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Weka
May 5, 2019
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the sex ghost posted:

Trump giving that speech where he complained about weak flowing toilets that you had to flush more than once and how he was going to stop that

Expert humble brag.

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poo poo POST MALONE posted:

what the gently caress is this

This is the future liberals want.

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Buck Turgidson posted:

lol Obama winning the Nobel peace prize. I can't hear the term Nobel prize without chuckling now

Then he went on to bomb another Nobel peace prize winner, doctors without borders.
Also UN peacekeepers and the UN both winning the prize barely more than a decade apart.

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WHY BONER NOW posted:

It's a bible

Nice to see a president tell the truth for once.

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Kitfox88 posted:

If it was something other than lovely sheet cake this would be the most relatable thing about him.

I think this says more about you tbh.

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Which reminds me of a funny political thing, the Spanish basically invented colour based racism and now their descendants are not considered white by a whole slew of people.

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I wonder if obama saw himself as batman.

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Wasn't he lasering animals to death?
E: Zuckerberg not Allende

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StashAugustine posted:

iirc he used a "bolt gun," a specialized tool for killing livestock akin to a nailgun (it's the weapon chigurh uses in no country for old men) and dorsey misinterpreted it as a laser gun

Does this imply Dorsey has or has been offered laser weaponry? Like it's just a regular thing for billionaires to have.

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3D Megadoodoo posted:

Does Zuckerberg have syphilis?

A captive bolt gun, i.e. nothing exits the gun permanently - the bit that shoots out is a part of the mechanism. Might use the same "blank" cartridges as nail guns. Dorsey thought it was a laser weapon from this game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyS0ybG4XM&t=92s

Typically activated by compressed gas I believe. Hence Chigurh carrying around that gas tank. Which is also how your old school timber to timber nail gun operates, off a compressor on a hose.

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Yup, although someone at the agency made clear it wasn't about her looks.

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GWBBQ posted:

Literally every performance at a political event is like this. Someone knows someone, they get an official proclamation declaring them important, and all of a sudden you have to listen to Tommy, the 3rd Grade Yankee Doodle Ambassador from Connecticut try to sing Yankee Doodle through a trombone.

People get paid (in stipends, of course) for these appearances.

She got a modeling contract with the same people as Kamala's stepdaughter.

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Carthag Tuek posted:

tbf starting a microbrewery is hella bougie

Not if you just drink all the beer. (I've just been browsing auctions for a failed microbreweries kit)

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In researching bolsonaro poops I have remembered for the first time that he recommend making GBS threads every second day to help the environment.

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Mr. Lobe posted:

De blasio killed a groundhog by dropping it amd the zoo covered it up

With a tarp?

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exmachina posted:

There was a British program ages ago that pointed out that in a doomsday scenario you probably couldn't grow food even if you had control of land because the equipment to farm using non-mechanised methods doesn't exist, and modern crops basically need mechanisation so you gotta find heirloom seeds.

I mean the equipment probably won't just disappear and it's not that hard to make fuel. Learn to weld because you are going to have to fix and modify poo poo though.

YOLOsubmarine posted:

republicans aren’t going to let blue states leave

Just like last time.

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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

she became an avatar for anyone in the left for alt-right dipsticks, but i mean, i get it. it was the worst case scenario happening

Perhaps you're misremembering, friend, and who can blame you in this age of increasingly bizarre politics things, but Hillary 'no fly zone over Iran' Clinton lost the election.

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vyelkin posted:

Here's a 2012 article that says Congress keeps buying new tanks because they don't want to lose thousands of jobs in Ohio and millions of dollars in General Dynamics campaign contributions, and the net result is that thousands of M1 tanks have rolled off the production lines and then been immediately shipped to California where they just sit in the desert: https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/the-army-tank-that-could-not-be-stopped/



This is very different though. They've still got the tanks just in case. How many tanks does Russia have I wonder? Admittedly they have more aggressive land neighbours.

Fish of hemp posted:

poo poo like that destroyed Soviet Union.

Tanks aren't that expensive. The total of 8000 Abrams' the USA military has received over 40 years would cost like $72 billion today, ~10% of one years military budget.

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Bust Rodd posted:

we’re never in 100,000,000 years going to drive tanks into or towards Russia

Obviously, the point is nobody sensible mocks Russia for stockpiling.

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Animal-Mother posted:

Mike Pence, horse fucker

Mike Pence, horse fuckee

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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Was he the guy who's an actual factual war criminal too?

I think he just helped get one made Secretary of State.

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exmarx posted:

kim dotcom and glenn greenwald helping to gently caress the 2014 nz election for the left

We have a left?

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Milo and POTUS posted:

Was Barack actually having sex in college because it sure sounded like he didn't

He began dating Michelle when he was at Harvard.

