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Cultural Revolution style poster of a bunch of Mao-capped, clean-cut young cadres bursting into the House of Lords and abolishing it. "No to the Three olds! Aristocracy; Autocracy; Absolutely awful capitalist exploitation!"
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Time has not been kind of the cast of Firefly, except for Fillion, Hendricks and Tudyk. The life of a Vancouver based actor is a mercurial thing.
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In classic US Air Force style, their stealth target drone is large and reusable and has been designed and built over about a decade, because rather than just a maneuvering low RCS target, they want it to carry variable jamming and countermeasures of decent payload. Do probably high capability for test and training but lower mass availability. https://twitter.com/defencedecode/status/1366619545343991812?s=46&t=fppHBZSlD4AbSz5pJxjFMQ
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Frosted Flake posted:
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Frosted Flake posted:Time has not been kind of the cast of Firefly, except for Fillion, Hendricks and Tudyk. what happened to the others?
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Megamissen posted:what happened to the others? Baccarin damned to a successful and profitable film acting career. Torres sentenced to recurring supporting roles on multiple major network TV shows. A bunch of others cast into the pits of long TV careers with recurring regular roles, sometimes as the lead.
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Frosted Flake posted:Time has not been kind of the cast of Firefly, except for Fillion, Hendricks and Tudyk. ron glass is doing well
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TowerofOil posted:President Xi, I yearn for re-education, please send me a check for a plane ticket and expenses when I arrive.
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Frosted Flake posted:and NXIVM I thought that was Battlestar Galactica. Or did they get Firefly too?
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They are going to say that it is the People's Daily, of course. State press, "bias" etc but anyway I'm lmaoing http://en.people.cn/n3/2023/1215/c90000-20111061.html quote:China's next generation artificial sun opens for global shared research and use in cooperation with ITER
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a once in a generation $50 billion investment? $35 million for BAE? a team of 200 people? anyone who doesn't think the chips, chips, chips won't be loving AWESOME and ahead of schedule is delusional. Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at BAE Systems in Nashua, New Hampshirewww.commerce.gov posted:Thank you, Tom. Good morning! This is a big day – a big day for the United States and a big day for New Hampshire. I’m so pleased we’re joined by Senator Shaheen, who played a huge role in making sure that this bill happened and that the Commerce Department received the funding. And Senator Hassan, also such a staunch advocate for the people of New Hampshire.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's a pity the CCP has a policy against exporting revolution 'cos I'd be getting straight on the ground floor of that if it was happening lol. Sign me up as British Communist Party (China-affiliated) member 000000001, please! blame the ussr's gently caress ups in the 20s for this.
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Just imagining the fuming, crying, screaming meltdowns if China started hosting a US government in exile
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I'm no boats-knower so Iran sent out ships to block the progress of the carrier group into the gulf and the US decided to retreat rather than force the issue? Were they going over there to try to intimidate Iran or something since it's not on the Yemen side?
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FuzzySlippers posted:I'm no boats-knower so Iran sent out ships to block the progress of the carrier group into the gulf and the US decided to retreat rather than force the issue? Were they going over there to try to intimidate Iran or something since it's not on the Yemen side? The USS Eisenhower was in the Gulf for a couple weeks, and now it is leaving. (E: the US carrier strike group was inside the Gulf for 20 days on this mission, according to Iran) When the US sails into the Gulf, usually the Iranians sail and fly out there and watch them, and then the Iranians say that they kept an eye on things and the Americans either say nothing or "I don't particularly care for how close you looked at us." Then when the Americans eventually leave the Gulf, the Iranians sail out there or fly out there and announce that they chased the Americans away, and the Americans say they were always going to leave at that point in time anyway based on training and deployment requirements. Depending on the mood, this is either done in a banal fashion or with great bombast from one or the other or both. When it's the regular Iranian Navy, it's usually pretty chill. It gets weirder when it's the IRGC instead. Sometimes if it gets too exciting with the IRGC, the regular Iranian Navy will make a show of coming out to say "hi" in a professional and calm manner. Warships are free to pass the Strait of Hormuz, but they have to do so peaceably, which means publicly and not doing combat ops, so even for things like submarines, it makes for a good chance for everyone to take photos and video and talk at each other over the radios. mlmp08 has issued a correction as of 01:07 on Dec 16, 2023 |
