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The Iron Rose posted:Watch the interview it's loving gold. Hahaha, thanks for letting me know there was an amazing video behind that link. Counterpuncher!
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In which a major presidential candidate for a party that regularly bashes "useless" liberal arts degrees campaigns on the fact that they have a BA in Medieval History. That's... actually one of the most reasonable things she's said. (Low bars, and all that...)
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Venom Snake posted:lol if you think we spend any money on infrastructure in these nations not related to just making more bases. Pretty much all "aid" spending to these countries is some officer giving a local tribal leader a shitload money so he can buy a sports car for his son. There is absolute zero accountability because nobody in the military gives a poo poo about the people there and the leaders of these countries don't give a hot gently caress either. That's not 100% true. A lot of the money handed out by the batallion I was with in Afghanistan was for wells or irrigation syatems for farms and we'd have to go do welfare checks to ensure they were actually built.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In which a major presidential candidate for a party that regularly bashes "useless" liberal arts degrees campaigns on the fact that they have a BA in Medieval History. It's good she understands the time she wants to send us back to.
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Venom Snake posted:lol if you think we spend any money on infrastructure in these nations not related to just making more bases. Pretty much all "aid" spending to these countries is some officer giving a local tribal leader a shitload money so he can buy a sports car for his son. There is absolute zero accountability because nobody in the military gives a poo poo about the people there and the leaders of these countries don't give a hot gently caress either. VS wrong about how the military works? Noooooo. Leaders in the military are pretty stupid, but they aren't so stupid that they can't see why poo poo has gone so poorly in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can't "nation build" and be seen as an oppressive occupier at the same time. The natural response to that (aside from increased transparency and accountability for soldiers committing abuses that victimize the host population  ), is an honest PR campaign to try and win hearts and minds. This is why Civil Affairs was created in the army, and why it went from not even existing in 2007 to being large and currently in the middle of one of the largest recruiting pushes being made in the military while everywhere else downsizes. The Army spent and will continue to spend shitloads of money on humanitarian aid, not just in conflict zones, but in areas where natural disasters strike, around the world. The Army has engineers who's entire job is rebuilding poo poo in war torn areas to score brownie points, and people absolutely do care. They just care about US interests more. Sorry your grandpa who was in Nam or whoever it was that taught you everything you know about the military was wrong again.
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pathetic little tramp posted:Fan Duel employees have been doing it too. They've both been doing it from the beginning, the whole system is literally rigged so that you have better odds betting on a single number on a roulette wheel. Why betting on Team A to beat Team B is illegal, but betting on Fantasy Team A to beat Fantasy Team B is illegal is a mystery*. Additionally, if they allow private leagues then people have almost certainly been laundering dirty money through all those fantasy sites. Bet dirty money on manziel and whoever he's throwing at, lose to your bagman, clean money comes out to his PayPal account or whatever he's got hooked in to it. Generally banks will investigate that kind of stuff but who knows what PP is doing these days as far as reporting goes. And I doubt the fantasy sites are doing anything either.
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PleasingFungus posted:That's... actually one of the most reasonable things she's said. (Low bars, and all that...) How? Her degree in history means poo poo about fighting people now.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:How? Her degree in history means poo poo about fighting people now. I wonder if Carly plays Crusader Kings II or if she's more of a Chivalry type of person.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:How? Her degree in history means poo poo about fighting people now. Especially since most of the fuckups that happened to create our current situation happened within the past hundred years.
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Out of the bowels of Twitter, a drunk Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) endorses American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks for House Speaker.quote:Who’s the best communicator in our movement? He/she might not be in Congress today. So what? Why wld we not pick that person –for “SPEAKER”? quote:I'm not saying @arthurbrooks is definitely the best communicator in America; I'm just saying: If you know of a better one…Tell me. I’ll wait quote:Just purchased the domain: http://draftarthurbrooks.com #Momentum You can also scroll through his feed to see various platitudes about what the next Speaker must be. Among them is the declaration that the "next speaker needs to have the ideas of Jack Kemp, work ethic of Mike Rowe, resolve of Margaret Thatcher, & wit of Larry the Cable Guy"
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PleasingFungus posted:Trump has previously trained his fire on Rubio, claiming he has the worst voting attendance record in the U.S. Senate and that he sweats a lot. But CNN learned that the Trump campaign sent a "care package" to Rubio's Washington campaign office that contained a 24-bottle case of "Trump Ice Natural Spring Water," with Trump's face on it, two "Make America Great Again" towels and bumper stickers and a note reading, "Since you're always sweating, we thought you could use some water. Enjoy!" So you're saying Donald Trump never throws the first punch??? Wow what a guy, no wonder he's polling eight times higher than Rubio.
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joeburz posted:lol did this really happen because this owns We had an issue at Ft. Hood back in the 90's where an artillery lieutenant got his coordinates backwards and ended up shooting a live Howitzer round into a farm outside of the base and killed a few cows. Lets just say that live firing on Hood got a bit more strict after that and I don't think was an officer for much longer.
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What's the word on the TPP and regulation of medications. I know this is something that the medical industry has tried to go after before which was medical tourism. Have they released anything of the sort? Basically a while back there was some talk of your price for treatment in certain countries may depend on your passport.
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A Man With A Plan posted:I can't stop laughing. Send help. Trump probably tried to fax Rubio an animated .gif of the original water clip
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PleasingFungus posted:I'm already seeing reports that many provisions of the TPP have changed from the draft versions; for example: "Okay fine we'll enforce stuff that's actually illegal in all countries involved" doesn't sound like something that should be counted as a big step forward in negotiations. Am I reading that wrong?
