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Spermanent Record posted:Does anyone have a link to that interview with the Syrian refugee who said something along the lines of 'People think it can't happen in their country'? https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/11/the-land-of-topless-minarets-and-headless-little-girls/ quote:People who are not Syrian ask me the most painful question, “Why do your people kill each other?” I usually give long-winded explanations, gesturing with my hands but without eye contact, offering historical and logical precedents of tyranny and oppression and revolution and freedom. But I don’t tell them what I should, not out of kindness, but out of pity and because it scares me to admit how hardened I’ve become over the last 20 months: Don’t you dare, even for one second, believe that your people and your cities are immune to what happened to my country, my friend. None of you are.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/11/the-land-of-topless-minarets-and-headless-little-girls/ The trick is redefining "your". We're well on our way.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:im really really really sorry for all the trump tweets lately but holy gently caress hahahaha This is a repeat but "They say the ship is sinking, but our end just lifted 200 feet into the air! Wrong again science!"
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Gavin Mcinnes resigned from the Proud Boys. Dude really thought he could just be Tyler Durden for funsies and noped out when it turns out that starting a violent gang means you are part of a violent gang.
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i'm the founder not a leader - gavin mcinnes
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The Orgasm Sanction posted:Gavin Mcinnes resigned from the Proud Boys.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:https://twitter.com/ocasio2018/status/1065369433982595073?s=21 She was forged in the fires of Helldump. There's no other explanation.
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Forgot to share this good joke with ya'll earlier today https://twitter.com/bIoach/status/1065286852062703621
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LingcodKilla posted:Sad. Oooh, oh are we playing youtube comments or not
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Hot Karl Marx posted:im really really really sorry for all the trump tweets lately but holy gently caress hahahaha I hate this piece of poo poo e: LingcodKilla posted:Gas prices are still above $3 what is he talking about? He's insanely stupid and his true believers are as well. Gas dipped below $1.80 around here some years back (before the dark times) and the dumb rear end in a top hat yokel manning the counter at the gas station was complaining about Obama making the gas prices so drat high. Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/625727665903898624 There's a tweet for everything.
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Torrannor posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/625727665903898624  Wish I'd seen that before or right after the election.
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Kinda wonder how much of the world's helium reserves are used in the Thanksgiving day parade.
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Laranzu posted:Kinda wonder how much of the world's helium reserves are used in the Thanksgiving day parade. Due to cost constraints, helium has been replaced with low cost, green-energy Hydrogen.
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Isn't hydrogen really really hard to store cause it just wants to gently caress off off the planet? Edit: I know it's a joke
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Isn't hydrogen really really hard to store cause it just wants to gently caress off off the planet? Yes, and is so small, it basically loves to find any and all microscopic atomic sized holes and leak out of it's vessel.
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CommieGIR posted:Yes, and is so small, it basically loves to find any and all microscopic atomic sized holes and leak out of it's vessel. Should just use Carbon Monoxide instead IMO.
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Ran across this article from last year along with this funny tweet: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/finland/2017-10-09/finnish-model https://twitter.com/IikkaKorhonen/status/902488375705391104 95% is pretty high approval for anyone's armed forces.
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my kinda ape posted:Aren't Finns in general kind of...I don't know how to say it, militaristic but in a good way? In a way it could be said, perhaps. The FDF is held in relatively high regard, of course we don't really have a Vietnam-war like experience in the past. WW2 was the last war that Finnish troops fought in in any real numbers and since it's national service based it is a common shared experience for men, regardless of your place of birth or economical background. Also, if you want to enroll in the officer academy you have to complete national service first and spend 3 months or so on basic training doing pushups and making GBS threads in the woods with everyone else (the people who get reserve nco or officer training are chosen after 3 months). No private military academies here.
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Einstein whatever Enrico loving Fermi was way cooler.
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Ataxerxes posted:Also, if you want to enroll in the officer academy you have to complete national service first and spend 3 months or so on basic training doing pushups and making GBS threads in the woods with everyone else (the people who get reserve nco or officer training are chosen after 3 months). No private military academies here. I think there's some semi-recent research that points towards the rather awkward aspect of how rank-and-file officers in the FDF are kind of poo poo at their jobs, and this whole "you gotta nail your conscription period to even be considered later" deal is deffo a part of why FDF officers suck at their jobs.
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LingcodKilla posted:I’m curious to see what’s gonna happen to that officer now. Honestly, that was a pretty good answer. He didn't snicker or pause or whatever, and gave the Navy party line answer. "Yes, it's hard, but we're good at doing hard tech stuff, and steam catapults come at a significant cost despite our familiarity with them."
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mlmp08 posted:Honestly, that was a pretty good answer. He didn't snicker or pause or whatever, and gave the Navy party line answer. "Yes, it's hard, but we're good at doing hard tech stuff, and steam catapults come at a significant cost despite our familiarity with them." One thing I really enjoy, that I learned in the military, was how to tell someone to subtly gently caress themselves when the consequences of doing so are severe. Kinda like this officer. He did good.
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Kemper Boyd posted:I think there's some semi-recent research that points towards the rather awkward aspect of how rank-and-file officers in the FDF are kind of poo poo at their jobs, and this whole "you gotta nail your conscription period to even be considered later" deal is deffo a part of why FDF officers suck at their jobs. Now that is certainly something I haven't come across, but it's been a long time since I was in. Getting to AUK or RUK (nco and officer training) varied a lot between places, in some garrisons it was really hard and it others they had to ask for volunteers. For the international audience the system was so that a certain group would get nco training and the best of each nco group would go on to be reserve officers. To get into the military academy having been in the nco training was enough.
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Richard Bong posted:One thing I really enjoy, that I learned in the military, was how to tell someone to subtly gently caress themselves when the consequences of doing so are severe. I learned a bit of that too, but found it's more therapeutic to just be blunt. Like when I was offered a job for a company I worked for prior, I could've easily said no thank you, call the next guy on the books. But no, I had to say I'd rather run backwards naked through a corn field than work for them goddamn clowns again. And a week or two later I left that union anyhow. It just felt better to express it off hip, considering how loving sloppy that union was at the time.
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Unfortunately I'm so cynical most of the time that even trying to be genuine and on my best behavior comes off as being a smartass. So I don't bother anymore.
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What the gently caress is it with him and those steam catapults? It's one very specific thing he's brought up multiple times (that he still doesn't understand the first, most basic thing about).
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bird food bathtub posted:What the gently caress is it with him and those steam catapults? It's one very specific thing he's brought up multiple times (that he still doesn't understand the first, most basic thing about). get this, it's because he think's he's smart when he brings it up
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