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MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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The President America needs, but doesn't deserve.

You have the one you deserve right now.

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MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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There is always more, and it is always loving crazier

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Two Finger posted:

makes sense, it's not like the dutch basically lynched anyone that helped the nazis or anything (they may well have actually lynched them, i'm not really certain)

Great-grandpa was kept as a hostage by the Nazis (he was a judge)

His sons were in the Dutch Resistance, and were apparently quite good at Killing Nazis and blowing poo poo up.

I don't think current-day Dutch will give two shits about this, but the older generation would be a little irked. These are the people who scream "GIVE US BACK OUR BICYCLES" at every Dutch/German soccer game, after all.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Two Finger posted:

ALL HAIL THE CLEANSING POWER OF THE ATOM AND ITS PROPHET CURTIS LEMAY

Eh I think more HG Wells was the prophet, Curtis LeMay was just the proponent.

I'm in the middle of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and it's just insane how fast the science and technology progressed. You have leading physicists calling the liberation of energy from the atom "Moonshine" in 1933, and 9 years later you have a self-sustaining chain reaction.

MA-Horus fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Mar 11, 2017

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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psydude posted:

You all remember that story from a couple of years ago when they found the remains of a couple hundred kids buried beneath an old Catholic home for unwed mothers in Ireland?

Yeah, well it turns out that it was more like a concentration camp for unwed mothers and their children:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...omepage%2Fstory

What's a couple hundred dead kids against the ETERNAL SHAME of having a child out of WEDLOCK?

(this is loving horrific)

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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They should let the internet decide.

I'd love to see Trump's name associated to a yooge, bigly donation to NAMBLA.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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I paid 600 dollars this year for my healthcare through taxes.

An additional 2600 for supplementary coverage though my workplace (90% dental, physio, massage, chiro, etc).

You will take my socialist Canadian healthcare from my cold dead loving hands. The conservatives keep trying to push a 2 payer system and I will scream in protest of that poo poo until I look like high knife hand DI.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

They should take more imo or at least spend it better. But yes, I still can't comprehend that americn people could go into major debt/bankruptcy from a child getting injured from being a child or just blind bad luck/genetics.

Oh I'm not saying it's perfect. Not at all perfect. It's rather poo poo at times, especially if you need an MRI or joint replacement. You're gonna wait a while on those.

But I mean gently caress, I had a granuloma on a finger last year which bled like loving crazy. Went to the non urgent-care, had an appointment with a surgeon 2 days later who looked at it and said "drat, let's get that out today". He carved it out, cauterized it and sent me on my way. Less than a week from diagnosis to surgery, and didn't cost me a dime other than parking.

The fact that people look at the American health care system as something emulate doesn't compute in my brain.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Dongald needs all those new batteries for when he goes into a twitter frenzy

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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eh cops are pretty good at ventilating people already

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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RACHAEL BAE GET TO THE POOOOOOOINT

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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VikingSkull posted:

gently caress the Zuck, we need goddamned Elon Musk to run

America should really continue down the "lead by a supervillain" road IMO

He's a saffer, can't run.

I don't understand why more billionaires don't do what Musk does.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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joat mon posted:

Current Events 3/17: Daily Spicy Shitshow

But enough about my high protein diet

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Pretty much every South Korean I've ever spoken to about the North (And I lived there for 2 years in the deep dirty south) doesn't give a tammany gently caress about the North. I had been over there for like 2 months when the Cheonan got mined/torpedoed and all my relatives back home were freaking out. Koreans were just like "Meh, happens all the time."

Even when a bunch of their poo poo got hacked, they didn't care. Hell, some thought it was their own government who hosed up and blamed it on the North.

They're smart and pragmatic enough to know that war with North Korea will destroy them economically. Plus, the generation with living relatives North of the DMZ is almost gone. There's no familial bond between the newer generations on either side. They don't care, and they sure as poo poo don't want tens of millions of starving, brainwashed, uneducated people coming in. Imagine your average defector from the North;

1) They have no skillset for the modern world, especially not for modern-day Korea. (Defectors can't understand how a ATM works; they think there's someone on the other side pushing their money through the slot)
2) Decades of malnourishment has probably left them with medical issues. SK has good healthcare, really good, and would be utterly destroyed by a massive influx of NK refugees. The entire social net would collapse overnight from the weight.
3) Gen X/Millennials in SK have nothing in common whatsoever with their counterparts in the North. They don't even really speak the same language anymore (Imagine the "cash me outside how bow dat" girl, and how her English sounds to the rest of us. That's how NK Korean sounds to the South)

IF there is ever going to be reunification it has to be on the terms of the North and the South. Sure as gently caress not due to Donne Dumbfuck starting a war and leaving the south holding the bag.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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not caring here posted:

I remember reading about how if North Korea was absorbed by South Korea that there was a significant chance that their economy could NEVER recover.

Never is a long time.

It wouldn't.

East/West Germany isn't exactly a fair comparison to make. East Germany at least had an industrial base and the entire population did not follow a cult of personality. Their population hadn't undergone physiological changes due to decades of malnutrition. The East Germans did not view the West Germans as their mortal, eternal enemies. And still, reunifying East and West has cost trillions of dollars.

North/South Korea will be much, much worse. Oh and not to mention the majority of defectors from the North come across the Chinese border, not the Korean border. So we'd either have;

1) A flood of humanity streaming across the Yalu, which the Chinese will love
2) A flood of humanity attempting to cross the most heavily mined and defended land on the planet.

Both are bad options.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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LingcodKilla posted:

Probably just the obvious evolution of wedding strikes.

"We're...GOOOOOOING to the moooosque and we're....GOOOONNNNNNA get drone striked!"

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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It may also be the fact that she's a woman, and we all know that Dongle doesn't respect women in the slightest

Especially not women who are more respected than he is.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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:stare:

Motherfuck. Your government is actually infiltrated hook line und sinker by the loving reds. What the gently caress.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Acebuckeye13 posted:

It's like living in an even less plausible Tom Clancy novel!

It's like living in a "Wingman" novel

I'll take my AC-5 now please.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Godholio posted:

^ :fap:


Not the schizo blonde?

Edit: There was a standoff at the Bunny Ranch, according to this testimony.

Why can't we have both? Dolores with a LeMat revolver?

I learned about LeMats from a Clive Cussler book where Dirk Pitt uses one to save his congresswoman girlfriend from an evil Asian brainwashing boat with the help of some civil war reenactors aboard a steam-powered riverboat

it was dumb as fuuuuuuuck.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Pesticide20 posted:

That one was definitely worse than the book where they traveled to Antarctica and discovered the lost city of Atlantis

Excuse me

That's the lost city of Nazi Atlantis.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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What's our spicey level at today? Are we pushing muy caliente?

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Schools don't make money from the mathletes or the robotics club

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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A Bad Poster posted:

The amount of people arguing about putting a new stadium in Saint Louis for a MLS team, when they already have a stadium that isn't being used and isn't paid off yet boggles my mind.

Toronto FC got really loving butthurt that the Toronto Argonauts (CFL team) started playing on the same field because it rips the field to shreds

It's better than having 10k people in the skydome, capacity 65k.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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Just when you don't think you can get deeper down the Rabbit hole.

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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How in the sweet fancy gently caress are the Norks producing that much Li6? Getting it from the Russians/Chinese?

But yeah having THAT much of it handy is bad because you can boost the gently caress out of your fission bomb.

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MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

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To call this a garbage fire is an insult to garbage fire

This is immediate post-meltdown Chernobyl fire.

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