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>>Your views are dangerous and quite simply un-American.

Feel free to reject this characterization any way you see appropriate. <<

Your glaring inabllity to recognize obvious satire is staggering. I'm not calling you an idiot mind you - however it would be accurate to characterize your thinking as excessively concrete.

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It's posts like this that make everyone hate Americans. Can't say I blame them either.

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It is the density of American politicians like him that thinks that America can get its way around the world using force and fear that makes America that unpopular. It does not work though, American influence in the hearts and minds of global citizens detoriate and thus American influence naturally detoriates too. The military does not have the capacity to counter this loss of influence since it is so huge.

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OMG you guys really don't get that zipo was being sarcastic do you? zipo stated that his first post in this thread was satire. A working definition of satire:

Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.

Therefore when zipo writes:

As you know, many posters on ot-politics are posting material supporting, encouraging, and expressing sympathy for islamic and palestinian terrorism.

I will be happy to provide you with my research on relevant legislation in the US (e.g. Sedition Act, Patriot Act) and the EU (e.g. pending legislation criminalizing expressions of support and sympathy for terrorism).

Together, I am sure we can adequately police and sanitize these threads of any objectionable content.

And let me be among the first to thank you and congratulate you for your efforts in this regard.

Using the working definition of satire, his post is utilizing irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity of people who support such legislation as the Patriot Act or Sedition laws.

I don't know if you all are just taking an opportunity to climb up on your soap box; are purposly being dense; so emotional that you can't discern obvious satire and/or sarcasm; all of the above; none of the above? Don't understand why you can't see that zipo actually agrees with your viewpoints more or less. Perhaps zipo's post could be construed as a troll post but I definitely would disagree. IMO some of you guys need to lighten up a little.