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As a non-mil goon I never knew it was pronounced just fob and now you guys have made a ton of media loving hilarious.
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suboptimal posted:Why not just turn the CIA loose and have them bribe all the Eastern European drug lords into flooding Russia with cheap, pure Afghan heroin? I'm friends with a faculty member at Yale Medical School who does AIDS research and heroin/IV drug use is already tearing a swath through Russia and HIV along with it, and the government is in total denial about it because HIV is seen as a sign of morally decadent West but Soviet stronk like Kamchatka bear! They've tried to censor his research in St. Petersburg on multiple occasions.
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Blind Rasputin posted:As a non-mil goon I never knew it was pronounced just fob and now you guys have made a ton of media loving hilarious. Hence the term fobbit.
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Apparently the ruble crashing has caused heroin to double in price over there and they can't turn to Krokodil because the Russian government made the Codeine precursors really difficult to get ahold of nowadays. The spike in heroin price is unlikely to cause a drop in usage though.
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Today is a good day to not have a crippling substance addiction.
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M_Gargantua posted:There was a book that I always forget the name of where Aliens actually recruit humans to fight in interstellar wars because were just really really absurdly good at violence and have no other redeeming qualities in the eyes of the more sensible intergalactic species. It happens a bunch in fiction: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreWarriors Ardlen fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Sergg posted:I'm friends with a faculty member at Yale Medical School who does AIDS research and heroin/IV drug use is already tearing a swath through Russia and HIV along with it, and the government is in total denial about it because HIV is seen as a sign of morally decadent West but Soviet stronk like Kamchatka bear! They've tried to censor his research in St. Petersburg on multiple occasions. Hahahaha this is loving hilarious to me, like, what, if they can't see it then it isn't really happening? Russia's approach to AIDS is like the GOP dealing with global warming
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Ardlen posted:John Ringo's Aldenata series has this happen too. Ah John Ringo 
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Ah John Ringo His science fiction is safe. It's only when he's writing his self-insert Delta Force tier 0 operator whatever that he's a creep.
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Sergg posted:I'm friends with a faculty member at Yale Medical School who does AIDS research and heroin/IV drug use is already tearing a swath through Russia and HIV along with it, and the government is in total denial about it because HIV is seen as a sign of morally decadent West but Soviet stronk like Kamchatka bear! They've tried to censor his research in St. Petersburg on multiple occasions. The other problem is that the Russian mortality rate increased and the birth rate plunged in the 1990s, almost as bad as the population hit Russia took because of World War II. To be sure, it started recovering under Putin (although not to replenishment levels). But the problem that Russia is starting to face right about ... now ... is that the generation born in the 1990s is reaching the age when they start having babies of their own. But because the birth rate was so low then, the population is going to take another plunge since it's a shrunken generation. The only demographic that's not in decline is the Muslim one, which could be between 16-20 percent of the country, because they have big families and don't drink (as much). Now factor in the racism in Russian society and the real and actual Islamic insurgency that is both (a) not allowed to be reported on (b) temporarily put on hold because the Russians made it easy for Islamist fighters to travel to Syria. Putin's behavior makes a lot more sense. Especially backing Trump and teaming up to knock the Muslims around. Russia is in really bad trouble.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Ah John Ringo Shalhavet posted:His science fiction is safe. It's only when he's writing his self-insert Delta Force tier 0 operator whatever that he's a creep. 
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John Ringo is the guy that repeatedly writes about raping children, right? GIS says yes, probably 
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Wikkheiser posted:Putin's behavior makes a lot more sense. Especially backing Trump and teaming up to knock the Muslims around. Russia is in really bad trouble.
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Ardlen posted:John Ringo Obgliatory "when referenced" referral.
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I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/817901534948179968 https://audioboom.com/posts/5471405-the-trumpster-quote-1?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=card&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). 
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). Truly my favorite voice actor ever
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). Mark Hamill is a national treasure.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Mark Hamill is a national treasure.
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). 
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). 
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). This. I like this.
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facialimpediment posted:I hope this becomes A Thing. Mark Hamill-as-Joker reading Trump Tweets (like the Billy West-as-Zapp-Brannigan stuff). And this is why I don't give a poo poo about the live action Joker as much in the new Batman. Joke will always be Mark Hamill.
