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Happy Fourth of July and new thread, everybody! I will be drinking High Life tallboys this weekend to celebrate. Kinda wish the Hobby Lobby ruling didn't happen this week, I know it was practically inevitable but it really pushed that "Blackwater threatens to literally execute some US official in Iraq for questioning them" story out of the spotlight. PMCs are fascinating to me and reading the accounts of what they managed to get away with is one of those situations where it's so incredibly unbelievable that if you tried to stick it in a movie audiences would complain that it was too unrealistic.
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Mister Adequate posted:Getting pissed because bad things happen in war is like getting mad because points are scored in sports. Yeah, of course Dresden/Hiroshima/Atlanta were bad things. That was the loving point. Unless you're going for actual extermination you win a war by making the other side say "gently caress that we've had enough, we give up". Which requires horrible poo poo to be done. Never thought I'd see a Dresden apologist in D&D. Well, maybe Amergin, but not someone doing it genuinely.
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Jul 13, 2014 22:50
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I unironically believe that the first goon that gets elected to anything notable will turn out to have been a FYAD poster. Not a superstar or anything, just someone with a negative post count. And when it comes out and turns into a huge scandal, I can't wait to see Wolf Blitzer talking about "something's awful message forum fee-yahd" in front of a screenshot of people with anime avatars calling each other niggers on a pink forum.
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Aug 4, 2014 00:56
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Brannock posted:Oblivious goonposting about how incredibly much they don't get FYAD is one of this forum's funniest recurring topics. For a bunch of people who have the attention and intelligence to follow American politics so closely to understand all the minor details about it you sure have trouble understanding that FYAD is just about being funny. Yeah, it's the kind of pure zen of comedy that I could genuinely see the kind of person who has that combination of narcissism, charisma and ambition that makes a successful politician posting there just to unwind. When they're still in grad school, or something. quote:I honestly wonder if Internet histories is going to mean that we loosen the gently caress up about our public candidates lives, or if it'll just mean we elect even boringer people since they were the ones who managed to not do anything remotely eyebrow-raising as an idiot kid or idiot teenager. Internet histories aside, I wonder when we'll see the first politician with gauges in their ears or a neck tattoo. I'm thinking thirty years.
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