Posts made by strangeloop

@royalcrown89:

While I don't agree that we "love" violence, it is time for more of us on the left to condemn what has been happening on college campuses and other places lately. How come it's perfectly fine for a psycho like Dr. Cornel West to preach his craziness on college campuses across this country, including in some of the most conservative places, but it's not okay for Ann Coulter to give a speech about our country's broken immigration system? I do not agree with anything Ann Coulter says but at least she's talking about a real issue in this country. Why is she being silenced? No one has posted any response as to why people like her are being silenced with VIOLENCE. There have been acts of violence committed to stop people like her and Milo from speaking. I am liberal and I am against forced censorship. And I will keep saying this: IT IS ONE-SIDED.  :google:

Good for you for condemning the violence.

Of course, by doing so and truly admitting that there is a problem, that more and more liberals have become violent and left-wing extremism has grown tremendously, this puts you at odds with the establishment dogma, which flat out denies this.

You sound like me three or so years ago, about when I became conservative myself.  I saw our "side" being incredibly shitty, our side denying it and covering it up and accusing people who disagreed with all the usual -isms and -phobias.  This gave me pause, and I started to question some of my previously held beliefs.  Good luck on your journey.

@DCLXVI:

You people are downvoting my comments because I point out the logical flaws of raphjd's arguments? Whaaaaaaat? :afr:

That's sorta funny, actually. ;D

What logical flaws did you point out?  I read your posts again, and you didn't even claim to have pointed out logical flaws before this post.  You only asked for context, which was given to you… and then you didn't even concede the point that context was in fact given??

Typical liberal.

How can't I? Nearly half of the countries where homosexuality is criminalized retain Section 377, a "buggery" law directly imposed during British colonization. The majority of the countries in the world where homosexuality is illegal are predominantly Christian. Not to mention the fact that LGBTI people are dying every day, even in the US, both by means of extrajudicial and state-sponsored violence.

Totally fake news and just complete lies.  The majority of Muslims have extremely poor beliefs with regards to LGBT.  This is backed up by massive amounts of polling data, which proves far more than your pointless anecdotes.  It's you who needs to learn something about the world before spouting off.  You are lying or just completely ignorant.

@blackwing:

If Christians don't kill, please explain that to the corpses of gay/black/mexican/muslim people that were killed by 'white-power" Christians in rural-areas of this country. I'm sure their bones will feel QUITE enlightened.

Incredibly dishonest post.  Incredible.  By percentage adjusted for populations, minorities kill far, FAR more white people than white people kill minorities.

Here is raw data sourced from the FBI: http://www.aim.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Offenders-Victims-Simpson-Black-Criminals-White-Victims-and-White-Guilt-1024x600.jpg

Now take into account relative population sizes in the U.S. for blacks and for whites, and calculate how much more likely a black person is to kill a white than a white person is to kill a black person.

I DARE you to do this easy mathematical calculation.  Go on.

@brianboru72:

Um….the atrocities of the anti-gay purge in Chechnya is a topic we've discussed here in the forum since April 15 at least.
Definitely does NOT get a pass just because it's a Muslim country.

Great!  So why do you think it's a good idea to import more of these people, a large number of which would like to see all of us on these boards hanging from a tree or decapitated?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/shock-poll-hispanic-support-for-trump-increases-55-since-election/article/2622041

WTF?  He ate a taco bowl and took a picture of it!  He's obviously racist against mexicans!  Why are they supporting him STOP STOP!!  :cheesy2:

@grevmo:

Mhorndisk is deliberately posting topics to create arguments.

Wow imagine someone posting on a forum with the intent on creating argument and discussion.  No we can't be having that.  SHUT IT DOWN SHUT IT DOWN.  GAY HIVE MIND ACTIVATE!  :crazy2:

You're ridiculous.

if you don't want to argue with him don't.  All you're doing now is tone policing and trying to shut down others' speech.

This post is incredibly intelluectually dishonest on all levels.  There is far more violence committed by the left than the right.  Just YESTERDAY, a college student was murdered by an Antifa, along with half a dozen students who were stabbed.  By a radical member of a far left group.

Please stop lying to yourself about who it is committing the violence.  There will ALWAYS be a little violence from both sides, in a country of +300 million.  But there is ONLY one side where the violence is not universally condemned, and even sometimes encouraged and cheered.  That is the left.

Please, be honest.

@baymartin:

If you are looking for something to be against, why not being against people in somalia dying from hunger.

I am FULLY against hunger in Somalia, but it not the duty of the western world to care for the rest of the world.  You also do not have the moral authority to shame western communities to try to solve all these problems in the world at their own expense, not just monetarily, but in terms of increased violence, rape, sexual assault and terrorism.

You just don't have that moral authority to force peaceful communities to take it.

@thutigger:

There are so many wrong things in this posting, both factual and personal that I can't even reply more than this. But do me a favor and try reading something other than Breitbart or whatever propaganda BS you're reading

None of the sources were pulled from breitbart; wikipedia states 3-5x more likely for muslim immigrants to commit crime.  Wikipedia leans heavily to the left  Other sources say 23x or even 100x.

http://vidmax.com/video/144044-Gang-of-Muslims-beat-this-Danish-girl-then-stoned-her-dog-to-death-in-Denmark

Do liberals have no empathy for the violence they cause through their policies, inflicted upon innocent men and women?  Please explain to me how one can watch this, or countless other examples, and continue to support fully open borders as is happening in Europe.  Statistics show that Muslim immigrants are more likely to commit violent crime **by one to two orders of magnitude. **

There has to at least be some balances to immigration and a bare minimum of checks so that the people coming in do not cause violence or wish death and destruction to their host countries.

Totally disgusting fascism from so called "anti-fascists".

