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oh okay
let me know if you ever get to the big island and I will commend you to the attention of the girl I know there. she was complaining about there not being enough people her age where she's at.
Well yeah, I get sovereignty.
What I meant to say was the nation still exists despite a lack of formal recognition. In any case my point is that the American military has no place to be there. Sure, the AU justifiably could hold a presence there but America? Not especially.
It's a regional matter, and sure there are repercussions worldwide etc etc but I still think the matter should be dealt with locally.
fakedit: yada yada, I don't really care about this topic. I just thought HamJ's post saying the US military should march in and try to fix shit was a real terrible idea.
Man you best not be dissing the best sketch Monty Python produced, at least in my opinion.
In the Dragon Age thread some PR person said that "every button will do something awesome" in Dragon Age 2.
There was like two pages of people who were like "I DONT WANT EVERY BUTTON TO DO SOMETHING AWESOME"
I was like, I do.
I stayed out of that thread for a few pages until everyone calmed down.
oh you weren't around for my chat post earlier
this girl I saw like two or three times back in september and then she up and moved to hawaii just drunk-texted me out of the blue tonight to tell me she misses me and KC and she is bored
I was like hmm, I know hawaiians
which is not something I often get to say
Also I was tempted to make Rush [chat] because I love them, but then Will would get mad.
this sucks
No, the nation doesn't actually exist. No sovereignty, no nation. There is land, there are people. But you need just a little bit more to actually be a nation. And there are more then regional implications. The implications are world wide because of the shipping being hijacked. Ignoring the simple financial losses, there are dangerous cargoes moving through there. The Russians lost a ship of tanks and heavy weapons just a few years back. If the pirates had found a buyer for it, there was the potential for the instability of the world to increase. There are petrochemicals and other toxins that move through the area. The sinking of one of those ships could do massive ecological harm. I understand that a shallow reading is enough for you to think you have an opinion of weight. But if such a shallow reading constitutes and effort for you, then perhaps you might find that staying away from topics like this is a good idea.
me neither SiG
and I have dungeons and dragons in six hours!
uh oh
you better get cracking
on uh
sleeping
Nope, just expressing a general bah.
Bad news: It's because they are putting off finishing and now I need to come in and work on Sunday.
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amazing
we refute that here every single day
I would love it if the EU, or even just the former colonial powers would stand up and help clean up the mess they made of Africa. I would love it if the AU could clean up the mess on their own, because it might be a sign that they are getting past some of the damage Europe inflicted. But the reality is that neither group is going to be able to. The EU won't because it's more complicated then a light peacekeeping mission and the AU has demonstrated that while they have the will, they lack the means.
haha I see this is not a problem you are used to being consulted on
A nation is a grouping of people who share real or imagined common history, culture, language or ethnic origin.
But yeah, maybe I should stay away from topics like this because I'm an idealist. I don't believe in interfering with other peoples' business. I hold on to my ideals fairly strongly though because otherwise we're just a lot of monkeys chaotically doing things to serve ourselves and that is depressing.
Thing is thom, even if I had an incredibly deep understanding of the issues I'm pretty sure that I'd still be idealistic about the situation.
edit: guys I'm just coming from a different starting point is all. That doesn't mean I'm wrong. There is no correct answer.
Also your tone is just a bit insulting.
it wasn't very fun and sort of tedious
I didn't play with people who were into it very much though
i could dig up a dozen posts (at least) where you're snide and dismissive about americans.
so, i mean- think about it. maybe there is an impetus to the sharp tone you catch from some people, whereas i (and kosh and thom) are generally gentler and more didactic when it comes to topics with which we're familiar.
a lot of it is about how you click with the group of people and how they all work together
all it takes is one or two people who - they don't even have to be jerks or malicious or anything - but if they just aren't into what's going on or want to do their own thing, it can all fall apart really easily.
it's a lot like improv in that respect.
Well, I'm trying to change.
we must make a blood contract
Except they don't really have a common culture, language or ethnic origin. They have a short lived shared history. They had 30 years as a country before the civil war broke out. Before that they were two countries. That short a shared history doesn't a country make. They aren't a nation.
And while having ideals is fine, poorly implemented ideals can be even more harmful in the long run. And the ideal of anti-intervention in Africa simply strikes me as Europeans dodging the responsibility for their actions. So I hold it in a fairly high degree of disdain. And as to my tone, normally I would apologize, but for you I make an exception.
I'm really fucking bummed out about this.
Dude needs a weekend. Everybody needs a weekend.
It's what I'm working for.
There's a song about it.
I should probably leave soonish, I guess.
*pulls out biblical, sacrificial dagger*
I am a big believer in the idea of humanitarian force (if not the practice, at least this decade :P ) and it gets kind of tedious hearing people whose only opinion is that WAR IS BAD. Peace can be pretty shitty, too - I mean, ask a black dude in the South in 1860. But it's sad since Bush has basically guaranteed that it will be another decade or two before people are ready to have any sort of nuanced discussion about that.
i'm gonna whip you silly and fuck you stupid
hey
someone shut that cunt's mouth before i come over there and fuckstart her head
hahaha I should watch that movie again
why aren't I sleeping
what is going on
I do not know what this is about but it made me giggle like woah
Nah fuck that. Go at 3 A.M. and creep around there.