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Radbot posted:I never understood why Americans are very prepared for war from an equipment perspective, but they don't give a gently caress about preparing for war from a physical health perspective. Your AR15 isn't going to stop hot lead from piercing the 100lbs of ballistic gelatin you've got hanging around your chest after you have an myocardial infarction. Who needs workouts and self-discipline when you can light someone up with 400 rounds from your tactidad special?
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Combed Thunderclap posted:The number of Americans who really really really want to dress up every day like they were in an active combat zone is...just sad really, given the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing active combat zones these days. I blame video games. I actually, legitimately, blame video games and American media.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:00
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Crain posted:I blame video games. I blame the deep insecurity of middle-class white males.
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Combed Thunderclap posted:The number of Americans who really really really want to dress up every day like they were in an active combat zone is...just sad really, given the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing active combat zones these days. Radbot posted:I never understood why Americans are very prepared for war from an equipment perspective, but they don't give a gently caress about preparing for war from a physical health perspective. Your AR15 isn't going to stop hot lead from piercing the 100lbs of ballistic gelatin you've got hanging around your chest after you have an myocardial infarction. Why not both? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-hQYcoVmw
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Oct 7, 2015 17:01
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Zeroisanumber posted:I blame the deep insecurity of middle-class white males. That too. But American media taught them that "guns" are the solution to their small penises.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:01
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Zeroisanumber posted:Bystander opens fire on a shoplifter in a crowded parking lot in Auburn Hills, MI. Luckily, no one was hurt this time. The Detroit Free Press an exceedingly unfortunate domain name.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:03
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Zeroisanumber posted:I blame the deep insecurity of middle-class white males. Take that back!
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Oct 7, 2015 17:04
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Radbot posted:I never understood why Americans are very prepared for war from an equipment perspective, but they don't give a gently caress about preparing for war from a physical health perspective. Your AR15 isn't going to stop hot lead from piercing the 100lbs of ballistic gelatin you've got hanging around your chest after you have an myocardial infarction. lmao please elaborate
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Oct 7, 2015 17:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Detroit Free Press an exceedingly unfortunate domain name. iirc they're reclaiming the word
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Oct 7, 2015 17:07
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http://read.bi/1JQyU1i That drug that had the 5000% price increase that he said he was going to lower the price of? It's the same price.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:07
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Crain posted:That too. You know, I don't even think that it's about dicks. I think that it's more about a sense that their social and economic dominance is waning and the general hollowness of the modern masculine image.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:08
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Khisanth Magus posted:You can get moderately fit(not "just out of basic training fit", but still) just by doing a decent amount of exercise each day, you don't really need a strict diet as long as your regular diet isn't horrible. Just biking to work every day at my last job started taking off the pounds pretty rapidly and getting me back into decent shape. But if I bike to work, how am I supposed to roal coal on pedestrians, hybrids, and other cyclists?
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Luigi Thirty posted:http://read.bi/1JQyU1i Hmmm it seems transient social awareness of the problem didn't work this time!
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Oct 7, 2015 17:10
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Volkerball posted:lmao please elaborate On what? How objectively fat Americans are or how they objectively love guns?
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Oct 7, 2015 17:13
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zoux posted:Hmmm it seems transient social awareness of the problem didn't work this time! Yep, just give empty statements that seem like promises as long as you don't look at them too closely, wait for the public's butterfly attention span to wane, then go back to ripping off sick people.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:15
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Khisanth Magus posted:Yep, just give empty statements that seem like promises as long as you don't look at them too closely, wait for the public's butterfly attention span to wane, then go back to ripping off sick people. Well at least Kony is in jail and our girls were brought back.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:17
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Gravel Gravy posted:Maybe Andy Kaufman never died but just moved to Vermont? I still maintain that Kaufman went black-face ala RDJ in Tropic Thunder only to become the CEO of Godfather's Pizza.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:18
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A Winner is Jew posted:I still maintain that Kaufman went black-face ala RDJ in Tropic Thunder only to become the CEO of Godfather's Pizza. Life can be a challenge when there's so much on the line.
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Radbot posted:On what? How objectively fat Americans are or how they objectively love guns? Oh you were talking about civilians, my bad. I thought you were saying the infantry doesn't put any emphasis on physical fitness, and I was like uh my knees beg to differ.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:20
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Viper915 posted:But if I bike to work, how am I supposed to roal coal on pedestrians, hybrids, and other cyclists? Attach a coal grill to the back of your bike. That way you always have fresh hotdogs to snack on after your workout. 
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Khisanth Magus posted:You can get moderately fit(not "just out of basic training fit", but still) just by doing a decent amount of exercise each day, you don't really need a strict diet as long as your regular diet isn't horrible. Just biking to work every day at my last job started taking off the pounds pretty rapidly and getting me back into decent shape. Hell, just get a physical job. After working in the back of a kitchen, doing 6-10 hour standing shifts I lost 10-15 lbs and all around feel better. Still wish I had a better job, but right now it's like I'm being paid to go to a gym.
