Tree flattens professional tree hugger

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Hey, maybe his family cried when they found out he was dead!!! hahahahaahahahahaaha!!!

Hopefully he had kids so now they're without a father.

 

lol.

 

And he forgot to renew his life insurance policy.

 

LOL2004

 

So now his house is going to be auctioned off and his family will be living on the street (or, perhaps, in a tree).

 

ROFLMAO2004!!!~~~

 

Considering Mr. Rant had family members die from tree-hugging hippie fags, I feel it appropriate that he posted this thread...

[spiny norman 0]

If President Bush was killed by a weapon of mass destruction, would we be allowed to come on here and say "Well, I guess he found them then?" before guffawing at our own wit. Because that would be quite ironic.

 

No? We'd be warned, if not fully banned? Okay then.

 

Considering Mr. Rant had family members die from tree-hugging hippie fags, I feel it appropriate that he posted this thread...

 

And what!?

[Guest combat_rock]

Ok guys, time I let all of you whiners in on the joke. It's you. Sure, maybe people were geniunely chuckling at the irony here, but now it's just trying to get a rise out of you.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

If President Bush was killed by a weapon of mass destruction, would we be allowed to come on here and say "Well, I guess he found them then?" before guffawing at our own wit. Because that would be quite ironic.

I'm sure INXS, not to mention a few others here, would try to explain how it was all a conspiracy by the White House (Cheney's the one in charge after all. Not only of the U.S., but also of Halliburton, in case you weren't aware.) to convince us that there were WMDs in Iraq...

[Guest Nelly's Bandaid]

Assumptions and stereotyping are really shitty bases for a thought process.

[Vyce 0]

If President Bush was killed by a weapon of mass destruction, would we be allowed to come on here and say "Well, I guess he found them then?" before guffawing at our own wit.

Why not? There would probably be plenty who would say something like that, or worse.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Oh, and for the record, that "Well I guess he found them then" did get a chuckle out of me.

 

And if this really did happen, the LIBERAL BRIGADE (strike that -- it doesn't have the same ring as CB) here would blame Bush for getting blown up by a WMD and spreading the carnage to D.C. neighborhoods, many of which are populated by poor minorities...

[Special K 0]

I mean, death can be funny. I laugh my ass of at 'no cure for cancer'. Sometimes ou do have to laugh at it. But you know, it's not like you guys are making jokes about death. It's just 'Ha ha, you're dead! I got you GOOD you fucker!" and slapping virtual high-fives. When I laugh, I prefer it to be at something that's you know, funny. This kind of shit is reserved for people that find videos of people getting run over by trains HIIILARIOUS! That's not having a sense of humor, it's being debased.

[JangoFett4Hire 0]

When the death of Pat Tillman occurred, I turned to my friend who was watching the news with me and said, "How much you want to bet they start talking about him as a 'hero' in about two hours?" Of course, my friend did not want to make that bet. He'd lose. In this self-critical incapable nation, nothing but a knee-jerk "He's a hero" response is to be expected.

 

I've been mystified at the absolute nonsense of being in "awe" of Tillman's "sacrifice" that has been the American response. Mystified, but not surprised. True, it's not everyday that you forgo a $3.6 million contract for joining the military. And, not just the regular army, but the elite Army Rangers. You know he was a real Rambo, who wanted to be in the "real" thick of things. I could tell he was that type of macho guy, from his scowling, beefy face on the CNN pictures. Well, he got his wish. Even Rambo got shot in the third movie, but in real life, you die as a result of being shot. They should call Pat Tillman's army life "Rambo 4: Rambo Attempts to Strike Back at His Former Rambo 3 Taliban Friends, and Gets Killed."

 

But, does that make him a hero? I guess it's a matter of perspective. For people in the United States, who seem to be unable to admit the stupidity of both the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars, such a trade-off in life standards (if not expectancy) is nothing short of heroic. Obviously, the man must be made of "stronger stuff" to have had decided to "serve" his country rather than take from it. It's the old JFK exhortation to citizen service to the nation, and it seems to strike an emotional chord. So, it's understandable why Americans automatically knee-jerk into hero worship.

