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Tias posted:It's.. beautiful. Freepers: Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:27 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 13:58 |
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Georgia Peach posted:Um, I don't know anything about this guy, but is there some sort of evidence he deserted to help the Taliban or whatever poo poo these freepers are saying? The only story about the incident I've seen that addressed his capture was that the details were unclear. There is material, like the email's he sent to his parents while deployed, that do raise questions. He also learned pashto and grew very close to the local Aghans. He also made comments to other soldiers suggesting he would just head off into the mountains at some point. It doesn't seem like he wanted to help the Taliban, just that he got sick of both sides hurting so many people and decided to just end his role in the war entirely. Also, he was held by the Haqqani Network, not the Taliban. The difference is nuanced, but important, as Haqqani also focuses on the international whereas the Taliban does not. If the Taliban had him, they would have likely wanted more local prisoners, likely ones in Bagram.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:34 |
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One of his old platoon mates has also been going against the NDA he signed when this first happened and was posting actual sequence of events last night (drunk maybe?) that make it pretty clear the guy was an idiot and had been planning on deserting for a long time.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:36 |
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Thanks for the info. I was skeptical because that's my first reaction when freepers start latching on to some sort of narrative.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:39 |
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Cythereal posted:Freepers: Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:42 |
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quote:To: ex-snook That's funny, I figured senior jihadists farmed out that kind of work to their terrorism assistants while they rested on their laurels and cranked out the occasional "death to the Great Satan" video to keep the funds rolling in. After all, they worked hard for their tenure, dammit
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:46 |
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SatansOnion posted:That's funny, I figured senior jihadists farmed out that kind of work to their terrorism assistants while they rested on their laurels and cranked out the occasional "death to the Great Satan" video to keep the funds rolling in. After all, they worked hard for their tenure, dammit It's like the Office Space of terrorism. "I'm going to need you to come in over the weekend for a suicide bombing." "But it's my weekend off." "Listen, how about this: You come in Saturday, you don't have to come in on Sunday."
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:50 |
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Georgia Peach posted:Thanks for the info. I was skeptical because that's my first reaction when freepers start latching on to some sort of narrative. Frrepers are just being their normal ignorant selves, as always I guess. I can only speak from my experience, but most soldiers have similar thoughts to some things expressed by Bergdahl about the impact war has on people just trying to live their lives, especially if they build any type of relationship with the locals. It sounds like Bergdahl had some other issues going on, but I understand some element of his worldview. Walking off into the desert is a bad idea obviously, but any soldier who says they loved every part of their deployment, never had any doubts about their actions on mission and has no regrets whatsoever about their role is either lying or is someone who is sociopathic. I got to know quite a few Iraqis and what happened / is happening to them and their country really sucks on multiple levels.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 19:53 |
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His dad also posted this a couple days ago on twitter https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/472908702887215105
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 20:00 |
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quote:To: SeekAndFind It was bugging me that that post had such a glaring error in it, so I took the liberty of fixing it.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 20:50 |
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West/Carson 2016: Come On, Darkies, What Else Do We Have To Do?
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 21:38 |
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Acquilae posted:It was the same a while back with the black high school student who was accepted to all the Ivy league schools was berated for being a product of affirmative action on freep. If you're a minority you can't win with freepers; if you're a minority and didn't graduate high school, you're [insert ethnic/racial slur] and if you're a minority and accepted into a good college, high-paying job, a prominent position like an executive or flag officer in Shinseki's case, it's all because of affirmative action and stealing what belonged to a white, conservative American. A clear case of white conservative American males wanting ALL THE THINGS and the minorities having only what the white conservative American males allow them to have. Par for the course for Freepers.
