Today's Random News

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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday

You can't see how yellow journalism is sculpting your opinions and values? It's not some conspiracy. News is basically advertising now, why do think it's boiled down to a binary competition like Wal-Mart vs Target, Pepsi vs Coke, Democrat vs Republican, white vs people of color?

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Never said it was a conspiracy. I'm not accusing Fiorina or anyone at the Post of being secret klan members or of intentionally inciting violence or whatever.

I shouldn't have even used to Post article. I don't have to pull from the media, I can just use the words of front running candidates and active reps and senators. If you want to make the argument that what Fiorina, Carson, Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Bush, and Rep. Peter King, and a dozen R governors have said about Muslims does not truly represent the right, well, okay, but that list isn't getting any smaller. If you want to argue what they're saying does not symptomize intensifying social biases, or that there is no growing bias, then I'd be curious to hear it.

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

Fair, but control isn't hopeless. Machine guns haven't always been illegal. They've been heavily regulated since the '30s and banned since the '60s iirc. Are "bad guys" and "outlaws" still running around with tommy guns, shredding cars with them gangland style? Don't you think Dylan Roof or Farook or any of these people would have used a more lethal gun if he could have? What happened to criminals always finding a way to get an illegal weapon here? Why isn't there a lucrative machine gun-smuggling market?

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Full auto in a reasonably carryable firearm isn't more lethal. It's less. You can't sweep a room with an M-16 and have everyone drop dead like Chuck Norris. Full auto is for supression, unless you're into missing most of your shots, depleting your ammo stores, increasing your reload time and drastically increasing your chances of malfunction. And it's even worse if you're just some untrained maniac.

And if you really really really want a full auto assault rifle, you mod a semi-auto one.

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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me

Never said it was a conspiracy. I'm not accusing Fiorina or anyone at the Post of being secret klan members or of intentionally inciting violence or whatever.

I shouldn't have even used to Post article. I don't have to pull from the media, I can just use the words of front running candidates and active reps and senators. If you want to make the argument that what Fiorina, Carson, Cruz, Trump, Rubio, Bush, and Rep. Peter King, and a dozen R governors have said about Muslims does not truly represent the right, well, okay, but that list isn't getting any smaller. If you want to argue what they're saying does not symptomize intensifying social biases, or that there is no growing bias, then I'd be curious to hear it.

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What I want to hear is Muslims denouncing the radicals. That's eerily and disappointingly silent.

Not sure if troll. Virtually every Muslim leader, country, and group denounced Paris and Hebdo. Fucking Hamas denounced them.

If you haven't seen it, you haven't looked. Breitbart or whatever sure as heck aren't going out of their way to let you know.

Here's a bunch after Hebdo:

http://www.alternet.org/media/45-exa...ox-news-missed

There's some heavy Spopadding to get to 45, but the first 25 or so are substantial.

I really want to continue this conversation. It seems we've become more antisocial this decade and it pains me. But as much as I would like us to become some gunless pacifist utopia, our behavior has to change before it can work.

Anyway, for the next thread. Now:

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Originally Posted by Type Ryan

Perhaps someone can create a mainstream news thread so mainstream news topics don't muddy-up the fun spirit of Random News. Mainstream news is NOT random.

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The Real News

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

What I want to hear is Muslims denouncing the radicals. That's eerily and disappointingly silent.

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Broh, you just grasping at straws.

What I want to hear is Muslims shredding on flaming guitars. It's like they don't even care.

Does not paying attention count as "eerily and disappointingly silent"?

http://www.newsweek.com/american-mus...hooting-400727

FFS

Not that it matters to the right wing swamp

http://mediamatters.org/research/201...-denoun/207228

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

What I want to hear is Muslims denouncing the radicals. That's eerily and disappointingly silent.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b072e9d1c26bda

I realize that's a huff post article but its not an opinion piece.