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Volkerball posted:Or if there was mandatory conscription and kids didn't go to college until they were 22 I'm sure the emotional stability of a bunch of people forced into service at the age of 18 will reduce mental health issues in higher education
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I mean who is more mentally stable than our war veterans hurrah
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rear end struggle posted:conscription doesn't mean fighting I'm sure the military will be keen to get the optimum value for their money Might as well start a little war just to keep Putin on his toes
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Gin and Juche posted:Nikki Haley Un ambassador? I don't get it Appointing someone with no diplomatic or FP experience will lead to some laughs I'm sure
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exmarx posted:is an ambassador appointment an "i'm making you leave the country to kill your ambitions and stop you causing trouble for me" thing in the us? you don't have to leave the country to be the un ambassador if you're American though generally they do a bit of globetrotting
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exmarx posted:right, but ime ambassadorships get given out to retired politicians Eh there's a good couple of american UN ambassadors who furthered their careers; Rice, Albright, Negroponte all got promotions or cabinet spots after their stint at the UN. And of course Bush the first
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Badger of Basra posted:All four of those were part of the foreign policy establishment before they got the job though Yeah that's the lol part. Its not a dead end job posting career wise if you're from an FP background but just giving to some random politician is pretty bizarre
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Nov 23, 2016 20:45
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If Romney was offered the UN spot that would be a hell of a lot less of an insult than offering him the France posting for example
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wait devos's brother is erik prince? lol
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Badger of Basra posted:betsy devos is from a dutch reformed family which shows once again that dutch people and protestants are the worst people on earth when I spoke against the Dutch menace people mocked me
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Hollismason posted:Pretty sure that was the Danish and not the Dutch I'll have you know I have always been strident in my distaste for those nutmeg obsessed fiends
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i support dadchat's book writing ambitions as long as it isn't high fantasy with a detailed mythos with dozens of intricate handdrawn maps and constructed languages and elves
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Nov 24, 2016 00:01
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or scifi about a war with aliens in space
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Avshalom posted:please raise your hand if you have not written or are not writing a book hello
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Nov 24, 2016 00:23
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my command of the english language is tenuous as best
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Avshalom posted:i wasted most of my teenage years trying and failing to write a sci-fantasy novel about a space war with alien elves on a high fantasy world with intricate maps and a detailed mythos and constructed languages good
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Nov 24, 2016 00:45
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Do we really need a novelization of avatar
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PupsOfWar posted:Mine doesn't have dwarfs, elfs, maps or conlangs (its deliberately inchohate that way) but its fantasy yeah goblin?
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strapping musclebound centaurs?
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Highly erotic centaurs of course
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Badger of Basra posted:Housing New Zealand is selling off state houses in Christchurch partly because it is increasingly focused on Auckland's housing shortage, Bill English says. You could always use the traditional line of selling housing stock to raise money to build more state housing
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Basically taking advantage of property price increases and feeding bubbles
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exmarx posted:lol I never said it was just a good idea. Just its something people keep suggesting
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Nov 24, 2016 20:10
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Ireland went from having a surplus of empty houses built on credit by speculative property developers lying half built and empty to an acute housing shortage in a couple of years. Turns out sinking millions into planned suburban estates no one particularly wants to live in and then going bankrupt isn't good for the housing market.
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Nov 24, 2016 20:17
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Badger of Basra posted:Is it an Irish housing shortage or a Dublin housing shortage It's pretty much every city (so Dublin and Cork) Dublin and its greater suburban area has like 40% of the Irish population though so a squeeze in Dublin is automatically a national crisis
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tell us what you find confusing young postlad
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take a knee around the campfire of chat thread
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Guy Goodbody posted:Something just occurred to me. In a movie apocalypse situation, where almost everyone dies and the survivors have to pick up the pieces, in the long run, aren't first world countries doomed? I think if your immediate worry about the apocalypse is you should look closely at your epistemes
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Badger of Basra posted:Ah haven't heard this in a long time its true its been a long time since this thread has taken a long hard look and adjusted our epistemes
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lots of cities in Florida have an e in it I don't get
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Vaginal Vagrant posted:Sorry didn't realise the thread moved so quickly. I was told by a stranger on the internet that people from the Balkans aren't considered white in the current narrative. I was a bit surprised, the ever reliable wikipedia disagrees, but apparently whether or not Kim Kardashian is a PoC is a matter of some debate (I know, not the Balkans). I think anyone rushing to proclaim that Slavs are not white may have an agenda
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Chelb posted:hey kkk i was reading a little about jean-bédel bokassa yes but people usually gloss over his close personal friendship with French President Giscard and the fact France gave him political asylum after deposing him only when popular unrest began to erode his regime and international outrage started to form after he ordered the murder of over a hundred children. Of course France was more than happy to reinstall the previous president as a puppet with much of the actual business of ruling being controlled by a French military proconsul
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The otherthrow of Bokassa gave us the term Barracuda Syndrome, which is used to refer to France's neocolonial policy of direct post colonial tutelage enforced through military action btw
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Also Bokassa made the mistake of trying to get chummy with Gaddafi
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Badger of Basra posted:i feel like clothes should cost less if you're getting them in a smaller size the value of the labour is the same you capitalist swine
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Badger of Basra posted:the value of the materials is different I didn't but Saul Dubows Apartheid or William Beinarts 20th century south Africa (a bit old this but the standard intro text) are good jumping in points but having a grasp of the Boer wars and the later nineteenth century would probably be good tbh
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Though dubow starts by jumping right into Malans victory in 48 which does king gloss over a couple of important decades
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Also worger and Clark's rise and fall of apartheid
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Badger of Basra posted:this book is $36 yes it's aimed at undergrads
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