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# ? Jun 1, 2014 23:00 |
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Everyday Lurker posted:A clear case of white conservative American males wanting ALL THE THINGS and the minorities having only what the white conservative American males allow them to have. Par for the course for Freepers. Complete with a myth of the put-upon white male and minority privilege.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 00:11 |
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Vagabundo posted:Complete with a myth of the put-upon white male and minority privilege. I actually occasionally hear right wingers saying out loud that talking point about white males being the only group that it's fair to discriminate against. They have huffed their own farts out of a paper bag so long they don't even realize how this stuff sounds coming out of their mouths.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 00:14 |
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Zwabu posted:I actually occasionally hear right wingers saying out loud that talking point about white males being the only group that it's fair to discriminate against. They have huffed their own farts out of a paper bag so long they don't even realize how this stuff sounds coming out of their mouths. Plenty of white moderates and even some leftists believe it too, so as long as no minorities are nearby it tends to go over well. Any white people who disagree with them are the victims of PC brainwashing.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 01:18 |
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Workaround for Christian Businesses Liberals HATE this! Learn one weird trick that will keep you from having to serve filthy homos ever again! OP posted:And that’s the solution. Christian businesses need to specify that they make, for example, “Christian marriage” cakes. ONLY. Because under corporate contractual law, “marriage” is NOT the same term as “Christian marriage.” PERIOD. And as long as a business sticks to their definition of “Christian marriage cakes,” the general statutory term “marriage” cannot be applied to what they do. quote:To: Talisker quote:To: Talisker quote:To: Talisker Checkmate, Homos! quote:To: Kansas58 loving Judges, what do they know about law! quote:To: bolobaby quote:To: Talisker quote:To: Talisker Hey, why don't don't we make our cakes so lovely that they never come back? That'll show 'em! quote:To: MNDude If you're interested in word salads the Topic Creator has been dumping them throughout the entire thread. For example: quote:To: yongin
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 05:03 |
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Jagged Jim posted:Workaround for Christian Businesses Does the cake have a gold fringe, this is important for reasons I haven't sat through youtube explanations of yet.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 05:05 |
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:Does the cake have a gold fringe, this is important for reasons I haven't sat through youtube explanations of yet. Beaten to the punch, you magnificient bastard
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 07:34 |
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Obama to impose carbon pollution cap on power plants Literally everything Obama has done is illegal quote:To: lowbridge quote:To: lowbridge quote:To: lowbridge quote:To: plain talk quote:To: lowbridge quote:To: firebrand quote:To: JRandomFreeper
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 07:45 |
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quote:To: lowbridge You're saying I shouldn't eat this iron nail? Stupid liberal, iron is a necessity for the human body.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 12:18 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:You're saying I shouldn't eat this iron nail? Stupid liberal, iron is a necessity for the human body. What do you mean "You shouldn't smoke in a pure oxygen environment"? We need oxygen to breathe, idiot, and I won't let some pinko communist tell me where I can and can not smoke!
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 12:41 |
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Even setting aside the difference between carbon dioxide and coal for a second, coal miners routinely get "black lung" from breathing in particulate and it can be fatal.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 14:23 |
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quote:To: plain talk Hahahahahahahahahahaha! The cluelessness and willful ignorance are palpable.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 14:26 |
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 14:54 |
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Not sure about breathing in, but I can tell you that everything that comes out of that man's mouth is toxic.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 14:55 |
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Elephant Ambush posted:Hahahahahahahahahahaha! What's the opposite of a strawman argument? Because he's taking a literally true thing, that he is breathing in pollution of some sort at all times, and acting as though it's not a real argument.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 15:19 |
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Feinne posted:What's the opposite of a strawman argument? Because he's taking a literally true thing, that he is breathing in pollution of some sort at all times, and acting as though it's not a real argument. It really is just willful ignorance. They've heard a million times that pollution is all around us at all times and they just bury their heads in the sand.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 15:29 |
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Elephant Ambush posted:Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 15:38 |
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Finnankainen posted:If ‘’carbon pollution’’ was one-tenth as harmful as the environmentalists claim, coal miners would be dead after working only a few years. Instead, they live and flourish long enough to expect to be awarded hefty union-secured pensions, which they will no longer be able to receive once Obama’s law destroys the coal companies and their pension funds. This dude must not be from a coal state. The idea that coal miners "flourish" is amazing. Also, pensions are evil
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:22 |
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Sir Tonk posted:
Union pensions are because UNIONS. Seriously anyone that has been to or ever lived in a mining town can tell anyone who could get out did.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:26 |
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Sir Tonk posted:
Just remember, the Free Market will take care of anything, unless it's ruined by liberal thugs sabotaging it through such underhanded tactics as pointing out that it's "horrible for the world" or "run by unapologetic racists who actually believe that black people are here for our entertainment and should be seen and not heard." Also something about allowing other religions to practice being an infringement of my first amendment right to freedom of religion or something.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:30 |
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drat fuckers, you love coal so much but you can't even praise coal miners with vaguely homoerotic paeans to their sweaty toil?
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:39 |
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Freepers: If you are anti-carbon, you are anti-life.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 16:54 |
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Logikv9 posted:you are anti-life How did they know?
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:03 |
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fool_of_sound posted:How did they know? Because we looooooooooooooove death!
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:04 |
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Gotta wonder what they think of Billy Elliot, in all honesty.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:04 |
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Because we looooooooooooooove death! Look at all the abortions we do!
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:08 |
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Coal is a fundamental part of the human body right? Just like water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6Ex8E1q50 The Anime Turnpike fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jun 2, 2014 |
# ? Jun 2, 2014 17:53 |
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[San Fran] Muni Faces Major Delays With Two-Thirds Of Vehicles Not Running Due To Worker ‘Sickout’quote:To: Olog-hai quote:To: Olog-hai ------------------------- Fearing Rising Backlash, NRA Urges Gun Activists to Stand Down Who would have thought people open carrying assault rifles in public places would cause discomfort? quote:To: windcliff quote:To: windcliff quote:To: All Your Faith is Now Intrinsically Offensive. Are You Ready for the Fallout? quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: Gamecock quote:To: Gamecock Gallup Poll: Strong Majority Now Believe Gays Should Be Allowed to Adopt Kids quote:To: tflabo quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: tflabo quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind; July4; Oliviaforever quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind quote:To: SeekAndFind
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:22 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 13:58 |
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Freepers: Lord, just send the plagues. We are begging for them.
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# ? Jun 2, 2014 18:37 |