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2018-01-04 at 1:11 PM UTC in Florida being this cold is an affront to God
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2018-01-04 at 1:10 PM UTC in Florida being this cold is an affront to God
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2018-01-04 at 1:09 PM UTC in Whenever I see that the last post of a thread in my subscriptions was by captain falcon, I don't click it.
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2018-01-04 at 1:08 PM UTC in Donald Trump is legitimately mentally retarded.
Originally posted by aldra China and Russia haven't blocked sanctions outright because they know that the US will throw a tantrum and jump straight into a military 'solution'. If you look at what actually happened with the latest sanctions, the US had planned to cut all petroleum imports into North Korea by something like 80-90% but China argued it down to 80-90% of REFINED petroleum imports without affecting CRUDE petroleum, which NK is fully capable of refining in large volumes.
The US' recent statement on Jerusalem is a perfect example of their declining influence - almost the entire UN voted to condemn the move, including presumed US allies such as Canada, NZ and most of Europe and further, almost every Islamic (see: middle-eastern) country has directly condemned it and stated they no longer consider the US to be part of (or even working towards) the peace process… Including KSA, Jordan and ostensibly NATO-allied Turkey.
Without going into it too much, US world dominance relies mainly on their military, the petroleum market (essentially taking cuts of every transaction and manipulating prices to control development of friendly and hostile countries) and the world financial system, all of which are being directly challenged. Russian military has been almost fully modernised and arguably exceeds the US in areas such as missile and ECM tech and have demonstrated their quality in Syria and the Ukraine. Russia and China are floating gold-based currencies and if they gain enough support, will drop the value of the USD through the floor. They've also been building their own financial structures to counteract existing US-controlled staples like SWIFT and the IMF, minimising the possibility of unilateral sanctions and manipulation. More and more countries are refusing to trade oil in USD and instead demanding Euros or their own currency - they can't simply be bullied or bombed into submission like Iraq and Libya. The main goal of OBOR or whatever they call it now is to create integrated trade networks that aren't affected by US control of shipping lanes.
Yeah that's something that I think about a fair bit; every system is open to corruption in one way or another - the oligarchs from the US and Europe are likely to find a way to get their hooks into whatever new system emerges. I don't know.
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2018-01-04 at 1:07 PM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
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2018-01-04 at 5:32 AM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
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2018-01-04 at 5:31 AM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
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2018-01-04 at 5:27 AM UTC in Whenever I see that the last post of a thread in my subscriptions was by captain falcon, I don't click it.
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2018-01-04 at 5:22 AM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
Originally posted by Vizier I got a card from some sled race they do in Alaska from him once.
You're not Vizier
Also I remember him saying he lived in a tiny cabin with like a dozen cats and a matress with maggots on it, and that his wife lived in another place like 45 miles away. He also mentioned he was like half cherokee or whatever, although you can clearly see he's anglo as fuck.
This is now a Greyfox/Armsmerchant thread.
Originally posted by -SpectraL It's the real Vizier, guise. The genuine article.
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2018-01-04 at 5:21 AM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
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2018-01-04 at 5:20 AM UTC in DOOM IS ON!!!
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2018-01-04 at 5:18 AM UTC in Sobriety kinda sucks
Originally posted by Vizier Yeah your head is clear, you don't feel like shit all the time and you've got little to no social life anymore. Woopity fucking doop. Whatever happened to Greyfox anyway? Does Spectral still shitpost about the admins of whatever site he is in? Do people still go to tinychat?
Also happy new years, niggas.
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2018-01-04 at 5:17 AM UTC in Whenever I see that the last post of a thread in my subscriptions was by captain falcon, I don't click it.
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2018-01-03 at 8:26 PM UTC in Whenever I see that the last post of a thread in my subscriptions was by captain falcon, I don't click it.
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2018-01-03 at 8:23 PM UTC in Donald Trump is legitimately mentally retarded.
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Sploo, you are a drug addled basement dweller with no job, no friends and a high school education. You are in your 20s and have no skills. Your brain is not functioning better than anyone. Even Malice actually plans to go to college. Even fucking Malice.
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2018-01-03 at 8:21 PM UTC in Donald Trump is legitimately mentally retarded.
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2018-01-03 at 1:56 PM UTC in Trump calls for Patriots to Scam Amazon in 2018
Originally posted by aldra https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/01/dumb-and-dumber-trump-on-amazon-and-the-postal-service/
Counter Punch is a radical left wing rag which is only published 6 times per year.
here's an alternative breakdown… it looks like the study Trump's working from includes the ongoing cost of long-term government pensions as part of the cost of doing business with Amazon - they make less money per delivery, but due to the sheer scale of deliveries they still make significant profit - preallocating pensions pushes those costs way past anything sustainable -
2018-01-03 at 11:19 AM UTC in Whenever I see that the last post of a thread in my subscriptions was by captain falcon, I don't click it.
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2018-01-03 at 11:18 AM UTC in Donald Trump is legitimately mentally retarded.
Originally posted by aldra Doesn't matter. Up until now (since Kissinger) the US has positioned itself as a mediator or arbiter in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. By recognising Jerusalem as solely Israeli, they've completely denied one of the core points being 'negotiated' - ie. which parts of Jerusalem (or Al-Quds as the Muslims call it) fall under each side's control.
The US never sincerely took the Arabs' interests seriously and always sided with Israel, which is the main reason why negotiations consistently fail… Which is why this is a good thing for the rest of the world - nobody can argue that the US is impartial anymore, and virtually all Islamic countries (including US vassals like KSA and Jordan) made a unanimous statement that they no longer consider the US as part of the 'peace process'.
Essentially, the two-state solution is dead and the only two outcomes are full and equal citizenship for Palestinians (lol) or open war. Again.
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2018-01-03 at 2:06 AM UTC in Donald Trump is legitimately mentally retarded.Why should anyone in America give a fuck what a Paki faggot thinks about our president?
