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born on a buy you posted:putin is making a run at it pfaugh
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born on a buy you posted:i'm under 30 though so the cold war basically did not exist for me outside of history books that era has imprinted on me as "the time when america was still accomplishing things." hosed.
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Nov 11, 2014 06:59
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Jonny 290 posted:i have absolutely no idea how to fix america without a whole lot of takin-people-out-back-and-shootin-em. no clue. man i just told u how
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Nov 11, 2014 07:00
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Jonny 290 posted:that era has imprinted on me as "the time when america was still accomplishing things." cold war got us to the moon. nationalism ain't all bad.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:00
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rotor posted:man i just told u how it's "elect eric schmidt ceo of america" right?
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Nov 11, 2014 07:00
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rotor posted:cold war got us to the moon. i really wish china would announce a manned mission to mars
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Nov 11, 2014 07:01
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Jonny 290 posted:We could maybe keep the casualties down to 100, 150 million, but I do not see us pulling out of this tailspin with any lighter casualties than that. do these casualties hafta be american
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Nov 11, 2014 07:02
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Avenging Dentist posted:it's "elect eric schmidt ceo of america" right? no man its "Convince the South to Rise Again, and Let Them Go Without Making Such a Big Fuss This Time," or CSRAandLTGWOMSBFTT
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Nov 11, 2014 07:03
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:do these casualties hafta be american depends what you mean by "American" doesn't it
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Nov 11, 2014 07:03
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rotor posted:no man its "Convince the South to Rise Again, and Let Them Go Without Making Such a Big Fuss This Time," or CSRAandLTGWOMSBFTT backup plan 
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Nov 11, 2014 07:04
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Nov 11, 2014 07:05
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the cold war seems so weird to me. the ussr in theory was an actual threat. not a real one, but there was a constant "they could nuke us." the closest my generation has to that is terrorism i guess.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:05
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rotor posted:no man its "Convince the South to Rise Again, and Let Them Go Without Making Such a Big Fuss This Time," or CSRAandLTGWOMSBFTT but seriously, as long as i was firmly entrenched on this side of ye Mason-Dixon, this would be one of the most spectactular meltdowns ever on earth. like, i giggle just thinking of the chaos and war
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Nov 11, 2014 07:05
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everyone i know's view on the ~war on terror~ is "a guy i went ot high school with went and acme back all sort of mentally hosed up"
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Nov 11, 2014 07:06
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born on a buy you posted:the cold war seems so weird to me. the ussr in theory was an actual threat. not a real one, but there was a constant "they could nuke us." the closest my generation has to that is terrorism i guess. but the weird part is was all puppet states and proxy wars.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:06
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born on a buy you posted:nah, actual existential threat both sides can unite to fight. cold war 2 would instantly lead to infrastructure spending to keep up with _______________ during arms treaty talks, Reagan seriously asked Gorbachev if the U.S. & U.S.S.R. would team up again if aliens invaded
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Nov 11, 2014 07:06
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born on a buy you posted:the cold war seems so weird to me. the ussr in theory was an actual threat. not a real one, but there was a constant "they could nuke us." the closest my generation has to that is terrorism i guess. no, the closest your generation has is ... oh, say ... the accidental release of forgotten soviet weaponized smallpox
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Nov 11, 2014 07:07
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eschaton posted:during arms treaty talks, Reagan seriously asked Gorbachev if the U.S. & U.S.S.R. would team up again if aliens invaded our greatest president
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Nov 11, 2014 07:07
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Jonny 290 posted:We could maybe keep the casualties down to 100, 150 million, but I do not see us pulling out of this tailspin with any lighter casualties than that. yall need to read Brunner's The Sheep Look Up just, uh, hide all the sharp objects before you do. it's not as optimistic as some of his other work.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:08
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Jonny 290 posted:but the weird part is was all puppet states and proxy wars. AND imminent thermonuclear holocaust
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Nov 11, 2014 07:08
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eschaton posted:during arms treaty talks, Reagan seriously asked Gorbachev if the U.S. & U.S.S.R. would team up again if aliens invaded personally I would prefer if us and the aliens teamed up on those drat filthy communists
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Nov 11, 2014 07:08
