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If you want to lust for the sweet release of death, see the latest Dilbert comic:
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Rip Testes posted:Did Fox News cover the Mattis resignation letter at all? I was curious about this too so I took the hit to my corporate targeted marketing profile and searched for stories from Fox News about the Mattis departure. 'Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation a protest of President Trump's national security policies, sources say' https://video.foxnews.com/v/5982548377001/#sp=show-clips The main line from their news channel describes hefty criticism from within the government but also dedicates a significant portion of time discussing other media outlets' responses to Friday's news hurricane. I don't typically watch Fox News so I'm not sure if this is standard for them, or if it's a way to express criticism of the president without actually stating it outright themselves. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de...tary-of-defense
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Dec 23, 2018 19:10
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The Glumslinger posted:If you want to lust for the sweet release of death, see the latest Dilbert comic: Jesus christ on the bright side, if anything sounds the death knell of a (incredibly dumbass) meme, it's idiot boomers like Adams using them to be hip
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Dec 23, 2018 19:11
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The Glumslinger posted:If you want to lust for the sweet release of death, see the latest Dilbert comic: yeah the dilbert guy is a well known piece of poo poo chud
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Groovelord Neato posted:america is far more progressive than republicans, the media, or even democrats treat it and you're right the system overwhelmingly favoring white racists casts this narrative that america is a right wing nation. but it is still depressing that at least 60 million americans are racist authoritarians. lol at the party of "family values" having no issue with the married adult son of the POTUS making so many appearances with his current girlfriend.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:13
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The Glumslinger posted:If you want to lust for the sweet release of death, see the latest Dilbert comic: It's a shame, I used to enjoy Dilbert, and thought The Dilbert Principle was a solid book, at least when I read it some 15 years ago. Now he's so hosed up that he's into writing comics that don't have a joke. And of course going back you find all sorts of evidence in the strips that he has bizarre ideas about women at the very least.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:18
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Spacebump posted:lol at the party of "family values" having no issue with the married adult son of the POTUS making so many appearances with his current girlfriend. This sort of thing drives me *insane*. Like I have no personal opinion about marriage and stuff, outside of the fact that you theoretically made a commitment to someone and you're being a piece of poo poo breaking it. But for the party where this sort of thing is supposed to be more import, and often have religious aspects tied to it, to not impact people's views on politicians when this poo poo happens just makes me so mad. I don't care if this preacher paid a pool-boy to have a long-term threesome with his wife, but that's the sort of thing that goes against all these established things they're outraged about (sex outside marriage, breaking marriage vows, homosexuality, and being a preacher on top of all that). There are a gently caress-ton of better examples I don't know off-hand, but the fact that they're able to have things that go so against the main line of what they claim to be about not really impact their electability just no-sells republicans so much for me.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:24
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Dec 23, 2018 19:27
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 when you realize Trump now is dumber than Alzheimer's Reagan
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Dec 23, 2018 19:30
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Discendo Vox posted:Please link these. Ben Shapiro takedown Jordan Peterson takedown Charles Murray takedown Ague Proof posted:The announcement that Osama had been killed interrupted the Apprentice. oh my gooooood how the gently caress did he become president his entire public image should've been completely loving torched.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:34
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Lightning Knight posted:Ben Shapiro takedown https://youtu.be/kXvjz7KkkEM
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Dec 23, 2018 19:37
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Radish posted:The current real problem is youtube is radicalizing kids by linking white supremacist nazi stuff to pretty much everything that they could be interested in. Watching videogame stuff is guaranteed to get some severe misogynistic bullshit funneled into their recommendations. I don't think enough people in power understand that is going on, especially since stuff like the New York Times likes to promote "the Intellectual Dark Web" as good when they are just chuds with secondary college degrees. It's not just the recommends either, I've been getting these 5-minute Prager U screeds about "cultural Marxism" as ads for a few months now.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:37
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https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1076840459190919169?s=20 Fuckin uhhhhhh
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Dec 23, 2018 19:37
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mattis didn't do anything to restrain Trump and will be replaced by an identical war criminal ghoul so we shouldn't be worried about his departure, and frankly having checks on Donald Trump's ability to deploy nuclear weapons is bad *starts humming 99 Luftbaloons*
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Dec 23, 2018 19:46
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Spaced God posted:Fuckin uhhhhhh Oh please, every Republican President since Nixon has probably had military officials doing this, it's not even shocking anymore.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:47
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, there has to have been along the chain of command, some sort of gentlemen's agreement to prevent this impulsive child from just tossing around nukes. People stormed into the Trump thread to tell me that military people are robots who will do anything their superiors order them to, but I still think i'm right here. There's no way people who are aware of the destructive power and consequences of using even one, would let this simple tool within a moment of using them.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:47
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Let's fuckin do it. I've always wanted to see a mushroom cloud.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:47
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I hope Bolton yells at Trump and gets fired.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:51
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reminder that Fox News kept saying for the whole week that n-word(neoliberal) Obama was kill and then a seond later went "oh we so sawry, but neoliberal Obama and sand neoliberal Osama both have really really similar names, we so sawrryyyyy."
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Dec 23, 2018 19:51
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PhazonLink posted:reminder that Fox News kept saying for the whole week that n-word(neoliberal) Obama was kill and then a seond later went "oh we so sawry, but neoliberal Obama and sand neoliberal Osama both have really really similar names, we so sawrryyyyy." The gently caress?
