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So I decided late last week to embark on a sober January with a friend. I picked the wrong month to quit drinking... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1ciPnTGKg Wow shitpost snipe. Have some dogs 
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https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1213631435573284864?s=19 its war for sure now.
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HootTheOwl posted:And here I was worried about Trump's second term like a loving idiot I'm more worried than ever.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:15
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i am harry posted:In Would I Lie To You, one of them is telling the truth and the contestant has to guess which of three stories is plausible. SO either Sharon is telling an absolute lie or a truth. Does the clip show that at the end? Yes, she claimed it was 100% true and then had a good laugh about it.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:16
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i still feel good about trump losing in november, but the last two days have been horribly depressing
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is this normal for DEFCON or https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1213654244475191296
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VH4Ever posted:I'm more worried than ever. I think they're saying they should've worried more about this term.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:19
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cash crab posted:is this normal for DEFCON or Better than the last chart 
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Jan 5, 2020 04:21
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The miltary saying rolls off the tongue much better: "Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it".
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Jan 5, 2020 04:24
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Eulogistics posted:The miltary saying rolls off the tongue much better: "Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it". My Dad used to say this to me ALL. THE. TIME.
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cash crab posted:is this normal for DEFCON or Is this at all an official organization?
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cash crab posted:is this normal for DEFCON or That’s a “private intelligence organization” not the government. Thankfully.
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Sojourn posted:That’s a “private intelligence organization” not the government. Thankfully. it's run by the armed forces IIRC
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Jan 5, 2020 04:36
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Jan 5, 2020 04:37
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If Trump is threatening “cultural” sites isn’t that the same as threatening to bomb civilians? Unless it’s like a culturally significant tree or mountainside, he most certainly means religious sites, museums, Persian empire stuff? Places with civilians and zero military importance.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:38
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Otteration posted:The trump video is likely not fake of course, but it's just not very useful for folks that would like to spread it around but don't have or ever want a twit feed. Propaganda can be useful, but not when it's restricted.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:42
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Slowpoke! posted:If Trump is threatening “cultural” sites isn’t that the same as threatening to bomb civilians? Unless it’s like a culturally significant tree or mountainside, he most certainly means religious sites, museums, Persian empire stuff? Places with civilians and zero military importance. Yes, yes it is, it's straight up terrorism and a war crime.
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Jan 5, 2020 04:42
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https://twitter.com/ThomTillis/status/1213595744592154625 Imagine wanting to keep your job this bad...
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Jan 5, 2020 04:51
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Eulogistics posted:The miltary saying rolls off the tongue much better: "Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it". This is hilarious because it's literally making a case for a strong, well funded central government and a social safety net I keep thinking of the big ice storm that crippled Atlanta a few years ago, where the whole problem was that Atlanta had made the calculation that winter storms that shut down highways happen so infrequently that it wasn't worth the public investment to maintain a fleet of highway maintenance equipment for the rare occasion when it's needed — that it was better to run things lean and mean and "smart" and just sort of hope nothing bad ever happens — so when the inevitable winter storm eventually came along they were like "well shucks we don't have a way in hell to clean up all this ice, guess you're all just stuck in your driveways for the next six days, oh well at least we kept that 3 cent tax off your paycheck right guise" Sure is nice to be able to make a decision like "Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it" under circumstances where you can count on having the discretionary ability to buy "it" when you need to
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Data Graham posted:This is hilarious because it's literally making a case for a strong, well funded central government and a social safety net Heh, look at this loony lefty, who hasn’t considered that it’s better to have a couple billionaires around and not need them, than to have none around and need them. 
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Data Graham posted:This is hilarious because it's literally making a case for a strong, well funded central government and a social safety net I mean, the military is a centrally planned institution where the government actually runs everything and provides all the servoces to the members, so...
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Slowpoke! posted:If Trump is threatening “cultural” sites isn’t that the same as threatening to bomb civilians? Unless it’s like a culturally significant tree or mountainside, he most certainly means religious sites, museums, Persian empire stuff? Places with civilians and zero military importance. You can threaten to blow up anything, and Iran and DPRK have made propaganda showing icons of American democracy in flames for many, many years. All that matters is what you actually do blow up. The handwringing I see about this poo poo on Twitter is just  from people who have never supported any wars ever. This is how other countries treat us all the time.
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Slowpoke! posted:If Trump is threatening “cultural” sites isn’t that the same as threatening to bomb civilians? Unless it’s like a culturally significant tree or mountainside, he most certainly means religious sites, museums, Persian empire stuff? Places with civilians and zero military importance. Yes, even if no civilians are hurt at all it's a warcrime. Your are allowed to do all kinds of nasty poo poo in the pursuit of warfare. You can drop incindiaries on troops, you can decide to accept that a level of civilian victims is acceptable to hit a military target. You can kill defenseless, retreating or fleeing troops no problem, hell you can arguably kill troops trying to surrender to forces that inherently can't take prisoners. But whatever you do has to have the goal of weakening the other guys military. Statues, monuments and even that culturally significant tree are not valid targets.
