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Internment Camps for Muslims

Because, lets face it, hasty generalizations are easier.
Because it’s no skin off my nose.
Because I am really too scared to think right now.
Because I slept through history class and skipped out of that stupid diversity class.
Because that’s what fear and bigotry lead to.

(Note, these are some captions for a cartoon I’m thinking about. Also need to find a good image to go with it.)

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Government Takeover

Richard “Dick” Jones of Omni Consumer Products asks a very slippery question:

Government Takeover

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Harder Better Faster Stronger

Harder Better Faster Stronger

With apologies to Daft Punk.

What amazes me in the conversations in America about wars is how we can’t seem to figure out the basic math. Kill 1 insurgent, 50 take his place. That’s the math. The war-mongering response to this is to do it harder, better, faster, stronger, and somehow it’ll all work out.

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XKCD Shows War Handwavium in Fiction Versus Reality

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If you hover the mouse over the original cartoon, you get the following tidbit of text: “We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.”

This is one way to sum up what War Handwavium is about in a nice little cartoon.

See the original here: http://www.xkcd.com/652/

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