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Dec 23, 2018 19:53
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Seems like a good time for a reminder that Dan Zak and other Twitter alarmists like Jeffrey Lewis really want you to buy their books about nuclear holocaust.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:55
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Zophar posted:Seems like a good time for a reminder that Dan Zak and other Twitter alarmists like Jeffrey Lewis really want you to buy their books about nuclear holocaust. Paint me as unsurprised as possible. 
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Dec 23, 2018 19:57
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KickerOfMice posted:I've said it before, and I'll say it again, there has to have been along the chain of command, some sort of gentlemen's agreement to prevent this impulsive child from just tossing around nukes. People stormed into the Trump thread to tell me that military people are robots who will do anything their superiors order them to, but I still think i'm right here. There's no way people who are aware of the destructive power and consequences of using even one, would let this simple tool within a moment of using them. I read that all along the chain of command, they have frequent nuclear drills where they don't tell the people involved that it's a drill until it's over, so in the event of a real nuclear launch, it's indistinguishable from a drill.
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There Bias Two posted:Lots of fun? Lot of totally normal things for a U.S President and sane functional adult human being to say coming out of the ol' Real Donald Trump this weekend. Big beautiful spike walls and drones of death. Rinse/repeat every day like the caravan thing hoping somebody gives you what you want I'm going to imagine. America etc.
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Dec 23, 2018 19:58
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Pakled posted:I read that all along the chain of command, they have frequent nuclear drills where they don't tell the people involved that it's a drill until it's over. Yes that's true, down the chain, that's absolutely true. But I hope they have a cabinet-level plan to distract the goblin with FOX news, or his precious wall, or some such. Because the president is susceptible to momentary distraction! 
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PhazonLink posted:reminder that Fox News kept saying for the whole week that n-word(neoliberal) Obama was kill and then a seond later went "oh we so sawry, but neoliberal Obama and sand neoliberal Osama both have really really similar names, we so sawrryyyyy." ...what?
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Pakled posted:I read that all along the chain of command, they have frequent nuclear drills where they don't tell the people involved that it's a drill until it's over, so in the event of a real nuclear launch, it's indistinguishable from a drill.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:02
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Ogmius815 posted:...what? He's right that Fox deliberately conflate Obama and Osama, he just phrased it in an obnoxious and confusing memelord way
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Dec 23, 2018 20:04
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Failed Imagineer posted:He's right that Fox deliberately conflate Obama and Osama, he just phrased it in an obnoxious and confusing memelord way That post legitimately is reads like its author was having a psychotic break though.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:05
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I hope Bolton yells at Trump and gets fired. I hope he yells at Trump and has a stroke.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:06
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It's not like we've had an accidental alert happen this year which, even though it didn't proliferate up the chain of command, could still be seen by the President because it was Twitter-streamed.
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Discendo Vox posted:
In addendum to the other links, CA had a twitter thread where all their criticisms to date were compiled last August: https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1029148698947792896
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Dec 23, 2018 20:09
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quote:The secretary of defense has no legal position in the nuclear chain of command, and any attempts by a secretary of defense to prevent the president from exercising the authority to use nuclear weapons would be undemocratic and illegal. lol THE LAW is not going to stop someone from preventing a rogue president for launching for no reason.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:15
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It's a complicated subject. On the one hand, preventing a deranged president from impulsively launching nukes is a good thing. On the other hand, if another country launches nukes at you, you have maybe 15 minutes to respond. Any sort of bureaucracy will drastically slow down your response time and potentially hurt your retaliatory capability (since some of the enemy's nukes will hit and disable your own silos, so you need your missiles in the air before that happens). I learned all this from playing Defcon.
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Dec 23, 2018 20:23
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Those adorable puppytars are making this hard to read! 
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enraged_camel posted:It's a complicated subject. On the one hand, preventing a deranged president from impulsively launching nukes is a good thing. On the other hand, if another country launches nukes at you, you have maybe 15 minutes to respond. Any sort of bureaucracy will drastically slow down your response time and potentially hurt your retaliatory capability (since some of the enemy's nukes will hit and disable your own silos, so you need your missiles in the air before that happens). It's not that complicated. The consequences for accidentally launching nukes when you shouldn't have is an apocalypse. The consequences for not launching nukes as soon as you should have is that maybe fewer people die in the apocalypse.
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I would prefer not to have a white nuclear winter Christmas, thank you very much. To be honest, if that scenario ever happened, at least with me, there's a General Dynamics munitions/gunpowder factory about 8 miles away. The amount of nitroglycerin they have on hand would glass the entire county if it touched off.
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double nine posted:I'm sure there's a political metaphor to be found in this footage: That eagle perfectly represents America: a vulture profiting off of the efforts of another and yet too stupid to do the evil and smart thing by flying upward 45 feet, dropping it, and having two dinners that evening.
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enraged_camel posted:It's a complicated subject. On the one hand, preventing a deranged president from impulsively launching nukes is a good thing. On the other hand, if another country launches nukes at you, you have maybe 15 minutes to respond. Any sort of bureaucracy will drastically slow down your response time and potentially hurt your retaliatory capability (since some of the enemy's nukes will hit and disable your own silos, so you need your missiles in the air before that happens). This was mostly rendered moot by nuclear submarines adding a secondary strike capability. A decapitation strike is no longer a viable tactic.
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