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Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~
Aw what the gently caress

https://www.facebook.com/arnold/photos/a.10151836398271760.1073741825.9269711759/10155531493121760/?type=3

What got Billy so spooked? :smith:




M_Gargantua posted:

CSPAM confined that it's still planned to happen

So im probably going to spend all morning driving up there to join the celebration protest since the alt-right will likely bitch out at the last minute.



^^^Good luck friendo punch a nazi for us

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

imagining how megafucked the traffic will be in boston bc jfc gently caress driving in assachusetts

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


M_Gargantua posted:

CSPAM confined that it's still planned to happen

So im probably going to spend all morning driving up there to join the celebration protest since the alt-right will likely bitch out at the last minute.

If you see a 30ish smoking hot blonde with a tattoo of a dragon going up her leg, wielding a set of chrome plated brass knuckles, tell her I said hi.

Also, that is a knife strapped to her left thigh and it's claimed blood before so... Fair warning?

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~
thanks for the bizarrely specific warning :shrug:

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:

Genocide Tendency posted:

If you see a 30ish smoking hot blonde with a tattoo of a dragon going up her leg, wielding a set of chrome plated brass knuckles, tell her I said hi.

Also, that is a knife strapped to her left thigh and it's claimed blood before so... Fair warning?

Did you used to live in a Conan the Barbarian novel?

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

M_Gargantua posted:

CSPAM confined that it's still planned to happen

So im probably going to spend all morning driving up there to join the celebration protest since the alt-right will likely bitch out at the last minute.

Thank u for ur service

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer

Pesticide20 posted:

It's in Fremont, so I assume the irony is not lost on most residents

There's a reason the statue always has blood on it's hands or gets dressed up like a little fairy boy. The statue is there more like a war trophy, symbolizing capitalism's victory over communism.

I also wouldn't care if it got moved to a museum or melted down into fixie bikes or kombucha containers, in fact that would be kinda cool to watch.

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Genocide Tendency posted:

If you see a 30ish smoking hot blonde with a tattoo of a dragon going up her leg, wielding a set of chrome plated brass knuckles, tell her I said hi.

Also, that is a knife strapped to her left thigh and it's claimed blood before so... Fair warning?

I am suddenly intrigued

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost

Genocide Tendency posted:

If you see a 30ish smoking hot blonde with a tattoo of a dragon going up her leg, wielding a set of chrome plated brass knuckles, tell her I said hi.

Also, that is a knife strapped to her left thigh and it's claimed blood before so... Fair warning?

"Someone on the internet named Genocide Tendency said I should come up and say hi"

"Oh good ol' GenTen? I love that guy!"

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


Godholio posted:

To concentrate it and reduce (will never eliminate) duplicate efforts, and to be extremely polite, some of the branches are a bit behind in this field


bird food bathtub posted:

Currently we have a bunch of sub-commands in each branch fumble-loving around doing their own thing and not treating it like a serious new realm of conflict that needs to be addressed at the highest levels for what it is. In addition to some being...behind the times...having multiple organizations like this working independently creates or widens security gaps with everyone not being on the same page in a given set of circumstances. One central organization that concentrates on cyber security will, theoretically, take it seriously and it can have units that work with the existing branches to give them the best-practices that can then be tailored to the individual circumstances instead of everyone tripping over their own dicks one step at a timd.

i didn't realize there was such a disconnect between organizations in the different branches that ostensibly have the same mission which was, frankly, really loving dumb of me

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

i didn't realize there was such a disconnect between organizations in the different branches that ostensibly have the same mission which was, frankly, really loving dumb of me

This is basically the definition of the entire existence of the modern Marine Corps.

Kemper Boyd
Aug 6, 2007

no kings, no gods, no masters but a comfy chair and no socks
I'm a Turku local so when I heard the news about the attack I went downtown like an idiot because I wanted to make sure my friends are safe (they were). Took a bunch of photos of the aftermath and noticed that my usual place was the only one that was open downtown. So I spent three hours bullshitting with the bartender while journalists kept calling me.

I think ABC wanted to interview me live but I was at the time already drunk as poo poo so I didnt give an interview.

The Finnish cops just announced they're investigating the knife attack as terrorism.

Belgian Waffle
Jul 31, 2006

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

i didn't realize there was such a disconnect between organizations in the different branches that ostensibly have the same mission which was, frankly, really loving dumb of me

The biggest benefit is that leadership is going to be (or should be) filled with people who know cyber stuff as opposed to pilots/soldiers/marines/sailors.
It's a good move and I'm pretty excited about it.

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Belgian Waffle posted:

The biggest benefit is that leadership is going to be (or should be) filled with people who know cyber stuff as opposed to pilots/soldiers/marines/sailors.
It's a good move and I'm pretty excited about it.

