loving Muslims rather than being passive.
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 07:15 |
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Gnaghi posted:Forget for a minute that the Nazi party was elected with a majority vote iirc and Stalin was time man of the year, what the hell is this suggesting? quote:Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 13:20 |
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Turing sex machine posted:Yeah, I read the whole thing and I'm still wondering what his point was, or what practical decision he's advocating. I think the point is that since the peaceful majority won't do anything to stop the fanatics, those of us who care must ignore the majority and only concentrate on the minority of fanatics. So, let's ignore all the moderate and reasonable Israelis and concentrate on opposing the ultra-orthodox colonists in West Bank, because the majority of Israelis really have done nothing to oppose them.
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 13:47 |
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I like how he implies that the United States knew what was going on in the USSR, that we weren't doing anything to stop Japan in Asia (until it was too late!!!), and that the Nazi party was somehow a minority rule.
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 15:27 |
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The majority of capitalists have done nothing to stop the "few" that are ruthless and unethical, so we should ignore them and take over the means of production for ourselves.
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 16:30 |
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Holocaust Survivor's Email posted:Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late. Quite literally, THOUSANDS of people have read this world-wide. We're winning!
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 16:41 |
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tek79 posted:Quite literally, THOUSANDS of people have read this world-wide. We're winning! "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 19:11 |
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Well I got out of bed this afternoon, had my coffee and started writing a reply. quote:Why do you keep reading this poo poo and who are the retards who send it to you? Let's look at it shall we?
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# ? Jun 4, 2010 19:21 |
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I'm still trying to make sense of this but it sure seems to fit this thread!quote:This is from a retired CHP Officer and ex military.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 05:10 |
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I know it goes without saying, but Bullshit, none of that ever happened. What I love most is how it's from a guy from a guy who knows a guy who listened to a guy talk about some friends of his who were told by their barber that a raghead bought some cellphones.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 05:21 |
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crime fighting hog posted:I know it goes without saying, but Bullshit, none of that ever happened. What I love most is how it's from a guy from a guy who knows a guy who listened to a guy talk about some friends of his who were told by their barber that a raghead bought some cellphones. Women wearing burqas in Fresno seemed quite improbable to me, so I googled it. Sure enough, Snopes has already debunked it: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/burqacell.asp
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 05:27 |
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Would a US cellphone even work in Iraq or Afghanistan? From what I can tell, only triband or quadband phones are even capable of being adapted, and that's expensive. You might as well get a prepaid from Iraqna or whatever the equivalent in Afghanistan is. It's not like the West is the only place to get a cellphone. And when I was in the Navy, that package delivery would have caused all kinds of havoc right away. I doubt the "two dorks" would have gotten off base except in the back of a police car, terrorist probe or not. Maybe the ANG is a little more lax about security, but considering the Guard yahoos I dealt with when I was overseas, I find it more likely they would have taken any opportunity to go apeshit on any suspected terrorist. And I really, really doubt that the local news wouldn't be all over these stories if they were true. This whole thing just smacks of someone reading "FW:FW: FWD: FW: This really happened!" emails in front of a believing audience. EDIT: Beaten while typing, and with a Snopes link at that.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 05:37 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:The F-16s out of Fresno fly CAP for west coast. Unless there's some military CAP that I don't know about, CAP stands for Civil Air Patrol. It's an entirely volunteer, civilian run organization, and in all my years of participating in CAP I never once got to fly an F16. So either this e-mail is a lie or I am going to be freakin' pissed at my CO.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 05:52 |
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The West will be conquered by a series of roadside cell phone-triggered bombs. The cell phones will be purchased in the United States. By Muslim women wearing burkas. In Fresno loving California. You heard it here first, folks!
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 06:44 |
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chesh posted:Unless there's some military CAP that I don't know about, CAP stands for Civil Air Patrol. It's an entirely volunteer, civilian run organization, and in all my years of participating in CAP I never once got to fly an F16. I assume the article refers to a Combat Air Patrol (this is what is being referred to when in movies they talk about flying a cap in an area).
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 08:30 |
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I don't really even see what the point is besides "There are some people who sympathize with Islamic terrorists in the US and the FBI seems to be on top of it. P.S. Foreign intelligence services are interested in our weapon systems."
