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Yeah, we got HTTP here Hogshead Touching The Penis ed: worst snipe. I don't have a cat to post, but I do currently have caterpillars, please accept those instead CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Is 45 the 4 in this 4chan person thats behind all this?
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:36 |
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Trump is pretty obsessed with the 45 as well. I don’t know if that’s totally normal for a US President, I know we don’t really track PMs that way. He’s even had a hat made.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:50 |
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It's mostly a thing because of Bush Sr. (41) and Jr. (43) as you needed a way to quickly specify and "Dubya" is more of an insult. Trump just loves anything that reminds people that he's pres.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:52 |
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Plus .45 ACP is a famous American pistol round, so combine Trump and the NRA lobby and you get all kinds of poo poo that would make 80s Latin American dictators say "man, that's tacky."
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:56 |
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If you hadn't said I'd have assumed it was some 1488 type poo poo
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:56 |
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https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1158345123178176512
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:58 |
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I do sometimes find myself thinking ‘loving hell, Donald Trump is the US President, what the hell?’ So maybe he does need the hat. (And I know he’s not the first celebrity, but I wasn’t alive during Regan)
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 12:58 |
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It's the first step towards a border wall with a reconstituted Danelaw on one side.Huge fan.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:00 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:If you hadn't said I'd have assumed it was some 1488 type poo poo well, about that...
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:00 |
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Guavanaut posted:efb on 45 being Trump but the idea is that all these Yeah there's no Manchurian Candidate single trigger phrase that turns someone into a killer. You have to start with a large, disaffected population and bombard them with rhetoric for years on end, funneling them down the validation dopamine trail to more and more extreme rhetoric and eventually one of them snaps. I've heard the phrase "stochastic terrorism" used to describe it, and it's a useful term to describe what is going on, distinct from the traditional paths of radicalisation, with everything from ISIS recruitment to these mass shootings. The point is you can't say that Trump's rambling, Alex Jones' ranting, or whatever you want to call what Prison Paul does is "responsible" for this any more than you can say deindustrialisation, suburban alienation, or the general toxicity of society are responsible. No one raindrop is responsible for a dam failing, and shutting down one source - even the President of the United States - would be as useful as standing on the edge of the reservoir with an umbrella. The entire culture is sick and these are all symptoms, and trying to shut down any one of them on it's own won't do the trick - you have to address the entire illness. Oh and get rid of all the loving guns, for fucks sake. Also FWIW Q is almost entirely boomers, the only real overlap between them and these mass shooters is 8chan - of course that two such horrible streams of piss manage to come out of the same hole is itself a worry but shutting down that one site isn't going to stop it.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:01 |
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Red Oktober posted:I do sometimes find myself thinking ‘loving hell, Donald Trump is the US President, what the hell?’ So maybe he does need the hat. reagan at least had historical experience in office and was ostensibly smart, trump was obviously dumb from birth
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:01 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:If you hadn't said I'd have assumed it was some 1488 type poo poo Well, and now you know. Calling Trump 45 is not a shorthand, exactly. Trump loves seeing his name everywhere, so some people started referring to him as "45" specifically so he wouldn't be identified.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:05 |
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Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054quote:McDonald's paper straws cannot be recycled
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Jedit posted:Well, and now you know. I suspect he loves 45 as it reminds him he’s in a very exclusive group of only 44 people who have been among the most powerful people in the world. The one thing he craves more than anything is that recognition.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:08 |
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Nice cadderppliers - painted ladies? And whhhyyyy?
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:09 |
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Noxville posted:Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054 The point would be is they're now biodegradable so even if you can't recycle them it's still much better for the environment
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:10 |
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Noxville posted:Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054 Wasn't the main idea that they'd decompose much quicker than plastic as a solution to all the plastic that's ending up in the ocean? It's not quite recycling as we know it but it still returns to the carbon cycle way quicker than plastic does. Also this comment seems like it could be quite risque: "Lips have been a waste-free alternative to straws for millions of years."
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:11 |
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Noxville posted:Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054 This kind of still feels better, though. Paper is biodegradable and made from renewable resources, whereas plastic is neither, and let's be honest it's not like even 1% of McD's straws were recycled anyway, even if they were recyclable. Or like straws make the slightest bit of difference in the grand scheme of McDonalds' environmental impact, compared to mass deforestation to grow farting cows, or distribution chains, or the power used to air condition all their restaurants, or... etc.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:14 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Oh and get rid of all the loving guns, for fucks sake. Love the people who always pop out of the woodwork to post "but then we'll just get mass knifings instead!" And it's like, well, no, because those aren't really a thing, but even if they were nobody ever managed to kill anyone with a knife from the top of a clock tower. Contrary to what ninja anime would have you believe, it's not really possible to fatally pepper a crowd with daggers from a hundred yards away.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:14 |
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Tesseraction posted:well, about that... Yeah after Guav posted the calibre connection it's like, what other number is connected with a famous gun size and also a terrible politician?
