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Rhesus Pieces posted:So apparently the new obsession among conservatives is to get Hillary and Obama to say that we're at war with "radical Islam" and not extremists or ISIL or whatever we're actually calling them right now. They don't want to owe up to their mistakes in Iraq. By their own narrative, ISIS blinked into existence some time after we left Iraq and it's Obummer's fault they came to power. I've been citing this article all goddamn week on Facebook.
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zoux posted:Rand Paul told reporters he's readying a bill that would prohibit allowing refugees from as many as 30 countries with "jihadist ties". I wonder if Indonesia will end up on the list somehow
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Nov 16, 2015 20:40
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Amergin posted:Except the Jews didn't want to strap vests onto themselves and kill civilians in their new homes. The Jews were frequently targeted by propaganda because of the communist uprising in Munich even before the Nazis were cool.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:26
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Isn't rejecting refugees a great way to piss off the coalition we have going in the Middle East? France is going to intervene no matter what, but it's not the only country in NATO. Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan are also all now full of them.
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Nov 17, 2015 07:01
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My Imaginary GF posted:If Obama were serious about fighting terrorism, he'd get Congress to declare war on ISIL and use his war powers to force everything he wants through. Didn't he try to do that earlier this year and the Republicans said no?
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Nov 17, 2015 17:39
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KomradeX posted:The number of people saying that should fix the problem themselves and stay in Syria is depressing. And I can't even form into words why that's a bad idea. The reality is that any bombing campaign is going to cause collateral damage if you don't do something about the refugees.
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Nov 17, 2015 17:51
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Riosan posted:What the gently caress is this? No, I get it, it's Trump pandering as usual, but what the gently caress. Erdogan originally wanted a safe zone in Syria, which it turns out was impossible to defend since we have no boots on the ground there.
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Nov 17, 2015 19:28
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My Imaginary GF posted:It seems as if Obama isn't good at flag-waving and chest-beating. Perhaps its time for someone in office who is. #2 was entirely the fault of the GOP and AUMF.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:07
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Mitt Romney posted:Kerry just hosed up Remember, we're not allowed to discuss the causes of terrorism.
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Nov 17, 2015 23:34
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quote:Lieber and Press have documented this nicely. Indeed, using a Pentagon computer model, they estimated that a U.S. counterforce strike against China’s ICBM silos using high-yield weapons detonated at ground blast would still kill anywhere between 3-4 million people. Using low-yield weapons and airbursts, this figure drops to as little as 700 fatalities! We can get into a nuclear exchange with China and only kill 700 people! - an idiot
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Nov 18, 2015 00:00
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Why are the independent voters voting either far left or right in the polls?
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Nov 20, 2015 00:25
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evilweasel posted:It's more that Germany surrendered after its army was defeated in the field, but before the public knew that their army was defeated in the field. We were way harsher in the aftermath of WWII but nobody, anywhere, had the slightest doubt that Germany got beaten completely because it was conquered before it surrendered. But in WWI, they surrendered once the army was beaten but before Germany was occupied, so the public faced years of war and then were suddenly told one day they lost, despite being told everything was going swimmingly and that all of the German armies were still on foreign territory. This is nonsense. The Treaty of Versailles demanded that reparations be paid in foreign currency so that Germany had to take out loans or move cash out out of currency every time they paid up. Germany got none of this after WW2, and even got a load of debt forgiveness in the 1950s.
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Nov 21, 2015 00:21
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Krugmandefendingmalthusianecenomics.txt
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Nov 21, 2015 00:31
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evilweasel posted:It is entirely, 100%, correct. Reparations as the driving force behind WWII was mostly nonsense: Germany could have paid up, but was politically unable to do so because the post-war settlement was regarded as illegitimate by the Germans who believed they'd agreed to an honorable truce, not a surrender. You couldn't be any more wrong about this. t don't how you got "Germans could have paid up but were politically unable to do so" from "defaulting on payments". They were required to give exports as part of reparations and their factories simply couldn't keep up. The second they did default, Allied powers marched in and started seizing national assets. A lot of countries at the time were feeling a financial crunch and were attempting to offload their burdens on Germany. There as passive resistance in the end, but only after the Allies got heavy handed. Remember, the Weimar government accepted the Dawes plan condition of foreign supervision of the Reichsbank.
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Nov 21, 2015 02:00
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fishmech posted:Germany got occupation and partitioning, with extensive ongoing foreign government influence in its politics til the 90s, and permanent loss of 25% of its pre-Hitler territory. The United States was willing to float the German economy because of the Cold War, though. Germany was already feeling the shock on its economy before the Great Depression took off, but post WW2 Germany was able to reduce its debt, not give reparations in terms of exports, not get its national assets seized, and still have money left over for the insanely expensive reunification with East Germany.
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Nov 21, 2015 02:14
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Monkey Fracas posted:That's how I've always seen his campaign as well- never really though he would win but he's definitely helping keep Hillary honest. Or twitter
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Nov 22, 2015 06:37
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computer parts posted:Which elections have been "foreign policy focused"? 1952 elections
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Nov 23, 2015 03:24
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Also the second to last of FDR's re-election campaigns e: wrong one Dead Cosmonaut fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Nov 23, 2015 03:28
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being white is a privilege owning a gun is also a privilege being white and owning a gun a double privilege but being black and owning a gun is just one privilege not two
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Nov 23, 2015 06:43
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Joementum posted:
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Nov 24, 2015 02:30
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zoux posted:
Maybe if they think "racism against whites" is a problem
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Nov 24, 2015 15:28
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The GOP primary is, at the moment, a contest of who can pander to their constituents' increasingly insane views the most using racism, xenophobia, and economic conservatism. They have about as much direction and coherence as a chicken with its head cut off.
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"middle of the pack in the polls" heh
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