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ZypherIM posted:I'm old enough that I read # as "pound", because it is the number sign but usually called the pound sign. I was never clear on why twitter decided (or was it someone else that they stole it from?) to start calling it hashtag. It makes some things parse.. in unintended ways though. I was told once that the backbone of Twitter was built on IRC. If so, then it's pronounced "channel."
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I think our allies or going to really evaluate their relationship with us when this Trump mess is over. I don't think they will abandon us (if we don't abandon them first) but they will know that even if we elect a good leader again we are only 4 years away from electing another psychopath and undoing any progress that was made. How can you make any long term plans with a country that seesaws from somewhat competent to making GBS threads it's own pants so rapidly?
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Uglycat posted:I was told once that the backbone of Twitter was built on IRC. If so, then it's pronounced "channel." Weird, because I still called it pound on irc. Like explaining how to use irc to someone verbally, I'd say you type "pound (sign) followed by the channel's name". Because otherwise they'd never type the correct thing. Trump's twitter meltdown is fantastic. I'm imagining him literally alone in the oval office, everyone else having found convenient excuses while he watches fox news and tweets. Except don jr, who is still in the room and even talking while trump still ignores him.
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If nothing else it has demonstrated to the world that any plans involving the US cannot be counted on to last past the next presidential election
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Charliegrs posted:I think our allies or going to really evaluate their relationship with us when this Trump mess is over. I don't think they will abandon us (if we don't abandon them first) but they will know that even if we elect a good leader again we are only 4 years away from electing another psychopath and undoing any progress that was made. How can you make any long term plans with a country that seesaws from somewhat competent to making GBS threads it's own pants so rapidly? They'll start requiring us to actually ratify things in congress. From my understanding, we've sort of done executive orders for agreements for a while, since that avoided congress tanking a treaty negotiation. Then the following presidents were cognizant of the fact that if they started just ignoring previous agreements they'd gently caress it all up, so they honored (more or less: see ukraine) them. Now after trump I wouldn't be surprised to see govts start wanting us to do things so that the next guy can't just sign away.
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In other words, no more international agreements because our Senate is fundamentally dysfunctional and will be for decades to come
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Trump is basically as if all the really harsh things that Roman historians wrote about Caligula were absolutely unquestionably true. Future historians will look at this period and go “nah he can’t have been THIS bad, right?”
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To my knowledge Trump hasn't ordered senators to send their children as prostitutes in imperial orgies yet so he's not yet as bonkers as Caligula as described by ancient historians
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cheetah7071 posted:To my knowledge Trump hasn't ordered senators to send their children as prostitutes in imperial orgies yet so he's not yet as bonkers as Caligula as described by ancient historians I’d say he’s just as bonkers, just not as creative in his pettyness. Actually, the more I think of it, Trump might be more of a Tiberius: cruel, politically awkward, and would rather spend his time far away from the capital, letting shrewd and competent stooges handle the important stuff in his stead. Key difference is that Trump hasn’t found any competent shrills yet. BigglesSWE fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Dec 24, 2018 |
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Ague Proof posted:He posted this today: I'm not sure I can watch an 800 year-old vampire lord attempt to kill himself through sheer embarrassment.
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cheetah7071 posted:To my knowledge Trump hasn't ordered senators to send their children as prostitutes in imperial orgies yet so he's not yet as bonkers as Caligula as described by ancient historians Herodotus, the original Pizzagater. But, we are about to the point that Trump is going to appoint a horse to Cabinet position.
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Ague Proof posted:He posted this today: I can’t believe this isn’t getting ratioed. Edit: he is getting thoroughly roasted in the replies.
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Young Freud posted:Herodotus, the original Pizzagater. I thought Pence already liked trump just fine though? I'm trying to think of an animal that he would actually appoint, and I think a stuffed dog.
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ZypherIM posted:I thought Pence already liked trump just fine though? A Rottweiler, to impress on Vlad.
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We literally have a pouty child for president https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1077255770725601280?s=21
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BigglesSWE posted:A Rottweiler, to impress on Vlad. A literal Mad Dog for Defense Secretary. \/\/\/ look okay Herodotus was the only antiquity historian i know off the top of my head. I'm not going to Google on my phone for a joke Young Freud fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Dec 24, 2018 |
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Young Freud posted:Herodotus, the original Pizzagater. Herodotus was about 500 years before caligula
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I think they're just going to completely leave the US out of things now and talk to us only if they have to.
