LOLOL
This is exactly why people like me consider republicans to be total s ing assholes that need to be beaten off their high horse with a jagged oxidized machete. You ers seed self-fulfilling prophecies, then try to hitch an upward political swing-ride on the prophecies' pratfalls.
all of you. I think abortion should be mandatory and am moderately pro immigration. I have nothing to fear. Does that make me a better american than you pompous faces now?
How you like them apples?
Bush asked for a report on possible future domestic terrorism. Obama's admin took it over and skewed it towards right wing hate.
What is so difficult to comprehend about this? I have a brother in law working in DoD and he even said this week that some liberal folks got to put the final spin on this report in the past three weeks and totally slanted it to the level you saw in the final report.
the left.
Please provide proof of this statement.
If you cannot, you are a moron.
Step up and back your bull .
Did you bother to note that, as this apparently needs to be stated once again:
THERE'S ANOTHER REPORT FOR LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS.
Did you bother to note that, as this apparently needs to be stated once again:
THERE'S ANOTHER REPORT FOR LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS.
(U//FOUO) Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade
26 January 2009
(U//FOUO) This product is one of a series of intelligence assessments published
by the DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Strategic Analysis Group
to facilitate a greater understanding of the emerging threats to the United States.
Hmm. Doesn't sound like slander to me.(U//FOUO) Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are
attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing
extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to
boost their violent capabilities.
Let's go on to keep reading, and you can point out exactly what is slanderous.
That is the entirety of what was said about veterans in this report.(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out violence.
The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
— (U) After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military veterans—including Timothy McVeigh—joined or associated with rightwing
extremist groups.
— (U) A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that “large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces.”
— (U//LES) The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have
joined extremist groups.
I have now spoon-fed your dumb ass this, because I am reasonably sure that you didn't really read it.
Now that I have given you this, you can now show me exactly what statement supports your assertion of slander.
MB seems to have accepted the journalistic gloss and ignored the source material.
The basic technique of journalism is to subs ute commentary for the sources. When bungled, journalistic coverage also subs utes its own meaning. *Truth* is the changeling of the the press in the phase of tabloidization.
That is what galls me most about the virulent right-wing posters in message boards.
I have been arguing politics on the internet for a decade, and the intellectual laziness of those on the right seems to be a very consistant theme, especially when it comes to critical thinking.
Not that the left doesn't commit that as well, but being intellectually lazy seems to be part of the very definition of being a right wing hack.
I would say intellectual laziness is typical of being a hack in general.
Underscoring your emphasis is of course the very real phenomenon of anti-intellectualism on the right. It's still au courant. Has been for a long time.
It is better understood as a pose and a style than as an ideology IMO: moral *authenticity* is well-paired with mental simplicity. As with everything, there are better and worse versions.
Last edited by Winehole23; 04-16-2009 at 05:40 AM.
o Joe the Plumber?
Sarah Palin?
Gwb?
A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
Sure. In lieu of time.
You are quite simply the cleverest of them all. A man for all seasons.
It could happen to anybody.
Some people have real lives in meatspace that take precedence.
And it does. Then again, this would be an example of the standard extremist mantra found on both ends of the ideological spectrum to 'don't trust the media.'
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Well, verify for yourself if you possibly can. But yeah, totally grano salis.
Translation:
"Why thank you, Random Guy, I can't really say how veterans were slandered by the report, because I did just accept what others told me to think about it at face value, because that is the way I roll."
No problem man, you're very welcome.
Well put.
Sure, I roll like that when it's the political circle jerk of the week. You don't take these seriously, do you?
As the thread progresses, the cookie in the middle emerges clearly.
It is an iron law of bulletin boards. There are always scapegoats.
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