Walsingham
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Wouldn't maggot larvae like you use for fishing do a better job?
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Fair point. I don't personally buy an opportunity for Putin to look good, and for State and DoD to looks stupid as in line with previous CIA ops. But I can see how you might. ~ As for the false flags well, *waves hand in gentle parabola* if you believe that anyone who can win from an event is BEHIND the event, then you might as well live in the skirting boards eating cheese.
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Would any of you be interested in...
Walsingham replied to aluminiumtrioxid's topic in Pen-and-Paper Gaming
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What about those giant ducks?
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Plus they're ducks, so they'd be raping everything.
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Until it mutates.
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Because you are a genus who would have done everything 100 times better, right? Must be easy for you, toppling governments and predicting the actions of superpowers. Triggering a crisis that burned for MONTHS, but failing to prep a response to Russian intervention? That's some professional quality thinking there. You can't have it both ways, sport. Either they planned it, or they didn't. If they planned it, they didn't do a very good bloody job of planning. It may just be this headcold, but I'm so utterly bored and tired of the internet and its shabby cornucopia of bull**** conspiracies. If every allegation is believed, without a shred of proof, what is the point of the internet? Believe everything, do nothing.
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Well... I guess I have the toenails of a man who lives like that.
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LOL at comments about the CIA. What possible difference does it make WHO conducted the protests? It could be the ghost of Saddam Hussein. It could be Hercule Poirot. It could be the FSB. It could even be the CIA. because yes, they get paid to do stuff like that. The _outcome_ has been the embrassment of the US and Europe, coupled with Russian annexation of strategically vital territory. So if it was the CIA then you chaps should be getting warm and fuzzy feelings, because not only can you feed your paranoid world views, but the CIA are bloody morons.
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Nice to see oby is all humid about the prospect of glorious war. Good thing it's going to stay in his head. This was a calculated gamble by Putin, where he can hold the threat of further annexation as a threat against a Ukraine that cannot respond and a US administration that takes its foreign policy plays from Bob the Builder. He's not about to attack a properly armed and prepared NATO member. It's a test to see if the Turks close the Bosphorus. It's an easy response, but it would allow him to paint Russia as a victim to the Russian people, beset on all sides and with only Czar Putin to defend them. All this talk of isolation and sanctions is total baloney. All I've EVER seen sanctions do to autocrats is make them more powerful.
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Most likely, chicken soup with carrots and rice.
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I was with him right up until the 11 year old.
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Still laid up. I'm reading about this outbreak of Ebola and wondering my being at home with a sore throat means I will survive the ensuing horrifying death dance of civilisation.
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Come down with a sore throat, and am laid up at home. I can barely talk. It is very restful.
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They had two options representing the two things the actual Crimeans themselves had previously decided upon, go back to their own constitution written by them after their previous independence 95% referendum in 1991 then arbitrarily torn up by Kiev in 1995, or joining Russia. The 'missing' option was to go back to the constitution Kiev wrote for them having- arbitrarily, retroactively and without reference to the crimean people and while having their soldiers and state apparatus stationed there as enforcement- given themselves the power to do so in their own constitution and to make it impossible for Crimea to actually secede. The two options given represent the will of the Crimean people, the missing one represents only the will of Kiev. And Kiev has no one to blame but themselves, it was their own policies and insistence on forcing a region that didn't want to be part of their country to remain and continuous encroachment on their autonomy that has lead them to this result. So you're saying that they needed the option before, but they don't now? Because, the situation hasn't, you know, changed at all.
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The clipboard bastards can easily be dealt with. Like navigating rapids, steer TOWARDS them, and only 'paddle' away at the last moment. That way they don't get momentum, either psychologically or physically by stepping towards you.
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*cough* Define neutral source. Seriously.
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What a great necklace. I mean it just draws the eye.
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If the purpose of feminism is to empower women, and to change the perception of their existing power, then I think official campaigns like this are a problem. They may add a little official power, but they do far more harm to the perception of power.
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The truth is he's just too pretty.
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LOL. Is that for real?
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Quick question: what kind of referendum has only two options, neither of which is 'no'?
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I don't mind giving money to beggars, but long ago realised that the ones who really need help are the ones without a carefully rehearsed hard luck story. The single most important thing to realise is that if you are dealing with a professional beggar, and you are being lied to then you have no moral obligation to tell the truth back. And the simplest lie to tell with conviction is that you don't have time to listen. Say it politely and apologetically. But say it.
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Anyone with two peanuts in their head knows that they will use it for more then that. Well, you just run with that logic, mate. Must be a wild ride, living in a world where the government having a capacity to do something means they will certainly do it. I'm trying to imagine it now, and it feels like riding a unicorn with two magic markers up my nose.
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We're retreading ground here, Rosti*: Imperialism is a great 1960s common ground word. But all nations are empires. You think everyone in the UK originally spoke English? Even the English didn't all speak English. There wasn't any such thing. We're all chopped and tossed like a goddamned salad. Even a nation as small and pointless as Belgium can't agree who's who. There's two ways you can handle this. You can say no nation matters, or you can accept that in all probability these are issues that will never meaningfully grace a courthouse. It's bull**** frosting on top, and blood and iron the rest of the way down. Underneath that I have no idea. *We should have a wiki of tropes or whatever you call them. A record of the recurring arguments, and the sides taken, articulated using quotes from the main forum threads. Then we could just reference.
