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mlmp08 posted:I’m starting to think these people aren’t just hankering for a haircut! wow can we please tone down the guillotine jokes
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one of my high school history teachers was my sister and our father had been chief foreign correspondent for Latin America for the new york times, and during shall we say The Interesting Years. he pushed the line a few times in a few places, had to spend some time in the embassy in chile once, to not be whatevered. lately he's been trading emails with a history phd candidate in rio about journalism under the military government in Brazil, which he also reported on. i remember finally realizing no one else my age knew that the cia had mined civilian harbors in Nicaragua. the fact that they had did not upset me at the time. i didn't even think they were still doing war crimes any more, just like how i didn't think the army was still running the trail of tears. i just thought it was normal thing to know about. but some people would get angry and try to make me take it back, like i was telling them a scary story and they were five years old instead of eighteen. i understand now that i was hurting them, and i do regret it, but i'm more sad that they were left so vulnerable, so unprepared for reality. history is a weapon.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Since we know the base is already on board, this is appeal to fence sitting racists, yes? it's to answer the general election ads for biden which characterize trump as soft on china
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facialimpediment posted:1) That new CDC model was bad/incomplete and CDC never should've included it in any kind of official slide deck (I believe this, as the CDC has been hollowed the gently caress out of anyone with a brain) i wouldn't trust nate silver to tell me what color the sky will be tomorrow, but i sure hope you're right 
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Godholio posted:Are those the WH's projections? it's from the leaked and linked cdc report
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Maduro is not the one signing the checks.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I mean, over the last 40 years or so it's kind of assumed there are people with guns being paid by the US running around everywhere in Latin America, isn't it? If it turned out the CIA and DEA weren't paying contractors in Venezuela that would be more surprising. yeah but how many of them publicly tweeted their insertion at the president?
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i had missed this detail: https://twitter.com/Moondog89775605/status/1257557952782831618 always get it in writing friends Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 19:43 on May 5, 2020 |
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delta f- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Farce aw, man
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one of the central tasks of police in the us is the production of white supremacy, most gun control laws are passed with the explicit intent of bolstering their ability to do this, but of course selective enforcement lets many laws serve that purpose
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brains posted:bay of piss that's the one
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/mercenaries-arrested-after-alleged-failed-coup-in-venezuela.html i posted their tweet @ donald but the events remain current i read the ap article the day it came out and then when i first heard about the arrests i actually thought "wow, an even smaller and worse-prepared group beat them to it"
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I'm having a hard time reconciling the idea that Green Berets are supposed to be the Top .01% of soldiers in the US Army with the fact that one of these Silvercorps clowns tried to invade Venezuela with an airsoft rifle. attribute no mystique to elites imo e: i mean here we are talking about elon loving musk Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:43 on May 6, 2020 |
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Notahippie posted:Sci-fi author Charles Stross has a throwaway line in one of his books about a British SOF guy who is described as something like "scrawny in the way of British special forces, rather than the oxes that the US bred" and it struck me as being both weirdly accurate in my experience and also something I never heard anybody say before. The only UK SOF guys I ever knew were Royal Marine Commandos and were built like whippets, where as the US guys I know all have solid builds. it's like with sumo, the village with the biggest fighters has proven that they have the biggest agricultural surplus
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facialimpediment posted:Here's a really good one of the genre: https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1258177548258652162 now i want a mask with a gold fringe
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shame on an IGA posted:That time Hyundai did a super bowl spot about a guy trying to kill himself in the garage with a clean-burning hydrogen IX35 i didn't believe you so i looked it up. it only ran in britain, but gently caress me for thinking it had to be a parody. nope, an in-house ad agency, jfc.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Can whole countries get darwin awards they'd have to die first
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Madurai posted:Business as usual, I guess: 5 people were injured during Texas shooting at a park with 600 people people said it couldn't be done, but we finally have a quarantine mass shooting 
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wow, jealous much? (you may want to edit that)
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PeterCat posted:So, Ahmaud Arbery, lynched or not? article doesn't mention anyone making postcards, seems pretty open and shut
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:Lynching or alternative law enforcement? We post you decide in related news https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1259803413359067138
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Cugel the Clever posted:Eh, with any properly planned urban area with actual density, though, you typically have a couple dozen burger options within 20 minutes by foot. yeah, i could throw a rock from my roof to hit my nearest burger place i only drive to leave town, it's great
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pmchem posted:dems are worthless sanders probably negotiated being absent instead of going on record as voting for it so that in return he would get...? what a waste, that guy.
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maffew buildings posted:this is america https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Ui_jQdSz0 current event: penciling a rewatch into my schedule
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i prefer to imagine what it would be like to live in a society whose resources were democratically controlled
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another victory for freedom Michigan Cancels Legislative Session to Avoid Armed Protesters
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A Bad Poster posted:If Pelosi really wanted to say something that doesn't make her sound like a loving child, she'd tell Donny to suck her dick on live television. i wouldn't make that exact suggestion, but yeah, she sucks at insults. just say he's a big fat fatty that you can tell wears a diaper, and that you saw him poo poo himself and could smell it. e: 'morbidly obese,' it's what a doctor nerd would say, these people have learned nothing from the past ten years, much less the last three years. although in pelosi's defense, she's set for life, there's no need to actually do anything. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 20:15 on May 20, 2020 |
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mlmp08 posted:Ok, so forget facebook itself for a second, cause that seems kind of third rail. If the basic cost of simply existing (zero luxury, profit, savings) is 40K/year in one place and 20K/year another place, then it makes sense to compensate people proportionate to cost of living. what would make sense is compensating people in proportion to the value they give the company, which presumably doesn't vary too much depending on their zip code. letting companies make salary proportionate to CoL harms every worker (though it harms me less since i am a (non-facebook) cloud-moron in SF).
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i am not convinced my contributions are three times more precious than they would be if i lived in des moines
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PeterCat posted:I watched those debates and she didn't win. maybe its a berenstain berenstein thing
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Abongination posted:Trump will refuse to debate, claim media hunts etc.  against Biden?I don't think there will be Trump/Biden debates because they would be too funny and I don't count on the universe being kind. But if they did happen Trump would tee off on the guy.
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Godholio posted:How do you like using that electronic miniaturized computer to post on the world wide webs? Or GPS? Etc. The DOD is probably the single largest investor in high tech R&D in the history of the planet. Yeah it starts for bombs but ends up in your pocket, or your operating room, or your car not too long after. hi, i work in computers and webs and study their history. the DOD almost entirely stopped funding fruitful basic research in our field when ARPA became DARPA. it's good for governments to conduct research, and not good to manage the funding and evaluate the results of such research as part of "Defense." i also think it's pretty defeatist to think that say, we were only ever going to get nuclear power through nuclear warfare or national space programs as testbeds and PR campaigns for ICBM strategies, even if it's obvious that's what happened.
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Personally, I'd argue that the question of "Should we have robust social services" and "Should we have a gigantic bloated military" aren't mutually exclusive. The United States is an immensely rich and powerful country, and we can absolutely afford to implement a much more vast and comprehensive safety net on top of our existing defense expenditures—especially given that many social programs (Such as food stamps) ultimately generate more revenue than they expend. The challenge there is convincing enough people that protecting, educating, and raising up their fellow citizens isn't a burden, but an opportunity. the dream of the 90s is alive in gip
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the weirdest goon podcast i've ever listened to is definitely getfiscal's You Can't Win. they might as well have called it "liberalstomper69".
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