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JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Grem posted:

Some jerkward on Fox just said that Obama's comments on the shooting is him trying to distract from the problems in the Middle East....

This was like 2.5 Benghazis. Where was Hillary?

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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Kafka Esq. posted:

4chan is a social club for beta males, according to CNN.

October is going to be a fun month.

Suddenly, a thousand Dominoes pizzas appears at CNN headquarters.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007


There goes Obama, trying to distract us from Benghazi and Hillary's emails.

Kafka Esq. posted:

4chan is a social club for beta males, according to CNN.

October is going to be a fun month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQ
Did they really use the term beta males? That's extremely hosed up.

Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Oct 2, 2015

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

computer parts posted:

Suddenly, a thousand Dominoes pizzas appears at CNN headquarters.

I feel bad for Shepard Smith when his wacky Ipads-everywhere set is covered in Goatses when they inevitably do their own live segment on the dangers of 4Chan.

e: Is Goatse still a thing? What are the kids using nowadays to gross people out?



I'm old :smith: Oh god, I'm the people I made fun of about the internet!

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

I feel bad for Shepard Smith when his wacky Ipads-everywhere set is covered in Goatses when they inevitably do their own live segment on the dangers of 4Chan.

We will finally get 4chan banned because it doesn't have an interest group.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Gravel Gravy posted:

We will finally get 4chan banned because it doesn't have an interest group.

Don't worry, I'm sure Rand Paul will step up to defend them!

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
The main difference between the US and Australia regarding guns is that Australia never held firearm ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity. You could literally remove every single gun in the country and nobody would feel like it was less "Australian". If you did it in the states you'd have a significant portion of people saying "This ain't America no more! This ain't my country!"

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

I feel bad for Shepard Smith when his wacky Ipads-everywhere set is covered in Goatses when they inevitably do their own live segment on the dangers of 4Chan.

e: Is Goatse still a thing? What are the kids using nowadays to gross people out?



I'm old :smith: Oh god, I'm the people I made fun of about the internet!

1,000 years from now I hope future human looks upon the solid state drives of today and discovers His gaping rear end in a top hat smiling back.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Funky See Funky Do posted:

The main difference between the US and Australia regarding guns is that Australia never held firearm ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity.

The majority of Americans don't hold owning their own guns as part of their identity. Tons of Australians did, there was massive protests against the gun control stuff, and their constitution forbid and still forbids their federal government from controlling gun law. The only way they could do it nationally was clever politicking to get all the states and territories to agree on harmonization.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Funky See Funky Do posted:

The main difference between the US and Australia regarding guns is that Australia never held firearm ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity. You could literally remove every single gun in the country and nobody would feel like it was less "Australian". If you did it in the states you'd have a significant portion of people saying "This ain't America no more! This ain't my country!"

It's a deadly and poisonous identity that has to be changed at some point.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

The main difference between the US and Australia regarding slaves is that Australia never held slave ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity. You could literally remove every single slave in the country and nobody would feel like it was less "Australian". If you did it in the states you'd have a significant portion of people saying "This ain't America no more! This ain't my country!"

hhhat
Apr 29, 2008
Thread topic now less accurate

Obama was this close to calling out house Reps by name

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

zoux posted:

It's a deadly and poisonous identity that has to be changed at some point.

I'm not saying that it doesn't but it took us one mass shooting and not of children to overhaul ours. It was a conservative party in a coalition government with a rural party in power at the time it happened.

Trabisnikof posted:

The main difference between the US and Australia regarding slaves is that Australia never held slave ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity. You could literally remove every single slave in the country and nobody would feel like it was less "Australian". If you did it in the states you'd have a significant portion of people saying "This ain't America no more! This ain't my country!"

Yo that happened. You had a civil war over it.

awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug
It's cool to see the insane bloodlust of americans comes through even when ostensibly arguing ways to prevent school schootings. A second civil war to reduce violence!

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Trabisnikof posted:

The main difference between the US and Australia regarding slaves is that Australia never held slave ownership as an integral part of our cultural identity. You could literally remove every single slave in the country and nobody would feel like it was less "Australian". If you did it in the states you'd have a significant portion of people saying "This ain't America no more! This ain't my country!"

This literally happened.

