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The best lesson to draw from that history is that ordinary, garden-variety humans have the capacity to be profoundly sadistic, and can be exploited to these ends by known means. Injecting the woo of reincarnation muddies the lesson a bit.

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I'm white and feel the same

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Ya think...

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The bodies are the part of this story I'm having the most problems with. I know the police are slow and we will never get the full story. Seems to me there must dna evidence all over this cabin. The time frame for the boys escape and his rescue must be short. The culprits had to dispose of the bodies quickly. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for them to turn up. The perpetrators seem to be pretty fucking stupid. They must have left all kinds of evidence behind.

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Florida still has us beat, body count-wise. Maybe Las Vegas too.

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Sorry, not guilty as charged. There are so many problems in the world, and I have only one life to live (at least until I can upload my brain). When I see/hear it in public, or in a business, I act at that moment on that issue. When I read articles like this, I make the largest donation I can, at that time, to whatever organization seems appropriate.

The one thing I don't ever do, is keep victims of these shitty people in my thoughts and prayers. Does anybody really think thoughts and prayers does anything at all for a thirteen year old boy terrorized by something like this?

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There's nothing wrong with texas that can't be fixed with a couple of tactical thermonuclear devices. It is a fucking shame that austin is the only blue part of the whole fucking state. We need to be sure only the red zones get nuked.

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Don't hold your breath.

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Depends on whether or not u are white. I'm white and the people I hate the most are white. That's most of Congress and the Senate, with the majority of governors thrown in.

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"Natural selection", good one. Let the people who believe in it try their luck in the Sonoran Desert.

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If it was 'Muslimsterrorfascistamericanhaters' you would be calling for every one them to be shot down on the streets.

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The Austin bombings dropped off the radar once they didn't involve Muslims. Or angry black men. There has never been an explanation of either why that perp chose to target people, or whether he was assisted or part of a larger group. He must have left some clues in his meanderings about the net - but there is nothing. It is like the event dropped off the planet in March. Pity for those families who have to cope with the murder of their loved ones.

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Cue Alex Jones; 'Deep state pizza pedos! Arrest Hillary Clinton!'

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It is still an overt racial attack. And it doesn't seem to be the first person they've done it to. And in this really fucked up world, threatening to kill people is a very very short step from killing them. Isn't that the 'gang-initiation' for every black or Hispanic thug anyway?

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Not quite. He originally ran a whore-house on the goldfields and then went back home. Because he didn't want to do military service or pay tax (runs deep in that family!) in Bavaria he returned to the US.

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He's a hero for surviving domestic terrorism. I'm sure a call from trump will come never.

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