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coh posted...

WW1 and WW2 shaped the world as we know it today

what other history is there honestly

Ah, but if we're talking about WW1, well, that involves nationalist movements in the Balkans, the Franco-Prussian War, the collapse of Bismarck's "Three Emperors" pact, Serbian intelligence operations, the First and Second Balkan Wars, the Entente's belief in the frailty of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, the belief of Germany and Britain that Russia was a rapidly growing threat, the erratic and alienating behavior of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Russian royal family's relationship to a random mystic, the Russo-Japanese War, everyone's dreams of empire, the feeling that a general European war was inevitable, the feeling that fighting a general European war in 1914 was advantageous(felt simultaneously by both sides), etc. etc. etc.
That's all before any shots are fired.

Also likely to buy into the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth.

My big event is tonight: the Bills clinch a playoff berth with a win(In fact, they would also clinch the 5th-seed).

ExtremeLuchador posted...

Won't this guy just get primaried by Republicans? He voted with them only about 10% of the time on bills.

Oh, absolutely, and the irony here is that the Republican Party is generally less interested in/able to get their desired candidates through primaries.

creativerealms posted...

Okay. So what. The New Jersey republicans just became a little more left leaning. That's all.

Its funny, because the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee backed him to the hilt over a vaguely leftist candidate and now hes defecting to the Republican Party.

Well, at least they're honest. Too bad the Dems will probably pretend everything went like it's supposed to anyway.

a-c-a-b posted...

He's a racist piece of shit but I think calling him a white supremacist or a fascist is giving him too much credit. He definitely panders to and surrounds himself with actual white supremacists and fascists, but Trump has no ideology other than himself and feeding his ego.

It's this, but I said yes because it's kind of splitting hairs. Plus, he's always been a racist.

legendary_zell posted...

Maybe make sure the Democrats in your party are actual Dems before you rely on them and before you sabotage actual liberals and left wingers? If he stayed in the party, all he would have done is sabotage popular policies and hold the party hostage like Lieberman or something.

Those arent things that bother the DCCC.
Apparently, hes voted with Democrats 88% of the time, so Im sure that will go over great in his upcoming Republican primary!

I had the GBC remake. It's pretty good, but I played it a long time ago, so don't take my word for it.

Not going to convince me that wasn't a dull, tiresome case, sorry. It gets more negative attention than it deserves because 2-2 is really good and 2-4 is arguably the best case in the series though, I'll give it that much.

I think it's reflective of how inert our politics has become.

Also, considering that the reasonable centrist party, the Liberal Democrats, got devastated, Im not sure Labours platform explains them losing so badly. Its pretty much what they ran on last time when they made gains.
Wont stop the hot takes though.

Funkydog posted...

It ain't shit mate. What it is a sign is that Corbyn led an abysmal campaign, and far too many took to hear the smear campaign alongside his own disastarious efforts, along with people still believing Brexit is in their interests.

Yeah, it's pretty clear Corbyn got too cute with Brexit: he essentially tried to straddle the middle. The weakness of such a strategy was temporarily masked by May's incompetence, but it weakened Labour's position in the long run. It left them with nothing to offer Leave voters(who could just vote for BoJo, who successfully made the Tories the sole Leave party) while alienating Remain voters. Given that those voting blocs are roughly the same size, well, the numbers speak for themselves.
That the press smeared him is also undeniable, but there's not anything that can be done about that. Sad though it is, poor old Jeremy is going to have to take a tumble under the bus for the team after this one. He is, at this point, undeniably holding the British Left back.

CADE FOSTER posted...

boomers destroying democracy all over the world

The idea of the world continuing after they are gone is absolutely unbearable to some of them, yes.

In any case, this is terribly disappointing.

boxington posted...

yea, drug use, like with crack, wasn't ignored back then, but it was seen as more as a moral failing.

with the current opioid crisis, people are seeing it as much more nuanced issue.

Yeah, the crack epidemic was put to great use to pass harsh criminal justice reforms(three strike laws, harsher sentencing on crack vs. cocaine, etc.), expand police forces, and, perhaps most profitably, drastically expand the prison system.

Oh absolutely. I think the episode that brought it home was when I was in the deepest throes of my anxiety disorder and afflicted with awful insomnia, so I went for a walk around my neighborhood at around 2AM. I left via the back door because I didn't want to wake my parents. As I was making my way back towards my house, I noticed lights. It was the police. They stopped me and asked me to identify myself, as they had been told there was some one cutting through yards in the neighborhoods. I didn't have ID, so they asked me to stay while they ran my name. One cop stayed to talk with me, obviously trying to poke holes in my story. They let me go after a few minutes.
And you know what I was thinking? "Thank God I'm white."

