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Heer98
Apr 10, 2009
It was. Iraqi Kurdistan is run by the Kurdistan Regional Government, which is basically the personal fiefdom of the Barzani family. They're really corrupt and kind of repressive but way better than the rest of Iraq so everyone thinks they're still pretty cool. They don't have a great relationship with the PKK types because they're in competition for control of Kurdish areas. Who joined who breaks down in tribal lines a lot which I don't really understand.

Fun anecdote, I met Masoud Barzani's youngest son and drove him around the area of the US city where he's studying. Him and his (bodyguard/retainer/friend???) were both super spoiled, incredibly entitled and probably going to stab/rape someone at some point. Really liked you if you joined them in chants of "gently caress Erdogen," though.

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steakmancer
May 18, 2010

by Lowtax
He made it sound like there was a Iraqi Kurdish loyalist party that YPG/PKK was hostile towards

Heer98
Apr 10, 2009

steakmancer posted:

He made it sound like there was a Iraqi Kurdish loyalist party that YPG/PKK was hostile towards

The Kurdistan Democratic Party, yeah. They're run by the Barzanis.

steakmancer
May 18, 2010

by Lowtax

TsarZiedonis posted:

The Kurdistan Democratic Party, yeah. They're run by the Barzanis.

So they're the Bajoran cultists and YPG is the Bajoran Militia

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

TsarZiedonis posted:

The Kurdistan Democratic Party, yeah. They're run by the Barzanis.

the Syrian Kurds (YPG) are some kind of weird anarcho-communist set-up, and the Iraqi Kurds are as you say dominated by a single tribe which uses its position to sell oil to the eternal enemy of the Kurds, Turkey, thereby enriching themselves. These two groups do not get along very well.

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

manyak posted:

well Patreon does suck poo poo, it would be nice if there was a way to subscribe to the show without a bunch of money going to a Startup guy who has a Youtube ukelele cover band

drat I forgot all about Pomplamoose. Now I feel dirty.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Jeet is an ironyboy now

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:
Holy poo poo that's what MADDOG Mattis actually looks like!? I always pictured some General Ripper type and I guess it turns out that Marines are actually worse than liberals at projecting a fantasy persona on public figures.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Holy poo poo that's what MADDOG Mattis actually looks like!? I always pictured some General Ripper type and I guess it turns out that Marines are actually worse than liberals at projecting a fantasy persona on public figures.

Sushi in Yiddish
Feb 2, 2008

https://twitter.com/EwwHQ/status/833399311023104001

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



Perfecto

CortezFantastic
Aug 10, 2003

I SEE DEMONS
I'm behind on eps since I decided to pick up the audiobook of Nixonland and blast through it again

The lil homie gay rear end intro is prob my favorite of them all now

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral

Dr. Killjoy posted:

Holy poo poo that's what MADDOG Mattis actually looks like!? I always pictured some General Ripper type and I guess it turns out that Marines are actually worse than liberals at projecting a fantasy persona on public figures.
Also at his first meeting with the press a reporter brought up the MADDOG thing, and he was like 'yeah I don't know who came up with that, none of my men ever used it, you guys should just call me Jim or whatever'.

hubris.height
Jan 6, 2005

Pork Pro
e: nvm, other chapo thread

Hocus Pocus
Sep 7, 2011

Does anyone know which episodes of Cum Town Felix has been on? I know he was on 38. Good Prisons vs Bad Prisons and the Christmas episode, has he been on any others premium or free?

Chapo's movie critiques are always so on point. I watched London Has Fallen the other day and was amazed at how lovely the effects of a hundred million dollar movie were. Hell the whole thing looked cheap and shoddy.

cat doter
Jul 27, 2006



gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers

GalacticAcid posted:

Jeet is an ironyboy now



he looks like a sad grampa waiting for someone to visit him at the retirement home

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013
new episode out...

"trump has already spent $30 million dollars on blister packs because it soothes barron to open and close them. look folks, barron loves small locking mechanisms, he loves them for whatever reason." :lol:

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


This description of APB is insane.

ghost emoji
Mar 11, 2016

oooOooOOOooh
"President Wario" makes me laugh every time. WAAAAAAAUUUGH

Sushi in Yiddish
Feb 2, 2008

Kurt, ya might give this one a pass my dude

https://twitter.com/commietantric/status/833547597575028736

cat doter
Jul 27, 2006



gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers
I can't stick my head into a boiling vat of oil, it's political correctness gone mad

SoupyTwist
Feb 20, 2008
I honestly don't know what this is
https://twitter.com/RedKahinaCast/status/833524947498700802

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



This is unbearable. EDIT: Oh good it's not real.

Jonas Albrecht fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Feb 20, 2017

The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won

This can't be real. That account is following only 6 accounts: PPG, Virgil, Felix, Matt, Will, and Sam Kriss. The podcast itself is a completely unintelligible word salad that sounds like someone reciting a Red Kahina twitter bot's tweets, and I have no idea what the Yakety Sax is for.

this can't be real

The Narrator
Aug 11, 2011

bernie would have won
Edit: vvv yeah, you're right

The Narrator fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Feb 20, 2017

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

that's not real and imo yall should cool it and stop obsessing over this person.

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

The Narrator posted:

The podcast itself is a completely unintelligible word salad that sounds like someone reciting a Red Kahina twitter bot's tweets

I'm pretty sure those are just her actual tweets lol

cat doter
Jul 27, 2006



gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers
making a fake podcast is probably taking the joke a bit too far

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I know they explained why they don't want to waste time with Youtube Reactionaries, but their dismissal of them was funny and it makes me want more.

Dutchy
Jul 8, 2010

I knew this was fake immediately because I can figure out what that sentence means

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

The Narrator posted:

This can't be real. That account is following only 6 accounts: PPG, Virgil, Felix, Matt, Will, and Sam Kriss. The podcast itself is a completely unintelligible word salad that sounds like someone reciting a Red Kahina twitter bot's tweets, and I have no idea what the Yakety Sax is for.

this can't be real

I'll wait for the real kahinacast imo

Sushi in Yiddish
Feb 2, 2008

https://twitter.com/dril/status/168934801829666817

cat doter
Jul 27, 2006



gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers

I knew dril was milo

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/833536751729799168

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
Big Kurt ft. Yung Teens

CortezFantastic
Aug 10, 2003

I SEE DEMONS

this is kurt's wife
you gave him "both sides" poisoning

YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM THE POLICE

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

I think the saddest thing about the new episode is that even Will doesn't sound like he believes the "new order" after Trump will look like socialism.

I appreciated the attempt, but goddamn the deflated way he tried to be optimistic almost made it worse.

steakmancer
May 18, 2010

by Lowtax

CortezFantastic posted:

this is kurt's wife
you gave him "both sides" poisoning

YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM THE POLICE

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

Silicon Valley: How to arbitrage Asian slave labor through technology developed by the us government.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

CortezFantastic posted:

this is kurt's wife
you gave him "both sides" poisoning

YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM THE POLICE

SEE YOU IN COURT

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