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newt ging rich bitch posted:also a reminder that diamonds aren't really very rare at all and only fetch such high prices because the supply is artificially limited by hoarding them. I tell people this but they never believe me. Russia is full of diamonds and they could easily flood the market and cause a massive drop in price, but they don't.
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MRI chalk posted:diamonds are one of those horrible gbs topics alongside feminism, drunk driving, and p much every other topic wait does gbs defend drunk driving or what I know fraternite does but I've never seen a gbs thread about it
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Dreylad posted:the gently caress? I mean I haven't read it Fraternite is the one who said premarital sex is worse than drunk driving
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Kauka posted:I cant believe no one has posted The Church of Scientology yet I was going to say that they mostly kept to themselves but then I remembered they used to kill ex-members by putting rattlesnakes in their mailboxes.
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Kauka posted:i dont remember all the details but i remember reading about how shell pressed charges against 14 african protesters who disturbed the production of a plant shell owned or something. all 14 were executed after pressure from shell in order to scare off other protesters. Shell pays vigilante soldiers to escort their people around in africa and poo poo Shell is loving horrible. EDIT: A Shell Executive posted:("Clear Thinking in Troubled Times": Winnipeg Free Press, Nov 21st, 1995)
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RedcXe posted:feel good thread of the week go read the Mugabe thread to cheer yourself up
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Fart Shark posted:Shoot the Kids up with Deadly Toxins and Cancer Virus (like SV40) to "protect" them I'm sure that they've been feeling a bit blue, though.
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Kemper Boyd posted:i hate pharmaceutical industry defenders for going all "well hurr research is expensive and the companies need to recoup their cost even if it means someone ain't getting the medication he needs", when in fact pharma uses nickels and dimes to pay for research and spends hundreds of times more money on advertising. seriouspost the government needs to step in and make it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise, that's just wrong on so many levels. also, what was the name of that coalition that bought most of the street cars in america and dismantled them? That was loving evil.
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Snark posted:National City Lines holding company formed by General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum. drat it I go to firestone all the time, this makes me feel guilty
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Frankosity posted:Oppenheimer had a good line as well, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" wasn't he quoting the Bahgavad Gita?
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Hemogoblin! posted:Does that ever kind of bother people? Remember in school that Iraq was the "cradle of civilization", a lush fertile land believed to be the Biblical Eden? How does that square with the arid, largely desert land we see? and the fertile crescent is burning today and baby my emotions are too the cradle of humanity has led us all astray and we're all in this tigether don't you know 'cause our species has nowhere else to go EDIT: seriously why would anyone want to bother with a place like Iraq Blackbelt Bobman fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jun 25, 2008 |
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