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by madaxe 13y ago
That analogy is just fantastic - although the uncle is also the local judge, so can't be prosecuted, but he keeps sending other people who do the same as him to prison.
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by madaxe 13y ago
The empire never ended.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No no, it was filthy commies that started the reichstag fire, right?
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by madaxe 13y ago
If you take pleasure in killing your fellow creatures, sure. I for one just let them do their thing, and I do mine. "Live and let live" is a concept which no longer seems to be part of popular cognition. And the analogy still hold
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by madaxe 13y ago
And? You thought the 9/11 commission report was good and conclusive? WTC7 just "imploded" due to "natural causes"? And of course destroying all the evidence pronto was the best way to investigate the crime? I don&#x
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by madaxe 13y ago
It proves that the CIA orchestrated '53 Iranian coup was a massive boon for the US, and that the US has successfully subjugated and held back an entire corner of the planet for a half-century. Again, why break the habit of a lifetime?
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by madaxe 13y ago
Believe whatever you want. Objective facts don't cars for you. http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/06/29/256726/afghanis...
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by madaxe 13y ago
Hey guys, Briancaw2 is a terrorist! Lynch him!!! See how that works? Just because your government said it does not make it automatically true.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Surely drone strikes are terrorism, by both your above assertions, and any reasonable definition of the term?
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by madaxe 13y ago
You're right, America is still #1! In human rights abuses, illegal wars, prison population, and all of those other great things that you're all so damn proud of.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Ok. What about Pakistan? Oh shit, did I just blow your argument to hell? So sorry! Aw, downvoted, for pointing out that the US carries out drone assaults in sovereign territories without consent. Well, bury your head in the sand all you lik
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by madaxe 13y ago
You like your reductio ad absurdum, eh? Why not move onto ad hominems? Or, y'know, perhaps shock horror scandal probe your government has lied to you! Nooooo.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, there is no motive . Use your brain instead of your TV for once. Analogy: a wasps best appears on your porch. Occasionally, you get stung. Do you a) put up with being stung once in a while or b) whack the ever living shit out of the ne
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by madaxe 13y ago
Radical conservatives? Tin-foil hat aside, it strikes me as oddly coincidental that the folks who use drones these days to kill around the planet with impunity are the same folks who had several allegedly drone controlled airliners carry ou
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by madaxe 13y ago
Private military contractor.
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by madaxe 13y ago
That might be true on the continent, but not in the UK. We've been profitable since month one, grown out revenue and profits by >100% YoY, and VC cash just ain't worth it, as on this side of the pond the best earnings to value
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by madaxe 13y ago
The majority of troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan were not US Military - predominantly PMCs - so I don't think it's correct to say that corporations do not have the capability to wage real, physical war.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Disney as a rule do their thing and wait to see if anyone complains, and then, and only then, do they license.
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by madaxe 13y ago
This is what TPP is for. Bugger all to do with promoting trade, plenty to do with copyright enforcement.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Related tangent. If GCHQ are intercepting and storing all traffic that transits the UK, they're surely the grandest copyright infringers on the planet. Why have they not yet been raided, and had their equipment seized?
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by madaxe 13y ago
"Snow White" is a derivative work. Doesn't stop Disney from owning it lock, stock, and barrel - so why should this be any different? Oh right, selective justice.
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by madaxe 13y ago
They're not despicable. Just piteous, and angry, and at the guys who really screwed shit up for them - that's the US right now - used to be the USSR. The militants were borne out of these historic conflicts, and were largely armed
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by madaxe 13y ago
1. Some, not many. The majority are noise. There is signal there, in terms of what The US are looking for most likely, but who knows in the abscence of any trial. Innocent until proven guilty. They weren't arrested. They weren't
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by madaxe 13y ago
Oh please. 1) Many (most) weren't "caught" doing anything, other than going about their business. The majority were kidnapped from airports. 2) "Allied forces"? We white. Them black. Therefore them bad. Try to see t
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by madaxe 13y ago
So, torture in Guantanamo is OK?
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by madaxe 13y ago
And Ian Brady doesn't lack that capacity. The judgment to keep him in Broadmoor was yet another example of "the moral state", not abiding by the rule of law, and instead abiding by selective, moral justice.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Were I in the shoes of one of the kidnap victims at Guantanamo (for that is all they are - they are neither prisoners nor combatants, just abductees), I would not wish to continue that existence. The right to death is as important as the ri
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by madaxe 13y ago
Not in the UK they wouldn't, no. Only in your barbarous country do such things (legally) happen in prisons. We recently had a debate over Ian Brady staying in a mental prison vs. prison prison, as under psychiatric care they can forc
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by madaxe 13y ago
Does this not mean that GCHQ are the greatest child pornographers on the planet, by their own standards? They've successfully prosecuted and imprisoned private individuals who've ended up with child porn on their computers due to
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by madaxe 13y ago
They have been - and they successfully nerfed half a dozen of ours (public facing) when they did the migration about three weeks back. Most recent upgrade added the ability for R53 to do latency based and healthcheck based DNS (with ELBs, t

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