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Good Citizen posted:Coming from Southern California, I'm seeing a pretty even breakdown between people who weren't aware, people who support the movements, and people who think angry muslims are rioting to install a theocracy under Sharia law(also, something about Caliphates). Same here. I can't help but wonder how much the accurate awareness would decrease if this area didn't have as many people living here who are connected to the Middle Eastern diaspora, though. Most people I'm connected to here at least know someone who knows someone who's intimately impacted by the protests and their direct implications. In my podunk hometown, it's almost strictly blissful ignorance or  ish apoplexy.
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Apology posted:
Jesus Christ. A guy calmly lying like that in the face of clear video evidence is as chilling in its own way as the massacres have been themselves. Jedi mind tricks don't work in real life, homey.
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JesusSinfulHands posted:edit: gently caress beaten, shoulda read the rest of the thread No worries. You gave me a chance to post a link to the 60 Minutes report on it that aired tonight. 
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Feb 21, 2011 09:56
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The Brown Menace posted:Ok, taking bets now. I hope he has, if only for the hilarious public appearances he and Chavez might make together. If they would call it The Real Autocrats of Caracas they could make it a series.
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Feb 21, 2011 13:02
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BonoMan posted:If I'm correct (and I might not be), but a lot of arabic pronunciations are strictly phonetical interpretations since the alphabets don't exactly transcribe to each other. Thus lots of arabic words have alternate spellings in other languages. Al Queda Al Queda/Al Qaeda...Osama/Usama. You're right. And as for The Colonel himself, even he's been inconsistent in spelling it when he's occasionally signed things in English.
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Feb 21, 2011 22:46
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Shandy posted:[Image of what anti-aircraft ammo can do to an rear end in a top hat] Simply BRUTAL. 
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Feb 22, 2011 02:01
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Cjones posted:Little kid martyred in Benghazi by sniper Christ. How the hell can a person carefully aim a rifle at a kid's head and take a shot? That would give most people pause even if it was war and the kid was armed with intent. This poo poo in Libya is depressing beyond belief.
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Feb 22, 2011 05:43
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Sivias posted:In all likeliness, 'sniper' is probably a stray round, or in-discriminant fire. Which doesn't make the event any less traumatic, but I doubt there are bell tower guys taking calm careful shots at individuals in a gigantic crowd. Banano posted:More likely a Chadian merc shooting from the hip. As grotesque as it feels for me to say, I certainly hope so. The alternative is even worse to think about.
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Feb 22, 2011 06:10
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Delta-Wye posted:I think you guys are vastly overestimating the moral trappings of a group of people (African mercs) who have helped thrust terms like "child soldier" into common use. It's less about them and more about me, as far as how I feel about it goes. I'm aware of that dynamic, but the mental exercise of imagining something along the lines of Sam Beckett'ing my way into those shoes and committing the same atrocities fries my circuits. You'll have to pardon my first-world horror.
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Feb 22, 2011 06:28
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Sivias posted:Tear off all his toenails, cut his flesh and force him to bathe in a tub of hydrogen peroxide till his skin sloughs off. Then dry and salt him like jerky. What other horrible tortures can we imagine for the worst of our planet? 00:00 to 00:54. Edit: But then again, he's probably ordered a few of these in his day. He'd see them coming. MJB fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Feb 22, 2011 |
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Spiky Ooze posted:It's nice to see Benghazi is happy as hell right now, like Egypt was: I think my favorite part of this aside from the obvious mass joy was the jheri curl wig on the Gaddafi effigy.
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Feb 25, 2011 00:13
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Narmi posted:As the tense political stalemate continues in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, residents fled the Abobo neighborhood, an opposition stronghold.
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Fiend posted:Makes you wonder if the gunman gave him an ironic "FUGETABOUTIT" immediately after offing him. For the part of LA that only processes its news through a single filter: "EXEC PUTS GHADDAFI BIO INTO TURNAROUND".
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