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Rebound59 said:
Regarding the PATRIOT Act, it's the reason I won't visit the US. You're the law-talking guy so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it allows you to be disappeared if you aren't a US citizen. I don't have any reason to expect to be disappeared, but I tend to avoid countries than can legally do it. I mean if you can, why not?
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As much as I dislike the Patriot Act and the behavior of our federal level of government, that's an irrational concern. But hey, I won't be going to Dubai where they toss you in jail for having alcohol in your system. Life's full of choices.
 
Watched the first episode of ''A Handmaid's Tale.'' Pretty good.

@Devout Pessimist watching it would be all ''I really don't see what the problem is, they're just avoiding degeneracy.''
 
I pay such little attention to Donald Trump and am so wrapped up in my third party world that I just realized today that maga is an acronym for make America great again. I thought it some conspiracy term or something.
 
Rebound59 said:
If your point is that complaints about paying Omar Kadr a settlement are misplaced, I agree. If your point is that shitty things can only happen to you if you sound "A-rab" then not so much.
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It's not so much just a matter of shitty things only happening if you sound Arab, but the fact that extraordinary rendition was entirely focused on the War on Terror (every current known case of extrajudicial imprisonment) and that Muslims use a relatively small pool of names.
It lead to multiple cases of mistaken identity, incarceration without legal recourse, and torture, by a nation that supposedly champions individual rights. The CIA watchdog hasn't released their report on these "erroneous renditions".
Historically of course there's plenty of other groups that have been targeted, but no comparable records of the US detaining and torturing people, including innocents, on such a scale.
 
Heard any news lately on the Vegas shooting @Lowmanproblems ?

It's been out of sight out of mind for me for quite a while now.. which, unfortunately in my paranoid mind, is exactly how this was intended to go :(
 
Ruprecht said:
Hopefully you don't have a Muslim name, in which case there's relatively little chance that'll you join the ranks of individuals who were mistakenly abducted and sent to Egypt as part of the extraordinary rendition program.
Where they'll use "enhanced interrogation" techniques such as suspending you from the ceiling and shocking your genitals with illegally modified electro-shock batons to extract information from you that you don't have.
Occasionally a fatal process.
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And some people wonder why I'm skeptical of every official story :confused:

The truth really is stranger than fiction..
 
Gregolian said:
This song and One are my two favorite Metallica songs even though Fade to Black and Sandman get all the play time.
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All great stuff. This right here though I find tough to beat. So crunchy.





Which then always makes me want to play this next.


 
Ruprecht said:
It's not so much just a matter of shitty things only happening if you sound Arab, but the fact that extraordinary rendition was entirely focused on the War on Terror (every current known case of extrajudicial imprisonment) and that Muslims use a relatively small pool of names.
It lead to multiple cases of mistaken identity, incarceration without legal recourse, and torture, by a nation that supposedly champions individual rights. The CIA watchdog hasn't released their report on these "erroneous renditions".
Historically of course there's plenty of other groups that have been targeted, but no comparable records of the US detaining and torturing people, including innocents, on such a scale.
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And by the way, not Muslim-sounding, but 100% Black Irish, and that's enough, thanks very much. The Troubles and all that, dontcha know. Tell ya what, if i do go to that part shithole, part amazing place, I'm bringing a burner phone and not my usual one, that's for fucking sure.
 
Rebound59 said:
And by the way, not Muslim-sounding, but 100% Black Irish, and that's enough, thanks very much. The Troubles and all that, dontcha know. Tell ya what, if i do go to that part shithole, part amazing place, I'm bringing a burner phone and not my usual one, that's for fucking sure.
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Black/irish?

So muslim looking?
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Cubo de Sangre said:
All great stuff. This right here though I find tough to beat. So crunchy.





Which then always makes me want to play this next.


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I'll be honest, a lot of my love for One or a big reason I started re-listening to Metallica is the way they used it in the Punisher trailers.
 
TeTe said:
I pay such little attention to Donald Trump and am so wrapped up in my third party world that I just realized today that maga is an acronym for make America great again. I thought it some conspiracy term or something.
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sniper said:
Heard any news lately on the Vegas shooting @Lowmanproblems ?

It's been out of sight out of mind for me for quite a while now.. which, unfortunately in my paranoid mind, is exactly how this was intended to go :(
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They officially closed the case at the start of Aug. There wasn't very much that changed from the information they were forced to release around march and April. If the official story from around that time didn't convince a person, then they probably won't ever get the hard proof they are hoping for. They never found a real motivation for the shooting.
 
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