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kangolcone posted...

Show me the books a liberal school board has banned.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/05/08/book-banning-is-a-bipartisan-game/

BlackScythe0 posted...

A few? You jest. You are comparing kids on the internet complaining to people in positions of governmental authority banning things.

I mean, to be fair, school libraries themselves tend to be overwhelmingly liberal so a lot of books that might get banned by Democrats are never let in at all. That's why the Democrats are often focused more on banning classic works of literature -- things already in the collections -- while Republicans frequently make headlines for trying to block more modern stuff.

BlackScythe0 posted...

They can't tell the difference.

...says a guy known for his wildly disingenuous comparisons.

kangolcone posted...

After a brief search, it would appear that this happened first in Mississippi in 2017. You know, that famous liberal enclave known as the state of Mississippi.

>Says no cherrypicking
>Advances an outrageously cherrypicked excuse

But then again, he'd have to advance stuff like that when the famous conservative enclave known as New Jersey and equally conservative areas were pushing for Huck Finn's ban.

adjl posted...

It can, yes. Ultimately, the concept boils down to "I don't like something about you, so I'm not going to support you anymore."

...that's not what it fucking is. You're just completely redefining shit.

adjl posted...

I can't say that I have any concrete figures, given that I was not part of the group in question, but I'd estimate that a solid third (if not half) of my grade 7 class (12-13) was sexually active.

Either that's hyperbolic or hyper... well, drawing a blank on the word. Anyway, I'm probably calling bullshit on it being that high. That might be the number of students who wish they were sexually active, but it's probably not the number.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Duh

This, pretty much. Income is income.

pionear posted...

So you gotta pay Taxes on Food Stamps too?

But they also took out some Taxes while giving it to me as well, so...

afaik, food stamps aren't classified as income. They're a benefit.

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Disability isn't at least.

That I find surprising.

Lokarin posted...

of course, you could always start a church - then not only are you tax exempt but you don't even have to report your income

Not really how it works. People who get paid by the church are still supposed to report income. Basically, you're describing doing things illegally, which is always an option.

Full Throttle posted...

The star skier turned her back on Team USA and instead chose to represent China and promote the games worldwide despite being born and raised in San Francisco and attended high school in America.

China is weird in that it often claims "ownership" of any Chinese person anywhere, even if they haven't set foot in the country. Granted, in this case you'd probably have a reasonable argument for lineal citizenship because her mother was an immigrant.

Full Throttle posted...

Is Eileen Hot?

Yes.

Revelation34 posted...

That's not how nationality works.

That's just how it goes... in America.

MetalGarurumon posted...

why didn't his parents give him a name

I shall name him Moonchild!

pionear posted... You can have Dual Citizenships in some places

I think he means that it's not how dual citizenship works. Dual citizens are always citizens of both nations, it's not a one-or-the-other deal (excluding rare cases where one nation doesn't recognize the other citizenship but acknowledges its half -- other nations often make people choose)

Lokarin posted...

Anyone else notice that Fight Club and Goldeneye have basically the same plot?

They don't at all, although both villains kinda want to do something similar for very different reasons. That's not even close to "basically the same plot" because one is a spy thriller and the other is hard to categorize.

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I mean more the series in general, Janus (006 Trevelyan) is Bond too, the whole duality of the brothers, but really just a child fractured by the death of his parents and the lengths he went to get revenge and take power, to become the very thing that killed his parents.

The entire MI6 program largely recruits orphans so you're going to see that as a parallel time and time again, not just because of lazy writing but because it's a centerpiece of the program.

Yes, mostly wired earbuds. I don't believe I own wireless alternatives for either, although with the amount I've spent on wired ones that eventually went bad, I might as well just bought wireless in some cases.

A Blaziken would be an interesting challenge, and I'm not sure how successful I'd be in hunting or killing it. Plus, as a humanoid Pokemon, it would feel too weird to try to eat.

Other than Pokemon Go, I'm in the same boat -- unless there was another guaranteed shiny.

And even something like Crystals 50% shiny chance from that one egg didn't pan out for me.

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GameReviews posted...

8.) "And while I dislike Canada's disdain for civil liberties, etc," - Canada does not have "a disdain for civil liberties". Canada is actually ranked much higher than the US is in terms of most objective measures of personal liberty.

