Politics As Usual

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by dtb
Did you want to see the beheading tape? I thought you expressed the view that no one in his right mind would want/need to see that -- how is this any different?

Just so we're all perfectly clear about the quality of trolling going on here, what Not Me said a few weeks ago was that no one should need to see the pictures of people jumping from the World Trade Center:

Originally posted by Not Me, on May 12, at 11:28 p.m. PDT
Did you need to see the people jump from the WTC to know the horror of what they must have been going through? Did you fucking need to see it? Is just hearing it not enough for you to get the effect?

That is my point. What is wrong with people that they cannot understand these things without visual stimuli.

Last night, she took the opposite position in equally certain terms:

Originally posted by Not Me, on May 25, at 11:45 p.m. PDT
So what is this? We cannot post pics of Americans suffering? Why? What does this do? Hurt the Dem cause by reminding you who are enemies are? But yet we have to see pictures of something akin to fraternity pranks shoved down our throats to make us feel like we have collectively done something wrong?

What a fucking bunch of hypocrits.

Yes, the wounds are raw. Burying your heads in the sand and forgetting what it is we are up against only endangers us all.

The word is spelled "hypocrite," and it refers to the practice of expressing feelings, beliefs or virtues one does not hold or possess; insincerity.