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Throatwarbler posted:Oman's main export and economic sector is oil and it has huge reserves relative to its tiny population, which affords the population a very wealthy livelihood, they are just not significant enough in absolute numbers to give them any geopolitical clout. It's also not quite big enough that other sectors of the economy are completely squeezed out. Fishing and agriculture are still pretty big sectors for example and because the coastal highlands are actually quite lush with abundant rainfall it supplies a lot of the food to the rest of the region. I was born and raised in Abu Dhabi. Goes to show that proximity doesnt equal informative lol
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Lol at agreeing with anything throatwarbler has written ever, but it is pretty striking now that the US has let infrastructure just decay for 20 years and now much of any non-urban/metro part of the US looks strikingly like eastern europe in the early 2000s.Jagged Jim posted:I thought the ALL IS WELL tweet was a staff tweet that some intern added to try to seem authentically Trumpy. To some extent it doesn't matter who was writing it because that doesn't change the issue of Trumps complete bungling of an international crisis into almost starting a shooting war over some bullshit. As to who wrote it, that one could go either way. It's very Trump in that it backs down from a fight the same way he always does when someone calls his bluff and "All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq" as a sentence does not seem like something anyone with even the tiniest understanding of communications would write, even if trying to ape the style of an idiot boss. Imo the real departure from the norm is that it was written 100% to back down unconditionally and to proactively prevent further escalation. All is well, Iran's ballistic missiles are already in the air and are impacting our troops, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow: what a message for the ages Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jan 18, 2020 |
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Rukeli posted:I disagree that it's like "asking whether the Iraqis suffered more casualties from christian or jewish soldiers"; the sunni and shia militias didn't fight side by side against coalition forces but were at constant war with each other. To understand the conflict in Iraq is to understand the history of all ethno-religious groups in the country, and that history includes the insurgencies waged, hence I asked this question. Al Sadr forces rebelled against the US same time as Iraqi forces remnants were bombing US Humvees in Anbar province. The US has the unparalled ability to unite supposed enemies in Iraq.
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I thought it was a joke when I first saw the Brown Moses tweet.
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MiddleOne posted:I thought it was a joke when I first saw the Brown Moses tweet. No I think they called him Jabba the Jihadi
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V. Illych L. posted:wonder what his account name was It's obviously the fellow that LF sent money for special fat pants.
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Somehow the grossest thing to me are his feet/ankles.
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wait. thats real. him being carted away in a loving pick up and being some high up ISIS supporter who oversaw horrible hell crimes while being a giant fat man is real. loving Hitman games irl i guess.
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Jeez they're gonna need a crane to hang this fat motherfucker
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You got to strangle him with the chain link to you metal bikini.
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mobby_6kl posted:Jeez they're gonna need a crane to hang this fat motherfucker i dunno if there's even anyway to hang somebody that large without the execution turning into one very messy decapitation
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Dapper_Swindler posted:wait. thats real. him being carted away in a loving pick up and being some high up ISIS supporter who oversaw horrible hell crimes while being a giant fat man is real. loving Hitman games irl i guess. If ISIS had gotten some jetpacks he could've been Emir Harkonnen
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So is there no Hadith against consuming soda and doritos to excess or something because I feel like that should be haraam
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Squalid posted:i dunno if there's even anyway to hang somebody that large without the execution turning into one very messy decapitation Apparently there is but I don't know if it works on humans (could be  )
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Since nobody's saying it, this is a viral picture of Daesh mufti Abu Abdul Bari, aka Shifa al-Nima.
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That fat gentleman def has upper management written all over him.
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Imagine giving your life for that fat gently caress. But then again, imagine giving it for that heartless rear end in a top hat, Dick Cheney. Supervillians are real, is clearly what my point is.
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Herostratus posted:https://twitter.com/AliBaroodi/stat...aqi-SWAT-614449 I'm sure he issued some big fatwas
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His suicide belt would go off like a nuclear bomb.
