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But Seriously...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

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  1. Aetius

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    This would be insane. It would have no military value, as the place is already an exclusion zone. It would have no immediate effect, only doing long term damage, and to future civilians not military members. And it would piss the everliving fuck out of the West not just for environmental reasons but for the "we fronted billions of dollars to build the New Safe Confinement system you reckless assholes" reasons.
     
    #13541 Aetius, Feb 24, 2022
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    That's been going on for two years now.
     
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  3. Juice

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    My family is eastern European. They are not rational people when their blood turns hot.
     
    #13543 Juice, Feb 24, 2022
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    I was going to say, don't they do that all the time?
     
    #13544 dixiebandit69, Feb 24, 2022
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    “Hannibal had elephants, right? Well, we got a FOOT!”
     
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  6. Aetius

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    Can someone who has a better legal understanding of Article V tell me if NATO considers an attack on Sean Penn an attack on all?

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  7. Juice

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    Sean Penn is a piece of shit. No one is going to war over that dirtbag.

    Also, this has to be a joke, right?

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    #13547 Juice, Feb 24, 2022
  8. Aetius

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    Yes and no. I think her analysis is off (Ukrainians being white is hurting Putin as much as Putin being white is helping him), but there's definitely an underlying truth that there can be straight up genocides in darker parts of the world and the West just shrugs and says "they got any valuable mineral deposits?" That said, there's definitely an element of the evangelical right that has taken quite a shining to Putin because they see in him the Christian nationalism they aspire to without any of that pesky "woke" business that we have here. They're definitely more comfortable with Putin than they are with Xi, and it's hard to argue that race and religion don't play a part in that.

    But yeah, it's a tertiary element at present, and certainly not the driving factor in Putin's actions or the West's response.
     
    #13548 Aetius, Feb 24, 2022
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    Twitter has ruined you, hasn’t it?
     
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    Everything has ruined me man. Twitter just made me assume that any nugget of truth is buried under four feet of bullshit, so I don't even smell the bullshit anymore. I've become nose-blind.
     
    #13550 Aetius, Feb 24, 2022
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    In other news, our former National Security Advisor has introduced the phrase "legitimate ethnic problems" into the discussion, so that's fun.

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    #13552 Aetius, Feb 24, 2022
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    I just assume that any idea, no matter how valid, will always find it's dumbest form on Twitter, and I just accept that as part of the social media age. So yeah, I'm a bit dead inside.
     
    #13553 Aetius, Feb 24, 2022
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    Tweets like that remind me of Walter Sobchak.

    “Also, let's not forget - let's *not* forget, Dude - that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either.”
     
    #13554 NatCH, Feb 24, 2022
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    Seems like Putin is rolling Ukraine with weak, poorly trained and supplied conscripts to see where the points of contention are, so he can roll in with the tactical seal type soldiers.

    Let's see how big a backlash that'll get him back home. He's sending boys who were conscripted in like Dec and didn't even know why they were on the border til the 12th hour. Who are now cannon fodder. There are protests and lots of people getting arrested back home in Russia.
     
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    There was a great blurb on the CNN website today, apparently they had an audio recording of a Russian warship communicating with Ukrainian soldiers defending an island in the Black Sea.

    Russians: "This is a warship. This is a Russian warship. In order to avoid senseless bloodshed, lay down your arms and surrender. Otherwise you will be bombed."

    Ukrainian soldier: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

    Then they all died. But you have to admire the balls on that soldier.
     
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    I like how before radioing back to the Russians one of them said to the other "should we tell him to fuck himself?" and the other replied "just in case." Like telling the Russians to suck a dick was a "better safe than sorry" decision.
     
    #13558 Aetius, Feb 25, 2022
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    Rats, she didn’t die of COVID? That’s a shame, that alone could have made this entire mess worth it..

    All three of the other George Floyd cops are guilty of violating his rights. I guess crocodile tears and fake ignorance don’t always work.
     
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