Lurker > Mackorov

I'm a large piece of continent? What do I do? Im no longer alive, am I?

i still find Boruto outlandish at best. Characters all big adults now yet retaining their old voice actors who make it sound like they never hit puberty and matured in their vocal chords.
Also, how the heck did the Konohagakure turn from some traditional farming village to one big high-tech city so suddenly?

UnfairRepresent posted...

I don't get why even yelled Jobs at the end of that...

It's not like "Sad"

it's to convey a happy tone and message to his followers, who can only comprehend large easy-to-read capital letters with simple straightforward meanings

lmao. Someone loving 4chan saying that. i go to 4chan and I have no idea where to even start. That site is the biggest mess ever

ReignFury posted...

We killed over 200k civilians, but then we act like we dont target innocent civilians like terrorists do

tell me in what war do countries not end up killing each other's civilians? Oh right, none. Where do you live? Lalaland or something?

pikachupwnage posted...

solosnake posted...

stoltenberg11 posted...

gunplagirl posted...

The us committed the most horrendous acts of terrorism in history as a result

I mean the holocaust was still worse

thats extremely debatable imo

Hahahahaahahahaah are you serious?

please search up Great Leap Forward.

or Holodomor.

or try Khmer Rouge genocide

Darkman124 posted...

Mackorov posted...

It doesnt contradict what I said. It was thanks to the Emperor Japan surrendered. And only because the Emperor doesnt lose much anyway. Just continue sitting in his throne unpunished for all the war crimes the rest committed. Thank McArthur for that. If the Soviets got to Japan first, the country would be another North Korea right now

after the first bomb the emperor broke with all tradition and forced his government to abandon all surrender terms except keeping him (which we let them do anyway)

your description of the government's reaction to hiroshima is grossly inaccurate.

I was purposely using figure of speech to get my point across, jeez. How else do you communicate strongly to these peeps on CE?

Darkman124 posted...

Mackorov posted...

When the first bomb dropped, the government just brushed it off as nothing much.

read my links before talking about how people don't know history

or at least read the TL;DR

It doesnt contradict what I said. It was thanks to the Emperor Japan surrendered. And only because the Emperor doesnt lose much anyway. Just continue sitting in his throne unpunished for all the war crimes the rest committed. Thank McArthur for that. If the Soviets got to Japan first, the country would be another North Korea right now

DevsBro posted...

Not the call I would have made but I suppose a politician doesn't have the luxury of deontological ethics.

Officially, the a bombs save millions of lives yadda yadda, and who knows maybe it's true.

It not only saved the Japanese civilians (not like they deserved it at all), but also millions of Asians under suffering under the hellish Japanese occupation.

There's a reason why no one in Asia cares s*** about the nukes.
Go to Malaysia, China, Korea, Singapore etc. and ask the people there if they think the nukes were justified. Especially the old generation who survived the WWII Japanese occupation. They will you for sure the Japanese deserved it 100%. In fact, they should deserve a punishment far worse.

MorbidFaithless posted...

I do not think it should have happened. There's no justification for such an act of slaughter, in my opinion.

ChromaticAngel posted...

Unwarranted. We should have accepted their surrender instead of trying to force them into an unconditional surrender.

People who say stuff like this clearly know nothing about the history of WWII, nor the Japanese for that matter. The Japanese back then had the very strong dogmatic doctrine of fighting till they die, honor > logic.
As can be seen fighting techniques like the kamikaze arose from. The Japanese were that nationalistic.
When the first bomb dropped, the government just brushed it off as nothing much. Surrender wasnt even on their mind. There was also a very significant military rebellion against any form of surrendering. Even AFTER the 2nd bomb, the Japanese military will wanted to continue like the nationalistic bats they were. The government pushed for surrender terms that were favorable to them.

It's only after the emperor decided to surrender, under the one term that the monarchy wont be destroyed, did Japan finally relinquish to the Allies.


Also if you think this nuking is some act of evil, you people should see and realise the inhumane atrocities the Japanese committed across South Asia, to the Malays, Chinese, Koreans and also the Australian and British POWs. The Japanese were far more cruel than the Nazis, even some visiting Nazis condoned the kind of sick twisted things the Japanese did.
And you think its wrong to bomb a city of civilians? All the Japanese civilians support their military and their crazed mindset anyway. Call them ''innocent'', yeah right.

Any form of sympathy ignorant Americans have towards the Japanese just plains sickens me.

Youtube got here first, captured the largest share, became market leader. Once you're leader, it's almost impossible for others to overtake. Only other big competitor I know of is Dailymotion, but they've only stood out since they allowed R-rated s***. Now they're removing all the porno stuff as well so Dailymotion has fallen out of the picture

http://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article167242732.html

once again, another ACCIDENT?

so basically, free $500k?

salad

Mernardi posted...

