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SickZip
Jul 29, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

See, this is more pragmatic. "It won't work and everyone will despise us, but lets kill a bunch of people anyway." You're not worried about stats and legacies, you just want to get out there and play the game.

The concept of national disgrace or sin as your applying it is a pseudo-religious doctrine with no relevance to the vast majority of the world and with its only real penetration in certain segments of the west. Timur and Genghis are celebrated in their cultures, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, Hitler would have been if he won

Does the world despise America for its genocides? Not really, no one gives a poo poo except as its useful and to the extent that it might be thought of as a messed up event it still has no real ill effects

SickZip fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 25, 2017

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hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:

the mongol empire, khmer rouge and ussr all fell due to reasons unrelated to the genocides they perpetrated. historically the point of genocide has usually been to squash any opposition from the demographic in question, not (only) to kill because it's cool

Sounds pointless.

VikingSkull
Jan 23, 2017
Look Viking you're a trash Trump supporter what the fuck makes you think you can have an avatar that isn't what I decide? Shut your fucking trap and go away. Your trolling is tiresome and just shits up the forum.

Nazzadan posted:

"Heh, America and the west are responsible for modern Islamic terrorism"
Okay yeah you're right, so what do we do about it now
"Heh, you made your grave, now lie in it"
Okay yeah but what about all the innocent people dying now
"Heh, yeah you don't really care otherwise you'd report on the Muslim victims of terrorism in the ME"
Okay yeah but what do we do about the kids that were just splattered at a tween concert
"Heh, you just don't get it"

Ok fine let's just pull out of the world entirely and let the rest of the world figure this poo poo out
"You can't dooooooo that! :qq: Russia and China would take over!"

Nazzadan
Jun 22, 2016



Shaocaholica posted:

It must really suck for bleeding heart Muslims in the west because no matter what they do wether active or non active changes nothing. The only way to make it stop is to leave the religion. Wipe their hands of it.

This would be me in a heartbeat. I'm weak as gently caress. Dudes in cool suits goosestepping through my neighborhood? Ripping off my kippa and throwing out the ol' flat palm. Current things happening in the West? Shaving my beard and making sure I always have a bottle of beer and a slab of bacon in my hand.

I'm now prepared to be judged by a bunch of goons

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008

SickZip posted:

The concept of national disgrace or sin as your applying it is a pseudo-religious doctrine with no relevance to the vast majority of the world and with its only real penetration in certain segments of the west. Timur and Genghis are celebrated in their cultures, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China. Hitler would have been if he won

idk Rome is still reeling to this day after what they did to the Bulgars

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

SickZip posted:

The concept of national disgrace or sin as your applying it is a pseudo-religious doctrine with no relevance to the vast majority of the world and with its only real penetration in certain segments of the west. Timur and Genghis are celebrated in their cultures, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China. Hitler would have been if he won


Sorry about my parochial attitudes towards genocide and Hitler.

GET IN THE ROBOT
Nov 28, 2007

JUST GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT SHINJI

Agag posted:

They failed though. They never got rid of the people they wanted to get rid of. They just killed a bunch and became a disgrace that ended in failure anyway.

So the idea that there is going to be a successful genocide against Muslims or whatever group you don't like, and that genocide would make the future better for anybody, is a fantasy for messed up kids on the Internet.

This isn't \pol\, nobody is actually advocating genocide and saying it's a good thing

People also forget the very first genocide human beings ever did, and that's because it predates history. The Neanderthals are extinct because we raped and murdered them out of existence.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Gammatron 64 posted:

This isn't \pol\, nobody is actually advocating genocide and saying it's a good thing

People also forget the very first genocide human beings ever did, and that's because it predates history. The Neanderthals are extinct because we raped and murdered them out of existence.

Heh, yeah, and look how THAT turned out! #genocidealwaysfails

Fushigi Yuugi fansub
Jan 20, 2007

BUTT STUFF

Agag posted:

Sounds pointless.

yeah i guess it's pointless to have no meaningful opposition if you're a blood-thirsty leader

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Gammatron 64 posted:

This isn't \pol\, nobody is actually advocating genocide and saying it's a good thing

Oh no it must be trolls then. :ohdear:



quote:

People also forget the very first genocide human beings ever did, and that's because it predates history. The Neanderthals are extinct because we raped and murdered them out of existence.

