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HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

OldMemes posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/they-were-torturing-to-kill-inside-syrias-death-machine-caesar

Interview with a first hand source who provided photograhic evidence from a British newspaper, with a personal flimsy denial by Assad himself.

Or maybe they're all CIA agents too.

so, a story. i said evidence.

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sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

HorseLord posted:

so, a story. i said evidence.

:same:

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35005825

First hand account of a torture survivor.

HorseLord posted:

so, a story. i said evidence.

First hand accounts aren't enough? What, do we have to crowdfund you a ticket to Syria so you can see the masscares first hand? Do you use this logic for everything? Like when you see a buliding site saying 'danger hard hat zone', would you count it as lies until a brick personally fell on your head?

The UN and the The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) both back up the figures and charges against Assad.

OldMemes fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Apr 4, 2016

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

HorseLord posted:

so, a story. i said evidence.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2012/03/syria-new-report-finds-systemic-and-widespread-torture-and-ill-treatment-detention/

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

Firstly you would have to prove Assad's "torture bunkers" actually exist in any way that actually fits the phrase. And I mean real proof, not "America said so".

:catstare: Shut the gently caress up you moron. We have both satellite photos and reports from journalists about starving women and children kept in camps right outside Assad's front doorstep and mass burials.

You are purposefully being dense at this point.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014
Like, in all honesty, how do I know the Guardian hasn't published what amounts to fanfiction? It doesn't include the photos.

If the photos are provided, then you have another hurdle: What is visible in them which ties them to a known location and time? This is important - it's very common for example during protests for photos to be passed around which are actually of other times and places, in order to push a certain narrative.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

Like, in all honesty, how do I know the Guardian hasn't published what amounts to fanfiction? It doesn't include the photos.

If the photos are provided, then you have another hurdle: What is visible in them which ties them to a known location and time? This is important - it's very common for example during protests for photos to be passed around which are actually of other times and places, in order to push a certain narrative.

Yeah, because a guy who gassed his own people totally has high moral standards.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

:catstare: Shut the gently caress up you moron. We have both satellite photos and reports from journalists about starving women and children kept in camps right outside Assad's front doorstep and mass burials.

You are purposefully being dense at this point.

You have satellite photos of inside of buildings? Interesting if true.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.

HorseLord posted:

Like, in all honesty, how do I know the Guardian hasn't published what amounts to fanfiction? It doesn't include the photos.

If the photos are provided, then you have another hurdle: What is visible in them which ties them to a known location and time? This is important - it's very common for example during protests for photos to be passed around which are actually of other times and places, in order to push a certain narrative.

Then what meets your burden of proof? Except for propoganda that confirms your echo chamber. We've provided sources that meet the burden of prrof for

a) the Assad regime is implict in torture
b) the regime is undemocratic
c) the regime has commited crimes aginst humanity.

Saying 'no' over and over doesn't chnages those facts. Does Assad have to personally tell you that he tortures and murders people?

Or is everything cooked up by the CIA? You have to be trolling by this point.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
Guys how do we know "American Imperialism" is real? I haven't seen it.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.

RagnarokAngel posted:

Guys how do we know "American Imperialism" is real? I haven't seen it.

I've never met Obama, only seem him in the CIA controlled media. He might not be real.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

You have satellite photos of inside of buildings? Interesting if true.

Yeah, because watching bulldozers bury people in mass graves doesn't imply what is going on inside the buildings.

So, let me get this straight: You think people are seeking refuge from Syria because they just don't like Assad or ISIS? Or is there some deeper reason people are fleeing both sides of the war. Don't strain yourself.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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OldMemes posted:

First hand accounts aren't enough? What, do we have to crowdfund you a ticket to Syria so you can see the masscares first hand?

Buying HorseLord a ticket to Syria will be the first and possibly only crowdfunding project I will participate in

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

Yeah, because a guy who gassed his own people totally has high moral standards.

See, what you're doing here is confirmation bias - you don't need undeniable proof of a claim because the claim "sounds about right".

The thing about camps where lots of people go to be tortured and killed is they leave a big paper trail and lots and lots of evidence which cannot be anything else. We can, for example, match up pictures of starving holocaust survivors with the real locations those photos were taken, so we know that happened. We can look through all the paperwork and we can see who was shipped where and when they were gassed.

