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Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hols ?

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Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
So, yes.

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
What I want is a fleet of 32 1.0gT planet buster thermonuclear warheads in lunar orbit controlled by a lunar base on the far side of the moon.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]

To the tune of exactly zero news reports about this except a few defense sites. lol.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

So is Japan going to make an anime about the whole Ukraine thing but with characters representing the countries who are also in high school?

FIDEL CASHFLOW
Oct 13, 2009

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

So is Japan going to make an anime about the whole Ukraine thing but with characters representing the countries who are also in high school?

probably

genderstomper58
Jan 10, 2005

by XyloJW
animes

gleep gloop
Aug 16, 2005

GROSS SHIT
Animu

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
This is the new current events thread, right? Thanks, Whip.

Whip Slagcheek
Sep 21, 2008

Finally
The Gasoline And Dynamite
Will Light The Sky
For The Night


at the date posted:

This is the new current events thread, right? Thanks, Whip.

No?

Helldump Immunity.
Aug 2, 2013

Fuck you
This thread makes me want to actually learn how to play AirLand Battle :clint:

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



This thread sucks, for a circlejerk it is p :flaccid:

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010
It's going to pick up again when Putin corrects the historical mistake from 1867 next.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Hannibal Rex posted:

It's going to pick up again when Putin corrects the historical mistake from 1867 next.

Everyone is waiting with bated breath, and the current events thread will read like red storm rising, no joke.

How good are Russians at island hopping?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Hannibal Rex posted:

It's going to pick up again when Putin corrects the historical mistake from 1867 next.

Canadian Confederation?

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

Alaska Purchase.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
An Alaskan petition to secede picked up 10k in 3 hrs yesterday.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Godholio posted:

An Alaskan petition to secede picked up 10k in 3 hrs yesterday.
if they think they're paying a lot for basic household goods now just wait. Alaskans have only become more insufferable after several years of tv :airquote: documentaries :airquote: jerking them off about how tough they are.

Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Mar 25, 2014

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Fojar38 posted:

Canadian Confederation?

I was thinking 1861 and un-freeing the serfs.

pkells
Sep 14, 2007

King of Klatch

Godholio posted:

An Alaskan petition to secede picked up 10k in 3 hrs yesterday.

That's like 75% of the state population, guess they're serious.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

Helldump Immunity. posted:

This thread makes me want to actually learn how to play AirLand Battle :clint:

Don't, it's playerbase is being siphoned away by Red Dragon which is a loving mess.

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

pkells posted:

That's like 75% of the state population, guess they're serious.

I'm not very popular when I'm home and I tell people we're one of the most socialist states in the country.

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

TCD posted:

I'm not very popular when I'm home and I tell people we're one of the most socialist states in the country.

lol

That's my favorite part of Alaska:

:bahgawd:: We don't need no danged Obummer interferin' in our business STATE'S RIGHTS

:mil101::*suggests closing Eielson*

:bahgawd:: HOW DARE THA FEDRUL GOVMINT THREATEN TO REMOVE THAT BASE, THAT FEDRUL MONEY IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT also that part of interior AK would die without it

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

iyaayas01 posted:

lol

That's my favorite part of Alaska:

:bahgawd:: We don't need no danged Obummer interferin' in our business STATE'S RIGHTS

:mil101::*suggests closing Eielson*

:bahgawd:: HOW DARE THA FEDRUL GOVMINT THREATEN TO REMOVE THAT BASE, THAT FEDRUL MONEY IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT also that part of interior AK would die without it

And the permanent fund, dip net fisheries, fed dollars, mil bases, etc.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/25/obamas-top-fear-is-manhattan-getting-nuked/

quote:

“Russia’s actions are a problem. They don’t pose the No. 1 national security threat to the United States. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan,” the president said.

FIDEL CASHFLOW
Oct 13, 2009

but what if its the russians who set off a nuke in manhattan?!

Ultimate Shrek Fan
May 2, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

but what if its the russians who set off a nuke in manhattan?!

Isn't that the plot of sum of all fears?

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:

Isn't that the plot of sum of all fears?

Thought that was ay-rabs with a stolen Israeli nuke.

Although SoaF makes a big deal how groundbursting inside a football stadium actually minimized the effect of the nuke because of the massive concrete structure soaking up the blast and radiation, and Manhattan is loving loaded with massive concrete structures.

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

but what if its the russians who set off a nuke in manhattan?!

