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Whip Slagcheek posted:Can we talk less about our plans for masturbating during the nuclear holocaust and go back to discussing the actual news? There's plenty of it out there today. No, we probably can't, Officer Krupke. I get that you saw a bunch of people were talking and having a conversation so your natural Suinae instincts were to come nosing around for truffles. It's understandable, really. But you've got the wrong group of people here if you're looking for anyone who gives even the remotest gently caress about what you would like to happen re: people talking. When Meowlins starts weaving webs with something witty and funny to include next to everything you post we'll pay attention, but until then.. Blue ribbon at the county fair or not, you are just walking talking uncured bacon in our eyes. ATTICA. ATTICA. ATTICA. You got a link to the Clancy thread? I can't find it.
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Obama Africanus posted:No, we probably can't, Officer Krupke. I get that you saw a bunch of people were talking and having a conversation so your natural Suinae instincts were to come nosing around for truffles. It's understandable, really. But you've got the wrong group of people here if you're looking for anyone who gives even the remotest gently caress about what you would like to happen re: people talking. When Meowlins starts weaving webs with something witty and funny to include next to everything you post we'll pay attention, but until then.. Blue ribbon at the county fair or not, you are just walking talking uncured bacon in our eyes. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3613906
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BigDave posted:This might be a dumb question, but what would any faction gain from a intentional shootdown? It was a Malaysian Airlines plane carrying mostly Dutch passengers, how do the rebels, the fake rebels or the Russians benefit? Everything so far seems to point down that the rebels thought it was a cargo airplane and shot it down. So it was a mistake but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility and the fact is that 298 civilians are dead, most of whom were from NATO countries.
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BigDave posted:This might be a dumb question, but what would any faction gain from a intentional shootdown? It was a Malaysian Airlines plane carrying mostly Dutch passengers, how do the rebels, the fake rebels or the Russians benefit? Most likely it was an accident.. Kinda. They seem to have thought it was a Ukrainian transport before they lit it up
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He had a ray gun. It looked real enough.
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Whip if we wanted a well moderated noise free place to discuss current events on the smartest forum on the internet we wouldn't post in GiP. We'd be autistic internet marxists and gently caress realdolls much to our parents' shame, and post in D&D. Hell, we'd probably masturbate to Scrooge Mcduck slashfic and sniff girls' hair on the train. But we don't, we post in GiP. Where it's okay to pray for nuclear fire to cleanse the earth of gender fluidity and the matriarchy. Why are you so firmly against this, it's like you've dug your little piggy hooves into the mud as best as you can to keep comedy from happening on international Tom Clancy Day (7/17/2014 never forget). In other news, the BBC is still firmly refusing to outright call this a shootdown or terrorist act on their world service. Commentators and outsiders have been allowed to say it, but their broadcasters are very much avoiding calling it a shootdown, and instead a crash or one that "went down or came down." Is this just journalistic integrity, or foolish at this point? Because cursory searches and research show how obviously this plane was shot down. I get that they can't just run with internet rumor, but wow.
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That'll do, Shim. That'll do. Now back to the discussion.
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Obama Africanus posted:Whip if we wanted a well moderated noise free place to discuss current events on the smartest forum on the internet we wouldn't post in GiP. We'd be autistic internet marxists and gently caress realdolls much to our parents' shame, and post in D&D. Hell, we'd probably masturbate to Scrooge Mcduck slashfic and sniff girls' hair on the train. Most of Europe depends on Russian petrol products for heating and industry, so they'd be slow to call Russia on bullshit when the walkin actually gets tough. Sure it's ok to poo-poo at Russia over possibly assisting in the capture of a spit of land that most of Europe couldn't give a gently caress about, but now there's a bunch of actual real Europeans involved and it is put up or shut up time, Europe decided to shut up. orange juche fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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Obama Africanus posted:Whip if we wanted a well moderated noise free place to discuss current events on the smartest forum on the internet we wouldn't post in GiP. We'd be autistic internet marxists and gently caress realdolls much to our parents' shame, and post in D&D. Hell, we'd probably masturbate to Scrooge Mcduck slashfic and sniff girls' hair on the train. My understanding is that the BBC are really really really loathe to post anything that they don't know as absolute 100% fact, and while every other motherfucker on the planet knows what happened, they're getting whatever confirmation now that they need to say it was shot down. I mean, it was shot down, you'd need to be a loving retard not to know it was shot down, and the BBC will be calling it shot down within the next 12 hours for sure.
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To be fair to the BBC, I haven't seen any news outlet say that it was shot down. They'd probably like to have some "official" confirmation before they start rolling out that line. But hey whatever, we all know what happened.
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Fojar38 posted:Everything so far seems to point down that the rebels thought it was a cargo airplane and shot it down. So it was a mistake but that doesn't absolve them of responsibility and the fact is that 298 civilians are dead, most of whom were from NATO countries. I guess the big question is, are we going to treat this as a legit 'Woops! Didn't mean to kill 300 people!' cock-up, or are we going to intervene in some way?
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Whip Slagcheek posted:To be fair to the BBC, I haven't seen any news outlet say that it was shot down.  
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Whip Slagcheek posted:To be fair to the BBC, I haven't seen any news outlet say that it was shot down. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#newwindow=1&q=shot+down&safe=off&tbm=nws efb 
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That's new to me, when I looked at CNN an hour ago or so they were still saying "Crashed" I guess with Diamond Joe coming out and saying it was shot down that its enough for them.
