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khwarezm posted:To lighten the mood a little I thought this was pretty funny: the thing i'm trying to figure out is if they hosed up intentionally as part of their post facts strategy to convince people that nothing is real
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Duckbox posted:Saqr is going to lead the first gamer uprising in the Middle East. The Overwatch Coup will bring democracy to Arabia while also making it legal to marry big titty animes. i'm willing to be the american weirdo who flies out and randomly joins up with them
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Squalid posted:I don't think anyone has yet posted the damage to the planes during the alleged drone bombing of the Russian airport. Here's what it looked like: who's supposed to be releasing these photos? russian airmen with poor impulse control around social media? GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:You can repeat this lie 10000 times; it's never going to be true. There are also leftist and socialist Arabs still fighting - however most came down on the side of the regime. do you actually believe what you wrote?
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Jan 24, 2018 08:41
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god, we're not even promising to defeat them at this point, just to somehow keep them from winning
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Jan 28, 2018 03:06
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"if america intervened there might be a war" they said very nervously as hundreds of thousands died
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Feb 9, 2018 06:36
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remember when his troopers were gunning people down in the street and posters were whinging about how it was probably better than whatever nefarious islamic endgame the muslim brotherhood had in mind?
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Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/964179138889338881?ref_src=twcamp%5Ecopy%7Ctwsrc%5Eandroid%7Ctwgr%5Ecopy%7Ctwcon%5E7090%7Ctwterm%5E1 reading this and it blows my mind that cossacks still act as a weird paramilitary arm of the russian government in the year of our lord two thousand and eighteen
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/966718009338400768 the country's going to be using the same aumf generations when all of us are dead and buried.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:29
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svenkatesh posted:Is this a serious question? The answer is yes. What's the point of having democracy if the elected government's first step is going to be constitutional reforms that lead to absolute power (ala Egypt, after Morsi was elected), which inevitably is followed by persecuting minorities? i want to remind people that a bunch of people sarcastically dismissed me when i talked about there being people saying this exact kind of thing vindication is sweet
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Mar 5, 2018 02:20
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svenkatesh posted:Good job white-washing what religious/ethnostates do to minorities. what are your thought vis a vis israel?
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i think the huge reinforced cask isn't entirely for containing the radiation, but also to protect against containment breach in the event of a catastrophic train derailment or the like. still seems like a stretch that you're going to get enough shielding transporting it in a car though
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Mar 19, 2018 22:26
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it reminds me of a russian short story i once read where a desperate nuclear engineer tries to sell radioactive material to the mafia only to have low level mooks kill him and then try to snort the powder assuming that it's some sort of drug
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Mar 19, 2018 22:28
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Herstory Begins Now posted:There are a bunch of different times radioactive sources have been stolen and none of them end well. The big ones were some hospital x-ray source stolen in Brazil, a nuclear lighthouse source that was looted in Russia, and iirc there was another one stolen in Ukraine (I think?) that was passed around a bunch of teens and poisoned a ton of people. All of them are good reads and tbqh pretty brutal. i remember reading about that brazil case, crazy to think about
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Mar 19, 2018 22:39
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when can we get schizophrenia included under reasons for a ban? did they ever toss out that nut macdonald or whatever their name was?
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Mar 27, 2018 05:59
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Sinteres posted:Not really, just that the idea of starting a war with them necessitates remembering that it's a worst case scenario. Plotting out a winnable war with Russia without nukes is actually far more in line with Clancy material though, for what it's worth. never take anything opec says seriously
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Mar 28, 2018 02:22
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wasn't the ghouta pocket collapsing? it's unimaginable to do this kind of thing in the first place, but why do it now?
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Apr 8, 2018 04:37
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this argument for proliferation being the key to warding off aggression is bizarrely reductive and dumb. north korea is a client state of china and that's always been their major deterrent against military intervention by the west, which is why no one has ever been actually gung ho to invade them between the period where china proved to the us that a land war in asia is dumb for the first of several times and when korea finally acquired working nukes a few years ago. syria has chemical weapons and uses them and that has been the only action to draw any direct american intervention, half hearted as it was. it didn't deter bombing and certainly doesn't deter the west from sending special force teams on the ground to advise chosen rebel factions. the deterrence is once again a major international player with skin in the game, russia. also most of the west not giving a gently caress. america got its dick hard about busting out the mop poo poo during the first gulf war when there was actually a chance saddam might have actually had something to use. talking about how chemical weapons would have saved gadhafi is a weird thing to seize on, he should have submitted to some world power that people give a poo poo about and would go to bat for him
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May 31, 2018 05:44
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like its a funny meme that gadhafi played ball with the west and then got the old death by pointy sodomy, but it's not actually causative and you come off as kind of dumb if you try to push it as an actual narrative
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May 31, 2018 05:47
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so is there a specialty agency you go to for crisis actors or do the big ones just carry some in house can you get joaquin phoenix in your next piece?