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FuzzySlippers posted:It still seems odd that with someone waging successful economic war against a US ally a (relative) short distance away a bunch of US military ships decided to go hang out with Kuwaiti aristocrats or something. Is the US leery of too directly confronting Yemen? shutting down the red sea blockade would require boots on the ground which at this point would have to be the saudis and that ends with the houthis bombing every refinery and oil field they can reach zetamind2000 has issued a correction as of 02:02 on Dec 16, 2023 |
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FuzzySlippers posted:It still seems odd that with someone waging successful economic war against a US ally a (relative) short distance away a bunch of US military ships decided to go hang out with Kuwaiti aristocrats or something. Is the US leery of too directly confronting Yemen? we have the saudis to thank for wasting 20K western AFVs over the years to produce an incredibly battle hardened people with modern weapons
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zetamind2000 posted:shutting down the red sea blockade would require boots on the ground which at this point would have to be the saudis and that ends with the houthis bombing every refinery and oil field they can reach I think we'd see a much more significant reaction if the red sea was actually facing a blockade, as that would piss off everyone even more than the current status, including major powers who don't see eye to eye with the US et al. As it is, it's a lot of harassment and general international condemnation, but traffic keeps on trucking through the red sea and the BAM. 
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The usual US response would be some random bombings in Yemen to "send a message" even (or maybe especially) if they are entirely useless and it's not like the US has had reluctance to bomb Yemen in the past. If the Yemeni air defenses have improved so they are concerned about actually losing a plane they could still lob some pricey cruise missiles.
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lol at the destination entries for some of the ships, since those show up on the free tracking websites: Reported Destination: ARMED GUARD ONBOARD
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Guards seem worse for the Filipino crew on board. Rather than get a free Yemeni vacation of getting high and listening to music maybe that's why Ansurallah has talked of bombing ships the last few days.
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Regarde Aduck posted:and then what? Gonna quote from the Podcast thread "maybe read some Lenin"
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FuzzySlippers posted:The usual US response would be some random bombings in Yemen to "send a message" even (or maybe especially) if they are entirely useless and it's not like the US has had reluctance to bomb Yemen in the past. If the Yemeni air defenses have improved so they are concerned about actually losing a plane they could still lob some pricey cruise missiles. Does the US have the ammunition to spare to do that this time around?
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Palladium posted:i took a look at his tweets A corner of an apartment building collapsed in NYC this week, during the summer the whole front of a brick building in the Mid-west collapsed and tried to be covered up because city officials owned the building. Americas cities are literally decaying around them. Even these brand new billion dollar investment properties in Manhattan have such poor build quality that they're falling apart 5 years later. Yet these Libs all believe the Hollywood image that America is a functional vibrant society
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KomradeX posted:A corner of an apartment building collapsed in NYC this week, during the summer the whole front of a brick building in the Mid-west collapsed and tried to be covered up because city officials owned the building. Americas cities are literally decaying around them. Even these brand new billion dollar investment properties in Manhattan have such poor build quality that they're falling apart 5 years later. Yet these Libs all believe the Hollywood image that America is a functional vibrant society https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1735367367977205926
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KomradeX posted:Gonna quote from the Podcast thread "maybe read some Lenin" just going to sit here in the ruins of my dead since the 60's empire and shrug may others have better luck
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KomradeX posted:A corner of an apartment building collapsed in NYC this week, during the summer the whole front of a brick building in the Mid-west collapsed and tried to be covered up because city officials owned the building. Americas cities are literally decaying around them. Even these brand new billion dollar investment properties in Manhattan have such poor build quality that they're falling apart 5 years later. Yet these Libs all believe the Hollywood image that America is a functional vibrant society lol have they checked their doomsday bunkers yet in NZ
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Regarde Aduck posted:just going to sit here in the ruins of my dead since the 60's empire and shrug The Empire ended in the 60’s but really what Thatcher did sealed Britain’s fate.
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Frosted Flake posted:The Empire ended in the 60’s but really what Thatcher did sealed Britain’s fate. They should have dug her up and put her on trial like they did with that medieval pope.
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