Things go boom

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ah, yes.  Apologies.

The REALLY interesting part is that, while acknowledging that one's side has fruitcakes is fairly easy, when a SPECIFIC fruitcake is brought up, things suddenly get all murky.

Sort of like when a trustafarian acknowledges that he/she has privilege, but then freaks out if you name one.

No one wants to condemn their teammate.

That's the Reagan Rule:  Never publicly criticize another conservative.

Fuck that shit.  Most of the people that agree with me are RETARDED, because most people IN GENERAL are retarded.  I mean, look at me...I'm a fucking oaf that needs a hockey helmet and a backup alarm.  EVERYONE needs to be criticized, at one point or another.

And if you can't do that when it's needed, then you're just another pinkboy with a uniform.

Amen.

On an unrelated note--- what's the story behind your avatar? 

No idea.  I keep finding these things on my hard drive.  I suspect they spontaneously generate, like eels in river mud.

[Suu]

Shit like him is why Russia exists. 

I can see that the cold isn't affecting him much 

The glitter. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ah, yes.  Apologies.

The REALLY interesting part is that, while acknowledging that one's side has fruitcakes is fairly easy, when a SPECIFIC fruitcake is brought up, things suddenly get all murky.

Sort of like when a trustafarian acknowledges that he/she has privilege, but then freaks out if you name one.

No one wants to condemn their teammate.

That's the Reagan Rule:  Never publicly criticize another conservative.

Fuck that shit.  Most of the people that agree with me are RETARDED, because most people IN GENERAL are retarded.  I mean, look at me...I'm a fucking oaf that needs a hockey helmet and a backup alarm.  EVERYONE needs to be criticized, at one point or another.

And if you can't do that when it's needed, then you're just another pinkboy with a uniform.

Amen.

On an unrelated note--- what's the story behind your avatar? 

No idea.  I keep finding these things on my hard drive.  I suspect they spontaneously generate, like eels in river mud.

That's awesome!

Shit like him is why Russia exists. 

I can see that the cold isn't affecting him much 

The glitter. 

Watch that be Glittersnatch's doppelganger. Wonder where that dude is anyway.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I kind of like how the press is concentrating on the reaction of the crowd, runners, EMTS, etc.

A bunch of stories about regular joes doing the right thing in a crisis...The way everyone would like to think they'd act in a similar situation.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The guy in Revere has been cleared, incidentally.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I kind of like how the press is concentrating on the reaction of the crowd, runners, EMTS, etc.

A bunch of stories about regular joes doing the right thing in a crisis...The way everyone would like to think they'd act in a similar situation.

I don't know how I would have reacted if I were there, and I admit that. I might have ran.

The guy in Revere has been cleared, incidentally.

He was the guy who was tackled because he was Arab and trying to run away from the bomb, yeah?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I kind of like how the press is concentrating on the reaction of the crowd, runners, EMTS, etc.

A bunch of stories about regular joes doing the right thing in a crisis...The way everyone would like to think they'd act in a similar situation.

I don't know how I would have reacted if I were there, and I admit that. I might have ran.

The guy in Revere has been cleared, incidentally.

He was the guy who was tackled because he was Arab and trying to run away from the bomb, yeah?

One of them.  There may have been two.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also gonna say that this is yet more proof that eyewitness testimony is utter shit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also gonna say that this is yet more proof that eyewitness testimony is utter shit.

Yeah, definitely. Especially because there's no reason why someone wouldn't run away from an explosion. That doesn't make you suspicious, that makes you someone who values your life. Then there's the mysterious black guy wearing a black hoodie carrying a black bag. And the guy on the roof. I'm glad that the authorities are treating this cautiously, and that the Revere guy's been cleared. I can't imagine being questioned about that sort of thing is a pleasant experience.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also gonna say that this is yet more proof that eyewitness testimony is utter shit.

Yeah, definitely. Especially because there's no reason why someone wouldn't run away from an explosion. That doesn't make you suspicious, that makes you someone who values your life. Then there's the mysterious black guy wearing a black hoodie carrying a black bag. And the guy on the roof. I'm glad that the authorities are treating this cautiously, and that the Revere guy's been cleared. I can't imagine being questioned about that sort of thing is a pleasant experience.

No, I don't mean that, I mean the fact that no two people, and no two EMS departments can agree on a single fucking detail.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also gonna say that this is yet more proof that eyewitness testimony is utter shit.

Yeah, definitely. Especially because there's no reason why someone wouldn't run away from an explosion. That doesn't make you suspicious, that makes you someone who values your life. Then there's the mysterious black guy wearing a black hoodie carrying a black bag. And the guy on the roof. I'm glad that the authorities are treating this cautiously, and that the Revere guy's been cleared. I can't imagine being questioned about that sort of thing is a pleasant experience.

