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yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"We've been attempting to cross breed an ISIS and an Al Qaeda together, but all surviving offspring have been sterile."

much like jurassic world, the syrian civil war is about the folly of the white man meddling in a realm he can't hope to understand

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yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

this FF7 remake is lookin good

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Failsons of Liberty

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Darkman Fanpage posted:

the gently caress was brown moses before he became a loving "expert"? a computer janitor?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/eliot-higgins-syria_n_4269417.html?ri18n=true


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After a temporary job reviewing orders at a ladies' lingerie maker came to an end in February, he dispensed with looking for another so that he could devote himself to blogging full-time. His wife admits she does not read his blog and yearns for a time that he will return to "a real job." But as Higgins sees it, he is consumed with the realest job of all, sifting through a digital goldmine disdained by those who lack the patience for the work.

quote:

Born in 1979 to a Royal Air Force engineer and a caterer, Higgins describes himself as an avid gardener and budding cook, but his core passions have always centered on a fascination with screens: During his schooling years, he engaged in marathon sessions playing video games and argued ceaselessly on Internet forums. These two pursuits trumped his attention to schoolwork, filling his report cards with Cs.

Throughout his life, Higgins has taken hobbies to illogical extremes. After his brother introduced him to the iconoclastic rockstar Frank Zappa, Higgins rushed out to buy all of his four-dozen albums. As a video gamer, Higgins pressed well past casual bouts of "World of Warcraft," staying up late to lead teams of 40 players in complex online raids. Even now, he feels compelled to systematically beat each new video game before he can start another, in this fashion gradually making his way through strategy and role-playing games like "Fallout," "Baldur's Gate," "Total War: Rome II" and "Command and Conquer." Before getting married, he was known to game for 36 hours at a stretch.

quote:

After dropping out of university midway through a media studies degree, Higgins moved through a series of jobs with no relation to munitions, Syria or blogging. He worked as a data entry clerk at Barclays bank and then managed invoices for a process management firm. When that task was outsourced overseas, he helped asylum seekers find housing. His next, and most recent, job was working on women's undergarments.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

What's a good War Nerd episode for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6Tzij-Pbs

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

it's ok since zoomers are now legally able to join military service, america will have an unstoppable gamer army

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

cool dance moves posted:

Iirc war nerd said iran and hezbollah work together real close, including in Hezbollah's assassination plots. So I'm guessing iran wouldn't flatten Saudi arabia over this, but probably take the more subtle approach of merking some dudes really important to US designs in the region

hezbollah once kidnapped the cia station chief in beirut and tortured him to death

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-02-12/beirut-rules-murder-cia-station-chief-and-hezbollahs-war-against

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

this deserves a re-listen too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6Tzij-Pbs

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/1213222641743609857

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

oh how soon did we forget that as recently as a few months ago that trump wanted to nuke a hurricane

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

My tummy hurts

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

The man that has a feud with rosie o'donnell is gonna get a lot of people killed

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


i remember libs in the cartoon thread would get extremely mad at latuff back in the obama days

glad after all these years he continues not to hold back :hai:

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

quote:

Darkman Fanpage posted:

the gently caress was brown moses before he became a loving "expert"? a computer janitor?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/18/eliot-higgins-syria_n_4269417.html?ri18n=true


quote:

After a temporary job reviewing orders at a ladies' lingerie maker came to an end in February, he dispensed with looking for another so that he could devote himself to blogging full-time. His wife admits she does not read his blog and yearns for a time that he will return to "a real job." But as Higgins sees it, he is consumed with the realest job of all, sifting through a digital goldmine disdained by those who lack the patience for the work.

quote:

Born in 1979 to a Royal Air Force engineer and a caterer, Higgins describes himself as an avid gardener and budding cook, but his core passions have always centered on a fascination with screens: During his schooling years, he engaged in marathon sessions playing video games and argued ceaselessly on Internet forums. These two pursuits trumped his attention to schoolwork, filling his report cards with Cs.

