So, with all of the hate and misunderstanding in the world I am supposed to get that the OP is saying that Bush is (for example) calling for the cease fire and that the end result will be Armageddon for the Jews? With threads in recent memory calling for the obliteration of entire cites in Iraq and a recent influx of White Supremacists, I am supposed to not take these things at face value in the absence of any line or otherwise shared context for a motiveless and random OP? And to top all of this off, this is the sort of thing that is supposed to make the board better, if only I weren’t to dense to see it? Wow.
No, don’t blame yourself, Binary. I have magical powers that help me read.
That’s why I’m sad to see “charter member” under your name. I was kind of hoping your kind was getting weeded out in a few weeks. :rolleyes:
What did I do to deserve that?
I was wondering that myself. It kinda came out of left field, didn’t it…
Because you said something that made perfect sense. I need to recalibrate my sense of humor I guess, it’s not coming across. You know I love you. 
No harm, no foul. It may be me, after all I didn’t “get” the oh so hilarious OP either.
So, this being a parody on Bush’s policies, presumably if Bush were smarter he would be avoiding these traps by…
Encouraging hostilities in Israel, perhaps even directly sponsoring suicide bombers, in order to keep the Israelis on their toes and save from their inevitable fatal complacency in times of peace…
Scuppering all attempts to create peace in Iraq, particularly if they are initiated by Iraqis as this could only be low cunning presaging the invasion of poor naive Israel…
Ensuring that Afghanistan continues to be an unstable hellhole torn apart by corrupt warlords fighting over the international drugs trade at the direct expense of peace, stability and the recognition of human rights…
Refusing to exchange counter-terrorism intelligence or expertise with foreign governments to keep terrorism abroad where it can do no harm…
Interfering in the domestic policies and religious freedoms of Mexico, and possibly drawing up invasion plans against the event of the Islam becoming the religion of, say, 10% of the population. It’s the only way to be safe.
OK. So, Lib, what you’re saying is that this is a “joke thread” parodying…uh…I’m not sure what exactly. I read it as what grienspace thought would be a good strategy for the Radical Moslems, and a nasty one at that. I just reread it and came to the same conclusion. My statefy would be a little different.
- Call for the complete cessation of terrorist activities and start to act like reasonable fucking human beings and live peacefully among the rest of us.
It would be nice if grienspace would come back and explain himself…
Haj
Actually, this is an interesting experiment: what would you do if you were in charge of RADICAL Islamists worldwide and wanted to promote their interests in the world? It’s be a good way to anticipate what they’ll be up to next.
I have some ideas, but I think I’ll keep them to my self. I don’t want Carnivore to make a mistake and send the black vans to my house.
No, this is not a joke thread. Lynn has explained before that she does not mean we all have to be humorless gothic zombies. A joke thread is one that isn’t offered as a serious Pit thread, like something flirty or some inside joke from MPSIMS or something. She never said you can’t convey your point with humor. You just can’t be joking around.
YEAH! OK!
Bush’s socks didn’t match this moring. Fucking liar! I was gonna start a thread about it, but…
So, uh, could you lower it to a level dumb enough for this moderator to understand it?
Better yet, could you, grienspace?
BTW, Lib, given grienspace’s political opinions that I’ve witnessed, I’d put my money on “Muslims are evil” rather than “GWB’s policies will cause more violence”. But hey, I’ve been wrong before.
So, I take it that your amazing powers of reading missed the Pit rules?
I find this bit rather relevant to this thread (bolding mine):
But hell, perhaps that is also a joke that I didn’t get. :rolleyes:
Oh well, guess I’m about to be accused of being a humorless git again. Too bad; IRL everyone tells me how funny I am all the time, while here I go over like a lead balloon. I should stick to talking-dog jokes; I’m pretty good with those.
Yes, it does, but from the rest of the text I’d say it’s not at all clear that the OP finds all that much difference between “Islam” and “radical Islam”. YMMV.
Well, maybe it’s me but I don’t get why Mexico. There are already plenty of mosques right here in the USA. Hell, there’s one ten minutes from my office and half the guys I work with go over there to pray every day. Hey, you don’t think…?
But really, Mexico? It seems a bit silly to think that a such a solidly Catholic country is going to suddenly go all Islamic. Oh, I think I get it, the OP thinks that a lawless third-world country like Mexico will ignore all these mosques popping up like mushrooms, with Imams preaching death to the USA, and the terrorists they produce will bribe some cops and slip across the undefended border in a load of illegal immigrants to set the Houston refineries alight. Or something.
OK, I am a humorless git after all. I can easily accept a talking dog, or a talking sausage for that matter if it makes the joke better, but mosques in Mexico as the punch line? Whoosh.
For what it’s worth (probably not much), I think this last line is the key to the OP. My take is that grienspace is saying that Islamic radicals are doing a lousy, incompetent job of pursuing their agenda. They’re too stupid, he believes, to adopt strategies that will be effective in achieving their ends in the long run. Instead, they’re indulging in feel-good, immediate-gratification tactics that actually set them back from their goals. Crappy means leading to dead ends, as it were.
The bit about Bush is simply a backhanded insult to the radical Muslims from an anti-Bushista.
That was my first impression on reading the OP. I may be giving him more credit than he deserves, of course.
And I would chomp into a bell pepper, start giggling maniacally, and wait as the camera panned out to display the full glory of my samurai warlord gourmand empire.
Oh, wait, I thought you said Chairman Kaga…
My impression was pretty much identical to EddyTeddyFreddy, except I was too lazy to type it out.