BrotherAdso posted:

Guess the city and the year!



Detroit, 1967

VikingofRock posted:

Wow, Detroit was so much nicer back then!

BrotherAdso posted:

Guess the city and the year!



Detroit, 1967

NYT posted:

Since retiring from the Navy SEALs, Chris Kyle, whom the Pentagon has deemed as among America’s deadliest snipers, would occasionally take fellow veterans shooting as a kind of therapy to salve battlefield scars.

Mr. Kyle, 38, author of the best-selling book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” was with a struggling former soldier on just such an outing on Saturday, hoping that a day at a shooting range would bring some relief, said a friend, Travis Cox.

But the Texas authorities said Sunday that the troubled veteran turned on Mr. Kyle and a second man, Chad Littlefield, shooting and killing both before fleeing in a pickup truck.

“Chad and Chris had taken a veteran out to shoot to try to help him,” Mr. Cox said. “And they were killed.”

The police identified the gunman as Eddie Ray Routh, 25, who had served in both Iraq and Afghanistan and had suffered from mental illness. The police offered no information about a possible motive.

BUSH 2112 posted:

I wish they had done one that was like "Houston Honkies" or something like that.

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The plan to insult whites in the same way the minority students were meant to perceive Native Americans being insulted backfired on the group when the team's popularity skyrocketed. In response to customer demand, the team eventually began selling shirts under both names. The team added the phrase "Fighting the use of Native American stereotypes" to its merchandise to discourage the shirts from being worn by white supremacists, and arranged for CafePress.com to handle manufacturing and sales of the clothing.

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The team sold enough shirts that they were eventually able to endow a sizeable scholarship fund for Native American students at Northern Colorado. In 2003, the team donated $100,000 to the University of Northern Colorado's UNC Foundation, which included $79,000 designated for the "Fightin' Whites Minority Scholarship".

Lord Lambeth posted:

Republicans posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Whites

Saint Sputnik posted:

Sir John Falstaff posted:

This seems like a really poorly conceived plan from the beginning, assuming their motives were the ones attributed to them in the Wikipedia article. Of course it won't have the same impact on white people as it would on a minority population with a long history of discrimination. It's the same reason "honkie" doesn't have the same impact as the n-word.

If all they intended to was create awareness of the problem, well, mission accomplished, I guess, but arguably they risk weakening their position if white people don't get upset about it.

IAMKOREA posted:

It brings a tear to my eye to know that once in a while, justice is served.

IAMKOREA posted:

It brings a tear to my eye to know that once in a while, justice is served.

a bad enough dude posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5umvqiHVFg

Fascism's back on the menu boys.

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Cohen does not merely replace one sky with another for convenient photographic legibility. By travelling to places free from light pollution but situated on precisely the same latitude as his cities (and by pointing his camera at the same angle in each case), he obtains skies which, as the world rotates about its axis, are the very ones visible above the cities a few hours earlier or later. He shows, in other words, not a fantasy sky as it might be dreamt, but a real one as it should be seen.

This is a very powerful treatment. It is laborious in the extreme. To find places with the right degree of atmospheric clarity, Cohen has to go – always on the latitudes of our cities – into the wild places of the earth, the Atacama, the Mojave, the northern wastes of Mongolia. Who among us beyond a handful of professional astronomers would know if Cohen cut the odd corner by finding a good sky not quite so remote? But photography has always had a very tight relationship to reality. A good sky is not the right sky. And the right sky in each case has a huge emotional effect.

LP97S posted:

Low level deaths don't detract, in fact they are necessary for a war machine to continue. Cheering this is the same as clapping when the sun sets since it hides bad things.

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He did not think the job would be difficult, he wrote in his book, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.”

But two weeks into his time in Iraq, he found himself staring through his scope into the face of an unconventional enemy. A woman with a child standing close by had pulled a grenade from beneath her clothes as several Marines approached. He hesitated, he wrote, then shot.

“It was my duty to shoot, and I don’t regret it,” he wrote. “My shots saved several Americans, whose lives were clearly worth more than that woman’s twisted soul.”

Over time, his hesitation diminished and he became proficient at his job, credited with more than 150 kills. In his book, he describes shooting a fighter wielding a rocket launcher 2,100 yards away, a very long distance for a sniper and his farthest ever.

“Maybe the way I jerked the trigger to the right adjusted for the wind,” he wrote. “Maybe gravity shifted and put that bullet right where it had to be.”

“Whatever, I watched through my scope as the shot hit the Iraqi, who tumbled over the wall to the ground.”

Joementum posted:

"I'm not surprised that they came with the triangle thing, and I don't think it was in reference to high energy particle physics," he said. "I'm sure it was about the new world order."

BUSH 2112 posted:

I wish they had done one that was like "Houston Honkies" or something like that.

Joementum posted:

William Fawell, who runs the SuperPAC, accused Beyoncé of representing the rise of the military state and new world order Illuminati, because she has in the past performed with dancers dressed like policemen.

"I didn't watch it. But I think the whole thing was pretty non-controversial," Fawell said. "I didn't hear anything about storm troopers."

Fawell had not heard the Twitter-fueled arguments that Beyoncé had made a supposed Illuminati-referencing triangle sign with her hands during her performance.

"I'm not surprised that they came with the triangle thing, and I don't think it was in reference to high energy particle physics," he said. "I'm sure it was about the new world order."

Crocuta posted:

What always seems to be missing when people say that the Illuminati display their symbols everywhere, is the question why this super-powerful/secret organization would feel the need to do this. The only thing that makes sense is that conspiracy theorists believe (but do not admit believing) that the symbols function as some sort of brainwashing. What other function could they possibly serve? It's not like actual secret agents run around throwing signs showing they're members of the CIA or whatever.

Pictured: mind controlled Illuminati puppet Willow Smith

super fart shooter posted:

:itshappening: