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  1. 6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    the french revolution was teed up by the success of the US revolt so not much highcastle there....

    the napoleonic wars would have been totally different

    but then the uk ending slavery in 1834 would have eventually created a divorce war

    Yep.

    Napolean who?

    The UK in 1834, with the American colonies/Canada/Caribbean would have been a massive economic and military powerhouse on a level hard to imagine. I think they could have pulled it off.

     

  2. I do like that they really hammered home a couple of major points that many don't realize:

    1. Washington's army got pretty fucking small as many Americans were not fully committed to this endeavor.
    2. A lot of British would have been fine with the colonies leaving if it stopped the hemorrhaging of money and they still had trade, and a lot of American patriots/rebels would have been fine staying within the empire if things would go back to the way they used to be.

    #2 is an amazing alt-history topic to run down the rabbit hole on - had the Brits backed off, listened to the American grievances, compromised in some manner (yes, they had enormous war debts still left over) and you don't have Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and all of the other Founding Fathers getting together and building a new nation, what happens?  If American remains a colony (or 13 colonies) into the 19th Century, what does that do with British military engagements and foreign policy into the 19th Century, Napolean, etc. What about the French Revolution?  Just crazy to ponder.

  3. 3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    are you under the impression that something will be released that will put the freedom of republicans in jeopardy?  ain't nobody facing charges for this. the best we can do is put trump and gop congress next to epstein and make them wear it around their neck like a fucking anchor for the midterms.

    Oh there was a reason why Trump asked that only Democrats be investigated.  And as everybody has said, he's locking up the evidence as part of an ongoing investigation.

    3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    need i remind you that this hornets nest that got kicked over the past 10 days was from the estate?

    Yes, I'm one who mentioned that the emails are from the estate. 

    There's no way the estate would be allowed to have photos and videos of the pedophiles since it's illegal to possess. That stuff was taken out of the mansion and from the island and will be buried here

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  4. 1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    I haven't watched Boots, but the USMC subreddit described that one as surprisingly un-gay*, considering it's about closeted homosexual Marines.  

    Yeah, I was in the Army during those days, and we had Marines who came through training on our base (artillery) and we had a few gay soldiers but they kept that shit way on the downlow, even if we suspected it, and the same was probably true of the Marines.  One of my friends, you would never know unless you were friends with him, and even then it was  only revealed or talked about with his closest friends when we were off-duty.

     Lot of paranoia. Probably didn’t help that a lot of the senior NCOs were boomers/Vietnam vets,

  5. 26 minutes ago, Hellraiser97 said:

    I watched a BBC documentary mini-series about 20 years ago called Rebels and Redcoats.  It was really great and it was the first time I'd heard the revolution described as a Civil War.

    I had a history teacher in high school who talked about how everybody involved had been British citizens outside of the Hessians and French and Indians, and it stuck with me.  Even Hamilton was born in the West Indies under British rule,

  6. 5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    His bulletproof/teflon nature is perhaps the greatest indicator that all legacy media has utterly and completely failed.  Not "mostly failed" -- completely failed.

    Gary Hart wishes he had this media.  

    3 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    now that it seems the dems can just use a court order to get documents/emails from the estate, why the fuck do we even need congress involved?  it's clear we won't get what we want from them, so go tell them to kick rocks.

    Because what the Epstein estate holds is not the criminal evidence (photos and videos) that was confiscated by the feds. 

  7. 19 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I would laugh that he just thinks everyone will forget he lobbied members of the House to not vote for it, with his sudden reversal to tell them to vote for it, but the media isn't going to remind anyone that just last week, he was pressuring Mace and Boobert and disparaging MTG and Massie for not backing down

    The Qanon and Pizzagate types are not forgetting this.  Their movement may have fallen apart after they realized they were being taken for a ride by "Q", but those fuckers are still passionate about child trafficking (witness the Sound of Freedom movie which raked in a shitload of cash).

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  8. 10 hours ago, PTINS said:

    But you don't stop one of the few sources of hard currency unless you have to, and Russia stopped exporting refined products. That is not indicative of a drop of 3 or 4%.  And as you are all aware, refined products cost a lot more than the crude oil they are made from.  They would still be running if they could.

    Russian Oil Plunges With Top Producers Days Away From Sanctions - Bloomberg

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  9. 16 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    This is like watching a Nascar race with no wrecks.  Just wrong!

    There will be a wreck one day.

    I followed this guy for a while, and he was in the top tier of wingsuit flyers, and then he ran into a tree and died.

     

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  10. 3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I have zero problem with Vietnam veterans hating on Jane Fonda.  What she did was inexcusable. 

    Yep.  She may have been right about the war, but she could have done her protests in the US and not held the little photo ops that she did.

     

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  11. 49 minutes ago, NoName said:

    Also Thiel selling his stake is the biggest of red flags

    While looking at that, came across this

    Peter Thiel Cuts Stake In PayPal Mafia Company Tesla. Musk Issues This Warning.

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    Musk is going full steam ahead on emphasizing Tesla as an AI and robotics company. On Saturday, the Tesla CEO posted to X that he had "just wrapped" the upcoming AI5 chip design review. Musk added that the AI5 chips "will not be available in sufficient volume to switch over Tesla production lines until mid-2027."

    Tesla's plans seem to be for AI5 and AI6 chips to power the company's upcoming self-driving systems known as Hardware 5 and Hardware 6, or HW5 and HW6. The company's vehicles currently are on HW4.

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    The next catalyst for Tesla stock is likely to be if Musk does indeed remove "safety monitors" in its Model Y robotaxis in Austin, Texas, by the end of 2025.

     

  12. 1 hour ago, pops said:

    I've watched hundreds... maybe thousands of videos in this thread over the past 3.5 years of Russians getting got. For whatever reason, the 2nd guy in this video hit me in a different way. 

    He was just like fuck it. Finally this shit is over. 

    Yeah, I get that, but I just remind myself that the Russian drone operators are training on Ukrainian civilians, animals, and vehicles.

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  13. 7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

     

    Pretty sure she was fired for saying she was closer to Trump than his daughters.

    And she had her lawyer deny they were banging, but it's interesting that it came up in old emails, and is not some new accusation.

    Her wikipedia photo is weird as fuck, being cropped from this:

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  14. 5 hours ago, Pasken said:

    So I need some help here. Let's say the trump Clinton rumors are true. In what scenario would this happen? I mean the only thing that makes sense is if he was on drugs.  What is the rumored scenario in which this took place?  Group sex and streams get crossed? 

    He probably didn't, it's more about making MAGA deny it.

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