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Not propaganda really, just usual politicians whoring themselves. This looks good on the government to citizens, yay they are saving innocent girls, etc. I suppose one could argue the US can now show it's might as a force for good or whatever based on this, but I'm pretty sure no one is naive enough to buy that these days. Seems like the better tactic for Boko haram would have been to kill them all, definitely no one would care, no twitter campaign, etc.

Playing Democracy 3, is alright. I've purged religious people from society and have Christian terrorists trying to kill me (not really sure how I did that), but have done fun stuff like legalized all drugs and tax them heavily.

Hm I guess they were, benefit of being years behind the curve is I've learned to be impressed with so so graphics

Feh, struggle through the graphics not looking fantastic at least for one game.

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Project Eternity sure brought a lot of interesting people here.

Watched Arsenal do it the hard way. But they won, wooohoo

Given the context of the discussion now, this was rather funny.

Well, happy to be a monster then

Could be. Looks good if the people of Nigeria are rising up against the scourge of Boko Haram, rather than foreign troops. I guess it'd just be information as they were warned in advance, and no risk of some US/British soldier dying or getting hurt so win-win that way.

Board has a lot of Euros, they eat that stuff up it seems. Anyway, the Internet in general has a lot of abuse, which in a way I don't mind - crap on a screen doesn't make me want to weep or feel dehumanized. But I guess the lesson is that some victims of it are more special than others.

Meh, hardly reprehensible, nothing sacred about people looking sad and holding up signs. Though I suppose it was effective, leaders love good PR like saving kids. I did get a laugh out of a strip club closing in Toronto and a commenter posted "#bringbackourgirls :(", heh. In other news - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/05/nigeria-villagers-kill-boko-haram-fighters-2014514152412389219.html Good on the villagers.

Rough neighbourhood perhaps. Think the dog got put down, too, but I still wonder what ticked him off to attack the kid. Not a cat person myself, so all this cat praise in the news is irritating

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-ukraine-crisis-sanctions-canada-idUSBREA4F02O20140516?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=992637 That's Harper for you.

I have an external drive full of them.

Well people that will kill or have killed people are already handled by laws, so no need to handle that specially. Don't want to fall into some thought-crime type stuff where you look at someone and then say they will probably do something bad so better jail them first. I get the sense BruceVC would probably jail people who post sexist things online or catcall a woman on the street. I am not in the USA, am in Canada. But the US idea of free speech is nice, the state won't toss you in jail but the citizen next to you might take exception to your call to "hang the darkies" or whatever and tell you what for and that is fine.

Hardly, but was fairly easy. Am at near 600k now and it's pretty comfortable in that I still have to not faceroll champions or elites but don't get bogged down fighting whites.

Or are a bit suspicious of a Wikipedia article about a hot event.

And somewhere someone has classed you as the same that need to be "removed" from society. Price of freedom is hearing dumb stuff now and then, and all.

If only the promancers would.

Wow thats an unnecessarily rude and dismissive comment Drowsy This whole thread is basically about social justice issues. If you really have an issue with someone indirectly responding to you than rather don't comment at all. You do have the rest of forum to discuss what you want. But on this thread we don't have an issue where someone challengers our opinion What's wrong with being rude and dismissive ? You're that way plenty of times - see the Ukraine thread.

Nabbed Democracy 3, here's hoping it's worth the $7

Well then, no need to apologize. Not too sure of where you are getting this impression or what points I've 'intentionally misinterpreted' with respect to feminist arguments, but you can certainly labour under it.

Uhm ok, what preconceptions do I have exactly from that post ? I never said anyone here said the argument, but it's what I've read in certain places and related to Bruce's post that Orugon01 was quoting in his response and to Orugon's post as well.