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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
"Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon - laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution - these can lift at a colossal humbug - push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

-- Mark Twain

...in memory of the ten satirists and two officers butchered in Paris today because some people can't take a joke. Let the humor go on, if for no other reason than fuck them

and rec

K&R

I would have been more impressed had the New Yorker featured one of Charlie Hebdo’s edgy cartoons.

.... and make a statement about a single incident.

They wisely went a little more universal.

Heard an interesting observation that the shooter's motive was to get the Right in France to rise up so there could be more war. They NEED the Right Wing to be the symbol of the West to get people in the Middle East to support them.

The French were members of the Underground and real fighters.

Let's face it. The Right Wing hates the French because of their rampant homophobia (This notion that all Frenchmen are gay) and because they seem too damn free. (Liberal)

say that there is a competition between Al Quada and IS over recruits. They are literally "performing" to get the attention of recruits.

Couldn't they just kill each other like other gangs do over turf wars?

You may have to excuse a few news outlets, however.. like the NY POST. WASHINGTON TIMES... etc...

An eye for an eye.... just what the terrorists do themselves.


I say run the cartoons because they have something to say, and can shed light on the incident... not out of revenge.

..... were the original words from the post that started this subthread.

it's a way of righting the wrong, giving a little comfort to the survivors and insisting violence can't silence thought.

Thank you, New Yorker.

But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."

Camus

Je suis Charlie. I hope.