I don't think having a failed state on our southern border would be great.

Lisbeth Salander.

jblrulez posted...

This. Also, Legend of Dragoon had mixed reviews but I thought it was great.

I came in to post Legend of Dragoon myself.
I'll add Gladius to the pile. Apparently Lucas Arts rushed the crap out of it, and it's...kind of obvious.

He's a dragoon.

The Trent posted...

i mean, isn't it kind of a gamble that bernie would make it two terms as well?

Bernie making it two terms is about a 3-in-4 chance, but there are two vitally important differences:
1) Bernie is not saying he would serve one term ahead of time
2) Bernie's VP would likely be a much different person than Biden's VP

I really liked the episode. I mean, of course Rick would relate to a nigh-immortal monster that holds humanity in contempt and hoards all kinds of cool crap, and the scene of Morty and Summer walking in on him and the dragon "soul-bonding" was hilarious. Rick and Summer subsequently taking nothing at all seriously was also hilarious and it was even funnier that it ended up with Rick getting shot in the eye. Rick had two great lines in the Slut Dragon sequence("Oh my God, I am just now seeing the staff" after the old dragon has been talking for a bit and "Maybe don't tell your parents we did this" mid-orgy). I also loved the wizard's death scene where he just stream-of-consciousness-style narrates his agonizing death.
The Jerry plot was kind of lame up until the end, when Rick picks him up and the reason the cat can talk is exposed as something so unspeakably terrible that Rick tries to kill himself and Jerry vomits and cries but neither can bring themselves to kill the cat. Also - Rick doing Jerry a favor, who saw that coming?

ScazarMeltex posted...

Could we fucking lick Israel's boots any harder?

Yeah, it's important to note the stated aim of this is to attack "anti-Semitism" on college campuses i.e. to quash pro-Palestinian activists like BDS by painting opposition to the policies of the state of Israel as being racist.
Of course, even more troubling are the implications: if all Jews are Israelis by definition, are they fully American? By the logic of right-wing nationalism, the answer is no. Friendly reminder that Stephen Miller is one of Trump's most trusted advisors.

I'm sure that will free him up to do whatever Mitch McConnell wants without concern for his re-election campaign.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

You're all missing the point.

"She'd be a fun mom :)" is the creepy part.

I, uhh, I think the whole thing is the creepy part and would rather not dissect it to determine which parts are creepier than the others.
I hope Taylor Swift becomes a mother if she wants to.

Is there a *bad* track in DKC2?
I think Jib Jig is maybe the closest. It's just kind of ... there.

My favorite is the one where the aliens take a human pilot captive and he gets tossed in with another POW.
They're conducting biological experiments on her to turn her into an alien, and he feels really bad for her, so the episode ends with him revealing the details of a top-secret human attack plan on the alien homeworld, and then she reveals the aliens aren't turning her INTO an alien, they're turning her BACK into an alien and he just starts screaming because he's totally screwed humanity over.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

CE harasses a CEGal into leaving CE to get rid of all the attention whoring then when she leaves CE makes topics about her.

??????

Yeah, seriously, it's been years.

HBOSS posted...

i mean shes been dancing for quite some time and probably never stopped dancing. in the early 90s in living color iirc then she got into acting and singing + doing concerts still dancing in the 2000s. she keeps the body movin and probably is taking care of herself for the most part.

there are a few celebrities who are like her as they defy their ages. 50s the new 40???

Yeah, I mean the wealthy have the time and resources to invest in the best exercise and nutritional regimens as well as other stuff like regular spa days and the like. As long as you're not insane, drug-addicted and/or stupid, you'll age gracefully even without further intervention, doing all that.

He seems pathologically afraid of governing, or maybe it's just that he feels he needs Mitch McConnell to do what he wants to do?
Either way, count me out.

Certainly there's no good reason to bar naturalized citizens.

I know some one like that. She's otherwise a sweet lady, but one time she went on about how, after the apocalypse, FEMA will go around rounding people up for slave labor and taking their supplies, but if you tell them no and don't let them in, they'll go away?
I couldn't help but feel like I was listening to a medieval peasant rambling about vampires or something: these monsters always observe the weirdest rules.

Bernie is great, Warren would be okay or even good, Castro would be okay. The Queen of the Astral Plane would at least be hilarious.
Everyone else is meh or worse.

Oh, it won't be that bad, even if it'll be heading further in that direction.

Boil up some water in the kettle, steep tea in cup. I drink bag tea, but my primary drinking tea is loose leaf lapsang souchong. Can't get enough of that pine-smoked goodness. I have three metal tea steepers for my collection of loose leaf teas.

Purely posted...

Well I know it's a big thing in soccer and basketball to get fouls. This is a different concept though to get a free time out from it.

Hell, sometimes players in the NFL flop. I remember one time Bills punter Brian Moorman flopped hard on a punt after being lightly contacted by an opposing player and drew a BS roughing the kicker penalty. I'm sure some defensive linemen might take a fall here or there if they think it might persuade a ref the offensive lineman was holding them.

That's such a phenomenal game. Loved every death.

konokonohamaru posted...

She was doing fine actually until she revealed her actual healthcare plan, which was trashed by both the left and the right for being unrealistic

She spent months waffling on whether or not she supported Bernie's plan, then unveiled a MfA plan that eschewed (modest) middle income tax increases in favor of a head tax on employers that could potentially be easily evaded by just converting employees into "independent contractors".
Then she walked that back, proposing to pass a healthcare plan reminiscent of what Biden and Buttigieg have proposed and THEN doing MfA after mid-terms, as though it would be easier then(spoiler alert: the incumbent president's party almost always loses seats in the mid-term elections!)

I mean, it is true that Bernie's Medicare for All plan is extremely unlikely to pass as-is during his theoretical presidency, but the point of having such a proposal is to demonstrate that, if he could, Bernie would go all the way, and that gives me confidence he's not just going to meekly(or, as Obama did, enthusiastically) sign whatever Pelosi, Schumer, and the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries cobble together and declare the matter settled in perpetuity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/world/asia/mckinsey-china-russia.html
https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-country-that-exiled-mckinsey/57176.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigration.html
I mean, McKinsey does a ton of stuff, so it's plausible that Mayor Pete wasn't involved in anything particularly shady. I mean, other than McKinsey & Co.

But then: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31iht-edmyers.1.14914273.html
Who goes to Somaliland to chill and then just happens to write an Op-Ed in the New York Times advocating for a change in U.S. policy towards Somaliland? Just, you know, out of the blue.

Dating a co-worker is fine. Dating an employee or employer is pretty messed up though, because of the unequal power dynamic of one party having that much power/influence over the other's livelihood.

Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD are underrated. The concept of Shadow pokemon was poorly executed(particularly in the first game), but being put into the novel situation of needing to assemble a team from a very limited stock was a good challenge(the first one in particular was hurt by its reliance on Johto exclusives, so like, yeah, have fun trying to make Yanma work without Yanmega being a thing).
I actually recently acquired F-Zero GX, and it's hardcore, but goddamn, it looks good. And the controller has always been good, even down a shoulder button.

Yeah, that's the argument moderate Republicans made against impeaching Andrew Johnson.
After his acquittal, he issued a blanket pardon of all Confederates which enabled them to take back control of their states and reinstitute white supremacy.

Of course, Rep. Yarmuth is also wildly optimistic of the odds of Trump's ultimate removal. Mostly I suspect that he's afraid of doing anything.

The Top Crusader posted...

So I don't keep up with these things, but didn't Cosby literally rape women and Harvey basically just pressured them for movie roles? Like its sleazy but I'm unaware of him literally raping anyone--but again, I don't care enough to really follow every detail.

Coercing an unwilling partner into sex by promising some reward is rape. Weinstein even promised to ruin their careers if they didn't do as he said, something he most definitely had the power to do(and something he did). That's rape, full stop.

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Tulsi as his VP would be the one thing that'd actually seriously make me consider not voting. I mean, I probably still would vote Bernie in the end but I'd be extremely disappointed and pissed off that he picked a total piece of shit as VP

Same. Tulsi sucks and needs to go away.

Yeah, theres no evidence of any mass migration out of Egypt. Probably the Ancient Israelites always lived in Canaan, or came from some other nearby place.
There could be a kernel of truth there; however. The Egyptians did rule over the area for a time, and they typically compelled their subjects to spend part of the year working on state construction projects, which, to a conquered people, would feel less like a tax and more like slavery. Thats pure conjecture on my part though.

Just about the only seafood I don't like are shrimp. Never got the appeal. Not big on tilapia either.
I love shellfish of all (other) kinds though. And fish. And crustaceans. Crab and a nice tuna steak, scallops...mmm. So many delicious things in the ocean(seaweed and other sea veggies are also tasty)!