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  • #646
    Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

    Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
    The same tiny steps that get one a toe hold in a massive event (EMP, Yellowstone caldera) are the ones that make a three-day blizzard where the power goes out a minor annoyance. So, to me it's not dumb. It's part of living on the end of a single phase power line twenty miles from the substation. YMMV.
    I understand that if you're way out in the middle of BFE lots of things take on a more earnest character.

    But then why even talk about EMPs? A stiff wind and one flooded access road might put you in the same situation.

    I was venting because I loathe the End Times Porn that the Deplorables are pinning their hopes on to avoid demographic eclipse. It's just another take on the age old fantasy of Country Mouse that City Mouse is only here by his sufferance, and it only takes a little tweaking to see the Khmer rural revenge fantasy underneath it.
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    • #647
      Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      But then why even talk about EMPs? A stiff wind or one flooded access road might put you in the same situation.
      Fixed your post, and, because in situational practicality, they're all the same thing only different.
      The preceding post may contain trigger words and is not safe-space approved. <-- Virtue signaling.

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      • #648
        Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        I rarely say this but I'm going to say it.

        This is so dumb.

        I'm not calling you dumb, I'm calling what you're worried about dumb. Actually, it's not dumb. It's a fantasy -- a desire to see everyone not Sufficiently Serious And Prepared perish. It's the vanity of Homo Semper Paratus.

        A lightning bolt could be headed your way as we speak. Why aren't you hiding under your bed in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault?

        I am extremely risk-averse. Risks I plan for: losing a job, losing BOTH jobs, serious medical issue, massive damage to home, any manageable issue involving daughter's health or safety which I care not to speculate on, Mets lose again.

        Risks I do not plan for: global thermonuclear war, Rise of the Scary Foodless Darkies, alien invasion, Left Behind, Yellowstone caldera supervolcano eruption, spontaneous appearance of black hole 8 miles above Lynah Rink during Fish 'N Fowl while up by a goal but on penalty kill late in the third period.

        The rank order of risk mitigation planning is probability x lethality x potential mitigation. All of the latter score zero.

        You are now free to fantasize about your line's genetic survival over mine. I have a heedless, hedonistic party to go to.
        There is only one place to be in the event of global thermonuclear war -- ground zero.

        After I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, I often thought that if I ever had a chance to ask McCarthy one question in person, I would ask whether the point of the book was for the reader to ask themselves whether it was better to be Man or Woman. I know my answer.
        That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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        • #649
          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

          Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
          There is only one place to be in the event of global thermonuclear war -- ground zero.
          Dr. Mrs. and I have that covered nicely. I hope there's some reason for Phoenix to be targeted (our national strategic rattlesnake reserve?) to take care of our daughter.

          I had hoped we'd get the species off this rock before the apes won, but evidently not.
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          • #650
            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

            al-Baghdadi reported dead. Waiting for confirmation.
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            • #651
              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              al-Baghdadi reported dead. Waiting for confirmation.
              Fake news! Just trying to boost Delusional Donald's VERY low ratings.

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              • #652
                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                Fake news! Just trying to boost Delusional Donald's VERY low ratings.
                Sad!

                It is like the tenth time he's been reported dead, but this time DW and France24 are reporting that the sourcing is better. They still aren't calling it a touchdown yet, though.
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                • #653
                  Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                  Did Trump really say the wall should be transparent because, "sometimes drug dealers toss their drugs over the wall and it lands on the heads of Americans"?

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                  • #654
                    Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                    Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                    Did Trump really say the wall should be transparent because, "sometimes drug dealers toss their drugs over the wall and it lands on the heads of Americans"?
                    That was quoted on here somewhere I can't tell if its the Onion or Trump. Pretty bad when you can't tell the difference
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                    • #655
                      Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                      Originally posted by walrus View Post
                      That was quoted on here somewhere I can't tell if its the Onion or Trump. Pretty bad when you can't tell the difference
                      Trump has his own Poe's Law now. A satirical statement attributed to him is not as inane as what he has really said.
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                      • #656
                        Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                        I look back now and it feels like Bushisms are the new average, when compared to all of Dump's "best words".

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                        • #657
                          Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                          Winning hearts and minds...

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                          • #658
                            Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                            Originally posted by jerphisch View Post
                            Winning hearts and minds...
                            To be fair, the murder of brown people is a fundamental Republican value.
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                            • #659
                              Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                              Originally posted by walrus View Post
                              That was quoted on here somewhere I can't tell if its the Onion or Trump. Pretty bad when you can't tell the difference
                              No, that one's definitely real.

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                              Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
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                              TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                              DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                              Test to see if I can add this.

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                              • #660
                                Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

                                Australia expects every man to do his duty.

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