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16 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

About this image. From BBC

"There's something in the nature of a still image that deeply affects the viewer and stays with them," says Ben Wright, associate director for communications at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

The centre, based at the University of Texas at Austin, houses Adams's archive of photos, documents and correspondence.

"The film footage of the shooting, while ghastly, doesn't evoke the same feelings of urgency and stark tragedy."

But the photo did not - could not - fully explain the circumstances on the streets of Saigon on 1 February 1968, two days after the forces of the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive. Dozens of South Vietnamese cities were caught by surprise.

Heavy street fighting had pitched Saigon into chaos when South Vietnamese military caught a suspected Viet Cong squad leader, Nguyen Van Lem, at the site of a mass grave of more than 30 civilians.

Adams began taking photos as Lem was frogmarched through the streets to Loan's jeep.

Loan stood beside Lem before pointing his pistol at the prisoner's head.

"I thought he was going to threaten or terrorise the guy," Adams recalled afterwards, "so I just naturally raised my camera and took the picture."

Lem was believed to have murdered the wife and six children of one of Loan's colleagues. The general fired his pistol.

"If you hesitate, if you didn't do your duty, the men won't follow you," the general said about the suddenness of his actions.

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I have a real simple question for the MAGAs.  And show you have some balls and actually answer it now.

If Trump suspends all or part of the 2026 midterm elections, and/or the 2028 presidential election, will you (a) be fine with it, (b) say you're not fine with it, but still support the admin, or (c) conclude that's out-of-bounds, and fully oppose the move, including no longer supporting the administration that ended elections in America?

It's actually important that you go on the record, and you know it is.....because we're rapidly moving to the point where that action is more likely than not to take place.

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Donald Trump's helicopter forced to make emergency landing in UK

Trump and first lady Melania Trump were aboard the helicopter as the first leg of their journey back to the United States.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2110486/donald-trump-helicopter-emergency-landing-UK

Gotta love this quote from the story. It about sums up dotard's existence perfectly:

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Speaking during a huddle with reporters shortly after takeoff, Trump had joked that he hoped they all made it home safely aboard Air Force One.

He joked: "Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight,

"Otherwise I wouldn't care."

 

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2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Should have never stopped using “weird” to describe these people. They are just fucking crazy and attentions starved.

From the responses:

 

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I could probably defeat the DEI guy with one question about if he thinks universities should allow conservative viewpoints in their professorship and student body.  But after he says yes and I let him know that is DEI in action, he wouldn’t believe or understand it.  And we’d leave the interaction with him thinking he won the debate. 

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16 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I could probably defeat the DEI guy with one question about if he thinks universities should allow conservative viewpoints in their professorship and student body.  But after he says yes and I let him know that is DEI in action, he wouldn’t believe or understand it.  And we’d leave the interaction with him thinking he won the debate. 

Much like @Enchubben

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Should have never stopped using “weird” to describe these people. They are just fucking crazy and attentions starved.

I said this recently and got told I was an idiot and it wasn't enough. the thing is, it fucking worked. they flipped the fuck out when we called them weird. can't hurt to try, I guess

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1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I said this recently and got told I was an idiot and it wasn't enough. the thing is, it fucking worked. they flipped the fuck out when we called them weird. can't hurt to try, I guess

Will cunts work?

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I have a real simple question for the MAGAs.  And show you have some balls and actually answer it now.

If Trump suspends all or part of the 2026 midterm elections, and/or the 2028 presidential election, will you (a) be fine with it, (b) say you're not fine with it, but still support the admin, or (c) conclude that's out-of-bounds, and fully oppose the move, including no longer supporting the administration that ended elections in America?

It's actually important that you go on the record, and you know it is.....because we're rapidly moving to the point where that action is more likely than not to take place.

You really think someone is gonna give you an honest answer. Even if they said option C I guarantee that when it does happen in 2026 they will rationale that's OK because of reasons

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Stay out of the streets on October 18 during the No Kings rallies. Id rather see a bunch of dumbass maga slapping themselves on the back making fun of poor attendance than watch a bunch of maga celebrate some actually competant Kyle Rittenhouses when they slaughter "violent rioters". Or maybe the US military this time instead of some teenage idiot.

It is time to take the resistance underground. No more arguing with your chud friends. Every time a chud loses an argument, they double down and sink themselves deeper into the rabbit hole shopping for "facts".

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I have a real simple question for the MAGAs.  And show you have some balls and actually answer it now.

If Trump suspends all or part of the 2026 midterm elections, and/or the 2028 presidential election, will you (a) be fine with it, (b) say you're not fine with it, but still support the admin, or (c) conclude that's out-of-bounds, and fully oppose the move, including no longer supporting the administration that ended elections in America?

