Date: 9/12/2015 15:08:16
From: transition
ID: 811462
Subject: instrument of the free goes pop culture

imagine some model of the free world finds representations of its military and security apparatus being a pervasive aspect of media pop culture – for entertainment – wouldn’t defense be complicated by this.

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Date: 9/12/2015 16:01:03
From: wookiemeister
ID: 811536
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

no

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Date: 9/12/2015 16:09:03
From: transition
ID: 811546
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

wookiemeister said:


no

you’re an enthusiast, indulging for entertainment, maybe

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Date: 9/12/2015 17:24:29
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 811576
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

As in games or something a bit more towards visual / intellectual entertainment?

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Date: 9/12/2015 18:30:58
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 811640
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

transition said:


imagine some model of the free world finds representations of its military and security apparatus being a pervasive aspect of media pop culture – for entertainment – wouldn’t defense be complicated by this.

Do you mean “Defence” as in “Attack”?

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Date: 9/12/2015 19:24:06
From: wookiemeister
ID: 811698
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

transition said:


wookiemeister said:

no

you’re an enthusiast, indulging for entertainment, maybe


war isn’t entertainment and should never be treated as

campaigns should be short and have a strategy if that fails get rid of people that had the bad strategy

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Date: 9/12/2015 19:34:22
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 811706
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

You cant appease barbarity, eventual good men need to go to war to eliminate it.
Britain tried to appease Hitler but eventually they had to call him out.

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Date: 9/12/2015 19:36:04
From: dv
ID: 811709
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

Peak Warming Man said:


You cant appease barbarity

Well you kind of can. You shouldn’t, but you can. If Hitler’s barbarity had been purely domestic and he had no expansionist ambitions, quite probably everyone would have just left him alone.

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Date: 9/12/2015 19:39:28
From: transition
ID: 811712
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

wookiemeister said:


transition said:

wookiemeister said:

no

you’re an enthusiast, indulging for entertainment, maybe


war isn’t entertainment and should never be treated as

campaigns should be short and have a strategy if that fails get rid of people that had the bad strategy

not one neuron in that cranium guilty of even a minor imaginative indulgence involving glamorization or idealization , and never for a moment been entertained by identifying with a character in a movie depicting something of conflict, or impressed by armaments, and since in the case you may have you’ve now exercised that entirely with your consciousness.

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Date: 9/12/2015 19:43:34
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 811716
Subject: re: instrument of the free goes pop culture

transition said:

not one neuron in that cranium guilty of even a minor imaginative indulgence involving glamorization or idealization , and never for a moment been entertained by identifying with a character in a movie depicting something of conflict, or impressed by armaments, and since in the case you may have you’ve now exercised that entirely with your consciousness.

If i asked Siri to repeat the above I expect my iPhone would explode.

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