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grantcart

(53,061 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:50 AM Apr 2013

Boston Marathon Bombers Now confirmed to be registered member of this group:

Idiots.


This group is comprised of members who are idiots and also share some characteristic of every known group of homo sapiens.

Those that populate this group that commit acts of violence are overly represented by young males between the ages of 19 and 28 (Timothy McVeigh was 28 at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing) but not particularly represented by any ethnic or religious group.

This is a PSA that you may now prepare yourself to several weeks of banal comments made by reactionary and media commentators.

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Boston Marathon Bombers Now confirmed to be registered member of this group: (Original Post) grantcart Apr 2013 OP
Tout à fait BeyondGeography Apr 2013 #1
Merci grantcart Apr 2013 #2
Smartest thing anyone has said here BeyondGeography Apr 2013 #3
Plus ça change ananda Apr 2013 #4
+1 BeyondGeography Apr 2013 #5
Post of the day. Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2013 #6
Yep marions ghost Apr 2013 #7
Hopefully... CanSocDem Apr 2013 #10
I certainly hope so marions ghost Apr 2013 #11
A question... CanSocDem Apr 2013 #12
OK marions ghost Apr 2013 #13
I knew it, I knew it davidpdx Apr 2013 #8
+1000 smirkymonkey Apr 2013 #9
Did they join the NRA? Coyotl Apr 2013 #14
No but some in the NRA are in their group grantcart Apr 2013 #15
How do you know they did not? Coyotl Apr 2013 #18
The pundits are the senior members ThoughtCriminal Apr 2013 #16
"Dogs are now barking" lol grantcart Apr 2013 #17
Idiocracy: The comedy movie that's now a documentary! Initech Apr 2013 #19

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
7. Yep
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:52 AM
Apr 2013

Kids killing kids.

This is the phenomenon we also need to address.

Idiot males. (You did say males & it does narrow the field--altho the girlfiend (girl fiend = typo) may be in the picture in this one). What is breeding narcissist pathological idiot boys of any culture? From Norway to Newtown...

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
10. Hopefully...
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:58 AM
Apr 2013

"What is breeding narcissist pathological idiot boys of any culture?"


...this, will at least be considered before the forces of retribution take over.

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CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
12. A question...
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:10 AM
Apr 2013


...that your culture dares not ask.

How, for example, do you reconcile a system so intent on 'retribution' over analysis?

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marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
13. OK
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:37 AM
Apr 2013

I take it you are Canadian? Or at least living in Canada?

OK so, good question.

Answer: I personally don't reconcile it. I am of two families (England, Scotland) who both have been here since the Americas were conquered. But I could not be more alienated from what I see going on in this country today. There may be explanations, but there is no way to reconcile it.

I don't say the "system" itself is intent on retribution. The Corporates rule, so it is they who direct it. Fear-mongering and warring profits them. They manipulate their powers of analysis for political and profiteering ends. But there is also independent analysis. So you have to research and come to your own conclusions, if you're smart. In America, you never take anybody's word for anything. Americans of many persuasions do not trust the government to be working in their best interests. We are pitted against each other like gladiators. Everything is a fight to the death, and if you win in one battle, you just have to gear up for another. It is an oppressive time. We are witnesses to a hijacking. Average Americans are good people and we could do so much better. But greed and corruption are rampant. Capitalism trumps democracy in America. The Murdoch media rules. The Koch Bros rule. Wall Street rules. The people are wrung dry.

Downtrodden people always clamor for retribution before the facts and analysis are in. That's what happens when trust breaks down. The impatience of these times don't help.

Just my quickie answer. It's very complicated.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
8. I knew it, I knew it
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:53 AM
Apr 2013

Of all the extremists, it had to be one of our own. Those pot smoking, bike riding, saddle wearing hippies!! I just thank god it wasn't the cheese and cracker people. That would have been the end of the world.

No, no, no, I have no idea what I am saying. I'm going to bed.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
19. Idiocracy: The comedy movie that's now a documentary!
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:28 PM
Apr 2013

No worries scro! Just sit back, relax, there's new episodes of Ow! My Balls and Keeping Up With The Kardashians coming up.

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