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Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

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az jan jananam posted:

A children's magazine put out in Tunisia describing how to make molotov cocktails, I have no idea why.



It's not telling them how to make it, it's telling them what it is. Part of it reads "It is often used in acts of vandalism and rioting" So it's not putting a positive spin on it.

Still though. It would be strange to you that this is shown in a kids magazine. Culturally, children in Nort Africa are not shielded from acts of violence, they are more or less taught that it is something that happens regularly.

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Feb 13, 2012

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Georgia Peach posted:

Obama has control of the ring.



No Arabic calligrapher/engraver would make such an abomination.
Let alone a Muslim attempting to engrave what is pretty much Islam's mantra.
Never mind that it is forbidden for a Muslim man to wear gold as jewelry.

I love how they take a low-res photo of it and try to zoom/enhance their weird views.

It's horrifying...ly bad.

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Feb 13, 2012

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Akion posted:

Jesus. Can you imagine being the poor SS guy assigned to watching Something Awful?

How would you even look your fellow agents in the eye?

"So Joe, we thwarted an assassination plot on the VP today. What did you do?"

"Cat pictures..."

"Oh dude you should check this out. It's hilarious."
More like.


At least it's what I say most of the time someone peers over my shoulders.

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It's like they did no research at all.
There is a DUI law with respects to weed.

cross posting:

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More like these guys:




French Homophobes seem to be big on using 'think about the kids'.

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System Metternich posted:



On May 2nd, new and more fakeproof Euro bills will be rolled out, gradually replacing the old ones. The process will begin with the 5€ bill, the lowest paper denomination (new one on the left).

That looks like a flipped watermark of this:



Right there in the left one.

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Feb 13, 2012

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Seeing that most of them pulled it up slightly, low effort Phyregian caps maybe?



Really, really ironic if this was true.

For those not in the know the Phyrgian cap is held as a symbol of liberty and freedom in France. Worn by French revolutionaries.
All the more often strong symbols like this one are appropriated by modern far right groups and then uninronically calling for the opposite of what the symbol means.

Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Oct 28, 2013

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I cannot, which is why I thank Apollo each and every day for his guidance.


In actual, serious news:


The Algerian Presidential elections are coming up in April.
Only two parties are going to run this time as opposed to the 6 in 2009; The incumbent Bouteflika (pictured) of the FLN (National Liberation Front), Ali Beniflis of the same party, and Louisa Hanoune of the Workers' party.

All present as Left-wing parties, with the FLN being socialist democratic and the Workers' Party being Trotskyist.

I'm going to vote for the first time. And I have much reading and research to do and relatives and friends of relatives to speak to As I've been at a complete disconnect from my home country's politics for the longest while.

Though for my relatives I know they would recommend Bouteflika, as he's widely popular where I come from.

Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 5, 2014

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Pobama posted:

That is sure one bitter, angry man. Did the Top Gear people run over his dog or something?

I mean holy gently caress this guy is genuinely mad about Top Gear, and he's not very funny about it.

At least Top Gear is funny, this guy is just poo poo.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc

Stewart Lee is loving amazing and you are a simpleton.
Don't mistake his humor as pithy digs. It's acerbic wit at it's best.

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Stultus Maximus posted:

American food is awesome because it's what happens when you have immigrants (voluntary and otherwise) from all over the world meeting each other and modifying it, fusing it, and using new world ingredients in it. American-Italian, American-Chinese, Tex-Mex, soul food, Cajun food...



American-anythings are usually incredibly sanitized and highly cherry picked versions of the actual thing.
I don't think there is a uniquely (not native)American food, per se. Rather a uniquely American way of adapting things.


-Huitlacoche, or simply, Corn Smut.


It's not as apparent now due to a larger wave of homogenization in foods eaten globally, though.

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It's Tu Quoque.
"He says he stands for women's rights, but how can he when he is not a woman himself!"



It's a juvenile view of any given situation where it posits that advocates for a cause can only belong to whichever group directly benefits from that cause. And any that do are sure to possess hidden agendas.


And it's smug rear end in a top hat status quo centrism at it's worst. and I loving hate that with a passion.

Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 04:21 on May 30, 2014

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Its a shameful democracy when peoples' votes can just disappear like that.




Neoliberalism thrived on the first past the post system. (Or maybe this is a misattributation and it was a coincidence. Id like some clarification)

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DeliciousPatriotism posted:

Oh lets also not forget a woman was central in popularizing programming languages back at a time when programming wasn't considered interesting enough for men.



Developed algorithms for missile trajectories, revolutionized programming as we know it, has a supercomputer named after her and retired a rear admiral.

Kill em, Grace Hopper. Kill em.

My Comp Sci lecturer last year was a woman. Shes been coding about twice as long as I've been alive and she's pretty much the person I most respect in our department. I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind 'man do this job woman do that' since you by doing that you are definitely restricting people from achieving what they want in life.



A poster encouraging women to pursue technology studies at University of Valle, Cali, Colombia. It reads: "If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate. Women and technology."

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Agnostics lack belief due to lack of evidence.
As opposed to an athiest who would say 'No I do not believe in the possibility of the existence of a god(s)"

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The tears will be so worth it.

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Mousepractice posted:

Love those 'vertical gardens' or 'living walls' or whatever they're called, here's one near my house


That's pretty loose usage of the word 'Living'.

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Hasters posted:

But what are they going to do with the $54,000 with of illegal Indian death penalty drugs they have on the way?

In lighter news we should have an updated version of this photo come next year!



They're still going to look very 18th century so why bother.

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Big Weed?




[e]:aaah crap it's the DnD pic thread, not the politoons thread.

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Oh gently caress better start giving people rocket launchers and ICBMs, they're gonna kill each other anyways.
Might as well make it much easier for party A to kill party B.


That way we expedite the entire process and LeJackal still gets to have rootin tootin shootin fun.

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LeJackal posted:

Gun control effects:
Magic wands are waved, all gun vanish forever, resulting in; Gary Gangster knifing his rival to death to control his territory because the illicit market in stolen car parts/drugs/whatever is driven by socioeconomic needs. Harry Husband strangles his adulterous wife to death because he does not have the mental health support to cope with feelings of betrayal. Depressed Dan commits suicide by arson in a crowded bus, killing dozens because he cannot bear the burden of healthcare bills. Marty Mugger fatally clocks a victim in the head with a piece of rebar, desperate for a few dollars to sustain his food habit. All this death and misery is acceptable, however, because none of it is at gunpoint.



It's not about the possibility and existence of violence.
It's about the feasibility and severity of it.

Guns make fatal acts of violence an almost trivial act both in effort required and the amount of time it takes.



[e]: Actually in some cases it is about the possibility of violence, particularly of the self-inflicted kind.

Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jun 9, 2015

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You know if you don't want to debate gun control you could just say that.

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You keep starting a gun debate but never actually going through with it.

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