Unfolding Rohingya crisis

[Bad Dog]

I can see already that dealing with your closed mind set it a complete waste of time and effort. You would rather confront and accuse instead of dealing with anything logically.

What you call a closed mind is very typical of the members of this forum.  It's called knowing the difference between right and wrong.  You socialists always fall for the pipe dreams of our liberal academics being unable to see the obvious (to us) shortcomings of their silly plans.  You will never achieve "fairness" or equality of outcomes you seek.

In short you are a moron.

P.S. I still really like your cheese especially the Swiss.

[txradioguy]

I can see already that dealing with your closed mind set it a complete waste of time and effort. You would rather confront and accuse instead of dealing with anything logically.

Actually n00b I've stayed pretty quiet until Monday on your spamming of the forum and putting stories where they don't belong. 

My comment was pretty mild and your overreacting to what I said was excessive.

From your reactions to people who question what you're doing here...it's you that are itching for a confrontation. 

If that's the case...I'm your Huckleberry.

[SVPete]

sd, try being smarter in how you participate in your next discussion forum.

* When you post a news article, comment on it, why it's important (realistically).

* Before starting a lot of threads, participate in existing threads for a while, so as to get to know folks and let them get to know you.

* Don't be on a crusade for some cause or conspiracy theory, and don't be a fanboy for your pet politician.

* Be prepared to explain/defend your views without getting huffy;

* Don't pontificate about things of which you have little knowledge or pretend to be something you aren't; doing either will quickly get your @$$ handed to you by some one who's been there, done that, and got a closetful of T-shirts;

* Don't pick fights with long-termers on the forum; it won't end well;

* Once you get on the @#$%-list of many of a forum's long-termers it's usually time to move on; clean-slate restarts are seldom a realistic possibility.

I'm not asserting any authority, as I have none here. If you wanted a pretext for ignoring the above, I just gave you one and I expect it will get more use than my suggestions above. I've simply been participating in discussion forums for 17 years and seen what goes well and what doesn't.

[Bad Dog]

sd, try being smarter in how you participate in your next discussion forum.

* When you post a news article, comment on it, why it's important (realistically).

* Before starting a lot of threads, participate in existing threads for a while, so as to get to know folks and let them get to know you.

* Don't be on a crusade for some cause or conspiracy theory, and don't be a fanboy for your pet politician.

* Be prepared to explain/defend your views without getting huffy;

* Don't pontificate about things of which you have little knowledge or pretend to be something you aren't; doing either will quickly get your @$$ handed to you by some one who's been there, done that, and got a closetful of T-shirts;

* Don't pick fights with long-termers on the forum; it won't end well;

* Once you get on the @#$%-list of many of a forum's long-termers it's usually time to move on; clean-slate restarts are seldom a realistic possibility.

I'm not asserting any authority, as I have none here. If you wanted a pretext for ignoring the above, I just gave you one and I expect it will get more use than my suggestions above. I've simply been participating in discussion forums for 17 years and seen what goes well and what doesn't.

Pearls before swine Pete.

[obumazombie]

Pearls before swine Pete.

Maybe dmf will clutch some of them.

[SVPete]

Pearls before swine Pete.

The mini-spectacle of people like sd ignoring or urinating on common sense when it is recommended to them amuses me. Can a sexagenarian be a sick puppy?

[SVPete]

Back on-topic, FWIW, this "crisis" has been going on for many years, possibly for more than a decade. But one PC "oppressed" group is oppressing another PC "oppressed" group. When it's one PC group vs. another PC group, Libs' and Progs' first impulse is to squirt ink and swim away. Their class-based world view handles oppressed class vs. oppressed class conflicts poorly (think, "Rwanda"!).

[sargentodiaz]

Back to the thread - if the name calling is over.

The prime minister of Myramar, an avowed champion of human rights, has been repeatedly asked about the persecution of the Muslim minority in her country. She has repeated avoided the question and won't even issue a press release.

As these refugees are Muslim, one has to wonder why Malaysia refuses to take them in.

The Philippines, a predominantely Christian country, as agreed to take a few of them into those islands where Muslims already live.