Mackorov posted...

Mernardi posted...

Then you find out the "criminal" that got raped actually was innocent. What then?

too bad then. Not like it's any better than some guy spending half his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit, which btw there's plenty of. Or you can just compensate him with more

"Oh well. We raped an innocent man! Who cares"

As if I couldn't tell this was a troll thread from the jump.

No justice system is perfect, so you just see if the benefits outweighs the cons. And sure does here, unless you're saying the cases of innocents being convicted make up 90% of criminal cases or something

Funkdamental posted...

To me, that idea would be the epitome of justice -- even if it's the kind of justice that makes us squeamish, and you would have to question whether the person who willingly carries out such punishments under protection of the law is any less of a sociopath than the person who perpetrates similar horrors ouside of it.

But definitely, it seems to me that being inconvenienced by five years in prison before being released and then having a line drawn under your crime, when you've disfigured or crippled someone for the rest of their entire life -- that isn't justice; it's hawking a contemptuous gob of spittle into the face of justice. It's an example of the state valuing the life and feelings of the criminal far above those of their victim, who once again comes bottom of the list of priorities.

"That isn't justice, that's revenge." False dichotomy. Justice is about justice for the victim. It's about balance in the moral order, and the principle of "an eye for an eye" exemplifies that balance perfectly. Don't you dare take it upon yourself to insist on clemency or forgiveness when you're not the wronged party; you don't have that right.

I'd point out that I'm a liberal, by the way. This may astonish conservatives (and, I suspect, more than a few liberals), but it isn't necessary to be pro-crime to be one.

you, I like you.

-Gavirulax- posted...

Mackorov posted...

Why are people against this idea? It's the fairest in my opinion. It avoids punishments given to criminals that are too light, and at the same time avoids punishments given to criminals that are too heavy.

In the case of something like rape, you're asking someone else to rape a rapist - who would be responsible for handing out this punishment?

Obviously the idea is unfeasible, though somewhat imposed in countries like Iran.

that's like asking who carries out executions of death row prisoners? Who hangs prisoners sentenced to death? Who tortures and interrogates war criminals and terrorists?
There's always someone up for it.

Why are people against this idea? It's the fairest in my opinion. It avoids punishments given to criminals that are too light, and at the same time avoids punishments given to criminals that are too heavy.

What it gives is the EXACT punishment back to criminals as their very crimes.

It also would prevent the many, many screwed up cases of some minor criminals being sentenced for punishments worse than some major criminals and vice versa. It would be, by all means, very justified. Unethical of course, is another thing.

uwnim posted...

How would that work for drug related crimes? Or prostitution. Traffic violations like speeding.

of course it can't apply to all kinds of crimes. Such crimes like those don't really have a direct victim to compensate for anyway. I'm talking about the more serious crimes.

Would you like it if the law gave the same punishments back to criminals on whatever acts of cruelty they do?

For example, if a criminal is convicted of some really inhumane torture to the victim, the criminal should be given the exact same inhumane torture treatment.
If someone is convicted of rape, the person should get punished by getting raped in return (by some ugly **** of course).
If someone is convicted of murder, the person should be killed in the same fashion as he/she killed the victim.
and so on...

And all this ontop of this, the criminal is still also sentenced to a jail term. Think it'd be more fair?

foreveraIone posted...

Chicken posted...

ModLogic posted...

america is the most racist country

funny joke

not really a joke when your country elected a joke of a president

CanuckCowboy posted...

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Irony posted...

If you think they taste the same you need to see a doctor

if you keep drinking Coke just cos of some minor taste difference, you'll be the one needing to see a doctor one day

Says the guy who drinks coke zero.

since when did I say I drink coke zero?

Cleo_II posted...

Regular tastes better and diet soda isn't even really more healthy. Some studies say they actually lead to weight gain

Besides, some of us have self control so the calorie content is a nonissue.

it only leads to weight gain because the drink tends to make people feel the need to eat more. But of course that's only for the weak-willed to be affected about.

Weight gain is only when calories in > calories out. Calorie surplus

Irony posted...

If you think they taste the same you need to see a doctor

if you keep drinking Coke just cos of some minor taste difference, you'll be the one needing to see a doctor one day

when both drinks tastes literally the same, while one gives you diabetes and makes you fat, the other doesn't.

I mean, really? What people get out of drinking the regular Coke now?

LightHawKnight posted...

It depends on the evidence, which the Jury has to go by. Not what was said, as human memories are pretty terrible. Which is why people are pushing bodycams, even though they are not that reliable either.

eston posted...

Probably would depend on the evidence

evidence, my ass. A police can be filmed live shooting a guy and the court will still rule them not guilty. Remember the Castle case? The deceased was pulled over, asked for his ID and the cop immediately shot him when he went to reach for his ID.

