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MazelTovCocktail posted:I was looking for the nodding head and finger emoji code....and is the McNally one actually McNally?  The others  
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Dec 11, 2020 21:26
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Man just accepting that poo poo as collateral damage and therefore acceptable is loving gross anyway.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:31
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Midjack posted:
Thanks! It's always a pain trying to figure out the code, which is often drastically different then the image itself.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:32
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Man just accepting that poo poo as collateral damage and therefore acceptable is loving gross anyway. Collateral damage is bad and I'm opposed to drone strikes and the death penalty (at least as they're practiced). I just find someone with an Uncle Billy gangtag making the argument that traitors deserve prosecution instead of lethal force kinda funny.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:34
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To answer the question, yes it is McNally.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:34
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Thanks! It's always a pain trying to figure out the code, which is often drastically different then the image itself. If you’re on a browser a search bar is now on the smilie page, and several of us went through and labeled the smilies with descriptions so you can search for words like “frog” or “red” and get all the smilies that have that tag. Not sure if that search is available on phone apps yet.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:36
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Midjack posted:If you’re on a browser a search bar is now on the smilie page, and several of us went through and labeled the smilies with descriptions so you can search for words like “frog” or “red” and get all the smilies that have that tag. Not sure if that search is available on phone apps yet. That is a really cool, honestly I only use Awful App normally, and recently due to a WFH change the browser, so I'never seen that before. That would be an awesome option for the phone, instead of it just being a keyboard which really isn't that useful.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:39
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Collateral damage is bad and I'm opposed to drone strikes and the death penalty (at least as they're practiced). I just find someone with an Uncle Billy gangtag making the argument that traitors deserve prosecution instead of lethal force kinda funny. Oh yea I was saying that wrt what MazelTovCocktail had said, shoulda quoted him sorry.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:39
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Oh okay then that is very different, I thought he or another kid was riding in the car with him. Hence my comments on collateral damage. Yeah I mean I can't understand the military utility or logic in whacking him. No, you got it mostly right. The kid was riding in a car with a member of AQ leadership who was the target of the strike. He was collateral damage in that strike not in the strike that killed his father.
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Dec 11, 2020 21:53
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It's almost like killing the people from the sky just gives you more people to kill from the sky. I would rather risk troops to do hits rather than producing the next seven generations of 'terrorists' against us.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:00
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Drone warfare is the biggest boon to the MIC since Vietnam.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:09
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What the gently caress does MIC mean? Military intelligence corps? Blowing people out of their lovely sedans after saying "gently caress america all day" isn't intelligence, it's murder that begets more murder. Basically I'm not saying anything new here but I think we're the baddies.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:15
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Wasabi the J posted:What the gently caress does MIC mean? Military intelligence corps? Military industrial complex
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Dec 11, 2020 22:25
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Wasabi the J posted:What the gently caress does MIC mean? Military intelligence corps? Military-industrial Complex, the incestuous self-licking ice cream Cone of things like Lockheed and the USAF, etc. Unless you knew that and are joking in which case 
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Dec 11, 2020 22:26
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we have to accept that a certain number of nearby people will die when we assassinate the leaders of organizations we funded and armed to commit acts of terrorism in order to assist our economic hegemony, there's simply nothing we can do about it
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Dec 11, 2020 22:29
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Wasabi the J posted:What the gently caress does MIC mean? Military intelligence corps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address
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Dec 11, 2020 22:30
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Doc Hawkins posted:we have to accept that a certain number of nearby people will die when we assassinate the leaders of organizations we funded and armed to commit acts of terrorism in order to assist our economic hegemony, there's simply nothing we can do about it We never funded Bin Laden, or Al Qaeda, nor did wr ever give them financial support. This trope / myth needs to die.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y For folks, it really is worth watching the whole speech but if you want the quick portion, spend 3mins watching this
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Dec 11, 2020 22:35
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mlmp08 posted:Generally, people have a bigger deal with the CIA drone-striking his minor son. Yeah, I have a problem with that, too. If I remember correctly, that was a second / separate strike. PeterCat posted:He was 16 years old you rear end in a top hat. The father, Anwar al Awlaki, was not 16. You yourself posted the kid's name, dude. Either you were being disingenuous in this post, or you simply forgot the dad's name, or maybe you just skimmed my post. Raerlynn posted:Let's make this simple. Every family has a gently caress up. Are you seriously endorsing that everyone who happens to have the bad luck of standing near said gently caress up should consider their lives forfeit, regardless of whether or not they knew of or supported said gently caress up? And of course their lives aren't forfeit. I'm not endorsing it, and it's horrible when innocents die. That's a huge part of the reason why I have issues with the drone strike program, especially signature strikes. But sometimes you only get one window to take out a bad guy, and I understand the calculus of taking that shot when they have it on a high value target. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 22:40
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yeah, I have a problem with that, too. If I remember correctly, that was a second / separate strike. "disingenuous" is how I would describe your original post.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:44
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I was talking about the terrorist, not the kid, in my post.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:46
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Bored As gently caress posted:We never funded Bin Laden, or Al Qaeda, nor did wr ever give them financial support. This trope / myth needs to die. We gave the ISI fat stacks of cash, but we were not allowed to control disbursement of said cash, or knew where it went once it passed into Pakistani hands. It is possible that the cash infusion from the US to the ISI to fight the proxy war vs the Soviets gave Bin Laden some scratch, indirectly. He did not receive CIA training or whatever else the loons on the internet claim, but it is entirely possible that a couple pallets of greenbacks came his way. Plausible deniability, as it were, because the CIA was so terrified of being blamed for another gently caress up that they intentionally weren't paying attention to what the Pakistanis were doing with the cash, and the Soviets were getting their asses beat so back slaps and congratulations all around. orange juche fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 22:50
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orange juche posted:We gave the ISI fat stacks of cash, but we were not allowed to control disbursement of said cash, or knew where it went once it passed into Pakistani hands. It is possible that the cash infusion from the US to the ISI to fight the proxy war vs the Soviets gave Bin Laden some scratch, indirectly. Bin Laden was more a less self-funded. ISI gave money that we gave them to a lot of lovely people, but Bin Laden and his group weren't amongst them.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:51
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https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/sta...ingawful.com%2F
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Dec 11, 2020 22:53
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Yeah, all those Saudis and Afghanis pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, America has nothing to do with their material position in the world.