The "rankings" are generally meaningless given that Canada doesn't believe in precepts like free speech, and locks people up if the government decides claims are untrue. Canada in general is much more restrictive when it comes to a HUGE number of things, and made headlines when it locked somebody up over manga some years ago

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9.) "at least Canada's cities haven't been descending into violent chaos because awful officials refuse to keep control." - What has been the percentage increase in violence in the US throughout the past year? The past 2 years? I'd be interested in knowing where you are getting this from. Are you claiming that this violence is caused by immigrants? We know there are statistics showing that immigrants are much less likely to commit crimes than US citizens.

Again, you're pleading from ignorance. You're claiming to not know about things that have pretty consistently been in the headlines over the past few years, and I suspect you must know better. And then you randomly try to suggest it has something to do with immigrants apropos of nothing (although, to be fair, at least SOME of it concerns Mexican gangs and illegal immigrants have been in the news for murdering US citizens... and then getting away with it. However, afaik it's not the bulk of the increase and it's weird that you're jumping there when I said nothing about it).

For context because you don't seem to know much about the US or Canada, 2019 to 2020 saw a 30% increase in murders in the US.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/

It was one part of a much larger crime wave that's dominated the news to some extent.

This would have taken you two seconds to google.

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10.) "And both countries' leaders are complete fucking losers and plagued with allegations of corruption, so that's a wash." - I'm not sure if you're comparing Trump or Biden to Trudeau. Either way, Trump has both Biden and Trudeau beaten by a country mile in terms of corruption allegations. Neither Trudeau nor Biden has anything particularly credible or alarming in terms of corruption allegations against them yet.

...I'm not sure if you're believing serious or straight-up trolling, but obviously I'd talk about the CURRENT leaders, but if you want to toss Trump in there, too, you do you. And considering Trudeau had a major scandal in recent years, it underscores how little you know about Canada.

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11.) "once upon a time, I'd say the US was worlds better. But things aren't so great in the US right now, which evens it out." - Statistically, Canada was never really far behind the US in many measures, at least since the seventies.

ie, "Canada wasn't far behind the US except for all that time it was far behind the US" -_-

Granted, "in many measures" is weasel words anyway. If you go from living in Canada to the US -- excluding some states (and which ones those are can depend on your issues with Canada) -- it was pretty fucking night and day.

GameReviews posted...

They both have their pros and cons, but your analysis is so riddled with factual inaccuracies, it's almost hard to even debunk all of them or have a productive conversation about it when someone is this far off base.

Your rebuttal -- if you can even call it that -- was based on lies, distortions, repeated many of the same points which you wrong on in the first place, and demonstrated such a stunning ignorance of both nations that I wonder if you've paid attention to either one, let alone lived in either. Frankly, after everything you've claimed, I wonder if you could even find North America on a globe.

GameReviews posted...

As someone who has lived in both the US and Canada, there's so much misinformation in this post, it is astounding.

As someone who has lived in both the US and Canada -- and learned a good deal about their systems beyond that -- I can assure you it's fairly accurate.

GameReviews posted...

"Getting into Canada on a fake Visa is harder than getting into the US on a fake Visa"

Problem 1 - You literally reversed what I asked. Are all of your "points" going to be like this?

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2.) "Canada's deportation system is more efficient than the US"- I'm not really sure what you mean by this. Do you mean Canada spends less per capita and deportation? I would guess that is probably true, because Canada tends to be more efficient than the US in general, and also places less importance on hunting down a legal immigrants. Do you mean that Canada has a hawkish deportation policy that just gets rid of everyone who is illegal, therefore it efficiently eliminates illegals? Likely not true.

No, specifically because Canada's services are integrated. If you go to a doctor or hospital in Canada, you're going to have your legal status found. Besides the fact the US's fragmented health care and other systems don't flag on that, the US has a slew of safe haven laws in many areas where it's illegal to report immigration status.

US fugitives tend to get caught pretty quickly in Canada because of this. But this is something you would specifically only know if you watched crime documentaries so your ignorance is understandable.

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3.) "Canada takes illegal immigration 'more seriously' than the USA" - again, what does this mean? If you mean Canada provides more opportunities for people to legally immigrate, therefore reducing the need for people illegally immigrate, you would be correct. If you mean Canada is more harsh on, or invests more time, money, and resources into hunting down and expelling illegal immigrants than the US does, you would be wrong. The US by far puts more time, money, effort, and political capital into illegal immigration than Canada ever has.

