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tonights weather forecast: A lot of rain, not a lot of light.
lmao first 200 and now 400 dollars??? HAHAHAHA
This will teach you not to gamble for big sums. 600 dollars would have gotten you:
one of these
a ps 4
6 hookers
75 grams of the best weed
300 l of cheap beer
600 houses in Detroit (ur own hood basically)
A golden encrusted fedora.
owl
a company making a profit on its products? why I never!
the only way competitive tf2 sees financial support from valve is if the community proves that it will be profitable for them to do so. One way to prove that competitive tf2 will not be profitable is to have top teams withdraw from major events on short notice.
Yeah of course they have to make a profit, that's why i'm curious on how profitable tf2 actually has been for them compared to the other big two games under valve (cs:go and dota 2).
Donated a few quid to these nerds
NightGoatI was born with two dick holes. I got that situation fixed up when I was 4 or so.
Must be your reptilian heritage, trying to develop hemipenes
owlM4ngoLvalve needs to get their shit together and help with competitive tf2..
lmao why in the world would they do that at this point? this community is great and all but when it comes down to crunch time we have shit like this happening. Why would valve want to inject money into the game when the top players can't even use the community's money properly?
I don't think it's fair that six dudes had to try and plan an international trip they didn't even necessarily want to make in a month, but this stuff happens all the time in the scene.
I wish I knew how much valve exactly made out of tf2, and the glowy pixel circus, year by year, compared to what they put in.
got a rl friend who's email is husky69@hotmail.com
HallowIs that actually contrary to what Marxist is suggesting though? Sure, I don't know much about all this, but from what I could gather you seem to agree there. But I'm assuming you're also suggesting additional western efforts on-ground in the area, no?
#250 is a TL;DR of my sentiments, written the day after, you can read for yourself if it's the same as Marxist is suggesting.
Justinisokaycan someone lock this fucking legendary tier of a derail. people are writing essays and shit at this point
yeah, dawg, reading is for FAGGOTS, lemme hit up this blunt, while I flip a coin on what my beliefs are, cuz I ain't reading that SHIT yo
Hallowwhat's different now to when the united states went arms deep into the shit in the middle east and caused all the issues that we're facing today? what are you suggesting be done differently this time?
Destroy the Wahhabi money line, deport radical imams, stop the brainwashing of european islamic youth, by foreign radical elements.
Part 2
MarxistI don't really understand where you're going with your commentary on the Kurds - they are the ones being relied upon. The central concern for the US has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with the fact that if the Kurds are made too powerful they'll declare independence unilaterally and disrupt the borders of several states in a very sudden way (Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq). The Kurds ought to definitely have their own state, but it would be better (less disruptive) for that to be done in a non-unilateral way.
YOG-PKK is internationally known as a terrorist group who's been going at it in Turkey for decades (a NATO ally) who's leader is atm in a Turkish jail, is one of the big factions, in the Kurdish regions. and like many other regions, they would benefit with their own state, and some of these nations borders redrawn to fit more ethnically.
MarxistNo, bombing Raqqa isn't racism in and of itself. At this point there's virtually no way to justify not assisting those forces on the ground. However, the racist part comes in when you say for example, that this situation is the fault of something within Arab peoples themselves, or Islam generally, because this whole situation stems from US actions in Iraq over the last decade+ (arming different groups willy-nilly, paying different groups to fight will-nilly etc) and it's (and other's) imperialist designs against Assad which predate the Arab Spring uprisings.
Saudi Arabia is the vilest country atm on the world, and they are one of the big factors into this conflict as well, the unholy alliance of them with the USA is what drags the entire region into this mess, moderate imams are having trouble competing in Europe, vs the billions the salafist sheikhs pump in. something that western people not really notice is going on, and they are not lap dogs, this is what they want to do and keep doing, until their oil runs out and they revert to a backward tribal state. I can't wait until that regime collapses.
matrixSaudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen is abhorrent. Why isn't it being covered? I would argue because it's disruptive to the narrative that "we" as in the West only support good, nice, pro-democracy types. So it's best just to exclude that story from the press because it's embarrassing.
outrage is all about the $$$ I'm disgusted that Saudi officials are treated like dignified people, while they represent the shit on the sole of the feet of Islam.
matrixA hands-off approach (that is doing what is already being done, perhaps with more vigilance and hopefully resources) is the way to go. You can't institute some sort of crack down or build a huge/gigantic wall at the border with Turkey and around the whole Mediterranean coast without it being a tragicomic failure. Terrorism from Western Asia is going to happen until its cause is addressed. Any number of states can defeat ISIS and drive it from its territories, but there will still be any number of individuals absolutely committed to doing violence to civilians until you can convince them that they do have a future - the same is true for our own indigenous terrorists.
Very idealistic, you must be like a plumber, when you are there to unclog a toilet, not just dream of a toilet who wouldn't have that problem, but sometimes go arm deep into the shit, and work, you will smell and feel horrible, but it has to be done. So instead of nothing, i want our state, to more effectively, hunt down any potential threat, restore our reputation, restore the Eu's border, (the system in place was running fine until 2008) and bring stability to the conflict regions where all the refugees come from.
