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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Remember when Ron Paul was in one of the Presidential Debates in 2008 and said he supported the harshest punishments for illegal immigrants, but was opposed to building a fence on the southern border because he said "they will use the border fence to keep all of us in instead of keeping them out" and implement capital controls to bankrupt anyone who tried to move?

And he thought it was such a good point that he tried to run ads highlighting that answer and promoted it on his Twitter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esp-ruhkZqQ

https://twitter.com/ronpaul/status/1072597329490993155

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Remember when, during a Democratic primary debate, Anderson Cooper asked the question:

And the responses were:







And then, it was Jim Webb's turn and he responds with:

And then didn't offer any other details.

And people kept asking him about what person he killed that he was referencing so much that his campaign had to contact the Navy for a copy of his qualifications for the Navy Cross to get all the information.

Then, he said he was done talking about it, but also confirmed that he had killed more than one person, and just referred everyone to the Navy statement.

The video is amazing because he clearly intended it to be a huge laugh line, but none of the candidates react and the audience has an uncomfortable sigh mixed in with a tiny smattering of applause from his campaign guests in the audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AqzJ5JnnlI

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Just remembered that Ronna Romney changed her name and started using her maiden name "Ronna McDaniel" because Trump didn't want someone named Romney running the RNC.

lmao.

none of these are funny

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Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

vyelkin posted:

I think the point of calling #6 true is that whether or not crime and terrorism actually went up, the War on Terror and the associated enormous media coverage of high-profile terrorist acts like 9/11, the London bombings, or the Bataclan attack did in fact lead to much of the developed world pulling back and closing itself off out of fear rather than continuing to open up as the "long boom" scenario projected.

America propagandized itself into failure. You love to see it.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



AnimeIsTrash posted:

none of these are funny

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

it's funny that leon thinks he can post here with his fellow cspammers

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



Rob Ford smoking crack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl2MsZRhxM&t=39s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjdTi1r-yRQ

More politicians should openly smoke crack :colbert:

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

The Mayor of D.C. was caught on video smoking crack with a prostitute and taking bribes all at the same time.

When he was busted, he is on the video throwing his crack pipe at the hooker and yelling "Bitch set me up!"

He went to federal prison and was immediately re-elected when he got out. He served 4 terms as Mayor.

Then, he ran for D.C. city council and was re-elected until he died in office. During that time, he was indicted for two more bribery scandals, but they couldn't convict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry#1990_arrest_and_drug_conviction

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004


don't post here

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
Marion Barry was good

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Mayor of D.C. was caught on video smoking crack with a prostitute and taking bribes all at the same time.

When he was busted, he is on the video throwing his crack pipe at the hooker and yelling "Bitch set me up!"

He went to federal prison and was immediately re-elected when he got out. He served 4 terms as Mayor.

Then, he ran for D.C. city council and was re-elected until he died in office. During that time, he was indicted for two more bribery scandals, but they couldn't convict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry#1990_arrest_and_drug_conviction

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
Rob Ford and marrion Barry just getting cracked out of their body in heaven

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Mayor of D.C. was caught on video smoking crack with a prostitute and taking bribes all at the same time.

When he was busted, he is on the video throwing his crack pipe at the hooker and yelling "Bitch set me up!"

He went to federal prison and was immediately re-elected when he got out. He served 4 terms as Mayor.

Then, he ran for D.C. city council and was re-elected until he died in office. During that time, he was indicted for two more bribery scandals, but they couldn't convict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry#1990_arrest_and_drug_conviction

What is this a book? I ain't got time to read all this. go suck ya dad!

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Private Cumshoe posted:

Marion Barry was good

Not if you were Asian or gay and he said that people should beat you up on the streets until they all voluntarily leave the city.

He also said that there will be a civil war started by black people if they allow gay marriage in D.C.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

all marionberries are blackberries but not all blackberries are marionberries

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster
lol at this cherry on top:

quote:

While apologizing to Asian Americans for his previous comments, Barry used the anti-Polish slur Polack.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Not if you were Asian or gay and he said that people should beat you up on the streets until they all voluntarily leave the city.

