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byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!
and i saw a funky horse and behold the name of him that rode upon it was Ed Balls

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Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

and i must meme posted:

why do americans lust for war so bad?

its kind of hosed up

A huge portion of our high-tech and just general economy is based around launching missiles at people sooo

pushpins
Sep 11, 2006


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Elephanthead posted:

Why are animals made of meat?

*white text over picture of Tyler Durden*
People are made of meat

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
One of the major ways Congresspeople can bring pork home for their districts is defense contracts of various shapes and sizes, this generates institutional pressure to use those items so there's always work.

There's basically one foreign policy in Washington and its hawkish as gently caress and its telling that Obama was successful as he was in resisting it.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


I just became president last night if you know what I mean
:smuggo:

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
Also we've been using the american military to serve american corporate interests since the Dulles brothers so

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Schnorkles posted:

One of the major ways Congresspeople can bring pork home for their districts is defense contracts of various shapes and sizes, this generates institutional pressure to use those items so there's always work.

There's basically one foreign policy in Washington and its hawkish as gently caress and its telling that Obama was successful as he was in resisting it.

Yeah it's basically a Government jobs program especially for lovely red state rural areas.

If it wasn't for a military base in the middle of nowhere many rural counties would pretty much have no jobs.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Schnorkles posted:

Also we've been using the american military to serve american corporate interests since the Dulles brothers so
Lmfao waaaay earlier than that. Our entire colonization of Hawaii, for instance.

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

FactsAreUseless posted:

Lmfao waaaay earlier than that. Our entire colonization of Hawaii, for instance.

yeah, I thought about that. But they were the strong codification of it in the modern era.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The Revolutionary War was about rich smugglers and rum traders not wanting to pay taxes.

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

Schnorkles posted:

Also we've been using the american military to serve american corporate interests since the Dulles brothers so

way before that lol

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

FactsAreUseless posted:

The Revolutionary War was about rich smugglers and rum traders not wanting to pay taxes.

the whiskey rebellion was NOT about whiskey! dtrump!!!!

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

mrbradlymrmartin posted:

way before that lol

It was poorly stated. The point I was trying to make is the modern conception of the MIC owes a lot to the Dulles brothers and the way they saw American power and its relationship to Foreign Policy.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

mrbradlymrmartin posted:

way before that lol

pretty much US military after the Civil War especially in latin america.

The bananas must flow!

I did a thing
Mar 23, 2017

On the chest of a barmaid in Sale, were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind for the sake of the blind, was the same information in braille.

Schnorkles posted:

Also we've been using the american military to serve american corporate interests since the Dulles brothers so

Gen. Smedley Butler posted:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

punchymcpunch
Oct 14, 2012



Schnorkles posted:

One of the major ways Congresspeople can bring pork home for their districts is defense contracts of various shapes and sizes, this generates institutional pressure to use those items so there's always work.

There's basically one foreign policy in Washington and its hawkish as gently caress and its telling that Obama was successful as he was in resisting it.

pork is murder and can contain worms

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

America also collapsed immediately in an uprising from four thousand Continental Army soldiers, because our government didn't want to give them their back pay.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


animals are meat robots

people are meat robots w/ a self-reflective evaluation and prediction system

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

Jazerus posted:

animals are meat robots

people are meat robots w/ a self-reflective evaluation and prediction system

i am actually just a robot

The Jack Chop Guy
Mar 31, 2017

by Nyc_Tattoo

:lol: do we ever officially refer to our intervention strikes as "attacks"

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Jazerus posted:

people are meat robots w/ a self-reflective* evaluation* and prediction system

*i can think of at least one counter example; but perhaps it's the exception that proves the rule

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

whelp guess we'll have to keep bombing or look weak!

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/850679457954373633

whoops missed and killed more kids!

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-northkorea-idUSKBN17A0H4

quote:

North Korea said on Saturday U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were "an unforgivable act of aggression" that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was "the right choice a million times over".

The response by North Korea's foreign ministry, carried by the official KCNA news agency, was the first since U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea launched dozens of missiles at a Syrian air base which the Pentagon says was involved in a chemical weapons attack earlier in the week.

"The U.S. missile attack against Syria is a clear and unforgivable act of aggression against a sovereign state and we strongly condemn this," KCNA quoted an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry as saying.

"The reality of today proves our decision to strengthen our military power to stand against force with force was the right choice a million times over," KCNA said.

also whoops North Korea not feeling cowered, but vindicated.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

Jazerus posted:

animals are meat robots

people are meat robots w/ a self-reflective evaluation and prediction system

lol @ "self reflctive evaluwhatever and prediction"

president trump is president

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Baloogan posted:

while under an electric blanket because im too lazy to go close the window

real survivalist

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Baloogan posted:

lol @ "self reflctive evaluwhatever and prediction"

president trump is president

it's not a very good system

punchymcpunch
Oct 14, 2012



Jazerus posted:

animals are meat robots

people are meat robots w/ a self-reflective evaluation and prediction system

if you hold up two mirrors you got a self reflective evaluation and prediction system so a dog with a pair of mirrorshades is legally a person

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

Baloogan posted:

president trump is president

the most disheartening of tautologies

:smith:

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Schnorkles posted:

A huge portion of our high-tech and just general economy is based around launching missiles at people sooo

have you considered using the missile money for other things

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Yinlock posted:

have you considered using the missile money for other things

NO if we don't use it on missiles it has to go to the rich

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

Yinlock posted:

have you considered using the missile money for other things

what are you a socialist

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Annual Prophet posted:

the most disheartening of tautologies

:smith:

we don't taut no ologies around here, sir

Colonel J
Jan 3, 2008
dont eat meat or cheese imo

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
today's palace intrigue stories are pretty great

"You can stay, Steve, but only if you shut the gently caress up"

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
Call me skeptical but if Kushner's brilliant plan is turn trump into a centrist I'm not sure its going to work

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003

and i must meme posted:

why do americans lust for war so bad?

its kind of hosed up

military hardware expires, friend, you gotta clean out your pantry from time to time yknow

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene

Schnorkles posted:

A huge portion of our high-tech and just general economy is based around launching missiles at people sooo
Why do my STEM Lord friends have such inherent difficulty understanding such a simple idea though? like We Have To Do Something and White Man's Burden and Savage Tent Religion is all of a sudden more compelling than Trump is dangerously unfit. just screaming into the void here the answer is obvious

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/850433023929614338

TRUMP!

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
If a recession hits in 2018 I'm going to laugh my goddamn head off

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Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

I can feel the Trumentum in the economy!

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