The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

The Batlord · 08-29-2018, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Hindsight is always a ****ing blast. You and Frowny are drowning in it. Yay!

War sucks. Some wars suck more than others. The Vietnam war was the USA's worst decision of my lifetime.

Doesn't take a ****ing thing away from the kids, who decades ago, signed up and risked their lives for the "politically approved message" of what the mission was about. Kids died in WWI and WWII for the same reasons.

Does McCain deserve disrespect for following orders from the Commander in Chief, at the time of his service? You ****s are pointing your BS in the wrong place.

Put it all on Nixon and Johnson and congress regarding the Vietnam War.

Snarky comebacks from the likes of Frowny in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Yes, previous generations have often had an idiotic trust for the government and if 60,000 of you dumb ****s had to die to divest this country of some of that trust then it was money well spent.

**Frownland** · 08-29-2018, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii

You mean when he was a prisoner of war and got tortured and put into solitary confinement? Just making sure we're talking about the same guy.

Yes that's exactly what I described.

POW is a weird term to me. I wonder if anyone ever called Ted Bundy a prisoner of rape and murder.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

kids, who decades ago, signed up and risked their lives for the "politically approved message" of what the mission was about. Kids died in WWI and WWII for the same reasons.

And it's exactly that meaningless loss of life and mindless authoritarianism that makes me so anti-war.

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You ****s are pointing your BS in the wrong place.

I'm pointing criticism at both places since both are responsible. It's not just hindsight, I decry our current military action across the ****ing board. We just have more older veterans and people are trying to get this whole compelled respect business going on and I won't **** with that, so it comes up more often.

Wanna talk about how many countries the US is currently occupying?

Chula Vista · 08-29-2018, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

He kept pushing for more people to be sent overseas for some nice murdering.

War is a reality because the global world sucks. At some point you have to put away your pacifistic sticker and just deal with the ****ing brutal REALITY.

Tell me how things might have gone better? How so many lives could have been saved. What would you, as a world leader, have done, to make it all more pretty?

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POW is a weird term to me. I wonder if anyone ever called Ted Bundy a prisoner of rape and murder

So beyond stupid it's ridiculous.

Key · 08-29-2018, 02:14 PM

Probably best to just let it go, Chula. You're up against both grindy and Frown. You won't win even if they're unwilling to listen to what we have to say. It'll get heated for no reason. We've been through it before.

**Frownland** · 08-29-2018, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

War is a reality because the global world sucks. At some point you have to put away your pacifistic sticker and just deal with the ****ing brutal REALITY.

Who exactly is ignoring that reality? The reality of sending kids to become dead men for the sake of dick-waving tyrants is what brought me here.

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So beyond stupid it's ridiculous.

Glad we can finally agree on something.

OccultHawk · 08-29-2018, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

War is a reality because the global world sucks. At some point you have to put away your pacifistic sticker and just deal with the ****ing brutal REALITY.

Tell me how things might have gone better? How so many lives could have been saved. What would you, as a world leader, have done, to make it all more pretty?

So beyond stupid it's ridiculous.

If your daughter and grandchild get soaked in napalm is that part of the brutal reality of the “global world”

I mean **** if someone is called to serve it’s honorable

Heroic even

Chula Vista · 08-29-2018, 02:23 PM

Lack of perspective thought sucks.

Not for me. I'm all good.

**Frownland** · 08-29-2018, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Lack of perspective thought sucks.

Not for me. I'm all good.

People can be informed and disagree with you at the same time dude, but if perspective isn't for you then so be it.

Chula Vista · 08-29-2018, 02:27 PM

Ass-wipe. Cool sounding phrase. Think I'll start using it more.

**Frownland** · 08-29-2018, 02:30 PM

*enters home with a machete, kills someone, then enters bedroom screaming ready to kill more people*
*gets shot by the person who lives there*
*get discounts, parades, and compelled respect for the rest of life because that dude shot me*

08-29-2018, 02:23 PM	#13437 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Lack of perspective thought sucks. Not for me. I'm all good. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

08-29-2018, 02:27 PM	#13439 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Ass-wipe. Cool sounding phrase. Think I'll start using it more. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

08-29-2018, 02:30 PM	#13440 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	enters home with a machete, kills someone, then enters bedroom screaming ready to kill more people gets shot by the person who lives there get discounts, parades, and compelled respect for the rest of life because that dude shot me __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

08-29-2018, 02:14 PM	#13434 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Probably best to just let it go, Chula. You're up against both grindy and Frown. You won't win even if they're unwilling to listen to what we have to say. It'll get heated for no reason. We've been through it before.