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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Senate torture report
 
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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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rscott posted:

"Telling the truth is a form of accountability" Jesus loving Christ

This monologue kept popping up in my head with this "truth absolves us" garbage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYiqZemVpsQ

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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An Angry Bug posted:

  • "Starve the beast"
  • "Small enough to drown in the bathtub"
  • "Let the free market decide"
  • Corporate personhood
  • Maligning of welfare systems
  • Disinformation campaigns against the ACA
  • The corrupt lobbying system
  • Revolving doors between industries and the groups that regulate them
  • Unlimited campaign donations
  • The deliberate underfunding and repeated budget cuts to OSHA
  • The smear campaign that successfully shut down ACORN
  • ALEC, the Heritage Fund, and other similar groups
  • This poo poo

Man Rhesus is responsible for all that? How does this guy have the free time to post?

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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duz posted:

Naw, it's running under the logic that to accept a pardon, you have to admit you committed a crime.
And that acknowledging that torture is illegal will stop it.
Because we apparently didn't know that.

We were running along the operative "All's fair in love and war on terror".

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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Decent article on the techniques outlined in the report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...hods/?tid=hp_mm.

Funny how comparable the feelings in this and the US politics thread are to 'learned helplessness'.

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Let's be real and look at the true issue with this report...abortion



Is he confusing rectal feeding with an enema?

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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So Brennan is going over the topic live. http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/c/live/CIA_director_delivers_statement_on_interrogation_report/5489a3cee4b08e52b2b921ea

Edit: Don't know what I expected...

Gin and Juche fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Dec 11, 2014

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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Thesaurasaurus posted:

So is it that Obama a) doesn't want his own dirty laundry aired, b) is such a pathological centrist he actually accepts tu quoque as a valid argument, c) is a lame duck who lacks the political capital to affect change, or d) genuinely sees nothing wrong with this?

I mean these are all horrible thoughts, I'd just like to know which specific flavor of depression I should be feeling this holiday season :smith:

Why choose one? Blend them all in a shaker and make a Malaise Martini. Malaitini.

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Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

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TACD posted:

Is it safe to say at this point that the US has the most well-funded and expansive torture program that has ever existed?

Well-funded? Probably. Expansive? Depends how you mean. By the numbers other regimes have tortured a great deal more than 130 people.

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Gin and Juche
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Dr Christmas posted:

The poll Washington Post did shows that 59% support it. It shows Christians supporting it more than non-Christians.

Millions of people considered Jesus suffering on the cross, and thought to themselves, "Yep, we should do that to people."

Well it happened to that one guy and not only did it take away all of our sins like a Hoover vacuum but we got a new religion and a bunch of paid federal holidays along with it. Maybe we'll strike gold, frankincense, and mihr again?

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