What we can't do is zoom in on a random, plain looking building on google earth and go "yeah I bet that's a concentration camp. You can tell by the pattern of the roof tiles". What we cannot do is look at a picture of a body on a morgue slab and declare it to have been taken in camp X without a verified reference for what camp X actually looks like.

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

/\/\/\/\

Lmao everyone knows mass murderers are big on record keeping

Every time I need to get groceries it's a really long and awful process. How do I know the sign on a building is accurate? Maybe it's changed since I last went? When I go inside and they tell me they're a dry cleaner, they might be lying, and when they don't let me check their so called "Employees Only" rooms I am even more suspicious. I just want eggs ugh!

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

sugar free jazz posted:

Every time I need to get groceries it's a really long and awful process. How do I know the sign on a building is accurate? Maybe it's changed since I last went? When I go inside and they tell me they're a dry cleaner, they might be lying, and when they don't let me check their so called "Employees Only" rooms I am even more suspicious. I just want eggs ugh!

Everybody in this thread has been to a supermarket, they're the things with the lit up signs saying what supermarket they are.

Black sites don't tend to advertise themselves that way.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

What we can't do is zoom in on a random, plain looking building on google earth and go "yeah I bet that's a concentration camp. You can tell by the pattern of the roof tiles". What we cannot do is look at a picture of a body on a morgue slab and declare it to have been taken in camp X without a verified reference for what camp X actually looks like.

You heard it here folks: If we had satellites during World War 2 and had taken photos of Dachau or any other concentration camp, the mass graves and dead bodies don't mean a thing about what is going on inside.

HorseLord posted:

Black sites don't tend to advertise themselves that way.

Holy poo poo could you be any more loving wrong.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

You heard it here folks: If we had satellites during World War 2 and had taken photos of Dachau or any other concentration camp, the mass graves and dead bodies don't mean a thing about what is going on inside.

The bodies got dead under the cover of a roof, then most of them were incinerated, which also happens under a roof. You can't see through roofs.

Nor can you pick out a mass grave on google images because that poo poo is covered in dirt. You'd have to get incredibly lucky and manage to snap a picture when they're still throwing the bodies in.

CommieGIR posted:

Holy poo poo could you be any more loving wrong.

How often do you go to black sites, covert cia bases, that kind of thing? That you can't find it is literally the whole point. They don't put a sign outside telling you what they do there.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

The bodies got dead under the cover of a roof, then most of them were incinerated, which also happens under a roof. You can't see through roofs.

Nor can you pick out a mass grave on google images because that poo poo is covered in dirt.

You must be new to satellite photography or something. We've specifically gotten so good at it, we can tell where buildings/paths/roads/forests/graves are that were buried HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. You are not hiding yesterdays mass grave from them.


HorseLord posted:

How often do you go to black sites, covert cia bases, that kind of thing? That you can't find it is literally the whole point. They don't put a sign outside telling you what they do there.

:allears: No, seriously, keep proving how wrong you can be.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

You must be new to satellite photography or something. We've specifically gotten so good at it, we can tell where buildings/paths/roads/forests/graves are that were buried HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO. You are not hiding yesterdays mass grave from them.

Show me.


CommieGIR posted:

:allears: No, seriously, keep proving how wrong you can be.

Tell me all about the time you got to visit the Salt Pit on bring your daughter to work day or something.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
Since I've been accused of lying about my nationality, I guess nothing can be proven to these two. Can you prove the sky is like, blue man?

So do you think all the Syrian torture sites are CIA black sites or something? How do you explain the last four years in Syria? What other genocides will you now deny -how about the Armenian one, though I hear Turkey has a monopoly on that.

I guess the civilian population just all died for no reason. Or maybe they wandered off? Or maybe they're on a big farm upstate? Seriously, that's just disrespectful - these people died and all you can go is 'Stalin-chan/Assad/anyone else did nothing wrong!'

OldMemes fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Apr 4, 2016

Torquemadras
Jun 3, 2013

So, uuuuuuuh... are swampman and G.C. Furr III now just gone (i.e. have been disappeared by the CIA), or is this now The HorseLord Show?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/125-explore/satellite-archaeology
http://satsentinel.org/documenting-the-crisis/evidence-of-apparent-mass-graves
http://www.satafoundation.org/
http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/unitar/downloads/SyriaFourYearsOfHumanSuffering/UNITAR-UNOSAT_SyriaFourYearsOfHumanSuffering.pdf

HorseLord posted:

Tell me all about the time you got to visit the Salt Pit on bring your daughter to work day or something.

