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[HVC]

The best part is that several slips have been torn off.

That's just marketing 101.  If you ever put up a poster with little slips to pull with your phone number, you remove a couple slips yourself, to make it seem like whatever crap you're selling is in demand.

... Sold a lot of rubber fists have you?

[Martinus]

I love how comments on Breitbart about the story with a plane are only of two varieties:

1. Obama sucks. Putin would have never dared to try something like this with Cruz or Trump at the helm.

2. Obama sucks. Putin rocks. Trump would have been best friends with him and they would stamp out Islam together.

Sometimes, both in the same comment. 

[Barrister]

The best part is that several slips have been torn off.

That's just marketing 101.  If you ever put up a poster with little slips to pull with your phone number, you remove a couple slips yourself, to make it seem like whatever crap you're selling is in demand.

... Sold a lot of rubber fists have you?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you the truth.

[derspiess]

Yes, I'm sure shooting the plane down would gain us so much international street cred.

We're not Turks.

I don't care about international street cred. The rest of the world hates us anyway; might as well do what we want.

I don't care that they hate us, but it sucks that they don't respect us.

And come on, exploding Su-24 footage would just be flat-out fun to watch.

[lustindarkness]

Yes, I'm sure shooting the plane down would gain us so much international street cred.

We're not Turks.

I don't care about international street cred. The rest of the world hates us anyway; might as well do what we want.

I don't care that they hate us, but it sucks that they don't respect us.

And come on, exploding Su-24 footage would just be flat-out fun to watch.

True, but it will be a few headlines below the lgbt using what bathrooms and trump and cruz crap, and maybe kim kardashian. So still, we earn no respect in the world.

[derspiess]

Maybe some would start to fear us again.  And fear is a reasonable substitute for respect.

[Admiral Yi]

On the golf course first time this year.  Played 9 this morning, playing 9 more this afternoon.  3 blow up holes, everything else reasonable.

[derspiess]

Golf is so much more fun when I don't give a shit.  Or when I play well.

[Valmy]

Maybe some would start to fear us again.  And fear is a reasonable substitute for respect.

We could annihilate everyone in seconds. If we act crazy enough to do it, it may destabilize things

[viper37]

Maybe some would start to fear us again.  And fear is a reasonable substitute for respect.

that worked well in 2001.

[derspiess]

Maybe some would start to fear us again.  And fear is a reasonable substitute for respect.

that worked well in 2001.

You actually kind of made my point.  We weren't feared in 2001.  Not until Sept. 12 of that year anyway.

[Valmy]

You actually kind of made my point.  We weren't feared in 2001.  Not until Sept. 12 of that year anyway.

We should hold the world hostage for 1 million dollars.

[derspiess]

We can just start with blowing up Su-24s and then see where that takes us.

[Eddie Teach]

We want the world to be afraid of how much they love us.

[MadImmortalMan]

I can buy whisky (no hate on Ireland, Jim Beam or Jack Daniels) online. There's also a gun shopping network. Which appears to be targeted exclusively at women.

Actually, I've been getting wine by FedEx for years.