Why would the president worry about the second - largest nuclear power that has invaded two neighbors and has beaten our touted intelligence community at its own game repeatedly? Didn't you know that GWB just screwed everything up by responding to Russia's invasion of Georgia with increased European defense buildup, and BO reset it all so Putin will totally respect like the retards at ESPN who can't stop masturbating to his NCAA bracket? (LL Cool J is doing better, fyi.)

Kung Fu Fist Fuck
Aug 9, 2009

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

but what if its the russians who set off a nuke in manhattan?!

last time some terrists set off a bomb in an american city they were russian ethnic minorities :tinfoil:

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Derek Dominoe posted:

Didn't you know that GWB just screwed everything up by responding to Russia's invasion of Georgia with increased European defense buildup

Other than GMD (which was loving stupid) that wasn't really a thing.

Also I fail to see how "building up more US forces in Europe while the Euros continue to stand by and do nothing cut their militaries even further" is really a net positive for the US.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
This isn't the serious thread iyaayas

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice
^^^^You're right. Sorry.

iyaayas01 posted:

Other than GMD (which was loving stupid) that wasn't really a thing.

Also I fail to see how "building up more US forces in Europe while the Euros continue to stand by and do nothing cut their militaries even further" is really a net positive for the US.

I agree that EU nations need to get off their asses and provide their own defense. (Cue Euro goon swooping in to quote some random GDP percentage and pretend it translates to any sort of real capability.)

We could adopt a more isolationist philosophy--maybe just lean back on the Monroe Doctrine and only get hawkish when things are brewing in the Western Hemisphere. Pull all troops home a la Ron Paul and let the world stand or burn so long as it doesn't threaten us. Putting aside the realities of business, trade, and defense influence on politics, focusing on regional hegemony is one internally - consistent approach.

But we remain in NATO, and every war in the last century with the exception of Afghanistan and- depending on your interpretation of geopolitics prior to Pearl Harbor-WWII, had nothing to do with attacks on US soil. They primarily involved playing in Europe and/or Asia as part of another regions' major war. And the worst way to play the global hegemony game is with hollow threats. That just invites autocrats to swing their dicks and consolidate power internally and/or find a little lebensraum next door, betting rightly that you will blink first. In this scenario, your diplomacy generally becomes impotent as well. It's better to just keep quiet and look the other way than to bluster and threaten with no intention of following through.

Look, I'm not advocating Team America: World Police. But if we're going to be entangled in European and Asian affairs, si vis pacem para bellum. Otherwise, let's STFU and go home (which would be fine by me.)

tl; dr: either eliminate our commitments to get involved in foreign wars or make them a really unappealing option to our enemies


We should build a network of satellite - borne grover lasers that can glass a continent or just fry a dictator's gonads.

Sax Offender fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Mar 26, 2014

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Derek Dominoe posted:

We should build a network of satellite - borne grover lasers that can glass a continent or just fry a dictator's gonads.

that was the plot of a james bond movie i think.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

orange juche posted:

that was the plot of a james bond movie i think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthHSISkM7A

I love this flick it's pretty much groverlaser: the movie

Sax Offender
Sep 9, 2007

College Slice

Snowdens Secret posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthHSISkM7A

I love this flick it's pretty much groverlaser: the movie

Val Kilmer's magnum opus. I unironically loved this movie growing up. William Atherton was awesome at playing total dicks in every movie. (He was the reporter in Die Hard and the DA in Ghostbusters for those who can't place the name.)

Helldump Immunity.
Aug 2, 2013

Fuck you

Snowdens Secret posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthHSISkM7A

I love this flick it's pretty much groverlaser: the movie

Real Genius owned so hard.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Derek Dominoe posted:

William Atherton was awesome at playing total dicks in every movie. (He was the reporter in Die Hard and the DA in Ghostbusters for those who can't place the name.)


quote:

ATHERTON: The movie had just opened and I was doing a reading for Joe Papp in New York. So I’m walking down 7th Avenue, and there’s this big Ghostbusters marquee, and there are all these buses filled with kids. But I’m not registering it too much, I’m thinking about Chekhov. And all of a sudden about eight million kids lean out the windows and yell, “Hey, dickless.”

From here

iyaayas01
Feb 19, 2010

Perry'd

Derek Dominoe posted:

We should build a network of satellite - borne grover lasers that can glass a continent or just fry a dictator's gonads.

This seems relevant

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Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

quote:

dogfights with Tu-22M bombers and Su-33s launched from the aircraft carriers


:catdrugs:

(I choose to believe there's a comma missing here.)

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