Again, you are dense a gently caress if you think that Black sites are super neat and clean in hiding what they are actually about.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Apr 4, 2016

Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.

Maybe Horselord is a toblerone triangluar account with a different angle on the same gimmick?

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

HorseLord posted:

Everybody in this thread has been to a supermarket, they're the things with the lit up signs saying what supermarket they are.

Black sites don't tend to advertise themselves that way.

Yeah but how do you know? I have to be sure. And I mean everyone expects a black site to be hidden, what better front than a so called "grocery store"??

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

Again, you are dense a gently caress if you think that Black sites are super neat and clean in hiding what they are actually about.

Through incompetence a few of them have been exposed. That does not mean that we know where they all are, or everything that goes on in them. It's actually impossible for us to know if we know where they all are, because by definition they are secret.

swampman
Oct 20, 2008

by Shine

Jack of Hearts posted:

Pretty cool of OP to invite a critical response, then almost immediately abandon ship.
I had some family issues that took precedence over my thread about Grover Furr. I'm glad to see that discussion has continued in my absence. Hopefully some of you have been motivated to actually read the text of Blood Lies!

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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swampman posted:

I had some family issues that took precedence over my thread about Grover Furr. I'm glad to see that discussion has continued in my absence. Hopefully some of you have been motivated to actually read the text of Blood Lies!

Your thread is going the way of the Soviet Union

It's dying but there is debate as to whether or not it was ever truly alive

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
We've decided that yes, Stalin was a war criminal and a dictator.


sugar free jazz posted:

Yeah but how do you know? I have to be sure. And I mean everyone expects a black site to be hidden, what better front than a so called "grocery store"??

They keep the detainees in the baked goods asile, it's the perfect cover.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Budzilla posted:

Maybe Horselord is a toblerone triangluar account with a different angle on the same gimmick?

No, TobelroneTriangular is funny. Horselord is just some LF rereg.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

HorseLord posted:

Through incompetence a few of them have been exposed. That does not mean that we know where they all are, or everything that goes on in them. It's actually impossible for us to know if we know where they all are, because by definition they are secret.

:doh: No, you idiot, he's not trying very hard to hide them.

Either way, the point stands: You are utterly clueless about actual war crimes and are too busy defending Stalin/Assad/etc. through a shell game of goal post moving and bait-and-switch arguments.

HorseLord
Aug 26, 2014

CommieGIR posted:

:doh: No, you idiot, he's not trying very hard to hide them.

Either way, the point stands: You are utterly clueless about actual war crimes and are too busy defending Stalin/Assad/etc. through a shell game of goal post moving and bait-and-switch arguments.

America is a he?

Very well, but not trying to hide it's crimes very hard is part of america's incompetence. They don't need to so their ability to do so has atrophied.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
Grover Furr denies historical crimes that Russia admitted that the Soviet Union did.

swampman
Oct 20, 2008

by Shine

OldMemes posted:

Grover Furr denies historical crimes that Russia admitted that the Soviet Union did.

Citation needed

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.

swampman posted:

Citation needed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11845315

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

RE: RE: RE: DO NOT BUY "GROUND BEEF"!!' PIGGLY WIGGLY BUTCHER COUNTER, CIA FRONT????

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Heh, nice imperialist propaganda piece bro, how about posting a real source

az
Dec 2, 2005

Fojar38 posted:

Heh, nice imperialist propaganda piece bro, how about posting a real source

But where can one find a Russian blogger at this time?!

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

sugar free jazz posted:

RE: RE: RE: DO NOT BUY "GROUND BEEF"!!' PIGGLY WIGGLY BUTCHER COUNTER, CIA FRONT????

THE BEEF IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!

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KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


You aren't going to win with a dyed in the wool ANYONE THE US DOES NOT LIKE IS GOOD AND PURE AND CAN DO NO WRONG AMERIKKA IMPERIALISM! true believer. He'll just bury his head in the sand about sarin gas and rape dungeons and say we did worse to Milosevic while he was committing his glorious people's purge of Amerikka's Evil Puppet, the Bosnian civilians.

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