 

However, in my neighborhood in Puerto Rico, Tillman would have been called a "pendejo," an idiot. Tillman, in the absurd belief that he was defending or serving his all-powerful country from a seventh-rate, Third World nation devastated by the previous conflicts it had endured, decided to give up a comfortable life to place himself in a combat situation that cost him his life. This was not "Ramon or Tyrone," who joined the military out of financial necessity, or to have a chance at education. This was a "G.I. Joe" guy who got what was coming to him. That was not heroism, it was prophetic idiocy.

 

Tillman, probably acting out his nationalist-patriotic fantasies forged in years of exposure to Clint Eastwood and Rambo movies, decided to insert himself into a conflict he didn't need to insert himself into. It wasn't like he was defending the East coast from an invasion of a foreign power. THAT would have been heroic and laudable. What he did was make himself useful to a foreign invading army, and he paid for it. It's hard to say I have any sympathy for his death because I don't feel like his "service" was necessary. He wasn't defending me, nor was he defending the Afghani people. He was acting out his macho, patriotic crap and I guess someone with a bigger gun did him in.

 

Perhaps it's the old, dreamy American thought process that forces them to put sports greats and "larger than life" sacrificial lambs on the pedestal of heroism, no matter what they've done. After all, the American nation has no other role to play but to be the cheerleaders of the home team; a sad role to have to play during conflicts that suffer from severe legitimacy and credibility problems.

 

Matters are a little clearer for those living outside the American borders. Tillman got himself killed in a country other than his own without having been forced to go over to that country to kill its people. After all, whether we like them or not, the Taliban is more Afghani than we are. Their resistance is more legitimate than our invasion, regardless of the fact that our social values are probably more enlightened than theirs. For that, he shouldn't be hailed as a hero, he should be used as a poster boy for the dangerous consequences of too much "America is #1," frat boy, propaganda bull. It might just make a regular man irrationally drop $3.6 million to go fight in a conflict that was anything but "self-defense." The same could be said of the unusual belief of 50 percent of the American nation that thinks Saddam Hussein was behind Sept. 11. One must indeed stand in awe of the amazing success of the American propaganda machine. It works wonders.

 

Al-Qaeda won't be defeated in Afghanistan, even if we did kill all their operatives there. Only through careful and logical changing of the underlying conditions that allow for the ideology to foster will Al-Qaeda be defeated. Ask the Israelis if 50 years of blunt force have eradicated the Palestinian resistance. For that reason, Tillman's service, along with that of thousands of American soldiers, has been wrongly utilized. He did die in vain, because in the years to come, we will realize the irrationality of the War on Terror and the American reaction to Sept. 11. The sad part is that we won't realize it before we send more people like Pat Tillman over to their deaths.

 

Rene Gonzalez is a UMass graduate student.

[Special K 0]

Thanks for quoting a fucking piece of shit! It completely made me lose my mind and feel angry for a while! was that Ted Rahl or Whomever? If you're insinnuationg hypcraacy, that above is about the most repuslive thing I've read. And I am serious about that. Every fucking sentence above should be kicked in the motherfucking mouth Kawada style. Hey! I'm a social-policyl liberal, economic conservative. Whomever wrote that shit above should be out of our nation. Period. I like the cheat. BREAKING STUFF!

 

-Doug

*getting worked up over something that wasn't even in the original discussion.

 

P.P.S. Making fun of innocent death still != Funny

[Slayer 0]

The "How Dare You" crowd sure is long-winded

[Guest croweater]

Wow, some of you guys need to lighten up. We're not laughing at the fact he died, we're laughing at how he died. If I die in a funny way I'd rather people laugh than get all bloody uppity about it and go on about respecting the dead. It's ironic, it's funny.

 

That George Bush situation had me busting a gut too.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

We should have closed the thread after "Well I guess he found them then." Spit milk everywhere, you asshole.