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ZypherIM posted:I thought Pence already liked trump just fine though? Christmas present.
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BigglesSWE posted:Trump is basically as if all the really harsh things that Roman historians wrote about Caligula were absolutely unquestionably true. Yeah, I feel like Trump is a bit more like what Caligula was probably like in reality. Like Caligula, if we still have history 2,000 years from now, it's going to be full of some next-level atrocities.
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Charliegrs posted:I think our allies or going to really evaluate their relationship with us when this Trump mess is over. I don't think they will abandon us (if we don't abandon them first) but they will know that even if we elect a good leader again we are only 4 years away from electing another psychopath and undoing any progress that was made. How can you make any long term plans with a country that seesaws from somewhat competent to making GBS threads it's own pants so rapidly? Basically. I remember noting in 2016 how remarkable it was that every other major country except maybe Russia and India clearly wanted a Democratic leader except the United States which even after the Bush years still seemed to be favorable towards the idea of a GOP government (I didn't think that much though before November 2016) and that the U.S was literally the only Western Democracy in the world where he had a prayer of winning the nomination let alone the presidency. As long as this off the rails wielding power for powers sake version of the GOP continues to exist as an electable entity I think a lot of countries will think twice about how they deal with the United States from now on. It's crazy cause countries like France, England etc. have had a hell of a lot longer to go completely off the rails and never really did and they've had some questionable monarchs throughout their history when that was their system of government. Germany would be the obvious example of a country that did it to themselves and needed outside intervention to put the pieces back together. I just really hope it doesn't have to come to that for the U.S. Personally I'm just getting really tired of right wing conservative governments that lead their countries into stagnation and misery over what feels like the entirety of my life time. It just feels like such a mismatch for where the world actually seems to be heading at large since literally the 60's, yet these types of leaders keep getting into office and voters keep thinking it's a good idea to elect people like Bolsanaro, Abe, Trump, Ford, May (some not as utterly ridiculous as others but all an example of bad conservative leadership leading to stagnation and misery) etc. in countries where they have an actual choice. I just don't get it, I've never been able to figure out where the upside for conservative ideology is even supposed to be. I would have thought maybe fiscal conservatism but it's been the non-conversatives that have presided over the good economies for my entire life time while any time there's been a Republican type administration it's resulted in a recession like in the 80's, 2008 and by the looks of it 2019.
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Taerkar posted:Yeah, that wasn't actually what Chamberlain was doing at all. The Munich Agreement was as much to buy time for the UK as anything else. The last part is a literal quote by Chamberlain. The guy waited on Hitler like a dog and even convinced Czechoslovakia (who had a standing army of a million men and extensive fortifications) to surrender their whole country without a bullet fired because Hitler promised that this was his last land claim (like he did after invading Austria). Several times over Hitler would make demands and Chamberlain would grant them and Hitler would go "na now I want this as well" and Chamberlain would grant that as well. The royal navy should have been blockading nazi Germany from the moment German tanks rolled into Austria.
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Ohhh, that makes sense. I was wondering what he could possibly be talking about. Why is our president so loving stupid?
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"Caligula" means "small boots", so at least he and DJT have small appendages in common.
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Also lol https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1077263242471358464 I wonder if this is all just part of Trump's never-ending narcissistic need for attention. There's no such thing as bad publicity, right? Biggest Christmas eve stock market drop in history!
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Lycus posted:Ohhh, that makes sense. I was wondering what he could possibly be talking about. Why is our president so loving stupid? Image was edited here's the quote: quote:The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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cheetah7071 posted:To my knowledge Trump hasn't ordered senators to send their children as prostitutes in imperial orgies yet so he's not yet as bonkers as Caligula as described by ancient historians Caligula was a pretty decent porn flick as well
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Also lol Narcissists definitely do not believe that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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Tag yourself... https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/667183216323772416
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Imagine how boring your life must be to wear that sign.
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I claim the occult sorcerer position, I havent played one in DND for a while.
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Trump is at least eight from that list.
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Look, I’ll grant you every single other group on that list, but can’t we let the bitter people slide?
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I’m not sure what a backslider is but I think I’m one.
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