Shooting at new Star Wars movie

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  1. Prufrock

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    Ahh yes, the defensive ploy. So these amazing non existant posts just happened and only you saw it? I am sorry, I am much higher intelligence than a mormon. I really do love the proof that is there because there is no proof logic. Dont you have a personality test to give someone?
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    Until the names came out it had the hallmarks of:

    1) a person with autism, behavioral disorders, and a bowl haircut, because that's the kind of person the site treated.
    2) workplace violence, because we found out it was an office party for state workers, though not postal workers.

    There was nothing in the targeting to indicate ISIS.

    And then an Arab name was heard over police scanners, and confirmed and confirmed even as TV personalities talked their way all around the name they knew but could not mention. But until that time, coming on the heals of the abortion clinic shooting, liberals were running wild.
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  5. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    To be fair, TV news isn't real news, and anyone who relies on TV news for real news would be better off smashing their face in with an iron.
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  6. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Now you are just getting silly. An obscure rumor mill is your source? Do you have anything remotely mainstream to back your claim that people desperately wanted the shooters to be white?

    Also, even that article only reports that some witnesses reported them as white. So think about that for a moment. Some people, in the heat of the moment, gave a description that turned out to be inaccurate. That's fairly common. It does not translate in to other people wanting the mistake to be correct.
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    Partially true. TV news has been largely about sensationalism for years. But from time to time most of the televised news outlets do serious stories with real effort put into it.
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    I don't know about white shooters. But is is confirmed that the California shooters weren't in contact with extremists on social media, nor were they part of a terrorist cell. An important distinction from attacks like Paris. Why? Because it raises the question of why Muslims detached from terror groups nonetheless radicalise by themselves. What if their radicalisation was prompted by, for instance, increasing anti-Muslim sentiment in the US? That it had little to do with the beliefs of the likes of Daesh? That perhaps that's why they did not commit suicide as part of the attack. That's the difference between a lone gunman style attack and an organised terror plot, the latter of which is easier to detect than the former. It's the lazy narrative that lumps them all together as being the same that stops the exploration of differing motivations.
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    That one was just the first Google hit I could find. I've got plenty of other stuff to do than look for the best factually incorrect articles.

    Y'all can continue to live in your fantasy world where leftists wouldn't make such assumptions, but I know what I saw: plenty of people who pounced at what they saw as an opportunity to be the first to blame the latest massacre on angry white men. Why are you so vehemently trying to defend those idiots?
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    Ah, so you don't have time to actually prove your claim, just some limp wristed efforts to further innuendo. Got it. You may know what you saw, but since nobody else saw it, well, I guess your credibility isn't too good. As to why I might care that you are making these unproven claims? It's because I can't stand unsubstantiated bias and rampant paranoia.
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    Tuttle Listen kid, we're all in it together.

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    ^ Don't sweat it, Pru, I was impressed that you persevered, I gave up arguing against the left-wing circle-jerk/echo chamber several years ago a few years into their myopia (blindness to what WF (d)evolved to).

    They're not in a fantasy world so much as surrounded by people and pop-media (in RL) that support their biases and pre-dispositions, and while some of the WF lefties still have the faculty of critical thinking, the skill is likely atrophying through disuse.

    Argue as long as your breath or interest can last, but there is generally no (or infinitesimal) real intent to argue with any possibility of changing a mind or pov. Mostly ego bloat, and the like.
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    Wrong: you just can't stand it when it when it doesn't make leftists look good.
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    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    I don't mind that you aren't making yourself look good, still awaiting evidence that leftists were disappointed that the shooters weren't white. :waiting:
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    I will either stream or redbox it.
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    Go see it. You'll regret not seeing it on the big screen. I just finished seeing it an hour ago.
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    Better than the prequels?
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    Better than the prequels. Harrison Ford really phones it in, but the main characters are phenomenal.

    And no one got shot when I saw it, so I'd call it a win (except for like 2 dozen storm troopers, spoiler alert!)

    I'd give this a 5 out of 5 stars since I didn't get shot, nor get lightsabered on a catwalk by my son.
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    There was a shooting in TN and a high school football player gave his life shielding three girls from the bullets. Sadly, he died but that is some brave shit right there. Protecting your friends with your own body. A truly brave and selfless act.
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    :bigyawn:

    You're more likely to get killed in a car crash than in a movie theater by a gunman.
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    The movie is yet to hit here. There were no shootings in the past here in any theatre. This news seems odd to me but quite predictive as this movie does bring a crowd that's rare.

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    Sadly, public shootings are an all too common phenomenon in American culture. :(
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    Violence is an all too common phenomenon in American culture. Hell, most of our history is written in blood.
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    Seems kinda counter-intuitive and makes them look even more idiotic, since anti-Muslim sentiments (as unjustified as they generally are) are caused by those radicalised Muslims that go around and kill in the name of their religion for Allah/Yahweh/God.

    They aren't helping to solve the problem - people like them are the problem.
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    Yes but that's not exactly a high bar to reach. More like on bar with the OT and in some ways exceeded it particularly in the dialogue and acting.
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    George Lucas once said the Emperor was Nixon and the Ewoks were Viet Cong, so I'm glad to see Disney get away from such liberal nonsense.

    The Force Awakens has a story with much more resonance. It's about a black man who had been raised from birth to dutifully obey his party until one day he sees its evil with his own eyes and starts to think for himself. He flees to the Republicans while the white minions running his old party denounce him as a traitor, but with new-found courage he finds that he's not only important to the Republicans, but actually valued as an individual instead of a cog in a machine, thwarting the ambitions of the decrepit and corrupt master whose minions cower in fear.
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    Please don't spoil the names of the new Star Wars droids.
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