Enforcement in Canada is far more robust than in the US. I feel like many of your arguments are just pleading from ignorance and filling in the blanks with absolute nonsense. Well, nonsense and apparently deliberate misinformation because your "spends more" argument is looking at a total where the US has more initial illegal immigration and a lot of the US's spend is on the courts system rather than "hunting people down" like you seem to suggest.

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4.) "Canada's system makes it almost impossible to live there illegally" - I don't think this is true. This would be a very hard point for you to prove. But I have seen case studies such as a lady in Vancouver who lived there for something like 60 years illegally a few years back. I guess in order to make this point, you you need to gather information such as the average duration of time illegal immigrants live in each country before being "caught" and then compare them. But in my research, it seems that Canada does not keep as thorough immigration statistics as the US does, mainly because Canadians just aren't obsessed with illegal immigration in the way that the US seems to be.

It's actually a very easy point to prove, for the reasons previously mentioned. If you don't have access to essential services, it's very hard to live in a country. And, again, the span of time the AVERAGE illegal immigrant is able to live in the US is far longer than Canada. As for outliers, I'm sure the US has more illegal immigrants who have been here for over 60 years.

The number was bandied about in a number of crime and other documentaries, but I can't remember the reports they cited and, considering you've exclusively acted in bad faith, I don't feel like trying to track it down.

GameReviews posted...

5.) "Canadian cities don't frequently suffer widescale unrest and have people trying to get rid of police departments." - I feel like this is a disingenuous attempt at a "hot take" but I will say this. Canada has many opponents and protesters of the police in general. While I don't think Canadians are as likely to violently protest as people in the US are, that doesn't just apply to people protesting against police brutality. The US just has higher violence in general than Canada does.

You lose the ability to claim something is disingenuous when you agree with it on every level. Canada hasn't had the kinds of problems the US has had in this arena. It's a simple statement of fact. While you could draw whatever other conclusions you want, this isn't an issue impacting Canada.

GameReviews posted...

7.) "Well, I hate Canada's medical system (even discounting the level of care could have proved lethal)" - are you claiming that Canada's medical system is "lethal"? Again, what does that mean? All data that I am aware of points to the fact that Canada's medical system is both more efficient, and more effective for the majority of citizens than the US system is.

Canada's level of care could have killed me when I lived there, given the excessive wait time I experienced back then -- and I had other issues when dealing with their medical systems. The fact you pretend you haven't makes me wonder if you ever lived in Canada, because my experience -- when described to other Canadian residents -- didn't seem uncommon.

Full Throttle posted...

Do you think owning pitbulls should be banned?

That or heavily restricted. There laws restricting who can own a tiger, there should laws restricting pitbulls.

Zareth posted...

There was only 1 pitbull, the other was a German Sheppard mix. You said it right in your post.
Proof that there are other breeds that are just as dangerous.

Just because two dogs were involved doesn't mean one wasn't more aggressive or dangerous but, as a general rule, most bigger dogs should require special handlers' licenses and anybody who owns said dogs without a license should be subject to prison time.

Zareth posted...

Tyler Durden died on the way back to his home planet

tbh, my first thought.

So the problem isn't COVID, but hospitals' refusal to provide adequate treatment?

kind9 posted...

What are some things Trump did to make America better? I thought all he ever did was tweet all day about how everybody left of center is your enemy trying steal your country?

Considering Trump was historically left of center and a key Democrat donor, this claim is laughable. Otherwise, that's an example of media propaganda trying to bury him. Keep in mind the mainstream Republican establishment was so opposed to his candidacy that Romney released a diss track and urged voters to split the vote so they could give the election to Ted Cruz. You know, the same Ted Cruz is actually IS on the far-right, rather than Trump who, at most, is a right-leaning centrist.

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Instead, it has been replaced with a caption explaining to audiences that the authorities arrived just in time to save the day.

There's something awesomely cheeky about this. It's just so fucking low effort.

mrduckbear posted...

A 23 y/o unemployed Wisconsin Man has been found guilty of the gruesome murder and dismembering of his PARENTS after they caught him lying about being a police SCUBA DIVER and working for SPACEX!!

How'd they figure it out?!

mrduckbear posted...

He murdered his parents on July 1st after his Dad caught him lying about attending Madison Area Technical College and then claiming he worked for aerospace company SpaceX and as a police scuba diver and for the American Family Insurance Company

I mean, I feel like he should have lied less ambitiously. It's a leap to go from a technical school to SpaceX, etc, unless the technical school is MIT.

mrduckbear posted...

