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Random Politics & Religion #17
By Ackeron 2016-12-26 11:52:30
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By eliroo 2016-12-26 14:07:18
I like snowmen.
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By Fenrir.Schutz 2016-12-26 14:34:38
With that out of the way, let the debates begin!
How can you possibly like snowmen? I can't think of a more insensitive and biased depiction of human beings in art, let alone the patriarchal notion that snowmen populations should be composed entirely of males or that the term "snowman" is somehow assumed to be inclusive of snow-women and any other permutation of snow-gender.
Further, there are the inequities of snow resources--some regions of the world lack snow entirely even during winter. Don't even get me started on the global-warming aspects of this...
:p
By eliroo 2016-12-26 14:42:57
They are white men, thus I like them. Don't make this about race or sex dude. Don't manspread me.
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By fonewear 2016-12-26 15:29:39
I'm dreaming up a multicultural Christmas just like the ones I used to know !
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By Garuda.Chanti 2016-12-26 16:50:38
Reince Preibus said: Merry Christmas to all! Over two millennia ago, a new hope was born into the world, a Savior who would offer the promise of salvation to all mankind. Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King That's odd. I thought Trump was proclaimed GodEmperor.
I suppose we can look forward to Franklin Graham officially crowning him on Jan 20 either way.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2016-12-26 20:11:38
the patriarchal notion that snowmen populations should be composed entirely of males Hell no! That's not the society I live in!
I like my snow boobies!
Don't even get me started on the global-warming aspects of this... It's a Chinese WMD. Confirmed!
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By Phoenix.Xantavia 2016-12-26 20:40:14
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2016-12-27 11:41:43
*pulls on the political pull cord*
*pulls on the political pull cord again, stronger this time*
*pulls on the political pull cord, aiming to rip it out of the political pundit machine*
Trump Tweets, Left goes Nuclear
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Donald Trump has done it again. The president-elect has taken to his Twitter account to articulate a shift in American national-security policy with grave geopolitical implications that cannot be understated. At least, that’s what the left would have you believe. This increasingly rote response represents another chapter in the voluminous annals of liberal overreaction to the president-elect’s social-media musings.
“The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” wrote President-elect Trump on Thursday. When it comes to Trump and Twitter, the left is already on edge. Add nuclear weapons to the mix, and you have a recipe for a stage-four meltdown.
Who knows what inspired the tweet or what Trump precisely meant by it? This assertion might have been the result of a meeting Trump took with Pentagon officials on Wednesday, including the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration. Or it may have been Trump’s response to having been briefed on the results of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s year-end meeting with defense chiefs in which the Russian autocrat pledged a nuclear-modernization push in 2017.
Trump was clearly avoiding specificity and to identify a detailed policy proposal in this tweet requires some divination on the part of individual observers. That didn’t stop the left from both dissecting this tweet and coming to one preordained conclusion: “We’re all going to die.”
“Can a tweet erase 30 years of careful crawling toward peace and stability?” wrote Washington Post columnist and author of a book on anti-nuclear protest movements, Dan Zak. “Is it possible to look death in the face via a tweet?”
“Very scary misunderstanding,” wrote author and physics professor Lawrence Krauss. “As if over 1000 active nukes is not enough?”
“President-elect wants more US nuclear weaponry,” declared CNBC anchor and New York Times reporter John Harwood.
“Trump wants to violate The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin concurred.
Where these and many, many other hysterical liberal policymakers and analysts determined Trump was advocating for the violation of America’s treaty obligations and decades of precedent in this tweet came from is anyone’s guess. Trump’s employment of the phrase “strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” may refer to a lot more than the development of new weapons to add to existing stockpiles. In fact, the need to modernize America’s decaying nuclear deterrent capability is a priority acknowledged by even President Barack Obama.
After entering the White House in 2009 with lofty notions of a world without nuclear weapons, Obama is leaving office having endorsed what may end up being an approximately $1 trillion plan to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal over three decades. The president’s decision to endorse a modernization effort came only amid sharp and consistent criticism of his obdurate refusal to keep pace with efforts by America’s nuclear peers and geopolitical foes, China and Russia.
While some new systems are being developed, the core objective of any modernization effort will be to enhance the accuracy, targeting options, and survivability of existing nuclear delivery vehicles. Occasionally, some of those deliverable warheads may need to be replaced—for example, switching outdated W78 warheads with newer W87 warheads, which entered service in 1986, making them among the newest nuclear weapons in America’s arsenal. The U.S. Strategic bombing fleet and its arsenal of submarine-launched ballistic missiles also require maintenance, modernization, and life-extension programs. The weapons they are expected to deliver are aging, but they are also projected to remain reliable well into the 21st century with life-extension methods. All this is to say nothing of the crippling brain-drain within the industry of U.S. nuclear weapons specialists or the crumbling maintenance facilities like Pantex or Y-12.
This isn’t destabilizing; quite the opposite. Americans who were justifiably rattled by Donald Trump’s campaign-trail pledge to encourage American allies like Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals can breathe easy. Continuity and the maintenance of America’s nuclear deterrent should reassure U.S. allies under the “nuclear umbrella” that American defense posture is not going to change radically between today and tomorrow.
