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Handsome Ralph posted:New Orleans is pretty cool.
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Dec 10, 2017 04:53
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm not even 100% opposed to capital punishment. Keep it at the federal level for treason, espionage, and terrorism, ban it everywhere else. I feel like Murder 1st degree and rape (whichever are the two that involve violence, IANAL) also justify capital punishment. But I also acknowledge that the justice system isn't objective enough to not execute based on skin color in some jurisdictions.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:00
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New Orleans is actually easily the coolest city in the south
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Dec 10, 2017 05:06
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Kawasaki Nun posted:New Orleans is actually easily the coolest city in the south
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Dec 10, 2017 05:10
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M_Gargantua posted:I feel like Murder 1st degree and rape (whichever are the two that involve violence, IANAL) also justify capital punishment. But I also acknowledge that the justice system isn't objective enough to not execute based on skin color in some jurisdictions. To what end? Most of the people you execute under those scenarios are marginalized in the first place and the threat of a capital trial likely never entered into the decision making process that got them there. Keeping them separated from society and providing mental health services in prison is about as good of a solution as is available. Now public corruption or abuse of power on the other hand, that's a good reason to lop some heads off. Make those motherfuckers think twice.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:15
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Having been to Mardi Gras I will assert my approval of New Orleans. I had dozens of gulps of shiraz and chianti poured into my mouth by the heralds of the bacchus krewe. Would recommend.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:16
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Now public corruption or abuse of power on the other hand, that's a good reason to lop some heads off. Make those motherfuckers think twice. I think only a blood thirsty mob can judge and convict for "public corruption/abuse of power" I say as though there weren't enough Maga warriors who'd love to have put Barack on the guillotine for the abuse of power in the act of being black while president.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:17
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Kawasaki Nun posted:New Orleans is actually easily the coolest city in the south
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Dec 10, 2017 05:23
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:To what end? Most of the people you execute under those scenarios are marginalized in the first place and the threat of a capital trial likely never entered into the decision making process that got them there. Keeping them separated from society and providing mental health services in prison is about as good of a solution as is available. IANAL; but it seems most of the cases where pursuing first degree murder or violent rape (or public corruption, in glad to add that too) the perpetrators are already pretty dastardly human beings. It's not that you're punishing them as some sort of decision inhibitor for future criminals, because that doesn't really work even for minor crimes and jail time. It's that your ending their existence because they've crossed a line and letting them live out their lifespan in prison is a waste of everyone's time and resources. Until we can better differentiate between guilty parties and dark skin we should probably leave capital punishment on the treason table. Because I think you worry about the same thing I do, where it's marginalized communities who get hit with these charges and punishments disproportionately. Right now life imprionment is the one way those falsely accused have a chance to appeal until maybe justice gets corrected.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:23
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can we all take a moment and appreciate that the common use acronym for "i'm not a lawyer" is "I ANAL" you dirty boys
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Dec 10, 2017 05:25
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:can we all take a moment and appreciate that the common use acronym for "i'm not a lawyer" is "I ANAL" I<3ANAL It's like poetry. It rhymes.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:27
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we're a country that has spent a couple trillion aimlessly turning dirt farmers into fine red mist for nearly two decades. i think we can stop pretending that keeping some infinitesimally small number of horrible people in prison for the rest of their existence is some gross misuse of our limited resources.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:29
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TBF that mist is green as observed by most I2/IR sensors.
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Dec 10, 2017 05:57
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Huntsville isn't that bad and they've been building a lot of new stuff to try to draw in people from tech sectors and get young professionals with degrees to stay here rather than immediately leaving after college.
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Dec 10, 2017 06:29
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psydude posted:In re-reading that, it sounds really harsh, but take a drive along the gulf-coast of Mississippi south of Hattiesburg and tell me that I'm wrong. Kawasaki Nun posted:New Orleans is actually easily the coolest city in the south
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Dec 10, 2017 06:37
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If you gotta do a staff ride, battle of New Orleans is pretty legit. Also the WW2 museum is there.
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Dec 10, 2017 06:43
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Godholio posted:Why the hell would you EVER tell the VA you smoke weeds? Something about being honest with people that handle my health care. The VA stopped loving with peoples' benefits over it about a decade ago. Mostly to avoid being put on something that could put me into serotonin syndrome. I know, it seems counter-intuitive to tell a health care worker what drugs you do, especially at the VA.
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Dec 10, 2017 07:04
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Dec 10, 2017 08:05
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Bet they didn't spend nearly as much on these as on their real uniform patterns.
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Dec 10, 2017 08:13
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Laranzu posted:Bet they didn't spend nearly as much on these as on their real uniform patterns. but if they spent a billion on football uniforms would it surprise you?
