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SocketWrench posted:Lol, yeah, Nunes sure tied up the Dems by going on a baby rant asserting the charges were bogus. Man, if that's all it takes why haven't they been doing this for years. I dunno which is funnier, the ones tiring of winning or the ones that are so deep in denial their brains melt My favorites are the ones who are convinced that every loss is Trump's master plan. The health care bill crashes and burns, Flynn leaves,Bannon loses his status, Nunes recuses himself, two Muslim bans blocked in court practically before they can do anything (the second before it takes effect), everyone under investigation... And somehow it's all secretly a good thing. Trump is a brilliant strategist who can't lose, so every failure and every public temper tantrum is actually a carefully orchestrated feint to throw off the Demonrats from the real plan to do everything he ever wanted. 
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:Didn't he reveal some time last year that the only way to cancel a recurring donation to Freep is to email him personally and ask him to turn the request off? And that several purged freepers never requested that? (And then implied that he may have "lost" the request emails of a few former freepers he didn't like?) Yep, and that's actually screwing over Freep right now because of everyone getting new cards with RFID chips all the old cards that JimRob has been charging to are being cancelled so now Freep has a massive hole in its revenue that's only going to get worse as time goes on.
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President Trump Considering ‘Military Action’ In Syria In Response To Chemical Attack Also are you ready for the Syrian War? quote:To: drewh quote:To: drewh Holy poo poo! quote:To: drewh The Party of Life, everybody. quote:To: drewh quote:To: ThinkingBuddha The Trump in my head would never do anything like this! quote:To: ThinkingBuddha In case you forgot, Freep is terrible. quote:To: drewh False Flag! quote:To: drewh quote:To: drewh quote:To: baltimorepoet quote:To: drewh "Non-Christian advisors." quote:To: ThinkingBuddha I would hope so, he is Trump’s son-in-law after all. quote:To: ThinkingBuddha Trump better dang well quit listening to the neocon warmongers in the government and the world media, and the Globalist Deep State holdovers in the Intel Community. This was obviously either a False Flag operation by Al Qaeda, or collateral damage when Syria or Russia bombed a terrorist stockpile of chemical weapons and the people downwind got a dose. Were it an actual government attack by Assad, there would be a heck of a lot more casualties, there would be evidence. I’m not a huge Rand Paul fan, but he has been very right and the lone sane voice in the Senate, on this, and on 0bama-Ryancare. 32 posted on Thu Apr 06 2017 12:10:46 GMT-0700 (PDT) by LegendHasIt [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies] quote:To: drewh Just try to avoid hitting Israel, too. quote:To: drewh quote:To: DesertRhino Haha Fantasy Trump and Reality Trump is clashing hard for Freep. quote:To: Red Steel
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So let's talk about Investment Watch Blog dot com. It's linked from time to time on freep and it's usually some horrible almost-clickbaity title. I decided I'd head to their front page and see how bad they are. Here's every headline on the front page, from the bottom up. Right wing conspiracy theory bullshit has been bolded. Things related to the economy have been italicized.
Places like this are where freep gets their "news." We shouldn't be surprised at the result, nor should we be surprised that such sites are popular.
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Apr 7, 2017 01:11
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Easy Salmon Recipe posted:I'm a librarian. Dealing with the screeching of confused old people and weird messages from spastic teenage trolls is part of my job. I'm pretty sure people would notice anything large leaving their pockets and simply cancel it through the bank, or else they're all 10 dollar doners that don't notice the hit
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Apr 7, 2017 02:42
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Keeshhound posted:
I have a hard time believing anyone on freep has never heard the term before. They were scrambling to find ways to use it during the elections quote:To: drewh I imagine that's earned him a time out SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Apr 7, 2017 02:44
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quote:Jeeeesus. I miss Obama. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541870/posts#comment
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Apr 7, 2017 03:05
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Why is freep so willing to defend Assad? I'd think from his name alone would make him auto guilty.
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Apr 7, 2017 03:38
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RagnarokAngel posted:Why is freep so willing to defend Assad? I'd think from his name alone would make him auto guilty. Because admitting Assad is bad means admitting Russia is bad which means admitting Trump is bad.
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Apr 7, 2017 03:41
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Covok posted:Because admitting Assad is bad means admitting Russia is bad which means admitting Trump is bad. Oh right for some reason I forgot Russia's role in this whole debacle.
