Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
I want to write a dissertation on the "It was my privilege" post. How it marches dutifully toward an extremely predictable punch line and yet each line is more captivating and hilarious than the last. It breaks all the rules but is the best!
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Yemen is a great case study academically because you can examine any of its problems as a magnification of The Worst Possible Scenario of a given political or economic issue
Food insecurity, political oligarchy/despotism (lack of accountable governance), lack of nation-building (disparate ethnic/tribal/historical identities deliberately played upon by the rich and powerful), multiple foreign interests overruling local interests in centrifugal ways, water crisis, regional factionalism, systematic and societal repression of women, religious factionalism, no legitimate monopolistic force by any one entity either state or non-governmental, terrorism both domestic and foreign, complete lack of any utility infrastructure (lack of comprehensive development), a drug used by 100% of the population and whose floral properties inherently exacerbate the water and food crises...
Social caste system, terrible legal system (multiple laws - religious, tribal, governmental - which all seek to assert supremacy ...)
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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This "Q-Word" is an edible marine bivalve mollusk native to the eastern shores of North America and one of many unrelated edible bivalves which in the United States are frequently referred to simply as clams
But what is a quince
this hard, astringent, sour pear-like "Q-word" fruit must be 'bletted' before consumption raw, or alternatively used to make jam, jelly, pudding, or peeled, then roasted, baked or stewed.
Hmm
But what of a quiche
This savory egg-and-cheese based "q-word" came to us from the Frankish word for "cake"
Well I'll be.
But you KNOW I ain't gotta ask bout no quesadilla
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I am not knowledgeable enough to state whether the immediate withdrawal of US troops from all combat areas would be a bad thing for stability in those places.
My instinct is that it's more complicated than that, even if US intervention is part of what fucked it up in the first place.
I can't think of a time the US has withdrawn from an unstable area and it went in a good direction. Whether it was us that caused the destabilization or not.
vietnam improved
eventually
only because they completely murderized their opposition so there was no one left to "destabilize them"
A lot of these posts from you guys read a lot more "I totally support the war on terror because we're always going to be at war anyway" than I think they're meant to
I don't think the war on terror is or ever was worth making into an actual war. We could have kicked al queda out of Afghanistan by just bribing the taliban
Edit: and I am wholly opposed to the CIA operating military equipment of any kind, drone strikes should be accountable within the pentagon and on confirmed targets only
Oh I get it, it's because I'm not using IE. Thanks VerizonWireless. You broke a perfectly good website that worked fine on Chrome/FireFox for a few years.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
A lot of these posts from you guys read a lot more "I totally support the war on terror because we're always going to be at war anyway" than I think they're meant to
I don't think the war on terror is or ever was worth making into an actual war. We could have kicked al queda out of Afghanistan by just bribing the taliban
Well stop reading it wrong and read what I mean! :P
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I am not knowledgeable enough to state whether the immediate withdrawal of US troops from all combat areas would be a bad thing for stability in those places.
My instinct is that it's more complicated than that, even if US intervention is part of what fucked it up in the first place.
I can't think of a time the US has withdrawn from an unstable area and it went in a good direction. Whether it was us that caused the destabilization or not.
Obama suggested we get away from the war on terror philosophy eventually. Obviously he was lambasted by the GOP but I wonder if it'll happen in our lifetimes
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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I am not knowledgeable enough to state whether the immediate withdrawal of US troops from all combat areas would be a bad thing for stability in those places.
My instinct is that it's more complicated than that, even if US intervention is part of what fucked it up in the first place.
I can't think of a time the US has withdrawn from an unstable area and it went in a good direction. Whether it was us that caused the destabilization or not.
vietnam improved
eventually
Took 30 years
yeah
it's not really clear to me that maintaining a US presence would have done any better though
it was gonna be a rough 30 years either way i think
Yemen is a great case study academically because you can examine any of its problems as a magnification of The Worst Possible Scenario of a given political or economic issue
Food insecurity, political oligarchy/despotism (lack of accountable governance), lack of nation-building (disparate ethnic/tribal/historical identities deliberately played upon by the rich and powerful), multiple foreign interests overruling local interests in centrifugal ways, water crisis, regional factionalism, systematic and societal repression of women, religious factionalism, no legitimate monopolistic force by any one entity either state or non-governmental, terrorism both domestic and foreign, complete lack of any utility infrastructure (lack of comprehensive development), a drug used by 100% of the population and whose floral properties inherently exacerbate the water and food crises...
Social caste system, terrible legal system (multiple laws - religious, tribal, governmental - which all seek to assert supremacy ...)
