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R. Guyovich posted:i've never wanted anything as bad as i want trump holding forth on what he thought of the palace museum You know drat well it would be a twenty minute rambling diatribe about how much better his own buildings are.
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Nov 9, 2017 03:51
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Tias posted:What, exactly, does the nerve stapling procedure entail? I never read the lore I don't remember the game ever going into specifics, actually. Leaving it to the imagination is probably a better approach anyway.
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Nov 10, 2017 19:17
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Fallen Hamprince posted:like the brainwashing scene from 'a clockwork orange' but with dem thread posts No wonder it's considered an automatic atrocity.
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Nov 10, 2017 19:31
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Anybody else remember the classic LF Let's Play Victoria Serbia thread? autopsy_turvey's greatest sin was never completing that.
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Nov 26, 2017 17:38
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get that OUT of my face posted:there is no purer hatred than the kind that serbs, albanians, greeks, and turks have for each other on the internet WE COME FROM THE SKY.
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Nov 26, 2017 21:21
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Jose posted:i was shocked to find in america you could buy bottles wtih 200 immodium so this checks out It's true. A goon managed to OD on them one time.
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Nov 28, 2017 18:32
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Baloogan posted:is immodium the stuff that stops poops or causes poops because ODing on it is hilarious in either case but one is messier i guess Stops. It's an opiate, so it jams things up. He was a regular abuser of Imodium (though I don't think he practiced TCC's "mix with olive oil and black pepper then funnel a liter's worth up your rear end" trick) and cough syrup and it finally caught up with him when he and his husband were catching a movie.
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Nov 29, 2017 01:29
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the opiate thread is unironically the best reason to keep the arm reduction subforum around Smooooth sailing.
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Nov 29, 2017 02:18
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Fututor Magnus posted:i think deus ex turned out to be pretty silly and spurious in its prediction of the future. the world is nowhere near as bad. A finger on the monkey's paw curls down.
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Dec 13, 2017 19:13
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rudatron posted:for real though smac has such a terrible ui that i'm shocked it ever became popular It was the 90s man, every game had lovely interfaces.
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Jan 10, 2018 19:28
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Jizz Festival posted:How is the leader's will carried out if there's supposedly no bureaucracy? The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
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Jan 13, 2018 16:05
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Jizz Festival posted:How are the regional governors kept in line with the will of the leader? It's a quote from Tarkin after announcing the Emperor had dissolved the Imperial Senate following the activation of the first Death Star (and after General Tagge has made a similar objection to your's about the problem of governing without a central bureaucracy).
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Jan 13, 2018 16:57
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Concerned Citizen posted:instead of banning the capitalist parties, how about just make life not lovely so people don't want to overthrow the system Your lot seems either incapable or unwilling to do that.
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Jan 15, 2018 18:39
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Jizz Festival posted:Where is it that you read this account of events? I'm no history buff, but I recently read China Mieville's October and Lenin was big on positioning the bolsheviks as being the most against russian involvement in the great war, and their support grew as the toll of the war became worse. This is correct, but once foreign elements started trying to carve chunks off of the corpse of Tsarist Russia, the Bolsheviks were able to co-opt reflexive nationalist sentiment onto defense of the Revolution, which they cunningly portrayed as something authentically Russian which the dastardly Poles/Finns/Czechs/Japanese/etc were trying to snuff out as much as the vile White Army was.
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Jan 15, 2018 22:10
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Xelkelvos posted:What would a China where the Communists never survived to boot out the Nationalists even look like? (Other than an obvious NATO ally with a raging hateboner for Japan) Given how insane corrupt/inept most of the Nationalists were, who the hell knows. Maybe fragment back into warlordism after Chiang gets killed in a coup attempt?
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Feb 4, 2018 16:50
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Dreddout posted:What does this actually mean for China going forward? I'll cop to not having the most thorough knowledge of China's internal political landscape, but if I remember right the party General Secretary is functionally much more relevant to actual government decisions than the President, and is also not term-limited, so this is likely more symbolic than anything else. Symbolic of what, precisely, I couldn't say.