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Apr 7, 2017 03:44
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They believe big strong dictators are needed to keep Muslims in line.
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Apr 7, 2017 03:47
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gently caress you, Freep. gently caress you forever. I hope when nuclear hellfire rains down on us all you curse yourself for voting for this shithead. US military has launched more than 50 missiles aimed at Syria: NBC News quote:Trump knows what he is doing.” quote:Oh look. First we get Obama’s healthcare policy, now we get Obama’s foreign policy. #NotwhatIvotedfor quote:So the Donald does what Hillary wants. I’m sick of this, we are so screwed. On that note, I'd like to say as lovely as this situation is, we would probably be hosed no matter who won the election, honestly. I imagine Hillary probably would have done something similar to this. Anyway some Freepers seem to think this is related to Bannon's removal from the NSC. quote:Planned way in advance.... They had to stage the materials and select the targets..... now we know why Bannon was removed quote:I believe this is a direct result of downgrading Bannon on the NSC, who puts this country’s interests first, and raising the profile of McMaster, Tillerson, and other apparent globalists whose policies are NOT what Trump campaigned on. Lost a lot of my support tonite; we could have had this with Hillary or jeb Bush. quote:Trump is becoming Bush 43 on steroids WENDLE is taking this pretty hard. quote:Disaster. Totally idiotic. American will die from a lie. Russians will now retaliate. You need to get food and water for your family. Absolute madness built on a imbrication!! quote:This is a disaster. I made a horrible mistake in supporting this goof ball. We are SCREWED!! quote:Trump was weak minded here. Like an old woman. quote:Well, that would be a good use of the president’s power but this is madness built on a lie!~1 Assad did nothing!!~ What a calamity!!This in WMD II. God I would have never dreamed!! This is assuming the world still exists in 2020. quote:Big mistake. If trumps keeps up with this kind of stupid actions he will lose re-election. And yes, as suspected, there's still claims that this is Fake News. Not a lot, which should show that when something really serious happens, even most of Freep can't keep up the charade. quote:...and how do YOU know that this is what is actually happening? Are you there? Do you have a phone in your hand and sending information? Eh if anyone else wants to pick through them, there's two other threads too. [url=http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541863/posts[/url]U.S. Launches Missiles at Syrian Base After Chemical Weapons Attack[/url[ NBC: 50 Tomahawks launched by Trump against Syria And then there's this. Russia warns of 'negative consequences' if U.S. targets Syria quote:When Obama did something stupid, his supporters said don't worry, Obama's just playing four-dimensional chess. We peasants just can't appreciate it. quote:A few days ago, Trump was flailing around getting hit by the media, and looking like a dunderhead. My brother said- “just wait, he’ll start a war to deflect this crap, it’s what they all do. “ My brother is a pretty bright guy. Guess who's still upset? It's WENDLE. quote:Well there ya go Trump. What an idiot.You attack a sovereign nation on a lie as to who did the gassing — then you piss off their invitee!! R U S S I A. You are an idiot! AMERICANS WILL DIE FOR A LIE!! That's all I can take. I didn't post any of the Freepers defending Trump, there's a few who say they're not fans of Assad and are totally supportive of removing him, but they're in the minority for sure. The general opinion is "Trump has royally hosed up."
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Apr 7, 2017 03:47
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Apr 7, 2017 03:53
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Trump bombed brown people. How is Freep not over the moon about it?
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Apr 7, 2017 03:59
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Alter Ego posted:Trump bombed brown people. How is Freep not over the moon about it? Because it means Sempai Putin will be upset with their daddy figure.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:04
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Alter Ego posted:Trump bombed brown people. How is Freep not over the moon about it? A lot of Freep likes Assad, or at the very least don't think he's as bad as everyone's making him out to be. See the post where one Freeper says that Assad is protecting Christians and fighting the Muslims/ISIS. So Trump attacking an "ally" against ISIS is going to upset Freep. On top of that, remember that a lot of them think Russia is great now, and Putin and Assad are big buddies, so attacking Assad is likely to get Putin upset. There's also the fact that one of the claims they made during the election is Hillary is a warmonger and she'll get us into war, and we need to think about AMERICA FIRST and Trump won't start any wars because wars are bad for business! So Trump doing the exact thing they said Hillary would do if she was elected has really gotten to a lot of them, and they feel that this is a bad use of our military power.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:05
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They also believe Assad is the best hope of putting a lid on the refugees coming into Europe. Stuff like this, Libya, Iraq et al are all part of the globalist agenda dontchyaknow?
