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You guys are 100% right. It's exactly that fact that Paddock had no motive whatsoever to do this that makes his guilt so incontrovertible! Thanks for setting me straight with your clear thinking criminology!
stickdog99 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:02 pm wrote:Here's how I read this thread.
"Whoa is America because I find it politically convenient to believe that a white millionaire shot scores of strangers for no reason. Since millionaire white males gunning down country music fans for no reason matches my own political worldview and not that of my perceived political opponents, I am ashamed to live in a nation in which some individuals can express mistrust with any of the information the FBI has released about this event!"
"Yes, exactly! I couldn't be more ashamed of people questioning official pronouncements than I am right now! It is mortifying!"
Blue wrote: People who don't believe anyone can make money on video poker obviously never go to casinos
Blue wrote: I personally know 3 people from small town nowhere who have won $250,000+ on slots
Blue wrote:. Now long term, the odds are that Paddock could not beat the house
Blue wrote:Blaming the entire event, once again, on the FBI/CIA/Your Choice would require believing in a conspiracy so incredibly vast to defy reality.
Blue » Sun Oct 22, 2017 9:41 pm wrote:^^^ Good sample, Dr. Evil.
And I do believe Mr. Rex is right. The Asylum's boundaries extend beyond Amurika. But we are the seething center of ecstatic derangement that emanates through the pipeline of Exceptionalist Culture that bleeds into societies around the world. They used to want to be here or at least be like us, then they watched us like a train wreck, now they recoil in horror except for those who became impaired themselves.
As far as Ellen, the almighty goes, if this was an earlier decade Campos would be on the Merv Griffith show or the Montel show or the David Letterman show. This isn't new. The guy is the first victim of the shooting. He's not the sheriff, it's not his job to reveal all the details of the case on any show so I don't get this intense scrutiny of a security guard whose previous job duties were escorting out drunks and cheaters.
Thanks for the Jack vids, slad.
Wombaticus Rex » Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:59 am wrote:No. You're not just having differences of opinions with people: you are at pains to make it clear they are simpering morons for disagreeing with you.
Your style is what transports it from "we're just discussing the issues" into people feeling bullied.
Perhaps being more vocal about allowing for the fact people might be simply disagreeing with you -- rather than, say, suckling from the teat of the Spectacle like a brain damaged slave who lacks the mental capacity to even understand your points, let alone engage with them to your satisfaction -- might yield different results. Different approaches often do.
I don't expect anything, just trying to be constructive.
You've transformed this thread into a referendum on you. That's not self-defense, just self-involvement. It's also a compelling case for the "American Asylum" being a much broader problem.
MacCruiskeen » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:50 am wrote:Blue » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:32 pm wrote:Just wanted to put this out there to our RI friends outside the US.
It's a very difficult place to live here in the USA since Trump became the "leader." I would guesstimate that about 80% of the population went batshit nuts when it was announced Trump became President. Both nuts for and nuts against. The other 20% are just fucking trying to survive.
Fake News PizzaGate which has morphed into Fake News VegasGate is another example of the sick, twisted hoaxes being perpetrated upon the beat down American citizenry.
It's sad to see the amount of bullshit that is posted here and the continued support of members who post the bs who make egregious attacks on other members.
It's 25 degrees above normal in parts of the US so maybe Summer Madness will never end....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_1etTOVO1E
Easy for you to say, as a mere spectator of that thread. Precisely what is bullshit there? State why it you think is bullshit, and provide evidence in support of your arguments.
PS "PizzaGate" has precisely nothing to do with the massacre in Las Vegas. To claim that it does is bullshit.
Heaven Swan » Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:24 pm wrote:Blue » Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:32 pm wrote:Just wanted to put this out there to our RI friends outside the US.
It's a very difficult place to live here in the USA since Trump became the "leader." I would guesstimate that about 80% of the population went batshit nuts when it was announced Trump became President. Both nuts for and nuts against. The other 20% are just fucking trying to survive.
Fake News PizzaGate which has morphed into Fake News VegasGate is another example of the sick, twisted hoaxes being perpetrated upon the beat down American citizenry.
It's sad to see the amount of bullshit that is posted here and the continued support of members who post the bs who make egregious attacks on other members.
It's 25 degrees above normal in parts of the US so maybe Summer Madness will never end....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_1etTOVO1E
I agree Blue. The Las Vegas you tube stuff and even our thread on it are a disgrace, MRAs and far-right wingers, and walking combinations of the two have seized onto the conspiracy narrative and are flooding the internet with half-baked BS. There used to be more careful analysis here at RI...or maybe I was greener and more easily hoodwinked.
I know that secret societies, Gladio type operations and MK Ultra are real but if I hadn't done the time-consuming research I have, and had just read the stuff on Las Vegas I might dismiss conspiracy, (or 'deep state') theories as a bunch of ranting by lunatics.
I was in Europe for a month and a half and being away from the US madness for a while saved my sanity. I could maybe move to Europe but I'm not only interested in an individual solution (and besides, Europe is highly influenced by the US so there's no real escape).
I'd love to discuss this stuff calmly, rationally and intelligently, along with brainstorming of ideas about what to do about the deep state conspiracies, but I agree that in the political insane asylum atmosphere both in and outside of RI that level of discourse seems unattainable.
That's not to say that I'm not grateful for SLAD, Project Willow and quite a few others who post valuable information that might be hard for me to find on my own.
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