Intervenin

294 pts ยท August 30, 2016


There's a lot of people who are wrong. Nazis, Stalinists, Simpsons haters.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

2 years ago | Likes 96 Dislikes 0

This permanent DST bullshit was tried in the 70s. Everybody hated it. It kills children! They go to school in the fucking dark and get hit by goddamned cars!

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 8

'But Hogwarts has a magic field that works against modern technology!' Well, unless a hunk of metal containing explosives is covered by the definition of 'modern technology', this battery of howitzers over a dozen miles out of spell range is about to turn Hogwarts into Hogwas.

2 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

And now you're ignoring the first point, that it was not 'extroverts living in an introvert world. it was extroverts being told to do something that, for introverts, would be the same as being told that they must, for the next couple months, at all times, be at a party. You may get to leave the party for a couple days or weeks, but you need to always be ready to go back to the party for an indeterminate amount of time. 2.5 years of that.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 7

And also, 'eh, 2.5 years compared to an entire lifetime.' It's not quite as bad, but I feel like you wouldn't tell a war veteran 'eh, a 12-month tour of duty compared to an entire lifetime.'

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 9

You know, it took Rome more time to collapse than the US has been in existence, and that's just the Western Empire.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The only reason you have government shut/downs in the first place is because Congress passed a law saying you can only have so much debt.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

One incident. And the settlers were under siege. Not exactly a pattern of deliberate action.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

So, the dick-drawing obsession from Superbad... but with butts. You know what? I'll allow it.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Congress is shit, but my congressman is cool. Every. Single. Constituency. That, and party line voting in gerrymandered districts.

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

The core strength required for some of these...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Peace as a choice is the luxury of nations that have no aggressive neighbours and no say in the world.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

wanted, and only avoided a Soviet invasion because Finland was now an independent country that took the blow, instead of East Sweden.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Norway and Denmark were occupied between 1940 and 1945. Sweden only escaped German occupation by letting them do practically what they...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I know two things about basketball: I'm supposed to hate KD; I can't hate KD.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

crimes were equal. Soviets; brutal war criminals by most standards. Nazis; literally created the concept of crimes against humanity.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

made it policy and war aim though, along with straight-up genocide, which is why it's just as disingenuous to pretend Nazi and Soviet...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

the Soviets. Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, Poland all experienced mass killings, mass rapes, mass looting from both sides. The Nazis...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Allies was on anywhere near the same scale. The area between Moscow and Berlin was absolutely brutalised between 1939-45 by the Nazis and...

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Oookay, let's take a step back here before we start pretending the rape, loot, and murder perpetrated by the Soviets and the Western...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Salutes between soldiers and salutes for state occasions are wildly different things. One is a sign of respect, the other is pure pageantry.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Still though, born in '88 and shot in '12 does not match up to 19.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So, in the service at 18, out at 19, right into Police Academy. I knew one guy who did exactly that.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

And women can volunteer to do it along with the guys, for whom it is mandatory. Most Finns who want to be cops spend their service as MPs

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Her military service was most likely 9-12 months as an MP, as Finland has conscription (6-12 months, depending on the specialisation)...

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Russell Wilson?

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