AriadneThread
Feb 17, 2011

The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.


awesmoe posted:

It's cool to see the insane bloodlust of americans comes through even when ostensibly arguing ways to prevent school schootings. A second civil war to reduce violence!

we can't have any more school shooters, if everybody who could be a shooter or shootee is already dead


problem
solved

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 4, 2004

USPOL July

hhhat posted:

Thread topic now less accurate

Obama was this close to calling out house Reps by name

I expected the title wouldn't last the month because something would happen. I just didn't expect it to happen in under 12 hours.

Don't worry, we've still got the debt ceiling (Nov 5) and a proper omnibus budget (Dec 11) and two presidential nominee debates and House leadership elections this month, so it's still technically true!

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

awesmoe posted:

It's cool to see the insane bloodlust of americans comes through even when ostensibly arguing ways to prevent school schootings. A second civil war to reduce violence!
Yeah, I never want to hear that poo poo. The thing about going to war with your neighbors that I guess everyone forgets is that no matter how it ends, they'll still be there. There's no kind of magical war that makes the other side just disappear.

Kafka Esq.
Jan 1, 2005

"If you ever even think about calling me anything but 'The Crab' I will go so fucking crab on your ass you won't even see what crab'd your crab" -The Crab(TM)

Grapplejack posted:

Did they really use the term beta males? That's extremely hosed up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4W0ef2654

hhhat
Apr 29, 2008

ComradeCosmobot posted:

I expected the title wouldn't last the month because something would happen. I just didn't expect it to happen in under 12 hours.

Don't worry, we've still got the debt ceiling (Nov 5) and a proper omnibus budget (Dec 11) and two presidential nominee debates and House leadership elections this month, so it's still technically true!

You're right.

I take it back

Besides, it's only Oct 1 I'm sure we can cram another mass shooting in before November.

:smith:

Duke Igthorn
Oct 11, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Raise wages and social services to ease the general tension being heaped onto every American by our corporate overlords. People are less likely to snap if they're relaxed/properly medicated. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with one accident away from being destroyed and the pressure will not stop building. Stop that, stop the shootings. number of guns won't even factor into it.

hhhat
Apr 29, 2008
Or we could do more than one thing at a time

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

Samurai Sanders posted:

Yeah, I never want to hear that poo poo. The thing about going to war with your neighbors that I guess everyone forgets is that no matter how it ends, they'll still be there. There's no kind of magical war that makes the other side just disappear.

There is nuclear war but that sort of makes all sides disappear.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Duke Igthorn posted:

Raise wages and social services to ease the general tension being heaped onto every American by our corporate overlords. People are less likely to snap if they're relaxed/properly medicated. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with one accident away from being destroyed and the pressure will not stop building. Stop that, stop the shootings. number of guns won't even factor into it.

Some people will call you naive. Laughably naive. Insanely naive. Not me, I'm honestly jealous of your optimism. Not that I think it wouldn't help a lot of things but Godzilla rising from the ocean and attacking Tokyo has more chance of happening in the real world than that.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Samurai Sanders posted:

Yeah, I never want to hear that poo poo. The thing about going to war with your neighbors that I guess everyone forgets is that no matter how it ends, they'll still be there. There's no kind of magical war that makes the other side just disappear.

World War 2 made the Nazis disappear, poo poo look at Germany now, they're nice as hell! :shrug:

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

Stereotype posted:

There is nuclear war but that sort of makes all sides disappear.
Naw, people far outside of cities would survive and keep fighting each other with sticks or whatever.

Thump! posted:

World War 2 made the Nazis disappear, poo poo look at Germany now, they're nice as hell! :shrug:
There are still some white supremacists or otherwise people who didn't accept the outcome of the war there, right?

We definitely have them here in Japan, though most of their anger is directed at Koreans and Chinese.

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Oct 2, 2015

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
So egg man called up NBC specifically to say no I'm alive also send a woman.

The trolls are now trying to get the networks to go after Samuel Hyde as the shooter.

awesmoe
Nov 30, 2005

Pillbug

Samurai Sanders posted:

Yeah, I never want to hear that poo poo. The thing about going to war with your neighbors that I guess everyone forgets is that no matter how it ends, they'll still be there. There's no kind of magical war that makes the other side just disappear.

Also, millions of people would die

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Trabisnikof posted:

Are you sure that's not banned under FOPA?
Don't see how it would be.

Then again gun laws are totally nonsensical so I suppose it's possible.

