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Is he supposed to be resembling miley cyrus or is my brain broken?
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:11 |
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# ? Jun 9, 2024 00:56 |
His foreign policy is to come in like a wrecking ball
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:15 |
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All I'm trying to do is get people to see donalds head on mileys body in their minds. And maybe hear the song in his voice too.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:22 |
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:No, one of the dynasties in China did what he said. Closed their borders, burned their ships, and went back to a very traditional way of life that left them behind everyone else. 5000 years of china
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:25 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:Well, what do you do about that? Because I have no loving idea. Seekhay posted:I don’t either and it scares me. Like really scares me. In the early stages of realizing you've been living under a vicious regime, probably the important thing to do is to just not give into despair, since that'd be an easy victory for the regime. And when your morale stabilizes, it'll be easier for you to get your bearings, connect with allies, plan, and execute. I think that even today, politics is still a local issue, and that you must first look at what's happening immediately around you and work on that level. I'm not much of an analyst or a prescriber of policy solutions, so I don't have a lot of specific advice about actions that you can take (but I try to follow certain public intellectuals who do that better). My niche is spiritual warfare, for lack of a less corny term, or the struggle to not give up in the face of unfavorable odds. There's much confusion and disorganization, and the extent of the Caufman fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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The counterweight to Trump is going to be the states, which is why taking back state houses and governorships is probably as important if not more important than taking back the house. With enough states on board you can do poo poo like amend the Constitution.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:47 |
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Man my heart goes out to all the people in state, the alphabet agencies and various apparati of America Foreign policy and the people who have spent their entire lives in that field working on whatever issue or problem that interested them. From the people in suits behind a nice desk debating policy to joe making GBS threads in a bag to keep eyes on someone or something to have your life's work compromised and broken in such a way that it may never be fixable is devastating. Look at the south China Sea, that genie isn't going back in the bottle. The president is openly pushing Russian policy and US credibility throughout every facet of life in the world is damaged irreparably. Can you imagine what trying to recruit sources or assets is like now? Or in two years? I have a friend whose entire life's work was NKOREA and all of it is just loving worthless and ignored. No one in the white house gives a gently caress about anything.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 05:54 |
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Waroduce posted:Man my heart goes out to all the people in state, the alphabet agencies and various apparati of America Foreign policy and the people who have spent their entire lives in that field working on whatever issue or problem that interested them. From the people in suits behind a nice desk debating policy to joe making GBS threads in a bag to keep eyes on someone or something to have your life's work compromised and broken in such a way that it may never be fixable is devastating. Look at the bright side: a lot of these people getting their life's work destroyed by Trump are republicans
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 06:13 |
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It's not just the intelligence agencies, it's happening all over. There's been a slew of highly successful, very important military health contracts or government programs that in the last year have found themselves canceled. Stuff that was started in the GWB/Obama presidencies but not canceled as part of traditional administrative turnover. Stuff that was created so that when the next war happens, we don't gently caress up treatment for things as badly as before. Oh well! gently caress are troopz I guess.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 10:22 |
I did read a pretty interesting and accurate article in NYT today, about how if you were a Russian agent sent to destabilise the West, your actions would look really, really loving similar to what Trump is doing.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 10:29 |
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I did read a pretty interesting and accurate article in NYT today, about how if you were a Russian agent sent to destabilise the West, your actions would look really, really loving similar to what Trump is doing. Link me.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 10:34 |
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Vasudus posted:Oh well! gently caress are troopz I guess. You will never convince the troops otherwise that the GOP hates their collective guts.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 11:01 |
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This forum is the outlier of outliers.Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I did read a pretty interesting and accurate article in NYT today, about how if you were a Russian agent sent to destabilise the West, your actions would look really, really loving similar to what Trump is doing. Viva Miriya posted:Link me. Yeah, same.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 11:02 |
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Trump isn't a Russian agent. His entire administration is just full of useful idiots.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 11:05 |
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psydude posted:Trump isn't a Russian agent. His entire administration is just full of useless idiots.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 11:09 |
Mr. Putin what do you most wish for? -To see NATO destabilized and its most powerful member advocate for us instead. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1005988633747312640
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 11:54 |
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That Works posted:Mr. Putin what do you most wish for? -To see NATO destabilized and its most powerful member advocate for us instead. A low-effort post regarding the 2% NATO spending stats that get tossed around: 1. 2% is a goal, not a mandate. 2. 2% is a highly imperfect measure and was basically born out of being easy to measure rather than being an effective measurement of how much you are contributing to collective defense and readiness. 4. It includes figures like overhead (civilian staff, buildings, senior staff) as well as items like military pensions and health costs. So you could end up paying 2% while building zero new capability and having moderate capabilities to begin with in comparison with a nation that has less military benefits. 5. Spending on things like infrastructure that can handle military vehicles and spending that generally aids with stability like economic programs, internal policing, civil border control, and customs/contraband enforcement generally do not count. 6. The US likes to count every dollar we spend as a contribution toward NATO, even if it's on a plane, ship, soldier, whatever that will never see the North Atlantic or Europe. Thank you, PACOM, for your contributions to NATO! 7. If you run an exceedingly efficient program and field more forces at a greater bang for your buck than your neighbor, and you spend 1.5% GDP, and they spend 2.1% GDP, guess who's considered the slacker? There's plenty to be said about Europeans being able to credibly defend themselves with less US support or with the understanding that it takes time to get US forces to Europe, but the 2% stats get thrown around with zero context.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:09 |