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Oct 7, 2015 17:39
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Ben Carson is right, we should not politicize this tragedy. Instead, we should blame the victims.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I blame the deep insecurity of middle-class white males. Fear and insecurity is the human condition. Especially if you have your basic needs already met to the point where your time isn't spent worrying about them. Personally, I prefer escapism to toting guns in public, but hey.
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archangelwar posted:Ben Carson is right, we should not politicize this tragedy. Instead, we should blame the victims. He's hardly the first to advocate such a well-thought-out course of action: quote:I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once. Would it work? Would people do it? I have no idea; all I can say is that both these things would be more effective than banning rifles with pistol grips. Kindergarten Kamikazes: a sensible alternative to maybe making it harder for the dangerously unstable from getting heated.
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Oct 7, 2015 18:08
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Captain_Maclaine posted:He's hardly the first to advocate such a well-thought-out course of action: Literally the idea Mac and Charlie had in the Always Sunny episode Gunfever 2.
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Oct 7, 2015 18:09
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Captain_Maclaine posted:He's hardly the first to advocate such a well-thought-out course of action: Zapp Brannigan is too accurate to be a parody.
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Oct 7, 2015 18:11
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I hate how gun control or making it harder for people with diagnosed mental health issues is such a non-starter that ideas like that seem reasonable. We can't stop crazy people from getting guns, because they're so readily available since we need to all have access to them to protect us from crazy people getting guns. So, instead, let's make armored lunch trays and have our children drilled to form testudos at the first sign of trouble.
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Oct 7, 2015 18:12
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Following the success of the House Permanent Select Committee on Benghazi, the House Permanent Select Committee on Planned Parenthood Atrocities should be authorized today.
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Talmonis posted:Fear and insecurity is the human condition. Especially if you have your basic needs already met to the point where your time isn't spent worrying about them. I read the news and follow politics out of the misguided hope that understanding what's going on in the world will give me some power to affect it. I might as well decide to go beat up the ocean, but at least it keeps me from doing even dumber poo poo.
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SquadronROE posted:I hate how gun control or making it harder for people with diagnosed mental health issues is such a non-starter that ideas like that seem reasonable. We can't stop crazy people from getting guns, because they're so readily available since we need to all have access to them to protect us from crazy people getting guns. I know it's not funny and really tragic but the idea of children forming a testudo on command with lunch trays for shields has me in stitches.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:He's hardly the first to advocate such a well-thought-out course of action: "I'm literally Rambo irl, fight me" - Ben Carson, probably Granted, I'm not the most educated guy on this subject, but wouldn't that just make it easier for hot lead to be pumped into me?
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Oct 7, 2015 18:23
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A quick reminder that Martin Shkrely has not lowered the price of that AIDS drug. It still costs $30,000 a month and Marin Shkreli has not been violently torn apart by a mob of justified people yet. http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-update-on-daraprim-price-2015-10
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MC Nietzche posted:I know it's not funny and really tragic but the idea of children forming a testudo on command with lunch trays for shields has me in stitches. It's almost that, but... http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_23089443/minn-school-district-gets-bulletproof-whiteboards
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Volkerball posted:
The whole point of the surge was that it was a short term strategy. Even Bush and Petraeus described it as so at the time. It was meant to buy enough peace for us to get out and that was it. Which it did. You trying to claim it achieved longstanding permanence only to be bungled by Obama is stunningly ahistorical and a massive example of revisionist history.
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This sure is a fun cop out for people to resort to in DnD. Here's a documentary on it from known Breitbart affiliate PBS if you're interested in learning something.
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Riosan posted:Granted, I'm not the most educated guy on this subject, but wouldn't that just make it easier for hot lead to be pumped into me? I don't know about you, but I'm taking the opportunity to get the hell out of dodge while you losers try to bumrush the shooter.
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I'm really impressed that they came up with a worse gun idea than that "legalize open pointing" cartoon.
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What if the House Can't Elect a New Speaker? Just after Boehner announced his resignation there was speculation about his successor. Since it's the whole House voting, margins are tight but McCarthy looked like he was in a strong enough position to still win with a few defections. With Chaffetz and Webster throwing their hats in plus some ill-advised comments on McCarthy's part, things are much less certain now.
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"Really if you think about it, the problem is that our kids may just not be aggressive enough. They'll need aggression to survive in the job market, and we're doing all we can to convince them to solve problems with "words" and other stupid things that just make them weak. We should probably start feeding them foods that will encourage aggression during lunches." - Donald Trump, most likely soon
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Fried Chicken posted:WaPo reports that Donald Trump has a "Wall of Shame" in his New York Trump Tower office, featuring downcast photos of Scott Walker This is like if I ran for president.
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