I think you're misunderstanding what happened. CYBERCOM did not become a new branch of military service, it was just elevated from a sub-unified command to a full unified combatant command. All of the people there will still be soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. It's just now CYBERCOM will report directly to the national command authority instead of having to work though STRATCOM.

The big immediate impacts will be in resourcing and planning timelines. However, in the longer term I fully expect CYBERCOM to morph into something like SOCOM which has its own special acquisitions and personnel regulations that make it almost like a separate military service branch.

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Kemper Boyd posted:

I'm a Turku local so when I heard the news about the attack I went downtown like an idiot because I wanted to make sure my friends are safe (they were). Took a bunch of photos of the aftermath and noticed that my usual place was the only one that was open downtown. So I spent three hours bullshitting with the bartender while journalists kept calling me.

I think ABC wanted to interview me live but I was at the time already drunk as poo poo so I didnt give an interview.

The Finnish cops just announced they're investigating the knife attack as terrorism.

Drunken Finnglish interview would have made my day!

Missionary Positron
Jul 6, 2004
And now for something completely different
Finnish police: Main suspect in Turku attack is 18-year-old Moroccan

quote:

The main suspect, an 18-year-old Moroccan man, remains hospitalised in critical condition after being shot in the hip by police. Police took four other individuals into custody overnight.

Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed on Saturday that the previous day's knife attack in Turku is being investigated as murder and attempted murder with a terrorist intent.

The main suspect is an 18-year-old Moroccan man. He remains hospitalised in critical condition after being shot in the hip by police.

Police have also released more information about the victims. The two were killed were Finnish citizens. The eight injured include two Swedes and one Italian citizen. One of the wounded is under age 18.

Three people are in intensive care, including the suspected assailant.

Police took four other individuals into custody overnight. They are being interviewed on Saturday.

The NBI is to provide more details at a press conference beginning at 2 pm Saturday.

I don't think the whole thing went down as the rear end in a top hat expected: apparently before he got shot by the cops, he got beaten with chairs, baseball bats, and metal pipes by bystanders and chased down by a 70-year old man.

Don't mess with Turku.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

Missionary Positron posted:

Finnish police: Main suspect in Turku attack is 18-year-old Moroccan


I don't think the whole thing went down as the rear end in a top hat expected: apparently before he got shot by the cops, he got beaten with chairs, baseball bats, and metal pipes by bystanders and chased down by a 70-year old man.

Don't mess with Turku.

That dude that attempted to go on a stabbing spree last month in Germany got chased down by several Kiosk owners, who threw chairs and all kinds of poo poo at him.

The guys that chased him down were all 1st or 2nd generation immigrants in Germany. That made me really happy.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/898832728937742336

https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/898849296728047617

Arven
Sep 23, 2007

Stuff like this makes me think a lot of conservatives watched The Haidmaid's Tale and saw it as some sort of utopia to strive for.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

I look forward to Trump taking credit for the unconditional defeat of ISIS

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.

ManMythLegend posted:

I think you're misunderstanding what happened. CYBERCOM did not become a new branch of military service, it was just elevated from a sub-unified command to a full unified combatant command. All of the people there will still be soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. It's just now CYBERCOM will report directly to the national command authority instead of having to work though STRATCOM.

The big immediate impacts will be in resourcing and planning timelines. However, in the longer term I fully expect CYBERCOM to morph into something like SOCOM which has its own special acquisitions and personnel regulations that make it almost like a separate military service branch.

Right. The cyber commands of the individual branches already had a connection to cybercom; now that cybercom as a whole is elevated to a cocom it becomes a little more independent and recognized

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





seeing reports of a mass stabbing in a siberian city, attacker apparently shot dead

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40985561

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Two Finger posted:

seeing reports of a mass stabbing in a siberian city, attacker apparently shot dead

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40985561

Not be a horrible person...but odds that it was just drinking (possibly rubbing alcohol) related?

Belgian Waffle
Jul 31, 2006

ManMythLegend posted:

I think you're misunderstanding what happened. CYBERCOM did not become a new branch of military service, it was just elevated from a sub-unified command to a full unified combatant command. All of the people there will still be soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. It's just now CYBERCOM will report directly to the national command authority instead of having to work though STRATCOM.

The big immediate impacts will be in resourcing and planning timelines. However, in the longer term I fully expect CYBERCOM to morph into something like SOCOM which has its own special acquisitions and personnel regulations that make it almost like a separate military service branch.

ugh. nevermind then. I'll get my cyber force one day.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
They rely heavily on civilians, not just military. So you could become a contractor and start a company called CYBER FORCE

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I don't know if you guys use the news app on your iPhone but it's unintentional comedy almost every day

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/weekly-standard-steve-bannon/index.html

quote:

After his ouster from the West Wing on Friday, ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon declared the Trump presidency that his brand of populist, right-wing conservatives helped make a reality is "over."

