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Did he also give state secrets to his anime avatar
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Sep 4, 2019 23:59
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Sep 5, 2019 00:41
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Sep 5, 2019 02:44
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The Falklands must never be theirs.
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Sep 5, 2019 05:03
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The Bay of Pigs Invasionquote:Havana gleefully noted the wealth of the captured invaders: 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista. Props to those wealthy shitheads for actually being willing to put their own lives on the line to kill and enslave poors, unlike our quivering WASP aristocrats here in the good old USA
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Sep 5, 2019 05:09
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VitalSigns posted:The Bay of Pigs Invasion lol just remembered that my high school history teacher told us that Kennedy had no idea about the CIA planning the invasion and only learned about it at the last moment, at which point he denied air cover, rather than him being involved in the planning and signing off on everything.
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Sep 5, 2019 06:29
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Thump! posted:Donald trump got elected with 3 million less votes than his opponent Hillary's 3 million vote lead was in a single state, and she campaigned harder in that state than necessary. (actually she won California by 4.3 million) also this image 
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Sep 5, 2019 09:07
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General Dog posted:Next week Rudy Giuliani will finally be able to legally gently caress the abstract idea of 9/11 New York's age of consent is 17 and he's been loving it as long or longer
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Sep 5, 2019 09:14
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The electoral college actually worked as intended in 2016. You can't just win populous states with landslide results, you need the whole country behind you. Also lol that Colin Powell stole like 3 of Hillary's electoral college votes.
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Sep 5, 2019 09:18
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Modest Mao posted:The electoral college actually worked as intended in 2016. You can't just win populous states with landslide results, you need the whole country behind you. Counterpoint: gently caress the Electoral College. She did have the majority of the country behind her, but stupid 16th century rules screwed her because of states that have more cows than people. DiggityDoink has issued a correction as of 09:22 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Sep 5, 2019 09:19
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DiggityDoink posted:Counterpoint: gently caress the Electoral College Agreed. It's a racist institution that exists solely so the rich can pull in as many people as possible to exploit in urban areas, then turn around and use their hoarded gold to prop up right wing fashy shitheads in states where some bumblefuck jackass' vote counts 4 times as much as someone who has to live in the city. quote:She did have the majority of the country behind her, Well that's a loving lie.
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Sep 5, 2019 09:25
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Azathoth posted:lol just remembered that my high school history teacher told us that Kennedy had no idea about the CIA planning the invasion and only learned about it at the last moment, at which point he denied air cover, rather than him being involved in the planning and signing off on everything. Oh that was the whole point. The CUA knew he didnt want to go through with any invasion of Cuba so they decided to present the Bay of Pigs as a fait accompli and force kennedy to give the air cover. Then kennedy just told them to gently caress off. Whoopsie!
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Sep 5, 2019 12:06
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Remember when they tried to kill Castro by poisoning his ice cream?
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Sep 5, 2019 12:14
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Modest Mao posted:Hillary's 3 million vote lead was in a single state, and she campaigned harder in that state than necessary. The DNC after the election working out how much money they were flushing down the toilet on absolutely useless consultants (see: the payroll bit above) Also the Hillary campaign literally turning away volunteers in Wisconsin and Michigan
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Sep 5, 2019 12:22
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DiggityDoink posted:stupid 16th century rules I thought the electoral college was an American invention. where did they borrow it from?
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Sep 5, 2019 12:35
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I need to become a consultant
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Sep 5, 2019 12:41
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The EC is a check on democracy, an explicit "we need a way for the aristocracy to prevent the rabble from getting their most radical choices" Subjunctive posted:I thought the electoral college was an American invention. where did they borrow it from? holy roman empire lol
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Sep 5, 2019 13:39
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rand paul getting water-boy tackled by a 60 year old retired doctor over an ongoing "yard dispute" causing six broken ribs, lung damage, and two occurrences of pneumonia
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Sep 5, 2019 13:56
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The EC is a bad institution but it's also not to blame for HRC's defeat. She, like every other person who has ever had presidential ambitions, knew fully well the rules and goals of the game. If presidential elections were decided by popular vote then campaign strategy and the ways people vote would also be different. Considering how poorly Clinton campaigned it's a fair bet that she would have hosed up in that scenario too. It's very revealing that no centrists are campaigning for electoral reform. The EC is convenient for them because it gives them another excuse for when they fail.
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Sep 5, 2019 14:12
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They also don't care about losing. They just want to live out West Wing fantasies of Making Tough Choices over other people's lives and Compromising Like An Adult with monsters and they can do that perfectly well from the minority.