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QuoProQuid posted:& wit of Larry the Cable Guy" Tha gently caress?
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Epic High Five posted:"Okay fine we'll enforce stuff that's actually illegal in all countries involved" doesn't sound like something that should be counted as a big step forward in negotiations. Am I reading that wrong? When you consider that opponents of the deal portrayed it as being literally apocalyptic before, it is.
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Epic High Five posted:"Okay fine we'll enforce stuff that's actually illegal in all countries involved" doesn't sound like something that should be counted as a big step forward in negotiations. Am I reading that wrong? The other treaties often have no enforcement mechanisms so you could violate them willy-nilly. Now if you violate them you'll threaten your sweet-sweet free-trade monies providing a disincentive to do so.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Tha gently caress? It makes sense if you're deeply stupid.
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fool_of_sound posted:It makes sense if you're deeply stupid. I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there
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Epic High Five posted:"Okay fine we'll enforce stuff that's actually illegal in all countries involved" doesn't sound like something that should be counted as a big step forward in negotiations. Am I reading that wrong? Adding enforcement mechanisms to toothless treaties is a pretty good thing and also a huge concession on the part of certain economies.
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I watched the Late Show and John McCain comes off really well until there is any talk of possible war. Then he hawks it up like no other. He wants to send a couple thousand troops and planes to Syria to counterbalance Iran and Russia. He said that we are giving Iran $100 billion dollars and they are going to use that to destroy Israel. When Colbert asked whether we would keep our troops there indefinitely, he said that we have kept 38,000 troops in South Korea for this long, so we might need to do that in the Middle East. He then turned to nothing but American Exceptionalism. drat McCain, I liked you in 2000 and would have voted for you if had not fathered that illegitimate black child. I have changed my politics, why can't you?
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Zeroisanumber posted:Tha gently caress? Larry the Cable Guy is humor for the average man. Now recall that half of America is below average.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I watched the Late Show and John McCain comes off really well until there is any talk of possible war. Then he hawks it up like no other. He wants to send a couple thousand troops and planes to Syria to counterbalance Iran and Russia. He said that we are giving Iran $100 billion dollars and they are going to use that to destroy Israel. When Colbert asked whether we would keep our troops there indefinitely, he said that we have kept 38,000 troops in South Korea for this long, so we might need to do that in the Middle East. He then turned to nothing but American Exceptionalism. He got a shitbag Obama-bash in there too. gently caress John McCain.
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PleasingFungus posted:Trump has previously trained his fire on Rubio, claiming he has the worst voting attendance record in the U.S. Senate and that he sweats a lot. But CNN learned that the Trump campaign sent a "care package" to Rubio's Washington campaign office that contained a 24-bottle case of "Trump Ice Natural Spring Water," with Trump's face on it, two "Make America Great Again" towels and bumper stickers and a note reading, "Since you're always sweating, we thought you could use some water. Enjoy!" I feel bad for wanting him to stay in the race as long as possible, but my god, he's beautiful.
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Yoshifan823 posted:He got a shitbag Obama-bash in there too. gently caress John McCain. John McCain owns.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I watched the Late Show and John McCain comes off really well until there is any talk of possible war. Then he hawks it up like no other. He wants to send a couple thousand troops and planes to Syria to counterbalance Iran and Russia. He said that we are giving Iran $100 billion dollars and they are going to use that to destroy Israel. When Colbert asked whether we would keep our troops there indefinitely, he said that we have kept 38,000 troops in South Korea for this long, so we might need to do that in the Middle East. He then turned to nothing but American Exceptionalism. it's cool how the neocons poisoned the well of American international relations for literally a generation or more
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Volkerball posted:John McCain owns. John S. McCain Sr & Jr loving owned. III is a shithead of the highest order.
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Mr. Nice! posted:John S. McCain Sr & Jr loving owned. III is a shithead of the highest order. And IV cost his dad an election.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Tha gently caress? Racist toilet humor, makes sense.
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Mr. Nice! posted:John S. McCain Sr & Jr loving owned. III is a shithead of the highest order. Counterpoint: quote:Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on Libya: http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=eaf52b6b-eb31-0758-5580-6b9b6cd691ee And he supports Petraeus' strategy in Syria that would, you know, work. Confirmed for owns.
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i like that he likes torturing people
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Ernie Muppari posted:i like that he likes torturing people this is a serious thread for serious people please dont troll it with lies and slander Volkerball fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Volkerball posted:this is a serious thread for serious people please dont troll it citation needed
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the moose posted:Are we going to buy them a new hospital to replace the one we blew up at least? I feel like we've definitely straight up given away thousands of hospitals worth of dollars there so far. I feel like maybe we should command them to build their own under threat of blowing up more things because I'm really super tired of loving around there. ReidRansom fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Grapplejack posted:I feel bad for wanting him to stay in the race as long as possible, but my god, he's beautiful. I seriously hope he ends up causing a brokered convention. It would be the best thing ever.
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ReidRansom posted:I feel like we've definitely straight up given away thousands of dollars worth of hospitals there so far. I feel like maybe we should command them to build their own under threat of blowing up more things because I'm really super tired of loving around there. well good news!
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Volkerball posted:Counterpoint: I'm a fan of his recent treason as he signed onto the letter trying to sabotage the negotiations with Iran.
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