"The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Bannon said in an interview with The Weekly Standard. "We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It'll be something else."
"There'll be all kinds of fights, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over," he added, according to the Weekly Standard.

:getin:

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.




Billy ain't afraid of no man. RIP sonny

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Arven posted:

Stuff like this makes me think a lot of conservatives watched The Haidmaid's Tale and saw it as some sort of utopia to strive for.

Probably the other way around, since eagle forum is a dozen years older, and had been sort of the John Birch Society for social issues in general, and anti feminism in particular, from its inception.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
Handmaid's Tale is from the early eighties.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

FrozenVent posted:

Handmaid's Tale is from the early eighties.

Hulu turned it into a show that came out recently

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

Waiting for the current anti-nazi movement in the US become more and more intense until it slowly and unknowingly to itself becomes the military state in the Handmaids tale.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
i talked to my step dad earlier today. he's a trump supporter still.

"trump is not a nazi and the mainstream media is just against him and they need to be torn down!" was his basic message.

so i asked him "well, you believe fox news when they say obama is a kenyan muslim socialist who founded ISIS and wants to take over the US and destroy it by declaring martial law and implement sharia law all while his secretary of state is covering for a child sex ring at a pizza shop and all of this is funded by one jewish guy, but suggesting trump might be a white supremacist or at the very least too dumb to know he is one is a bit too far?"

"but all that stuff about obama is true!"

old people are loving dense.

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

i talked to my step dad earlier today. he's a trump supporter still.

"trump is not a nazi and the mainstream media is just against him and they need to be torn down!" was his basic message.

so i asked him "well, you believe fox news when they say obama is a kenyan muslim socialist who founded ISIS and wants to take over the US and destroy it by declaring martial law and implement sharia law all while his secretary of state is covering for a child sex ring at a pizza shop and all of this is funded by one jewish guy, but suggesting trump might be a white supremacist or at the very least too dumb to know he is one is a bit too far?"

"but all that stuff about obama is true!"

old people are loving dense.

I had a conversation with my mother and her dad, who grew up under Mussolini and it went a similar way. When I brought up the fact that both the native fascisti, and later occupying Nazis used to beat his 14 year old rear end up because his father emigrated to the US- he said that this was different because Italy didn't need a strong hand, but the US does.

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

NUKES CURE NORKS posted:

i talked to my step dad earlier today. he's a trump supporter still.

"trump is not a nazi and the mainstream media is just against him and they need to be torn down!" was his basic message.

so i asked him "well, you believe fox news when they say obama is a kenyan muslim socialist who founded ISIS and wants to take over the US and destroy it by declaring martial law and implement sharia law all while his secretary of state is covering for a child sex ring at a pizza shop and all of this is funded by one jewish guy, but suggesting trump might be a white supremacist or at the very least too dumb to know he is one is a bit too far?"

"but all that stuff about obama is true!"

old people are loving dense.

More like people confronted with the nasty truth of their beliefs can't square the circle in their mind. Age doesn't matter.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

If anything Italy was more in need of a strong hand than the US ever needed.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Immanentized posted:

I had a conversation with my mother and her dad, who grew up under Mussolini and it went a similar way. When I brought up the fact that both the native fascisti, and later occupying Nazis used to beat his 14 year old rear end up because his father emigrated to the US- he said that this was different because Italy didn't need a strong hand, but the US does.

:stare: Jesus Christ.

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009
It really steams me because the guy still came over in like, October of 1946 to NY, raised a family, and sworked his way to an executive spot at the utility company. My parents ensured that I got an awesome liberal arts education by encouraging me to attend Jesuit-run schools from Pre-K all the way through my Master's program. These are the same loving people who yelled at me because the cover of my Warhammer Rule book had Templar's Crosses on it, as it was a Nazi symbol.

They're not stupid people, but they've been unbelievably suckered in by Murdoch-owned media properties and exert no critical thinking if it goes against their information venue of choice. In the last 9 years they've done complete 180s from who they used to be, mostly I believe, because a black president broke their brains.

Here's a great essay by Ronnie's UN Ambassador as to why Moral Equivalence is a bullshit justification for anything; especially Nazi's openly marching in your streets. I read this to my Masonic Lodge this past week, and a lot of those guys have similar political standings as my family. The St. Ronald name recognition helped spark some conversation on the matter, so if any one else needs to do some convincing, I strongly encourage it.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-myth-of-moral-equivalence/

e: tablet posting is hard.

Immanentized fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Aug 19, 2017

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
A strong hand eh? Sounds farmiliar....

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boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Lol my step dad sent me a text

"Why didn't the media call Obama out on lying as much as they are calling out Trump?"

I don't feel like keeping this going so I said "no idea."

This is the bubble people live in and why Trump will never go below 25-30% approval.

I only ever talk politics with him because I want to venture inside the mind of someone like him and I regret it every time.

boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Aug 19, 2017

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