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How bout the men get the guns, the women get the hijabs and we have to acknowledge that Muhamad is the true prophet of Allah. And, erm, you also have to give up bacon.

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I don't even know how a drive through pawn shop would work for purchases. Do you browse the items online and go to the pawn shop to pick them up? It seems like it would only be effective if you are pawning things

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Yeah, that is unfortunate that you can show off your upper body in a suit. I guess you will have to settle by alphaing the interviewer with your massive grip strength in the handshake phase.

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Zareth posted...

Hufflepuff is for people who suck

Yeah, I guess this can be an alternative interpretation :/

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Yeah, I don't know what is so special about little boys that people are willing to risk, jail, humiliation & possibly death for, but I can say that is one of those things I am happy to be ignorant of. Although, the dude does look like he is peak soy, so there is that

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I never understood why Slytherin is even allowed to stand at Hogwarts. Let's see:

Griffendore: The brave ones go here
Ravenclaw: The smart ones go here
Hufflepuff: The hard working ones go here
Slytherin: The racist scoundrels that do nothing but bully other students go here

Congratulations you are house Slytherin. It is your destiny to be a douche bag.

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OhhhJa posted...

Has he ever competed in any major tournaments? Like highly televised events? Because we're talking about possibly the greatest boxer of all time. Just sayin

He is a professional level boxer, but there no way he is the greatest of all time. He wasn't even the greatest of his time. Lennox Lewis pretty much used Tyson as a punching bag and Tyson even had that embarrassing loss against Buster Douglas. Hard to make a case for greatest

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

I mean, at 22 no one's beating Tyson period.

Lesnar, GSP, whoever

Prime Tyson would kill them all.

Tyson doesn't know the first thing about MMA. He would get taken to the ground and ground and pounded to death, choked out whatever. I mean he may get lucky and score a lucky knockout right away, but that is completely what he would rely on. The guy was not even that good at getting out of clinches in boxing, none the less a MMA clinch. I just feel the moment he starts getting grappled it is over for him and he is going to get grappled because he is a short fighter that needs to get in close to land punches.

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ASlaveObeys posted...

I have questions, is it pure boxing? Because I just watched his match from this year, and he'd still fuck me up in a boxing match.

If it's just a fight, I'd win. He is a 50 something year old man who I have weight and height on. I'd cover my head rush in and take him down. I've been in the game long enough to finish him with grappling.

I'd even say I have a moderate to fair chance if kicks are allowed. It's much closer if it stays striking only, but as long as it isn't pure boxing I'd say the risk reward ratio is worth it.

EDIT: if it wasn't to the death I'd take the fight for any amount of money, to the death, though, I need either kicks allowed or MMA style to even consider it.

That is true. If UFC is anything to go by, most boxers have terrible grapple skills and usually lose to grapplers. I would imagine a fight to death would have no rules, outside of a lack of weapons, so you probably can be pretty effective if you are good at grappling.

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Damn, that is a rough 39.

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I always figured it was to show off. Like, look how rich and successful I am, I can afford plastic surgery like a real celebrity. Although, it is pretty tacky and I doubt most dudes are into it, but women do a lot of things that are there to impress other women, not men necessarily. Most fashion seems to be that way, which is why I guess I don't understand it most of the time

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I am not much of a fighter, plus Tyson is a heavy weight whereas I am more of a super middle weight, so it would not be much of a match. The dude has like 50 pounds of muscle on me.

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Nanaue posted...

He had no way of knowing if she was unarmed and had to neautralize the threat.
He made the right call. It is unfortunate she died though. I am sad that some of my fellow liberals are celebrating someone's death.

On a side note the officer looks bad ass

Yeah, he could've. It is called eyesight. You can't just utilize lethal force without first assessing them as a immediate threat to the safety of yourself or others. All because there is a riot going on outside does not give you carte blanche authority to fire upon people. By that logic it would've been perfectly ok for the police to fire upon the BLM rioters with live ammo or even other people from the January 6th riot. It was pretty much a extrajudicial killing, as all inquiries into the shooting where completely dropped without investigation. It is easy to overlook it given the person he shooting, but there was no way it was justified in a legal sense.

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Active terrorist threat? She was unarmed. What type of terrorist is this? Dennis the Menace?

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To those that died, I salute you

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I don't know. I am 5'9 and feel short. It seems like everyone is a giant where I live. Even the woman are taller. I don't know what they feed these kids now a days.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDqXyppkt68

The song is a bit of a meme, since it was used ,classically, to pump up people for big events like a sports games and the like, but it is pretty good.

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The exercise helps burn the covid out of your system

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Gladiator definitely had the better techno trance remixes.

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You're a virgin for thinking that Rock the Dragon is better than Head Cha-La

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It was a combination of personal charisma, the fact that they he essentially finished off the cold war, leaving the US as the sole world power at the time and him turning the economy around after the 70s stagflation, which made him popular.

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Nanaue posted...

conspiracy theorists think dems are pouring immigrants in to change the country and make it blue.

