Millennial Couple Bikes Near ISIS Territory to Prove ‘Humans Are Kind’ and Gets Killed

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  1. LiveUninhibited

    LiveUninhibited Well-Known Member

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    Evil is make-believe. But evil isn't required to get killed. A mother bear killing you because you get too close to its cubs isn't evil, but you're no less dead. Insecure, ignorant morons brainwashed by a stupid religion untempered by Western secularism aren't evil, but they are dangerous.
     
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    You can think evil is a make-believe concept all you want.

    Kidnapping and execution is NOT make-believe.
     
  3. Brewskier

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    Perhaps you should take your objection to the liberal writer of the article you apparently didn’t read.

     
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    That’s a good point too. Despite their stated mission of proving “humans are kind” they seemed to strategically avoid the areas of the world that would have given more weight to their claims.

    It’s like a rich white liberal visiting Beverly Hills and telling friends back home “yeah, I was in LA”,
     
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    Hopefully before they passed on The Idiot Genes....
     
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    Gene pool at work.
     
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    The killers had a cultural and religious belief that these 4 victims were the evil ones for rejecting the religion of Islam. They wouldn’t have believed killing them was evil.

    That’s why my position is that multiculturalism is bad. Cultures are often incompatible, and it produces results like these.

    But I disagree with your first point. I wouldn’t hesitate to call the motivation of those who opened the West to invasion evil. They knew the destruction that would result, they wanted it to advance their supremacist divide and conquer strategy to world domination.
     
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    Or those who go to the sears tower in Chicago and say its a lovely city to visit...missing all of the hood areas.
     
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    This is why those who want to live in socialism, never flock to socialist spots. They know full well how dangerous those countries are, but think cause America is so "peaceful" that no matter how much poverty socialism brings, it wont turn Americans as ravenous as places like Venezuela.
     
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    I read that. What part of “Tajikistan is generally safe” was unclear?

    The place where they died is popular with Western tourists. They were biking with a large group of Westerners, two of whom were also killied. The assailants appear to have self-radicalized via ISIS propaganda — ISIS has no significant presence in the country.

    The headline on the story is provocative, but the underlying facts are not.
     
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    And Tajikistan isn't really that close to the sun, there are a lot of places that are even much closer to the inferno.

    Maybe they should have painted their faces brown, maybe then they would have been safe.
     
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    I find it sick politicising these young people's death and some of you even praising it and that they will have no children. Just disgusting and a sad statement of where our humanity has gone.

    I thought I would do a check on a site which would write such an article and the first link I got was snoops and the headline of this article. Raytri is correct.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/millenial-couple-isis-tajikistan/
     
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    With the advent of the street drug epidemic there is no such thing as a good neighborhood, but rather only a hierarchy of risk on a floating scale, where in some neighborhoods your odds of EVIL harming you are less, but still significant.
     
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    What part of “Tajikistan, a weak state with a known terrorist threat that shares a border with Afghanistan, where ISIS and other terrorist groups are highly active“ was unclear?

    They believed the type of BS you routinely peddle and it got them killed. Fact.

    But these two sought out to prove how evil doesn’t exist and that humans are decent, yet they seemed to strategically stay in areas deemed “safe” by people like you. Doesn’t seem like they believed in their own rhetoric. Just a big virtue signaling exercise. I’m sure Tajikistan would have sounded exotic and dangerous to their bugmen friends back home.
     
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    Liberalism is bad for ya.
     
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    From a horse, sure, but you can't do much shooting from a bike at a target on your port quarter, and keep the bike upright.
     
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    So your story was initially “what a couple of naive liberals.”

    That debunked, it’s now “what a couple of hypocrites for not biking through a war zone.”

    You’re done.
     
  18. Brewskier

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    How is it debunked? Did these two liberals not go to a place with a known terrorist threat and get killed by ISIS?
     
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    This has nothing to do with progressivism. Naivety is more like it and permeates society. The "Central Asia is generally fairly safe" statement is enough for me to stay away from that "fairly safe" area.
     
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    Sorry, but this “I’m not going to work for a living and go travel” mindset seems exclusive to progressives. Add in a healthy dose of xenophilia, common on the left, and we have these two in Tajikistan.
     
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    Debunked? They are dead for biking in a country that had ISIS held territory.

    "But it was sooooo scenic" :roflol::roflol::roflol:

    Oh yea, those are a couple of real smart liberals. Were they using straws too?? :roll:
     
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    Please think about your claim that Tajikistan is even remotely “ISIS-held territory.”
     
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    That's why you always ALWAYS learn about where you go before you go there. Although if we're being honest, does anyone really think of "Tajikistan" as a must-see place, or even know it exists?
     
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    Killed by ISIS terrorists in a country with known terrorist territory, yet we are tasked to prove ISIS was there and territory was held by ISIS..... :roflol:
     
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    Yes. Please provide a source showing that ISIS holds territory in Tajikistan.

    Hint: they don’t.
     

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