Sounds more like a theory. But if we assume that genocide is some kind of biological imperative then I guess there's no reason to oppose it.

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

VikingSkull posted:

Ok fine let's just pull out of the world entirely and let the rest of the world figure this poo poo out
"You can't dooooooo that! :qq: Russia and China would take over!"

this is the most obnoxious fact that most people seem to understand but not be willing to talk about coherently

if you hate america, which you might as well at this point: just remember that if america falls the world economy and the 'culture war' will consist of:

china
russia
india
saudi arabia
brazil

which one of these countries do you think will find a FAIR AND BALANCED way of protecting human rights while also protecting the innocent? absolutely loving none of them? then it's time to not give up on america


Shaocaholica posted:

It must really suck for bleeding heart Muslims in the west because no matter what they do wether active or non active changes nothing. The only way to make it stop is to leave the religion. Wipe their hands of it.


countless millions of people have left catholicism since their alliance with hitler, pedophile rape gang, etc, and i never ever hear anyone on campus or even online worrying about the quality of life of those former catholics and losing sleep about if they're atheists now or if they're baptists or if they also can't sleep

at this point i'm not sure if it's TV or what people are watching that associates a religion with a skin color with a race war, we should all hope that all religious people lose faith in their god and prophet if we want a better world

extra stout fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 25, 2017

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Shaocaholica posted:

It must really suck for bleeding heart Muslims in the west because no matter what they do wether active or non active changes nothing. The only way to make it stop is to leave the religion. Wipe their hands of it.

There is always the option of outing the ones that show signs of doing this stuff, and the religious leaders that promote it. :shrug:

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:

yeah i guess it's pointless to have no meaningful opposition if you're a blood-thirsty leader

Exactly. I mean your empire or whatever collapses anyway, and all you did was kill a bunch of people for no reason, or at best to extend your lovely doomed-to-fail state another few years. Not sure why anybody would want to do that, but I guess that's why nobody made me khan of khans.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Fog Tripper posted:

There is always the option of outing the ones that show signs of doing this stuff, and the religious leaders that promote it. :shrug:

Hopefully "outing" still means "alerting the authorities who then take the appropriate action" and not "pushing them out of a helicopter" by the time it finally happens.

SickZip
Jul 29, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

Sorry about my parochial attitudes towards genocide and Hitler.

Thank you. My triggers are bad history and confusing normative with descriptive

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
heh, I know you D&Dphobic boors are just want to keep circlejerking, but check out this hot take: let's NOT genocide muslim people!!!

Do it ironically
Jul 13, 2010

by Pragmatica
ahaha is the far left advice really, just let them blow up our children and rape our children and woman because they want us to not like it!!!!!!!!!

at least i'm not racist :thumbsup:

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Do it ironically posted:

ahaha is the far left advice really, just let them blow up our children and rape our children and woman because they want us to not like it!!!!!!!!!

It should definitely be illegal to rape and murder children imo.

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Nerses IV posted:

Hopefully "outing" still means "alerting the authorities who then take the appropriate action" and not "pushing them out of a helicopter" by the time it finally happens.

If they would like to take them into the back alley and put a slug in their skulls I would be cool with that too. Bringing it to the authorities opens things up to hands being self-tied to avoid being percieved as "racist/intolerant".

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Fog Tripper posted:

If they would like to take them into the back alley and put a slug in their skulls I would be cool with that too. Bringing it to the authorities opens things up to hands being self-tied to avoid being percieved as "racist/intolerant".

Can't trust the muslims, can't trust the government, can't trust the cops. Its up to the Proud Boys now...

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

Can't trust the muslims, can't trust the government, can't trust the cops. Its up to the Proud Boys now...

I mean, that's pretty much how these immigrant communities operate once they've ethnically cleansed the natives.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot

Agag posted:

It should definitely be illegal to rape and murder children imo.

Except all the times lawyers argue that their refugee clients didn't understand it's wrong to rape kids, and they get off

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Nerses IV posted:

I mean, that's pretty much how these immigrant communities operate once they've ethnically cleansed the natives.

If you can't trust neo-nazis on the internet about how immigrant communities really work, who can you trust?