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Sep 5, 2019 14:22
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So very little of the American system is democratic idk why the electoral college gets harped on we have only two parties and an imperial presidency our democracy is long dead edit: to be honest America never had democracy if you consider that as being each person having equal share of political determination. It's a master/slave society at its heart
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Sep 5, 2019 14:51
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Azathoth posted:lol just remembered that my high school history teacher told us that Kennedy had no idea about the CIA planning the invasion and only learned about it at the last moment, at which point he denied air cover, rather than him being involved in the planning and signing off on everything. I will never understand boomers obsession with sanctifying JFK
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Sep 5, 2019 14:57
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JFK is the Firefly of presidents
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Sep 5, 2019 15:40
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Smirking_Serpent posted:JFK is the Firefly of presidents Goddamn
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Sep 5, 2019 15:44
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ikanreed posted:Lol remember that time Margaret thatcher bombed Argentina over some islands literally no Brit had heard of before yeah those argies got fuckin owned lmao
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Sep 5, 2019 15:46
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Modest Mao posted:Hillary's 3 million vote lead was in a single state, and she campaigned harder in that state than necessary. lol forever at all those goddamn consultants
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Sep 5, 2019 18:23
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We begin bombing in five minutes
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Sep 5, 2019 18:27
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Jerry Falwell made a big stink about Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby, being gay and therefore an immoral role model for Christian childrenMeatwadIsGod posted:Remember when they tried to kill Castro by poisoning his ice cream? I prefer the time they tried to kill Castro with an exploding cigar
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Sep 5, 2019 18:29
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they also had a plan to make his beard hair fall out, thereby undermining his authority
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Sep 5, 2019 18:32
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the best CIA mission was when they tried to use the cat to spy on the communists. they made a $20 million spy cat, released it to go on a spy mission, and it immediately got hit by a car. 60s CIA was some inspector clouseau poo poo
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Sep 5, 2019 18:38
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Roosevelt posted:the best CIA mission was when they tried to use the cat to spy on the communists. they made a $20 million spy cat, released it to go on a spy mission, and it immediately got hit by a car. 60s CIA was some inspector clouseau poo poo If you have practically limitless budget, can operate above the law and use all kind of drugs, wouldn't you come up with all kinds of crazy poo poo too?
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Tulip posted:They also don't care about losing. They just want to live out West Wing fantasies of Making Tough Choices over other people's lives and Compromising Like An Adult with monsters and they can do that perfectly well from the minority. Reminder that in his ultimate liberal fantasy, the only lasting thing that Aaron Sorkin has his fictional president do is cut social security
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Sep 5, 2019 23:08
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cool dance moves posted:Oh that was the whole point. The CUA knew he didnt want to go through with any invasion of Cuba so they decided to present the Bay of Pigs as a fait accompli and force kennedy to give the air cover. Then kennedy just told them to gently caress off. Whoopsie! Which is they had him killed.
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Sep 5, 2019 23:10
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MikeCrotch posted:Reminder that in his ultimate liberal fantasy, the only lasting thing that Aaron Sorkin has his fictional president do is cut social security And this would have been the only lasting legacy of the Obama presidency if the Republicans had been willing to go along lol
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Sep 5, 2019 23:35
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Roosevelt posted:the best CIA mission was when they tried to use the cat to spy on the communists. they made a $20 million spy cat, released it to go on a spy mission, and it immediately got hit by a car. 60s CIA was some inspector clouseau poo poo The best CIA mission was making spooky ghost noises to try and win the Vietnam war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d9H_1ygEv8
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Sep 6, 2019 00:19
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MikeCrotch posted:Reminder that in his ultimate liberal fantasy, the only lasting thing that Aaron Sorkin has his fictional president do is cut social security The Bartlett administration was to the right of the Bush administration l o fuckin l
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Sep 6, 2019 05:22
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Roosevelt posted:the best CIA mission was when they tried to use the cat to spy on the communists. they made a $20 million spy cat, released it to go on a spy mission, and it immediately got hit by a car. 60s CIA was some inspector clouseau poo poo my favorite part is that the only part of the story the CIA disputes is that the cat got hit by a car. they officially maintain that the equipment was removed and the cat lived out its days in peace.
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The CIA being such dumbfucks with Castro is part of why I'm pretty sure that the CIA funding Pollack etc was more the result of some guys slushing government funds to stuff they liked than founded in actual strategic thinking
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