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born on a buy you posted:nah, actual existential threat both sides can unite to fight. cold war 2 would instantly lead to infrastructure spending to keep up with _______________ A genetically engineered alien squid. We already know this
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Nov 11, 2014 07:08
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rotor posted:no, the closest your generation has is ... oh, say ... the accidental release of forgotten soviet weaponized smallpox well yes, terrorism is not a real threat to 99.99% of americans.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:09
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rotor posted:soviet weaponized smallpox yet another cool remnant of the cold war. the director of the soviet biowarfare division confirmed they had a smallish stockpile of weaponized smallpox ready to go. The cool thing is that no one is really sure what happened to it.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:10
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rotor posted:AND imminent thermonuclear holocaust i like that it's fairly well established now that kennedy was clumsy and brutish and the russians were just trying to keep MAD mutually assured
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Nov 11, 2014 07:11
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born on a buy you posted:putin is making a run at it that's purely for internal consumption well, to him, "internal" means across the entire former Soviet Union, but still. if a country wasn't part of the USSR, or was and is now part of NATO, it has little to worry about from Putin.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:12
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I'd imagine at least ten times as many Americans died in military training accidents between 1950 and 1990 than have been killed by terrorism in the entire history of the United States
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Nov 11, 2014 07:12
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rotor posted:yet another cool remnant of the cold war. the director of the soviet biowarfare division confirmed they had a smallish stockpile of weaponized smallpox ready to go. The cool thing is that no one is really sure what happened to it. my wife did undergrad research with a prof working on making aerosolized anthrax. we've made far more nasty things since then
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Nov 11, 2014 07:12
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syscall girl posted:i like that it's fairly well established now that kennedy was clumsy and brutish and the russians were just trying to keep MAD mutually assured JFK took us far closer to nuclear war than any other president.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:12
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rotor posted:man i just told u how I love how
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born on a buy you posted:my wife did undergrad research with a prof working on making aerosolized anthrax. we've made far more nasty things since then sure, but we didn't misplace several hundred gallons of it.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:13
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Sagebrush posted:I'd imagine at least ten times as many Americans died in military training accidents between 1950 and 1990 than have been killed by terrorism in the entire history of the United States even on active duty the most dangerous thing for a soldier is himself
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Nov 11, 2014 07:14
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rotor posted:yet another cool remnant of the cold war. the director of the soviet biowarfare division confirmed they had a smallish stockpile of weaponized smallpox ready to go. The cool thing is that no one is really sure what happened to it. maybe... it was... refined... into...... your posts??? is this how yospos works am i doing this right
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Nov 11, 2014 07:14
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rotor posted:no man its "Convince the South to Rise Again, and Let Them Go Without Making Such a Big Fuss This Time," or CSRAandLTGWOMSBFTT and quickly help all of the people they'd be eager to enslave get out.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:14
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rotor posted:sure, but we didn't misplace several hundred gallons of it. we've displaced nukes. no way bio weapons haven't made it out
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Nov 11, 2014 07:14
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Avenging Dentist posted:maybe... it was... refined... into...... your posts??? maybe calm down on the ellipses but yeah
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Nov 11, 2014 07:15
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born on a buy you posted:we've displaced nukes. no way bio weapons haven't made it out I dont really know what you're getting at. All I'm saying is that the only thing I can imagine that's currently vagely comparable to the threat of global thermonuclear war is some sort of massive plauge, for instance if somehow smallpox++ came back, and really not even then.
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Nov 11, 2014 07:17
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eschaton posted:and quickly help all of the people they'd be eager to enslave get out. we got jonny out what more do you want of us
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Nov 11, 2014 07:18
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rotor posted:I dont really know what you're getting at. oh yeah i understood that. terrorism is not a real threat and my generation really doens't have one other than impending late stage capitalism or random plague
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Give every southerner one chance at a 100% debt-free no strings attached free ride out, relocation and all. If they refuse or protest, do not bicker. They will understand their folly when the skies ignite and the land burns
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