No, I don't mean that, I mean the fact that no two people, and no two EMS departments can agree on a single fucking detail.

Ah, I see. Yeah. Especially with something as chaotic as a bombing in a place with a lot of people.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

You know what?  Fuck this shit.

I agree with you that the phrasing US/IRA relationship is highly inaccurate, and implies guilt on the part of all Americans.

As far as a piece of paper identifying me as Irish, it does, insofar as it means that I am allowed to legally reside in Ireland with no extra paperwork. Though, I do consider Irish Americans to be a semi-distinct group, since it has evolved on its own on this continent. They are ethnically Irish, and culturally Irish, but that culture is Americanized.

Simultaneously, if a black kid is born and raised Athlone, I consider him and Irish kid of African descent. If he was born in Ireland and then raised in Moscow, then, well, it probably becomes a mouthful at this point, so let's call him Yuri McDonald. National identity is not as simple as blood or citizenship. And I think what Pix was appreciating was that I'm an American of Irish descent who gets that the Irish pride that is fairly rampant here has a lot of stupidity and half-understanding behind it, and that probably has something to do that I do have close connections with Ireland.

It doesn't matter.

Alright.

Yeah, I'm pretty much done bending over backwards to accomodate peoples' sensitivities of that sort, because when you do, they create more things to go berserk over.  You can't fucking win, you can't break even, and you can't even have a conversation about it.

Radicalization is idiocy.  Absolute fucking idiocy.  On any level.

Which, amazingly enough, returns us to the topic at hand.

I think that Pix realizes that radicalization is idiocy too, and I think that's what she was trying to get across.

I imagine that it would be fairly refreshing to an Irish Briton to hear an Irish Bostonian say that Bostonian funds going to the IRA is bullshit, especially where the Briton was directly impacted by it.

This. FYI, I've had this standpoint on private American citizens funding the IRA since before I got any sort of interest in politics beyond being a little bit socialist. 10+ fucking years. 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I actually don't give a fuck about how people identify themselves in terms of ancestry, what I give a fuck about is when those people who supposedly SHARE my origins in an ancestral sense make life harder for those closer to where they consider home.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You know what?  Fuck this shit.

I agree with you that the phrasing US/IRA relationship is highly inaccurate, and implies guilt on the part of all Americans.

As far as a piece of paper identifying me as Irish, it does, insofar as it means that I am allowed to legally reside in Ireland with no extra paperwork. Though, I do consider Irish Americans to be a semi-distinct group, since it has evolved on its own on this continent. They are ethnically Irish, and culturally Irish, but that culture is Americanized.

Simultaneously, if a black kid is born and raised Athlone, I consider him and Irish kid of African descent. If he was born in Ireland and then raised in Moscow, then, well, it probably becomes a mouthful at this point, so let's call him Yuri McDonald. National identity is not as simple as blood or citizenship. And I think what Pix was appreciating was that I'm an American of Irish descent who gets that the Irish pride that is fairly rampant here has a lot of stupidity and half-understanding behind it, and that probably has something to do that I do have close connections with Ireland.

It doesn't matter.

Alright.

Yeah, I'm pretty much done bending over backwards to accomodate peoples' sensitivities of that sort, because when you do, they create more things to go berserk over.  You can't fucking win, you can't break even, and you can't even have a conversation about it.

Radicalization is idiocy.  Absolute fucking idiocy.  On any level.

Which, amazingly enough, returns us to the topic at hand.

I think that Pix realizes that radicalization is idiocy too, and I think that's what she was trying to get across.

I imagine that it would be fairly refreshing to an Irish Briton to hear an Irish Bostonian say that Bostonian funds going to the IRA is bullshit, especially where the Briton was directly impacted by it.

This. FYI, I've had this standpoint on private American citizens funding the IRA since before I got any sort of interest in politics beyond being a little bit socialist. 10+ fucking years.

I imagine a lot of the support has dried up since 2001, and I imagine that even more of it will dry up now. It's easy not to think too much about it when it's somewhere else. I do remember my grandmother referring to Sinn Fein as rats, and that might be one of the things that set them apart from the glorified conception of Republicanism that Bostonians tend to have.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I actually don't give a fuck about how people identify themselves in terms of ancestry, what I give a fuck about is when those people who supposedly SHARE my origins in an ancestral sense make life harder for those closer to where they consider home.

In this case, Irish Americans thinking they know what's best for Ireland, disregarding how the homeland Irish and Irish Britons may feel about it.