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voldothegr8 08/16/18 12:01:50 PM #1: |
Only to get brutally murdered by ISIS terrorists
https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1824-millennial-couple-bikes-through-isis-territory-to-prove-humans-are-kind-and-gets-killed/partners/44197 Does this count as a Darwin award? --- Oda break tracker 2018- 5 (3) | THE Ohio State: 11-2 | Oakland Raiders: 6-10 Super Mario Maker Profile: 1237-0000-0073-02FE ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Coffeebeanz 08/16/18 12:02:45 PM #2: |
Man, that's dark
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creativerealms 08/16/18 12:02:59 PM #3: |
That's just dumb, they are a violent terrorist organization.
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untrustful 08/16/18 12:04:11 PM #4: |
Well that's depressing.
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CableZL 08/16/18 12:04:38 PM #5: |
I'm sorry, but that's dumb
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Doe 08/16/18 12:05:01 PM #6: |
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iPhone_7 08/16/18 12:05:11 PM #7: |
Now lets see another liberal sjw do this in those no-go zones in Europe they love to deny.
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DemonBuffet 08/16/18 12:05:52 PM #8: |
Welp
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TES_Nut 08/16/18 12:06:01 PM #9: |
Nah terrorism is all in your mind man, our good intentions will protect us.
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brassicach 08/16/18 12:06:08 PM #10: |
Sad they died
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KainWind 08/16/18 12:06:16 PM #11: |
Why were there two other cyclists there?
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butthole666 08/16/18 12:06:50 PM #12: |
Isnt pluralist a satire site
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Abyssea 08/16/18 12:07:00 PM #14: |
This sounds like some sort of dark comedy sketch. >_> Especially with those quotes from the obnoxious couples at the start. Terrible what happened to them, but god they sound like annoying people.
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dummy420 08/16/18 12:07:20 PM #16: |
Rough lesson to learn.
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Gheb 08/16/18 12:07:22 PM #17: |
That was not a good bit of decision making on their part. That said, well-meaning and naive people dying at the hands of terrorist is still sad. So RIP to them and condolences to their family.
Also not sure what their dietary choices had to do with anything. --- S*** I have to stop doing that," Gheb said, as he lay back down and died again. - Forgotten Love Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Coffeebeanz 08/16/18 12:07:39 PM #18: |
butthole666 posted...
Isnt pluralist a satire site https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-tajikistan-bike-attack.html So is NYT apparently --- Physician [Internal Medicine] ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Solid Snake07 08/16/18 12:08:17 PM #19: |
To be fair, Tajikistan isn't exactly "ISIS territory"
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LinksLiege 08/16/18 12:08:26 PM #20: |
Coffeebeanz posted...
Man, that's dark It sounds like a side bit from a South Park episode. Morbid, but too exaggeratedly stupid to be real...except it is. --- This is LinksLiege's signature. It is fantastic. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Coffeebeanz 08/16/18 12:09:04 PM #21: |
Abyssea posted...
This sounds like some sort of dark comedy sketch. >_> Especially with those quotes from the obnoxious couples at the start. Terrible what happened to them, but god they sound like annoying people. It's easy to think humanity is innately kind when you're born into wealth and privilege. I'd imagine most people born into inescapable poverty think differently. --- Physician [Internal Medicine] ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pepys Monster 08/16/18 12:11:12 PM #22: |
Sounds like a couple of average liberals who want "common sense" gun control, but don't have any actual common sense.
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Snack 08/16/18 12:11:42 PM #23: |
untrustful posted...
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Questionmarktarius 08/16/18 12:12:18 PM #24: |
23 posts, and no accusations of victim blaming yet?
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pieisthebest 08/16/18 12:12:50 PM #25: |
I blame their parents for not raising them right, any sane human should see how bad of an idea this is
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untrustful 08/16/18 12:12:50 PM #26: |
"When you grow up poor it's easy to become something of an animal looking to survive. If you're poor for too long, you no longer are human, you're just a machine living day by day. That's why if you are poor, you have to get yourself out of the democrat plantation as soon as possible."
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KhanJohnny 08/16/18 12:13:00 PM #27: |
I wonder if they changed their minds as cold steel entered their flesh during their final moments of excruciating pain and agonizing terror
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KamenRiderBlade 08/16/18 12:13:39 PM #28: |
voldothegr8 posted...
Does this count as a Darwin award?Yup --- Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico' ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pepys Monster 08/16/18 12:14:23 PM #29: |
KhanJohnny posted...
