The “extreme” left/right paradigm is an illusion and I’d suggest you all stop buying into it so shamelessly. The Virginia Tech shootings are tragic, as is everything else occuring every second. Face it, the world we’ve created is dying and there’s nothing left to do now but end it all. You think sitting here talking shite on a website achieves anything? You all just want to sound cleverer than the guy above you so you can pat yourselves on the back, comfort yourself, “at least I know the truth”. Haha, the Truth is so beyond all of you it would frighten you if you could even begin to conceptualise it (which you can’t, so don’t worry).

ALL OF YOU ARE NOTHING BUT FLIES TAKING TURNS TO SPLATTER THEMSELVES ON THE WINDSCREENS OF DECEPTION, REALISE THIS AND ELEVATE OR DIE WITHOUT MEANING IN A MESS LIKE ALL THE REST.

if theres gonna be a revolution, sign me up

Have a nice shooting day!

It’s pretty sad when you top scientologists to become the coldest vulture to use the dead for your gain. Good job, that’s progress!

i’d first like to say that we can THANK THE PAPARAZZI on this one for immediately broadcasting an event that should respectfully have time to unfold and be contained. News spread like wildfire and it was completely intrusive and unnecessary to prod at such a tragic event without giving it time to unfold. ** 24-hour news is like a horde of gnats just waiting for somethin juicey to devour.** . . . another heaping American epidemic

ITS A TERRIBLE THING THAT HAPPENED AT VIRGINIA TECH, BUT THE REAL DAMAGE WAS DONE BEFORE THE SHOOTING WITH FAILURES IN OUR SYSTEM AND OUR NARROWED VIEW OF THE EVENT.

Metal detectors and better security is not the answer to this problem, but if you want to waste your time with that… by all means, we’ve got stuff to change at the volatile tip of the social pyramid.

~RED

Ditto

Echoing Cole, Iraq Slogger published a post today recounting the brutal scenes of violence that Iraq’s universities have witnessed in recent months:

what is a Slogger, is that a typo, or is there a new spin on the word Blog? Social Blogger would be redundant, I’m confused.

why don’t you flaghumping jesus-jacking nazis go to Iraq and tell them how what happened there is comparable to what happened at Virginia tech and then let me know how many bullet holes you come back with?

hey Jake , Kirk, jackoff, whatever your name is… Juan really hit a nerve, didnt we? at least the people in Virginia know they can safely attend funerals for their loved one without fear they will be killed also. oh wait, i forgot, im not supposed to give a shit about the brown people my tax dollars helping to kill..

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vatech.writings/index.html

I’m sure this poor deluded fellow was merely brainwashed by the dogma of some theatre professor getting his fabulous fatwas from the dirty sodomite “man-lips” of Ayatollah Pelosi . If this guy had a decent, traditional, god-fearing education he would know that brown people are supposed to be on the RECEIVING end of our 2nd amendment rights! sheesh…some people really wanna rock the boat…

I didnt know the hundreds of thousands of people in iraq more than I did the 33 people killed in virginia… according to your logic, the peopel in virginia are more important, but frankly, im more bothered by the hundreds of thousands dead in iraq.. why? because they are being killed in my name and with my tax dolllars…and there are ALOT more of them…

watching you melt down is truly amusing, glad to know the nerve has been struck… are you going to keep crying and cursing and sh!tting in your diapers all night little girl?

The horror. The bloodshed. The carnage. Hell on Earth. You can’t escape the truth. Neither can I. American troops, the Iraqis — everyone is being butchered. Lied into a war without justification – Americans have been brought to their knees by the Sunni and Shia death squads. There is no food, no water, no jobs, The country is in peril. Over 500,000 civilians have been killled as est. by Johns Hopkins Univ. Over 70% of Americans support an immediate withdrawal. The 1-party state has been ousted as retribution for this crime of epic proportions. The American people have spoken.

alan.humphrey13@gmail.com

I certainly understand your position and its underlying idealism. (As a professor of philosophy, I confess to a residue of idealism myself.) I’m not recommending that anyone “call him names” or “shut him up,” for that would certainly make us no better than he is, as you said. He should be permitted to make his case, but until he actually makes a case, he should be ignored. Being ignored is not being censored; it merely reflects a demand for certain minimal standards of intellectual and moral integrity.

You’re right about the deductive conclusion and the inconsistency, but again, he and others like him don’t value consistency. I doubt whether we could ever “make him understand” because he doesn’t have any desire to understand. He desires only to be right at all times and by any means except rational argument. Yes, in principle it would be desirable to get him to “question his assumptions,” but why would someone like him, so willing to insult, deprecate, condescend, and laugh at us all the time he’s doing so, care to question anything, let alone his assumptions? (If you think I’m exaggerating, look at his replies to this thread; many of them are appalling.)

I’m not sure if I understood your last point, but I want to state that I wasn’t implying that you or anyone else was knowingly provoking him to misbehave. What I was suggesting is that, at a certain point, it should become clear that attempts at a meeting of minds through rational argument are utterly futile and merely provoke him further. I’m suggesting, further, that this point has been reached with him. His undisguised glee and gloating are evidence of this.

I see a simple deductive conclusion in this thread:
1) Thirty-three people died in a US university.
2) No sane American would support more “war in Virginia”
3) Significantly more than thirty-three people die in Iraq every day.
4) Yet a certain percent of Americans seem to support more war in Iraq.

The inconsistency here is clear. Why would Captain Kirk support Bush if he’s getting equally screwed as the rest of us? We need to try to make people like him understand that the whole point of democracy is that each person supports what they think is right. I am not knowingly provoking him to misbehave, as you have (tactfully, thank you) suggested. I am trying to get him to question his assumptions. If it turns out that he is beyond considering his assumptions, then I have lost nothing but a few minutes of my time.

I sometimes think that’s what some of us want people outside the US to see. As if they think it impresses people in other countries that we’re so “tough” and “rich.” But in reality, I think it just makes people sick and disgusted.

Just a thought.

I’m glad you didn’t mean me, Juan. For a minute, I thought you’d found out about my plastic body…. :D