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New business plan. Promote self as kleptocratic/anarchistic country, rent to rich foreigners, stick then with bill, use money to skip town when drone strikes occur...

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sardia wrote:Hmm, I should write a Shadowrun or GURPS table top rpg adventure on this. At least in that universe, the Nazis lose.

Eventually, but before they do they have to almost win. It's not a good story if the villain is defeated without having been a position to obtain victory in the first place.

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The coastal city thing is actually a bone of contention for me, due to the way flood insurance is subsidized by the US government.

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I would hazard a guess that the child inherits a credit and has to pay tax on that. If a parent lends out $1m to a neighbor, and the parent dies, the neighbor now owes the child $1m and the child would have to pay inheritance, but whether it's paid on the fair value of the whole loan or only as the ...

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edit:sorry, wrong thread

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My complaint wasn't that Seoul itself wasn't relocated, but that it was built up and that the capitol itself wan't relocated. If it turns out that Washington DC is actually on top of a huge volcano that'll blow sometime in the next 200 years, I would understand not evacuating the entire city immedia...

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The capitol itself should've been relocated, but wasn't because, well, no one in 1955 seriously thought the war would still be going on in 2018. Had the capitol been relocated then, Seoul itself wouldn't have grown as much as it has. And no, I don't believe it's an easy feat to relocate a city, just...

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That reminds me of something we had in school, during the looming housing crisis. A lot of banks were renegotiating with home-owners to forgive the debt, because the bank would rather have a guaranteed $150,000 instead of a less likely $200,000. The problem was that for tax purposes, that was a $50,...

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the totally-not-boneheadedly-located-within-spitting-distance-of-the-border SK capitol You've made this assumption before, that it's totally reasonable to just relocate 25 million people to somewhere else in Korea, and that it's a much better idea to be in, say, Busan than in Seoul. In reality that...

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Public service announcement: You've gotta spell that word with two Ns, if you want it to mean a thousand years rather than a thousand anuses. mille = thousand annus = year anus = asshole (And yes, "It takes one to know one" is probably an appropriate response to my posting this ad...

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Eh, the wargames are mostly just a show of solidarity at this point. Most armed conflicts with North Korea will result in the following; 1) North Korea fires its obsolete-but-still-deadly artillery at the totally-not-boneheadedly-located-within-spitting-distance-of-the-border SK capitol 1a) North Ko...

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So basically, a ban on foreign imports, which that China has/had a massive trade surplus with many countries, is still going to hurt China more. China doesn't produce critical, high tech components that can't be made elsewhere. What they produce is rare earths (which they refuse to export anyway), f...

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Also to be fair, most of the world is not welcoming to migrants. India, for instance, responded to illegal Bangladeshi immigration with an outright mass murder.

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To be fair, given that "women should be equal to men", "homosexuality should be legal/normal", and "governments shouldn't censor the media" are not overwhelming supported throughout the world, it's actually very easy to be far-left on social issues.

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The JFK thing was spread by the Russians to undermine the legitimacy of the American police/investigations forces. I don't think modern conspiracies are much different.

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I only heard about it last night when I saw it in the news.

Honestly, I think it's one of those that doesn't exist until the news claims it does.

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had Obama put forth a suggestion for Mitch McConnell to be given an ice cream cone would have resulted in something along the lines of Mitch saying "Obama is declaring all Republicans to be fat and out of shape and also he's got a stupid face" I think it'd be more on the lines of "Ob...

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But the funny thing is that you do need an ID to be legally employed in the US, to fill out the I-9 forms. That would've been a much more solid argument.

Question; do you need ID to apply for welfare?

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Assuming we are talking about the Neo-Babylonian empire from the bible, I have to question just how awful they were (in comparison to their contemporaries), given that there were enough people to report about it.

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"If you want to buy groceries, you need a picture!" In all fairness to the Orange One, booze and cigarettes are indeed routinely on the list of groceries at the Trump household, along with cocaine and cowshit. Not to mention that Trump is routinely that old fart who holds up the whole gro...

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Holy shit, can this get any worse? At this point, I'm prepared to see headlines of "Trump ordered to stop eating baby hearts without parental permission".

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There was a time when Russia killed 400,000 Frenchmen. Those Frenchmen were being led by Napoleon at the time, and no sane person views it as a genocide. And even if Russia had instead invaded France and killed those French soldiers, being a war it still wouldn't be considered genocide. However, had...

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I'm still uncomfortable referring to it as 'genocide', because the people aren't local. This isn't a similar situation as when the US (and Canada and Australia) rounded up native children in order to eliminate their culture and nationality entirely. The US isn't invading Guatemala and rounding up th...

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There are also a lot of good reasons many of us would rather he didn't threaten Iran. Many of the people of the USA and also many of the other 95.62% of the world's population, I mean. Meh. It was stupid, childish, and utterly beneath the dignity of the office... but ultimately, it's just hot air i...

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You have it twisted. Slightly. African Americans didn't join left wing radical groups so much as left wing radical groups created/infiltrated/suborned/allied/supported African American rights groups, especially the pinko commie scum left wing radicals . The Birchers, that saw even moderates such as ...

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Well, most of the Middle East is likely to be ecstatic that he's threatening Iran.

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Tweet to save people clicking the link: To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE &...

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Got back into it since leaving a while back. So... much... to do...

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This is straight up psychological torture of children. https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1020006065868607489 <snark> Look at it from the perspective of the MIC. ISIS not only soaked up and got killed the majority of the would-be terrorists of the Islamic world, but was such an international em...

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I don't think a wall actually needs to be that high to trap CO2. CO2 is a very heavy gas, so I'm guessing a couple KM high wall would be enough to effectively prevent most of the American CO2 from escaping. Methane, however, is much lighter and does decay into safer CO2 in the upper atmosphere, so I...

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If they are targetting the NRA because it's divisive, they wouldn't target ONLY the NRA. I'd assume they'd also get involved with Planned Parenthood, Greenpeace, etc.

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So... what could Russia actually do if they compromised the NRA enough that it was a Russian puppet? Do they expect to be able to indirectly control congress as a result of the lobbying?

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Yeah I can't seem to re-find it. Feel free to ignore that one then.

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NY Post; How America was conned into buying diamonds

Trying to find the source I read for the dinner date thing, but it's a bit more difficult to find, given that Google seems to think I want to go to 500 restaurants instead...

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Hey, at least they are providing an actual, useful service to increase demand. Unlike DeBeers, which merely bribed Hollywood to feature wedding proposals with diamonds. Or the restaurant industry itself, which bribed Hollywood to show that every date involved a fancy restaurant (in addition to Holly...

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Don't forget about the Guinness Book of World Records. Yes, same company, because they wanted something to solve classic bar arguments.

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But a majority didn't agree with it so much as viewed it as a 'necessary evil', and I'm fairly certain the slaves themselves didn't agree to it. However, if a majority did agree to it, then yeah, it'd be "right" just as the overwhelming majority of people are opposed to it today therefore...

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Back on topic...

Apparently, Trump is no longer leader of the free world.

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...yours and others' objections and the collective might to enforce said objections . As for the right vs wrong in terms of murder, murder is immoral because it actively harms society for a myriad of obvious reasons, and would only be "right" in some weird society that actually did want to...

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But it is possible to be objectively right or wrong. Sex education, objectively, is more effective at reducing pregnancies and thus abortions than abstinence only education. Slavery, objectively, reduces total wealth produced and in the long term, harms even the non-owning free class through opportu...

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