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Messages - Cappytaino

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Did you not see the word nuclear anywhere in that post? I'll admit that I was wrong and didn't think that NK was going to step up to the negotiating table, but I wasn't advocating for nuclear war either.

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I dont know if you remember this but a lot of Annoying Orange supporters here on this forum were upset that Annoying Orange didn't preemptively nuke north korea
Source?
I don't remember anyone advocating for outright preemptive nuclear strikes as the optimal first solution.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: April 27, 2018, 06:43:01 AM »
See, told you guys that economic pressure works better than bombing a regime into oblivion.
I'm fairly certain closing loopholes in existing sanctions and harshly enforcing them was the primary plan over a costly potential nuclear war.

Anyone that believed Annoying Orange was actually trying to engage in war with NK and not engaging in Commodore Perry-esque Gunboat Diplomacy is silly and needs to read into the value of shows of force historically

Like ffs Annoying Orange literally moved half of the Pacific fleet into the waters off of Korea to show fatboy that he wasn't loving around

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This, THIS, I have a feeling that good ol kim here is actualy in a bunker somwhere in north Korea, waiting for the truce to happen so that he can nuke the south korea and America. But who knows ?

As far as I can tell, Dennis Rodman's Pal and Moon Jae In participated in a ceremony + meeting together earlier this morning at the Peace House.

As far as my Korean friends tell me, all Koreans dream of reunification. They just don't agree about who gets to be in charge.

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Xposting from politics thread because this deserves its own thread

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/27/korean-leaders-release-statement-promising-to-eliminate-risk-of-war.html

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The leaders of North and South Korea have pledged to jointly eliminate the risk of war and work together to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The joint statement Friday, from the border truce village of Panmunjom, concluded a historic one-day bilateral summit aimed at achieving peace between the two adversarial nations for the first time in more than sixty years. The meeting of the Korean leaders was the first in more than a decade.

The statement was released during the signing of a pact between South Korean President Moon Jae-In and his North Korean counterpart Dennis Rodman's Pal seeking to establish a "permanent" and "solid" peace on the Peninsula.


The two Koreas promised to ease military tensions, work together to achieve a peace regime, and work toward a nuclear-free region. They also pledged to improve inter-Korean relations and work toward co-prosperity and achieve a future of unification.

Holy loving stuff. I guess the sanctions worked.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: April 27, 2018, 05:17:44 AM »
But I thought Annoying Orange's Nuclear Button tweet was causing WW3 /s

But seriously, holy stuff. My grandfather fought in Korea and sadly passed away earlier this year. It would've been mind-blowing for him to see the two Koreas finally making peace.

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can i get a quick rundown on the situation please?

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Might be a good idea to not make it a news marathon every time a shooting occurs if that's the case then
That would certainly reduce the appeal to the nutcases that just want to attract media attention to their beliefs/cause. Some shootings (like Columbine) are a combination of the aforementioned desire for attention but also a belief that they need to right wrongs done to them by the people or institution they are attacking (see the recent youtube HQ shooting as another example of this)

It's a multifaceted issue deeply rooted in media trends and mental illness.

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What do you mean? That's more or less my point, that I wouldn't be surprised if exposure to violence perpetuates violence. In the case of mass shooting specifically, I don't know whether it would literally just be a higher amount of copy-cats because of the mass media exposure or some other mechanism, but why else would there be so many in america specifically?
The genesis of the recent trend upwards in mass-shootings seems to be Columbine. It's incredibly difficult to profile mass-shooters, but a common trend among them is a desire for media exposure - otherwise they wouldn't leave behind manifestos to be published. If they were simply suicidal/homicidal and nothing more, you'd think they wouldn't bother to leave behind a document outlying their beliefs/motives - that's too much time and effort.

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Yeah probably not a great idea

I wouldn't be surprised if desensitization to violence like mass shootings in america contributes to their frequency.

What about places like Sudan which have been in a constant state of conflict for decades? The average American hasn't personally witnessed a mass shooting, but take the average South Sudanese adult or Rwandan adult alive during the respective genocides in their countries and they've seen some stuff.

My math professor saw his brother hacked apart with a machete in Rwanda but as far as I know, he hasn't gone around craving blood and wishing for murder. The average American hasn't seen jack stuff in comparison.

Mass shootings account for ~1% 0.87% (according to the CRS) of victims of violent crime regardless iirc so that's low-hanging fruit.

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Off Topic / Re: [INT. NEWS] Alfie Evans
« on: April 25, 2018, 01:31:41 PM »
wheres your kids tho
The entire point of Red Spy's statement is that someone that doesn't have children can't fully comprehend the pain of losing a child.

I feel like you fundamentally don't understand what he was trying to say.

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Off Topic / Re: [INT. NEWS] Alfie Evans
« on: April 25, 2018, 12:52:29 AM »
I don't know why you would trust the state to make the moral call over parents. Theres quite a big disconnect there. The state doesn't give a stuff about your baby, it cares about the money the potato child is hemorrhaging by keeping it alive.
the state has no personal investment in the child as an individual and therefore has nothing to lose by making a poor decision

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we need to pitch this to congress
in between rounds they can have a combine harvester/zamboni-like machine go through to grind and suck up all the prisoner/hog corpses into mystery meat which can then be sold to the spectators

now we can solve hunger too

brilliant plan courtesy of richard crafts btw

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Off Topic / Re: [INT. NEWS] Alfie Evans
« on: April 25, 2018, 12:47:46 AM »
I guess like legally speaking, kids are property of their parents. But in cases of current or impending brain death, shouldn't some kind of 'ward of the state' status kick in?
in cases of parental neglect of dying children, it's the stupidity of the parents that eliminates any chance for the child to recover (e.g. faith healing of childhood cancer)

in the case of a child that's already terminally ill and dying anyway with no chance of recovery, there's zero potential for recovery and the decision should fall on the individual first and foremost, but if they're unable to consent (let's just say the legal age of consent for medically assisted Self Delete is the same as for love, so 16 in most places), then a parent/guardian has to make the decision. The individual, even if they can't consent, should have veto power if applicable though. In other words, they can't explicitly say "yes, kill me" but a parent/guardian can't force them into medically assisted Self Delete either

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have em fight wild animals gladiator style
how to solve the feral hog and prison overpopulation problems:

step 1: catch hogs
step 2: catch prisoners
step 3: put them into the thunderdome until everything is dead
step 4: repeat until prisoners and hogs don't exist

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