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2017-04-16 at 7:37 AM UTC
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2017-04-16 at 9:16 AM UTC
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2017-04-16 at 12:40 PM UTCI always thought 12.5% was a reasonable number to get into the debates. Although seeing how much damage is being done by this two party system, lowering the threshold sure couldn't hurt anything
Edit: Then again any candidate not present at primary debates wouldn't stand a chance of getting 12.5% so we probably should lower it. I forgot about that.
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2017-04-16 at 1:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I don't think anyone can be sure, really. at this point Russia and China have accepted that US foreign policy is totally unpredictable so they can only really respond, forecasting is a waste of time.
If the US do openly attack Best Korea, I think China may well sink the carrier group - they've been causing too much trouble in the South China Sea, and after that missile strike on Syria there's no way they can be sure the US won't pre-emptively attack those islands
there is no way, under no previously mentioned circumstances, chinkland would attack-to-sink a carrier BG -
2017-04-16 at 1:42 PM UTCYea sinking an aircraft carrier really would be the beginning of the end
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2017-04-16 at 1:45 PM UTCIf you can get on the ballots, you should get on the debates. That seems like common sense to me, tbh.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-16 at 3:07 PM UTC
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2017-04-16 at 3:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by Hash Slinging Slasher I always thought 12.5% was a reasonable number to get into the debates. Although seeing how much damage is being done by this two party system, lowering the threshold sure couldn't hurt anything
Edit: Then again any candidate not present at primary debates wouldn't stand a chance of getting 12.5% so we probably should lower it. I forgot about that.
if I remember right (I only read about it once) the initial cutoff was 5%, then Ross Perot nearly got in and they shit the proverbial bed, DNC and RC agreed to raise the cutoff to 12.5% so it'd never happen again. -
2017-04-16 at 5:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra SYRIA - Jihadis in Ghouta are distributing gas masks. Here we go again…
https://twitter.com/SARReport/status/853365281414053889
this is not a drill
jihadi twitter accounts are getting ready for another chemical attack near Ghouta within the next few hours
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that feeling when you know hundreds of people are going to die for political games and can't do a thing about it
Post last edited by aldra at 2017-04-16T17:48:21.662242+00:00The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-16 at 5:44 PM UTCalso lol@ BBC and other news outlets claiming that 'there's no evidence rebels detonated the bus bombs'.
nevermind that they're the only ones in the war who use VBIEDs and there's a video of a blue van departing rebel territory and exploding next to the buses floating about -
2017-04-16 at 5:47 PM UTCErdogan won his election to give him all of the power
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2017-04-16 at 5:49 PM UTCof course he did.
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2017-04-16 at 7:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra as opposed to letting all of korea and a good chunk of asia get chernobyl'd?
based on newspeak quotes...china is in on it, knows the plan, and is acquiescing. I didn't say anything about usurping taiwan, ching-chong-kong, or the mainland. yea....theyd go apeshit over that. -
2017-04-16 at 7:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra this is not a drill
jihadi twitter accounts are getting ready for another chemical attack near Ghouta within the next few hours
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that feeling when you know hundreds of people are going to die for political games and can't do a thing about it
Post last edited by aldra at 2017-04-16T17:48:21.662242+00:00
you shouldn't have any feelings considering millions have...and will...died/die for political games -
2017-04-17 at 3:29 AM UTCSyrian intelligence may have stopped it
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2017-04-17 at 4:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra Syrian intelligence may have stopped it
SYRIA - So apparently AQ were gearing up to launch chemical attacks in two towns in eastern Damascus, but the intelligence services found out about it and passed info on to local authorities.
On a similar note, I was wrong about AQ/ISIS not being able to bring sarin to the battlefield - according to SAA sources, they're regularly attacked with sarin and chlorine in that area (Qaboun/north-east Damascus/eastern Ghouta). At one point there were chemical attacks several times a day, but the SAA know it's coming so with gas masks and antidotes they don't suffer many fatalities. -
2017-04-17 at 4:28 PM UTCWhat is your overview of the current situation, Aldra?
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2017-04-17 at 4:38 PM UTCSame as I said earlier in this thread, I don't think anything's really changed regarding the big picture - the missile barrage failed to disable Al-Qusayr/Al-Shayrat airbase so the SAA are still trying to push into Homs and smash up all of Al-Qaeda's toys... They've been rather quiet as of late so I suspect they're regrouping and locking down the city.
The SAA need to break AQ as soon as possible so they can commit the bulk of their forces to Raqqa, because the US is planning on partitioning off a Kurdish state there once they get ISIS out of the city (one way or another) likely by establishing a 'peacekeeping mission'. I believe that was one of the big reasons for the missile attack; to slow the SAA down, but Russian ECMs prevented major damage to the airbase.
One thing has changed come to think of it - I believe the Iraqi PMUs, specifically Barzani's Kurd militias are planning on entering into Syria once Mosul is retaken - ostensibly to fight in Raqqa and be used as the base for a Kurdish state (the Syrian-Kurdish militias are generally loyal to Assad).The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-17 at 4:50 PM UTCALSO - the US have a lot of hardware on the Jordan border; they recently rescued an FSA unit from ISIS using around 20 MBTs. That's a bit of a wildcard - not really sure what they plan on doing with it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-17 at 5:12 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra SYRIA - moderate jihadis' bus bombs yesterday have killed 220 so far and they're nowhere near done counting
UPDATE - it was a suicide bomber who popped close to an ambulance distributing food to those who were being evacuated. Story is being deliberately underreported because there's no way to blame it on Assad - CNN actually referred to it as a 'hiccup' in the population swap deal. The suicide bomber was delivered by a blue ute/pickup truck from the direction of rebel-held territory.
https://twitter.com/tarek_oo7/status/853704229135015939
Rebels also used the explosion as cover to abduct around 200 girls from a nearby village.