Though many objected to this proposal, the left didn’t melt into puddles of anxiety when Barack Obama dismantled fewer nuclear warheads than his last three predecessors in the Oval Office. Rather, Democrats in Congress have objected to the proposal because of its cost and the focus it may take from revitalizing America’s conventional forces—not the need for modernization.
It’s perfectly reasonable to object to the method by which Trump revealed his intention to maintain Barack Obama’s nuclear moderation plan. The language he used may be questionable, but it wouldn’t raise an eyebrow if it had appeared on a white paper instead of a tweet. The frequency with which liberals indulge in unguarded moments of anxiety over Trump’s tweets is, however, starting to detract from their novelty.
Also, I propose to rename this thread "Random Politics & Nuclear Tweets #17"
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By Viciouss 2016-12-27 12:15:17
Pissed off everyone on the right too, but that doesn't matter I guess.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2016-12-27 12:16:39
Pissed off everyone on the right too, but that doesn't matter I guess. If it pisses off the left, then what else matters?
/grabs a bucket of popcorn
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2016-12-27 12:24:06
What the frick, 2016? You just have to go and kill off a few more of the greats as a parting gift?
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2016-12-27 15:48:59
What the frick, 2016? You just have to go and kill off a few more of the greats as a parting gift? She must have just seen her CGI replacement during the inlfight movie.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2016-12-27 17:52:06
Racist website calls for an armed march in downtown Whitefish
KLUR 8 Billings MT
Sounds like a great idea. MT is a stand your ground state after all. I wonder if MT will issue hunting licenses for the march.
But then again maybe Andrew Anglin, publisher of the Daily Stormer, figured that out.
White supremacist site offers to call off armed march in Whitefish
Missoulian
I guess I don't have to borrow a deer rifle....
By fonewear 2016-12-27 19:25:14
With that out of the way, let the debates begin!
How can you possibly like snowmen? I can't think of a more insensitive and biased depiction of human beings in art, let alone the patriarchal notion that snowmen populations should be composed entirely of males or that the term "snowman" is somehow assumed to be inclusive of snow-women and any other permutation of snow-gender.
Further, there are the inequities of snow resources--some regions of the world lack snow entirely even during winter. Don't even get me started on the global-warming aspects of this...
:p
Sounds like someone has been reading Huff Post women section...
By fonewear 2016-12-27 19:35:08
What the frick, 2016? You just have to go and kill off a few more of the greats as a parting gift?
Time waits for no man woman...or Princess of the Rebellion !
By fonewear 2016-12-27 19:40:49
My bad the quote was "Time and tide wait for no man" Geoffrey Chaucer
By eliroo 2016-12-28 09:26:16
Can we have another election, this thread is too slow now.
By fonewear 2016-12-28 10:00:50
Can we have another election, this thread is too slow now.
What is really funny is that CNN ABC etc thinks that following Trump's twitter is newsworthy...I guess we are all journalists then.
By eliroo 2016-12-28 10:33:47
Hasn't journalism been ***for awhile though?
By fonewear 2016-12-28 10:48:05
Hasn't journalism been ***for awhile though?
Example:
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By fonewear 2016-12-28 10:48:32
That clip might win my semi annual excellence in journalism award !
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2016-12-28 11:02:34
Can we have another election, this thread is too slow now. Give it time.
Trump will tweet something later today, something innocent like a Congratulations tweet to his friend in Los Angeles and the media will just say that he is handing this country to Putin based by that tweet.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2016-12-28 11:04:23
Well, journalism has been on the ropes for a while... but 2016 killed it, buried it, resurrected it, beat its head in with a shovel, dismembered it, burned it, and reburied it. 2017, having nothing left to work with, could replace it and proceed as if nothing happened, like new Darrin from Bewitched.... But we'll always remember.
By fonewear 2016-12-28 11:07:20
Well, journalism has been on the ropes for a while... but 2016 killed it, buried it, resurrected it, beat its head in with a shovel, dismembered it, burned it, and reburied it. 2017, having nothing left to work with, could replace it and proceed as if nothing happened, like new Darrin from Bewitched.... But we'll always remember.
Sounds like you have been watching too much Discovery ID.
By fonewear 2016-12-28 11:09:31
My personal favorite are wives with knives !
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2016-12-28 11:11:21
Well, journalism has been on the ropes for a while... but 2016 killed it, buried it, resurrected it, beat its head in with a shovel, dismembered it, burned it, and reburied it. 2017, having nothing left to work with, could replace it and proceed as if nothing happened, like new Darrin from Bewitched.... But we'll always remember.
Sounds like you have been watching too much Discovery ID. Screw that.
Only show worth watching on Oxygen though:
Should be on Discovery, since this teaches you how not to get caught by example.
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By Bahamut.Ravael 2016-12-28 11:35:10
Check out this extremely offensive tweet from Steve Martin that he later had to delete:
Quote: "When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well."
Wow, what a scumbag. I'm so glad we have SJW's watching out for us so that such offensive drivel isn't allowed to stand.
By fonewear 2016-12-28 11:55:48
Star Wars/America will never be the same ! *someone whispers* It was bought by who...Disney...:
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