[Bones McCoy]

[Bones McCoy]

That Civil War they've all been hoping for.
It's still on.
With the twist that it's MAGA Evangelists against MAGA Crypto Bros.


A Quango headed by a pair of Immigrant stock types is denouncing poor white rural Americans as.

Lazy Mediocre Retarded

[soulboy]

I thought they believed in a ubiquitous God? Seems more like Schrodinger's God; simultaneously spying on you when you're cracking one off and permanently caught in traffic.

[Bones McCoy]

Maybe God got the Covid vaccine and is now controlled by radio waves....

[Rosvanian]

Come on, that's got to be a piss take.

[Samanfur]

Poe's Law applies.

[Yug]

I'm unsure whether that's satirical or serious. With Americans, all bets are off. Especially American evangelicals, who are whining that Jesus was too liberal.

[Bones McCoy]

[Bones McCoy]

[Oboogie]

Sometimes guns just aren't enough.

"The FBI says it has discovered more than 150 bombs during a raid on a farm in Virginia – thought to be the largest such cache seized by the law-enforcement agency in its history."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp83rp5z0ypo

[Youngian]

America, the land of the remedial terrorist.

Investigators say some of the devices were found in a bedroom in an unsecured backpack labelled "#nolivesmatter" - an apparent reference to a far-right, anti-government movement

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I've just seen the New Orleans chief of police describing the pickup-attack killer as 'pure evil'.

Always they go to the religious/mythical cause, not looking at the real causes, such as political disaffection, American exceptionalism and a putrid mental health service. it's so much easier to fall back on that dim witted phrase. Requires no reflection or critical thought.

[Oboogie]

I've just seen the New Orleans chief of police describing the pickup-attack killer as 'pure evil'.

Always they go to the religious/mythical cause, not looking at the real causes, such as political disaffection, American exceptionalism and a putrid mental health service. it's so much easier to fall back on that dim witted phrase. Requires no reflection or critical thought.

It's washing hands of any responsibility - evil exists, that's a fact because it's in the Bible. Therefore, the only way to combat evil is through prayer, anything else is futile!

[Andy McDandy]

No point understanding it, trying to cure or rehabilitate it - just put it down like a mad dog.

[Youngian]

IRA made "cowardly attacks." Would brave attacks have been OK and what was the criteria that would change a cowardly attack into a brave one?

[Bones McCoy]

While I'm not keen on the idea of American exceptionalism..

I'm keen for America to remain the exception.

[Bones McCoy]

"Let them fight" intensifies.

[Abernathy]

IRA made "cowardly attacks." Would brave attacks have been OK and what was the criteria that would change a cowardly attack into a brave one?

This. Emphatically this. I have long wondered about this boilerplate supposed denunciation of terrorist and other atrocities as “cowardly”. Why on earth is such an act deemed to be “cowardly”, and why should that be such a very bad thing? Apart from anything else, it seems to me that (for example) undertaking a mission to blow yourself, and your target victims, to pieces by means of a “suicide vest”, necessitates a measure of courageous fortitude, however deluded by religious fanaticism, that is quite a long way from being “cowardly”. Is cowardice really such a characteristic as to warrant this maximal denunciation ?

[The Weeping Angel]

You can't put someone who rams a truck with an ISIS flag on it has being just down to political dissatisfaction.

[The Weeping Angel]

IRA made "cowardly attacks." Would brave attacks have been OK and what was the criteria that would change a cowardly attack into a brave one?

This. Emphatically this. I have long wondered about this boilerplate supposed denunciation of terrorist and other atrocities as “cowardly”. Why on earth is such an act deemed to be “cowardly”, and why should that be such a very bad thing? Apart from anything else, it seems to me that (for example) undertaking a mission to blow yourself, and your target victims, to pieces by means of a “suicide vest”, necessitates a measure of courageous fortitude, however deluded by religious fanaticism, that is quite a long way from being “cowardly”. Is cowardice really such a characteristic as to warrant this maximal denunciation ?

Try saying the terrorists bravely bombed us to yourself and seeing how it sounds.