VideoTapir posted:

"Lone wolf" means the killer didn't have any help or direction from others. It doesn't mean they aren't part of a movement. Or, IT USED TO.

Gravel Gravy posted:

I count one, Crossfire.

FlamingLiberal posted:

Which doesn't even count since they brought it back last year.

AcidRonin posted:

Lol Levin an Hannity today was a trip. "WHY IS IT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ONLY CARE ABOUT LEFTIST ISSUES. PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY OWN THE MEDIA. ALSO MY GUN IS COOLER THAN YOUR GUN." ALso did you guys know that she. Obama says 'necon' that is a secret liberal code word for jew?

Tatum Girlparts posted:

The neocon=Jew thing has been around forever. It's a really weird, creepy, 'so there' that only ever means 'oh so your'e saying the neocons have taken over the party JUST LIKE THE JEWS DID WITH EVERYTHING ELSE YOU BIGOT?!'

Tatum Girlparts posted:

The neocon=Jew thing has been around forever. It's a really weird, creepy, 'so there' that only ever means 'oh so your'e saying the neocons have taken over the party JUST LIKE THE JEWS DID WITH EVERYTHING ELSE YOU BIGOT?!'

beatlegs posted:

So many people are losing their loving minds and it's being normalized by the mainstream news media. Sometimes I just want to go live in a cave because the shameless stupidity is so distressing. The water is really starting to boil, my fellow frogs.

Hazo posted:

Ahahahhahaha oh my god, did anyone else hear Levin shrieking about Obama calling for reduced carbon emissions today, and said:

"Carbon dioxide happens to start off a process called photosynthesis, Mr. President. It's what gives us oxygen and gives plants food! If we produce less carbon, we'll have fewer plants."

Hazo posted:

Ahahahhahaha oh my god, did anyone else hear Levin shrieking about Obama calling for reduced carbon emissions today, and said:

"Carbon dioxide happens to start off a process called photosynthesis, Mr. President. It's what gives us oxygen and gives plants food! If we produce less carbon, we'll have fewer plants."

beatlegs posted:

So many people are losing their loving minds and it's being normalized by the mainstream news media. Sometimes I just want to go live in a cave because the shameless stupidity is so distressing. The water is really starting to boil, my fellow frogs.

Rexicon1 posted:

What's this frog experiment?

Hazo posted:

Ahahahhahaha oh my god, did anyone else hear Levin shrieking about Obama calling for reduced carbon emissions today, and said:

"Carbon dioxide happens to start off a process called photosynthesis, Mr. President. It's what gives us oxygen and gives plants food! If we produce less carbon, we'll have fewer plants."

KomradeX posted:

I know a guy who thinks Reagan was a great president, who hates people that take anti science views like against GMOs and Anti Vaxers, yet insits that global warming isn't a problem and it's natural since we're coming out of an ice age or going into one or something. I just can't understand it how he can say that and yet think he knows better than the scientific community

Mercury_Storm posted:

Well said. The sad thing is that there doesn't seem to be an end to it in the foreseeable future, except perhaps a bit of a drop after election season.

computer parts posted:

If you throw a frog in boiling water, it jumps out. If you put a frog in warm water and turn it up until it boils, it will sit there and die.

It's the metaphor used by every political ideology that believes itself more well educated than the common pleb for the past century or two.

KomradeX posted:

I know a guy who thinks Reagan was a great president... I just can't understand it how he can say that and yet think he knows better than the scientific community

Hazo posted:

Ahahahhahaha oh my god, did anyone else hear Levin shrieking about Obama calling for reduced carbon emissions today, and said:

"Carbon dioxide happens to start off a process called photosynthesis, Mr. President. It's what gives us oxygen and gives plants food! If we produce less carbon, we'll have fewer plants."

big mean giraffe posted:

Nah pretty sure you have no idea what you're talking about.

quote:

A lone wolf or lone-wolf terrorist (also called a "stray dog")[1] is someone who commits violent acts in support of some group, movement, or ideology, but who does so alone, outside of any command structure and without material assistance from any group. Although the lone wolf prepares and acts alone, he/she may be influenced or motivated by the ideology and beliefs of an external group.

