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She also goes to protest neo-nazi and stand up to fascism. That used to be rather uncontroversial, I guess not anymore.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 12:45 PM) Consider it a 'blow' for equality. She stepped into the playing field, abandoning the protections afforded by the traditional customs of interactions between gentlemen and ladies. She went looking for a fight, and got one. Just because she has a vagina doesn't give her a free pass. Doesn't matter who the hitter was. I'm against hitting punching women in the face and neo-nazi. Especially when those two things are combined. So I guess we are going to disagree on that one.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Apr 17, 2017 -> 11:42 AM) You see that, and are blind to all that was going on right behind it. Speaks volumes. And don't act like she was some saintly grandmother just there because she took a wrong turn, that woman was looking for someone to hit and/or kick, and just got hit first. Speaks volumes, says the guy defending a neo-nazi who punched a woman in the face.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 10:07 PM) But do you disavow antifa? While were at it, the left needs to face the fact that ALL of the violence going on at these protests is on them. Lmao. "All the violence". The leader of a white supremacist group has reportedly been caught on video punching a woman in the face at the pro-Trump rally in UC Berkeley. Antifa is good, btw.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 04:29 PM) News channels should just show bombs being fired and detonated with "What a Wonderful World" playing on the sound track! BEAUTIFUL!!! We live in an insane country.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 13, 2017 -> 02:36 PM) Why is the media hyping this so much? In 2016 the Pentagon averaged 3x the amount of weight of that bomb everyday. And that's a conservative estimate. It's a not a good idea to allow Trump to think the media will be nice to him if he wages war. They will be nice to him if he wages war. They will praise him, they already are. See what the media has done the past 20 years for reference.

Lmao. What an absolute clown show this is.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 09:55 AM) Didn't do extensive research, but it feels like our perception of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark being close to utopia has a few flaws (other than permanent winter and high tax rates). At any rate, at this point, we don't know how long the Uzbeki was legally in Sweden, his immigration status, or when he first arrived. Some have tried to tie him to ISIS, but nothing substantive yet. Khalid Masood, the Parliament attacker, was 52 and had spent most of his adult life in England before radicalizing. No one says that those countries are utopia. People just often use them as examples of how things are being done better. Mostly with education and healthcare.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 12:34 PM) Minimal damage https://twitter.com/IraqiSecurity/status/850385429144711173 I wonder how much it costed us to damage a couple jets and set some grass on fire.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) Ha, well that's fair, who knows what it is or should be. But at least one thing is clear: you use chemical weapons, we inflict damage to your military capabilities. Unless we sell you those type of weapons. Then we help you build military capabilities!

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 10:46 AM) You can make a plausible case that during the last few years of the Obama presidency, any new military intervention was politically very dangerous for him and thus not really an option. We now have a new President and it was important, or at least significant, that he took an action that set the stage going forward. He realigned America's position in Syria at least a little for the new administration. I agree with bmags that ultimately this probably does nothing to stop Assad from murdering his own people, but at least a statement from the new admn was made. Where it goes from here is the next question mark. What is Americas position in Syria? This probably made it more complicated.

"Military intervention is now an option on the table." Lmao. Do other countries ever think that it's not on the table when it comes to America? We are literally bombing like 7 different countries and have troop presence in almost as many.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 10:05 AM) Japan says hi, to your first question. And I agree this has nothing to do with a change in heart of Trump. The same people he's concerned about are the same people he called a trojan horse. But his past views or his justifications don't really factor in to whether this was an appropriate response. Japan. We are going with Japan as the answer on that one. Cool. It's really hard to play the role of moral leader trying to stop the bad man from using Chemical weapons, at the same time you are selling weapons to Saudi Arabia as they lay waste to Yemen.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 09:50 AM) Come on now, if this were out of the blue that would be one thing, but this is a response to a chemical attack, using weapons that they promised were gone 3 years ago. A response was absolutely necessary. We went the political route in 2013 and where did it get us? Nowhere. At least Trump has the element of "we have no idea what the f*** he would do, maybe we should think twice about using these heinous weapons on women and children." Also, not sure why you guys are worried about Russia. You've been arguing that Trump and Putin are tight for months. I like when people start the "political route" doesn't work, we must bomb. When has the "bomb route" ever worked? Also, since when does this administration and people that like Trump all the sudden start giving a s*** about Syrian citizens or people in the middle east in general? They only ever get "humanitarian" when it's an excuse to bomb something. He has banned refugees and cut back on humanitarian aid. Trump authorized a mission in Yemen that ended up with a Navy Seal shooting a 6 year old girl in the neck, in which she bleed out and died from. Give me a f***ing break about people giving a s*** about people in that area.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:20 AM) Interestingly, there's a bunch of "never trump!" neocons coming around to him because they love nothing more than bombing the Middle East while his alt-right base is freaking out because they thought he was an isolationist for some reason. edit: the US has had "advisors" in Syria both officially and unofficially for at least a couple of years now. Worse then the never Trump neocons are the war happy liberals that are supporting this. Schumer and Pelosi both supported it. If you turned on your TV last night to see what was going on, you would be hard pressed to find any dissent. Fox, CNN and MSNBC were all foaming at the mouth with love for firing missiles.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:05 AM) Russia was notified in advance because they had troops stationed there, which was the correct move. Nothing good will come from intervention in Syria, but it's not surprising that Hawks from both parties and the media are cheering this on. Let's hope this strike on a military base is the extent of it. It's all the same people that cheered on the Iraq war. If history tells us anything, it's that this won't be the end of it. More than likely the start.

Sure Russia and Iran are going to love the U.S bombing Assad.

That was a pretty good shot from Davidson. Went more than half way up the stands in left-center.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 12:28 PM) Trump's kids don't invite the attacks. Biden and Kaine have kids who do. I don't treat people like s*** because I don't agree with their parents. I believe in tolerance so I won't attack someone based off of things out of their own control. "Biden and Kaine have kids who do."

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 11:26 AM) Nikki Haley to the UN has been one of the few solid Trump appointments. on the other hand Nah, shes been awful as well. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Doubled Down on Threats to Punish Criticism of Israel

Syrian civil war is going to continue to be a brutal and complicated conflict. With the Raqqa offense on the way and so many moving parts in the area(Turkey, ISIS, Assad, Kurds, Iran and so on). I could not think of a more unprepared administration to be in charge.

Good to know that the President is still focused on the election that ended almost 6 months ago. I guess better that than him starting a war with Iran or something like that.

This is a poor weather week to start the year.

The (Not-So) Peaceful Transition of Power: Trump’s Drone Strikes Outpace Obama Mass slaughter on a daily basis from this country.