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wikifoot is politicised bullshit imo

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mawarannahr posted:

i “dated” someone in middle school too but that doesn’t guarantee he smashed before getting the diploma

I think they married before he finished. School that is, not smashing.

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Sherbert Hoover posted:

it looks awesome but is also very clearly from someone who doesn't get christmas which is v funny

Perhaps it is hamburger people who do not understand christmas and instead have let the coca cola corporation define it for them. If there isn't a beast man birching children I feel like you have forgotten the reason for the season.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Bet they have to spend less money maintaining that sculpture over some.roses you know the first lady wasn't watering

You probably don't need to water roses in DC.

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Mr. Lobe posted:

Or when you're the first lady

Really, any labor the first lady performs is sheer pageantry

Sometimes it's nice to do a simple menial task like water the garden.

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vyelkin posted:

I think the point of calling #6 true is that whether or not crime and terrorism actually went up, the War on Terror and the associated enormous media coverage of high-profile terrorist acts like 9/11, the London bombings, or the Bataclan attack did in fact lead to much of the developed world pulling back and closing itself off out of fear rather than continuing to open up as the "long boom" scenario projected.

America propagandized itself into failure. You love to see it.

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hawowanlawow posted:

boy they all look like poo poo in those costumes

It's not because of the costumes tbf.

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The spartiates taxed the perioikoi. They also probably kept chattel slaves as well as using iron bars for money and discouraging most trade outside their little empire so I'm not sure acoup's economic analysis holds up.
Otherwise interesting though.

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Weembles posted:

You would have to think up a pretty specialist definition of slave for the helots not to count.

Spartan history was almost defined by having to keep the helots from running off or revolting and they had a whole series of rituals centered around distributing helots to spartan families and periodically humiliating them.

I agree that the helots were slaves. I don't think they were chattel slaves, which is a subset of slaves defined by their being able to be bought and sold, like most other chattels. It's a pretty widely used distinction. Western European serfs were also generally slaves. Can't leave = slave mostly.

Mister Bates posted:

the Spartans were so scared of their slaves and non-citizen subjects that they made it basically impossible for anyone new to become a Spartan citizen, so deeply conservative that their government was deliberately structured to make it almost impossible to pass legislation, so lazy that they considered even having hobbies to be a bit gauche, and spent most of their history as an irrelevant joke of a nation

even their supposedly-great army ended up basically ceasing to exist long before the city itself actually did, because their low reproductive rate and absolute refusal to let anyone new become a citizen meant their population trended down so sharply that they effectively couldn't field troops anymore

after Rome absorbed the city it became a tourist attraction for wealthy Romans to come gawk at these loving weirdos

The Spartan army was not just Spartiates, it included Perioeci. The battle of Leuctra was the event that shattered their dominant position in Greece and they probably outnumbered their enemies.

"Several ancient writers give figures for one or both of the armies, but, unfortunately, they are contradictory and, in some cases, unbelievable.[8] Modern scholars' estimates have varied from 6,000 to 9,000 for the Boeotian force.[9] For the Spartan side, most modern scholars favor Plutarch's figure of 10,000 in infantry and 1,000 cavalry.[9]"

The battle of Mantinea was the largest land battle of the Peloponnesian war and the Spartans fielded about 9000 troops, with 3500 being the Spartan army proper.

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That's Hillary Clinton. Risking her displeasure is just too dangerous.

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That sounds like a nice way to enjoy a delicious snack.

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Wolf politics is politics.

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Futanari Damacy posted:

lmao at the implication that he thinks raisins are a distinct and separate fruit from grapes

A funny politics thing this reminded me of is everyone falling over themselves to find evidence Trump is stupid. Acknowledging a raisin is a fruit doesn't imply he thinks it's a different fruit to a grape!
The one of these that sticks out to me the most was people claiming Trump thought the F-35 is invisible which was pretty obviously just him communicating effectively with his core base. His reaching out to ordinary Americans (a stupid group) is what won him his election but so many people fail to grasp that it's not particularly indicative.

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Feral Integral posted:

Trump is an imbecile, op

I think he's of fairly average intelligence but over-confident. Most of the things that he has been lambasted for seem to be something Joe Blogs would say.

Weka
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I would call a goon... mean names!

E: bronies have girlfriends and dark enlightenment dorks don't talk about memes?

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The viet cong was a subsidiary organization of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

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Zvahl posted:

counterpoint, this will be funny forever especially given the party's attitude on cops



Symbolically kneeling on Floyd's neck.

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War and Pieces posted:

Evangelicals need to chill, Alexander the Great built the great Wall of Persia specifically to keep Gog and Magog out

That was the Sassanids.

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