It is in a number of ways worse than Somalia (which has a lot of the same issues)
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratormod
Obama suggested we get away from the war on terror philosophy eventually. Obviously he was lambasted by the GOP but I wonder if it'll happen in our lifetimes
It'll only happen once the indigenous populations whos own countrymen are terrorists are given enough time to rebuild and strengthen their society, and raise a generation that views terrorism as the wrong answer.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Obviously there will be blowback, but there's blowback every day someone gets blown up or shot in the middle east by the war on terror
obama's recent speech basically announced his intention to end the "war on terror" and retire from our global posture of the past decade.
not that he can really fully do anything as president, but this was his intention
apparently it was a pretty important speech
It wasn't glamorous but it outlined what's going to be American foreign policy for the next three years at the very least. And honestly we can't be adversarial to every emerging country and economy or else we'll sorta be fucked in the long run
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Obama suggested we get away from the war on terror philosophy eventually. Obviously he was lambasted by the GOP but I wonder if it'll happen in our lifetimes
It'll only happen once the indigenous populations whos own countrymen are terrorists are given enough time to rebuild and strengthen their society, and raise a generation that views terrorism as the wrong answer.
well
this is like objecting to giving a guy food stamps because what we really need to do is improve social mobility and opportunity and create a solid basis for sustainable economic security across the broad socio-economic spectrum
which is great
but meanwhile
that dude needs to eat
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Obama suggested we get away from the war on terror philosophy eventually. Obviously he was lambasted by the GOP but I wonder if it'll happen in our lifetimes
He's going to call it over before he leaves office.
I'm almost completely sure that it will happen sometime between the midterms and Smilin' Joe Biden's announcement.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
Yemen is basically how to be a failed state. So awful.
Vietnam is functional and a lot better but man is it pretty bad. The Vietnamese dong is the worst currency out there. Well it is now since the Zimbabwean dollar no longer exist.
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Food insecurity, political oligarchy/despotism (lack of accountable governance), lack of nation-building (disparate ethnic/tribal/historical identities deliberately played upon by the rich and powerful), multiple foreign interests overruling local interests in centrifugal ways, water crisis, regional factionalism, systematic and societal repression of women, religious factionalism, no legitimate monopolistic force by any one entity either state or non-governmental, terrorism both domestic and foreign, complete lack of any utility infrastructure (lack of comprehensive development), a drug used by 100% of the population and whose floral properties inherently exacerbate the water and food crises...
Social caste system, terrible legal system (multiple laws - religious, tribal, governmental - which all seek to assert supremacy ...)
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Well I'll be.
But you KNOW I ain't gotta ask bout no quesadilla
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
only because they completely murderized their opposition so there was no one left to "destabilize them"
I don't think the war on terror is or ever was worth making into an actual war. We could have kicked al queda out of Afghanistan by just bribing the taliban
Edit: and I am wholly opposed to the CIA operating military equipment of any kind, drone strikes should be accountable within the pentagon and on confirmed targets only
But I do think we're taking advantage of that.
Well stop reading it wrong and read what I mean! :P
Took 30 years
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yeah
it's not really clear to me that maintaining a US presence would have done any better though
it was gonna be a rough 30 years either way i think
Obviously there will be blowback, but there's blowback every day someone gets blown up or shot in the middle east by the war on terror
It is in a number of ways worse than Somalia (which has a lot of the same issues)
i didn't think we were doing anything with the poppy fields besides, like, destroying them.
opium has a high street value because it's incredibly illegal almost anywhere
otherwise it would just be another low-margin agricultural good. i'm pretty sure we have all the pharmaceutical opium that we need.
what is the twist?
the cost of this would be a drop in the bucket
This Corgi found Jesus (Working a tomato field) and you can too.
*plays harp*
no no no I'm talking about the kind of opiate the CIA makes with all of that "destroyed" poppy.
You know
Heroin
obama's recent speech basically announced his intention to end the "war on terror" and retire from our global posture of the past decade.
not that he can really fully do anything as president, but this was his intention
apparently it was a pretty important speech
I said this jokingly to Arch on Facebook but for reals this time
You can't kill an idea
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
For the last time.
WE WERE NEVER IN LAOSSSSSSSSSSS
i um
It'll only happen once the indigenous populations whos own countrymen are terrorists are given enough time to rebuild and strengthen their society, and raise a generation that views terrorism as the wrong answer.
It's not like they grow it once and cash out, though.
It wasn't glamorous but it outlined what's going to be American foreign policy for the next three years at the very least. And honestly we can't be adversarial to every emerging country and economy or else we'll sorta be fucked in the long run
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
of course not
but we're spending like 500 million a week on the war, afghan's entire opium crop is like 2.5 billion annually
Oh my god it's so obvious. The opiate of the masses is an opiate.
well
this is like objecting to giving a guy food stamps because what we really need to do is improve social mobility and opportunity and create a solid basis for sustainable economic security across the broad socio-economic spectrum
which is great
but meanwhile
that dude needs to eat
He's going to call it over before he leaves office.
I'm almost completely sure that it will happen sometime between the midterms and Smilin' Joe Biden's announcement.
Well, you have to figure what proportion of that spending is going to American businesses that profit from the engines of war.
It's not about the practical solution.
It's about who's getting paid.
Vietnam is functional and a lot better but man is it pretty bad. The Vietnamese dong is the worst currency out there. Well it is now since the Zimbabwean dollar no longer exist.
Well not me personally.
I mean even if .000001% of their profits go toward lobbying for more war we're sorta doomed
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin