Agag posted:

They put on a good show imo.

Burt Sexual posted:

I didn't read all fifty pages, but man I had no idea gbs liked Ariana grande so much.

qkkl posted:

One way to prevent these kinds of suicide bombings is to first accelerate global warming to the point where year-round the temperature never falls below 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and then to ban all clothing. This way the only way a suicide bombing would work is if the bomber inserted the bomb into his rectum, but in that case the explosion would be dampened by the bombers body, and the bomb would have to be relatively small.

Maya Fey posted:

or you actually do something to cut funding from gulf states instead of touching their orbs

Burt Sexual posted:

I didn't read all fifty pages, but man I had no idea gbs liked Ariana grande so much.

Secular Humanist posted:

There are fundamental problems with mainstream islamic ideology that need to be intellectually terminated.

Agag posted:

Finally, a war than can be won by pedantic shitposting.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

The Gulf states aren't Israel, ok? They're self-funding - liquid money literally flys out of the ground there.

Secular Humanist posted:

Well yeah actual incitement, maybe, could be reasonably construed as a "form" of violence. Some nutjob standing around saying how much they hate the jews or the blacks or the mexicans or whatever isn't violence, but it's being spun that way to justify really dumb acts of pre-emptive *actual* violence. It's like this big dumb explosion of irony and self delusion.

People know you can only justify violence in self defense, so if you really want to punch somebody just claim they are guilty of some nebulous form of "violence" that no two people can ever quite articulate in the same way, and you're good to go.

Maya Fey posted:

funding FROM gulf states, not to them

DrPlump posted:

4chan is trying to get as many things considered racist as possible because then people work to ban that thing.

Secular Humanist posted:

Actual terrorist attacks are kind of just part of the problem though. I mean, people get exploded at ariana grande concerts for the same reason women in the middle east have to wear black trash bags everywhere. There are fundamental problems with mainstream islamic ideology that need to be intellectually terminated. Westerners can help by at least trying to support actual reforming muslims, who admittedly are not very visible due to the whole "constant threat of being decapitated" thing, instead of opportunistic theocrats like linda sarsour who exploit our good nature and dupe useful idiots into embracing the hijab out of "solidarity with women" (loving lol). Liberals have completely failed on this topic, which is now a feebly unhot take but is truer than ever.

VikingSkull posted:

Secular Humanist posted:

Actual terrorist attacks are kind of just part of the problem though. I mean, people get exploded at ariana grande concerts for the same reason women in the middle east have to wear black trash bags everywhere. There are fundamental problems with mainstream islamic ideology that need to be intellectually terminated. Westerners can help by at least trying to support actual reforming muslims, who admittedly are not very visible due to the whole "constant threat of being decapitated" thing, instead of opportunistic theocrats like linda sarsour who exploit our good nature and dupe useful idiots into embracing the hijab out of "solidarity with women" (loving lol). Liberals have completely failed on this topic, which is now a feebly unhot take but is truer than ever.

jazzyhattrick posted:

"gently caress off you racist oval office." - Response to this quote that a regular poster in the forum for "debate and discussion" would give unironically.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Then the other guy gets banned

DrPlump posted:

Also this is one of their 4 rules.

Effort Being Met with No Effort Is Bad: If someone puts a lot of effort into a post or rebuttal, don't disregard it without good reason. This is subject to a lot of interpretation.

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Then the other guy gets banned

Secular Humanist posted:

Actual terrorist attacks are kind of just part of the problem though. I mean, people get exploded at ariana grande concerts for the same reason women in the middle east have to wear black trash bags everywhere. There are fundamental problems with mainstream islamic ideology that need to be intellectually terminated. Westerners can help by at least trying to support actual reforming muslims, who admittedly are not very visible due to the whole "constant threat of being decapitated" thing, instead of opportunistic theocrats like linda sarsour who exploit our good nature and dupe useful idiots into embracing the hijab out of "solidarity with women" (loving lol). Liberals have completely failed on this topic, which is now a feebly unhot take but is truer than ever.

qkkl posted:

One way to prevent these kinds of suicide bombings is to first accelerate global warming to the point where year-round the temperature never falls below 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and then to ban all clothing. This way the only way a suicide bombing would work is if the bomber inserted the bomb into his rectum, but in that case the explosion would be dampened by the bombers body, and the bomb would have to be relatively small.

Secular Humanist posted:

Westerners can help by at least trying to support actual reforming muslims, who admittedly are not very visible due to the whole "constant threat of being decapitated" thing, instead of opportunistic theocrats like linda sarsour who exploit our good nature and dupe useful idiots into embracing the hijab out of "solidarity with women" (loving lol).

DrPlump posted:

Also this is one of their 4 rules.

Effort Being Met with No Effort Is Bad: If someone puts a lot of effort into a post or rebuttal, don't disregard it without good reason. This is subject to a lot of interpretation.

walgreenslatino posted:

I've completely given up on the prospect of things changing anytime soon. The sort of overclocked cultural relativism that's been adopted by the mainstream left absolutely will not allow any criticism of the alleged subaltern. The loving SPLC has repeatedly labeled reformist MUSLIMS as practitioners of anti-islam hate speech. Being forced to be a hijabi is feminist. Words mean nothing. You go "hey wait a second" and your hesitation alone is a sin

Blue Raider posted:

my takeaway from this is that there are no rules

FactsAreUseless posted:

This isn't even Bush, who had plenty of issues with Middle East policy, who at least differentiated between radical and moderate Islam. Current conservatism is built on xenophobia

FactsAreUseless posted:

I don't think opposition to it comes from a genuine place of concern for Muslim women because the people proposing it largely aren't Muslim women

Agag posted:

the five tokens

FactsAreUseless posted:

I disagree with you about the hijab - I don't think opposition to it comes from a genuine place of concern for Muslim women because the people proposing it largely aren't Muslim women

FactsAreUseless posted:

we're perfectly aware of the many problems in Islamic countries - but many have adopted more pro-Islamic rhetoric as a response to anti-Islamic ideas on the right.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Unfortunately, I think the attitude that any Muslim could be a terrorist at any moment is extremely pervasive on the right, and that makes it hard to get support for reformist Islamic groups in the U.S. - or even abroad, see the example of Iran moving toward further openness (too slowly, but it's there) with the west. You can't have it both ways. Either you push all the Muslims out of society and decide that no Muslim can live in a western society (and there's plenty of that in this thread), or you want to work to fix problems and help people victimized by their own religion.