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SocketWrench posted:I have a hard time believing anyone on freep has never heard the term before. They were scrambling to find ways to use it during the elections The article itself is from the daily beast, though, so it's reasonable to assume it got shared on other platforms, too.
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Alter Ego posted:Trump bombed brown people. How is Freep not over the moon about it? "Economic anxiety." No, really. They've identified global free trade policies and international cooperation like the UN as the most significant thing harming America. Trump ran on a nationalist, protectionist, isolationist policy, according to them. They also fully recognize that the Iraq war was a horrible idea. Continuing to use US military might in this way upsets them greatly because it runs counter to a major thing that Trump was supposed to stand for. That and all their media is parroting the Russian PR line that this is a false flag operation perpetrated by the local rebels or ISIS to frame Assad. This is the same line that /r/The_Donald and /pol/ are falling for. Sir Tonk posted:I'm here for the tears the OP and first post posted:"So now let's get back to the globalist/interventionist sh!t after all." AC is a 2000 regdate freeper. quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: binreadin Looks like most of the Democrats are in the "hey can we not do this unilaterally please" camp, from what I've seen. Freep, on the other hand, quote:To: nbenyo Because the news broke twenty minutes before you posted and the strike happened pre-dawn? quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: LS Man, I love it when they're self-aware. quote:To: ErikJohnsky Let's not fool ourselves, the Trump fanclub is still all over freep quote:To: Alberta's Child Shortest savagesusie post I've ever seen. quote:To: Alberta's Child Freepers: Conservatives sometimes are so freakin stupid quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: ErikJohnsky quote:To: Alberta's Child Man, I hate it when I agree with freep. quote:To: Alberta's Child You've gone downhill, freep. 2005 regdate. quote:To: Vendome For the record, in the time between this post and now, we've learned that Russia was notified. quote:To: EQAndyBuzz quote:To: Alberta's Child Postin' this just for the quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: dfwgator quote:To: savagesusie quote:To: PTBAA quote:To: Bogie Man, some of them are buying this false flag thing really badly. quote:To: brucedickinson 2001 freeper. quote:To: Alberta's Child This seems to be an increasingly used bit of spin. quote:To: Alberta's Child 1999 freeper, which certainly helps explain why they have no heart. quote:To: Alberta's Child quote:To: bobsunshine Hi Kit Cat! quote:To: LS 2000 freeper, drinkin' the flavor-aid quote:To: guido911 When I loaded the thread, it had 150 replies. It now has nearly 300.
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Twelve by Pies posted:gently caress you, Freep. gently caress you forever. I hope when nuclear hellfire rains down on us all you curse yourself for voting for this shithead. Lol at all the "I won't vote for him again" as they blindly walk into the booth and pull the R lever because it's either him or a Democrat quote:To: Alberta's Child Lol, lying is all that fat orange slob did during the whole campaign. There's even websites that list each one and how untrue it was. Do these fuckers like bury their heads in the sand when an election rolls round and pop up just long enough to vote Republican? Because Jesus Christ SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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From It is President Trump!!, a vanity thread by freeper TrumpisRightthe OP posted:Please get with it and show some respect for a LEADER not a follower. Alberta's Child is really pushing it tonight. quote:To: TrumpisRight But everyone else seems to be jumping back in to defend Trump. quote:To: TrumpisRight quote:To: guido911 So what would be? 59 bombs? 59 civilians killed? quote:To: usafa92 quote:To: nickcarraway Freep opinions: might makes right quote:To: usafa92 quote:To: pissant November regdate, post-election. quote:To: TrumpisRight Oh yeah there's this conspiracy theory as well. quote:To: Wilderness Conservative Remember, when they say they hate globalism, they mean globalism. quote:To: guido911 quote:To: RoseofTexas On disloyal freepers, from a 2005 regdate, quote:To: guido911 quote:To: Angels27 Another 2005 quote:To: nickcarraway Getting a "Daddy" thing out of this post... quote:To: guido911 quote:To: napscoordinator quote:To: TrumpisRight quote:To: TrumpisRight 2004 freeper opinions: I KNOW MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I READ ABOUT IT ON THE INTERNET - or - 2004 freeper opinions: I literally know more than the President about this because I read about it on the internet. No, really. This is probably true. - or - the rapefugee problem quote:To: TrumpisRight quote:To: guido911 Also probably true. quote:To: cssGA30005 quote:To: pissant 2002 regdate. quote:To: Rebel2016 quote:To: Electric Graffiti I really hate it when I agree with freep. quote:To: varina davis quote:Comment #103 Removed by Moderator quote:To: SouthParkRepublican Some freepers would literally rather watch CNN than watch Shep Smith. quote:To: TrumpisRight quote:To: guido911 Someone please please please tell freeper blueplum about softwrap! quote:To: TrumpisRight Freep is weirdly divided on this one. I thought most of them were squarely in the isolationist camp, but it really seems about 50/50... quote:To: TrumpisRight
