"Democracy" derail from "My new toy" thread...

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Post by Seth » Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:03 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
Blind groper wrote:Coito

The number of casualties is not a measure of whether a war is 'won' or not.
Iraq is a war that changed. Total casualties over a million, since most casualties were Iraqi. The war is still going on in the form of urban guerilla actions. The 'enemy' is now a government seen to be carrying out the will of the USA.
That is nowhere close to the truth. First, well over a million Iraqi casualties? Not substantiated. Any such figure includes Iraqis dying of traffic accidents during the war, etc.
More importantly it includes Iraqi fratricide, meaning the inclusion of Iraqis killed by other Iraqis in terror bombings, kidnappings and murders, which comprise the vast majority of civilian casualties in Iraq.
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Re: "Democracy" derail from "My new toy" thread...

Post by Pappa » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:11 pm

Seth wrote:
MrJonno wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:I'm not all that phased by Seth's attacks. I have a crack at him now and then, and he has a crack now and then too.
I havent even got a warning for calling him a murderous psychopath where shooting up the nearest school (or marxist indoctrination camps) is just a matter of time.

Even psychopaths should have (non-natural but a product of society they live in) rights
Are you the one who "referred" me to the FBI?

For everyone's edification, someone in the group did exactly that, and I found (and deleted) an FBI tracking cookie on one of my computers.

Fucking coward, whoever it was.
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Post by Kristie » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:13 pm

Pappa wrote:
Seth wrote:
MrJonno wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:I'm not all that phased by Seth's attacks. I have a crack at him now and then, and he has a crack now and then too.
I havent even got a warning for calling him a murderous psychopath where shooting up the nearest school (or marxist indoctrination camps) is just a matter of time.

Even psychopaths should have (non-natural but a product of society they live in) rights
Are you the one who "referred" me to the FBI?

For everyone's edification, someone in the group did exactly that, and I found (and deleted) an FBI tracking cookie on one of my computers.

Fucking coward, whoever it was.
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Post by MrJonno » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:14 pm

Seth wrote:
MrJonno wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:I'm not all that phased by Seth's attacks. I have a crack at him now and then, and he has a crack now and then too.
I havent even got a warning for calling him a murderous psychopath where shooting up the nearest school (or marxist indoctrination camps) is just a matter of time.

Even psychopaths should have (non-natural but a product of society they live in) rights
Are you the one who "referred" me to the FBI?

For everyone's edification, someone in the group did exactly that, and I found (and deleted) an FBI tracking cookie on one of my computers.

Fucking coward, whoever it was.

No but if I had been American I would have done so, as you are a good few thousand miles away you are someone elses problem

FBI tracking cookie sounds a bit amateurish to me and strangely enough a quick google takes me to lots of somewhat scary psychopath websites, which if the FBI arent monitoring should be
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Re: "Democracy" derail from "My new toy" thread...

Post by JimC » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:17 pm

The ghost of J Edgar Hoover is haunting Seth...

In a rather fetching little dress...
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Post by MrJonno » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:27 pm

JimC wrote:The ghost of J Edgar Hoover is haunting Seth...

In a rather fetching little dress...

Nah just spy satellites watching his every move,
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:54 am

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FBM wrote:Seth, this is a warning that this post contains attacks on another member. Be aware that another such post could result in a suspension. Also be aware that due to the fact that you have a long history of such personal attacks, staff will no longer issue you a reminder but proceed directly to a warning.
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I'll start to care when you bother to treat everyone else the same as you treat me. Until then your authoritarianism is just rank hypocrisy.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:56 am

Seth wrote:
MrJonno wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:I'm not all that phased by Seth's attacks. I have a crack at him now and then, and he has a crack now and then too.
I havent even got a warning for calling him a murderous psychopath where shooting up the nearest school (or marxist indoctrination camps) is just a matter of time.

Even psychopaths should have (non-natural but a product of society they live in) rights
Are you the one who "referred" me to the FBI?