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Dec 10, 2017 08:32
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boop the snoot posted:but if they spent a billion on football uniforms would it surprise you? I uhh. No? Maybe? I'm conflicted.
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Dec 10, 2017 08:36
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boop the snoot posted:but if they spent a billion on football uniforms would it surprise you? Not in the slightest.
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Dec 10, 2017 08:37
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The irony of the VA trying for years to tell me to lay off the weed and just take opioid painkillers for my back is definitely not lost on me. Weed helps you regulate blood sugar levels better for *reasons*. We don't know why.
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Dec 10, 2017 08:42
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huh. yeah works better than lying down in the endzone for sure
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Dec 10, 2017 08:45
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Sergg posted:Weed helps you regulate blood sugar levels better for *reasons*. We don't know why. I'm literally the only person in my family that's not diabetic. Mother and half-brother are type 1, father and brother are type Wilford Brimley. We can take this to the weed thread, but here's a thing on type 2 and weed. https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/2015/10/can-marijuana-improve-blood-sugars-in-type-2-diabetes/
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Dec 10, 2017 08:57
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:*posts trump tweet* DON’T MIND IF I DO https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/939680422493073408 In this video, we have Trump criticizing the independent judiciary, introducing and driving home the notion of “CRIMINAL ALIENS,” which obviously sounds more threatening than undocumented immigrants or even illegal immigrants, conflating DACA kids with said criminal aliens, and making it seem like the Reason why 1/5 Beautiful Americans won’t be home for Christmas is because of the hordes of Criminal Aliens running around raping and murdering while they flash their official Sanctuary City residence certificates. This is just a big, bloody hunk of red meat thrown to his base, and also, whoever did the lighting and camera work for that video should be fired. Also to contribute to SouthChat- I really like Asheville, NC. It’s blue, hippy as all hell, and western North Carolina is one of the prettiest geographical areas in the country, at least for me. It’s tough to find good, professional jobs, though. I’ve spent some time in New Orleans and have enjoyed it, though I think Bourbon Street should be burned to the ground. The rest of the city is super cool, and the WWII museum is worth a day of your time.
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Dec 10, 2017 09:34
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Bolow posted:From a page or so back. But has there actually been any genuinely successful COIN operations that aren't Malay? Even Malay took 29 years all told, and the British still relinquished control of it in the end? Boer War(s)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAt2mLP_KE Casimir Radon posted:I wouldn't call bribing everyone to behave themselves as successful COIN. Nonetheless, they behaved. And we didn't leave because we ran out of money, sooooooo..
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Dec 10, 2017 12:25
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On COIN, It's hard to keep things going after building naked pyramids, burning Korans, and committing war crimes. This is what I thought when I deployed. Now, though? We set ourselves up for failure, because the key to COIN is getting across to folks that-like us or not-they would be better off with us there. This is something as dependant on the State Department and USAID as it is on security provided by the DoD. It failed in Iraq because it was a half-assed afterthought helmed by people picked for party loyalty instead of competency, and it failed in Afghanistan because bigwigs with big egos were slapfighting each other.
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Dec 10, 2017 14:02
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Bell_ posted:On COIN, Personally, I think we lost Iraq for the same reason we lost Vietnam. (1) We didn't know what the hell we were doing or why we were doing it, and (2) We tried to fight a war on a budget. In other news, Trump might be getting his very own Benghazi. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-embassy-beirut-lebanon-clashes-protest/
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Dec 10, 2017 14:16
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When Israel is... ashes... you have my permission to die.
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Dec 10, 2017 14:35
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Palestinians...Al Quds is yours!
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Dec 10, 2017 16:06
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https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/939870444156604416
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BigDave posted:Personally, I think we lost Iraq for the same reason we lost Vietnam. (1) We didn't know what the hell we were doing or why we were doing it, and (2) We tried to fight a war on a budget. Nah, he'll never have a Benghazi. "The buck stops over there" works too well with MAGA warriors.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:28
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IDF: not entirely clear on how islands work.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:32
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bird food bathtub posted:Nah, he'll never have a Benghazi. "The buck stops over there" works too well with MAGA warriors. We'll have something nine times dumber that will, in future history texts, say "and the catalyst for the second and third foreign terror attack on US soil was this."
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Dec 10, 2017 16:32
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this is really all over the place.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:33
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How do you tell an innocent civilian living on land taken in living history from not innocent? Seems like they are all complacent with stealing land. I at least have the common decency to live on land conquered multiple generations ago.
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Dec 10, 2017 16:39
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Pretty great having a president the whole world can come together and dunk on. This was drawn by a Brazilian cartoonist.
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say probably not genocide
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