Throughout his life, Higgins has taken hobbies to illogical extremes. After his brother introduced him to the iconoclastic rockstar Frank Zappa, Higgins rushed out to buy all of his four-dozen albums. As a video gamer, Higgins pressed well past casual bouts of "World of Warcraft," staying up late to lead teams of 40 players in complex online raids. Even now, he feels compelled to systematically beat each new video game before he can start another, in this fashion gradually making his way through strategy and role-playing games like "Fallout," "Baldur's Gate," "Total War: Rome II" and "Command and Conquer." Before getting married, he was known to game for 36 hours at a stretch.

quote:

After dropping out of university midway through a media studies degree, Higgins moved through a series of jobs with no relation to munitions, Syria or blogging. He worked as a data entry clerk at Barclays bank and then managed invoices for a process management firm. When that task was outsourced overseas, he helped asylum seekers find housing. His next, and most recent, job was working on women's undergarments.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

israel dickfence force

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


please let bibi get the roni

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Stairmaster posted:

i really hope iran wins

same

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

President-Shah

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/EvelKneidel/status/1353921138183823360

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/UrOrientalist/status/1365621950782054400

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1406963245139775491

oh no! not humvees!

https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1406967715022229505

lmfao :qq: harder

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


lmao the replies

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

ToxicAcne posted:

Why is the NYT whining so hard about the Afghanistan withdrawal? I thought it was basically bipartisan consensus at this point seeing as that Trump started this. I also see alot of comparisons to Vietnam as well and it seems like the revisionist history of the Vietnam war has become dominant in US media.


gradenko_2000 posted:

the US establishment does not actually want to withdraw from Afghanistan. The military was basically openly disobeying Trump when he gave orders that even made noises about trying to do it

also you have people who think exactly like cia pete and have resource maps of afghanistan hung up in their homes to gaze and ponder at every morning they have their coffee

these people are always constantly hollering about why it's bad to be withdrawing

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

ToxicAcne posted:

The MEK were originally Shariatists right? How'd they pivot to being Western lapdogs?

the MEK were, back in the day, the nominal marxist movement looking to overthrow the Shah and had participated in the '79 revolution. afterwards Khomeini tolerated them at first because they weren't any threat and eventually he tolerated them less and less as they started to poo poo stir up until he just straight up started arresting members and executing people. whatever remnants fled to the west and pretty much abandoned marxism and became more of a weird personality sex cult centred around the Rajavi family

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/22/mek-mojahedin-e-khalq-iran/

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


owns

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Memphis, Egypt Corporate Woman

lmao

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Raine posted:

press down on the last tweet until a "open in new tab" prompt appears? dunno, and god help you if you're actually using the twitter app and not a mobile browser

^^^edit: yeah ok use that. gently caress twitter

deleting cookies also works

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Man Musk posted:

dang, supposedly the reason the Assad government has no money is not because of sanctions, but because they kept all their money in Lebanese banks, which have lost 90% of their value in 2 years

*bursts into the room sweating profusely and out of breath*

has he tried bitcoin???

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

they should make a mural that's just headlines from american newspapers circa 2002 saying the taliban are finished

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

mawarannahr posted:

the death penalty can be administered humanely. starving houseguests cannot, and it would never happen in Iran.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010


.....yes?

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

everyone who edits and maintains wikipedia should be jailed

especially the ones in the discussion sections

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

i hope they do it in 11 days instead

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

that failed coup turning out to be funnier and funnier each time that the rest of the west wish that it succeeded

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Stairmaster posted:

how often does congress do this sort of thing

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2265811/amp

if you're iran and see this, is there any other conclusion other than "get nukes now"

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

PawParole posted:

We could have a new state of the Somali republic. Rate their flag



this is branding for a mattress outlet

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

the current one with the white star over a blue field looks pretty good already imo

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

uber_stoat posted:

i bet he has a room in the presidential residence with portraits of all those who have Gone.

he should pull a dubya and paint portraits of those people

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

lol how the gently caress does america thinks it gets a say in something called "the arab league"

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yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

the cracker empire should still shut the gently caress up

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