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Throatwarbler posted:So is there no Hadith against consuming soda and doritos to excess or something because I feel like that should be haraam i think there is something about being healthy or at least something that can be interpretive as such. i mean since when have the chud wahabists ever actually listened to Muhammad's messages PBUH
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Brown Moses posted:His suicide belt would go off like a nuclear bomb. nah. dude has his own gravitational pull. the bomb would probably sucked inward because of his center of gravity or something physics like.
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Brown Moses posted:His suicide belt would go off like a nuclear bomb. "Finally, monsieur – a wafer-thin mint."
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Squalid posted:i dunno if there's even anyway to hang somebody that large without the execution turning into one very messy decapitation If he asks for a last meal then I hope he finishes what Gary Carl Simmons Jr. and Lawrence Russell Brewer didn't. And if he asks for Spaghetti-O's they better give him Spaghetti-O's. quote:One Pizza Hut medium Super Supreme Deep Dish pizza with double portions of mushrooms, onions, jalapeño peppers, and pepperoni, a second pizza with three cheeses, olives, bell pepper, tomato, garlic, and Italian sausage, 10 8-oz. packs of Parmesan cheese, 10 8-oz. packs of ranch dressing, one family size bag of Doritos nacho cheese flavor, 8 oz. jalapeño nacho cheese, 4 oz. sliced jalapeños, 2 large strawberry shakes, two 20-oz. cherry Cokes, one super-size order of McDonald's fries with extra ketchup and mayonnaise, and two pints of strawberry ice cream. He consumed about half of the meal. quote:Two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions; a triple meat bacon cheeseburger with fixings on the side; a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapeños; a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbecue with half a loaf of white bread; three fajitas with fixings; a Meat Lovers pizza; three root beers; one pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream; and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts.[50] Brewer's request was granted, but he refused the meal when it arrived saying that he was simply not hungry, prompting Texas to stop granting last meal requests to condemned inmates.
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I imagine they gorge just to make the death poo poo all the more disgusting.
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Shageletic posted:Al Sadr forces rebelled against the US same time as Iraqi forces remnants were bombing US Humvees in Anbar province. The US has the unparalled ability to unite supposed enemies in Iraq. But surely they weren't actually united, as Shia's were still indiscriminantly targeted in a massive bombing campaign?
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Brown Moses posted:His suicide belt would go off like a nuclear bomb.
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Deteriorata posted:"Finally, monsieur – a wafer-thin mint." Somebody get me a bucket so I can issue a fatwah
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I can’t help but notice he’s wearing the exact same thing in both photos, dude probably had exactly (1) change of clothes.
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Orange Devil posted:Imagine giving your life for that fat gently caress. I know right, giving your life in a worthless military conflict stings a lot less when your leaders look like...uhhh..."Supermen" of some kind
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Mazz posted:I can’t help but notice he’s wearing the exact same thing in both photos, dude probably had exactly (1) change of clothes.
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cda posted:I know right, giving your life in a worthless military conflict stings a lot less when your leaders look like...uhhh..."Supermen" of some kind When's that happened last anyway? The people deciding to go to war, especially the pointless ones (aka virtually all of them) tend to look like total ghouls.
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Orange Devil posted:When's that happened last anyway? The people deciding to go to war, especially the pointless ones (aka virtually all of them) tend to look like total ghouls. Napoleon? He was only 35 when he had himself crowned Emperor.
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Orange Devil posted:When's that happened last anyway? The people deciding to go to war, especially the pointless ones (aka virtually all of them) tend to look like total ghouls. W wasn't like abhorrently ugly or anything when he was president. Also Kennedy bears alot of responsibility for the Vietnam War and the Bay of Pigs.
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You don't need to be Literally George Clooney to have twice as much charisma as mullah Kebab had. Osama bin Laden for instance was nearly two metres tall and, depending on your aesthetic standards, either not totally fugly or even quite handsome.
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