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Jun 23, 2018 21:23
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well he had practice from all those years he spent dodging the draft *laugh track*
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Jul 15, 2018 05:50
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pro starcraft loser posted:Hey maybe they'll get some news coverage then. i have heard about the protests sporadically for the last few days on national news outlets, but no real details outside of "there's a lot of protestors and they want jobs and poo poo". which is kind of par for the course in terms of american reporting on protests in other countries sadly enough
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if all these refugees weren't criminals, why are they running?
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Feldegast42 posted:Apparently the Afgan Free State idea is still in the cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0rU6-7sKs&t=211s
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Brown Moses posted:Looks like the Battle for Idlib has finally begun, the south side of Al-Lataminah is getting pounded by airstrikes, possibly trying to dislodged rebels from the tunnel complex there. There's a very clear shot in one video of a barrel bomb pushed out the back of a transport helicopter pretty daring of the rebels to hijack that helicopter and barrel bomb themselves. their depravity knows no end
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Sep 8, 2018 18:42
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Volkerball posted:Under this definition legitimate political activists could be slandered as terrorists simply based on how much the media covers their attacks. I don't think a good definition of terrorism is one that incorporates Nelson Mandela, given that terrorism at its core is perceived as senseless violence where mass death of non-combatants is the primary goal. It's not a label that should be thrown around casually. I think there's a distinction to be made between violence with the aim of altering policy and acts of terrorism. In this case it fits pretty clearly into the latter category. i'm not sure I understand this. terrorism is usually inherently political, even if it involves non-combatants maybe you can make an argument that in mexico it's a business move
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Brown Moses posted:Just reading through this lengthy report by Nafeez Ahmed, State Propaganda in Syria - From War Crimes to Pipelines. He looks at a lot of the messaging around Syria, examining people like Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett though to Seymour Hersh and Ted Postol, even Bellingcat, and gives every argument a thorough examination and judges them on their merits. It probably appeals to a very particular kind of person, but I'm finding it very interesting, as it's subjects I'm very engaged with, and think I know a lot about, but there's a lot in here I don't know. what does he write about bellingcat?
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the first rule when you're in a hole is to stop digging. when you're in three, bring a lot of shovels
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do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? an ecosystem for innovation
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:overthinking it. friedman's job is to be a fluffer for capital. you show him some foreign capital, he does what he's paid to do. the historical debate is over. the answer is free market capitalism
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Oct 9, 2018 03:55
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what is al qaeda? it's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain
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Oct 9, 2018 03:57
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i thought this kind of thing only happened in movies
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:"idiot prince trying to make a name for himself ruins kingdom" turns out to happen a lot in history too i specifically meant the bit about cutting the dude into chunks and flushing him down the toilet
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quote:Yeah, I mean, that honestly remains to be seen. I think ultimately, though, that this incident doesn't necessarily mean that we should reorient our entire Middle East strategy. I mean, at the end of the day, we have to remember that Khashoggi is not just a columnist for The Washington Post, but he was also a personal friend of Osama bin Laden and was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. This is an individual, you know - we have to take all of that into account. And I also think that when you are dealing with the Middle... i was listening to npr and a federalist contributor started whipping this out. while on air with someone from the washington post
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Squalid posted:For the past two years the basic strategy of the Afghan army has been to gradually withdraw from small, isolated rural posts to concentrate forces in defense of larger towns and urban areas. The purpose of this was to stem casualties while consolidating control over vital towns and infrastructure. lol, this is the text book response of a doomed government
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i'm not going to read this, so can someone tell me if the reason we need to support the saudis is some form of middle east domino theory?
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i'd feel sorry for john bolton if he gets tossed out of the white house two weeks before we go to war with iran so he doesn't get any credit for it
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Sep 16, 2019 07:54
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how many times have we claimed that we've killed baghdadi?
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i don't understand, if america essentially took baghdadi out with boots on the ground, why is the compound completely leveled? was the bin laden raider compound razed in the aftermath?
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man, the rebels must be some stupid motherfuckers. the first time they gassed themselves and it didn't draw a concerted intervention somehow convinced them that they need to gas themselves a bunch more to diminishing foreign attention it's the only theory that makes sense
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