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Slavvy posted:Ohio looks like a marginally more miserable hellhole than the rest of the US (florida and louisiana excepted). Most of the US is pretty good to live in actually. The only thing that really makes northern Ohio suck is the winters and remains of the rust belt.
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Retired US Army General and the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for NATO Wesley Clark advocates rounding up “radicalized” and “disloyal” Americans and putting them in internment camps for the “duration” of the war on terror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPwqokBn9M
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I'm down with that. Somebody fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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Hasters posted:New urbanism will not happen in America until we have nothing but affluent white-only cities. But we do:
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Baloogan posted:I'm down with that. France is a pretty odd case though because it also has a huge secular Islamic population.
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Hasters posted:In retrospect, that talk is hilarious because everybody in the room is probably involved in the tech sector in someway, and was supposed to be one of the "new urbanists" who were going to bring about the glorious revolution. However once they started to interact with poor people and people of color, they decided maybe the suburbs had it right the whole time. So they built their headquarters out in the middle of nowhere where they could have a private walkable compound, and when they do build in cities they need to make sure they have sky bridges so their people won't actually have to interact with the people who live in the city. New urbanism will not happen in America until we have nothing but affluent white-only cities. Bitching about the sky bridges is pretty silly and I don't mean just you personally, I remember the huge deal this was when it came up a while ago. Our office is in an industrial park with few poor people around because there's nothing to do here unless you have a job (it's also in socialist utopia) but we have this sky bridge connecting two buildings: It owns because, depending on where you are, it's much easier to go straight through it in the direction you need rather than go in the opposite direction, go down the stairs or elevator, go out and to the building you need, scan your badge, and then potentially have to walk back because the reception is beyond the destination. Especially when the weather sucks. Not because we might run into poor people.
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mobby_6kl posted:Bitching about the sky bridges is pretty silly and I don't mean just you personally, I remember the huge deal this was when it came up a while ago. Our office is in an industrial park with few poor people around because there's nothing to do here unless you have a job (it's also in socialist utopia) but we have this sky bridge connecting two buildings: Goddamn, almost the entirety of my city's downtown (Calgary) is connected by these, we call them +15s because of how high they are off the ground. There's even a marketing scheme behind them, trying to make them a tourist attraction since they've been an important part of our cityscape for like 35 years. Here's a map of the connections of the buildings. Legend has it these walkways were built to keep foreign oil dignitaries happy while visiting our city because we get some pretty extreme weather. Lord knows going outside in -40 for 20 seconds would destroy business.
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Picnic Princess posted:Goddamn, almost the entirety of my city's downtown (Calgary) is connected by these, we call them +15s because of how high they are off the ground. There's even a marketing scheme behind them, trying to make them a tourist attraction since they've been an important part of our cityscape for like 35 years. Here's a map of the connections of the buildings. This massively owns and yes if I'm ever in Canada I'll consider going to Calgary just to stroll around inside these things. Subterranean walkway in Montreal (in pink). How many Canadian cities got these?
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:This massively owns and yes if I'm ever in Canada I'll consider going to Calgary just to stroll around inside these things. Toronto (use to?) has the biggest underground walkway/shopping area of any city in the world I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(Toronto) opps picture: Hot Karl Marx fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:This massively owns and yes if I'm ever in Canada I'll consider going to Calgary just to stroll around inside these things. Minneapolis has a pretty extensive skyway downtown. It's nice having it on the second floor instead of underground because you get more sunlight in the winter.
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I guess this means less than it seems
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Nixon's final meal before he announced his resignation. Pineapple slices, cottage cheese, and a glass of milk.
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Vertical Lime posted:I guess this means less than it seems
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South Carolina state treasurer commenting on KKK rally in now-deleted tweet.
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Vertical Lime posted:I guess this means less than it seems Leave it to liberal elites (Yes the Post qualifies) to completely misunderstand Trump's appeal. Trump is like Hitler, a demagogue, appealing to a broad disenchantment with reality. He says a few things which people believe are true, getting him some attention. But what really attracts him to the Republican base is his vitriol. He is an embodiment of their pent up rage. Hannah Arendt wrote the primary appeal of the totalitarian culture, perhaps any culture, is that it can create “a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself." We cannot stand that the world does not make sense to us. So much about life seems arbitrary, directionless and futile. If our cultural myths are inadequate to the task of creating meaning and purpose, we work to create new meaning. Violence is one such method and Trump is willing to supply some of it. This is part of a subconscious hostility, our “rage to live” as Belgian writer Raoul Vaneghime described it. This hostility is profound in the US, especially among Republicans. They want someone to smite their enemies with unrelenting force. It is through this violence they hope to have new meaning and direction in life. Long story short: McCain is seen as a weak loser. I'm sure they're completely happy to throw him overboard. In other news, I'm getting better at GIMP. I call it "Shine, Perishing Republic" after the Jeffers poem. EDIT: Had to clear up some of that rant. StickySweater fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jul 19, 2015 |
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yesssssssss
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Vertical Lime posted:I guess this means less than it seems I'm glad the Republicans have such a strong stance against smearing someone's military record in a campaign. oops.
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After scathing reports of "not climate change lately" Time to bust out this old gem.
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It's greener again now, or was, though less snowpack. Odd. A fairly substantive expanse of snow in this comparison in 2014, that doesn't show up in the previous one. I guess there could have been a lot of snowfall between Jan 13 and Feb 1.
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Strudel Man posted:
seems to be working out well.
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Only the 'good' veterans count to Republicans. The night Republicans booed a soldier quote:Hill, wearing a gray “ARMY” T-shirt, then appeared on-screen and told the candidates that he is gay and that he had been forced to lie about his identity when he was deployed to Iraq in 2010 because he didn’t want to lose his job. He then asked if the candidates would “do anything to circumvent the progress that’s been made for gay and lesbian soldiers” now that the “don’t ask, don’t tell, policy has been officially repealed.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Only the 'good' veterans count to Republicans. gently caress the Republican party forever they have become comic villains since the 1930's . They are evil inherited wealth. That is all they are.
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lol is he pissing himself
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Missouri sheriff stockpiled tons of food, weapons in preparation for The End Times quote:In January 2014, Kyle — who pleaded guilty to embezzlement and aiding a fraud scheme in May —went to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce conference in Las Vegas, Weter said, and he came back talking about the apocalypse.
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viva south carolina
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Did that guy's shins get shot off in the war? Anyway, Jeb! supports are troops
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Stultus Maximus posted:Did that guy's shins get shot off in the war? I guess to be fair John Kerry wasn't a POW? Maybe Jeb! only supports soldiers who have been captured.
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This pic is a wonderful sea of reactions to being confronted by a black man, but my favorite has to be the guy in the wifebeater who doesn't get why he doesn't like what they're doing.
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Screenshots from the leader of the Jade Helm resistance movement's Facebook before he took it down:
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