Police collected ashes from the fireplace in their home which contained human remains and it was said that Chandler CHOPPED their HEADS off and put it in a POKER in the FIREPLACE so it would destroy any evidence from dental records.

I feel like the story already established the kid was a fucking idiot, but... jfc, what an idiot. A fireplace shouldn't get anywhere near hot enough for cremation.

Revelation34 posted... You forgot to post pictures of the girlfriend.

tbh, I was curious

I feel like the important part of the story is never discussed -- why he chopped down the tree in the first place.

Huh. Didn't see that one coming. Then again, I guess it's women protesting for the right to autonomy over their own body so liberals should 100% support it.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Characters are all still average at best and the villains are lame.

Yeah, they really put zero effort into those. The series is sold entirely on its visuals.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Basic plot is people occasionally come from japan into this fantasy world and always bring disaster with them. One of our main character is tasked with killing everyone who comes over to prevent the disasters but she runs into one girl she just can't kill and of course develops feelings for her over time.

Nice premise.

darkknight109 posted...

For a position like SCOTUS justice, there is no unarguably "best candidate" - just a bunch of very highly qualified candidates. If you can't find a candidate that meets the criteria of "black" (the second or third largest racial group in the US, depending on whether or not you're separating Hispanics from non-Hispanic whites) and "woman" (roughly half the population), it's not because there aren't any who are qualified, it's because you're not looking.

That's a facetious and generally weak argument from any number of perspectives. It posits the false idea that everybody is equally qualified -- which certainly isn't the case when you're picking somebody with relatively little experience because they check off certain boxes (be it intangibles like beliefs or something like demographics) over a far more experienced candidate simply because the more experienced candidate is the "wrong" race, gender, orientation, or creed. While there's always going to be gray room when it comes to the "best" candidate (and that can vary depending on expectations), there's obviously going to be some huge variation in terms of quality.

darkknight109 posted...

If you can't find a candidate that meets the criteria of "black" (the second or third largest racial group in the US, depending on whether or not you're separating Hispanics from non-Hispanic whites) and "woman" (roughly half the population), it's not because there aren't any who are qualified, it's because you're not looking.

I feel like this glaringly misleading statement deserves additional criticism. Women make up about 50% of the general population, but only 33% of judges. Meanwhile blacks account for 12-13% of the general population, they only make up THREE-PERCENT of judges. This is across ALL judicial positions, not just the actually relevant ones, where the numbers are going to be smaller. You're literally eliminating NINETY-NINE-PERCENT of all judges on the basis of those two criteria (which, again, are criteria that have NOTHING to do with performance). Now I want you to sit there, think about what you just fucking tried to claim, and justify within your own mind why you're not completely wrong on every conceivable level before trying to convince me of that.

I feel like there's something inherently problematic (if not racist) about specifically choosing something like that as a criteria (and even more so when broadcasting it). Ideally, you should be looking for the best candidate -- although, I realize, SCOTUS nominations (and most government posts) rarely go to the best candidate. A great case-in-point would be Justice Kagan who had zero judicial experience prior to becoming a SCOTUS justice.

The lack of nude scenes just banned my interest.

And they still wonder why audiences are dwindling far, far, far faster than the ice caps.

I always have mixed feelings about shit like this. While his behavior was awful, his son almost died due to some asshole's negligence so a certain amount of anger is understandable.

BlackScythe0 posted...

So this extremely wealthy man goes to a place where people who don't have mommy and daddy paying everything for them work and decides to assault them because he sees them as less than human.

Your shit takes are always so incredibly consistently shit. I mean, jfc.

Mad_Max posted...

You don't commit acts of violence and spew racist hatespeech and then turn around and say "this isn't who I am" because you got fucking caught and are seeing the consequences of your behavior. No, motherfucker. That's exactly who you are.

That's at least partly bullshit because pretty much anybody can be pushed to violence under the right circumstances. And while racist remarks may seem different at face value, people trying to get under other peoples' skin will often use anything at their disposal whether or not it conforms to their beliefs. In some cases, this can include slurs against their own group.

Amusement was had.

jfc... Mulan without songs and a dragon, a race-swapped Snow White without any dwarves... like, wtf is the point of this shit?

Unbridled9 posted...

I'm confused. First off, they're not humans, they're dwarves. An entire species. Secondly, maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but they're all portrayed relatively positively, and heroically right? Not disabled or anything of the sort.