It's actually important that you go on the record, and you know it is.....because we're rapidly moving to the point where that action is more likely than not to take place.

this is futile. you know it will be because of *insert* illegals, drugs, leftwing violence, transagenda, and/or some hate points I haven't thought of. 

it will be whatever his peanut brain thinks of that day.

and the cult will be fine with it. 

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8 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

Man, I'm so discouraged yall

Hey, immamac was right. In these trying times, at least check out for a few hours and enjoy watching your college play football. 

For me, that's *checks notes* Clemson 

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1 minute ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Hey, immamac was right. In these trying times, at least check out for a few hours and enjoy watching your college play football. 

For me, that's *checks notes* Clemson 

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hey we gotta watch arch

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This is where we’re headed with a bunch of Catholic politicians, and oligarchs leading the way:

https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/04/the-great-scandal-christianitys-role-in-the-rise-of-the-nazis/

A growing body of scholarly research, some based on careful analysis of Nazi records, is clarifying this complex history.[2] It reveals a convoluted pattern of religious and moral failure in which atheism and the nonreligious played little role, except as victims of the Nazis and their allies. In contrast, Christianity had the capacity to stop Nazism before it came to power, and to reduce or moderate its practices afterwards, but repeatedly failed to do so because the principal churches were complicit with—indeed, in the pay of—the Nazis.

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3 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Hey, immamac was right. In these trying times, at least check out for a few hours and enjoy watching your college play football. 

For me, that's *checks notes* Clemson 

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Well, I like to check out by escaping into nature. Unfortunately, I am all too aware that the little remaining nature that exists is being fast-tracked for destruction.

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Trump said today, "We fixed inflation. We fixed prices."

If we're still doing that thing where we point out things he says that would sink any other president. Not really any point I guess. No one cares.

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26 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Hey, immamac was right. In these trying times, at least check out for a few hours and enjoy watching your college play football. 

For me, that's *checks notes* Clemson 

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It’s bye week.  Bummer.  I’ll have to be happy with F1.  

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43 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Stay out of the streets on October 18 during the No Kings rallies. Id rather see a bunch of dumbass maga slapping themselves on the back making fun of poor attendance than watch a bunch of maga celebrate some actually competant Kyle Rittenhouses when they slaughter "violent rioters". Or maybe the US military this time instead of some teenage idiot.

It is time to take the resistance underground. No more arguing with your chud friends. Every time a chud loses an argument, they double down and sink themselves deeper into the rabbit hole shopping for "facts".

Fuck that

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16 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Trump said today, "We fixed inflation. We fixed prices."

If we're still doing that thing where we point out things he says that would sink any other president. Not really any point I guess. No one cares.

His cult will believe it for a while and then get all mad again in a couple of weeks when they don’t see prices down. 

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No, this is fine.

President Trump on Thursday floated revoking TV broadcast licenses for networks that cover him negatively, a day after ABC's indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

"They give me only bad publicity or press," the president said of the broadcast networks on the flight back from London. "I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr," who is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

On Wednesday, ABC yanked Kimmel's late-night talk show over a monologue comment about the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination, hours after Carr had told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel's comments were "a very, very serious issue right now for Disney," which owns ABC. Kimmel had said "the MAGA gang" was trying to portray Kirk's killer as "anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said. "These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." 

In a social media post Wednesday night, the president praised ABC for the decision, and said the other network late-night comedians, NBC's Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, should also be off the air. CBS News has reached out to NBC News for comment. 

 
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Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One, "If you go back, I guess they haven't had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said, but when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump," Mr. Trump said. "They're licensed. They're not allowed to do that." 

The FCC, an independent agency, issues eight-year licenses to individual broadcast stations, many of which are owned and operated by television networks. On its website, the FCC says the "First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter." It also states that the commission's role in overseeing content on the air waves "is very limited." 

The president praised Carr, who's being criticized by some conservatives who say he went too far in pressuring ABC. 

"I think Brendan Carr is doing a great job," the president told reporters. 

 
 

It's not the first time Mr. Trump has floated canceling broadcast licenses.  

 

Last month, the president said NBC and ABC "give me 97% BAD STORIES," and he would be "totally in favor" of revoking their FCC licenses. 

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19 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Fuck that

I feel the same way, but I'm coming to terms with the fact that the fight is lost. Political activists from the left will be rounded up and ruined if not just outright killed. We will have to find revolution in small acts of humanity I don't know. All I know is fighting the way we are now only feeds the machine and tightens its grip

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

This is infuriating. Like, this is legitimately not ok. Evil cunts. 

I mean, we all knew it was coming, but Liarpants McLiarface said he didn't know anything about it.

And the rubes believed it.  The persuadable rubes, anyway.

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