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
More bomb technical details

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/25/manchester-bomb-same-explosive-paris-brussels-attacks-mike-mccaul

quote:

Manchester bomb used same explosive as Paris and Brussels attacks, says US lawmaker

Mike McCaul, chair of the homeland security committee, says device contained TATP and bomber was not ‘lone wolf’

Ben Doherty
Thursday 25 May 2017 08.54 EDT First published on Thursday 25 May 2017 05.10 EDT

The bomb detonated by the Manchester terrorist Salman Abedi used the same explosive as those in the Paris and Brussels attacks, a US lawmaker has said, pointing to a possible link to the same terrorist network.

The chair of the US House’s homeland security committee, the Republican Mike McCaul, said the bomb suggested a “level of sophistication” that implied its maker or makers may have had foreign training.

McCaul said the backpack carried by Abedi in Monday’s attack was loaded with TATP, the explosive used in the November 2015 attacks in Paris and the Brussels attack in March 2016 carried out by Islamic State extremists. He described it as “a classic explosive device used by terrorists”.

TATP – triacetone triperoxide – can be made from household chemicals, but is unstable and unreliable. It was used in the 7 July 2005 attacks on London, but failed in an attack two weeks later.

McCaul said the evidence known about the attack so far indicated “we’re not dealing with a lone wolf situation”.

A former counter-terrorism specialist with extensive experience of bomb disposal and knowledge of the Middle East described the design as “unsophisticated”. “Making a bomb is not rocket science. You can find instructions on Isis forums and on the internet,” he said.

But the specialist – who declined to be named – added: “It’s unusual to get it right first time. Normally you would expect people to have a fairly extensive period of testing behind them. This indicates to me there is a broader network and that Abedi was the mule rather than the bombmaker.” He added: “The bombmaker is still out there.”

The specialist said that the “improvised initiator” suggested that the explosives used in the bomb were “home made”. The scenario that army explosives might have been imported from Libya appeared less likely, he said.

Will Geddes, a British security specialist, said the detonator used in the Manchester bomb was a “specially acquired piece of equipment”.

“The most interesting part was the detonator itself. It takes the bomb beyond homemade. It suggests it was well put together and packaged, and professionally assembled.”

Geddes, the chief executive of the security consultants ICP, added: “I think it’s highly unlikely that Abedi got this piece independently. I think the bomb would have been delivered in its final format either by a courier or by the bombmaker.”

The detonator functioned as a dead man’s trigger, he said. He added that the bomb could have been set off either by depressing a “pressel switch” or by letting go of it, in the event that the bomber was shot or incapacitated.

British-born Abedi, 22, set off his explosive in the foyer of the Manchester Arena at 10.30pm on Monday night, at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people and himself.

British authorities are exploring whether Abedi, who grew up in Manchester but had travelled to and from Libya since 2011, had links with terrorist networks across Europe and north Africa.

An official said one element of the investigation was whether Abedi was part of a larger terror cell that included Mohamed Abrini, otherwise known as “the man in the hat”, with connections to the Brussels and Paris attacks. Abrini visited Manchester in 2015.

Other Manchester connections are also being investigated, including with the British former Guantánamo Bay detainee Ronald Fidler – also known as Jamal al-Harith – who blew himself up at a military base in Iraq in February.

British cooperation with the US on investigations into Abedi’s broader links has been hampered by leaks from US officials of sensitive information about Abedi to the media. The New York Times published detailed photographs taken at the crime scene, almost all of which were taken by British police. The photographs suggest the bomb was relatively sophisticated, requiring a degree of expertise to build.

It contained the explosive that McCaul said was TATP placed in a lightweight metal container. Also recovered at the scene was a Yuasa 12-volt, 2.1 amp lead-acid battery. The detonator appeared to have a small circuit board soldered inside one end. The pictures indicate it was carried in a blue rucksack made by the Karrimor outdoor company.

Nuts and bolts were packed around the bomb. Such was the power of the blast it generated that fragments of metal penetrated doors and walls of the arena. Nuts and bolts were removed from the bodies of survivors during surgeries.

Abedi was standing in the middle of a crowd when he detonated his explosive. The upper part of his body was thrown towards the entrance to the arena by the blast.

Even before the leak of photographs from the scene, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, said she had formally complained to the US administration about the leaking of sensitive information, saying it was harming investigations.

“The British police have been very clear that they want to control the flow of information in order to protect operational integrity, the element of surprise,” Rudd said on Wednesday morning. “So it is irritating if it gets released from other sources and I have been very clear with our friends that should not happen again.”

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Agag posted:

Can't trust the muslims, can't trust the government, can't trust the cops. Its up to the Proud Boys now...