After a certain point, I suspect outrage artists have to just be doing this for attention. Especially since Dink should know better.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Dude straight up said The Bible was the first book ever created and that everything before it was just scrolls and tablets.

While it's open for interpretation, I feel like it might *technically* be a possibility because the first book would likely have been a religious one and Christianity was prominent. I'm not sure what context or significance there was behind the remark, though.

Not for nothing, but I doubted she had the money anyway.

Revelation34 posted...

"The mother called 5-0 and Taylor was arrested and is now charged with the sale or purchase of a child"

How is she being charged with something she didn't do?

Solicitation, I should think.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

attempted murder doesn't exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQQPNQ0PFSc

GastroFan posted...

Only in Texas story

Nothing about this screams Texas. It could literally happen anywhere.

GastroFan posted...

but not surprising considering what's going on at the Supreme Court with the upcoming abortion decision.

...what?

GastroFan posted...

If I was that mother who this woman tried to buy the baby from, I'd make sure that I have a home security system and never let my kid out of my sight at any time since you don't know what this woman might do next to get the kid.

Considering it was a random approach in a public area, that feels ridiculously overboard. More importantly, you'd be better off with a gun than a security system since a kidnapping will happen faster than the cops can get there.

Rowlet by far. However, the Typhlosion silhouette and typing is intriguing.

MetalGarurumon posted...

what sucks is that all three are my favorite starters of their respective generation

Rowlet is my fave from that gen, and those other two gens had starter sets I didn't like (although I think I went with Tepig; gen 2 I've just done whatever).

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Have you not heard of the Night Wolves, Vlad's biker buddies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves#Intervention_in_Ukraine

...are you claiming that the US can fund this group to block Russian influence? Because they're a pro-Russia group.

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Russia has always been second or third rate power though, their history has been them trying to get the rest of Europe to recognize them as a major player; it was only the advent of nuclear weapons that made them the major figure of the 20th century.

Russia has always been a major player, the limit of their influence has less to do with their lack of power and more to do with how far away they are. The countries with the the greater influence tend to be more centrally located because, and this is true, being NEAR the the center of activities gives you a greater ability to influence those activities.

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That describes every president back to Eisenhower, and probably quite a few before that as well. Under Hoover's FBI it was called COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Not even close -- because we've NEVER seen surveillance on anything close to this level, among other issues -- but okay.

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Obama's approach was working though,

lolwut? No, it wasn't. At all. Unless you mean it worked in getting Russia to reclaim Crimea, at which point I guess that's a *kind* of working.

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but Moscow Mitch decided that the power of the Republican party was more important then the safety and security of the free world.

Calls Obama by name, calls McConnell Moscow Mitch -- and this is all after that big facetious show of claiming non-partisanship.

Also LOL @ the actual claim

Going over the gallery is wtf, considering posts like these were believed offensive and controversial:

https://i.imgur.com/9Bv1VGG.png

https://i.imgur.com/o8sEJlj.png

And there are a LOT of posts along those lines in there. Beyond that, there are posts showing BLM rioters assaulting people (including an elderly priest) where, at least in those cases, you could argue there's a little controversy because highlighting violent and criminal behavior paints the riots in a negative light (and she apparently shared a photo that misattributes the pictured victim as being the woman George Floyd assaulted during his home invasion, which is more of a fact-checking issue). However, there's no single smoking gun; at most you have some edgelord memes that wouldn't be a blip on the map if a more offensive version was posted by a leftist.

First, "tweets" not "twitts".

Second, they apparently weren't even tweets in the first place, looking over the gallery. It mostly looks like Facebook posts (which, when you see the memes, makes sense).

And the alleged "racist posts" just seem to be anti-BLM, pro-cop statements, and criticism of the media's racist handling of coverage -- such as the fact a torture, mutilation, rape, and murder of a white couple didn't get much coverage because the victims were white and perpetrators black (which, considering I didn't hear about the incident -- despite the fact it's fucking insane -- has something of a point. Even years after the fact, this is the FIRST I'm hearing of this, which is unsurprising given the media's way of burying stories like these.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom

Considering Biden's approval numbers, I can see a justice looking for a heavily-partisan replacement to step down while Democrats still have some measure of control.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Years after that generation was relevant. In that time, Microsoft stopped reporting how much the Xbox 360 sold, because it didn't matter.

