Why are people STUPID?!

[Guest]

http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2005/07/fatwah.html

http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2005/06/team-infidel.html

They claim to have a fatwah issued on them and that they are dipping their bullets in pig lard so as to send muslims to hell.

Every time I hear this I refute it because it's so stupid it tempts me to violence, and I am already an excessively violent person. I have buttstroked people in the face (in situations when there was more than one person around to back my story up for the LEOs) for being less stupid than the stupid that I feel assaulting me when some smacktard perpetuates the myth of pig byproduct being psychologically deadly to muslims. They don't like handling it or eating it. Big whoop.

The Black Jack Pershing story is just that, a cute little story. Islamic radicals do not believe that being shot with a bullet drenched in pig by product will send them to hell, and if they did, all it would take is a cleric to say "being shot with pig byproduct will not deny you paradise". Presto.

idiots.

People never listen, though. Look at these tough guys who are going to defend themselves against the waves of arabs:


So tactical!

If you watch the videos, they shoot less accurately than they even look capable of. Truly mindboggling.

The Koran used is a translation, and therefore not a real Koran. I think they're making the fatwah up.
Read all those posts. Delusions of noteriety. That's all I can say.


...and posting about how you're going to kill and torture arabs who are supposedly coming to kill you, using specially prepared bullets, is the new "mall ninja" in thing. Watch it get even more popular with the 'Oxygen Thief' subset of the RKBA community.

Edit: I have no problem with people shooting up and peeing on their own property. I'm not interested in participating either, mostly because I graduated beyond the whole 'psychological gratification from symbolism' stage a long time ago.

Also, if some terrorist launches an AK-47 attack in a mall and some guy who could have stopped it has his gun jam because he rolled all his "230 grain hydrashocks" in his sunday barbecue meat, you will wish that everyone listened to me like they are supposed to.

[BillBlank]

Why are people stupid? To make the rest of us look good and give us a chuckle when we see them on the web advertising that fact.  

Sheesh, looks like they've been eating the lard rather than dipping their bullets in it.

Anyone else think that if their survalist wet dreams came true they'd be a great source of ammunition and cover?

Bill

PS I thought Americans didn't get irony? Nice one Blackburn I almost missed it....... you were joking right?

[Guest]

'psychological gratification from symbolism'

Finally gave up the porn, huh?  

[Warbow]

Wow. Those guys are cool.

They remind me of some of the people at AR15.com -- the eTough Bigots, I call them.

[K Frame]

At least they're practicing good trigger finger control.

That's something.

[Justin]

Why does everybody got to be so -{bleep}-in' stupid?  Why can't more peopre be interrigent.  Rike me?

[Harold Tuttle]

theres a long tradition of psyops propaganda used to denegrate the opposition into non human status



As the war on Terror escalates, expect the lowest common denominator to drool when the bell is rung

[SalukiFan]

A mosque was recently firebombed in my town.  Supposedly, the Molotov cocktail chucked through the window didn't do much damage because it was made from a plastic Mountain Dew bottle and didn't break, spewing accelerant like a normal firebomb would.  Brilliant.  

There are some real brainiacs out there who think that they are going to mix it up with some Muslims...

These guys are just another example of idiots in action.

[...has left the building.]

Wow it looks like a Gun Show Loser All-Star Team. I wonder if I can buy imitation Nazi regalia from them.

[The Rabbi]

I think these guys got a fatwah from the local all-you-can-eat buffet warning them that their continued presence at the breakfast bar would bring the wrath of the local PD on them.
Its the Internet.  Anyone can be a Rambo fighting for Truth Justice And the American Way.

[GT]

Here's the thing.

When a certain group seriously threatens your way of life it can make you react in odd ways.
A mixture of fear and anger is the natural reaction to being attacked.

These folks are acting out their fear and anger.

You must remember that radical Islam is a dangerous and evil thing. The Saudis burn bibles on a regular basis. If you are a Muslim and the actions of this man bother you then you should get over it just like I, as a Christian am not concerned with people burning bibles.

Also bear in mind that Evangelical Christians don't kill people who don't agree with them and haven't done so for many hundreds of years. Radical Islamists do, now, here.

G

[Gun Runner]

Umm, what was the point of this thread again?

And what exactly have these folks done so as to make you insist they're stupid?

[Sindawe]

Yes it is, right up there with Scientology, differentiated slightly by the fact that radical Muslims kill people and are all over the globe, and that Scientologists are smaller and don't kill people. None that we've found out about, anyway.

Look again Blackburn.  http://www.whyaretheydead.net/

[brimic]

Every time I hear this I refute it because it's so stupid it tempts me to violence, and I am already an excessively violent person. I have buttstroked people in the face (in situations when there was more than one person around to back my story up for the LEOs) for being less stupid than the stupid that I feel assaulting me when some smacktard perpetuates the myth of pig byproduct being psychologically deadly to muslims

Your rediculous bravado would fit right in with that blog, maybe you should join them.

[Werewolf]

Variety is the spice of life! Stupid people are a necessary part of that variety...

Besides without stupid people who would dig our ditches, pick up our trash, pick our vegetables etc etc etc - geniuses surely wouldn't do it.

That said:

These guys - as another enlightened poster stated - are just acting out their fear and anger towards radical islam. This being America they have every right to tell folks about it on the internet (at least for now anyway). They're not breaking any laws and if truth be known there's probably many boatloads of folks who agree with them but don't have the moral courage to say so.

