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Also worth noting that Modi is rumored to be celibate...maybe a secret redditor on /r/incel Ok, that last part is me starting that rumor. For a real link: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-21/indians-prefer-politicians-who-refuse-have-sex-or-get-married
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mlmp08 posted:Saying "If the US pulled out of Qatar, they'd fall" is still pretty pointless, because the US military isn't going anywhere any time soon. The biggest base in Qatar isn't some little base. It's loving massive with multiple major headquarters. And it's not the only base in Qatar. Its CENTCOM's HQ as well as home to multiple major US Combat Commands. Nobody is going anywhere. Wish they had their 4G LTE rolled out when I was there.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 20:44 |
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Middle East story: back during the PS2 days pretty much all videogame stores sold bootleg games for ~$3 a disk and I got GTA Vice City at the ripe age of 7.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 21:14 |
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All Damascus suburbs are under SAA control.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 22:51 |
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rear end posted:Middle East story: back during the PS2 days pretty much all videogame stores sold bootleg games for ~$3 a disk and I got GTA Vice City at the ripe age of 7. Bootlegs were probably cheaper cause Saddam Hussein bought up all the PS2s to attach to his missiles
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 22:52 |
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Darkman Fanpage posted:All Damascus suburbs are under SAA control. They're still working on that area in South Damascus.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 22:55 |
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Flayer posted:$13.99 is ridiculously expensive for what is basically a magazine length advert though. I guess the only way a thing like that makes money is if they have a deal to sell the magazine to a bunch of business's to put out in reception. I mean, nobody is spending $13.99 to read such flagrant propaganda bigging up a foreign nation surely... Nah. This is the standard pricing for glossy magazines. Times puts out a lot of them that cover some sort of topic like history or something.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 22:55 |
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Sinteres posted:They're still working on that area in South Damascus. Yeah I know about Yarmouk.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 23:04 |
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https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/989271785504944128?s=20 I'M NOT LEAVING HERE UNTIL YOU GIVE ME THAT loving MUMMY
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 23:40 |
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Thanks for posting that. I've been there more than a few times. I swear the Iranian diaspora has a greater than normal proportion of crazies. I'm at least happy that the YouTube shooter wasn't labeled a terrorist
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 00:04 |
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CommieGIR posted:Its CENTCOM's HQ as well as home to multiple major US Combat Commands. This isn't accurate at all. I think you've confused combatant commands with component commands. But this is still true: quote:Nobody is going anywhere.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 04:18 |
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CENTCOM's home base is technically at MacDill AFB near Tampa, yes. But CENTCOM Forward is at Al Udeid. I'd give half credit, it's not the usual arrangement.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 12:42 |
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mlmp08 posted:This isn't accurate at all. I think you've confused combatant commands with component commands. Regional HQ, forgive me. But it is their Forward Base of Operations. quote:Of all six American regional unified combatant commands, CENTCOM is among the three with headquarters outside its area of operations (the other two being USAFRICOM and USSOUTHCOM). CENTCOM's main headquarters is located at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida. A forward headquarters was established in 2002 at Camp As Sayliyah in Doha, Qatar, which in 2009 transitioned to a forward headquarters at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 15:56 |
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rear end posted:Middle East story: back during the PS2 days pretty much all videogame stores sold bootleg games for ~$3 a disk and I got GTA Vice City at the ripe age of 7. Naif road in Dubai was the go-to place for bootlegs when I was still in school.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 16:10 |
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The Taliban have begun their annual offensive http://www.alemarah-english.org/?p=28060
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 17:12 |
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Radio Prune posted:The Taliban have begun their annual offensive oh poo poo im on a watchlist for clicking that link now am i
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 17:46 |
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You were already on a watchlist for posting in this thread.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 18:03 |
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Radio Prune posted:The Taliban have begun their annual offensive oh goddammit
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 18:07 |
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Radio Prune posted:The Taliban have begun their annual offensive
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 19:13 |
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and to think some would say american training of the afghan population isn't having an effect
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 19:59 |
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Seems weird of me to only obscure some of those dudes' faces, but I'm probably missing something and there's a reason for it.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 20:03 |
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maybe some are already dead?
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 20:20 |
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Some of them are obscuring their identities with face paints and don't need blurring
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 20:38 |
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rear end posted:Middle East story: back during the PS2 days pretty much all videogame stores sold bootleg games for ~$3 a disk and I got GTA Vice City at the ripe age of 7. And bootleg GBA carts for around ~10 bucks. Granted that meant youd have to throw the dice and not end up with a game that isnt the one on the label or a completely unintelligible machine translation. Getting your PS2 chipped was a pro move back in the day.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 21:18 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:And bootleg GBA carts for around ~10 bucks. Some poorly bootlegged PS2 games would end up with the red screen. I used to play in the dark and it scared the poo poo out of me every time.
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 22:45 |
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Turns out Haftar’s not dead and he’s now back in Libya.
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# ? Apr 27, 2018 18:54 |
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Sorry for posting fake news about his death. Please forgive me.
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# ? Apr 27, 2018 18:55 |
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Squalid posted:Turns out Haftar’s not dead and he’s now back in Libya. In any case, Bouteflika has proven well that you can be dead and also remain the dictator of a country for years. The Algerians took "Weekend at Bernie's" as a sort of guidebook on how to pretend someone is alive. He's like a Lenin-style wax mummy with little animatronic things built in to rotate his head and arms slightly. I hear they had Madame Tussaud make the current Bouteflika model and Boston Dynamics did the animatronics. Here's a recent video of him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJj1NcqC9OI They did such a lovely job on making him seem like a living human, but I guess it's hard to make a convincing robot.
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# ? Apr 27, 2018 20:10 |
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Saladman posted:In any case, Bouteflika has proven well that you can be dead and also remain the dictator of a country for years. The Algerians took "Weekend at Bernie's" as a sort of guidebook on how to pretend someone is alive. He's like a Lenin-style wax mummy with little animatronic things built in to rotate his head and arms slightly. I hear they had Madame Tussaud make the current Bouteflika model and Boston Dynamics did the animatronics. Wow, and I thought Trump had a bad comb-over.
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# ? Apr 27, 2018 20:35 |
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https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/989875059639640065 https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/989922832313397252
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 04:19 |
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This thread is hilarious. https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/989893487586938880?s=20
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 09:31 |
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State of emergency declared in Idlib. https://twitter.com/ajaltamimi/status/989860548828332032 https://twitter.com/badly_xeroxed/status/989889346487676928 https://twitter.com/irratgeo/status/990122255978938373
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 14:56 |
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Interesting video from a Persepolis match in Tehran yesterday. https://twitter.com/AlirezaNader/status/990220869145432064?s=20 It's "Reza Shah, bless your soul" if it's the same chant as in the demonstrations a couple months ago. In this section, there's one guy in the bottom right chanting very visibly. A bunch of people above him obviously do not agree, but the chant just gets louder. I wonder how this whole situation came about. It's a weird moment. Volkerball fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Volkerball posted:Interesting video from a Persepolis match in Tehran yesterday. That's wild. Burning the body and making a "martyr" out of a corpse seems like it would maybe be a hilarious self own on the part of the regime, especially since it makes them look afraid of him. Did they decide what they're doing with it yet?
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 15:18 |
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Not that I've seen.
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 15:22 |
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-usa-doctor/pakistan-moves-jailed-doctor-who-helped-track-bin-laden-idUSKBN1HZ0NCquote:Afridi’s lawyer, Qamar Nadeem, confirmed the transfer of his client but said he was not sure where he was now. Judicial officials could not be reached on Saturday, nor could embassy officials for the United States, which has for years called on Pakistan to release Afridi.
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 19:35 |
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Cat Mattress posted:EU companies need to completely stop to use US dollars for trade except when trading with the US directly. That's going to be an interesting dynamic going forward. India needs Iran freed up for energy, but the US needs India to contain China. I guess America is going to have to choose what it cares more about going forward. It feels like the Israel/KSA lobby is loving up the US' ability to focus on China, which is a far greater threat to its hegemony.
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 20:40 |
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Saladman posted:In any case, Bouteflika has proven well that you can be dead and also remain the dictator of a country for years. The Algerians took "Weekend at Bernie's" as a sort of guidebook on how to pretend someone is alive. He's like a Lenin-style wax mummy with little animatronic things built in to rotate his head and arms slightly. I hear they had Madame Tussaud make the current Bouteflika model and Boston Dynamics did the animatronics. Lmao a literal zombie.
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A news item, and some history behind it: https://twitter.com/DavidMWitty1/status/990137686299152385 quote:Iraqi Military Court sentences former Mosul Commander, Staff LTG Mahdi al-Gharawi, to death by firing squad for withdrawing from Mosul without orders in 2014 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-monster-of-mosul-how-a-sadistic-general-helped-isis-win (This article is from 2014) quote:The top Iraqi officer in Mosul, whose forces fled with hardly a fight as ISIS militants and their allies took over Iraq’s second-largest city, is an accused torturer who was once targeted by the U.S. military and the Iraqi criminal justice system.
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