That's obviously fake news. His nose is far too small to be an anteater. Checkmate!

Hang on, what side was I arguing again?

"engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack...is NOT entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense...person is NOT privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant UNLESS the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape"

Warning shots seem to be enough for you to allow this kid to kill someone because they are so threatening. Warning shots seem like a reasonable means of attempting to escape. Warning shots were not exhausted by Rittenhouse, who is stuck having to exhaust all reasonable means of escape before using deadly force per Wisconsin law because he was engaged in unlawful behavior during the incident. If he doesn't exhaust all reasonable means of escape, self defense cannot apply. If he claims the shot fired in the air is threatening, he acknowledges that it's a means of escape through intimidation. Checkmate, dumbass.

Oh yeah!

Well if they spent 54% of their annual budget on their military like the USA, despite facing no outside threat that justified the expense, they wouldn't have the highest standard of living in the world!

Checkmate Norway!

USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!

I think Chess would count as how to win ONCE against an opponent not aware of, or not expecting you to try, the fool's checkmate.

Was that thing the kid rode at the end of The Never Ending Story a dragon? I think yes.

Checkmate Athiests.

CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!

OK, I'm tempted to ask how many suburban kids get caught carjacking, but I would appear to condone the hateful implication. (that whites get carjacked in black neighborhoods)

Checkmate, I concede.

Checkmate.

Yeah, but what about the tides? Checkmate.

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Now the dominoes are all falling like a house of cards.. checkmate.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Doesn't even pass the most basic test of logic. If 'torture & abuse' was the foundation of terrorist recruiting methods, then why did terrorists attack on 9/11? Or at Mogudishu? The Cole? Torture isn't the reason; it's just a convenient scapegoat.
This guy may believe in his position, but that doesn't mean he's accurate. He's selling books, and targeting the anti-war left as an audience. Whether because that's his own personal ideology or whether he's just a smart business guy doesn't matter. What matters is the veracity of his argument. His position is opinion based. For every Matthew Alexander, there is one who has the opposite opinion. Who you pick as 'right' entirely depends on your political persuasion.


Seriously... How do you talk about logic, but completely lack your own?

He is talking about his experience in Iraq. He is talking about very recent history. Did you miss that? Or did you latch onto the one thing that, in your mind, created an inconsistency? "Oh, oh... no he didn't! If I interpret what he said the way I want... Checkmate, bi**hes!" Yes, why use context when it doesn't fit what you believe in?

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"At the prison where I conducted interrogations, we heard day in and day out, foreign fighters who had been captured state that the number one reason they had come to fight in Iraq was because of torture and abuse.

So my team of interrogators realized that torture and abuse was counterproductive to what we were trying to accomplish in the long run. We were basically handing Al Qaeda it number one recruiting tool."
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He is talking about his time in Iraq. When he was the senior military interrogator, arriving to Iraq in 2006. (Hint: that's in the video description and he says it too.) Sweet J, do I have to transcribe everything for you? The video is right there. Try watching it again, actual listen, and don't include a time machine in your explanations.

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Wow. Promoted twice in one day. Thanks for the promote!

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
*promote

Haha! Awesome. It's supposed to say 'Thanks for the promote, my friend.' LOL!

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
I used an online translator on that sentence, here's what I got: "cheers for facts assist, my boy friend"

Now that's disturbing

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Takk for det fremme, meg venn.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*promote