What these guys are doing is for all practical purposes pretty childish and irrelevant (some of it looked kind'a fun though). On the other hand if the wrong islamo-fascists see it - well - there's a remote possibility they may just get their unspoken wish and get to take some of the terrorists on in a violent incident.

Assuming they survive they may just reevaluate their chosen method of expressing their feelings about islam.

[Chris Rhines]

I feel roughly the same way every time I see one of those stupid Terrorist Hunting Permit bumper stickers.  Right, stud.  You're out there tracking down those Al-Whateva bastards, sending them off to their eternal reward.  Gotcha.  

It's not so much the stupidity, as the stupidity mixed with arrogant belligerence.  

Nice of them to advertise, though.  "Here's your sign - stick it on the back of your car."

- Chris

[Guest]

Assuming they survive they may just reevaluate their chosen method of expressing their feelings about islam.

That would be part of the problem right there,  people are actualy afraid of what these muslim "extremists" (i have yet to see one of them mythical "moderate"  muslims denounce em' yet) will do in reaction to free speech.  you don't see people rioting in the streets over a suspected "bible descration", which btw, is just considered art in this country (read; piss christ)  

when we come to the point that we have to worry how these people will respond over something as trivial as a book, its just stupid.  they want us dead, no if's and's or but's about it.  islam's ultimate goal is make the world islam.  no more, no less.  you think these buncha people shooting up a koran is stupid and childish, and the muslims responce is extreme, give me a break.  this is nothing new.  these guys are just pissed that we tip toe around such aholes.  you think this is stupid, i suggest you go have a conversation with the relative of the late Theo Van Gogh,  what he wrote was way less offencive to the muslims delicate sensabilitys, and look what it got him.

[Perd Hapley]

Besides without stupid people who would dig our ditches, pick up our trash, pick our vegetables etc etc etc - geniuses surely wouldn't do it.

Excuse me?

stupid Terrorist Hunting Permit bumper stickers

Lighten up.  It's a little too macho for my vehicle, but you're making way too much of it.

[Werewolf]

Besides without stupid people who would dig our ditches, pick up our trash, pick our vegetables etc etc etc - geniuses surely wouldn't do it.

Excuse me?

So - what you're saying is that folks with above average intelligence fill all the boring, mind numbing, low skill, no skill type jobs in equal proportions with below average intelligence folks? If that's true how come there aren't any dumb rocket scientists or CEO's or Presidents?

As politically incorrect as it may be the range of human intelligence runs the gamit of vegetable to super genius. Dumb people cannot do the same jobs as smart people and smart people usually won't do the low/no skill jobs that are perfectly suited to those of lower intelligence.

That's life...
It's reality...

You don't have to like it.
But you do have to Deal with it.

[Matthew Carberry]

Besides without stupid people who would dig our ditches, pick up our trash, pick our vegetables etc etc etc - geniuses surely wouldn't do it.

Ummm,  the stupid folks sit on their asses and get welfare, drink beer and whine about minorities.  It's hard-working illegal immigrants who do those jobs.

[Werewolf]

Some people complain about how stupid people will only get enough education to be servicepeople. We're raising a nation of maids and janitors.

That's an example of illiteracy not stupidity.

Illiteracy can be corrected up to the level a person's native intelligence will permit.

Stupid is forever.

As to raising a nation of maids and janitors - IMO we're not quite there yet - NO - not yet.

[Perd Hapley]

OK Werewolf, as long as you explained yourself.  

Still, if you think you can classify people according to some kind of linear IQ scale, then you have a thing or two to learn as well.  That there are different types of intelligence, for one.  And that the word "stupid" is an insult.  "Stupid" was used to describe the guys in the above picture.  But the majority of manual laborers would never let themselves be featured in some stupid website like that one.

Furthermore, what gets most people into high-status jobs is ambition, hard work and people skills.  It has more to do with what you care about and what you value than your "intelligence."  The guy digging the ditch may have more intelligence than others, but he hasn't done what's neccessary to get him to the next skill level.  He doesn't care enough.  But he cares about guns, or rebuilding engines, or playing the guitar, so he may be very accomplished in that area.

You've taken us off-topic enough, sir.

[Werewolf]

Furthermore, what gets most people into high-status jobs is ambition, hard work and people skills.  It has more to do with what you care about and what you value than your "intelligence."  The guy digging the ditch may have more intelligence than others, but he hasn't done what's neccessary to get him to the next skill level.  He doesn't care enough.  But he cares about guns, or rebuilding engines, or playing the guitar, so he may be very accomplished in that area.

Horsefeathers...

If you actually believe that anyone can learn calculus or be a researcher in biochemistry or effectively direct an international corporation if he or she just tries hard enough to learn the required skills then you are living in a dream world my friend.

Human beings are put together differently. Just like I'm not big enough, fast enough or strong enough to play professional football no matter how hard I trained or applied my self most people don't have what it takes to earn a PhD in astrophysics or run an international corporation.

WE ARE NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL! And Thank god for that.

[atek3]

Human beings are put together differently. Just like I'm not big enough, fast enough or strong enough to play professional football no matter how hard I trained or applied my self most people don't have what it takes to earn a PhD in astrophysics or run an international corporation.

Funny, most of the successful entrepeneurs I've met aren't brainiacs, they are simply hard working go-getters with a modicum of interpersonal skills.  

Furthermore, what gets most people into high-status jobs is ambition, hard work and people skills.

I agree with you mostly.  Some jobs require brains...Doctors, Chemists, etc. get weeded out pretty quick if they are stupid.  Other jobs, management, sales, etc.  are definately more all about "ambition, hard work and people skills."

atek3

I agree with