WWIII placeholder thread.

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by We Are Borg, Mar 2, 2014.

  1. Tuckerfan

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    True, but so long as he maintains the fiction of obeying the Russian constitution, then he's unlikely to go all "invade the fuck out of everybody and do whatever the fuck I want." If he tosses out the need to "hand off" to somebody else, then I'd be digging a bomb shelter.
  2. tafkats

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    He doesn't need to get the constitution changed so he doesn't have to step down ... he just has to pull Dmitry Medvedev's puppet strings for another four years.
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  3. Tuckerfan

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    Again, so long as he's willing to maintain the fiction of obeying the Russian constitution, that means he recognizes there are limits to his power. Its when he decides to dispense with the fiction of obeying the constitution that you really have to start worrying that he's gone off the rails.
  4. Rimjob Bob

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    But a foreign Western power did? :marathon:
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  5. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Yes, yes we did.
  6. shootER

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  7. Zombie

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    So you slander Majel Barrett but don't have the balls to name the accuser.......

    Typical
  8. Chardman

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    OMFG.....

    Garamet just makes you people run yourselves into the ground.......

    :lol:

    (Cause turnabout is fair play Motherfucker!)
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  9. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you'd prefer to believe that he's writing from beyond the grave? Okay.

    See, those of us who have friends understand that when someone says "I'll tell you a funny story, but please don't attribute it to me," it's important to keep that person's confidence.

    It's probably not something you've experienced.
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  10. K.

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    I think he recognizes that there is hardly any real limit to his power as long as he maintains that fiction.
  11. Dr. Krieg

    Dr. Krieg Stay at Home Astronaut. Administrator Overlord

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  12. Zombie

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    Ahhhhhhh how cute.......

    He wants to ass kiss the ole' leathery hag. I don't know if Garamet has any space considering the other sycophants attached to her.

    Someone here is too fucking stupid, that's you Chardman, to read posts and thinks they are "cool" and going to show up another poster.

    "I do fall too much for Garamet's shtick as she is exactly like Dayton3 being just as pathetic and annoying thread killer. But I'm working on it."

    That too hard for you to understand? That too hard for you to understand that it's an admission that yes Garamet can run me into the ground the way Dayton can run others into the ground? Too hard for you to understand that it's an admission that I can be just as foolish as others in letting myself get dragged into nonsense?

    So yeah the "turnabout is fair play" card continues to highlight you as one of the stupid ones.

    Apparently now I'm up to four messy encounters with the Reaper. I best get cracking on the begging. Maybe I can get you all on the same flight..........
  13. Chardman

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    Riiiiiiight.

    No, I don't want to "ass kiss" Garamet. (You're clearly projecting you own perverse oral desires for Dayton's anus upon me.) But I do admire Garamet, particularly for the way that she has you and yours wrapped around her finger, and can so easily make the lot of you readily froth in mindlessly apoplectic fits of Castlesque impotent rage.

    It's very entertaining.
    By all means, you may continue to amuse me with your clueless ridiculousness.
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  14. RickDeckard

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    No, the response was to ask the US for evidence. The US refused to provide this and demanded that he be turned over unconditionally.

    There may have been a case for invading Afghanistan, but it was not the one that was made.
  15. Dayton Kitchens

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    Asking for evidence that Bin Laden was behind 9-11 is like asking for evidence that Hitler was behind the holocaust.
  16. evenflow

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    Apparently the Crimean Parliament has voted to join Russia.

    Time to unsticky the thread, WAB?
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  17. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    I thought they voted to have a referendum. Anyway, yeah, the thread should live on its own, as WW III (the biggest one) hasn't broken out so far. As usual, WAB was wrong.
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  18. We Are Borg

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    Sure thing!

    (But feel free to re-sticky it when WWIII breaks out.)
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  19. shootER

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    Dayton will take care of that. :j:
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  20. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    I'm sure that will be the first thing on his mind when the missiles launch.
  21. Dayton Kitchens

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    What makes you thing missiles being launched would be the harbinger of WWIII?
  22. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Remember that bit about metaphors?
  23. Dayton Kitchens

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    You're not using a metaphor.
  24. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    I did, actually, but you took it literally.
  25. The Original Faceman

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    Autistic people can't make such distinctions.
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  26. Tuckerfan

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    Asking for evidence in the wake of 9/11 was merely a delaying tactic. It was hardly OBL's first offense, and any evidence we offered up would have been dismissed as either fraudulent or insufficient. No rational government, when given the choice of:
    A.) Handing over a foreign national wanted by several countries for terrorist operations
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    B.) Being reduced to ashes

    Is going to opt for "B." Heck, most of them won't even wait for the offer to be made, they'll be stuffing the guy in the mail slot of the embassy that wants him as soon as they're able. If they happened to like the foreign national, they'll whine and complain to the UN and other international organizations about what an awful bully the US is (as they so often do), but they'll continue to go on with their lives, because they'll have enough sense to know to hand that fucker over to the people who want him.
  27. Diacanu

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    Okay, another point I'm late in making...

    "World War III", is our universally accepted catch-term for nuclear Armageddon...

    But it's really not technically correct.

    The accumulated proxy wars of The Cold War were World War III.
    It already happened.

    The War On Terror was World War IV.

    World War V is cyber/espionage/economic war with China, and is already going.

    So, nuclear Armageddon will in fact be World War VI.
  28. gul

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    Let's not forget the Eugenics War. :bailey:
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  29. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Oh, don't get me started.
    Those poor vets will never get their benefits.
    :no:
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  30. Dayton Kitchens

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    I really think you need Germans involved to call it a World War.
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