Posted on 11/17/2015 6:17:33 AM PST by Red Badger
A broken watch is right twice a day.................
I was just discussing the other day how annoying it was that suddenly all our pro athletes had to wear something pink on their uniforms during October to show that they are against breast cancer.
Of course, the implication was that if an athlete refused to wear pink in his uniform, then that must have meant that he was a hateful misogynist who wished all women to die horrible deaths due to breast cancer.
Fixed.
There were social media before 9-11, but they weren’t as ubiquitous as today. Mostly small local websites usually in college towns and catering to the gaming crowd..................
I wonder if ‘Hashtag heroics’ will make it into the Oxford English Dictionary soon? It is a very useful word, and can be used to describe a lot of behaviors...........
The players are actually donating money to fight breast cancer. They are ‘fined’ for each article of their uniform that isn’t ‘standard issue’ and the fines go to the foundation..............
I like the old social media messages....where the airmen and ground crews wrote messages on the bombs they were going to drop. an airmen would probably be court-martialed for doing this today...
For example, can you imagine how hard it would be to find the super-secret ISIS Main HQ building and blow up that nest of vipers? I doubt that it could be done. It's just TOO HARD. We better stick with what we do best, hollow, meaningless symbolism.
Why didn’t they carpet bomb the entire area like Dresden?...................
Liberals think the problem is a negative emotion, hate.
In part, it is because they think evil can be blamed on several things: insanity, abuse in childhood, poverty/desperation, stupidity.
They refuse to admit that it can be a deliberate, intelligent, rational decision to NOT give a flip about how others feel when you do what you want, take what you want, regardless of who it hurts.
And it can be a rational, intentional, non-hateful decision when Islam gives you permission to rape, maim, murder and subject others.
But it feels better to say if I just show enough love it will stop, instead of admitting it is an ideology driving the hatred, and you have to actually change their minds, contain them or kill them to stop it.
I'm getting a sense there is real fear of a muzzie backlash, like they've gone too far this time.
I notice in other comment sections hoards of posters making outrageous claims that everyone from Christians, to the Irish to the Folgers Lady are/were terrorists at one time in history. The Nazis were Christian for example.
If you are familiar with Discus you probably know that they keep track of total posts for each poster. A good number of the ones who post this crap are in the 80k+ range....pro/paid potters.
They will not admit it has anything to do with ‘religion’, because in doing so they have to admit that ‘religion’ is effective at changing peoples’ behavior, which they claim as their own territory via legislation..................
#Savetheclock!
The muzzies pass out candy and celebrate the latest slaughterfest. The infidels create digital teddy bears and global group hugs for “healing”. Then everyone moves on. Nothing changes. Muzzies plan next slaughter. Infidels await the next shocking, horrible “tragedy”. The weirdness is so bizarre it’s hard to describe. Lowry did well on this one.
when you think of it, ‘peace’ is an absence of resistance to aggression.
-—I notice in other comment sections hoards of posters making outrageous claims that everyone from Christians, to the Irish to the Folgers Lady are/were terrorists at one time in history.-—
The truth about Islam is hard to face, so a lot of people react with denial, rationalization (the moral eqivalency in your example) or attack the messenger.
#hashtag heroics is similar to ‘tie a ribbon’ or condolences or inverted ‘rally’ caps at baseball games.
It gives the general populace something they can do to make themselves feel somewhat better.
It is only a gester, but it allows those who choose to do it to feel involved, even if only with a small part.
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