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Watched Bright Lights. Truly heartbreaking the whole Carrie and Debbie story is; I honestly would have given up years ago as either one of them, but both ladies were incredible fighters. gently caress you 2016.
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I don't think this got posted? https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/818085717012283392 quote:Israel's ambassador to the UK has apologised after a senior member of his staff was secretly filmed saying he wanted to "take down" Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan. No supportive Facebook posts from Bibi this time 
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bird food bathtub posted:Really, at this point, with the absurdity of what's going on and the inevitability of how lovely things are going to get laughing like the Joker at everything is a normal, healthy response. I hope Mark Hamil makes them a daily thing. Can we have an alt Presidency with alt Cabinet position for him as Secretary of Mental Health?
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The Trump transition team is doing as much as possible to bypass the government ethics office. They're not really helping with clearance checks for potential cabinet positions and the TTT is making the GEO work overtime because of a constrained schedule. I wonder if anyone is going to be able to tabulate just how badly we're going to get robbed over the next few years.
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Mr. Nice! posted:The Trump transition team is doing as much as possible to bypass the government ethics office. They're not really helping with clearance checks for potential cabinet positions and the TTT is making the GEO work overtime because of a constrained schedule. What the ever-living gently caress.
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LingcodKilla posted:What the ever-living gently caress. Are you remotely surprised? This is going to be four years of seeing just how much money can be funneled out of our pockets into theirs while trying to sue anyone who attempts to stop them.
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LingcodKilla posted:What the ever-living gently caress. They're gonna stonewall and pussy foot around then when he takes office they'll scream about inefficient government bureaucracy stopping them from doing their jobs and oh woe is us they just won't let us make America great again how are yuge, bigly businessmen such as us supposed to fix things with government getting in the way all the time? This entire crisis where we can't staff our own offices is so terrible and nobody could have seen it coming. Such a wasteful and slow process, we should defund it entirely and get government out of the way of progress (towards burning the country down and looting the ashes).
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I can't escape this poo poo. Even on my local TV in AU tonight is a Trump v Hillary doc. Making a big deal of when Trump was roasted by Obama he was really driven to destroy Obama and become the pres. Also how chameleon or mercenary Hillary is, and how Trump's father and upbringing made him tough and a "killer". This is not the conclusions as the doc hasn't finished yet. E: the doc is "Clinton V Trump: The Choice 2016"
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Senate Republicans are currently deathly afraid of Trump going rogue if one of his cabinet nominees go down. So, they're doing some funny poo poo, like holding confirmation hearings (not votes) for six nominees on the same day, which also happens to be the date of Trump's first press conference (the 11th). So everyone's basically agreeing that it's bound to be a lovely PR day, so they're flooding the zone with terrible, so Democrats can't make noise and/or sink a nominee in committee. The problem is that there are a whole lot of ethics laws that apply to cabinet nominees (and not the president). Also, Trump's people have been incredibly lazy in their vetting, since they mostly don't care. The only way their nominees get taken out is if Senate Republicans defect. With that said, this morning Mitch McConnell (R-turtle) said there would be no full confirmation votes until the ethics office has weighed in completely and that Democratic complaints are 'procedural issues'. The scandals of the new administration are going to be incredible.
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I don't think they give a gently caress if Trump goes "rogue" because they have the ability to impeach him and get good ol' rubber stamp Pence in charge. I have no doubt that Trump already has committed impeachable acts and it's just a matter of proper subpoenas to reveal it. He will only be in office as long as it's convenient for Republicans.
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Rafsanjani died. At least Obama is still president so the official statement will be mature and diplomatic. Of course Trumpster Fire probably write something asinine.
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House/Senate Republicans care about what Trump does in the sense that poo poo rolls downhill and it wouldnt take much backlash to turn a bunch of gerrymandered R+3 seats into Democrat seats. Trump has a future after this regardless of what happens, these people don't.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:House/Senate Republicans care about what Trump does in the sense that poo poo rolls downhill and it wouldnt take much backlash to turn a bunch of gerrymandered R+3 seats into Democrat seats. Trump has a future after this regardless of what happens, these people don't. Don't overestimate how much it matters in the short term though. Recent events have shown just how short the American voter's attention span is, and there's very few competitive R-held seats up for election in 2 years. 4 years is a looooooong time away.
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