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Jan 5, 2020 05:41
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T. Bombastus posted:You don't need a Twitter account to see the tweet or to watch the video embedded in it. OP gave you the closest thing to a primary source we can feasibly get. We can see and watch the tweet. We cannot repost the video to other platforms w/o jumping through i/p twit hoops. A primary source exists out there, yay, too bad it's difficult to get to and share w/non twiters. Rania Khalek's tweet is useful, if you twit, not if you don't: https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/sta...D273%23lastpost My complaint is against twit.com for not freely allowing information to circulate, that that is "the closest thing to a primary source we can feasibly get". Yay.
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terrorist ambulance posted:I know letting these people upset you is losing, but gently caress am I triggered by the goddamn people laughing in this video Their sole remaining objective in all they say or do is to upset you.
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Jan 5, 2020 06:00
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brb, filling my pool with gas. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213684819537932293
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Otteration posted:We can see and watch the tweet. We cannot repost the video to other platforms w/o jumping through i/p twit hoops. A primary source exists out there, yay, too bad it's difficult to get to and share w/non twiters. https://i.imgur.com/O1d9yKg.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/0xsF37u.mp4
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Just talked to a rando about the drone strikes and seriously they said: "Well the house voted to approve it so it's not really his fault." What in the gently caress, where the gently caress did this come from? JFC.
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Jan 5, 2020 06:26
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Your average American has no real idea how their government functions.
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Jan 5, 2020 06:32
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Mat Cauthon posted:Your average American has no real idea how their government functions. To be fair it changes constantly, rules are followed and ignored arbitrarily, and our constitution is extremely vague and outdated on most things.
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Jan 5, 2020 06:38
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JosefStalinator posted:To be fair it changes constantly, rules are followed and ignored arbitrarily, and our constitution is extremely vague and outdated on most things. Yes but where in the gently caress did the idea that a single house of congress can approve something the President wants to do come from? My guess is this is just a proto-chud trying to evolve into their true form. I've never heard anything like this anywhere.
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Jan 5, 2020 06:44
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Rumors of a US base in Kenya being actively occupied by Iranians proxies, nothing confirmed and that’s that.
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Jan 5, 2020 07:00
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https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1213612759574863874 She is so loving terrible at this.
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Nonsense posted:Rumors of a US base in Kenya being occupied/attacked by Iranians proxies, nothing confirmed and that’s that. It’s apparently Al-Shabaab that’s attacking.
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RandomBlue posted:https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1213612759574863874 What's terrible about this tweet? It seems to me like she isn't just blindly accepting Trump leading the US into another disasterous war.
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Raenir Salazar posted:What's terrible about this tweet? It seems to me like she isn't just blindly accepting Trump leading the US into another disasterous war. Because it's the most response possible and it's not going to do poo poo to stop it.
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Data Graham posted:I keep thinking of the big ice storm that crippled Atlanta a few years ago, where the whole problem was that Atlanta had made the calculation that winter storms that shut down highways happen so infrequently that it wasn't worth the public investment to maintain a fleet of highway maintenance equipment for the rare occasion when it's needed — that it was better to run things lean and mean and "smart" and just sort of hope nothing bad ever happens — so when the inevitable winter storm eventually came along they were like "well shucks we don't have a way in hell to clean up all this ice, guess you're all just stuck in your driveways for the next six days, oh well at least we kept that 3 cent tax off your paycheck right guise" winter storms aren't inevitable in the southeast, though. snow of any accumulation may not fall at all in a year. the level of equipment and infrastructure necessary to keep cities in more northern american climates operational during the winter months could well go unused for years at a time in southeastern climates, and you're not just preparing major interstates (which the state does) but also major county/local roadways, and you can't expect local governments to pay for equipment and training they might use two or three times per decade versus the regular, weekly use seen in places where snow is common e: side note - in all climates, a lot of winter weather cleanup is handled by private contractors anyway. nowhere is it really cost effective to keep all of the resources necessary to clear roads on the public payroll since winter storms are so infrequent, the safer (and easier, and cheaper) option is just to cancel school, which forces many adults to stay home as well. just keep people off the roads, and the weather will pass in a day or two. it's best to keep people from driving in snow and ice as much as possible, since it is more dangerous as people make bad driving decisons everywhere, all of the time. but it's a risk that people have to take in colder climates since you can't expect people to just stay home and indoors for months. this is a much more feasible plan if you shut down school and government for at most two days the winter storm in 2014 wasn't even that much snow by local standards. but it wasn't clear if snow was going to happen until the night before, and suddenly canceling school makes parents cranky since they have to spend all day with their kids. but when it was apparent that snow was definitely about to fall, local schools started closing early. this means that parents sometimes had to go pick up their kids, or go home to be present when their kids arrived. so all the traffic that normally happens late in the day happened around the time the snow started falling. there was an instant traffic jam, and then the roads froze too the problem isn't lack of investment for roadway preparation, since that prep would not be cost effective for local governments (the state does have salt/sand trucks) and would not have solved the problem anyway. the problem is systemic and unchecked suburban growth leading to a dependence on automobile modes, which is a system that constantly fails in times of crisis caused by bad weather. the fires in paradise, ca and the deadly traffic in houston due to a hurricane evacuation in 2005 are similar examples of the vulnerability this dependence causes. we simply cannot handle the level of traffic generated during extraordinary events if everyone gets in their car at the same time. blaming a lack of salt trucks is too narrow a scope, you have to question instead why it is so utterly critical to keep roadways cleared in the first place Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jan 5, 2020 |
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RandomBlue posted:Because it's the most What can she do?
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