Posted on 12/06/2015 8:09:35 PM PST by TBP
You can see a coarsening in how we respond and react on social media. No one feels ashamed to exploit the tragedy for political purposes even while it is happening.
But as soon as the story broke Wednesday afternoon, and while it was still going on, there were accusations and bitter words flung all over the Internet. The weirdest argument came almost immediately. A person named Chris Murphy, who is a U.S. senator representing Connecticut, sent out what struck me as the most manipulative message of recent political history.
The background is that Republican presidential contestants responded online to the shootings with the only helpful thing you can say—or do, frankly, from faraway—when a story like this occurs. “Praying for the victims, their families & the San Bernardino first responders,†said Jeb Bush. Mike Huckabee said he was “praying.†John Kasich: “My thoughts & prayers go out to those impacted.â€
This managed to enrage the progressive left. You can take your prayers and stuff ’em. The answer and the only answer to this tragedy is gun control, and if you’re not for it you’re not allowed to be part of the conversation. “Please shut up and slink away,†tweeted a reporter. Another: “Your thoughts and prayers don’t mean a damn thing.†A reporter at the Huffington Post damned public officials’ “useless thoughts and prayers.†Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos: “How many dead people did those thoughts and prayers bring back to the life?â€
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Now we're attacking people for praying. This is a sad state of affairs.
First amendment?
The entirety of the US Constitution needs twelve Rosaries, fifty Our Fathers and 75 Hail Marys.
The First and Second Amendments need your open and in-your-face defiance of those who would seek to destroy them.
No more Mr Nice Guy.
Note who is doing the attacking.
First amendment needs support of the second amendment.
Americans not willing to do that do not and never will deserve those rights.
You know, there were surely some muslims who were horrified about the murders and prayed to their god for him to bless the victims/families. Wonder if Kos and his ilk were including these muzzies in their rants.
I didn’t think so; only Christians, I’m sure.
>> A reporter at the Huffington Post damned public officials’ “useless thoughts and prayers
Anyone else having a FR related browser issues where certain punctuation characters are getting mangled? This has been a recent issue for me. I’m using Opera on Win 10.
‘You know, there were surely some muslims who were horrified about the murders and prayed to their god for him to bless the victims/families. ‘
Did any of them do it publicly? I dont recall reading any.
“The First and Second Amendments need your open and in-your-face defiance of those who would seek to destroy them. No more Mr Nice Guy.”
Oh, shit, not that! Hahahaha. No, no indeed. No more Mr. Nice Guy. And they really won’t like the change.
Lynch needs to resign. You just don’t go around threatening the American people. Abuse of power.
And don’t let the AG hear you pray...
How does one pray when God is bringing judgment on a nation?- this is a serious question- Do we pray “Your will be done”? or “Help us to endure it”? Or should we rather pray that God will change His mind?
[[Now we’re attacking people for praying. This is a sad state of affairs. ]]
And one of the many reasons I believe God is judging this nation for kicking Him out the way the left has done
I often think back though to the times of the kings- they had good kings, then bad kings, and the bad ones were really bad- killing Christians for not bowing to idols, killing them for not converting- barring them from practicing their religion in public etc- God allowed these times, and usually the people repented, Will we repent today?
Other than the male shooter’s family, no, not that I heard. It’s just a guess on my part that there are some muslims (a few, anyway) who didn’t want something like San Bernardino to happen. They are probably the REAL muzzie extremists because they actually do just want to go abut their lives with no trouble (the so-called “extremists” are really the typical ones). They don’t fit in with their muzz peers and should just get out of that mess while they can.
But when the devil comes out and shows his flank, then he's more vulnerable. While he's hiding in the shadows of a foggy semi-niceness, nobody gets a clear shot at him.
This is the MSM but has anyone asked what Joe Redneck's response is? It's like shoot yeah, God please bless America because it has no other choice, and God please bless our defensive weapon as we accost enemies in flagrante delicto.
I am a committed Christian, and I'm smart enough to know that praying at time you ought to be doing something is a cop-out.
What should be done is not to harbor a leader who wishes to take away our Constitutionally-recognized right to keep and bear arms, but rather exercising our Constitutional right to arrest, jail, and bring to justice the treasonous individual and his cohorts who are determined to flood our country with alien invaders, undocumented dross who desire to consume our resources, destroy our trust in each other, and bring us to the sorry state of the kind of national situation they are trying to escape.
Why is this happening, without any effective opposition?
Doesn't matter what you are using. The problems come when the person posting an article uses characters with non-ASCII-compliant characters like slanted quotes, em-dashes, question marks, etc. that the FR HTML interpreter doesn't recognize, and instead renders nonsensical characters as its output.
It doesn't matter what your browser or operating system is. They are not the fault. For this to go away, the poster has to go back in the FR posting edit window, and replace these ill-behaved non-ASCII characters he has entered by cut-and-paste (even from his own Notepad app) with the standard ASCII characters supplied by the text editor, and placed there by the keyboard of the posting contributor.
Tell me, is this understandable to you? I want to know if I am communicating this to the FR audience.
But as soon as the story broke Wednesday afternoon, and while it was still going on, there were accusations and bitter words flung all over the Internet. The weirdest argument came almost immediately. A person named Chris Murphy, who is a U.S. senator representing Connecticut, sent out what struck me as the most manipulative message of recent political history.
The background is that Republican presidential contestants responded online to the shootings with the only helpful thing you can say--or do, frankly, from faraway--when a story like this occurs. "Praying for the victims, their families & the San Bernardino first responders," said Jeb Bush. Mike Huckabee said he was "praying." John Kasich: "My thoughts & prayers go out to those impacted."
This managed to enrage the progressive left. You can take your prayers and stuff 'em. The answer and the only answer to this tragedy is gun control, and if you're not for it you're not allowed to be part of the conversation. "Please shut up and slink away," tweeted a reporter. Another: "Your thoughts and prayers don't mean a damn thing." A reporter at the Huffington Post damned public officials: "useless thoughts and prayers." Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos: "How many dead people did those thoughts and prayers bring back to the life?"
>> Tell me, is this understandable to you?
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.
Here’s an example where the parsing problem is compounded:
>> I’m using Opera on Win 10
I resubmitted the text you quoted.
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