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Started by Jacob, December 04, 2011, 10:03:27 PM

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alfred russel

#15
December 05, 2011, 01:16:31 PM
The shirtless pictures aren't working they used to.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
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fhdz

#16
December 05, 2011, 01:20:54 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on December 05, 2011, 01:16:31 PM
The shirtless pictures aren't working they used to.

He needs to hire Anderson Cooper as a body double.
and the horse you rode in on

garbon

#17
December 05, 2011, 01:32:16 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on December 05, 2011, 01:20:54 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on December 05, 2011, 01:16:31 PM
The shirtless pictures aren't working they used to.

He needs to hire Anderson Cooper as a body double.

Does Anderson have a particularly good body? Anyway does Putin really want to be aligned with homosexuals?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

fhdz

#18
December 05, 2011, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 05, 2011, 01:32:16 PM
Does Anderson have a particularly good body? Anyway does Putin really want to be aligned with homosexuals?

Cooper also used a shirtless pic as a promotional photo.
and the horse you rode in on

garbon

#19
December 05, 2011, 01:38:58 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on December 05, 2011, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on December 05, 2011, 01:32:16 PM
Does Anderson have a particularly good body? Anyway does Putin really want to be aligned with homosexuals?

Cooper also used a shirtless pic as a promotional photo.
Gotcha.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

#20
December 05, 2011, 02:44:20 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 05, 2011, 10:12:10 AM
Quote from: Martinus on December 05, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: Jacob on December 04, 2011, 10:03:27 PM
The question is, I guess, how Putin's going to react? Does Russian democracy have some heft after all?
Considering communists got over 20% and rabid nationalist fascists nearly 15%, I wouldn't be too happy about it.
Not entirely an accident.  Keeping compliant yet repulsive parties as your nominal "opposition" is very much part of design.

Yes. But I'm surprised Jacob is cheering this as a great victory for democracy or something.

Sheilbh

#21
December 05, 2011, 02:46:08 PM
Quote from: Martinus on December 05, 2011, 02:44:20 PMYes. But I'm surprised Jacob is cheering this as a great victory for democracy or something.
It's a victory for dissent, which is a start.
Let's bomb Russia!

The Brain

#22
December 05, 2011, 02:48:23 PM
Except that dissenters write boring ass East European poetry and lack personal hygiene.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

#23
December 05, 2011, 02:48:32 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 05, 2011, 10:12:10 AM
Quote from: Martinus on December 05, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: Jacob on December 04, 2011, 10:03:27 PM
The question is, I guess, how Putin's going to react? Does Russian democracy have some heft after all?
Considering communists got over 20% and rabid nationalist fascists nearly 15%, I wouldn't be too happy about it.
Not entirely an accident.  Keeping compliant yet repulsive parties as your nominal "opposition" is very much part of design.

Yeah, that's what I've read.  The Kremlin is secretly and not so secretly supporting the extreme right to terrify the public.  I don't normally like conspiracy theories, but Russia is different.  It's a country that governed by ongoing conspiracies.  No wonder the Russian people have such a poor ability to distinguish bullshit from reality.  I would too if my government was so absurd and bizarre.  It's easy to paranoid when the government is actually conspiring against the people.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

#24
December 05, 2011, 02:58:35 PM
I think the Kremlin also support 'shell' moderate parties.  I think the 'Just Russia' party that did a bit better than the Fascists is allegedly a Kremlin operation.
Let's bomb Russia!

Capetan Mihali

#25
December 05, 2011, 04:21:59 PM
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Solmyr

#26
December 05, 2011, 04:26:39 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 05, 2011, 10:12:10 AM
Quote from: Martinus on December 05, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Quote from: Jacob on December 04, 2011, 10:03:27 PM
The question is, I guess, how Putin's going to react? Does Russian democracy have some heft after all?
Considering communists got over 20% and rabid nationalist fascists nearly 15%, I wouldn't be too happy about it.
Not entirely an accident.  Keeping compliant yet repulsive parties as your nominal "opposition" is very much part of design.

This. The elections are very carefully designed to look to the West like "democracy is winning" in Russia, but in reality both major opposition parties are entirely ineffectual.

fhdz

#27
December 05, 2011, 05:09:47 PM
and the horse you rode in on

Sheilbh

#28
December 05, 2011, 05:19:10 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on December 05, 2011, 05:09:47 PMAND THEN HE BROKE ITS NECK
http://rt.com/news/bears-putin-far-east/
"People shouldn't fear bears.  Bears should be afraid of people."
Let's bomb Russia!

fhdz

#29
December 05, 2011, 05:22:22 PM
That is, as an aside, one ridiculously cute puppy.
and the horse you rode in on
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