Victor Vermis posted:

Well when you're working on a foundation of "killing people is cool and good" it kinda compels you to re-evaluate everything else you've ever taken for granted.


And by "re-evaluate" I mean "get poo poo-faced and strap the gently caress in for another thrilling episode of WHO AM I AND WHAT OTHER RULES DONT APPLY TO ME?!?!?!?!"

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The Marine Corps is looking into allegations that an unknown number of potential Marines, as well as current and former service members, shared naked and compromising photos of their colleagues on social media, Marine officials said Sunday.

The allegations were first reported by the War Horse and published Saturday through the website Reveal. The author, a Marine veteran and Purple Heart recipient, as well as members of his family, have received numerous death threats since the article was first published. It is unclear how many people are involved in the scandal and how many photos were posted online.

Piell posted:

Spicer says Trump will not accept a result from Congress on the wiretapping that he doesn't like.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

KildarX posted:

What?it'd be more surprising if he did.

Piell posted:

Spicer press gaggle has started, come watch now!

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

Fillon is Turbofucked, by the way.

His party are literally about to announce his replacement candidate while he refuses to step down over allegations that he paid his Wife and (at the time) Teenage daughters for state funded work in the form of Legal advice and Political Secretarial work.

Macron will win the 2nd round unless something mental happens.

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Stuart Wright has two tattoos.

On his left arm is the phrase “Jesus Is Love,” according to police. On his right shoulder, a swastika.

Wright, 31, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly smashing the window of a downtown synagogue and putting swastika stickers on its doors in early February. Three months earlier, he alarmed members when he visited a Pilsen church, one that was a target of racist vandalism six times in 2016.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's always the petty corruption that gets people in trouble. Appointing an energy executive to run foreign policy? Sure, that seems fine. Accepting a payment for your daughter's wedding (or in this case giving paying her for pretend work)? Whoa there, we can't let this slide.

Not that petty corruption is acceptable (not to mention it's far easier to prove), but still amusing what people get worked up over.

Hannibal Rex posted:

KildarX posted:

What?it'd be more surprising if he did.

Chichevache posted:

It sounds a lot like he's ordering them to manufacture evidence against Obama, which is criminal as gently caress imo.

KildarX posted:

What?it'd be more surprising if he did.

redneck nazgul posted:

I don't have proof exactly, but I could believe it.

The fact that there's no definition of "honor killings" aside from "gender-based violence against women" is troubling, because I guaran-loving-tee that domestic abuse isn't going to pop up on there unless the abuser is <insert non-white race>.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europe-visa-free-travel-americans-european-parliament-vote-a7609406.html

The European Union is calling for a complete shutdown of Americans entering Europe through visa-less means until our union's representatives can figure out what is going on.

Yeah, Donnie, can't have the US sending us all its bad dudes with no vetting.

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

French politics is strange as well. In the UK if a Prime Minister was caught loving an Actress on the down-low it would probably bring the Government down, it almost got Clinton Impeached and he was just splashing tonsils. In France Hollande ( who was married) starts loving a much much younger actress and gets busted and no one gives a gently caress.

Did you know the guy they they want to replace Fillon with, Alain Juppe, got a loving suspended prison sentence for corruption whilst in office! His approval ratings are still higher than half the Presidential candidates.

bird food bathtub posted:

Hey wasn't Donnie Dumbfuck's Super Top Secret Plan I Won't Let You See that would edumacate all those stupid generals gonna stop Daesh in 30 days? When does the clock start ticking on that one since apparently he doesn't care enough about the terrists to get started on that as soon as he got in office. Looks like he's too busy sucking off Putin and slashing budgets to do that stuff.

FrozenVent posted:

If the US goes up against the EU, which side is Russia on?

Bernard McFacknutah posted:

French politics is strange as well. In the UK if a Prime Minister was caught loving an Actress on the down-low it would probably bring the Government down, it almost got Clinton Impeached and he was just splashing tonsils. In France Hollande ( who was married) starts loving a much much younger actress and gets busted and no one gives a gently caress.

Did you know the guy they they want to replace Fillon with, Alain Juppe, got a loving suspended prison sentence for corruption whilst in office! His approval ratings are still higher than half the Presidential candidates.

FrozenVent posted:

If the US goes up against the EU, which side is Russia on?

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Which side is Canada on?

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Fearing U.S. Withdrawal, Europe Considers Its Own Nuclear Deterrent

BERLIN — An idea, once unthinkable, is gaining attention in European policy circles: a European Union nuclear weapons program.

Under such a plan, France’s arsenal would be repurposed to protect the rest of Europe and would be put under a common European command, funding plan, defense doctrine, or some combination of the three. It would be enacted only if the Continent could no longer count on American protection.

Though no new countries would join the nuclear club under this scheme, it would amount to an unprecedented escalation in Europe’s collective military power and a drastic break with American leadership.

Analysts say that the talk, even if it never translates into action, demonstrates the growing sense in Europe that drastic steps may be necessary to protect the postwar order in the era of a Trump presidency, a resurgent Russia and the possibility of an alignment between the two.

LingcodKilla posted:

Wouldn't killing your cheatin' spouse be a honor killing?

I don't think that list will have quite the make up they assume it will.

Missionary Positron posted:

Continuing the theme of Europe and defense:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/...pe=sectionfront

Granted, the chances of an independent European nuclear deterrent happening are minimal but as the article points out, it's pretty crazy that the chances are no longer 0%.

Missionary Positron posted:

Continuing the theme of Europe and defense:


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/...pe=sectionfront

Granted, the chances of an independent European nuclear deterrent happening are minimal but as the article points out, it's pretty crazy that the chances are no longer 0%.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Of course not. That's a crime of passion. An honor killing is done because it is your religious (muslim) duty.

Burt Sexual posted:

Why wouldn't they just pony up their GDP share of NATO dues vs this. Get on Donnies good side and maintain protection.

KildarX posted:

Because I don't think they trust that don man and the executive branch aren't Russian puppets/patsys?

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General Motors is laying off 1,100 workers in Michigan -- the fourth layoff it's announced since November.

The company is eliminating the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant, which makes three SUVs built on the same platform -- the Chevrolet Traverse, the Buick Enclave and the GMC Acadia. But the new version of the Acadia is being built on a smaller platform, so production of that car moved to a Spring Hill, Tenn., plant last summer.

There are currently 3,144 workers at the Lansing plant. The workers who are keeping their jobs are pretty safe -- the company just invested $583 million in the plant to make the new generation of Traverses and Enclaves there.

GM has been scaling back production and employment due to lower U.S. sales.

In November, GM said it was eliminating the third shift at the nearby Lansing Grand River plant, as well as at the Lordstown Ohio plant. Those layoffs, which were the first U.S. job cuts announced by GM since 2010, took place in late January.

Then in December it announced plans to eliminate the third shift at its only remaining facility within Detroit city limits -- the Detroit Hamtramck plant.
The four rounds of layoffs will cut a total of 4,400 jobs. The company employed 105,000 as of the end of last year. However, GM still has more U.S. employees now than it did in 2015, when it employed 97,000 workers.