Volkerball posted:

HootTheOwl posted:

Holy poo poo why are we still talking about the Ted Rall of Brazil?

TetsuoTW posted:

Also how in the gently caress is this thread already nearly 100 pages just two weeks into the year?

Post 9-11 User posted:

Found this while cleaning up old files, presented here because the understanding of what Antisemitism looks like seems to have been lost.

TetsuoTW posted:

Also how in the gently caress is this thread already nearly 100 pages just two weeks into the year?

Post 9-11 User posted:

Found this while cleaning up old files, presented here because the understanding of what Antisemitism looks like seems to have been lost.

Lady Naga posted:

Is there some hidden meaning behind using Call of Pripyat art for this thumbnail?

joeburz posted:

is this a real thing?

TetsuoTW posted:

Also how in the gently caress is this thread already nearly 100 pages just two weeks into the year?

InequalityGodzilla posted:

Major Degtyriev is secretly a massive antisemite?

Lady Naga posted:

Maybe it's just because it's super popular on 4chan but if I found out that neo-nazis really loving loved S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I somehow wouldn't be surprised. I suppose that a military junta is one of the most prominent factions would probably appeal to them.

majormonotone posted:

Also, Charlie Hebdo

Sega 32X posted:

Latuff did "Dying for Bush's oil profits" right? When Did consensus decide he was good at his job?

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

He does cartoons about how monogamy is bad and threesomes are cool and drew SSJ3 Goku loving a man in the rear end.

He's basically the most Goon Friendly cartoonist.

Samurai Sanders posted:

What's the word on whether American Sniper glorifies war or not? From the trailer I couldn't tell at all.

The New Yorker posted:

Kyle seemed to consider himself a cross between a lawman and an executioner. His platoon had spray-painted the image of the Punisher—a Marvel Comics character who wages “a one-man war upon crime”—on their flak jackets and helmets. Kyle made a point of ignoring the military dress code, cutting the sleeves off shirts and wearing baseball caps instead of a helmet. (“Ninety per cent of being cool is looking cool,” he wrote.) Like many soldiers, Kyle was deeply religious and saw the Iraq War through that prism. He tattooed one of his arms with a red crusader’s cross, wanting “everyone to know I was a Christian.” When he learned that insurgents had placed a bounty on his head and had named him al-Shaitan Ramadi—the Devil of Ramadi—he felt “proud.” He “hated the drat savages” he was fighting. In his book, he recounts telling an Army colonel, “I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.”

The New Yorker posted:

Supporting veterans was only one way that Kyle tried to establish a new identity off the battlefield; it was hard to let go of being a hero. In January, 2010, Kyle later told friends, he was once again put to the test: two men tried to carjack his truck. He was parked at a gas station, southwest of Dallas. “He told the robbers that he just needed to reach back into the truck to get the keys,” Michael J. Mooney wrote in a recent article about Kyle, in D Magazine. Mooney, who had worked on the piece with Kyle’s coöperation, wrote that Kyle “turned around and reached under his winter coat instead, into his waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911”—a sidearm that is popular with military personnel. “He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first man twice in the chest. Then he turned slightly and fired two more times, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead.”

Police officers arrived at the scene. When they ran Kyle’s license, Mooney wrote, something unusual occurred: “Instead of his name, address, and date of birth, what came up was a phone number at the Department of Defense. At the other end of the line was someone who explained that the police were in the presence of one of the most skilled fighters in U.S. military history.” According to Kyle, security cameras documented the episode.

Like Mooney, I also heard many of Kyle’s friends and associates tell this story. Details varied, but the ending was the same: Kyle drove away without being charged and, as Mooney put it in a related blog post, later received “e-mails from police officers all over the country, thanking him for ‘cleaning up the streets.’ ” Mooney never saw the security tape or found other corroborating evidence, such as police files or a coroner’s report for the dead carjackers. “Consider this story confirmed by the man himself,” he wrote in the blog post, in which he described Kyle as a “true American badass” and a “real-life action hero.”

