"American Sniper" Chris Kyle shot dead at shooting range

[Neil]

But honestly Marti, don't you feel that you're worse?

[Admiral Yi]

It's difficult to express one's ambivalence when one has 10 seconds of free time to post - that's why cheering someone's death was an approximation.

No it's not.  No sane person considers "he deserved to die" as any kind of approximation of "people in this line of work are held in unduly high regard." Not with 10 seconds to compose a post, not under any circumstances.

[grumbler]

But honestly Marti, don't you feel realize that you're worse?

FYP.

[PRC]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

[Neil]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

Why would you think he's thinking at all?

[Darth Wagtaros]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

A lot of families in rural New England depend no bringing in a dear every now and again to have meat on the table. 

[crazy canuck]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

A lot of families in rural New England depend no bringing in a dear every now and again to have meat on the table.

I hope this means they bring a loved one along to share a meal of meat with you and not the German variant of what that could mean.

[Malthus]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

A lot of families in rural New England depend no bringing in a dear every now and again to have meat on the table.

I hope this means they bring a loved one along to share a meal of meat with you and not the German variant of what that could mean.

It's rural New England.

Judging by H.P. Lovecraft's view of the place, it could go either way. 

[PRC]

This goes for hunters (and that is why I consider hunting to be the pastime of scumbags)

Hunting is more humane than getting your meat from a factory farm.  It's sustainable and licenses are managed by Fish & Wildlife agencies.  Maybe you're thinking of big game hunters or safari hunters or something.

Why would you think he's thinking at all?

That's a great point!

[OttoVonBismarck]

And of course once Marti looks back and realizes no one took his troll seriously, he's trying to assert that he was making some nuanced argument. The problem is, even his nuanced argument is stupid. "I had to be a dick here because this is my outlet for it, and people respect the military too much!" This forum is by and large made up of people who have been heavily exposed to European forum posters since the late 1990s, which means Europeans shit-talking about the U.S. military is about as shocking as Elton John coming out as gay, and equally as un-interesting. Your argument is vapid and probably more embarrassing than if you had just left your original trolling post and not commented further. This isn't the High Road gun forums, no one here is a foaming at the mouth militarist who masturbates to open 1980s editions of Soldier of Fortune. You're just butthutt because you acted like an idiot and everyone laughed at you. That left you with a few options, you tried to do two classic ones that make it even worse: tried to clarify your position, then assert you don't care. The correct option would have been to just let your lead balloon lie on the ground.

[PDH]

no one here is a foaming at the mouth militarist who masturbates to open 1980s editions of Soldier of Fortune.

Speak for yourself.

[Martinus]

And of course once Marti looks back and realizes no one took his troll seriously, he's trying to assert that he was making some nuanced argument. The problem is, even his nuanced argument is stupid. "I had to be a dick here because this is my outlet for it, and people respect the military too much!" This forum is by and large made up of people who have been heavily exposed to European forum posters since the late 1990s, which means Europeans shit-talking about the U.S. military is about as shocking as Elton John coming out as gay, and equally as un-interesting. Your argument is vapid and probably more embarrassing than if you had just left your original trolling post and not commented further. This isn't the High Road gun forums, no one here is a foaming at the mouth militarist who masturbates to open 1980s editions of Soldier of Fortune. You're just butthutt because you acted like an idiot and everyone laughed at you. That left you with a few options, you tried to do two classic ones that make it even worse: tried to clarify your position, then assert you don't care. The correct option would have been to just let your lead balloon lie on the ground.

The fact that you describe it as "Europeans shit-talking about the U.S. military" exactly underlines what I was saying.

The fact that this forum's jingoistic flag-waving Yanks have been exposed to people who do not have their heads so deep in the military butts does not mean this changed your attitudes a bit - it just shows there is no point in arguing as you will always see this as "Europeans shit-talking about the U.S. military".

Ergo, since arguing with you does not change shit, perhaps seeing coffins of your young compatriots coming home will - so every time this happens, it's an occassion to celebrate, as this advances your collective illumination.

[OttoVonBismarck]

You understand repeating something really stupid doesn't make it a more forceful argument?

[Razgovory]

Does anyone think that Marty isn't being an ass?

[Eddie Teach]

It's rural New England.

Judging by H.P. Lovecraft's view of the place, it could go either way. 

Judging from some of your stories, rural Ontario's not much different.