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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at mall in Munich |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016, 11:58 am
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Replies: 72
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| I noticed that these terroristic events are coming so quickly that I haven't yet processed the last ones. A sizeable group of of these 'lone wolf' types appear to be unstable/dissatisfied individuals latching onto a generic 'cause', and attempting to make up for their miserably unsucessfull lives i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at mall in Munich |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2016, 9:55 am
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Replies: 72
Views: 3,478
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| I noticed that these terroristic events are coming so quickly that I haven't yet processed the last ones. A sizeable group of of these 'lone wolf' types appear to be unstable/dissatisfied individuals latching onto a generic 'cause', and attempting to make up for their miserably unsucessfull lives i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at mall in Munich |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 8:40 pm
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Replies: 72
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Darmok wrote: Jacoby wrote: apparently it was an 18 year old 'German-Iranian', motive unclear Probably one of those radical German-Iranian Lutherans.
peace between catholics and protestants is only 18 years old, in norther ireland.
just like this attacker in munich. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at mall in Munich |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 8:30 pm
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| I live half an hour from munich. I go there to work sometimes (I work freelance) I'm relaxed, though. the biggest newspaper in southern germany reports 10 dead, including the alleged gunman, who appears to be a german of iranian descent. 14 people died in traffic accidents in bavaria this week. I'm ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trans students made to wear green bracelets |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 22 Jul 2016, 11:16 am
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Replies: 3
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| Before you are describing this as "yellow star", please remember that the US is not nazi Germany, and the bracelet is not implying: "this person is not a person at all, feel free to do as you please". Just,... Let's not overdo the nazi-comparison. It'll wear out, and we will need... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Mr Robot |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 5:40 pm
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Replies: 23
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| Watching the initial episodes of season 2, I'm finding it hard to stay engaged in the story, though. Mainly, because plot made way to character, and for some reason, people consider that great, but I'm with Aristotle here when he writes in his poetics that characters are a vehicle for plot, not the ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Michael Moore: Trump is going to win |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 3:52 pm
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Replies: 52
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| happily, the american presidency is, by design, quite weak. He won't be able to get anything done either, but this time that's a good thing. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Decisions affected by others? |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 2:09 pm
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Replies: 4
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| voted yes, with some caveats: our personality is not a solid entity. part of our personality is bodily things, like serotonin- or bloodsugar-levels. when the snickers ad says "you're not yourself when you're hungry", it's lying somewhat. The hungry self is also ourself. so is the depressed... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Being honest about Trump |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 1:55 pm
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Replies: 23
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| fascism is the the idea of eternally reenacting the past. apart from the sociopolitical symbol that is donals drumpf, I do like george friedman's (founder of stratfor) "geopolitical" view: the american president, is, by design, a weak institution. the president really has very little power... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you think identity politics are a coping mechanism? |
| shlaifu |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 4:46 pm
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| well... no. Identity is the the big theme in postmoden art, that is, art in the western world in the 20th century. It's in part a sign that your country is largely still in good shape, actually, if that's what you have time to worry about. Sure, you're out of a job and everything, but in large parts... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: North Korea launches 3 ballistic missiles |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 4:39 pm
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Replies: 4
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| I spoke to a chinese friend of mine about N.korea once, and he put it in inteesting words: it's like having a little guard dog. keep it happy, until you need it, but keep it on a leash. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 20 injured in axe attack in Wurzburg Germany |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 4:36 pm
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Replies: 22
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| I swear I was like in a movie when my friend told me it happend.. So I axed him a question: Is the attackers name Mohammed? So he replied holly cow that's a knife answer how did you know? Well, I said, Basically Mohammed is the most common name in the world, so probabillity wise it would be the bes... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Favorite and Least Favorite Movies of Your Birthyear |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 8
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1983:
Sans soleil.
definitely the most likely candidate to go down in film history.
plus return of the jedi, although that's basically only important to round off the trilogy, which, as a whole, is history, but not really in its parts... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is the Brexit the beginning of the end? |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 3:22 pm
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Replies: 16
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| https://i.sli.mg/9mGKaU.gif oh no. Turkey will rise on it's own accord, while us Germans will become a bit friendlier to russia. the US will invest heavily in Poland because of that. the rest of the EU will go do its own thing and tall into relative obscurity. oh, and the EU will keep existing, jus... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 20 injured in axe attack in Wurzburg Germany |
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Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 3:06 pm
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Replies: 22
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| sooo. a 17year old with a handpainted ISIS flag. and an axe. imagine he had had access to an assault rifle. but I'm more afraid of right-wingers retaliating against the "few" decent people among the refugees, or germany's muslim minority, and overdoing it, creating a reason for actual terr... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Pokemon Go teaches Americans the metric system |
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Posted: 17 Jul 2016, 7:31 pm
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Replies: 16
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Jacoby wrote: one maths is enough for my head
one mathS???
Really?
On a sidenote: that's 100centimathss |
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