Random Politics & Religion #00

I wouldn't even look because from square one I refused to stoop to this level of pettiness. I don't care if I'm right or wrong by your logic on an issue this semantic and trivial.

I'm not insulting your thinking on this matter, I am insulting the matter itself.

Your assumptions are greatly amusing, as usual.

Once you go this low, no hope exists and you'll forever be known as that guy who just laughs because that's all he has.

Alright my mistake.

Alright my mistake.

I'm refusing to entertain the notion of proving you wrong on an issue I deem petty; Just my talking to you explaining myself isn't the same as stooping to that subject's level.

There is honestly no point in bringing logic to someone that wishes to just mock the people that disagree with them.

The only thing I am against here is this type of pettiness getting the most attention. It's a critical year for your country and just mocking anyone who doesn't agree with us is the worst type of dialogue we can create.

Don't worry about it, when it comes to altima, no effort is ever required, he is never gonna say anything.

I wasn't mocking anyone, I am simply pointing out that democrats are so feeble minded they have to be taught when and how to clap.

And all you really accomplished was showing everyone how partisan and simple minded you are. Congrats!

I never said Trump was the only politician behaving that way,

hearing another presidential Candidate stooping to that level is to be expected since appealing to the lowest common denominator will get candidates extra votes with the gullible. I'm talking about legitimate dialogue.

Reread this sentence. Yeah you're mocking a group of people.

The origin of this dialogue's pettiness makes it a non-contest, akin to some website claiming republicans don't know what an apology is and someone bringing the post here to us. Of course they do, it's just mocking them as a group for the sake of entertainment.

For the third time, I'm not entertaining that subject or looking for your data for you.

I never said that. I refused to give the idea any of my time.

at least you haven't stooped to the ultimate level of prettiness.

See that's the problem Nik you aren't supposed to read !

that'll learn me...

One protester was shot dead and eight others were arrested on Tuesday after authorities confronted members of an armed group that has staged a month-long occupation of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, activists and officials said.

The FBI said gunshots rang out after officers stopped a car carrying protest leader Ammon Bundy and others near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Activists said Robert LaVoy Finicum, a rancher who acted as a spokesman for the occupiers, was killed.

FBI agents were setting up a perimeter on Tuesday night around the wildlife refuge, where some people were still holding out, continuing their protest against federal control of large tracts of the country, a law enforcement official told Reuters.

One of the remaining occupiers, Jason Patrick, told Reuters by phone they would stay until the "redress of grievances".

“I've heard 'peaceful resolution' for weeks now and now there’s a cowboy who is my friend who is dead – so prepare for the peaceful resolution,” Patrick said.

The takeover at Malheur that started Jan. 2 was a flare-up in the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, a decades-old conflict over the U.S. government's control of millions of acres of territory in the west. Protesters say they are defending the Constitution.

Federal officials said they had probable cause to arrest Finicum, who told NBC News earlier this month that he would rather die than be detained.

Protest leader Ammon Bundy and four other senior members were taken into custody following the confrontation along Highway 395, near the reserve in northeast Oregon around 4:25 p.m. local time (0025 GMT), the FBI said.

A sixth person was arrested by Oregon State Police in Burns, Oregon, about 1 1/2 hours later. The FBI said a seventh person was later arrested, 50-year-old Peter Santilli, a journalist who livestreamed events at the refuge.

The FBI said they also arrested an eighth person in Peoria, Arizona, in relation to the occupation.

All of those arrested face federal charges of conspiracy to use force, intimidation or threats to impede federal officers from discharging their duties, the FBI said.

The protester Patrick likened Finicum’s death to the killing of Tamir Rice, an unarmed 12-year-old African American boy fatally shot by police outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014. The officers were not charged.

"The government can kill who they want for whatever reason they want with impunity," Patrick said.

Asked how the occupiers would respond to law enforcement entering the refuge he did not indicate a clear plan.

"I don't know what to tell you but if somebody saying 'peaceful resolution' comes in and points guns at me..." he said before trailing off.

The Oregonian reported that Bundy had been en route to a community meeting in John Day, Oregon, where he was scheduled to be a guest speaker, when authorities stopped his vehicle.

The newspaper said 43-year-old Ryan Bundy, Ammon's brother, suffered a minor gunshot wound.

What did I just say about petty slapfights?

Discuss actual issues or shut the *** up.