For everyone's edification, someone in the group did exactly that, and I found (and deleted) an FBI tracking cookie on one of my computers.

Fucking coward, whoever it was.
:lol: That's pretty funny!

How do you know it was someone from within the group? You've said some flat out seditious things on RD.net and ratskep. I'd be pretty sure they'd be keeping an eye via google searches on certain phrases and words. You've only got yourself to blame.
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Re: "Democracy" derail from "My new toy" thread...

Post by Gallstones » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:21 am

rEvolutionist wrote:
Seth wrote:
FBM wrote:Seth, this is a warning that this post contains attacks on another member. Be aware that another such post could result in a suspension. Also be aware that due to the fact that you have a long history of such personal attacks, staff will no longer issue you a reminder but proceed directly to a warning.
:airwank:

I'll start to care when you bother to treat everyone else the same as you treat me. Until then your authoritarianism is just rank hypocrisy.
What do you care? You claim you are a troll. Why should anyone care about a troll? :ask:
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Post by Woodbutcher » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:40 am

Gallstones wrote:
rEvolutionist wrote:
Seth wrote:
FBM wrote:Seth, this is a warning that this post contains attacks on another member. Be aware that another such post could result in a suspension. Also be aware that due to the fact that you have a long history of such personal attacks, staff will no longer issue you a reminder but proceed directly to a warning.
:airwank:

I'll start to care when you bother to treat everyone else the same as you treat me. Until then your authoritarianism is just rank hypocrisy.
What do you care? You claim you are a troll. Why should anyone care about a troll? :ask:
Why sholuldn't they?
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:32 am

:hehe:
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Post by Blind groper » Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:58 am

To coito

Re numbers of Iraqis who died in the Iraq War.
No one knows for sure, since records were sparse. The lowest estimate, which I am sure you are quoting, came from the US military (surprise, surprise), who simply counted bodies. This ignored the simple fact that most of those who died either were not recovered, or had their bodies picked up by family members and taken away for immediate burial, as per Muslim custom.

There are many other estimates, which are based on surveys. The technique is to carry out a random sampling, interviewing families and finding out how many lost a family member, and then multiplying it through to get an overall figure. Obviously, not 100% accurate, but a lot better than the US military method.

The latest such estimate suggested 1.2 million, which is more or less what I quoted. It may or may not be accurate, and it has its critics. But we can be sure that the true number was much, much higher than what you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey ... casualties
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Post by MrJonno » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:08 pm

How do you know it was someone from within the group? You've said some flat out seditious things on RD.net and ratskep. I'd be pretty sure they'd be keeping an eye via google searches on certain phrases and words. You've only got yourself to blame.
The sites that discuss this FBI cookie are basically 'liberty' ones ie terrorist ones, so quite obviously anyone who goes to them is likely to end up tracked (including me I guess now)
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:48 pm

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the feds hacked those sites from time to time and inserted malicious trackers into their pages. If I was in the feds, that's exactly what I would be doing.
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Re: "Democracy" derail from "My new toy" thread...

Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:58 pm

Blind groper wrote:To coito

Re numbers of Iraqis who died in the Iraq War.
No one knows for sure, since records were sparse. The lowest estimate, which I am sure you are quoting, came from the US military (surprise, surprise), who simply counted bodies. This ignored the simple fact that most of those who died either were not recovered, or had their bodies picked up by family members and taken away for immediate burial, as per Muslim custom.

There are many other estimates, which are based on surveys. The technique is to carry out a random sampling, interviewing families and finding out how many lost a family member, and then multiplying it through to get an overall figure. Obviously, not 100% accurate, but a lot better than the US military method.

The latest such estimate suggested 1.2 million, which is more or less what I quoted. It may or may not be accurate, and it has its critics. But we can be sure that the true number was much, much higher than what you think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey ... casualties
I don't agree with those numbers, because dying during a war is not the same as being a casualty of the war.

However, in any case, it has nothing to do with whether the US won, which the US and the coalition allies clearly did -- the invasion, the aftermath, the rebuilding -- all successful.

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