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Feb 26, 2018 23:03
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:Had it? They weren't hurting for T-34s. The Soviets managed an amazing crash building program for war materiel, largely in scratch factories set up on the fly in the Urals after the shock of the initial invasion. While they were undoubtedly successful, and demonstrate the impressive capacity of the USSR to Get poo poo Done when it needed doing, such an endeavor had eaten up just about all of their industrial capacity and couldn't be easily or quickly transitions back into peacetime production, and certainly couldn't quickly be moved back to the urban centers it had moved from in any sort of a hurry, to say nothing of the vast scope of destruction Soviet industry had endured despite this.
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Feb 28, 2018 01:39
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Larry Parrish posted:Its bad to me when they execute workers, but its good to me when they execute corrupt business people So, business people?
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Mar 1, 2018 18:22
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Weeping Wound posted:I utter the forbidden word, "hoxha" Muffled, from a nearby bunker: "Our only crime is that we had the courage to oppose openly, at an international communist meeting (and not in the marketplace) the unjust action of Comrade Khrushchev!"
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Apr 3, 2018 23:46
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R. Guyovich posted:i'm sympathetic to this position. it isn't sexy or particularly inspiring to see this kind of dry, technocratic governance coming after a protracted, heroic revolutionary period. but if you take the party at its word that this era's mission is socialist construction at the primary stage a la the nep, and that in the coming years we'll see a gradual narrowing of inequality and a transformation into a more recognizably socialist economy then that's something to be hopeful about. Even if one was to take the party at its word, it'd be difficult not to look askance at what is ultimately an incrementalist argument given the insidiously corrosive/corrupting nature of capital.
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Apr 25, 2018 20:34
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The nature of material development is that it's inescapably incremental. You can't just make immediate sweeping change like you can with social rules and culture, it takes time to develop the productive forces of a society. I think it's easy to dismiss the fact China has to play a century's worth of catch up with the First World over the course of a few decades, and if they hadn't opened themselves up to partial liberalization to draw in foreign capital and accelerate the accumulation of it generally they'd still be decades behind. It'd be nice if they could have been a little underdeveloped while maintaining a consistent socialist line like Cuba, but as a major power the realities of geopolitics can't tolerate that kind of weakness. I get that; it's as true for them as it was the USSR, and while clearly the CCP has made better, or at least more sustainable, choices than the Soviets did at the same time I have a harder time than some in buying that the party isn't just selling a bill of goods.
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Apr 25, 2018 20:55
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frankenfreak posted:lol that was my desktop wallpaper 10+ years ago. 
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Jun 26, 2018 04:53
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rudatron posted:The claim in the twitter thread is much stronger, that uyhgur men are being jailed, and not released until their sisters marry a han man, i.e. its extortion. While I don't disagree with your point in this instance, I would caution you that something being completely insane is no longer nearly the barrier for that thing having happened as it once was.
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Jul 1, 2018 05:12
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I'm no longer sure what you idiots are even trying to talk about, but I'm pretty sure it's very dumb.
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Aug 10, 2018 22:01
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Karl Barks posted:the OSS were the real mf Allen Dulles was a short-sighted moron who spent his entire career coasting on his WWII successes.
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Aug 16, 2018 17:52
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:hey now they "employ" plenty of south asians Lol remember when Jrodefeld posted that Cato Institute* article about most economically "free" nations to prove somehow that free market USA was better than socialist hellholes like Canada and didn't realize literal slave states topped the list? And then went on to claim that what happened in the UAE was comparable to minor labor disputes? *I think? Might've been Heritage or some other bunch of assholes.
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Sep 8, 2018 23:22
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Baloogan posted:*sigh* im never gonna own a house What happened to your tundra shack?
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Sep 9, 2018 17:06
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Halloween Jack posted:In the process of scrambling and prevaricating, he invented a novel theory of personal freedom as distinct from economic freedom. Income tax was slavery, while actual loving slavery was not even a big deal.
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Sep 11, 2018 19:30
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Slutitution posted:Nothing is going to be done about the Uighur situation in China because that country literally owns America now lol 
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Oct 23, 2018 22:29
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