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From Syria decries 'aggression' as US launches cruise missiles posted by freeper NormsRevenge Headline is from the AP. quote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: Trump20162020 2010 regdate droppin' unmasked profanity. Risky. quote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: Chgogal quote:To: Helicondelta quote:To: Helicondelta quote:To: McGruff This goes from  to  in a hurryquote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: marktwain quote:Comment #53 Removed by Moderator quote:Comment #54 Removed by Moderator quote:Comment #57 Removed by Moderator quote:To: NormsRevenge quote:To: caww quote:To: House Atreides Yup, let's get straight to the point. quote:To: GodAndCountryFirst
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Guys, maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Unlike OBama, Trump Stands Up For The Muslim Syrian People OP posted:A very complicated issue. One that was ignored by President Obama during his 8 years in office. During that time Syria has entrenched itself in a seven year civil war resulting in displacing millions of Sryian refugees all over the world. President Obama's red line was ignored by the brutal Syrian President Bashar al-Assadin in 2013 when he killed more than 1,400 civilians in Syrian using chemical weapons. America was criticized for not acting as leader of the world and allowing a cancer of the globe to grow. 4/3/17: Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assadin ordered another chemical attack in northern Syria killing at least 85 people, including 20 children. This time, with President Trump at the helm, the reaction was much different. As the world watched, America responded quickly by launching 59 tomahawk missles striking the Syrian military airfield that was responsible for the chemical attack on the Syrian civilians. President Donald J Trump: Staunch defender of Muslims. quote:To: TrumpScoreCard quote:To: TrumpScoreCard quote:To: TrumpScoreCard Trump... bad? quote:To: TrumpScoreCard quote:To: TrumpScoreCard quote:To: sport I don't think Freep is buying it.
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McGlockenshire posted:To: caww I love how he's very careful to stipulate that none of Obama's airstrikes met this arbitrary threshold for "war" so it was okay to squabble and attack the commander-in-chief then, and he didn't deserve to be shipped off to a death camp for criticizing the president oh no. But now Trump bombed this guy, not those other guys, so fill the gulags with crimethinkers!
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Apr 7, 2017 07:04
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Freepers: First he Tweets then he Tomahawks. This one better actually happen.
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OK, I'm gonna get a lot of flak for this but... I'm glad Trump did it. I have no illusions that he gives a single solitary gently caress about syrian civilians, he did it to divert attention from the clusterfuck that is his presidency, to claim "how could the russians have helped me win if I now bombed their ally", he might even think it will intimidate the chinese. I also know that this attack won't be the thing that makes Assad start pushing daisies but I have hope it will at least make him think twice before continuing to use chemical weapons. I'm loving sick and tired of watching children twitching and dying like they're cockroaches, I've spent more tears over dead and dying syrian kids than about everything else that happened to me in this last decade and I've been through some soul crushing poo poo during that time. Something had/has to be done and it's clear nothing will be done while Russia is running disinformation campaigns and covering Assad's rear end in the UN. I don't want Iraq 2.0, I don't want a ground war, I don't even want a prolonged airstrike campaign but this can't go on. In an ideal world usage of chemical weapons on unarmed civilians should be met with instant devastating retaliation by anyone, I don't care who. We can't afford to have this poo poo normalized and that's exactly what's happening, outside the liberal active people there was barely any outrage in social networks this time. It was largely met with a mix of "false flag", "who can tell who's to blame" and "oh welp, savages will be savages, what do you expect". No. Just... no.
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Apr 7, 2017 08:25
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Sir Tonk posted:I'm here for the tears
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Apr 7, 2017 11:01
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MeLKoR posted:OK, I'm gonna get a lot of flak for this but... I'm glad Trump did it. I don't think anyone's debating that action needs to be taken, Assad is rather blatantly performing war crimes here but trying to respond to force with force is going to escalate the situation and further destabilize an area that was walking on eggshells to begin with. I admit I don't have an answer but I really don't feel like this was it.