Like seriously, wtf? How are these people even cops? They're so cowardly chicken, they'd murder people just to satisfy their paranoia of 'self-defense'

Damn_Underscore posted...

Can't you become more educated thanks to the internet nowadays.

lol

With so rare to none cases of cops ever receiving punishment for even the most stupidest of killing cases, I do wonder.

Imagine if a policeman just walks up to a law-abiding black dude minding his own business on the streets and just shoots him in the face. Probably will get acquitted too.

Wanna murder people and get away with it? Become a cop!

will he be prosecuted and sentenced as guilty? Or will it be another case of acquittal for a cop easily getting away with it?

his defense will be like ''but the suspect was about to pull out something. I was VERY VERY SURE it was a firearm!''

lots of dummies here probably mixed up the NYP for the NYT

Asherlee10 posted...

Just seems like a lot of fear-mongering coming from the "The world is going to overpopulate and we're all fucked" crowd.

keep denying it till the day comes. Well, I mean, not like most of us will be alive by then anyway.

DevsBro posted...

I always got the sense that they were supposed to be frenemies. Like, Tom acted like he was out to get Jerry but would be a wreck if anything happened to him.

Some of the T&J spinoffs has Tom and Jerry working together as friends. It's nice to see them get along once in a while.

It's ironic when you think about it, but world peace will be the death of us all. Remember the old times when humans were busy starting wars with each other all over the planet? When the average lifespan of a person was only like, 25 years old? Dictators, genocides, sufferings...

there is no perfect solution to anything

Asherlee10 posted...

I thought that most of the 1st world countries have been on a population decline?

populations almost never would decline. Only population growth declines.

Gorbachev posted...

COVxy posted...

Population growth curves follow a logistic curve, capping off at an equilibrium when at carrying capacity.

So, not really.

and none of those people are going to be employable because automation will destroy manufacturing jobs. you're not going to see mass reduction of poverty like we've seen in China.

But yeah, overpopulation is not a problem.

Overpopulation IS a problem when you see that it is the leading cause to all other problems: pollution, environmental destruction and climate change.
And these lead to other issues eventually such as wars and social instability.

Many scientists has been saying for years that the world isn't going to last long with the rate humanity is going at with consumption. But of course no one gives a s*** since that's our great grandchildren's problem, huh?

DevsBro posted...

What's funny to me is whenn they grossly underestimate the timespan of future events.

Hand-held laser guns, nonsense energy shields, intersystem drives, thirty alien species, every building on Earth replaced with scifi shiny curved architecture, 2130 AD.

in your dreams

with humans breeding like dogs and the population of humans only going to increase more and more, we'll eventually all die from overpopulation.

Forget robots, flying cars and all that s****. Unless we can invent some kind of far-fantasy space travel crap to go inhabit another planet light years away to ruin some more, humanity is going to die on Earth.
Not to mention with the rate of animals going extinct due to human selfishness, yeah, we're gonna die either way.

I can already give any guy wood. But just giving a log of wood is pretty worthless.

Gorbachev posted...

No natural resources but still as rich as the west.

If you live in Canada and think your country is better, a big part of that is due to oil and shit.

no natural resources? lol. Look at Singapore please.

No natural resources. No farms. No wildlands. No mineral deposits. No natural attractions. Absolutely nothing.

Just a tiny speck in the world map with nothing but a complete urban population.

what is it that makes the president of the greatest country in the world so great?

WW1

Superhumans don't become superheroes. That's silly.

They become magicians cos they can make millions of dollars and continue to trick all you clueless people.
Be smart, kids.

There was this one time a so-called 'street magician' came up to me to show me a 'magic trick'. He made this coin on his hand float up all of a sudden. But I knew the trick right away.

I was like 'oh my gosh, you're a superhuman. Your power is TELEKINESIS'

and he gave me the look of 'oh s**** how did you figure it out?!' and people nearby were all looking at me like I was crazy. But I knew the truth. Oh yes, I knew. These superhumans sure now how to blend in well.

David Blaine has the power of mind-reading.
Copperfield has the power of flight.
Houdini had the power of teleportation.

Can't you see guys, they're showing it to you right in front of your eyes

Burgess posted...

Why would you use your powers to do shitty tricks.

cos you can make a s*** ton of money like Criss Angel, David Blaine, Copperfield, Houdini etc.
What if these men really ARE SUPERHUMANS?

if you revealed your awesome powers as real to the world, what do you think will happen? Governments will be hunting your ass down, tasing you and bringing you to deep secret laboratories to do experiments or will label you a danger to society and a wanted criminal

but they're using their powers to make a living by pretending to work as magicians.

what do you think?!

slothica posted...

I'll flip the 500k coin.

I'll be sad if all my loved ones die, but I'll get over it after few minutes.

oooh. I found the heartless one.