Lostwingman

Good God, Arab Spring feels like only a year or 2 ago but it was already 6 years ago? Christ man, this shit just never ends. I almost can't tell if the entire thing was an accident that fell into the neocons/globalists lap or was entirely orchestrated. Probably some of both. Has there been any stable country to make it through this? I don't hear about Tunisia at all and it wasn't on our list of countries we bombed last year so that's a positive right? The middle east just seems doomed to needing strongmen in charge.

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"The horrifying thing about US foreign policy is that the US is so overwhelmingly powerful, and so completely insulated from the consequences of its actions, that the primary goal of US foreign policy is to posture and to gain advantage in US domestic politics."

Reminds me of late Roman Republican foreign diplomacy that was primarily handled by senators posturing and threatening to make themselves look good in the next elections. Since they were also able to whip out legions almost at leisure they don't superficially seem much different either.

Wish I could just embed a youtube link. Oh wait, it's automatic? Well, I put in more effort than necessary.

Oh boy it's that implaccable gud boi of high moral standing, John McCain. Him and his wilting southern belle counterpart need to just retire already.

5 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

Gorsuch has been confirmed. Democratic scientists announce major breakthroughs in the field of life support technology for the elderly.

How many additional decades are we looking at here given the current state of the Democrats?

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Brian Williams must be remembering those grenades flying at him in Irag.

5 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

 

Snippitey Snoopitey

Thanks, I knew there were some issues with the rhetoric being used in the video to "gloss over" things but since I'm not that well versed on the Syrian conflict I can't definitively deny it.

Interesting about the CIA black sites. Wasn't that our first big agreement with Libya too? That we would use them to host secret prisons and run torture programs? Boy, seems anyone who works with us in that regard needs to watch their back.

Question, I know the source of this is Ezra Klein (many keks) but how accurate is the narrative?

I understand there's a narrative at play with this but what are the issues with them as presented here? I'm a bit weak with my knowledge of the origins of the Syria civil war.

https://www.facebook.com/ezraklein/videos/10153737513773410/

5 hours ago, ShamefurDispray said:

politicians and diplomats have connections to the Russian ambassador

businessmen have business connections with Russian businesses

fucking wow

"People that run multi-national corporations have a lot of assets in multiple nations, further news on the breaking discovery that water is wet to follow."

Some people are just desperate for anything. I feel like Infowars has won the "culture" war of news media since every fucking news outlet has become fan fiction stage for ideologues.

7 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

I think that this Military Memes department will be least usefull for CIA. Although... if look at recent examples of memes connected to actual events than "Polite people" meme during Crimea operation was pretty usefull for positive PR of that operation here.

 

Also:

Well it doesn't involve droning brown people and wedding processions so it figures it wouldn't be their forte.

On 3/7/2017 at 3:56 AM, Sturgeon said:

Barack Obama's half-brother is a Trump supporter and a complete troll.

Malik is a goddamn national treasure. About the funniest I saw was when he asked what traps are.

34 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

Well, not that surprising, but we have now doc evidence. And...

...Get your combat memes ready, we are going to clear this house!

You know, there was a time when I just laughed at all the "Great Meme War" memes. There was also time where I didn't think this timeline could get any stupider. Both times are past I guess.

18 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

It's pretty remarkable how quickly my opinion of the Obama administration has fallen in the past few months.

I've found myself drifting from disappointed optimist to realizing how much of a rerun of the Bush administration we got in a lot of ways. I'm just unsure how much of that was Obama himself or the administrative inertia of the bureaucratic Washington machine.

Just now, T___A said:

Hail Satan:

The cult of personality continues for them.

3 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

Meanwhile, Trump continues forward at an astonishing pace.  The RFP for the wall has been out for a week!

Again, I am unsure if Trump is deliberately courting media controversy over unimportant nonsense as a way of deflecting criticism from his more substantial actions, or whether the media is just trained to do that on their own now.

Both. Trump isn't as stupid as people want to believe and he'd have to be a drooling chromosomal nightmare to not realize how effective just riffing during a speech is for distracting a media whose main purpose is to bring in those sweet sweet ad dollars.

1 minute ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

Mustard is the king of condiments.  Also, I will put steak sauce on anything even remotely resembling meat.  BBQ sauce is good with most things.  Worcestershire sauce is at least fun to say.  

Ketchup is so fucked up, no one can even decide how to spell it.  

The one true ketchup.

20 minutes ago, T___A said:

 

Leftists: "Mega corporations are the enemy of the people" 

*Trump calls the mainstream media which is largely made up of mega corporations enemies of the people*

Leftists: "wtf i love mega corporations now"

He wasn't even that harsh. He said people who make up news stories are enemies of the people. He didn't even specify anyone, it could have very well have come out of Donna Brazile's mouth word for word and MSNBC would have been running it like it was a grand statement of resistance against Trump.

This kind of two faced moral standard is just going to help Trump in the long run.

2 hours ago, ShamefurDispray said:

Can't wait until more fake news networks lose their press passes. In America, you fight them with the dollar.

They're desperate because they are dying. Television is dying and they are losing their stranglehold. When a humble water filter merchant in an armed compound in Texas can rival your Multi-Billion dollar advertisement platform's media reach you're done. Finished. Dead. Their nightmare has come true.

11 hours ago, SergeantMatt said:

We need to restore the Roman Empire, whoever can win over the army and seize power gets to rule. If they do a shitty job, palace coup.

Alternatively the army finds a stooge like Decius to back, totally removes the need to win over the army!