Pvt.Scott posted:

Genocide and total warfare work.

Moridin920 posted:

N. and S. America were 90% killed by diseases not by any kind of conscious warfare effort, the Babylonians were brutally toppled,WWI and WWII resulted in decades of brutal violence that was present anywhere that wasn't the USA (because our civilian population was untouched and fine) the effects of which are still causing geopolitical instability today.

like bro i'm sorry do you really think wiping out 90% of the ME population is a viable strategy and it's just bc we don't have the balls anymore that we don't do it? cuz even aside from the moral issues involved you're just wrong it's not a good tactic.

another example, Rome and Carthage. Cool then came all the pirates when Carthage was obliterated where before there were pretty much none in the entire Mediterranean. it's a lovely lazy tactic that results in greater headache.

like bro what you're suggesting will start a nuclear war, for sure.

Madcosby posted:

Da MotherFuckin Share Zone

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Da Motha Fuckin Share Z0ne

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Madcosby posted:

Da Motha Fuckin Share Z0ne

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Moridin920 posted:

like bro i'm sorry do you really think wiping out 90% of the ME population is a viable strategy and it's just bc we don't have the balls anymore that we don't do it? cuz even aside from the moral issues involved you're just wrong it's not a good tactic.

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Ratjaculation posted:

that photo is a still from the video of the mother dunking the kid into the bin in the background. look it up on youtube its pretty lol

Dinosaurmageddon posted:

I can't stop shaking my head at the computer screen.

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

Here's some stdh.txt:

psychokitty posted:

I just had an Enfield flashback

notZaar posted:

That's big boss, not a forums poster you numbnuts

OctoberBlues posted:

lol, this guy used to be a congressman

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Monkey Fracas posted:

y'know I've always been a little iffy on seatbelt laws like in an "oh you want to die/get totally hosed up in a car accident but there's a law that says you can't? This raises the slightest of ethical quandaries" sorta way

but I think "spiting Libertarians" is more than enough of a reason for me to support them


how about this you can drive without the belt but the car will give you a half-hour-long lecture on how disappointed it is in you while you're driving

Monkey Fracas posted:

y'know I've always been a little iffy on seatbelt laws like in an "oh you want to die/get totally hosed up in a car accident but there's a law that says you can't? This raises the slightest of ethical quandaries" sorta way

but I think "spiting Libertarians" is more than enough of a reason for me to support them


how about this you can drive without the belt but the car will give you a half-hour-long lecture on how disappointed it is in you while you're driving

notZaar posted:

That's big boss, not a forums poster you numbnuts

Monkey Fracas posted:

y'know I've always been a little iffy on seatbelt laws like in an "oh you want to die/get totally hosed up in a car accident but there's a law that says you can't? This raises the slightest of ethical quandaries" sorta way

but I think "spiting Libertarians" is more than enough of a reason for me to support them


how about this you can drive without the belt but the car will give you a half-hour-long lecture on how disappointed it is in you while you're driving

Dreddout posted:

Think about it this way, no seat belt law = more libertarians driving without their seatbelt = more dead libertarians.

If they want to self-select out of the gene pool, I say let 'em!

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Ruling in what it called a "tragically bizarre" case, an appeals court found that the estate of a man killed by a train while crossing the Edgebrook Metra station tracks can be held liable after a part of his body sent airborne by the collision struck and injured a bystander.

In 2008, Hiroyuki Joho, 18, was hurrying in pouring rain with an umbrella over his head, trying to catch an inbound Metra train due to arrive in about five minutes when he was struck by a southbound Amtrak train traveling more than 70 mph.

A large portion of his body was thrown about 100 feet on to the southbound platform, where it struck Gayane Zokhrabov, then 58, who was waiting to catch the 8:17 a.m. train to work. She was knocked to the ground, her leg and wrist broken and her shoulder injured.

A Cook County judge dismissed Zokhrabov's lawsuit against Joho's estate, finding that Joho could not have anticipated Zokhrabov's injuries.

A state appeals court, after noting that the case law involving "flying bodies" is sparse, has disagreed, ruling that "it was reasonably foreseeable" that the high-speed train would kill Joho and fling his body down the tracks toward a platform where people were waiting.

Leslie Rosen, who handled Zokhrabov's appeal, said that while the circumstances of the case were "very peculiar and gory and creepy," it ultimately was a straightforward negligence case, no different than if a train passenger had been injured after the engineer hit the brakes.

"If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it," she said.

vyst posted:

I could watch idiots get ejected from their windshields at 80 MPH all day. poo poo i'd pay Brighthouse for the privilege to watch it.