VitalSigns posted:

Because he has an ideological belief in the benevolence of the unrestricted free market, but environmental sciences directly refute that and show that indeed externalities exist and companies have an incentive to profit by dumping the costs of their pollution on other people even to such an extent that it threatens our civilization. Thus, the science must be wrong. It's the same for any ideology more concerned with arbitrary principles than finding out what's true.

I used to be pretty much the same way. I was raised in a conservative religious home, and although being gay helped me reject all the stupid poisonous evangelical fundy stuff, I was Libertarian for a while because I still accepted all the stupid poisonous free market bootstrapper stuff. It took me a while to gradually realize that while I was shaking my head in disbelief at young-earth creationists who just reject centuries of scientific inquiry because they don't like it, I was essentially doing the same thing with climate scientists and ignoring experts in the field and decades of research because I didn't like the conclusion.

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

Don't forget about the quasi-spiritual libertarian belief that technology will always advance exactly as fast as it needs to do in order to prevent catastrophe so self-evidently superior ways of generating energy, farming, etc. will always manifest themselves right when we need them the most. See also "we didn't stop burning wood for fuel because we ran out of wood, so why would it be the same way with oil".

Screaming Idiot posted:

If you gather enough libertarian rich people together, food, water, and other necessary resources will appear out of thin air! Poor people -- Takers -- are merely parasites, and they keep the rich people -- Makers -- from conjuring the necessities out of the primal firmament of wealth and rationality.

VitalSigns posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

If you gather enough libertarian rich people together, food, water, and other necessary resources will appear out of thin air! Poor people -- Takers -- are merely parasites, and they keep the rich people -- Makers -- from conjuring the necessities out of the primal firmament of wealth and rationality.

icantfindaname posted:

libertarians don't actually want the poor people to go away, they want them to be a quasi-feudal slave underclass dependent on them and their inalienable property for survival

icantfindaname posted:

libertarians don't actually want the poor people to go away, they want them to be a quasi-feudal slave underclass dependent on them and their inalienable property for survival

Hazo posted:

Ahahahhahaha oh my god, did anyone else hear Levin shrieking about Obama calling for reduced carbon emissions today, and said:

"Carbon dioxide happens to start off a process called photosynthesis, Mr. President. It's what gives us oxygen and gives plants food! If we produce less carbon, we'll have fewer plants."

QuarkJets posted:

some of my conservative friends are blowing up on Facebook over this new planned parenthood "SELLING BABY PARTS" thing, why is this news?

VitalSigns posted:

Conservatives are stupid and hateful and think that the only reason a woman might not want/be able to have a baby is because she's a filthy whore cackling at the thought of dismembering her own child or being dragged against her will to a butcher's table and cut open to fund an avaricious Jew doctor's new Lamborghini from the proceeds of selling the organs of the Christian children he slaughters.

VitalSigns posted:

Conservatives are stupid and hateful and think that the only reason a woman might not want/be able to have a baby is because she's a filthy whore cackling at the thought of dismembering her own child or being dragged against her will to a butcher's table and cut open to fund an avaricious Jew doctor's new Lamborghini from the proceeds of selling the organs of the Christian children he slaughters.

Hazo posted:

Holy poo poo this is nauseating on so many levels. What the hell does Obama have to do with abortions? Oh right, he's a black president while Things are Happening, therefore he's responsible.

Hazo posted:

Holy poo poo this is nauseating on so many levels. What the hell does Obama have to do with abortions? Oh right, he's a black president while Things are Happening, therefore he's responsible.

Manuel Calavera posted:

That's not even the worst one McCoy (Glenn or Gary, doesn't matter since they're both horrible people) has done. Come to the Polititoon thread, we have such sights to show you.