If muslims put as much effort into removing terrorists as they do finding gays and tossing them off roofs, there would be less of a problem.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

If you can't trust neo-nazis on the internet about how immigrant communities really work, who can you trust?

I was wondering when you'd finally give up and just start calling people nazis.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Fog Tripper posted:

If muslims put as much effort into removing terrorists as they do finding gays and tossing them off roofs, there would be less of a problem.

Its constantly raining gays downtown, and I'm sick of it. Totally normative Muslim behavior, but the cops can't do poo poo about it. I lost the link but this was all very convincingly covered by Daily Stormer.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Nerses IV posted:

I was wondering when you'd finally give up and just start calling people nazis.

I called you all nazis a dozen pages ago. That's my starting point.


Then you proved me wrong by defending genocide.

Fushigi Yuugi fansub
Jan 20, 2007

BUTT STUFF

Agag posted:

Exactly. I mean your empire or whatever collapses anyway, and all you did was kill a bunch of people for no reason, or at best to extend your lovely doomed-to-fail state another few years. Not sure why anybody would want to do that, but I guess that's why nobody made me khan of khans.

well yeah but otoh nobody starts building an empire on the assumption that it will crumble next year. often empire builders are optimistic in that their legacy will carry on for the next thousand years or so

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

Its constantly raining gays downtown, and I'm sick of it. Totally normative Muslim behavior, but the cops can't do poo poo about it. I lost the link but this was all very convincingly covered by Daily Stormer.

I mean, one of the Muslims in my community only shot a few dozen of them.

VikingSkull
Jan 23, 2017
Look Viking you're a trash Trump supporter what the fuck makes you think you can have an avatar that isn't what I decide? Shut your fucking trap and go away. Your trolling is tiresome and just shits up the forum.

Agag posted:

Can't trust the muslims, can't trust the government, can't trust the cops. Its up to the Proud Boys now...

I mean, you're making a joke but this is literally how the situation will end up progressing if we accept the status quo. I don't like that outcome and I'm sure you don't, either, so maybe "well, just go on about your lives" isn't the best strategy?

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Agag posted:

Its constantly raining gays downtown, and I'm sick of it. Totally normative Muslim behavior, but the cops can't do poo poo about it. I lost the link but this was all very convincingly covered by Daily Stormer.

There is evidence of roof tossing of gays. Do you have the stats of outing of terrorists?

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

VikingSkull posted:

I mean, you're making a joke but this is literally how the situation will end up progressing if we accept the status quo. I don't like that outcome and I'm sure you don't, either, so maybe "well, just go on about your lives" isn't the best strategy?

drat, guess its Caliphate for us if its down to the Proud Boys.





Fog Tripper posted:

There is evidence of roof tossing of gays. Do you have the stats of outing of terrorists?

Yeah I'm going to post a bunch of stats. Just wait a minute.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Fog Tripper posted:

There is evidence of roof tossing of gays. Do you have the stats of outing of terrorists?

A lot of "terrorists" started getting outed in those refugee camps in Europe when the refugees realized it was an easy way to get rid of people they didn't like, if that works.

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Agag posted:

Yeah I'm going to post a bunch of stats. Just wait a minute.

One?

Do you imagine being outwardly gay is easier than being outwardly terroristic in the muslim community?

Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 17:25 on May 25, 2017

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Fushigi Yuugi fansub posted:

well yeah but otoh nobody starts building an empire on the assumption that it will crumble next year. often empire builders are optimistic in that their legacy will carry on for the next thousand years or so

I'm not optimistic enough for genocide, for sure.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Agag posted:

I'm not optimistic enough for genocide, for sure.

I mean, if you're going to keep making GBS threads on genocide, I would have thought you'd start posting examples of some non-genocidal empires or something.

hohhat
Sep 25, 2014

Nerses IV posted:

I mean, if you're going to keep making GBS threads on genocide, I would have thought you'd start posting examples of some non-genocidal empires or something.

drat, now you're saying imperialism is a bad thing? I'll have to chew on that one.

Fog Tripper
Mar 3, 2008

by Smythe

Agag posted:

drat, now you're saying imperialism is a bad thing? I'll have to chew on that one.

If imperialism had never occurred, the human race would be even more weak than it has gotten.

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Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
It must loving suck to be so certain you're right but you can't even shoot down genocide as an option, here.

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