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 10:59 |
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It would sure make sense to buy prepaid cellphones in California and send them to Afghanistan for IED's! Usually prepaid connections don't allow roaming, so the connections wouldn't work in Afghanistan. And if you need just mobile phones, surely it's cheaper to buy them in Asia than Fresno. Do people forwarding this kind of bile not consider the meaning of any of it for one moment, or do they forward it regardless of how stupid it is?
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 14:00 |
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Nenonen posted:It would sure make sense to buy prepaid cellphones in California and send them to Afghanistan for IED's!
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 16:08 |
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Nenonen posted:Do people forwarding this kind of bile not consider the meaning of any of it for one moment, or do they forward it regardless of how stupid it is? I imagine most people who believe these emails outright also think electricity is magic.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 16:15 |
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I don't really even see what the point is besides "There are some people who sympathize with Islamic terrorists in the US and the FBI seems to be on top of it. P.S. Foreign intelligence services are interested in our weapon systems." The "point", such as it is, is to use the word "raghead" multiple times in an email and and make fun of moose limb lady funny headgear, and all the while, it's "okay" because you're only repeating the words of a patriotic member of ARE TROOPS. And I suppose for a lot of American freeper types, it's impossible to conceive that advanced space age technologies like cell phones and the infrastructure to make calls on them exist in the mysterious lands of Araby.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 16:17 |
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The point is to make sure that you've got your guns, so when the A-rab uprising begins you can shoot those fuckin' ragheads.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 18:25 |
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ManoliIsFat posted:Ya these people don't travel much do you know how many cellphones there are in the world? Not hard to pick up a few locally anywhere in the world. It would be so easy to troll them. "My neighbour's son-in-law is currently at training with his National Guards unit, and an anti-terrorism expert Jack Bauer told them that Arabic speaking men wearing checkered scarves on their head were going from service station to another and buying ALL THE GASOLINE THEY COULD GET in Houston, Texas. According to CIA they send it via Canada to Iraq where the terrorists turn them into IED's! Pass this information on to everyone you know!"
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 18:45 |
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Mornacale posted:The point is to make sure that you've got your guns, so when the A-rab uprising begins you can shoot those fuckin' ragheads.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 18:53 |
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crime fighting hog posted:I imagine most people who believe these emails outright also think electricity is magic. Miracles, not magic.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 18:59 |
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Cellphones would make poo poo remote triggers for IEDs anyway - too expensive, too easy to track, too unreliable. You can make a perfectly reliable line-of-sight radio trigger (and normally they'll only need line-of-sight because there'll be some bloke up a mountain somewhere waiting to trigger it when a target goes by) for a tenth the price of even the cheapest mobile phone, with the advantage that it's not sitting there constantly transmitting an easily-detectable signal. Oh yeah and the Taliban want the cellphone network in the 'Stan shut down anyway, to stop people phoning in tips to coalition forces. There may be a very tiny kernel of truth in it though - very early in the conflict Swiss pay-as-you-go phones were the favoured means of communication for the Taliban because of the perception that Switzerland's data-protection legislation and neutrality would prevent them sharing data with the US, which may or may not be true (but when all you need to do is fire a Hellfire at anything using that provider's SIM ID it's a bit moot). When the story was broken (to the intense annoyance of US intelligence) a few papers reported that Swiss authorities were seeking a man in "Islamic garb" (a bit of a rarity in whiter-than-LF Switzerland) who was spotted buying armfuls of phones.
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 19:01 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Cellphones would make poo poo remote triggers for IEDs anyway - too expensive, too easy to track, too unreliable. You can make a perfectly reliable line-of-sight radio trigger (and normally they'll only need line-of-sight because there'll be some bloke up a mountain somewhere waiting to trigger it when a target goes by) for a tenth the price of even the cheapest mobile phone, with the advantage that it's not sitting there constantly transmitting an easily-detectable signal. Cellphones are actually used extensively in both Iraq and Afghanistan as IED triggers mostly because of their ubiquitous nature in both countries and ease of use in IEDs. While you are right about the nature of cellphones, they are still used a lot in both conflicts despite countermeasures deployed against both RF and cellphone detonated IEDs. Here is a decent article about some of the countermeasures employed: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050710-ied-jammers.htm
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# ? Jun 6, 2010 21:19 |
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the yellow dart posted:I assume the article refers to a Combat Air Patrol (this is what is being referred to when in movies they talk about flying a cap in an area). Ah, thank you, that makes much more sense.
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