pouring one out into my mouth in remembrance of my fallen goon bag. 32 glass red "sangria", you stood by me when i needed a non-fizzy drink for all these weeks. you will be missed

~40% of the absurdities associated with US elections is the drive for profiteering. Gotta sell merch gotta sell swag BUY your politics before you cast a vote. Buy swag to say you did that too

logistically though, this is facilitated by two things: there is no real election window, media does political coverage all the time & political ads are a constant presence. these shops therefore have time to set up and dedicate production (well in the US generally procurement) instead of normal printers seasonally catering to political customers then going back to normal stuff. additionally there's absolutely no regulations on it, I haven't even heard of individual towns banning the election circus even though its well within their legal power

because our campus uses despicable horrid software i have for the second time this semester been extremely cross at getting a poor grade because my instructors have to put extra credit points into the full totals so it looks like you got 70% when you simply didn't do the extra

how does something like this happen? like presumably somebody told you this after the soviet union was defunct.

maybe in the 40s, even 50s the suggestion that the NKVD wasn't murdering people abroad might've been an important political fiction for the USSR to promote. Even so, when Ramon Mercador was welcomed and given accolades by the USSR immediately on leaving prison should've confirmed he was an operative, this was in 1961. In 1994 Sudoplatov's memoirs recounted the whole affair.

What even is the benefit to saying in recent years that Trotsky's head just did that? a Trotskyist-terrorist-plot believer should think killing Trotsky was a good idea. The USSR being dead and buried, it doesn't need defense from the allegation of killing a single man.

on doing more reading, B2s very rarely are deployed outside Missouri and will often fly with several in flight refuels from there around the world, so in this case it was actually more normal unless they reactivate the bases in england or diego garcia that have hosted them before. i severely underestimated how tightly controlled they are.

wow, the word 'pal' is a romani loanword? never expected one of those in english, nevermind such a powerful one

others include: dick (as in private dick) , nark , posh , and shiv

Australia was already an active participant in the 'prosperity guardian' operation against yemen. it just isn't a big deal for them since most of their trade is in the pacific

then they wouldn't bomb them at all lol. i think this just indicates a rash and poorly planned operation because someone demanded bombing yemen in this way without giving any time to put the bombers in a better place beforehand. or that the rest of the air fleet closer to the theater are committed to watching/attacking Iran so they used pacific assets

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fucking hell you try getting an accurate date from random boys wearing western clothing clamoring up the side of an ancient building

hilariously on sofia i was bang on for the date (no smoking in taxi-sign ) but had forgotten the south slavs existed

zelensky was really hard, like duh it was filming before he was president but his filmography is samey dreck how the fuck am i supposed to know what entry of the esteemed 8-dates series, or episode of tv that was? :::

literally Maine in the continental US is as close to Sana'a as Darwin is, this is insane

wait what? why in the hell would the strike have come from fucking australia? it would have been closer to fly out of Europe

hold the fuck up that is like ai-trash levels of fucked up gun design. its like they drew a tommy gun and halfway through realized the yankees used those, not the japanese

it even looks like the pistol grip of the tommy gun was turned into a questionable pistol holster while the triggerhand was moved backward. honestly like did they have a anti-yankee-gangster poster done up in the 20s or 30s that they traced for this? absolutely absurd

they were probably mostly talking about ISIS but since there are a thousand lil groups 'sunni' could be a tempting designation (as the broad majority). i'm sure the CIA and Mossad have gotten shia groups to work with them tho

According to certain Islamic street debater

this kind of makes me think this is a bit, but any observer should know that sunni/shia--besides being a uselessly reductive way of interpreting the world--has NO bearing on the issue of zionism. the 'sunni' states now defending 'israel' used to be its primary opponents. Iran before the revolution was supportive of israel. Ansarallah in yemen are 'shia' but they do not recognize the same religious authorities or doctrine as twelver Iran.

as it has always been, the composition of resistance and alliance is a material and political phenomenon, not springing from ancient religious rifts and conflicts

NEW FORGOTTEN GOSPEL UNVEILED FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!

::: spoiler spoiler the joke doesn't work very well here or without a link to just a full text instead of divided-by-chapter giving away the game, but I think it would be funny to rope in people that love non-canon christian literature :::

libs still do treat "hypocrisy" like it is magic, even though they have extensive experience in making ridiculous excuses for every time dems are 'forced' to act against their stated goals.

does it ever occur to them that a trump supporter simply brushes such information aside as "deep state" or (liberal favorite) "the courts" making him do it

you read a headline like that you think 'hideous frat hazing ritual' not something so repugnant the perpetrators were ejected from the frat and the town made buttons about it

how the fuck was the NRA vetting the guy and didn't find out everyone from Ann Arbor would know him as Cat-Killer Doug

very cute of the ferghana valley to have 24 different aquifers in it. what the fuck

The infinity-debt-bubble is going to burst

2007 / 08 / 09 look IDENTICAL to what is currently happening

i'm getting the sense you don't know what you're talking about

bucking old people im an opposite pedo

can't stop thinking about this fucking shit