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- 2014-11-16 07:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: When did the American political left lose its balls?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5495
Re: When did the American political left lose its balls?
There never really was much of a true American Left. They're further out on the fringes than the libertarians. People with prosocial consciousness usually used the Church for an outlet, not secular politics, and churches could lose their tax-exempt status if they got too political. The trade union m...
- 2014-11-11 10:43pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
Daash has existed for years, it used to be called al-queada in iraq. Which is why I find it unlikely that the US would ever have supported them, regardless of whether they knew what daash would become: they already were on the "enemies" list because of their previous iraqi exploits. They ...
- 2014-11-11 08:34pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
My natural reaction is to respond to this in detail because it's directed at me. But since this is Brock coming back literally two weeks after all previous discussion on the thread stopped... not so much. Well, sorry. Time passes quickly whether or not one is having fun with work and face-to-face r...
- 2014-11-07 11:17pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
All it took to bring the US and Iran to work together was a genocidal, rampaging hoard. Where's the part where Iran sanctions are lifted and Iranians are allowed to pursue peaceful nuclear research and development as is their right under the non-proliferation treaty? You will now naturally quote th...
- 2014-11-07 10:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
@Simon_Jester and Channel72; You're gaming a couple of logical fallacies; argument from ignorance, continually shifting the burden of proof to myself implying that the CIA-DAESH connection must be false because it hasn't been proved true, based on moving the goalpost of such proof to a high, theoret...
- 2014-10-21 06:49pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
Damn; got my directions scrambled; Camp Taji is located northwest of Baghdad and Bismayah is to the southeast. Meh, it was late here. My standard of evidence is high because you are asserting a highly unexpected and improbable claim (the US is to a large degree supporting ISIL, with the apparent int...
- 2014-10-21 03:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
Brock... 1. Daring moderators after being warned is a bad idea. 2. When the most anti-American person on the board splits your posts and puts them into Hall of Shame as conspiracy bullshit , even crying 'bias' cannot help you. ... 3. Daring me again will result in all your prior contributions to th...
- 2014-10-21 02:41am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
... If you think Assad cares about a fair election under any circumstances you're a fool. Dead man walking will do whatever it takes to delay the inevitable, including hold elections generally recognized as fair. His ruling circle may be more of a problem, but anyone inclined to defect has possibly...
- 2014-10-11 07:33am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
I'm sure those were completely fair elections. Wanker. Armed rebellion makes the ideal of electoral fairness difficult to achieve. Nonetheless, the Sunni extremists who cast bullets as ballots are probably happy with their results too, an Allawaite-free, Christian-less, Kurdless Sunnistan in northe...
- 2014-10-11 07:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
Hey, Brock, listen up. This is a formal statement that I am calling you out on your claim that the US is funding ISIL, which you made about half a dozen times in your most recent post ALONE. KK. People have been telling you this isn't true, and presenting many arguments for why this isn't true, for...
- 2014-10-11 04:32am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
... Nobody sane accepts this as a "fact" except facetiously in the sense that US aid inadvertantly flowed to ISIS, initially, in a misguided attempt to support anti-Assad elements. As far as main street goes, perfectly reasonable people can identify 'plausible denial' games; its only a qu...
- 2014-10-11 02:47am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
If Syria started to use chemical weapons against ISIL will we condemn the attacks? Why not? There's no way Syria's opponents in the West would pass up the opportunity, verifiable or not. That that's coincidentally the right thing to do, if verifiable, is unfortunately not likely to be the motivatio...
- 2014-10-11 02:30am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
BTW, it sucks that Brock is so incoherent and insane, because underlying his wild conspiracy theories are some valid concerns about the idea of "forever war" and the military-industrial complex. It's a cliche at this point, I suppose, but yeah - it definitely is valid to express some seri...
- 2014-10-11 01:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
...You're still on that? Can you provide a count of the value of the stolen American weapons you keep harping on? Because the casual "oh, yeah, the US is a primary supporter of ISIL thing" is really sticking in my craw. You've asserted bizarre and delusional things on this point and have ...
- 2014-10-10 10:22pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
...Damn. My computer ate a large post to Brock. Been having problems here myself. OK, short form: Brock, this claim of yours that ISIL is specifically dependent on stealing specifically American aid to other rebels in Syria, and can be defeated by removing that aid, is fucking stupid. You have comm...
- 2014-10-10 08:20pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Your logic holes are rather glaring. A technical's machine gun is probably only good for about a minute of firing before the entire barrel has to be replaced and who knows what else. Really? We've had machine guns around since 1912 that only needed one barrel every hour - ten Vickers guns fired for...
- 2014-10-03 03:04am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
... The fact that you even made this argument in the first place pretty much shows that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about - which makes me feel pretty stupid for even bothering to respond. Thanks, asshole. In other news, the French government has decided ISIS will henceforth be cal...
- 2014-10-03 12:06am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Didn't ISIL get more weapons for the US aid to the Iraqi government than from the other syrian rebels, anyway? Allegedly enough to arm 200000 troops , including a couple of M1 Abrams tanks, export varieties used by Egypt, according to some reports. Of course, ISIS only has around 10000 reliable fig...
- 2014-09-30 10:30pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Brock, you're still wall-of-ignorancing some very important parts of your opponents positions. For one, you are inviting the question: why do you think cutting off weapons to Syrian rebels will cause ISIL to 'fold?' They have, as has been documented already, a daily budget somewhere north of three ...
- 2014-09-18 02:09am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
... No, you're trying to weasel out of your bullshit argument about ISIS as a code name. Basically, you look like at a total idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about, and now you're trying to change the subject. Why would I need to weasel out of something I already admitted I couldn't prove i...
- 2014-09-18 01:48am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
... Would said neighbors have committed such murders, if it weren't for ISIL invading their lands and removing the rule of the government? Well, it seems I've stumbled into a quagmire. Oh well. Law and order from the central government was already tenuous but its interesting to note - the Yazidis h...
- 2014-09-18 12:47am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Actually, by now cutting off supply to Syria would do little as ISIS secured enough additional and, most importantly, internal funding from banks in fallen cities. Cutting it 1 year before would have been probably wise. But as people here convinced me, the US isn't known to behave wisely. Maybe. It...
- 2014-09-11 08:23am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Wrong idiot. The reason why "armed intervention is a good idea" is because ISIS is in the process of committing genocide. End of story. (Hint: genocide is bad, and a genocidal, religious-extremist government in Iraq/Syria is totally contrary to the interests of the US... what the fuck don...
- 2014-09-11 07:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
... Because frankly, no American really cares or complains that the US is bombing ISIL at the behest of Iraqi or Kurdish government troops. That is never going to be the kind of massive crushing financial burden and source of bloodshed that would be involved in sending a ground army over there agai...
- 2014-09-05 09:32pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: IS crisis in Iraq and Syria
- Replies: 370
- Views: 47382
Re: ISIL beheads American Journalist
Why didn't “Dulat al-Islam fi al-Iraq wal-Sham” just call itself DAFAW in the Western media? Daash in mispelt english means a short, brief run; it also means to smash something to pieces, and Iraq is no longer a unitary state, but de-facto partitioned between Kurd, Sunni, and Shia, as was planned l...