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this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:43 am
by callmeslick
....but, instead, a near complete rebuttal to TB/NS style approach to the world. Worth a quick watch....subtitles, even!

https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/ ... 605735649/

Re: this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:06 am
by Spidey
Yea, ISIS only wants to provide a good life for their children…what the hell are we thinking.

Let me tell you the difference between Hollywood heroes like Han & Luke and terrorists…Han & Luke didn’t kill innocent people, or use them as shields.

Re: this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:56 pm
by callmeslick
Spidey wrote:Yea, ISIS only wants to provide a good life for their children…what the hell are we thinking.
they recruit from a population with that goal, which has been frustrated by a century-plus of western meddling.
Let me tell you the difference between Hollywood heroes like Han & Luke and terrorists…Han & Luke didn’t kill innocent people, or use them as shields.
let me tell you the difference between a movie plot and real life. Han and Luke weren't real, and really oppressed,starved,subjugated,etc,etc. Astounding that a grown adult can't fathom the concept that terrorism doesn't just pop up out of blind hate, or stupid jealousies. Say what you want, some of these folks are ready to sacrifice their lives, which should inform you as to what they view their existence as worth. That can be addressed, and this woman nor I would suggest some sort of overnight change in mindsets.

Re: this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:27 pm
by vision
Spidey wrote:Han & Luke and terrorists…Han & Luke didn’t kill innocent people, or use them as shields.
Well actually...

Death Star Contractors
Endor Holocaust

Re: this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:08 pm
by Spidey
Does the difference between collateral deaths and terrorism really have to be explained?

Yes, you got me on a technicality...feel better now?

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Anyway…there are no innocents in a war, if you work in a bomb factory, you are just as guilty as the person that drops them. (yes there are actual innocents, but in a different context, but feel please free to point out those as well)

And the Ewoks knew of the danger, but helped destroy the Death Star anyway.

Re: this video isn't intended to be funny....

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:03 am
by vision
Spidey wrote:And the Ewoks knew of the danger, but helped destroy the Death Star anyway.
There is no way Ewoks understood the full implications of their helping the Rebel Alliance. From their standpoint they were fighting a religious war against foreign invaders on the ground and had no real conception of what the Death Star was, it's technology, and the dangers it posed to Endor's moon. Even if their religious tradition had an apocalypse story, they certainly didn't understand that C-3P0 would be the harbinger of their extinction.