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BigDave posted:I guess the big question is, are we going to treat this as a legit 'Woops! Didn't mean to kill 300 people!' cock-up, or are we going to intervene in some way? Lol if you think the US is gonna do anything except for mutter some vague threats and navel gaze. The US couldn't give two shits about stuff happening outside its borders, especially during a fiscal drawdown and in the middle of us trying to pull out of Afghan so hard that the loving tires are burning smoke.
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FOX News had a graphic saying "shot down by a missile" at 5PM Eastern. 23 Americans on board? That's going to go over well...
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Whip Slagcheek posted:Yeah there's not going to be any provocative moves on the part of the US or NATO countries. A bunch of vague threatening words, an uptick in military exercises, and some additional funding/training being shipped off to Kiev. Oh. I admit, that makes what happened much less exciting. Still unspeakably horrible and tragic.
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CBJSprague24 posted:FOX News had a graphic saying "shot down by a missile" at 5PM Eastern. You mean 23 Australians?
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Y'all have been saying "We should stay out, we should do nothing, yadda yadda" and all of a sudden some random rear end country's plane gets shot down by pretend-state non-state actors and people are talking missiles flying and trying on their old flightsuits Ain't poo poo gonna happen orange juche posted:Most of Europe depends on Russian petrol products for heating and industry, so they'd be slow to call Russia on bullshit when the walkin gets tough. I've been wanting an excuse to get back to energy talk  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/hungry-u-s-power-plant-turns-to-russia-for-coal-shipment.html quote:Utilities in the U.S. are scrambling for coal, on pace to increase imports 26 percent this year, as railroad bottlenecks slow deliveries and electricity demand climbs with an improving economy. Russia, the world’s third-largest exporter of the fuel, will boost shipments 3.9 percent to 106 million metric tons this year, IHS Energy forecasts, part of President Vladimir Putin’s plan to expand Russia’s role in the global coal market. There's also a whole bunch of stories about how the Euros are desperate to get us to export oil and how shale oil production and fracking have tremendously kept the price of gas down by increasing the politically stable supply, but I didn't want to antagonize the dudes that think gas is controlled by a shadowy cabal of '90s speculators and domestic 'fossil fuel barons' Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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Whip Slagcheek posted:Yeah there's not going to be any provocative moves on the part of the US or NATO countries. A bunch of vague threatening words, an uptick in military exercises, and some additional funding/training being shipped off to Kiev. I disagree, Charlotte. Putin's russia put SA-11's in rebel hands and triple digit Europeans got killed in an attack as a result.. The public is going to want blood, and they should. It gets scarier when you consider that if this happened, then they're really playing super loving fast and loose over in Ukraine. Even faster and looser than we had feared, and that leads to a lot of questions about the entirety of the Russian machine from top to bottom. Who's running the show in Russia for this Eastern Ukraine adventure? How far down has the delegation gone for something as loving stupid as "Hand SA-11's to Ukrainian separatists" or worse yet who put Russian SA-11's and their operators in Ukraine, and let them shoot down a 777? It's goddamn ugly from top to bottom, too ugly to just stare at our feet and mumble. Honestly.
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Have there been any reports of Americans on board? I haven't seen anything, just a bunch of Europeans and some SE Asians.
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Whip Slagcheek posted:Have there been any reports of Americans on board? I haven't seen anything, just a bunch of Europeans and some SE Asians. 23 Americans is being tossed around but I haven't found a decisive source yet. orange juche posted:You mean 23 Australians? There were 27 Australians.
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orange juche posted:You mean 23 Australians? 27 Australians, I read somewhere it was
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It's the 2/3's compromise all over again, but in reverse.
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We can turn off almost every credit card in Russia and I hope we do, unless they immediately go "whoops sorry here's Eastern Ukraine back and hell here's Crimea." I'm not hopeful we'll actually do that though.
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Fojar38 posted:23 Americans is being tossed around but I haven't found a decisive source yet. You're Dutch, right? What's everyone saying over there? But, like, in English
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Memento posted:"an intercepted phone call between Russian military offices and separatist rebels, in which they reportedly acknowledge shooting down a plane."
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Barracuda Bang! posted:You're Dutch, right? What's everyone saying over there? I'm not Dutch.
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gleep gloop posted:
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Booblord Zagats posted:Most likely it was an accident.. Kinda. "Hey Svetslana what does this button do? Oh whoops."
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:More photos from Al Jazeera, That link led me to http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/don-t-call-me-ginger.html which taught me that this upcoming Sunday is Kick A Ginger Day http://kick-a-ginger-day.com/ I also found a link to http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/slut-shaming-sexworkgenderclass.html which was written by a whore. Are we sure this plane just isn't the one from before that once was lost, but now am found?
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Fojar38 posted:I'm not Dutch. Then you ain't much
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The Dutch are saying it's the worst Dutch airplane-related disaster since Tenerife. Rutte hasn't really said anything. It's the middle of the night over there right now.
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This entire event smells of viral marketing gone wrong http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980706/ Opening tomorrow in theaters near you. (See it early at Cinemark today) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ws-9613241.html The thriller was set to air at 9pm but has been replaced by Road to Perdition chemosh6969 fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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chemosh6969 posted:This entire event smells of viral marketing gone wrong Who knew that Dane Cook was still alive?
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