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03-10-2016, 11:40 PM   #2624806  /  #251
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I really don't know why but I'm currently one of 160 people watching Martin Shkreli playing a mmorpg in his pajamas. I keep hoping someone bursts into the room he's in and beats the shit out of him.
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03-10-2016, 11:42 PM   #2624807  /  #252
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03-12-2016, 12:41 AM   #2625284  /  #253
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I'm not a proponent of capital punishment, but with one minor change, I could get behind a guillotine for some people:
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03-12-2016, 01:27 AM   #2625292  /  #254
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who are those guys?
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03-12-2016, 03:48 AM   #2625301  /  #255
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who are those guys?
Tim Kennedy is choking out Trevor Smith. It's a strikeforce fight from before Kennedy signed with the UFC.
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03-12-2016, 04:36 AM   #2625305  /  #256
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why would you want an mma fighter guillotined?
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03-12-2016, 05:50 AM   #2625307  /  #257
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why would you want an mma fighter guillotined?
No, that type of choke is called a guillotine.

I want to see assholes get choked the fuck out.
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03-12-2016, 05:58 AM   #2625308  /  #258
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Oic.
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03-23-2016, 03:45 PM   #2629626  /  #259
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“The United States Has Lost the Will and Ability to Prosecute Top Corporate Executives”

jesus christ

I'm gonna go ahead and add the entire DOJ and financial regulators to this list.
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03-23-2016, 04:27 PM   #2629664  /  #260
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Like Hillary says, Obama received donations from corporate donors and it certainly didn't affect his heavy-handed approach to corporapolis!

Relax, citizen. All is well.
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03-23-2016, 04:57 PM   #2629685  /  #261
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Like Hillary says, Obama received donations from corporate donors and it certainly didn't affect his heavy-handed approach to corporapolis!

Relax, citizen. All is well.Too bad we forgot the lube.
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03-31-2016, 07:15 PM   #2633170  /  #262
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Fuck these kids

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With the recent media coverage regarding Andrew and Daniel Frankish and their horrendous maltreatment of their family pet bulldog "Baby", their sentencing of 21 weeks suspended for two years, and a tagged curfew for six months has riled a lot of people as inadequate punishment for such disgusting and cruel actions. The poor animal was repeatedly thrown down flights of stairs, "pile driven" into the ground from head height, swung around, and stamped all over. "Baby" was put to sleep three months later after losing the use of her hind legs. This was all captured on camera, and it is clear it was for their sick enjoyment. We believe this sentence should be reconsidered and the punishment should be greater for such horrendous treatment of a defenceless animal.


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Callous Andrew Frankish is seen hurling the terrified dog repeatedly from top to bottom of the staircase while squealing in delight.

Another clip shows a giggling Frankish holding the mortified bulldog called Baby above his head, before asking a mobile phone camera: “Should I?”

He does not wait for an answer but throws the dog down the stairs with an awful thump as the animal tumbles.

Later, he pile-drives the dog head first on the ground before a bouncing on the poor animal like a trampoline.

Between being head butting the dog and stamping on her head and chest, his equally vile sidekick – who has not been named– joins in the torture of the whimpering animal, saying: “See if we can make it scream any more. We should throw it down the stairs by its ears…"

Frankish’s onslaught was caught on camera but luckily the SD card that held his sordid secrets came back to haunt him.

A member of the public found the chip on a supermarket floor, recognised Frankish and his companion and alerted the police.

The video starts playing right away, I can't even watch it.
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03-31-2016, 07:54 PM   #2633182  /  #263
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Ugh, stupid human race.
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03-31-2016, 08:52 PM   #2633209  /  #264
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I'm not watching this.
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04-01-2016, 12:21 PM   #2633375  /  #265
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Let's play "name the mental disorder" involved here.
Surprised no mention of the parents/guardians.
Animal sadism is usually a pre-cursor to a fuck load of follow-on psychotic actions.
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04-01-2016, 01:21 PM   #2633394  /  #266
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Well, it all makes sense.