As a piece of revisionist history, I think this is adorable.

DragonClaw01 posted...

I greatly disagree with this logic. If anything, thrust makes more sense on a battlefield due to the close quarters nature of combat. It is hard to do much more than an overhand chop in a formation and even then that is kind of dangerous unless you are using some type of polearm like a halberd or something. That is why most infantry weapons were spears or thrusting swords such as gladius. It allows for a really tight formation that is hard to defeat, well at least until guns entered the picture. Plus it makes the combat much more linear so it is easier to land your thrusts. A circling opponent will be harder to land up line up a good thrust with.

...you're talking about "the close quarters nature of combat" then bringing up spears, which makes zero sense. Then you're citing far-earlier weapon use (prior to the rapier's invention -- the gladius (which, by the way, is ALSO a slashing sword and was often a back-up weapon) only predates the rapier by thousands of years -- and scenarios like formation fighting where, afaik, the rapier was never used (nor would it be used, because it's not a great battlefield weapon given the obvious issues with a long thin blade -- I mean, seriously, look at those other penetrating weapon you cited: spears had a relatively short blade, the gladius has a short (wide) blade, and bayonets are a short blade -- among other reasons, over-penetration was an issue and there was a benefit tot causing a larger wound).

DragonClaw01 posted...

Rapiers were popular on the battlefield until the bayonet came into existence. Napoleons musketeers where equipped with rapiers for instance and the swiss guard still carry rapiers today. It wasn't exactly uncommon on the battlefield

Uh....?

https://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/infantry_tactics_2.htm

Napoleon's musketeers used sabers, not rapiers. And Napoleon's forces had bayonets. When you made both claims, I was scratching my head because I've never heard that claimed nor seen it depicted in historical fiction.

DragonClaw01 posted...

Mainland Europe had a disposition towards rapiers,

Offhand, I can't think of one nation that favored them over sabers as a battlefield weapon, but it might have been a lesser player.

Zareth posted...

This is absolutely nothing like that. People were calling Obama Hussein (his middle name) to remind people of Saddam Hussein and make them think he was foreign and dangerous.

I mean, a president who raids news offices, engages in wiretapping journalists' phones, tortures whistleblowers, justifies the use of drones to assassinate US citizens without benefit of trial, argues in favor of spying on the entire nations' emails, and so much more, is objectively dangerous.

wpot posted...

He should stay on message with his NATO allies better, but otherwise he doesn't have any cards that he's not playing. Sucking up to Putin and "building bridges" isn't the way to go.

Apparently diplomacy is never the answer, and any attempt at normalizing relations with another super-power is "sucking up"

Judgmenl posted...

Worst case scenario it's another Syria. Just a shitty proxy war nobody actually cares about.

I mean, the reason Syria dragged on is because nobody is getting directly involved. If Russia directly takes over, that's not really a proxy. However, if they install a proxy government -- which is unlikely because the previous Russian-backed leader was driven into exile by the public -- then you might get something closer to a Syria, although Ukraine doesn't have native terrorist groups right now who can run resistance, nor are agenda-driven groups likely to move into the region.

wpot posted...

McConnell shares some blame there, maybe. but - frankly - the calculus was the same then as it was today: the US and NATO simply weren't/aren't going to start WW3 over Ukraine and Putin is willing to call that bluff. This result has always been inevitable if Russia chose to focus on 'spheres of influence'.

Contrarians wring their hands over Mitch McConnell, but everybody fucking knows there was no chance of direct US involvement in Crimea from Obama because the decision would be wildly unpopular among Americans who already hate our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mitch's critics are discussing fantasy, pure and simple. Especially since, as you note, nobody is going to start anything huge over Ukraine.

Revelation34 posted...

Cool. I'd rather have the new Elder Scrolls though.

This.

Lokarin posted...

What is Russia's stake in this anyways? From their point of view, why attack Ukraine?

Because Ukraine ousted its Russian-friendly leader years ago and recognizes Ukraine's defection to the West as yet another attempt to sequester and weaken Russian influence -- which, by the way, is absolutely the West's motivation in trying to bring Ukraine into the fold. The West has been trying to systematically neutralize Russia's power since... well, more recently the creation of NATO following WWII. However, historically it goes back even further.

BlackScythe0 posted...

This isn't a situation where a 9 year old needs to be told to cry. It is natural for them to cry. They are 9 and don't have a fucking clue what is going on. I hope the parents lose custody for putting their child in this situation.

