The Age of Trump: White Nationalist terrorist carplows into counter-protestors

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  1. Bengal B

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    Not for the lack of good media ratings.
     
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    Can't help but picturing him and Jimmy Kimmel hugging and crying because Simba got shot; forget about all the human beings murdered every day.
     
  3. LaSalleAve

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    I think we have been conditioned by television and movies to feel this way. Violence and murder is so often depicted on tv and on the big screen, that human death doesn't have nearly the same instant impact on me that the death of an animal does.
     
  4. Bengal B

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    And mass death has less emotional impact than the death of one. Plane crash kills 200, 964 perish in tsunami - ho-hum, what's next. But one little girl raped murdered or a young boy dying of a rare disease is a real tragedy.
     
  5. LaSalleAve

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    Don't look now but you basically just quoted Stalin.

    "The death of 1 is a tragedy, the death of many is a statistic" or something like that.
     
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  6. Bengal B

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    I think the quote is from Spock when he mind linked to the death scream of 400 Vulcans who died when their spaceship exploded.
     
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    Sure a few of them do. A few of Philadelphia Eagles have probably said some vile shit. All nazis all klansmen all white supremacists are vile.
     
  10. Bengal B

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    Shocking! No New Orleans player would ever do that. They are all Saints.
     
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