I don't think it is much of a conspiracy theory. Non whites overwhelming vote for democrat, so the more non white immigrants you import the greater democratic base.

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Cacciato posted...

Allegedly. In the long run, as far as the vehicles are concerned l, I wouldnt be too worried. I know for a fact from personal use that the maintenance on at least 4 of those vehicles will leave them useless, and Id be very surprised if any of the aircraft will be able to get off the ground more than once.

the weapons are more concerning, but thats on us.

I would be interested to know where The Times got their information from though.

I have been seeing this float around. It says the GAO, but the only GAO report I found was weapons we gave the Afghan government from 2006 and onwards, which has numbers that align with this report, so they are assuming all material given to the Afghan government was captured, which is somewhat reasonable excluding depreciation. I mean, the small arms, body armor and nvgs are probably intact, but I am sure most of the vehicles given are non operational now, so the numbers are not perfect. Regardless, the Taliban should have enough supplies to solidify thier rule, which might have been the plan to start

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Yeah, chicks dig a man in Bass Pro shops woodland camo

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She is indeed a heifer

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Mead posted...

that isnt a Darwin Award thing dude, it was a freak accident

Yeah, it is final destination shit

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I doubt it will backfire, but it won't achieve what they want either. So instead of playing video games for the miniscule amount of time in between cram school sessions they will now watch tv and browse the internet. Honestly, the later is probably worse, but whatevs, the Chinese government is full of boomers and boomers love thinking that by ending video games everyone will be the next Steve Jobs or something

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I think the Banquet marketing team did a great job with the packaging and image, but you know that ultimately the actual meal will be a bland, salty, mushy mess, however green bean casserole is more of an appetizer than a lunch in my book ,so seems a bit wierd for lunch

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Gamers are a truly repressed class

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Send him back to hell again

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Mead posted...

theres no context that I see in this video so Im not gonna try to see if there is any and Im gonna imagine that he is talking about some shoplifters that I made up and not the protesters that were outside

It's not my job to see if there is any context it is the prosecutors job to show the context, you know the four w's: when, where, who and what. Outside of possibly the who, all are missing. The clip is so clipped that we are debating whether it is a shop lifter, a pedestrian or a protester that Kyle is talking about.

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Bulbasaur posted...

in no way, shape, or form, was it implied that anyone was shoplifting.

none.

i can guess why you immediately assumed that two innocent people leaving a store were shoplifting.

There is zero context at all for the video. I don't know when this was, where this was or what transpired before and after the video. Heck, there is even some question whether this could happen even be Kyle (probably can be confirmed by vocal analysis). This is just an out of context clip, so I don't know how you can say they weren't shoplifters or are for that matter. That is why I said "supposed shoplifters". Not that it matters the clip does not relate to the case well. We have to know the mindset of Kyle at the time of the alleged murders and whether it was justified self defence. I don't think this proves much outside of the prosecutor grasping at straws.


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Even ignoring its dubious sourcing and that is quite a thing to ignore from an unsourced video with a disembodied narrator. the video is nothing but insinuation anyways and means nothing. Kyle could be just trying to look like a tough guy. Saying that he was thinking about killing the supposed shoplifters if he had an AR is pure speculation and the court of law relies on evidence not innuendo.

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Black_Crusher posted...

That's all I remember him from.

"WE HAVE A WARP CORE BREACH!! EVACUATE ENGINEERING IMMEDIATELY!!"

I did like him in the Barclay episode and his interactions with Data, but he got loads of shitty character episodes like that episode where he was transforming into an invisible alien. As far as engineers go, O'Brian, Belana had better character episodes. Trip had some good ones, but I can't stand Trip, so that doesn't count for much. So, yeah, mostly "we have a warp core breach" from him.

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KodyKeir posted...

He was on death's door, we didn't find out the extent of his illness until after he left office.

Yeah, that whole saga was crazy. I remember hardcore Trumpers thought it was some type of master plan to show that the cough was nothing and the hardcore leftys thought he was dodging the debate or trying to get the sympathy vote, but ,yeah, when you saw him in the presser before he left to the hospital he look white as a ghost, then he got flown out to the hospital and it was radio silence for the three days, which by Trump standards is an eternity, so ,yeah, it was pretty bad.

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Mashing to break grabs is a pretty standard video game mechanic , so I don't know why this is such a revelation >.>

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Nah, probably just give you a stern look and a spanking

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Criminalt posted...

Because there are no other forms of pressure that China could exert on Taiwan to make to buckle, short of a massive, devastating invasion?

They have been trying the diplomatic solution to put pressure on Taiwan for many years, but it hasn't worked. Ultimately, keeping Taiwan around is pretty dangerous for China, since they have a strong claim over China and therefore are a rival to power. While PR has largely stopped them from invasion, the success of Hong Kong most likely showed China that they can be aggressive and brutal to at least people around their own region and still not endanger foreign relations, so to me an attack on Taiwan is inevitable.

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Jen0125 posted...

