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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/NAR/status/1037644033307369472 The United States spends 3.1% of GDP on the military and China spends 1.9%. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_high_desc=true What's really wild is that Oman is #1 at 12%, beating out Saudi Arabia at #2. Estimates of the USSR's military spending in the 80s range between 15-20%, so the only country in the world approaching Soviet style military overreach is Saudi Arabia.
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Sep 8, 2018 09:55
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saudi arabia is probably way worse proportionally. the ussr spent a TON on their military, but at least they were fighting an enemy spending roughly the same amount, not blowing billions on fighter jets to blow up civilians with small arms
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Sep 8, 2018 10:05
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The Soviets also had an industrial economy that was based on more than just pumping up combustible sludge and selling it across the world.
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Sep 8, 2018 10:11
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yeah the soviets built their poo poo which employed people. gulf states just purchase toys, the same as setting money on fire
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Sep 8, 2018 10:38
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i say swears online posted:yeah the soviets built their poo poo which employed people. gulf states just purchase toys, the same as setting money on fire hey now they "employ" plenty of south asians Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 11:15 on Sep 8, 2018 |
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Sep 8, 2018 10:40
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:hey now they "employee" plenty of south asians Don't worry, they're just working an internship
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Sep 8, 2018 11:00
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We really are likely to see Saudi Arabia cease to exist within our lifetimes, aren't we? For a variety of reasons. Small comfort.
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Sep 8, 2018 13:26
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Larry Parrish posted:Don't worry, they're just working an internship my resort is about 20% locals and 80% "interns" from hungary, south africa and the phillippines they're paid in poo poo and experience, and it severely suppresses wages. on the plus side the south africans are all straightedge christians and fans of malema's land redistribution policies
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Sep 8, 2018 13:29
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But he can't afford an iphone!
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Sep 8, 2018 17:09
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i say swears online posted:gulf states just purchase toys, the same as setting money on fire they purchase protection. which is expensive. a real racket. the toys are mostly incidental.
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Sep 8, 2018 17:48
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drat, thanks for sharing
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Sep 8, 2018 21:13
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drat that guy sounds exactly like a hippie burnout pretty cool until he gets to the 9/11 truther poo poo
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Sep 8, 2018 21:49
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China Thread: pretty cool until he gets to the 9/11 truther poo poo
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Sep 8, 2018 22:00
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KaptainKrunk posted:drat that guy sounds exactly like a hippie burnout i just got to the part where he has "no doubt" that pizza gate is real.
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Sep 8, 2018 22:10
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:hey now they "employ" plenty of south asians Lol remember when Jrodefeld posted that Cato Institute* article about most economically "free" nations to prove somehow that free market USA was better than socialist hellholes like Canada and didn't realize literal slave states topped the list? And then went on to claim that what happened in the UAE was comparable to minor labor disputes? *I think? Might've been Heritage or some other bunch of assholes.
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Sep 8, 2018 23:22
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Literally being buried in the foundations of a soccer stadium that would only be used once. You know, minor labor disputes.
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Sep 8, 2018 23:26
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caro institute
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Sep 8, 2018 23:35
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Baloogan posted:caro institute shut up, I'm trying to have a thinkpiece duel
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Sep 8, 2018 23:36
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srry
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Sep 8, 2018 23:49
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Baloogan posted:caro institute
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Sep 9, 2018 00:16
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The Caro Insitution of Anti-CIA Thought
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Sep 9, 2018 00:24
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KaptainKrunk posted:drat that guy sounds exactly like a hippie burnout but the stuff about donetsk is interesting
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Sep 9, 2018 00:39
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Having some bad opinions is just the price of being cool.
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Sep 9, 2018 01:05
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maybe all of his opinions are bad and hes an strasserist dipshit
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Sep 9, 2018 03:17
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If he was a Strasserist he would've been fighting for Ukraine.
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Sep 9, 2018 03:31
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yeah instead defending russian fascists instead of ukrainian ones while ranting about secret western-backed muslim conspiracies you pick lovely comrades dude
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Sep 9, 2018 03:50
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I didn't say he was a comrade, I said he was cool.
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Sep 9, 2018 03:52
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hes not
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Sep 9, 2018 03:53
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Bro Dad posted:hes not  the face i make when i read your posts
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Sep 9, 2018 03:58
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Cool right wing dudes Erdogan Duterte Khamenei Rob Ford The Lion
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Sep 9, 2018 03:58
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Xi Jinping
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Sep 9, 2018 04:37
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You can be cool and be a reactionary. It's just a hard thought to process because all the American ones are nerds and circular fat orbs
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Sep 9, 2018 05:37
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David Bowie went through a fascist phase in the 70s and he was still somehow cool so I guess its possible.
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Sep 9, 2018 05:43
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who here among us can say they haven't gone through a "fascist phase"?
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Sep 9, 2018 05:55
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bowie was just really into hitler and nazi poo poo. i dunno i guess thats kinda a weak excuse but its a little better than like, celine, i guess
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Sep 9, 2018 06:02
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Dreddout posted:Cool right wing dudes Eh erdogan it's pretty lame, but yeah duterte is cool as hell
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Sep 9, 2018 07:20
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I'm very mad I lost my Duterte as the Terminator shirt
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Sep 9, 2018 07:21
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:Eh erdogan it's pretty lame, but yeah duterte is cool as hell ur just jealous of his bitchin' house 
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Sep 9, 2018 16:35
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*sigh* im never gonna own a house
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Sep 9, 2018 16:42
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Baloogan posted:*sigh* im never gonna own a house What happened to your tundra shack?
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Sep 9, 2018 17:06
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