There is cause to be skeptical. The counties of Erath, Somervell, and Johnson cover the stretch of highway where the incident supposedly happened. Tommy Bryant, the sheriff of Erath County, told me that he could “guar-an-drat-tee it didn’t happen here.” Greg Doyle, the sheriff of Somervell County, said that he had “never heard” the story, which he found “kinda shocking,” and added, “It did not occur here.” Bob Alford, the sheriff of Johnson County, told a local reporter, “If something like that happened here I would have heard of it, and I’m sure you all at the newspaper would have heard of it.” These denials do not automatically disprove the story, of course. And it’s true that certain operatives, from certain government offices and agencies, drive government-registered vehicles whose license plates prompt civilian authorities to contact a call center in the event of an accident or a traffic stop. But a SEAL with extensive experience in special-mission units told me that the notion of such a provision being in place for a former SEAL driving a private vehicle was “bullshit.”

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The SEALs began telling stories, and Kyle offered a shocking one. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, he said, the law-and-order situation was dire. He and another sniper travelled to New Orleans, set up on top of the Superdome, and proceeded to shoot dozens of armed residents who were contributing to the chaos. Three people shared with me varied recollections of that evening: the first said that Kyle claimed to have shot thirty men on his own; according to the second, the story was that Kyle and the other sniper had shot thirty men between them; the third said that she couldn’t recall specific details.

Had Kyle gone to New Orleans with a gun? Rumors of snipers—both police officers and criminal gunmen—circulated in the weeks after the storm. Since then, they have been largely discredited. A spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, told me, “To the best of anyone’s knowledge at SOCOM, there were no West Coast SEALs deployed to Katrina.” When I related this account to one of Kyle’s officers, he replied, sardonically, “I never heard that story.” The SEAL with extensive experience in special-mission units wondered how dozens of people could be shot by high-velocity rifles and just disappear; Kyle’s version of events, he said, “defies the imagination.” (In April, Webb published an article on SOFREP about the incident, but took it down after concluding that Kyle’s account was dubious.)

Perhaps this story, like the one about the gas station, contains a kernel of truth. Both narratives, however, portray Kyle as if he really were the Punisher, dispensing justice by his own rules. It was possible to see these stories as evidence of vainglory; it was also possible to see them as attempts by a struggling man to maintain an invincible persona. Kilbane, having read Kyle’s book, knew about his drinking habits and his battles with combat stress. Watching Kyle put down pint glass after pint glass of whiskey-on-the-rocks, he said, “It made me think there were still demons bouncing around in there.”

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Samurai Sanders posted:

What's the word on whether American Sniper glorifies war or not? From the trailer I couldn't tell at all.

voltroon posted:

Emad Hajjaj
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The sign says "#jesuischarlie", and the Palestinian woman is saying "#It's been going on for 67 years" (The joke is that "it's been going on" kind of sounds like "Charlie")

Sega 32X posted:

Latuff did "Dying for Bush's oil profits" right? When Did consensus decide he was good at his job?

Mister Beeg posted:

The cartoonist who drew this is a sexist douche (I used to have him on Facebook), but, I'll admit, this one made me laugh

Gilganixon posted:

Latuff's job is to draw protest signs for anti-US and anti-Israel protesters and he has been very good at that for a very long time.

E: shut up about Latuff

E: have a new Latuff!

Fojar38 posted:

See, my problem with Latuff is less "Is he an anti-semite?" and more that I'm constantly getting mixed messages from him. On one hand he constantly draws the West loving things up with neocolonialism or what have you but then he draws stuff like this which I can't see any other way to interpret aside from "Why isn't West stopping bad thing?"

Gilganixon posted:

Latuff's message is "gently caress the US".

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Fojar38 posted:

IMO that is not a very intelligent stance for someone to take on literally every issue.

Fojar38 posted:

IMO that is not a very intelligent stance for someone to take on literally every issue.

Gyre posted:

At first glance I thought I was unironically agreeing with a Lester (why should religion get special treatment in jokes?) but then I look again and realized that no, he's still a fuckward.

voltroon posted:

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