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QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 09:14 AM)
There's always going to be conspiracy theorists that think everything is fake. There are people that think Colombine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, 9/11, the JFK shooting and Elvis' death were fake too.

 

 

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 27, 2015 -> 09:16 AM)
The internet has really enabled a lot of people with no deductive reasoning skills what-so-ever to get to a whole lot of information they would be way better off without, and makes them think they are WAY smarter then the actually are.

 

Exactly what I told him. Thinks he's smarter than he actually is. One reason everyone hated him on my baseball team lol.

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 12:03 PM)
Wait, so banning a flag because one shooter identified with the flag is a bad idea?

Using an act of white supremacist terrorism to get a symbol of white supremacist terrorism taken down from the state capitol is a good idea.

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Using an act of white supremacist terrorism to get a symbol of white supremacist terrorism taken down from the state capitol is a good idea.

 

But if it's a hate crime against straight white people then that's OK. That kind of hate is allowed.

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After the shooting Wednesday, Flanagan sent a disjointed 23-page fax to ABC News chronicling, what be perceived as, grievances dating all the way back to first grade. He said he had been targeted his whole life by white females and black males. He cited seemingly innocuous comments as discriminatory, such as "an intern asking where I would 'swing by' for lunch."

 

"The average person would not perceive those everyday comments as insulting or injustices," said Mary Ellen O'Toole, a former FBI profiler. "But clearly, he does. His belief system is so rigid that there'd be no way you'd get through to him. No way."

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/us/virginia-...dams/index.html

 

Boy, a sense of entitlement and a perception that everything said to him was racist/discriminatory. Where oh where did he get those crazy ideas???

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I dunno, ask the people whining about how unfair it is that people don't want the government proudly flying symbols of white supremacy and think they're comparable to symbols of gay pride. They seem like the type that's constantly aggrieved by something.

 

Both flags are used as symbols of pride in a certain status/heritage by some and hatred of those who aren't a part of that status/heritage by others.

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 01:08 PM)
Both flags are used as symbols of pride in a certain status/heritage by some

 

Yes, in one case, it's pride of a history of explicit white supremacy. The other is pride in being gay, but not superiority.

 

and hatred of those who aren't a part of that status/heritage by others.

 

I, too, remember the Second Civil War when the Gay Army of Virginia flew the rainbow flag with great pride as they fought to enslave all breeder scum and when they brought that same symbol back in force when the Straight Rights Movement started making some ground.

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Yes, in one case, it's pride of a history of explicit white supremacy. The other is pride in being gay, but not superiority.

 

For most, it's a pride of regional affiliation that has nothing to do with history.

 

I, too, remember the Second Civil War when the Gay Army of Virginia flew the rainbow flag with great pride as they fought to enslave all breeder scum and when they brought that same symbol back in force when the Straight Rights Movement started making some ground.

 

The shooter WAS from Virginia and he did claim two victims yesterday. Haven't seen the Straight Rights Movement making up any ground yet though. Not as long as the oppressive rainbow flag continues to fly.

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H squared... you're grasping or trolling. I can't really tell but comparing the confederate flag and rainbow flag as synonymous is disingenuous at best.

 

Yes, they're totally different. One is politically correct and the other isn't.

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Given the trail of extremely strange behaviors this guy has apparently left behind throughout his entire life, it's really kind of shocking he made it this far without some kind of intervention or something else remarkable happening before he was able to do this. It is sad that it is not difficult for this sort of person to buy a gun and go kill people with it. These are the costs of the freedoms we refuse to live without

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QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 10:40 PM)
These are the costs of the freedoms we refuse to live without

We have to hope we're never in the wrong place at the wrong time. So many people are getting killed/ambushed by cowards.

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Sigh. One has a history and the other was just stolen to represent their cause recently.

 

The "other" is quickly developing a history. The number of "friends" who have harassed me and degraded me for NOT superimposing a rainbow over my Facebook profile pic has grown so high I stopped counting. I don't change my FB photo for ANY cause, but somehow I'm an asshole because I won't change it for their favorite cause. I have an aunt who proclaimed that she was defriending anybody on FB who didn't have a rainbow in their profile pic, changing her mind only when her son refused to do it and she decided she didn't want to miss out on pictures of her grandkids.

 

Now a guy has killed two people after going on a racist heterophobic rant.

 

 

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 31, 2015 -> 08:10 AM)
The "other" is quickly developing a history. The number of "friends" who have harassed me and degraded me for NOT superimposing a rainbow over my Facebook profile pic has grown so high I stopped counting. I don't change my FB photo for ANY cause, but somehow I'm an asshole because I won't change it for their favorite cause. I have an aunt who proclaimed that she was defriending anybody on FB who didn't have a rainbow in their profile pic, changing her mind only when her son refused to do it and she decided she didn't want to miss out on pictures of her grandkids.

 

Now a guy has killed two people after going on a racist heterophobic rant.

 

You need new friends.

 

 

As far as the two flags go, I believe that neither should be flown in front of a state capital. Other than that, people should be able to fly/display them as they please.

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 31, 2015 -> 08:10 AM)
The "other" is quickly developing a history. The number of "friends" who have harassed me and degraded me for NOT superimposing a rainbow over my Facebook profile pic has grown so high I stopped counting. I don't change my FB photo for ANY cause, but somehow I'm an asshole because I won't change it for their favorite cause. I have an aunt who proclaimed that she was defriending anybody on FB who didn't have a rainbow in their profile pic, changing her mind only when her son refused to do it and she decided she didn't want to miss out on pictures of her grandkids.

 

Now a guy has killed two people after going on a racist heterophobic rant.

 

You've got to be kidding me. It sounds like you associate with extremely irrational people.

 

I agree you can fly whatever flag you want as that is your freedom but the only flags that should fly at a capitol building is the American flag.

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