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• On the post: The James Foley Beheading Video And How Americans Conceptualize Their Enemies

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 07:20am

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  "There's only one emotion of that list I find acceptable to allow anyone to watch the video and it's neither "wince" nor "cringe"."
  I am sorry, but "wince" or "cringe" would probably be my reactions, not "cry".
  It's not due to lack of empathy. It's just not a typical reaction for me. Different people express their emotions in different ways.
  Your judgment seems a bit harsh.

• On the post: The James Foley Beheading Video And How Americans Conceptualize Their Enemies

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 07:42am

  I find it alarming how often words like "honor" and "cowards" are thrown around in the comments here. I had hoped those concepts had lost their acceptance in the public mind, but it doesn't seem like it.
  
  As if honor was somehow a commendable value! As if it even was somehow well defined instead of something that often has been used to drive people to do insane and crazy things.
  It's exactly what those insane terrorists are using to further their agenda. It's as useless as a basis for your morals as justice. You can define it in almost any way you want and any discussion based on how honorable something is is bound to devolve into group-think or a fight.
  
  In the same way "cowardice" is used as a way to silence your opponents. "Oooh, look, the terrorists hide, what cowards!"
  Yeah, sure. I can see the people writing this, sitting at home, feeling so much better than those terrorists "hiding". If you were hunted, you'd hide, too. And it's what I would expect of you.
  If they didn't hide, they wouldn't exist anymore. What does it help anyone to call them cowards? How does it make their actions less threatening, how does it help the people who are hunting for them, how would not being cowards make them better persons in any way?
  
  I just don't get this mindset. It's like I'm back in the fucking middle ages here - only with Internet, of course.

• On the post: LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up And Do What Cops Tell Them To

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 01:26pm

  Re: Re: Re: He isn't the only one saying this

  "People who take advantage of a tragedy to loot and pillage should be met by the wrong end of bullet."
  
  I thought the police was an organization that should replace and prevent lynch mob mentality instead of institutionalizing it?
  
  The death penalty for looting and pillaging seems beyond excessive to me. What's wrong with you?

• On the post: LAPD Officer Says Tragedies Could Be Prevented If Citizens Would Just Shut Up And Do What Cops Tell Them To

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 01:16pm

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  Those are fucked up.
  What kind of person does one need to be to do this kind of stuff?

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 12:07pm

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  Look to the Ukraine. Look to Egypt. Look to any other country with major uprisings and revolutions lately.
  I'm not very optimistic that it would turn out any better in America, of all places - and even more so if gun nuts are the ones that start the revolution in the first place because in the Ukraine it's bad enough when the gun nuts took over later.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 10:15am

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  "Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt."
  Interesting that "nonlethal" is in parentheses here.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 07:07am

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  Oops, sorry. The formatting with the green bar made me think this was a reply to my post.

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 07:06am

  Re: Re:

  Did I say anything to the contrary?

• On the post: Police In Ferguson Sign Court Agreement Promising Not To Interfere With Media… Then Go Threaten And Arrest Media

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 06:39am

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  Yeah, that sounds likely.
  Although personally I think that this would more turn into a kind of civil war. Because that's what normally happens in most other countries when armed police confronts armed civilians.
  But then again America is special.

• On the post: Economists Don't Understand The Information Age, So Their Claims About Today's Economy Are A Joke

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 05:51am

  Re: Re: GDP vs LOC

  I think that is kind of the point.

• On the post: Police Militarization Escalates Even As Violence Declines — And There's A Good Chance It's Going To Get Worse

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2014 @ 03:18pm

  Re: Re: Okay, wait, let me follow this logic...

  Germany is a mostly gun free zone. Seems there are less mass shootings here then over where you are.

• On the post: Copyright Office Rejected My Attempt To Copyright A Tweet

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 04:25am

  Re: Re: Here's why you failed...

  That falls under "lobbying fees"

• On the post: Copyright Office Rejected My Attempt To Copyright A Tweet

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 04:20am

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  Yeah, because using fallacies to feel superior to other snobs is so cool

• On the post: New York Guest House Burns Own Reputation To The Ground By Trying To Charge Customers $500 For Bad Reviews

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2014 @ 03:02am

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  I am pretty sure in Germany this part of the policy wouldn't be valid. At least here you can't just write everything you want into a policy and I guess it won't be much different in the USA.

• On the post: Cop Shoots Teen Holding Wii Controller In His Own Home

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2014 @ 12:51pm

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  I guess that this goes for most people. Trivializing the issue won't help your cause in any way.

• On the post: US Military Looking To Trademark Everything

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 05:20am

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  Well, I'd say that patriotism is normally unhealthy and would surely count being proud of your military as unhealthy, but I guess that's an unpopular stance around here.

• On the post: GCHQ Has Entire Program For 'Dirty Tricks' Including Honeypots, Using Journalists, Deleting Online Accounts

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2014 @ 01:45am

  Re: Criminals, criminals, everywhere.

  I think you've got some messed up ethics.

• On the post: Ruling In Favor Of NSA's Program Relied On Claims In 9/11 Report That Aren't Actually In That Report

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 02:56am

  Math

  I'm not sure whether this applies to the USA as well, but here in Germany law students aren't required to do math at all. Of course you then get horrible stuff like this.

• On the post: The US Government Today Has More Data On The Average American Than The Stasi Did On East Germans

  

  Antsan ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2012 @ 03:10am

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  That's funny, because the GDR collapsed only 23 years ago. The Stasi also knew where you worked (was even more a given in the GDR as you were basically employed by the government) and all the related data, and basically anything you mentioned here.