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[Peace Alliance]

Maybe in a year or two you'll have PTSD, a drinking problem, and things you wish you could forget. Maybe you'll be dead. These are the realities you are facing, and the reason I am urging you to do some soul searching.

There are other ways to defend your country. America needs diplomats, politicians, and news reporting.

You could become a killing machine, or you could become a reporter who exposes the unethical treatment of local populations surrounding foreign American mining operations. You could be a force for good by pursuing justice, and perhaps investigating some of the reasons there are people around the world who want to do your nation harm.

[Shores of Tripoli]

HAHAHAHA you almost had me until you said news reporting. Oh wait...no you didn't. But still! News!! HHaaahaha, no such thing as news. Those Commies at MSNBC and CNN destroyed it. hahahhah.

[Peace Alliance]

How does one go about killing news reporting. What prevents (other then your apparent lack of sanity) you from going out and conducting a news investigation of your own?

[Shores of Tripoli]

 If CNN and MSNBC want to conduct what they call "news investigations", people watch it, and they make money off it, then more power to them. I however enjoy a rather stale boring straight forward non opinionated story that you cant find at CNN, MSNBC, or Fox. That's what I call news, but that died some time ago.

[Peace Alliance]

I still don't get how you can say it's dead. Obviously you can still go ahead and conduct long-form reporting yourself. Who's stopping you? Obviously you can find a way to make important information more appealing then presenting it as "stale boring straight [and] forward." BTW, when did we ever have non-opinionated news? What is this weird ideal you've constructed in your brain?

[Shores of Tripoli]

 Obviously I'm being idealistic, News pisses me off therefor I'd hate to make a career out of it.

[Shadow]

This is a very weird conversation.

[Shores of Tripoli]

 You like my new signature and avatar Peace? I did it for you....

[Ungatt Trunn II]

@Ungatt: the word liberal is used liberally. But the fact that you are just going to use it as an insult for anyone who wants gun control tells me that you are not willing to reason, or even challenge your own world view with a different perspective. BTW, how's glen becks new show, do you like it as much as when he was still sane enough for Fox?

To start with, it's spelled GLENN BECK. If you are so ignorant to the subject which you are bleating out that you cannot add an additional "n" to a name or have the darn decency to check first, perhaps you should refrain from using such generic insults against conservatives. Basically all you did was show me you had no idea what you were talking about and just wanted to make yourself look like the "good guy" because the nature of your wording is so commonly used by people and accepted that it's just viewed as an absolute truth when in the end it is nothing but windbag rhetoric aimed at making yourself out to be the winner.

Furthermore, you go on and on about my concrete beliefs and how I don't have perspective. Who the hell are you to say? You know nothing about me or my life. Maybe my beliefs are so strong because I HAVE seen the other side and I don't like it.

And just for good measure: COMMIE LIBERAL LEFTEST SOCIALIST HIPPIE PARADOX!

[Pippin]

COMMIE LIBERAL LEFTEST SOCIALIST HIPPIE PARADOX

[Shadow]

@Ungatt: the word liberal is used liberally. But the fact that you are just going to use it as an insult for anyone who wants gun control tells me that you are not willing to reason, or even challenge your own world view with a different perspective. BTW, how's glen becks new show, do you like it as much as when he was still sane enough for Fox?

To start with, it's spelled GLENN BECK. If you are so ignorant to the subject which you are bleating out that you cannot add an additional "n" to a name or have the [darn] decency to check first, perhaps you should refrain from using such generic insults against conservatives. Basically all you did was show me you had no idea what you were talking about and just wanted to make yourself look like the "good guy" because the nature of your wording is so commonly used by people and accepted that it's just viewed as an absolute truth when in the end it is nothing but windbag rhetoric aimed at making yourself out to be the winner.

Furthermore, you go on and on about my concrete beliefs and how I don't have perspective. Who the hell are you to say? You know nothing about me or my life. Maybe my beliefs are so strong because I HAVE seen the other side and I don't like it.

And just for good measure: COMMIE LIBERAL LEFTEST SOCIALIST HIPPIE PARADOX!

I enjoy the rare occasions when you venture outside of spa.

[Shores of Tripoli]

Spa is boring. There's nobody to kill in the spa. (Am I right Peace?)

[Neobaron]

We really really need +rep on this board.

[Pippin]

we also need a chinese guy to say funny stuff. but we dont have that :(

[Sharptooh]

This could branch into a lot of interesting UMD topics, least of which why lots of young people seem to think that killing is an easy and enjoyable thing to do . . . this is something I have never managed to understand