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"Holocaust Centers" is definately my new favourite phrase. I can't be alone in not wanting Spicer to ever get fired am I? Its like the love child of Borat & David Brent doing the press briefing.
But alas this one is fricking huge & the outrage is at a level its hard to see him carrying on.
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"Holocaust Centers" is definately my new favourite phrase. I can't be alone in not wanting Spicer to ever get fired am I? Its like the love child of Borat & David Brent doing the press briefing.
But alas this one is fricking huge & the outrage is at a level its hard to see him carrying on.
I don't reckon he's going anywhere. He is Don's shield, he says dumb shit all the time and deflects attention away from the boss
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"Holocaust Centers" is definately my new favourite phrase. I can't be alone in not wanting Spicer to ever get fired am I? Its like the love child of Borat & David Brent doing the press briefing.
But alas this one is fricking huge & the outrage is at a level its hard to see him carrying on.
I don't reckon he's going anywhere. He is Don's shield, he says dumb shit all the time and deflects attention away from the boss
This time the dumb shit is in Jared's zone. And Jared is currently the voice being listened to.
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@No-Quarter said in Syria:
@No-Quarter said in Syria:
I don't think Spicer is a very good press secretary, but I agree with @Baron-Silas-Greenback complete non-story.
Not talking about people on here but it's interesting that the same people that threw out the name Hitler left right and centre during the election campaign are now outraged when Spicer compares Assad, an actual modern day evil dictator to him.
How much outrage has there been (legit question)? Surely it can't be as bad as the first couple of weeks post result when people's heads were almost exploding
I've seen it plastered all over MSM and social media, and no doubt the hugely original SNL writers will be furiously tapping away on their keyboards.
No doubt at all. But on here, this little oasis of sanity/echo chamber of cognitive bias it's not about outrage at all. It's about how bloody stupid is this man to go down that route and in such a mangled fashion.
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Quite amazing that "Godwin's law" and "Reductio ad Hitlerum" evolved from internet echo chambers of cognitive bias (nice @Catogrande) to mainstream US politics. Admittedly it happened with an event that seemed rather unlikely in Trump becoming POTUS - and therefore the demise of politics to internet forum levels. Probably been there for quite a while but this pretty much makes it quantifiable.
Shouldn't be surprised though. Tawanese Legislative Yuan is often entertaining:
As for Syria and Assad - comparing despots really is pointless - a turd is still a turd.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Syria:
I'm not outraged but I do think it was an incredibly stupid thing to say. Nor was it immediately obvious what he meant.
Nazi's did use nerve gas on the Eastern frontNo, actually they didnt. So basically you are just wrong, maybe that explains why you dont get his point.
The whole thing is just pathetic. So typical of the outrage culture, this is s pathetically trivial, that if people want to get outraged, it doesn't even register on my radar. A guy says that Assad did something that even Hitler didnt do to his enemies, i.e use chemical weapons.. and people go mental. It is like people cannot see context or connect dots nowadays, much easier to just rant
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As for chemical warfare in WW2 - yes Hitler didn't want it used (despite having enormous stockpiles) because of the MAD scenario.
However I'm pretty certain I've read somewhere that it was used by rogue Generals on a limited scale on the eastern front - maybe Crimea.
Wiki confirms
[quote]The Nazis did use chemical weapons in combat on several occasions along the Black Sea, notably in Sevastopol, where they used toxic smoke to force Russian resistance fighters out of caverns below the city, in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.[39] The Nazis also used asphyxiating gas in the catacombs of Odessa in November 1941, following their capture of the city, and in late May 1942 during the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea.[39] Victor Israelyan, a Soviet ambassador, reported that the latter incident was perpetrated by the Wehrmacht's Chemical Forces and organized by a special detail of SS troops with the help of a field engineer battalion. Chemical Forces General Ochsner reported to German command in June 1942 that a chemical unit had taken part in the battle.[40] After the battle in mid-May 1942, roughly 3,000 Red Army soldiers and Soviet civilians not evacuated by sea were besieged in a series of caves and tunnels in the nearby Adzhimuskai quarry. After holding out for approximately three months, "poison gas was released into the tunnels, killing all but a few score of the Soviet defenders."[41] Thousands of those killed around Adzhimushk were documented to have been killed by asphyxiation from gas.[40]
In February 1943, German troops stationed in Kuban received a telegram: "Russians should be eventually cleared out of the mountain range with gas."[42] The troops also received two wagons of toxin antidotes.[/quote] -
Interesting take from a survivor of one of Assads previous chemical attacks.
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@Rembrandt said in Syria:
Interesting. So is this saying democrats arent too fussed with chemical weapon attacks while republicans are dead against them?
It might be saying that if this was the first time democrat and republican voters had had chemical weapon attacks in Syria to react to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
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@Donsteppa said in Syria:
@Rembrandt said in Syria:
Interesting. So is this saying democrats arent too fussed with chemical weapon attacks while republicans are dead against them?
It might be saying that if this was the first time democrat and republican voters had had chemical weapon attacks in Syria to react to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
The difference is who's in the top job now
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Syria could be planning chemical attack, White House says
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Syria could be planning chemical attack, White House says
Sounds like complete b.s. Nikki Haley is a saber-rattling moron. The last alleged gas attack by Assad has been debunked by the evidence, it was almost certainly detonated by ISIS, and since Trump gave them cover last time they'll only be encouraged to do more of the same. It's Trump's blind spot and may bring him ruin.
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