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Kramania wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:Let me know when there's a call for Christians be deported and banned en masse from the United States with support from the President.

You throw red herrings out for fun or is it just a personal hobby?

Red herring? People are allowed to bring up how Islamic terrorism has a higher body count to dismiss domestic terrorism but not how the current administration supports banning Muslims to dismiss nonexistent anti-Christian bigotry in the United States?

San Marlindo wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:Pointing out Evangelical doctrine is now bigotry.

Hold on, I thought we were talking about Nazis?

When and why the discussion switch to evangelicals?

The Nazis are amusing clowns. The Evangelicals are the ones with executive favor.

Petrasylvania wrote:

Kramania wrote:You throw red herrings out for fun or is it just a personal hobby?

Red herring? People are allowed to bring up how Islamic terrorism has a higher body count to dismiss domestic terrorism but not how the current administration supports banning Muslims to dismiss nonexistent anti-Christian bigotry in the United States?

So let me get this straight. I criticize you for being a hypocrite and making a bigoted joke, and you spin around and make this about, what, Trump?

Yes, Gauth, that is what we call a red herring. It isn't my fault you're incapable of staying focused.

Kramania wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:Red herring? People are allowed to bring up how Islamic terrorism has a higher body count to dismiss domestic terrorism but not how the current administration supports banning Muslims to dismiss nonexistent anti-Christian bigotry in the United States?

So let me get this straight. I criticize you for being a hypocrite and making a bigoted joke, and you spin around and make this about, what, Trump?

Yes, Gauth, that is what we call a red herring. It isn't my fault you're incapable of staying focused.

The problem here is you choosing to perceive a doctrinal observation as bigoted. No different than people citing the Quran to "prove" Real Muslims have to be violent.

Petrasylvania wrote:

Kramania wrote:So let me get this straight. I criticize you for being a hypocrite and making a bigoted joke, and you spin around and make this about, what, Trump?

Yes, Gauth, that is what we call a red herring. It isn't my fault you're incapable of staying focused.

The problem here is you choosing to perceive a doctrinal observation as bigoted. No different than people citing the Quran to prove Real Muslims have to be violent.

Ah, yes, lighting up the Bat Signal to call Jesus is a doctrinal observation.

Keep going. This is fun.

Clearly you can't differentiate between an observation and a joke. Does the Bible actually say the words 'Bat Signal' or did you just insert those words in there to add a sense of mocking levity, Bill Maher-style?

Because if it's the former then I've got news for you...

Kramania wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:The problem here is you choosing to perceive a doctrinal observation as bigoted. No different than people citing the Quran to prove Real Muslims have to be violent.

Ah, yes, lighting up the Bat Signal to call Jesus is a doctrinal observation.

Keep going. This is fun.

Clearly you can't differentiate between an observation and a joke. Does the Bible actually say the words 'Bat Signal' or did you just insert those words in there to add a sense of mocking levity, Bill Maher-style?

Because if it's the former then I've got news for you...

While Gauth was being a bit rude, the "Bat signal" thing was obviously not literal. He was talking about the evangelical belief that Israel is to be supported so it can grow and become strong so that certain end-time prophecies will be fulfilled. I am an evangelical, and yes, many evangelicals in my very church hold precisely this belief.

I also think it telling that not a single person has responded to my earlier argument.

Threatening to murder journalists for political reasons
The best way to make a point

If this was McBain or Coldwater further inland and more rural/conservative, I would have not even blinked. But to think this occurred in Novi is a bit of a shock to me.

San Marlindo wrote:

RiderSyl wrote:
You're countering me using Trump's word?
Seriously?

What a great counter-argument.

Personally I was looking forward to your explaining how a Nazi voted for a candidate who was so blatantly pro-Israel.

It is my belief that Nazis are experts in self-delusion. The ones that voted for Trump surely convinced themselves that he wasn't serious about Israel.

Oh, and thanks.

How can the threat be real if their news isn't even real?

Real terrorists don't give their intended targets advanced warnings. This is just some dumb edgelord sending an empty threat because he probably thought he'd get away with it.

Grinning Dragon wrote:Why would anyone waste a good bullet on the likes of CNN anyway? I don't understand why anyone would get that worked up over a bunch of dipshits, christ if their shit show is getting you that worked up, just turn the damn thing off and go for a walk/run/ride.

Just ignore all the media and stay online instead. The networks are doomed, like the dinosaurs

Pope Joan wrote:

Grinning Dragon wrote:Why would anyone waste a good bullet on the likes of CNN anyway? I don't understand why anyone would get that worked up over a bunch of dipshits, christ if their shit show is getting you that worked up, just turn the damn thing off and go for a walk/run/ride.

Just ignore all the media and stay online instead. The networks are doomed, like the dinosaurs

Considering birds being descended from dinosaurs I got a mental picture of future media sources farming a flightless BBC for eggs.

Ifreann wrote:If you don't know that he has a mental health problem then why are you bringing it up?

*Reviews a selection of your posts in the MAGAThread*

This is a pretty fucking ironic statement coming from you.

