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bigfatronssba

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What the fuck are talking about.

You can find someone polarising and still think they shouldn't have been shot.

No one is justifying anything, now if you are just going to post nonsense like this can you please refrain from talking to me as I can't be bothered with nonsense like this.

Please explain the relevance of him being "polarising" at this exact moment in time?
 

Ccfcisparks

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No, its advice.

We all have a duty to not inflame situations.

Don't start trying to look for justifications as to why an innocent young Dad was murdered
it’s not justification, but there plenty of people questioning a shooters motive.

if you can’t see divisive comments that he made could have led to this in someone’s mind then you are thick
 

bigfatronssba

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I'm only going to say one more thing on this.

If when hearing this story, your thoughts on this have been anything but absolute sympathy for his family (no little girl should have to see her Daddy get murdered), then you're an absolute fucking monster
 

David O'Day

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I'm only going to say one more thing on this.

If when hearing this story, your thoughts on this have been anything but absolute sympathy for his family (no little girl should have to see her Daddy get murdered), then you're an absolute fucking monster
thanks, no one has done otherwise but have a good day
 

Ccfcisparks

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I'm only going to say one more thing on this.

If when hearing this story, your thoughts on this have been anything but absolute sympathy for his family (no little girl should have to see her Daddy get murdered), then you're an absolute fucking monster
again no evidence of that you are clearly making it up in your head
 

Ccfcisparks

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discussion around the shooters motive will be a topic a lot of media outlets will be discussing over the next few days.

i expect ron will be having another paddy when they do
 

shmmeee

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Do we know anything about the shooter yet?
 

mmttww

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If when hearing this story, your thoughts on this have been anything but absolute sympathy for his family (no little girl should have to see her Daddy get murdered), then you're an absolute fucking monster

I've had plenty of thoughts about the shooting and what it could mean, what comes next, I'm worried.

You're saying there's an acceptable way to respond, one way of thinking is acceptable, anything else isn't.

Rhetoric like that plays a part in creating a climate within which people get killed for sharing an opinion.

a black and white, right and wrong, left and right, for and against reduction of debate to binary positions.
 

ajsccfc

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FBI confirmed in the last few minutes that they've got the person in custody now, no other details yet other than it was from the roof of an academic building 300yds away.
 

duffer

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It’s obvious that I’m arguing against the laws themselves.

It’s apparent that Duffer is happy for people to tweet ‘punch a fascist’ but not ‘punch a trans woman in the balls’. If you want to criminalise all violent speech, go ahead and do that. If you want to apply said rules only to people you disagree with, is just fundamentally wrong.

Again, you're literally making shit up. Can you read without moving your lips? Christ, school was wasted on some people.

Look again really, really carefully, and slowly and then come back and quote exactly where I've said the law should be applied differently to different people? Or where I've advocated violence against anyone? So it's not 'apparent' at all, that stuff is entirely a figment of your fevered imagination!

You've literally represented the opposite of I've what I've said, and then got all upset about it. It's utterly bizarre.

I've no problem with a reasonable debate on it, but if you're too fucking lazy to bother actually reading stuff, and are just going to make up things, that's not really going to work, is it?
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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Again, you're literally making shit up. Can you read without moving your lips? Christ, school was wasted on some people.

Look again really, really carefully, and slowly and then come back and quote exactly where I've said the law should be applied differently to different people? Or where I've advocated violence against anyone? So it's not 'apparent' at all, that stuff is entirely a figment of your fevered imagination!

You've literally represented the opposite of I've what I've said, and then got all upset about it. It's utterly bizarre.

I've no problem with a reasonable debate on it, but if you're too fucking lazy to bother actually reading stuff, and are just going to make up things, that's not really going to work, is it?
I’ll put it this way then: should someone posting ‘punch a Nazi’ be arrested? My view is absolutely not.

You’ve said Graham Linehal was justifiably arrested for saying ‘punch a trans woman in the balls’.
 

ajsccfc

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This thread suggests footage of someone on the roof and then in the replies another video apparently shows a figure running on the same roof just after the act

 

bigfatronssba

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You're saying there's an acceptable way to respond, one way of thinking is acceptable, anything else isn't.

In the immediate aftermath, yes I am saying that.

Anything other than complete condemnation of the murder, and sympathy for the family is wrong.
 

bigfatronssba

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People's thoughts are their business. You're in sketchy territory when you're telling people how they should think, feel or respond to something.
Not really
Natural human response to an innocent person being murdered should be pretty universal.
Something has gone wrong with society if it isn't
 

David O'Day

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Not really
Natural human response to an innocent person being murdered should be pretty universal.
Something has gone wrong with society if it isn't
Really, that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of humanity and is just you seeking to impose your views on other people.

As no one on here has justified anything, in fact people have been the opposite I suggest you are looking for a fight and that is pretty wrong.
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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People's thoughts are their business. You're in sketchy territory when you're telling people how they should think, feel or respond to something.
If Owen Jones was shot at a university event in cold blood, my reactions wouldn’t be any of the following:

- you can see why he was polarising [in reply to a controversial tweet]
- he had some pretty horrific views on ‘x, y and z’ things
- he was extreme/far left
- apologist for ‘x’ unpopular person

My reaction would be deeply sad because no one should be executed/murdered for their political views. Even the most despicable people on the extreme fringes.

An attack on free speech is fundamentally an attack on all of us.
 

Ccfcisparks

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If Owen Jones was shot at a university event in cold blood, my reactions wouldn’t be any of the following:

- you can see why he was polarising [in reply to a controversial tweet]
- he had some pretty horrific views on ‘x, y and z’ things
- he was extreme/far left
- apologist for ‘x’ unpopular person

My reaction would be deeply sad because no one should be executed/murdered for their political views. Even the most despicable people on the extreme fringes.

An attack on free speech is fundamentally an attack on all of us.
Who has not reacted sad?
 

bigfatronssba

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It's sh*t what's happened, but prescribing how people can and can't react to this - or to anything - is sketchy.

Not really, I'm entitled to express my opinion, and I know what is a normal reaction to a horrific murder
 

bigfatronssba

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it's certainly not going online and trying to force people on a forum to think the same as you
I actually came on here tonight because I expected it to be an oasis of sanity in an ever more crazy world.

I'm not sure it is though anymore
 

mmttww

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Not really, I'm entitled to express my opinion, and I know what is a normal reaction to a horrific murder

No, you have an opinion on what a normal reaction is. I'm sad about it for lots of reasons, but you're telling me I have to be sad in a particular way or about particular parts of it, which is a bit mad to me.
 

Ccfcisparks

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No, you have an opinion on what a normal reaction is. I'm sad about it for lots of reasons, but you're telling me I have to be sad in a particular way or about particular parts of it, which is a bit mad to me.
People were saying earlier how refreshing it was in the way people were reacting on here
 

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