Yet another stunningly awful post from BS0. jfc, why are you so fixated on stealing kids from parents?

BlackScythe0 posted...

The child does not appear to have handcuffs on, [REDACTED] do you expect the officers to just arrest everyone else and leave her there by herself?

...does BS0 honestly believe that it's only an arrest when handcuffs are used?

adjl posted...

Had 6 BLM protesters broken into a building, they would have been similarly arrested.

Unlikely, because they pick and choose when to enforce that stuff.

Touche.

When you go from a heavily regimented life to an unregimented one, there's going to be massive adjustments.

mrduckbear posted...

and America is big on fast food.

Fast food has almost nothing to do with America's weight issues, and it's the most ridiculous scapegoat ever.

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I want to hope that Vlad is just pushing Western resolve

I mean, do you also just call Biden Joe? Such a weird fucking thing, like people were calling Obama Hussein.

Judgmenl posted...

Anything new happen or just more fear mongering?

Saber rattling has intensified. The US evac'd a bunch of people from the embassy in Ukraine. The thing is like nothing major can happen because the US won't directly engage Russia. And the conflict in general makes the Biden administration look like shit. But the thing is since Biden came into office burning bridges with Russia -- after Obama burned bridge after bridge with Russia -- they have nothing to pull on now.

At this point, the US is treating it like the takeover is a foregone conclusion. Take that what you will.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Has anyone actually ever met MetalGarurumon? I'm starting to think that this GameFAQs user doesn't actually exist.

Hmmmm....

EvilResident posted...

@ DeltaBladeX have you loosened up the rules here yet , seeing as nobody else wants in. ^_^

Delta does a lot of other giveaways so you could wait for one of those instead of spamming this one with low-effort pleas.

I mean, obviously it's there. It's not Wyoming.

blu posted...

magnet fishing

Now, is that fishing with magnets or fishing for magnets? I have so many questions!

The only one I recognize is Raven -- at least, I *think* that's Raven -- so no clue.

8 is cute, though.

Based purely on looks, idk, maybe 4 or 7.

Muscles posted...

I'm kinda surprised that many people know how to ride, I figured it would be a big majority but not 94%. I know but I also know a decent amount of people that don't

This, although a lot of statistics are wrong.

streamofthesky posted...

No. That's just the same old bs "both parties are the same" apathy.
Republicans are evil.
Democrats are spineless and inept.

Neither is good, but one is still clearly less bad.

No, they're both just different kinds of inept and evil. I don't view either side as being inherently more moral. More so, "morality" is generally used as a shortcut to avoid having to make rational justifications -- usually they're just appeals to emotion than even having any framework in actual morality. And both parties tend to be pretty flexible where their stated morality is concerned.

Beyond that, many of their "differences" are largely imagined or ascribed.

streamofthesky posted...

Neither is good, but one is still clearly less bad.

Both sides claim morality from a different standpoint. The "less bad one" depends on a person's so-called "morality"

streamofthesky posted...

Aside from both parties supporting the wealthy and corporations (Republicans more strongly and brazenly; Democrats to a lesser extent but also straight up lie about their platform vs. what they actually do), they're quite different.

I hate choosing the lesser evil too (I stay unaffiliated mostly just to express a middle finger to the system), but keeping Republicans out of power is the only way to protect the environment, prevent welfare programs from being cut, avoid having religious laws shoved down my throat, etc...

...except for the fact Democrats themselves would be making cuts to those welfare programs if Republicans aren't around. Likewise if it was just Republicans, they'd be expanding welfare programs at times -- for instance, we saw GWB expand entitlements.

As for "religious laws shoved down your throat," keep in mind Clinton signed DOMA, which is one of the things to come to mind when I think "religious law."

And Democrats tend to also have a spotty record where the environment is concerned, with many of the programs they champion mostly being token or for show. Likewise, a lot of environmental protections have been pioneered by Republicans. The idea that "Well, one party stands for this, so the other party is against it!" is often a false dichotomy. And most of the politicians wildly in favor of something radical are outliers.

I don't know the character, so I'd probably cross off Nintendo.

Offhand, looks like a Square-Enix or Capcom thing.

Full Throttle posted...

the answer as indeed #5. Nina. she carries a sword to battle so the majority got it wrong

Who are the other characters, though?

Saw it in my feed, looked kinda... eh.