Food for thought: Brandenberg v. Ohio

Donut section wrote:How can the threat be real if their news isn't even real?

I'm still waiting for people to prove their news is fake in a way that doesn't boil down to "they criticised Dear Leader and I don't like that".

Vassenor wrote:

Donut section wrote:How can the threat be real if their news isn't even real?

I'm still waiting for people to prove their news is fake in a way that doesn't boil down to "they criticised Dear Leader and I don't like that".

In that case I would advise you to actually look at CNN for a couple hours. They have embraced fully the 24h news cycle and the desire to be first to a news. And that means they inevitably rely on one sided reports without any real fact checking as they don't have the time to do so. Worse yet, I've often seen them literally interviewing random people on the ground via skype and calling that a report.

And that's before we get into the fact that CNN and BBC and their ilk are just the western equivalents of CCTV and Russia Today. They are propaganda networks. CNN just kind of got out of hand and went from being state propaganda to being private capitalist propaganda because you americans have a fetish for privatizing everything. No offense intended, but you do.

Vassenor wrote:

Donut section wrote:How can the threat be real if their news isn't even real?

I'm still waiting for people to prove their news is fake in a way that doesn't boil down to "they criticised Dear Leader and I don't like that".

Remember Scoopgate and the GIF debacle?

"But that's not f-"

They made something out of nothing and blew it out of proportion, it's fake news.

Purpelia wrote:

Vassenor wrote:
I'm still waiting for people to prove their news is fake in a way that doesn't boil down to "they criticised Dear Leader and I don't like that".

In that case I would advise you to actually look at CNN for a couple hours. They have embraced fully the 24h news cycle and the desire to be first to a news. And that means they inevitably rely on one sided reports without any real fact checking as they don't have the time to do so. Worse yet, I've often seen them literally interviewing random people on the ground via skype and calling that a report.

And that's before we get into the fact that CNN and BBC and their ilk are just the western equivalents of CCTV and Russia Today. They are propaganda networks. CNN just kind of got out of hand and went from being state propaganda to being private capitalist propaganda because you americans have a fetish for privatizing everything. No offense intended, but you do.

CNN never started as state news agency. It’s was private from the very beginning. The US prides it’s self on not having a state news agency

Donut section wrote:How can the threat be real if their news isn't even real?

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Empire of Narnia wrote:Real terrorists don't give their intended targets advanced warnings.

They do, actually.

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Oil exporting People wrote:

Ifreann wrote:If you don't know that he has a mental health problem then why are you bringing it up?

*Reviews a selection of your posts in the MAGAThread*

This is a pretty fucking ironic statement coming from you.

You're probably thinking of someone else.

Petrasylvania wrote:

Kennlind wrote:when radical republicans shoot up gay bars, concert-goers, drive vans into people, shoot up bridges or detonate random bombs here and there. Radical Islamism accounted for 27% of terror attacks since 9/11 (excluding 9/11), while Muslims are just 0.8% of the population. Slightly disproportionate but hey I don't want to point out the obvious.

Ah, so Republican terrorism is excusable until the body count matches Islamic terrorism.

Yeah that's exactly what I said. Glad we have intellectuals like you here to explain it for everyone. Hate to point out the obvious, but the title is "Michigander ALLEGEDLY THREATENS to gun down CNN staff"
He never gunned them down. He allegedly threatened to. Stop acting so above everyone for once in your life.

Kennlind wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:Ah, so Republican terrorism is excusable until the body count matches Islamic terrorism.

Yeah that's exactly what I said. Glad we have intellectuals like you here to explain it for everyone. Hate to point out the obvious, but the title is "Michigander ALLEGEDLY THREATENS to gun down CNN staff"
He never gunned them down. He allegedly threatened to. Stop acting so above everyone for once in your life.

So it's not terrorism until it involves deaths then? Terrorizing journalists into silence with threats of violence sure feels like textbook definition of terrorism.

Petrasylvania wrote:

Kennlind wrote:Yeah that's exactly what I said. Glad we have intellectuals like you here to explain it for everyone. Hate to point out the obvious, but the title is "Michigander ALLEGEDLY THREATENS to gun down CNN staff"
He never gunned them down. He allegedly threatened to. Stop acting so above everyone for once in your life.

So it's not terrorism until it involves deaths then? Terrorizing journalists into silence with threats of violence sure feels like textbook definition of terrorism.

CNN is more than likely rolling their eyes. They get these kinds of threats all the time.

Thermodolia wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:So it's not terrorism until it involves deaths then? Terrorizing journalists into silence with threats of violence sure feels like textbook definition of terrorism.

CNN is more than likely rolling their eyes. They get these kinds of threats all the time.

Sounds like America has a serious problem there.

Thermodolia wrote:

Petrasylvania wrote:So it's not terrorism until it involves deaths then? Terrorizing journalists into silence with threats of violence sure feels like textbook definition of terrorism.

CNN is more than likely rolling their eyes. They get these kinds of threats all the time.

There's an interesting notion. Wonder what the annual threat counts for CNN was during other Presidents' administration versus Donald "Fake News" Trump.