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originally posted by: MALBOSIA
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: xuenchen
|:: The big difference is ::|
The American Conservative Girl wants to defend herself from an ultra-oppressive collectivist government.
The girl in the Muslim picture wants to establish an ultra-oppressive collectivist government.
originally posted by: MALBOSIA
I am sorry bit who's military is in who's country?
Gun toting bible thumpers don't want to oppress? Yeah ok...
ISIS is fighting to (successfully) establish a full Islamic State within other Muslim Nations.
ISIS are considered to be Quran thumpers yes?
Other Quran thumpers are fighting ISIS.
ISIS has killed thousands of other Muslims and local Christians.
The American Conservatives haven't killed anybody.
American Liberals do that.
I would be sorry too if I were you.
Yes American conservatives are gun toting bible thumpers as is ISIS. Both aim to oppress. We agree. Right?
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: Jamie1
Using information to prove a point is certainly one way we 'liberals' try to work with our counterparts.
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: Jamie1
Using information to prove a point is certainly one way we 'liberals' try to work with our counterparts. Influencing their 'thought' processing requires gross simplifications. Sometimes photos help transport these memes even though we await the crazier members of society to reject them offhand.
It is the problem with absolutists. I would say that 'liberals' are less absolutist, therefore saner than 'conservatives'.
You'll note that 'liberals' want to include people under their banner. (Easily discerned when we see conventions or policies.) Conservatives are relatively eager to discriminate. (Easily discerned when we see conventions or policies.)
So to compare the photos by weighing the relevant philosophies, both have nothing against killing each other.
They could try a dialog but WTH, it's easier firing bullets than to think.
Anything else I can help you with?
I'm a liberal and it's what we do.
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: NavyDoc
Killing the helpless is evil.
I think that you agree.
Terminating lives of folks who have offended your sensibilities (no matter how sensible) but who can NO LONGER harm you is murder.
These photographs are identical.
People being killed for no GOOD reason.
originally posted by: NoRulesAllowed
Since you IMPLY, without better knowing, that the woman on the right is a terrorist who doesn't want anything more than blowing up innocents or executing people for drawing a cartoon.
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: NavyDoc
I said nothing about moral equivalency, nor would I.
I said this was identical.
Helpless people being killed.
In addition, since you have now entered into my bailiwick, let me illustrate a problem you have other than forcing my words into your shoddy conceptual framework.
The Nazis (EVIL? Well, Yeah!) had the force of their Government and Allies, legally arrayed, to support these murders. Their mistaken conception promoted by THEIR MSM, was that the Jews are ENEMIES OF THE STATE. Much like conservative doctrinaires made the populations of Iraq, Syria, Libya,etc. Absolutists can ALWAYS JUSTIFY THEIR INSANITY. They assigned grievous unlawful/immoral actions against a class of people who did not participate in those actions. They then attack without any compunctions toward fairness (rationality).
When they summarily executed Nazis, shown in this picture, OUR people decided that murder of POWs was righteous. No freaking legal backing even and lots of laws/treaties against it.
If anything I understand the bastards better in the killing of harmless civilians than the murdering of POWs.
Emotions are only excuses for this immoral behavior. Cold sanctioned ambush killing of wedding parties in Somewherestan because we want to kill somebody (anybody) is not justification for doing so. Killing someone not able to attack you because you think they need a 'good' killing, is always murder.
BTW, NavyDoc, your own reasoning puts you into a perilous situation and that of those whose lives you are responsible for. Let's talk about IMmoral equivalency. As the POW/MIA co-ordinator for my state agency when I was a Service Officer, I declare you to have bogus medic ideals. Do you carry a gun when you are working the front?
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: Jamie1
Let me help because I can see that the application of reason is insufficient when you are involved.
We know nothing about the personalities other than what is expressed in the context and content of the article. There is no definition of the allegiances which vary; holy book, gun, flag.
"Fisher, a self-described “Second Amendment supporting mother of three and wife of a military combat veteran” is an amazing reminder that had she been born in a different place in the world with a different religion she would proudly be standing up for Islam and not Christianity. Fundamentalism knows no national borders. See, we aren’t so different after all – even in our extremism."
Notice that the LIBERAL viewpoint is we are not so much different. That the loonies are on both sides.
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: NavyDoc
Last time for you, NavyDoc.
In my career in the Florida Department of Veteran Affairs, I was asked to handle the delicate veterans who suffered from captivity. Since you have a determination to mock me, a guy who will not buy a German (actually dealt with our POWs reasonably) or Nipponese car (the Japanese were cruel) because of my dealings and residual feelings with POWs, go to hell.
The fact is your language is inferior, your constructions are of tissue and you think that murder isn't emotionally arousing or an issue when YOU think it's OK.
A full complement of the crazy conservative core expressed here.
originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Onslaught2996
I'll just leave this here..
originally posted by: largo
a reply to: NavyDoc
Last time for you, NavyDoc.
In my career in the Florida Department of Veteran Affairs, I was asked to handle the delicate veterans who suffered from captivity. Since you have a determination to mock me, a guy who will not buy a German (actually dealt with our POWs reasonably) or Nipponese car (the Japanese were cruel) because of my dealings and residual feelings with POWs, go to hell.
The fact is your language is inferior, your constructions are of tissue and you think that murder isn't emotionally arousing or an issue when YOU think it's OK.
A full complement of the crazy conservative core expressed here.