Humans are *different* than the other animals because humans are closer to *God*

and God is the ultimate sadist.
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04-01-2016, 02:21 PM   #2633421  /  #267
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Let's play "name the mental disorder" involved here.
Surprised no mention of the parents/guardians.
Animal sadism is usually a pre-cursor to a fuck load of follow-on psychotic actions.
affluenza
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04-01-2016, 03:06 PM   #2633438  /  #268
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i like to think of this thread as suggesting a standard course of treatment for affluenza.
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04-02-2016, 02:17 AM   #2633568  /  #269
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Let's play "name the mental disorder" involved here.
Surprised no mention of the parents/guardians.
Animal sadism is usually a pre-cursor to a fuck load of follow-on psychotic actions.
psychotic =!= psychopathic, which is much more likely in a lot of the people needing guillotining
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04-02-2016, 07:40 PM   #2633914  /  #270
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Ok yall, we're addin Texas U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert to the list, and he needs guillotined right quick.

TEXAS GOPER OPPOSES BILL PROMOTING FEMALE SCIENTISTS BECAUSE ‘GOD DIDN’T MAKE US EQUAL’ (VIDEO)

Feller's caught on tape opposin a bill that would help advance women in STEM fields, yall.

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... HR4755 (Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act) was introduced by U.S. Rep Barbara Comstock (R-VA). The bill requires NASA to continue three of its ongoing programs which focus on inspiring young girls’ interest in STEM, as well as develop a strategy that leverages NASA’s current and former personnel to encourage young girls to enter into STEM fields, with a focus on aerospace science.

It’s hard to imagine anyone who would oppose such positive and empowering programs designed to help young women across the nation. But during a vote on HR4755 on March 22, three U.S. representatives managed to fill that role. U.S. Rep. Gohmert, U.S. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) were the only three dissenting votes.

Here’s a video of Gohmert explaining why he would not support either bill.

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Gohmert may be the first congressman to invoke Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and legendary physicist and chemist Marie Curie while arguing against a bill designed to encourage education and opportunities for young women. But wait, there’s more.

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And, you know, that’s just not the way God intended us to be treating women, he added after taking the floor. I know that everybody is today talking about equality and we’ve got groups that are trying to make us believe that women are equal to men. However, that’s just not the case. God didn’t make us equal. It is ourselves, we have created this illusion of equality. And you want to know what the most powerful evidence of that there is? Simple biology. We have parts they don’t and vice versa. So right then and there you’ve got proof of God’s master plan.
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[…] women were created for one thing and one thing alone,” as well as that “we are insulting the Lord by allowing women to act like men. Women are beautiful creatures, no doubt about that. We marry them, we look after them, we provide for them and we love them, but that does not mean they are the same as us. It is the job of a woman to stay at home, to maintain the household, to bear children and look after them after they’re born. Nowhere in the scriptures does it say that women should be chasing after fancy titles and knowledge. The only knowledge they need is the one we men allow them to have.
Gohmert feels that many, if not most, of America’s troubles, is linked to our allowing girls to chase “fancy titles and knowledge.”
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04-03-2016, 10:10 AM   #2634102  /  #271
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Never mind, yall, I done got April fooled. I gotta stop readin these asshole websites that post both satire and real news without tellin ya which is which. My bad.

Wait, yall, can we guillotine him anyway? Just fer general purposes.
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04-03-2016, 11:03 AM   #2634105  /  #272
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gotta crack a few eggs and all
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04-03-2016, 02:19 PM   #2634152  /  #273
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you could be forgiven for not being able to distinguish this from things he really does say all the time.
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04-03-2016, 04:08 PM   #2634164  /  #274
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you could be forgiven for not being able to distinguish this from things he really does say all the time.
yeah. i read that and thought, "well, that's not any worse than shit i hear people from east texas say anyway."
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04-04-2016, 03:32 AM   #2634376  /  #275
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Um guys I think we might need a revolution. Not sure we can get the guillotines past the guards.

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_pulle..._us_booste.php

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The Nation has a scoop—or had, actually—from Wikileaks cables showing that the Obama administration pressured Haiti not to raise its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour, or five bucks a day.
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