Regarding the Attacks in Paris:

The main difference between IS and the Tea Party is that IS is mostly made up of young impressionable people, but the Tea Party is full of people old enough to know better.

The U.S. won’t in any circumstances agree to a political settlement for the civil war in Syria that leaves Assad in power because he’s lost all legitimacy, Obama said. As long as Assad stays there is no way to unite the country’s various factions for the fight against Islamic State.

More from Bloomberg.com: Republicans Accuse Obama of Going Soft on the Islamic State

“It would not work to keep him in power,’’ Obama said at a news conference Sunday in Kuala Lumpur. “This is a practical issue, not just a matter of conscience.’’

There is an increasing awareness on the Putin’s part that the extremist group is a much bigger threat to Russia than losing an embattled ally in Assad or anything else in the region, Obama said.

You've got teabaggers like Layboy talking about nuking all Moslems

You're a complete fake, and a racist, bigoted, fuckwitted fake to boot.

You don't seem to have any desire not to see all Moslems nuked either.

If everyone keeps returning fire against the name-callers, pretty soon the moderators will start suspending people again.

It's not worth it.

izzythepush, bobsal, and glitterbag are best just put on ignore.

The only thing any of them ever do is spout name-calling, so no one will actually miss anything by blocking them out.

If their name-calling breaks through ignore, instead of responding in kind, it is better to submit an abuse report.

If everyone keeps returning fire against the name-callers, pretty soon the moderators will start suspending people again. It's not worth it.

Nevertheless frustration and resentment against society seems to be the only “psychological” trait that is regularly shared. Psychologists that study
radicalisation (Fethi Benslama in France) detect a psychological (not psychiatric) state of “suffering”, a discrepancy between their expectations
and their social outcome, a need of recognition, in a word a narcissist crisis, which makes them more open to either nihilism or to the narrative of heroism that Al Qaeda or Daesh offer to them.

The religious dimension offers them a framework of personal re-structuration: the truth, the good, a clear set of norms, brothers in arms, a clear objective, and salvation, although the latter is not necessarily understood in terms of the paradise as described in the Koran. In fact few of them speak explicitly about paradise.

The nihilist dimension (revenge, suicide) seems to supersede the utopian one (to build a new and just society). Radicals are neither happy nor funny
people.

oralloy wrote:

izzythepush, bobsal, and glitterbag are best just put on ignore.

The only thing any of them ever do is spout name-calling, so no one will actually miss anything by blocking them out.

If their name-calling breaks through ignore, instead of responding in kind, it is better to submit an abuse report.

If everyone keeps returning fire against the name-callers, pretty soon the moderators will start suspending people again. It's not worth it.

izzy yes, the others no

But it will not be you unless you do it wrong.

Sure it is, with a little bit of work we could turn this into a nifty club house, and all the cool kids would come. We would even get some of those great people who left a few years ago back....they pop in and say that they miss their old A2K, they would find out that it is great again, trust me.