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RomaVicta

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  1. 23 hours ago, Captainant said:

    This is such an embarrassment, gonna be in history books for how gaudy and blatantly full of bribery it is. Shit looks like a loading screen in a shitty video game lol

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    I had no idea.

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    When a large part of the population served prior to ending the draft, I bet the outcry would have been deafening. 

     

     

  2. 12 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Not unexpected but I had to shake my head at TexAgs thread on this. On their page 1 and 2, they're debating how that this tragedy is a result of the politician victims voting against some recent democrat bills related to protecting abortion rights in MN. (I have zero idea if this is accurate or not.) And that the perp must be a deranged lib who is upset at their betrayal of Dem ideals.

    Now on the last page, they're upset that libs wants to politicize this issue by pointing out that the perp is a MAGA Trump supporter.

    They perfectly display why rational argument is dead. Those minds won't be changed. 

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  3. 15 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    I'm sadly aware. Oddly, I'm comforted by the fact that Sooners outnumber them pretty substantially. Pick your poison sort of deal.

    Sooners aren't obsessed stalkers convinced you're part of something more evil than just yourself. They're just football rivals. It's why beating them is a bigger deal than beating the Aggies, but losing to the Aggies is a bigger deal than losing to the Sooners.

    Aggies see it as a universe affirming event.

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  4. Opening verse:

    [Verse 1]
    Some folks are born made to wave the flag
    Ooh, they're red, white and blue
    And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
    Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
     

    Second chorus

    [Chorus]
    It ain't me, it ain't me
    I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
    It ain't me, it ain't me
    I ain't no fortunate one, no

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  5. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Interesting how “it’s early/its June” only comes up when someone wants to make the point that there’s still time for something that appears to be bad (in-state blue chip recruiting in this case) to get better- but never gets mentioned as a way to throttle enthusiasm over the stuff they think is going great.  
     

    they can exist in at least two different realities simultaneously, which is an impressive feat to be sure. 

    Take that away, and they got nuthin. They'd turn into more normal people, but they hate that.

  6. I'll go a little subtler. The great Robert Mitchum's entry in the original Cape Fear. Cady introduces one of the most interesting characters in film to me. Part of me, as a male, admires how tough, cunning, and smooth he is. Part of me is repulsed by his easy slip into brutality (although I wish I were capable of that should a moment require it). He's brilliant.

    Anyway, the opening of the movie has an attractive woman overloaded with books. She struggles along and Cady appears on screen at right in a long shot. That confident swagger. As the woman attempts the stairs to the court house (I think that's where it is) we move in closer. Cady goes the same direction she does. At last, she fumbles the books. Cady strides on by without a second look.

    He just doesn't give a fuck. That's also one of his last lines in the movie. He terrified me when I first saw this as a boy. For me, he's one of the most memorable characters in film. As an actor, he so effortlessly conveys quiet, confident masculinity. He's a fucking man.

    This kind of brief intro to a character with no words is the best when it works. Lector stepping up from the back of his cell is brilliant as well. That's every element of filmmaking working together: set design, photography, script, director, costume, and actor are perfect in a second like that.

    I enthuse. Apologies.

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  7. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Every business model is better than selling ice to eskimos. That's why the saying "He could sell ice to eskimos" is praising the talent of the salesman...not the business model. Perhaps you meant something more along the lines of "Selling Sheep to an Aggie." 

    I don't know. With all the ice melting in the land of the Inuit, they may end up in the market.

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  8. 46 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    We may step in directly, or, they may go the Top Gun Maverick route and keep dropping the heaviest penetrators they can carry until the hole is deep enough to do the trick. Destroying the surface structures and any entrances and exits to the underground facilities may suffice for now. I think the initial denials were to stave off any immediate retaliatory attacks on US assets while the Iranian military still had first world military means to do so, but it’s clear as day we’ve been neck deep in this, and there’s not a chance that two surprise drone attacks on strategic targets in separate countries using the same tactics were developed independently. 

    Either way, regardless of your politics, heads up and eyes open for the foreseeable future. 

    I imagine suicide mujahadeen are pretty amped up now. Thank goodness we have a brilliant persons in charge of Homeland Security and the FBI!

  9. 4 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    LOL, his whole campaign is that everyone else’s inability to make deals is weakness, now this beta bitch is crying that the other side won’t agree. He said he could make all the deals and is admitting he can’t. Not that it matters to his cuck brigade in congress. 

    That's a really great point. His leverage in the private sector was threatening not to pay. Brilliant!

  10. 1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I won't pretend I can speak for the diaspora, but a lot of Iranians outside of Iran are good with Israel's attacks at the moment. Not sure that eliminating military officials will get it done...it's the mullahs that run the country. 

    They are so desperate for regime change that any action is good action. I'm not holding my breath this works out. 

     

    Nothing unifies a country more than attacking it. We jabber about Americans coming together whenever we cook up a reason to invade (liberate! just like France!) another country; it works both ways.

    We're idiots. So are they.

    Would you rally behind the European Union if they launched a major airstrike against the US? Killed lots of civilians? 

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  11. 8 hours ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    The IAF is able to operate in Iranian airspace with impunity. The issue is payload. The largest US non nuclear bunker buster weighs 30k pounds. That requires a strategic bomber, and the IAF doesn’t have any. 

    We'll sell 'em one for six dollars all fueled and loaded. We'll even locate the mercenary crew to fly it for them. They will continue to get everything they need from us. Biden didn't stop it; you know Dotard won't.

    And thanks, Bobby, for the info.

  12. 9 hours ago, westexhorn said:

    Since Israel is doing it right now mine as well wish they do a thorough job so no more worries with nukes.  They are decapitating the entire Iranian military leadership as we speak as well.  But oil could be proper proper fucked if Iran decides to go batshit all around the area.

    Decapitating the military leadership, it seems to me, doesn't really have much longterm effect unless you are planning to engage that military right now on a broad front. The decapitation through air attack strategy doesn't seem to ever work otherwise. It's mostly a PR and fig leaf tactic it seems to me.

    It's likely it's the last reason, but it could portend of a more general attack through continued aerial bombardment or maybe navy then, somehow, army. I don't know how Israel could engage Iran on the ground. That's probably a good thing considering the size of Iran's military (I assume it's still big).

    It would be so strange in the course of my lifetime to go from seeing Israel as heroic to wishing them defeated. Their Gaza crimes merit defeat.

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  13. 11 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

     

    Can anybody do the Liucci dick process on this video?

    Okay, I'll stop responding to every message on here. I cannot say how much I hate being associated with the actions of a brutal regime. I guess that goes for both Israel and the US.

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