I wonder if they changed their minds as cold steel entered their flesh during their final moments of excruciating pain and agonizing terror It was at that moment that they joined the Republican party. But it was too late. --- House music owns. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Coffeebeanz 08/16/18 12:17:03 PM #31: |
What bothers me is that their goal was to show the kindness of humanity, but they clearly lacked enough self-awareness about what a "rich white couple that can afford to bike around the world for a year" image looks like to people living in third-world countries who can't even afford to eat.
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Questionmarktarius 08/16/18 12:17:31 PM #32: |
KamenRiderBlade posted...
voldothegr8 posted...Does this count as a Darwin award?Yup ![]() "You leave me out of this!" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Rimmer_Dall 08/16/18 12:17:34 PM #33: |
This isn't even the first time something like this has happened. Wasn't there some woman who spent her honeymoon hitchhiking through ISIS territory to prove that it was safe, only to get raped and murdered?
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Star_Spirit 08/16/18 12:18:47 PM #34: |
ISIS is just Israelites in a Hollywood studio.
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Abyssea 08/16/18 12:18:51 PM #35: |
so I guess this proves that humans aren't actually kind? :v and that evil is a thing?
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Johnny_Nutcase 08/16/18 12:19:14 PM #36: |
What a couple of a dumb fucks.
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EnragedSlith 08/16/18 12:20:21 PM #37: |
I feel the same way about every white college girl at a liberal arts school who spends summers in impoverished parts of the world to take selfies with poor people
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creativerealms 08/16/18 12:20:46 PM #38: |
Pepys Monster posted...
Sounds like a couple of average liberals who want "common sense" gun control, but don't have any actual common sense. No the average liberal isn't this dumb. --- No sig. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Gheb 08/16/18 12:20:55 PM #39: |
Coffeebeanz posted...
Regardless, they're not the ones to blame here, and screw anyone who thinks they should be. Seriously. Some of the post in this topic. Particularly the ones trying to tie it to politics are all sorts of fucked up. --- S*** I have to stop doing that," Gheb said, as he lay back down and died again. - Forgotten Love Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ImTheMacheteGuy 08/16/18 12:21:40 PM #40: |
Evil is a made up concept. They weren't wrong about that. Still, foolish idea. Shouldn't have done that.
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Coffeebeanz 08/16/18 12:22:01 PM #41: |
ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Evil is a made up concept. They weren't wrong about that. Still, foolish idea. Shouldn't have done that. Unfortunately "good" is also a made up concept. --- Physician [Internal Medicine] ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 08/16/18 12:22:05 PM #42: |
Gheb posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...Regardless, they're not the ones to blame here, and screw anyone who thinks they should be. Hey, we made it to 31 before the "victim blaming" complaint appeared. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KamenRiderBlade 08/16/18 12:22:05 PM #43: |
Abyssea posted...
so I guess this proves that humans aren't actually kind? :v and that evil is a thing?Humans aren't inherently good or bad at birth. They are shaped by their environment. The longer you are in that environment, the more hardwired you will be in that state, whatever it is. It's going to take that much more effort to change a person if you try to change them at all. --- Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico' ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Rimmer_Dall 08/16/18 12:23:44 PM #45: |
KamenRiderBlade posted...
Humans aren't inherently good or bad at birth. No, some people are just fucking born wrong. You can tell when they start torturing rabbits to death for fun at like age five or something. --- "The cheese it yours turtles." ~ William Shakespeare ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Ivynn 08/16/18 12:23:45 PM #46: |
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EnragedSlith 08/16/18 12:25:11 PM #47: |
Coffeebeanz posted...
What bothers me is that their goal was to show the kindness of humanity, but they clearly lacked enough self-awareness about what a "rich white couple that can afford to bike around the world for a year" image looks like to people living in third-world countries who can't even afford to eat. They are completely responsible for this because theyd still be alive if they didnt stupidly jaunt into extremely dangerous territory. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ToPoPO 08/16/18 12:25:58 PM #48: |
Stop victim blaming
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kingdrake2 08/16/18 12:26:13 PM #49: |
creativerealms posted...
That's just dumb, they are a violent terrorist organization. anyone that wants to harm another for any reason is bad obviously. wish that couple didn't plan to do what they did it's just entering a mine field with mines everywhere. --- I'm pretty much Stu from Rugrats making pudding at 4 in morning because I've lost control of my life - Polycosm ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 08/16/18 12:26:31 PM #50: |
ToPoPO posted...
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Abyssea 08/16/18 12:27:14 PM #51: |
EnragedSlith posted...
Coffeebeanz posted...What bothers me is that their goal was to show the kindness of humanity, but they clearly lacked enough self-awareness about what a "rich white couple that can afford to bike around the world for a year" image looks like to people living in third-world countries who can't even afford to eat. I mean, what they did was just stupid. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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