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    oikawa

    > When are people going to get with the times and realize that being gay is not a fashion statement, but simply the way a person is,

    If you really want to believe this statement, that's fine. Just know that it is based only in sentiment, not science.

    I have no idea why my previous post was removed, containing nothing malicious. I can't let this statement pass. "Being gay is not a fashion statement" is not based on science?? So scientists think being gay is a fashion statement?? Please point me to a link!

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    SuperLib

    I'm not sure what you're trying to say tbh. I'm not trying to deny that what they said might be wrong, but you're not stating what the alternative might be. That's what I want to hear.

    You seem to be agreeing that what they said might be their personal reality, but not actually true. Fair enough, but what is the truth then? If perceived western action towards Islamic countries and people is not the actual reason for all the Islamic attacks on Western targets that have been occurring around the world for the last 20 years or so, then what is the actual motivation for it?

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    SuperLib

    I still think you need to look up what insanity is. Killing people in however barbaric a way does not, unfortunately, necessarily imply insanity. If they did this for the reasons they claim they are based on reality whether or not you agree with the conclusions they came to. The Son of Sam was experiencing auditory hallucinations. It was not REAL. That's a pretty massive fundamental difference between the two situations. They're incomparable.

    My world view has nothing to do with it and not what's at stake here. I'm just taking them at their word. You seem to have stopped denying they may actually have thought what they said but have taken it back a step and said the Imans are there everyday preaching hatred and trying to radicalize young men to kill innocents but I have to ask for the 4th time in total, if not for the reasons they claimed in the video, then what? Why are the Imans preaching hatred? What are their reasons and motivations for this and other attacks if not for the commonly spoken grievance of western occupation and killing in the Middle East and Muslim countries, whether that justifies them or not?

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    SuperLib

    You don't seem to understand what insanity is. If you think they committed this horrendous act for some other reason then please tell us why they really did it.

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    SuperLib

    I wasn't referring to what you'd said but thank you for your reply anyway. I think your argument is fallacious though. It's a strawman argument. Just because they might not have been typical Muslims in that of course not all Muslims go out beheading westerners doesn't mean their underlying rationale for their actions couldn't be shared by a certain number of other Muslims and be the direct inspiration for their actions here. Many Muslims might also feel to whatever extent that the west shouldn't be in Muslim countries but that doesn't necessarily make them have to go out beheading people. The fact could still remain though that that was the reason in this case for the murder. Whether that is the case or not is one matter, and it's quite another to say that that can't be the reason purely because you think they are madmen.

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    WilliB

    Sorry it may not have been clear with all the posts but at 3:17 you replied to kurisupsu that "that's what the Islamist narrative is" so I think it's you that's double guessing them. That's why I said "like you said to zichi, do you purport to know the killer's reasons?" I think what kurispusu said is just the same as what the killer's said.

    Again, what do you think their motivations were if not for what they stated themselves?

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    WilliB

    It doesn't matter what we believe, that's what one of the killers said the reason was. Like you were saying to zichi, do you purport to know more than the killer himself?

    And if that wasn't the reason what exactly do you think the motivations for this act were?

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    Probie

    Yes, I basically agree, but communicating would be a lot more potentially useful than nothing at all. It doesn't matter if anyone gives them aid or not, they'll get supplies somehow from somewhere and feed their army and claim whatever they do to ordinary citizens, but at least if there was political communication more and more channels could be opened for subversion. The more and more communication there is the harder it is to keep things out, e.g having more westerners working in the country would show ordinary people that westerners are not the infidel and if that message spread and spread it would be harder for the regime to keep lying.

    Like we've said, If the US is really serious about NK being such a threat I don't see why they don't just invade now.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    Yubaru

    True, and how much is revenge and how much is terrorism can vary wildly, but this seems a much more focused attack on someone who could literally be fighting in the war than the WTC attacks which were on civilians innocent of any bloodshed but merely represented "the West", which is why they were seen almost purely as terrorist attacks.

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    Probie

    If Japan try to bargain with them to get back the people who were kidnapped, NK are going to ask for something in return.

    Why does that disturb you? What's bad about that? Isolation clearly hasn't worked, and was never going to with an insular regime that cares not a job about it's people. The only way forward is communication, the spread of which could much more easily be used to spread dissent from within North Korea than by isolating them and giving them an easy out to use in propaganda against the west. If that doesn't work and NK is really such a threat by having nuclear missiles then there is no option but to go in like in Iraq.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    Yubaru

    Quite easily. As I said terrorism is the use of terror to intimidate others or further certain ends above and beyond the act itself. The attack on the WTC was a threat to the US to remove soldiers from Saudi Arabia, and warn the general population, not only an intention to kill 3000 people. Here I see it just as "you kill us, we kill you", just as in war. That's why they attacked a soldier. That is of course assuming what the killers said was true but we don't know anything about their background as of now.

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    oikawa

    Whatever the background, it was not a "terrorist" attack. That would be an attack to use fear to further some ends. This was a revenge attack, pure and simple, just like in war. Who exactly is fighting who is not clear though. Muslims/Christians/Westerners/Africans/Middle Easterns.. who exactly is on which side?

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    jojon922

    Exactly. It's amazing how "talking" can be such a bad thing. So many supposed developed countries seem to know nothing about human and countries' behaviour.

    Posted in: Japan considers talks with N Korea, surprising allies

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    oikawa

    Yeah I don't get it either. He'd just got into the side 2 months in but was then injured for 3 months or so, but apart from a couple of players no-one is going to come back in automatically at Man U after being injured so practically it added another month to get back into the side. He was effectively out for almost half the season. Considering that I think he did very well appearance wise, let alone performance wise.

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    oikawa

    This is getting more and more hilarious everyday!

    Please oh please keep tweeting Mr Hashimoto! You have nothing to fear but yourself.

    Posted in: Ishihara advises Hashimoto to stop tweeting

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    oikawa

    What was going on over to the right? They've got some happy leers on their faces!

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    oikawa

    Huh? It was a primary school, not a kindergarten.

    Posted in: Man shoots himself dead in front of children at primary school in Paris

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    Cos

    It's not my theory, there are lots of studies you can easily google showing prospective interviewers were prejudiced against certain names because of what they read into them as you seem to say yourself, although you contradict yourself by saying people would still meet candidates in that experiment irrespective of their name, yet these kids would have as much chance if their name was Kim Horishi etc, and talking about gender and religious discrimination. Are you saying there was discrimination or not? It's common sense anyway, anything outside the mainstream for a mainstream job will be discriminated, probably against.

    Posted in: What do you think about parents who give their children names like Pikachu, Bakudan (bomb), Messiah and so on?

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    oikawa

    Thunderbird 2,

    probably much better than those you mention! But at least those kids had very rich parents and grew up in circles where weirdness was not just accepted but positively welcomed and encouraged, as opposed to these kids who probably won't have too many problems with their friends but will never know if they got turned down for that job interview just because they were called Pikachu.

    Posted in: What do you think about parents who give their children names like Pikachu, Bakudan (bomb), Messiah and so on?

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    oikawa

    I think they're most likely morons.

    Posted in: What do you think about parents who give their children names like Pikachu, Bakudan (bomb), Messiah and so on?

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