He also said that there will be a civil war started by black people if they allow gay marriage in D.C.

lol

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
Roseanne ran for president on a socialist ticket in 2012 after unsuccessfully trying to get the Green Party nomination, antagonized everyone in her campaign so much that it dissolved before the election and her own running mate denounced her, and then immediately veered hard right

the party she ran for has since effectively memory-holed the whole incident and barely even acknowledges it happened, and their Wikipedia page history section skips straight from the 2008 election to the 2016 election without mentioning it at all

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
Jerry Springer was mayor of Cincinnati and got busted trying to pay for a sex worker with a cheque

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

The Mayor of D.C. was caught on video smoking crack with a prostitute and taking bribes all at the same time.

When he was busted, he is on the video throwing his crack pipe at the hooker and yelling "Bitch set me up!"

He went to federal prison and was immediately re-elected when he got out. He served 4 terms as Mayor.

Then, he ran for D.C. city council and was re-elected until he died in office. During that time, he was indicted for two more bribery scandals, but they couldn't convict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry#1990_arrest_and_drug_conviction

Kwame's only mistake was not smoking crack

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1504516178131263488

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


She looks fully sick tbf

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
no she doesn't.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Ahaha.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009


boy they all look like poo poo in those costumes

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

hawowanlawow posted:

boy they all look like poo poo in those costumes

"Ya know what Star Trek really needs? A cheap pastiche of fashy Star Wars aesthetics."
-Rick Berman, probably

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Why does she look like a high ranking imperial officer from Star Wars?

Phlogiston 4 Lyfe
May 13, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

ikanreed posted:

Why does she look like a high ranking imperial officer from Star Wars?

Because Discovery sucks poo poo.

MD2020
May 30, 2003

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

ikanreed posted:

Why does she look like a high ranking imperial officer from Star Wars?

Dress for the job you want, not the one you have.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Watch Stacey Abrams Learn She Isn't The New Grand Moff In Real Time

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

hawowanlawow posted:

boy they all look like poo poo in those costumes

It's not because of the costumes tbf.

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



Weka posted:

Sometimes it's nice to do a simple menial task like water the garden.

[url posted:

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/23/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-ii-spartan-equality/[/url]]
But I think it is worth stressing just how extreme the division of labor was. Helots did all of the labor, because the Spartiates were quite possibly the least productive people to ever exist (the perioikoi presumably also produced a lot of goods for the spartiates, but being free, one imagines they had to be compensated for that out of the only economic resource the spartiates possessed: the produce of helot labor). The spartiates were forbidden from taking up any kind of productive activity at all (Plut. Lyc. 24.2). Lysander is shocked that the Persian prince Cyrus gardens as a hobby (Xen. Oec. 4.20-5), because why sully your hands with labor if you don’t have to? Given the normal divisions of household labor (textile production in the Greek household was typically done by women), it is equally striking that not one of Plutarch’s “Sayings of Spartan Women’ in the Moralia concerns weaving, save for one – where a Spartan woman shames an Ionian one for being proud of her skill in it (Plut. Mor. 241d). Xenophon confirms that spartiate women did not weave, but relied on helot labor for that too (Xen. Lac. 1.4)

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

lol @ the bag

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
one wood please

no, that's too big of a wood

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Ben needed exactly one 1 inch by 8 inch by 24 inch board so that he could replace his front door

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Ben needed exactly one 1 inch by 8 inch by 24 inch board so that he could replace his front door

Spoiler alert: Ben lives in a high school locker

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Ben needed exactly one 1 inch by 8 inch by 24 inch board so that he could replace his front door

Lmao

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

The spartiates taxed the perioikoi. They also probably kept chattel slaves as well as using iron bars for money and discouraging most trade outside their little empire so I'm not sure acoup's economic analysis holds up.
Otherwise interesting though.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Weka posted:

The spartiates taxed the perioikoi. They also probably kept chattel slaves as well as using iron bars for money and discouraging most trade outside their little empire so I'm not sure acoup's economic analysis holds up.
Otherwise interesting though.

You would have to think up a pretty specialist definition of slave for the helots not to count.

Spartan history was almost defined by having to keep the helots from running off or revolting and they had a whole series of rituals centered around distributing helots to spartan families and periodically humiliating them.

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN
Spartans sucked at anything but ritualized warfare but were surprisingly good at perfidious politicking.

You can instantly tell somebody never read their histories if they think the Spartans were actually tough

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Zvahl
Oct 14, 2005

научный кот

Lib and let die posted:

don't post here

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