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:16 |
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The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:17 |
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thespaceinvader posted:The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation. Stop production of new guns/parts and quietly replace all the bullets with trick ones that have too much powder in and are guaranteed to explode the gun when fired.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Love the people who always pop out of the woodwork to post "but then we'll just get mass knifings instead!" Remember the London Bridge attack, a seemingly very organised and well planned attack where three people managed to stab... 8 people to death. As opposed to "one half-assed lone gunman" regularly hitting double digit death tolls.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:21 |
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thespaceinvader posted:The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation. who would win: the entire US military vs. redneck steve and his 40 gun collection
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:22 |
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Tesseraction posted:who would win: I'm pretty OK with testing that thesis.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:22 |
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I've often thought a largely uninterrupted North-South strip of wild land would be amazing. Cool I'm not the only one.
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Tesseraction posted:who would win: The US military would to a large degree side with redneck steve.
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thespaceinvader posted:The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation. Ultimately none of it matters because until there's enough elected officials and states will to repeal the second amendment all they are doing is fidgeting in the margins. (This isn't happening) forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Cool, cool, there's a nice new hostile environment policy. This time for filthy Europeans, there to scrounge on proud UK benefits: quote:EU citizens are being made homeless and destitute after being turned down for universal credit despite having the legal right to reside in the UK, in what critics are calling the benefit system’s very own “hostile environment”.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:25 |
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I'd also much rather be stabbed than shot as I'm more likely to recover from a 1mm by 30mm hole 4cm deep in my chest than god knows how wide after impact break-up bullet hole in the same place, especially if the fucker has hollow-point rounds.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:25 |
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forkboy84 posted:Ultimately none of it matters because until there's enough elected officials and states will to repeal the second amendment all they are doing is fidgeting in the margins. I mean, yeah. Tesseraction posted:who would win: Why the gently caress would the US military be fighting itself?
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^ --- vHis Divine Shadow posted:The US military would to a large degree side with redneck steve. just tell them he voted obama and watch them kill every dog in a 6 mile radius just in case
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:25 |
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A great idea, given its done right. Referring to my earlier post; Ratjaculation posted:I'll make half an effort post about mass tree planting and why even a good thing has consequence if not done right... also good luck purchasing that land Ratjaculation fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Aug 5, 2019 |
# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:29 |
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Junior G-man posted:I'm pretty OK with testing that thesis.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:31 |
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Sanford posted:Nice cadderppliers - painted ladies? And whhhyyyy? Yep! There's a site that sells them along with food and a net-cage thing to put the cocoons in so they can develop safely. It's like a very low-maintenance aquarium, they're very relaxing to watch just doing their thing, and I find it interesting to see the butterflies close up at that stage in their development; not likely to see butterflies emerging in the wild, after all. I'm in a semi-rural area so there's lots of food for them after release. Also, they're fuzzy, both as caterpillars and butterflies
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:32 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:Love the people who always pop out of the woodwork to post "but then we'll just get mass knifings instead!" I agree with Clemente that in these particular cases gun control shouldn't be the first thing we talk about. Maybe talk about it in all the street violence in American cities instead of talking about "feral thugs", or talk about it when someone with a dozen domestic violence charges shoots their partner, or when someone gets shot by a toddler, or when there's another school shooting, but in these white nationalist terrorist attacks gun control isn't the first thing we should be talking about. Not only because there's a huge difference between these internet radicalized terrorists and the guy that gets sacked and shoots up his office, in that the former is usually extremely online and planning for months, and you can build a bomb or intricately plan an arson attack where you block exits or just (in Texas) hire a 13 ton truck on a normal driver's license and plow it into a crowd if you want, but most importantly because a lot of centrist US sources are talking about it specifically to avoid having to talk about the undercurrent of toxic white male rage in the US (and the general West) and how to directly address that.
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Ratjaculation posted:A great idea, given its done right. Referring to my earlier post; So if I'm reading you right, the thing to do if you want a big forest is expand existing copses until they join up?
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Guavanaut posted:Nails otoh... Why not both tho? Address the guns AND the assholes using them.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 13:41 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:So if I'm reading you right, the thing to do if you want a big forest is expand existing copses until they join up? Yeah there was a huge push about ten years ago in the Netherlands to join up all the 'biodiversity islands' (national parks, Natura 2000 etc) with either protected corridors, protected farmland measures or 'lilly pads' that would allow species to transit from one area to the next in order to create more linked biodiversity and species diversity. It was almost a go but then the government changed hands and the loving liberals torched it because 'business might have a thing'. My dad was closely involved in putting the whole thing together and it was a huge blow when it fell apart.
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