Honestly I think nobody has done it because gun people don't care and anti-gun people don't know NICS exists.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

awesmoe posted:

It's cool to see the insane bloodlust of americans comes through even when ostensibly arguing ways to prevent school schootings. A second civil war to reduce violence!

The one talking up civil war was defending not doing anything about guns ever, dude.

awesmoe posted:

Also, millions of people would die

In all seriousness an attempted civil war would result in about 100 crazy people dead and maybe a dead soldier or cop. There ain't many people crazy enough to start a domestic war.

FourLeaf
Dec 2, 2011
CNN has switched between saying 10 people are dead and 11 people are dead four times now

Fox Ironic
Jul 19, 2012

by exmarx

Duke Igthorn posted:

Raise wages and social services to ease the general tension being heaped onto every American by our corporate overlords. People are less likely to snap if they're relaxed/properly medicated. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with one accident away from being destroyed and the pressure will not stop building. Stop that, stop the shootings. number of guns won't even factor into it.

This. A strong social safety net prevents violence at all levels. Combine this with paid parental leave to push the country to a more Gender Equal political climate (this will reduce the number of MRA/Red Pill/Trenchcoat Mafia fucktards who kill people en masse) and the Mass Shootings will drop off dramatically.

Switzerland, Germany and Norway have plenty of gun ownership and don't have particularly draconian gun laws, but very little in the way of Mass Shootings (with a very few notable exceptions). What seperates the US from these countries? We lack a strong social safety net and our strong patriachal tendencies encourage the kinds of resentment and entitlement that lead to tragedies such as today.

Fox Ironic fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Oct 2, 2015

fade5
May 31, 2012

by exmarx

FourLeaf posted:

CNN has switched between saying 10 people are dead and 11 people are dead four times now
Schrodinger's Victim.

I hope that person end ups surviving though, seriously.:ohdear:

Duke Igthorn
Oct 11, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Some people will call you naive. Laughably naive. Insanely naive. Not me, I'm honestly jealous of your optimism. Not that I think it wouldn't help a lot of things but Godzilla rising from the ocean and attacking Tokyo has more chance of happening in the real world than that.

I never said I thought it would happen, I just think that this is the solution. People are like guitar strings, they can only take so much tension before they snap. Not living paycheck to paycheck, not desperately scrambling after every minor set back, not constantly feeling the pressure build and build and build in your skull because you have no time for relaxing or hobbies and no money to spend on them if you did have them would ease everyone's life. The saying "money doesn't buy happiness" is like saying "money won't keep you from starving". Not to mention that an increase in social spending would make it easier to get the people who think the government is using microwaves on them the help they need.

The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

fade5 posted:

Schrodinger's Victim.

I hope that person end ups surviving though, seriously.:ohdear:

I would assume #11 is the shooter and some people are counting him and some aren't.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Samurai Sanders posted:

Naw, people far outside of cities would survive and keep fighting each other with sticks or whatever.

There are still some white supremacists or otherwise people who didn't accept the outcome of the war there, right?

We definitely have them here in Japan, though most of their anger is directed at Koreans and Chinese.

True, there are. I was making a point in jest ;) (I agree with you, war won't solve poo poo).

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop

Duke Igthorn posted:

Raise wages and social services to ease the general tension being heaped onto every American by our corporate overlords. People are less likely to snap if they're relaxed/properly medicated. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck with one accident away from being destroyed and the pressure will not stop building. Stop that, stop the shootings. number of guns won't even factor into it.

How would that have stopped Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech or today's shooting?

Job Truniht
Nov 7, 2012

MY POSTS ARE REAL RETARDED, SIR

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Some people will call you naive. Laughably naive. Insanely naive. Not me, I'm honestly jealous of your optimism. Not that I think it wouldn't help a lot of things but Godzilla rising from the ocean and attacking Tokyo has more chance of happening in the real world than that.

The only alternative explanation is that Americans have a lust for violence and just love straight up murdering each other. They also like to do things and then blame it on the mentally ill.

Fox Ironic
Jul 19, 2012

by exmarx

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

How would that have stopped Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech or today's shooting?

The shooter probably would have had a mental health intervention before they snapped? Or less economic stress would have allowed them to develop hobbies other than 4chan and killing people?

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

How would that have stopped Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech or today's shooting?

Everything would be answered by socialism duh!

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