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I do not like the precedent of "we can decide to punish states that do poo poo we don't approve of by bombing them". quote:To: PTBAA loving  To: dfwgator What is our Interest there? Only that islam does not spread and use any means to shut the left down while working with decent people like the Russians and those that despise islam dogma and woman abusing. I can see many ways to make this work as long as we keep the cold war relics and neocons out of the loop. 64 posted on 4/6/2017, 6:59:47 PM by soycd I love this because it's wrong on every point This will not "stop the spread of Islam", it will not shut up Democrats and it certainly is not working with the Russians.
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Apr 7, 2017 11:52
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RagnarokAngel posted:I don't think anyone's debating that action needs to be taken, Assad is rather blatantly performing war crimes here but trying to respond to force with force is going to escalate the situation and further destabilize an area that was walking on eggshells to begin with. Fathis Munk posted:I do not like the precedent of "we can decide to punish states that do poo poo we don't approve of by bombing them".   "poo poo we don't approve of".
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Yes but where will you draw the line? What crime allows you to bomb a country you're not at war with? What targets are you allowed to hit? E: and who do you think you are to be able to make such calls.
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Apr 7, 2017 12:33
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SocketWrench posted:I'm pretty sure people would notice anything large leaving their pockets and simply cancel it through the bank, or else they're all 10 dollar doners that don't notice the hit A large percentage of AOL's revenue comes from people who signed up for their dial-up service and forgot to cancel the recurring billing. That's a double tragedy because not only does it emanthat they are paying for AOL dial-up, it also means that they are contributing to Shingy's continued employment.
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The Something Awful Forums -> Debate & Discussion -> Freepers: The Lefties were right. I can't believe we might have been better off with Hillary. It's even better than the current title. 
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Apr 7, 2017 12:53
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Apr 7, 2017 12:58
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Fathis Munk posted:Yes but where will you draw the line? What crime allows you to bomb a country you're not at war with? What targets are you allowed to hit? I get what you're saying and I don't have any answer other than we have to decide on a case by case basis. The alternative is doing nothing like we have been doing nothing for years now and allowing these things to keep repeating, in which case we might as well stop pretending that anyone will ever be punished for slaughtering their population with chemical weapons.
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I agree that doing nothing isn't a good answer either and I sure as hell can't pretend to know what the right answer is. But to me this isn't it.  I'll leave it at that because this is my uneducated opinion I've cluttered up the thread with it enough.
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Apr 7, 2017 13:34
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This is one of the only threads without the opinions of D&D posters, stop ruining it
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/\/\/\/\ e: sorry, I'll drop it already, I just didn't know where else to talk about it. FB is a nightmare right now. Fathis Munk posted:I agree that doing nothing isn't a good answer either and I sure as hell can't pretend to know what the right answer is. I don't see how airstrikes against airforce bases can possibly make things worse for the people that are being gassed right now. This isn't a solution but doing nothing while this is going on is an untenable position. To me it comes off as "sure, Hitler might be gassing jews by the million but are we sure bombings really help "?I had resisted watching videos of this attack because when I saw videos of other one in 2013 it left me severely distressed. I'm not an overly sensitive type, in fact I can reasonably be classified as an rear end in a top hat but jesus loving christ, this is the worst poo poo I saw in my life... I don't know if it will help, I just know I can't take this poo poo any more. "Why did you watch it then?" Because I felt it was my duty to watch, that the least I owe those children is witness their suffering instead of sticking my head in the ground and go on with my life as if nothing was going on. It had the effect I expected, I've been crying for hours, I can barely function and I will never forget these images... I'm seriously hosed up right now and this is how it should be. If I can do nothing else then at least I can feel hate and voice my support for anyone that will do anything to put an end to it. Holy poo poo, those poor children!  It's moments like this that make me wish I believed in a god that would take them to paradise and punish all those responsible with an eternity of torture. loving hell... this can't go on. It just can't. 
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I know how you feel but you're running off raw emotion instead of thinking rationally. You want something to save those people so badly youll accept anything even if it doesn't really help. That's not how you save those people. This could potentially leads to escalation that's going to cost more lives. It's not going to save those already dead and it's not going to stop Assad. If anything it's given people like him more ammo about the evil western devil and how they must fight it.
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