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Dec 11, 2020 22:58
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the morality of a weapon is dependent upon the war that its being used in. there is nothing wrong with drones, just our wars
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Dec 11, 2020 23:01
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Military-industrial Complex, the incestuous self-licking ice cream Cone of things like Lockheed and the USAF, etc. Unless you knew that and are joking in which case It should honestly be the MIIC now, with one I for Information.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:02
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Collateral damage is bad and I'm opposed to drone strikes and the death penalty (at least as they're practiced). I just find someone with an Uncle Billy gangtag making the argument that traitors deserve prosecution instead of lethal force kinda funny. He also wasn't just slaughtering POWs or Confederate who didn't resist, so its kind of a weird comparison. He also didn't specifically kill Civilians. Burn down their cities? Sure.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:04
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CommieGIR posted:He also wasn't just slaughtering POWs or Confederate who didn't resist, so its kind of a weird comparison. Actually that part gets exaggerated by Neo-Confederates and Lost Cause people. Atlanta was mostly the fault of the Confederates themselves. I mean we do it ourselves...but we're making a joke, not a historical argument.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:07
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Actually that part gets exaggerated by Neo-Confederates and Lost Cause people. Atlanta was mostly the fault of the Confederates themselves. Yes, I'm aware. But some parts were burned by Sherman. The Confederates did a great job spreading the fire.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:10
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He did enact a scorched earth policy on the surrounds though, including ripping up the railways to make neckties.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:13
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It should honestly be the MIIC now, with one I for Information. I’ve seen some instances of “military-industrial-intelligence-entertainment complex” which is maybe reaching a little.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:16
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:He did enact a scorched earth policy on the surrounds though, including ripping up the railways to make neckties. Well I think you can argue that's legit military targets...especially by 1860s standards.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:17
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Handsome Ralph posted:Bin Laden was more a less self-funded. ISI gave money that we gave them to a lot of lovely people, but Bin Laden and his group weren't amongst them. The accounting balance sheet is really irrelevant. the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan made Bin Laden's reputation in the right-wing Islamist community, and the US (and other countries who hated USSR at the time) helped create the stage for that to happen.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:20
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Well I think you can argue that's legit military targets...especially by 1860s standards. oh i didn't mean it as a negative
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Dec 11, 2020 23:26
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:oh i didn't mean it as a negative Ah cool my bad.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:28
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Doc Hawkins posted:Yeah, all those Saudis and Afghanis pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, America has nothing to do with their material position in the world. what even is this post
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Dec 11, 2020 23:28
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bulletsponge13 posted:It's almost like killing the people from the sky just gives you more people to kill from the sky. I'm not calling you out on this, but through personal experience, the myriad articles and investigations (most recently Aussie SAS), and myriad anecdotes I've read in GiP (Shim's puppy stealing tale for one), I'm not convinced "surgical raids on HVI's" are any different and could be far worse in terms of traumatizing whole villages. Every raid I went on "jokes" were made about establishing job security, because if we kill everyone what needs a-killin' who on Earth are we going to kill? JPEL was an aberrant failure both in theory and practice. Lastly, those good old American troops getting wounded and killed in the conduct of our raids have led to a lot of units on those tiers going full on berserker for the remainder of there deployments and transmitting that attitude to whomever they RIPed out with. Additionally their sacrifice ostensibly in the name of our nation and constitution provides ample and factually true anecdotes to serve the chicken hawks among us in their propagandistic efforts. Entropy.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:30
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she'll get right on it
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Dec 11, 2020 23:32
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Anything that requires Pelosi to raise her voice is and a violation of  .She's like the black lady from the Police Academy movies without the angry shouting voice.
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Dec 11, 2020 23:46
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