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The confused old man walked in the wrong party and got gangbanged for an hour straight. I loved every minute of it.
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I'll have whatever massage she had...
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Tulsi Gabbard Most Searched Candidate on Google After First Debate Also, Tulsi is leading in three different early post-debate polls for the first debate, by fairly significant margins, (i.e., Drudge Report, NJ.com, and Heavy.com.)
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And medicines - those are communist too, and China also controls them! Here is something being discussed by Chinese, and Americans have not even thought of it. China has another effective weapon in this trade war, possibly even more effective than restricting rare earths or dumping US treasuries: GENERIC DRUGS. Almost all of generic drugs in the US are manufactured in China. Americans are a heavily medicated and drug-dependent people. If China cuts off cheap generic drug supplies to the US, then the drug prices in the US will spike. Many Americans will be priced out of the drugs that they need to stay alive, off pains, and sane. Restricting or raising prices on generic drug exports will be a most effective – and a most painful – retaliatory weapon for China to inflict on the US population. Of course the US will be able to switch suppliers over time, (just like they will be able to change suppliers for rare earths or any Chinese imports over time,) but not before a lot of Americans suffer, go bankrupt, and even die from the lack of access to cheap drugs. Many Chinese see this trade war as a war of attrition, of who can outlast the other one. Many Americans who are sick, in pains, and dying cannot wait out or try to outlast this trade war. If China is willing to resort to using this weapon, it will cause tremendous pains and suffering for Americans – and put tremendous pressures on the Trump administration. That may seem like a cruel and ruthless weapon to fight the trade war, but that is what exactly the US has always used as a weapon for sanctions on Iraq, North Korea, Venezuela and so many other countries. And, based on what I’ve reading in the Chinese social media, Chinese online are calling for their government to restrict or raise prices of generic drug exports as a weapon in the trade war, and "let's Americans have a taste of their own medicine because they love to put sanctions on other countries so much!" P.S. And antibiotics too. Most of those - 96 percent, if I remember correctly - come from China.
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The US have freedom gas. But China controls communist metals!
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I have not heard of Valve or Steam having any financial problem or laying off employees. Even if Valve is having money problems, Steam is an attractive asset, and Valve will be able to sell and offload Steam to a buyer, and users will be able to keep our inventories on Steam. On the other hand, GOG has been laying off employees and losing money. Unlike Steam, GOG may not be able to find a buyer.
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A big reason for people to buy games on digital platforms like Steam and GOG is so that we can use them as cloud storage for games we own. They are convenient and do not take up physical space. Without having to consider physical storage, I have bought over 400 games on GOG. It would defeat a main purpose of buying games online if I had to download all those 400+ games onto my physical drives to safeguard against GOG going out of business. I do not want to have to store 400+ games on my hard drives. Who the hell put 400+ games onto their hard drives? So am I buy hard drives to store 400+ games because GOG might go out of business? Am I suppose to spend money, and hours and hours, to buy blank discs and burn all those 400+ games onto discs?
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Here is the direct link to that tweet by the US Army.... and the overwhelmingly negative responses to that tweets: https://twitter.com/usarmy/status/1131704927963766785
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Also, Steven Crowder is being funded by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. It was initially reported by several "liberal" channels, and he denied and lied about it at first, before he finally admitted and mentioned it on his show.
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Frankly, the recent financial troubles and layoffs at CD Projekt Red and GOG has made me very reluctant to buy anything on GOG. If GOG goes out of business, everything I own on GOG will be gone as well. I am gonna keep my purchases at Steam.
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U.S. Army asked on Twitter on May 23, 2019: "How has serving impacted you?" ... and has been getting rekted.
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All these blue and purple US states that changed its electoral rules to stop Trump in 2020... would be an irony if the Democratic candidate wins the 2020 election electorally but then lose the popular votes to Trump.
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Alt-right incel Proud Boy got cucked trying to rip an antifa sign Liberul gave encouragement and tried to help Found out the moron's name is Luke James Mahler because he was in the news. Now his shame is complete and forever.
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During the trade negotiation, Trump made many demands that China found objectionable, among them were these three that are absolutely unacceptable: 1. The US require that China changes its promulgated law to reflect the “trade agreement”. It should be pointed out that the last time China did that was during the Era of Humiliation by western powers and Japan before WW2, when China had been defeated in a series of wars. That US’ requirement is obviously non-starter. 2. The US require that should China be found in “violation” of an agreement, which will be solely determined by the US, then the US can reimpose tariff, and China cannot retaliate. Even Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ex PM, said that he would have rejected such request if it were presented to him as PM. 3. The US require China to commit to purchase farm and other merchandise from the US at a fixed amount that cannot be changed even when China’s domestic demands and situations change.
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"CCTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government." i.e., she speaks for the official position of the Chinese government. This is, thus far, the most hostile response I have seen from China on the trade war.
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Since we are on the topic of vampires...
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I saw Pokemon: Detective Pikachu on Thursday opening night. Some thoughts: 1. The movie was based on the 2016 video game of the same name, and it was a very faithful adaptation of the source material. So it was an actual "video game movie". The story in the movie was almost the same with the video game, (which I think was the first for a video game movie.) 2. The only three major changes from the video game were: (a) the main character, Tim Goodman, was changed from a white guy to a black guy; and, (b) the junior reporter Emilia and her assistant Meiko in the game were merged into one character in the movie: Lucy. (c) the video game had a lot of unimportant miscellaneous side characters, all of whom were eliminated from the movie. 3. The CGI and special effects of the pokemons were amazing. 4. Otherwise, the movie has a mediocre story (which was really the fault of the original material = the video game) and mediocre acting. 5. The story and its execution (storytelling) felt very "anime", i.e., Japanese-style storytelling. Again, that was mostly the fault of the movie trying to remain faithful to the source material and video game. I know Japanophiles love anime, but frankly the storytelling in anime has always been awkward to everyone else. For example: in Japanese anime and video games, (and even Western video games,) characters would sit down or stand around to talk about their backstories and feelings. That is an awkward way to handle exposition. This movie does exactly that. (Compare to, let say, a good well-written Hollywood movie that uses subtext instead of on-the-nose expositions to set up characters and their backstories.) 6. Nevertheless, this is still the BEST video game movie, ever. (Just goes to show ya how much video game movies generally sucked.)
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Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
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Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
ktchong replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Trump drained the swamp, and then quickly refilled it with worse people. -
Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
ktchong replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic