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2016-04-19 at 6:43 AM UTC in Lmfao, the US is going to be a political fuckfest for the next 5 years minimum.I think Bernie would get the nomination over her if the criteria were popularity and the deck weren't stacked so heavily against him, but as it stands it'll probably be Hillary against Trump - I don't think Cruz stands much of a chance.
as for the grand finals, Hillary's again stacked the deck. if it were pure popularity they'd probably be fairly close, but given her 'minority' status and corporate backing, she'll probably sweep it. -
2016-04-19 at 6:22 AM UTC in Lmfao, the US is going to be a political fuckfest for the next 5 years minimum.I sure hope so
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2016-04-19 at 6:12 AM UTC in My cat died this morningthat's fucking great, I remember that kid, kept crying because he wasn't korean enough for CS or something
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2016-04-19 at 5:39 AM UTC in My cat died this morning
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2016-04-19 at 5:29 AM UTC in My cat died this morningyou make it sound like I'm grooming you
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2016-04-19 at 5:18 AM UTC in My cat died this morning
not really you wannabe indigo child, go sit on a triangle
really don't know why this is so funny -
2016-04-19 at 4:51 AM UTC in Is it rude to ask a girl if she's a hooker?you should try that theory out
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2016-04-19 at 3:48 AM UTC in java.text.SimpleDateFormat Injection Possible?
Wrong. Talking about people who are talking about people who are off topic is even more off topic than just talking about being off topic. This is not rocket science.
this is so ridiculously off topic; the off-topic post it's in reference to is already so far off topic that the original topic might as well be off too.
tl;dr: off topic -
2016-04-19 at 1:58 AM UTC in Humans are a disease
Well that's kinda my point. Parasitism or disease implies that a host has interests and they are being violated by the parasite/disease somehow. We wouldn't call moss on a rock parasitic because rocks don't have interests. To call humans a disease is to imply there's something upon which we are a disease and I can find no suitable thing possessing the necessary structure to have interests to be undermined by us in a disease-like way.
not necessarily; plants are susceptible to parasitic conditions, bacteria, insects etc. and they have no desire or directive beyond just living. many people see the world as a single living 'collective' and I'd hazard to say humans are generally not a positive force on it. -
2016-04-19 at 1:55 AM UTC in calliandra identificationlooks like wattle, which makes sense because most species have some level of DMT in the bark
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2016-04-18 at 2:23 PM UTC in My cat died this morningsucks man. my dog died at christmas a few years back, was a shit holiday
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2016-04-18 at 7:34 AM UTC in Humans are a disease
Germs don't build rocket ships. We are Gods of the universe and masters of nuclear power and space ∆.
what's this 'we' business? the closest you came to nuclear power was blowing you house up in a failed meth synth -
2016-04-18 at 4:15 AM UTC in Is it too late to be an astronaut?ISS
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2016-04-18 at 3:51 AM UTC in Is it too late to be an astronaut?seriously though I don't think you're too old for it, it's a rigorous selection process and an even more rigorous training-preparation regime though. you'll probably need to get a flight license and clock up plenty of hours before you're even considered... and they probably won't let you bring meth on the rocket if you do make it.
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2016-04-18 at 3:47 AM UTC in Is it too late to be an astronaut?a space grave is cooler than a regular grave
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2016-04-18 at 3:23 AM UTC in Do you think I'm cute?ah, guessed as much. crest is pretty much the same thing, crescent's a shape
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2016-04-18 at 3:14 AM UTC in Do you think I'm cute?...crest?
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2016-04-18 at 3:07 AM UTC in java.text.SimpleDateFormat Injection Possible?
lol, I used to post this in response to fanglekai's bullshit all the time, seemed to really upset him
also posting in a potato. first response should've been /thread -
2016-04-18 at 2:43 AM UTC in Lmfao, the US is going to be a political fuckfest for the next 5 years minimum.
US dominance? What dominance? Sure we have a big stick but we've been too internally politically fragmented to engage in anything more than sandbox wars since the 90s. We're not about to be replaced in the next few decades, and not by China, but we all know where this train is headed and no candidate represents a departure from that. It's unclear if anything, regardless of political viability, could change that fact.
I'm not strictly talking about military dominance; in fact I'd consider that secondary. The vast majority of the wars the US has started have been over energy, specifically control of petrol and gas reserves (for recent examples, see Syria and Ukraine) - it's the main way they're able to control the world economy or even be competitive in it. With more and more countries taking steps to move away from trading oil in the USD and dropping it as a reserve currency altogether, along with King Chop-Chop set to run out of oil in 5-10 years, they'll need to make some major changes to stay in that game. They'll likely need to change their patterns from the old Regime Change playbook considering Russia's now shown it won't stand by anymore while the US tampers with it's allies and interests.
In terms of finance, BRICS will likely come to compete with the IMF, making it more difficult for them to control poorer countries through debt.
And in terms of military, purely speculative but I believe the US way overstates their technical advantage over Russia and China. From what I've seen modern hardware seems competitive across the field and yet the US spends around 600bil vs Russia's 50bil annually - I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of that difference is pure exploitation by military contractors.Sure Hillary has a track record of comparatively aggressive interventionist policy but it's foolish to think Trump is some kind of isolationist because he pays occasional lip service to the american libertarian movement. At least she represents some level of awareness of american political realities, Trump is a cult of personality and god only knows in what byzantine ways that's going to blow up in our collective faces if he makes it into office.
I have no doubt trump is a shit who has no idea what he'd be doing, but I'd take that over the exceptionalism and smug superiority hillary brings to the table.Also "leveled Syria" is kinda disingenuous, we may be pouring gas on the fire but Syria was going to be a shit show with or without our help.
IS/IS/DAASH/etc is a direct result of US 'intervention' in Iraq - extremists among extremists; an offshoot of Al-Qaeda that wanted to take it a few steps further who couldn't be brought in line because they were spread too thin. Aside from their rhetoric and penchant for theatrics, they're nothing special though - they, along with the other major militant groups like Al-Nusra and co only got a major foothold in Syria because of the US' policy to invent and arm 'moderate rebels' against the legitimate government. The US had a 'train and arm' program from the beginning, training and arming 'moderate rebels' to fight the Syrian Army. Mid 2015 audits showed that for the millions of dollars they spent (I think it was 5-10 but haven't got an article open) they had trained ~30 militants of whom 25 had been killed or defected and the majority of arms they were given had been sold off or traded to ISIS/AN. So what did they do? Drop the training part of the program and simply airdrop them arms. Without US and general western intervention, there wouldn't have been a civil war - it would've been small pockets of insurgency or terrorism that could've been dealt with a number of ways.
And that's not even mentioning the 2-year bombing campaign that did nothing to stop the groups they were claiming to be fighting, or the UK immediately destroying Syrian infrastructure (power stations and oil drilling equipment) the moment their parliament gave permission for the military to be used against ISIS. -
2016-04-18 at 1:26 AM UTC in Lmfao, the US is going to be a political fuckfest for the next 5 years minimum.considering how hard hillary's backed the last few 'wars' (I use the term war loosely considering raining multimillion dollar munitions onto countries without a functioning air force seems more like kicking a puppy to me), the US is probably more likely to cause more international havoc under her than trump.
you're right, hillary supports the status quo, but it's the same status quo that leveled iraq, libya and syria while your own public infrastructure falls apart.
and, it wouldn't be incorrect to say the sky is falling in terms of US dominance and the current economic system; such outliers being present in the election are more a symptom of that than the end result