@raphjd:

I'm glad he's been arrested.

As far as I know, he hasn't been arrested.  One of the victims filed charges against him, but that's a far cry from the corrupt police force taking it seriously, much less arresting him.

@gaypraha2:

but the truth is nowadays, it's kind of hard to save money doing so.

building own computer is not about saving money but about carefully choosing your components to fit your needs, it's a tailor made computer, hence " Personal " Computer.

For basic desktops/gaming desktops, there are many outfits that customize computers with name brand components at a price point just as cheap, if not cheaper than you can do for yourself.

@lovebearlove:

considering purchasing a new one for win operating system, and suggestions？

What is the purpose of your new computer?  Gaming?  Look for an i7 with a good graphics card.  Productivity?  Look at a Ryzen possibly.

I've built several computers over the years, but the truth is nowadays, it's kind of hard to save money doing so.  You actually do need to wait for sales to be able to save any money at all.  On top of that you have to spend some time putting it together, and have higher risks of having to return defective components.

I suggest keeping your eye out on techbargain or slickdeals websites for nice sales on desktop computers.  You can also check out computer boutique stores (e.g. cyberpower) which custom build desktops using name brand components, if you want a custom feel, or if you want something right now.

@magentas:

Gee, I had no idea Donald Trump was a liberal, since nobody lies as much as he does.

This is blatant whataboutism and didn't even address his post.

Why are conservatives filled with such extreme blind hatred? Every post from conservatives is one big temper tantrum, filled with pure unrelenting anger.

Blatant tone policing.  Rather than address the contents of his actual post, you complain about the tone, he's "angry" he's "throwing a tantrum".

You better count yourself lucky that the only thing conservatives do when they "throw a tantrum" is speak angrily.  What do liberals do when they throw a tantrum?

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/11/pearl_district_ne_portland_wak.html

They riot, and cause billions worth of damage.

Blatant hypocrisy, blatant lies, of which your post is exemplary.

@Diakon:

racism and police brutality are thus proven not to exist!

Nice strawman.  Nobody in this thread said any of those things.

@thatboi:

Do you even know what you're talking about?

Do you?

However, BLM activists all over Twitter are actually the first ones to address this issue, condemning this black man. So you must have not tried hard enough to find BLM activists' responses to this.

Ah okay, so then show me the protests.  Show me burning down buildings and beating people in the streets because of the outrageous number of black deaths.  No?

By the way, there were ~200 or so gun deaths in Chicago this year alone.  How many wrongful deaths by cops have their been this year?  Zero?  One?

shocked

@grevmo:

I've been an internet user since CARL was actually a series of libraries exclusively in Colorado. I know how it works, and I will continue to establish experience-based authority based when it is appropriate to do so.

Your degree in "debate judging" is absolutely irrelevant to the topic at hand.  You being a "debate judge" has less than zero bearing on your claim that Frederick's substitutes opinion for fact.  In fact, it makes your claim look weak as fuck, because it's a blatant and classic appeal to authority fallacy.  Surely as a "debate judge" you should know that.

For example, if you were sharing statistics, then your PhD would have value for citation, and I would respect what you have to say more in that field.

Then you'd be a fool.  Anyone on the internet can claim to have a PhD.  I mean, I do, but you have no way of knowing that I'm telling the truth.  That is why credentials are completely irrelevant doubly so on the internet, even more than they already are in real life.  Accept an argument because it makes sense, not because someone claims to be an expert on it.

Ironically, whereas I cited my experience because it was germane to the topic, you cited yours to be a bully.

lol you must really be new to the internet.

@grevmo:

No, but I believe that it is our responsibility to clean up our messes. Daesh exists because we created it, and is now terrorizing people around the world, but most especially in the Middle East. The civil war in Syria is not our business, per se, but Assad's use of chemical weapons is; he wouldn't have those weapons if we hadn't forced them out of Iraq. Saddam Hussein sent Assad those missiles in the eleventh hour before Dubya's deadline, in a too-little-too-late gesture to keep Bush from invading.

Even if I were to accept the argument the Assad wouldn't have chemical weapons if not for the U.S., this is almost completely irrelevant to your earlier statement about not informing Russia of the attack.  You talk about national responsibility, yet in just the previous breath, lambast Trump for not purposely provoking Russia?  Russia is not our enemy, and unlike the U.S., did not create and support ISIS as you noted.  There is no good reason for the U.S. to antagonize Russia.

Grevmo, nobody cares that you're a "debate judge".  On the internet, a wise man once said, everyone is equal behind the keyboard.  For example, I could bring up that I have a PhD in statistics, but I don't because it's irrelevant.

The fact that you keep clinging on to your meaningless claim as a means of presenting yourself as an authority shows how little you actually understand about how debate on the internet actually works and also how empty your platitudes on fact vs. opinion really are.

@grevmo:

I strongly disapprove that he called a Syrian government ally to affirm his action before he took it, and that his so-called attack was as impotent as a 110-year-old man who's never heard of Viagra.

You'd risk war with Russia just because you'd like to think of America as Team America, World Police punishing evil doers across the globe?  South Park parodied this for a reason, and that's because the idea that we have the moral authority to mete out punishment, consequences be damned, anywhere on the globe at any time – that idea is flat out retarded.  It's not just retarded, it's insane.  America is done playing the world police, despite what you neocon warmongers would like.  As a country, we simply do not have the resources or moral authority to play that role.

@bob5678:

Are you triggered because your president is a failure? Either way we win. He gets impeached for being a traitor and colluding with Russia = win. He sticks around loses a war in Syria and North Korea and Iran and causes the economy to collapse = win.

lol.  I genuinely wonder what it's like to live in your bizzaro world.