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Is that a Canada thing? Because I've never heard of that here.
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smjjames replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
You could do the same for unlabelled CDs or any other storage medium. -
Melania Trump 'triggering the libs/cons/media' or complete optics fail? you decide. http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/393525-melania-trump-spokeswoman-rips-media-over-jacket-there-was-no Seriously, given how aware she is of optics, you'd think she would know better? Funny that she chose a cheap (by her standards anyway, $39) jacket though.
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Your brand of libertarianism isn't of the anarchist type, I get that, however, there are libertarians who do subscribe to the 'reduce government to nonexistence or near nonexistence', like Rand Paul. Unless I'm misunderstanding Rand Paul and his positions are more like yours. As for the counting one hand all the times one political party controlled everything to the point there could be no resistance, the only time I know of is when the US briefly became a one party state in the early 19th century. However, it got that way because the other opposing party had collapsed and even then, that one party wasn't stable, it quickly split into two camps.
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I did get what zoraptor was saying and not that it was literally masturbatory.
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Something more realistic would be an EU style thing, probably a Pan-American type deal since it's not much fun with just Mexico, USA, and Canada. I know it still wouldn't be particularily realistic, but it's far more realistic than a straight up nation-state of North America.
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Uh...what? Just thought it was a bit funny to use the term for a woman giving the speech. not in a HA HA way, more of a 'pfft, heh' way.
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Given that Haley is a woman, pretty funny you saying she gave a 'masturbatory' speech, though I get what you mean. And yeah, there's plenty of hypocrisy to go around, and some countries suffered human rights abuses under their colonial overlords. Given all the hypocrisy to go around, seems like it would be better to just include every single country on Earth in it, yes, including NK despite them being pretty much the worst offender. The US would still complain about 'Israel bias', but given that in such a situation, even the smallest countries would be able to hold states like Venezuela or China accountable. There will still be complaints against the US, but that's the entire point, everybody should hold everybody else accountable whether they like it or not.
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Rather than anything against Israel, the final straw seems to have been UN criticism at the current immigration crisis with separating children from parents. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/19/17479356/nikki-haley-un-human-rights-council-us-out While she does have a point about the other members like China and Russia and not considering a resolution on Venezuela (she doesn't give specifics), which is also a member, it seems a bit rich to use 'Israel bias' as a reason to exit that council.
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The UN Human Rights council could use some integrity itself since it has countries like Saudi Arabia on it.
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nvm
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The Weird, Random or Interesting Things That Fit Nowhere Else Thread
smjjames replied to Blarghagh's topic in Way Off-Topic
It's like one of those types of trolls who intentionally troll with the intent to get banned because they desire the lulz or whatever and they even state that. On one hand, you don't want to give the troll what they want (the ban), on the other, they'll just keep going until the inevitable happens. I imagine that this is a similar no-win situation. Of course the Academy doesn't want to empower the troll, but at the same time, they can't let the behavior continue. -
The Weird, Random or Interesting Things That Fit Nowhere Else Thread
smjjames replied to Blarghagh's topic in Way Off-Topic
Oh, I thought you were referring to the branches of the military. Sorry to burst your bubble, but methodists are a branch of the Protestants.