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Doesn't Japan manage to still have the 8th largest defense budget in the world despite not spending more than 1% of it's GDP on its military.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:11 |
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Canada might start spending more on military if trump keeps his rhetoric up
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:13 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Canada might start spending more on military if trump keeps his rhetoric up Unlikely. Being an rear end in a top hat is apparently a prerequisite for being in the Canadian military, and there's only so many of those in Canada.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:15 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Canada might start spending more on military if trump keeps his rhetoric up The avro arrow will see the light of day at last! psydude posted:Unlikely. Being an rear end in a top hat is apparently a prerequisite for being in the Canadian military, and there's only so many of those in Canada. Alberta, Vancouver and most of Quebec have got you covered fam.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:15 |
Handsome Ralph posted:The avro arrow will see the light of day at last! "The Avro Arrow II was instrumental in defeating the F-35 forces of the US-Russia-North Korea tripartite alliance invasion, now referred to as the 'Dairy War' of 2019."
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:17 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:The avro arrow will see the light of day at last! Unfortunately, it's gone through some design compromises over the years.
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psydude posted:Unlikely. Being an rear end in a top hat is apparently a prerequisite for being in the Canadian military, and there's only so many of those in Canada. As Ralph already said, you definitely haven't been to Quebec
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:20 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:As Ralph already said, you definitely haven't been to Quebec Wannabe French people are the wrong kind of rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:23 |
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psydude posted:Wannabe French people are the wrong kind of rear end in a top hat. lol, someone's never heard of the vandoos or the pararchute regiments "Somalia incident". Also there's a reason why Matterhorn and every other piece of Vietnam War fiction includes a Canadian from either Vancouver or Alberta. Edit: For the unaware, people in Alberta and Vancouver to a lesser extent get really gung ho about American wars for some odd reason. With the exception of Iraq, my family up there get really excited at pretty much any American intervention. Iraq was a tipping point though cause I remember my grandparents being super ok with the idea of me commissioning and going to Afghanistan but Iraq suddenly made them want me to not do that, move up north and enlist or commission with the CF instead. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jun 11, 2018 |
# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:26 |
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Yeah basically every Canadian military person I know has come from Alberta. And they've all been huge assholes.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 12:28 |
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the real comedy option is gonna be when everyone backs out of the F35
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 13:14 |
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So is the Worm in Singapore to introduce his two friends, or is he off leading a funeral for roadkill or whatever? Although, if future children have to learn about one crossdressing Trump administration affiliate, I'd rather it be Rodman than Giuliani.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 13:31 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:This forum is the outlier of outliers. Viva Miriya posted:Link me. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/g7-trump-quebec-trudeau.html Starts around paragraph 5 Immanentized fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jun 11, 2018 |
# ? Jun 11, 2018 13:33 |
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The only Canadian military guy I know was a retired RCN guy who had whatever accent makes you pronounce "about" as "aboat".
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 13:53 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The only Canadian military guy I know was a retired RCN guy who had whatever accent makes you pronounce "about" as "aboat". we all do that it is in no way a Canadian stereotype. Trust me the CAF has just as many assholes in it as the US Military does.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:39 |
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only Canadian military guy i have known bragged about being a founding member of the Canadian tea party, and had then moved to Texas and gotten his citizenship so he could help gently caress up America.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:41 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:As Ralph already said, you definitely haven't been to Quebec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgZezt_ADEY
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:44 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:So is the Worm in Singapore to introduce his two friends, or is he off leading a funeral for roadkill or whatever? Rodman is in Singapore unrelated to the summit to launch an ICO called potcoin, but will probably be involved in the summit anyways because why not.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:45 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:Rodman is in Singapore unrelated to the summit to launch an ICO called potcoin, but will probably be involved in the summit anyways because why not. He’s there for the summit unless he’s stupid enough to start a drug ICO somewhere with the death penalty for possession.
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:49 |
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hobbesmaster posted:He’s there for the summit unless he’s stupid enough to start a drug ICO somewhere with the death penalty for possession. I misunderstood. Potcoin is sponsoring his travel https://twitter.com/dennisrodman/status/1005094659427880960
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:51 |
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https://twitter.com/davidnakamura/status/1006029496321884160?s=21
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# ? Jun 11, 2018 14:55 |
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MA-Horus posted:we all do that it is in no way a Canadian stereotype. You've got 1 million people in your military?
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That haircut is wild
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