It's not uncommon for the property to be left due to the cost and risk of removing it. He's talking about property EXPENSE not potentional for lives lost due to the property.

I wonder how much that property is the US property and much is the Afghan armies property. I mean, all the aircraft is for the Afghan army (although, it is useless to the Taliban) and most of the M4s that the taliban soilders are carrying around look very new, almost like they never were used, which makes me think that they got them from a Afghan army stockpile, since the US ones are much more used typically. It would be hard to preemptly destroy the Afghan army stockpiles if you thought they where a going concern, which our intelligence community thought even as far back as early August, since we sent the Afghans a few blackhawks around that time.

streamofthesky posted...

Yup. Should've gone in, wrecked their shit, hunted Osama to the ends of the earth instead of letting him get away, wipe out the Taliban leaders that aided him, then said, "if you ever fuck with us again, we'll be back and it'll be even worse." And then left.

We even F-ed up on that part of the war. We had Osama in our sights 3 times, but since the US military is such a bureaucratic nightmare the ground troops where not authorized to attack him. Instead, they had to wait around for hours for the special forces to be briefed and arrive, which of course gave Bin Laden time to escape. So, Bin Laden escaping the biggest man hunt in history had less to do with him being the nephew of Harry Houdini, but rather our military being grossly incompetant. It was a similar thing with Sadam, until he decided to stay in one area.

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It wouldn't be worth risking potential nuclear war over. Plus even if you are just talking conventional weapons, fighting so near China gives them a massive advantage. It would be pretty easy to scuttle the US aircraft carriers with cruise missiles, then the US forces would be absolutely fucked. It would be a major fiasco.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

This is actually what I came to say. I don't know why exactly this decision was made, but most of their earning isn't actually from explicit content.

Agreed. Only Fans having hardcore porn is pretty much like Twitter having a unlimited character limit, heck even worse in some regards. Because the primary reason users of only fans, as sad is it is, is sad lonely men wanting the "girlfriend" experience. And even with the mountains of delusion nessecary for you to pretend this, if you see "your woman" getting dicked down by another dude that is a deal breaker. It is pretty much why no one cares about Bell Delphine anymore after she filmed her lame, boring porno, not that it matters too much for her given her mad bank she has. Regardless, porn would f up what they are trying to do there

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Picard. Patrick Stewart pretty much carries that show. The only actor that is even close in TNG is Brett Steiner, but ultimately Data is not going to tie everything together like Picard does.

DS9 had much better acting crew and characters in general, so it fell less on the captain to be good. Sisko is decent, but not mind blowing.

Janeway is an idiot for stranding the crew and makes consistently awful decisions and is just an inconsistent character. Ultimately, it does not matter, since the show becomes the Seven of Nine & Hologram Doctor show anyways and those characters kick ass.

Archer is an idiot, but not even an entertaining one like Janeway. Plus T'pol is an obnoxious mother hen that orbits him like a bad case of herpes, taking the fun out of every scene, so he also has that to contend with that as well. I did like his interactions with Shran though, but Enterprise needed a lot more.

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Monopoman posted...

Pretty sure on the initial plan to go into Afghanistan only a single person in politics voted against it. So, both sides basically thought it was a good idea barring that one person.

It was a totally different marketing pitch. Everyone was angry after 9/11. The Taliban harbored the people that did it, so the war was pitched as a punitive expedition. We go over, kill a bunch of terrorists and Taliban, Osama being top priority, then pat our selves on the back and leave. Building a functional democracy over there was never part of the ad

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Ogurisama posted...

You mean the one he set in motion?

Wasn't the withdraw date set to 5/1 by Trump in his agreement with the Taliban, then Biden completely ignored that for completely political reasons? I never heard any good explanation why he broke the deal and why he wasn't prepared for something like this after breaking said deal. Regardless, it just looks bad. I am happy to be out of that money pit

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FatBecky posted...

Well, they did do Gowron dirty in DS9

That lousy petaq had it coming

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Dan Green's sexy voice

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Yeah, 20 years to build and mere months for it to fall apart. We just don't build nations like we used to

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Lokarin posted...

My bro was always like "The enemies with 2 or even 3 immunities just make the game unplayable"

and I'm like... get hammerdin, wait, I mean get Spell Penetration/Resist Reduction

You and everyone else. Pretty much everyone rolls a hammerdin or blizz sorc since they are so effective, even with shitty gear.

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No point in protecting the poppies in the era of synthetic opiates. I am sure we still drone a few bad actors there from time to time. Really no point being there at all

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Lone-Wolf posted...

The Democrats wanted him out. That's why he resigned. Why did the democrats want him out? Maybe the Chinese want New York taken in a different direction?

The covid death rate in NY was embarrassingly high, the second highest in the nation and if NY was a country the 3rd highest in the world. It kind of screwed up the narrative that it was the Republican anti-maskers in red states that were driving up the US death rate (not saying that they aren't other variables at play, but that is the way the stats fell), so was a major embarrassment for the Democrats, so someone had to fall on their sword for their failure.

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