Destroy the salafist threat, destroy the irrational academic hatred vs Israel, and confront Arab nations with their skeletons in the closet, how come Saudi Arabia takes in 0 refugees despite 1 million lodging spaces for the hajj? how many Palestinians are still in camps in Jordan? does turkey want to be western or not? Can Iran become an ally? What now, for the Arab spring nations? can a modern "enlightened" form of Islam combined with a secular state finally come into motion in the whole Islamic regions of the world?
MarxistPoor old sac.
I might be poor and old, but I have my wits, and I usually write my retorts in a flash, but since you're actually willing to reply in full, instead of nitpicking on a detail, I'll credit you, with a matching reply.
Yes, bloodshed plays a fairly prominent part in human history. There's certainly no denying that. Should it be the first recourse? No. Even the most simple and basic tracts demonstrate this even as early as 1847 (which was when Marx's thought was still in its infancy more or less). (peaceful revolution?) "It would be desirable if this could happen, and the communists would certainly be the last to oppose it." - Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism, 1847. That commitment never changed.
Ah Friedrich Engels, the ying to the Marx's yang, reminds me of the internationalists, that thought, that workers across the trenches, would lay down arms and unite as the proletariat. The glimmer of that dream, quickly faded away, when the first shots are fired. His view that the state has a monopoly on violence, is eerily obsolete, with the arise of modern day terrorism Marx certainly would agree on violence not being the first step, but he does say it is needed as he calls it "the midwife of history" in the communistic manifesto.
Marx"In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat."
MarxistTo refer to the February revolution as a social-democratic one is only sufficient for the most comic book-esq reading of history. The reason the Kadets were unable to hold themselves together is because they failed absolutely to address the land question, were wholly unable to amend the supply situation on the home front, and embroiled Russia further into World War 1. You don't get a revolution that can survive a civil war unless the official government is completely bankrupt politically speaking. As for the rest, I should point out that the revolution of October (November) 1917 was actually fairly bloodless, but then of course Russia was invaded by no fewer than 7 nations (more if you get picky) (Germany of course was already invading, Japan, The USA, UK, France, Austro-Hungaria, Czechoslovakia (if you count the Czech legion since they were intermittently hostile to the Reds) and then the conflict did become quite bloody.
you don't get a government that can survive a civil war of every dissenter or bandit gets send back the the enemy (as the germans shipped Lenin to Russia) The provisional government failure, is mostly due to war fatigue, and lack of supplies indeed, while the communists, preached, bread,land and peace,How unfortunate that people in the USSR would get none of those in it's brutal existence. The western powers, intervened, to try and stabilize, a war torn country, but just like they failed in the ottoman empire, they couldn't support the regime in Russia, it's interesting to read how much "the young turks" got off support from Lenin. Was Russia, a war torn country, plagued with famine and low morale and several social issues? Yes of course, and any improvement would have been better, but dragging your country into a civil war, to later only cause more suffering, is a sad prequel. the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
wikiIn the treaty, Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany, and its province of Kars Oblast in the south Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire. It also recognized the independence of Ukraine. Russia also agreed to pay six billion German gold mark in reparations. Historian Spencer Tucker says, "The German General Staff had formulated extraordinarily harsh terms that shocked even the German negotiator."[2] Congress Poland was not mentioned in the treaty, as Germans refused to recognize the existence of any Polish representatives, which in turn led to Polish protests.[3] When Germans later complained that the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was too harsh on them, the Allies (and historians favorable to the Allies) responded that it was more benign than Brest-Litovsk.[4] Under the treaty, the Baltic states were meant to become German vassal states under German princelings.[5]
so, if the western powers wouldn't have won vs Germany, Soviet Russia would have been subject to even harsher terms. Instead, after the collapse of Germany, the USSR went to restore the former imperial Russian borders, leading to more wars like the one vs Poland, and the miracle of Warschau(which costed a lot of soviet lives) and the mass starvation in Ukraine, caused more deaths than the Holocaust, but somehow people don't equate commie with Nazi. even though, in both systems there is utter disregard for human life.
MarxismIt could just as easily be argued that the cold war was a force for stability in the world, and that the uni-polar geopolitical foundation we have today is less stable. For the rest I don't generally deal in alternative fantasy history because you can manipulate the fantasy in any number of ways to attempt to prove your points.
the cold war devastated continents, you could claim with your logic, that Genghis Khans empire was a force of stability, because at least, traders wouldn't be robbed so often, in the regions where hundreds thousands perished. The cold war directly or indirectly crushed a whole lot of visionaries and able political leaders, like Lumumba.
marxistI agree with you on the Ba'ath government. The Russian take on this is best - leave Assad, get things calmed down then transition to some other formation possibly with or without the involvement of the aforementioned optometrist.
the Ba'ath movement was a stabilizing factor as well, just like pan-Arab-ism. The removal of Saddam and Qaddafi were some really bad moves by the west.
MarxistThere have obviously been mistakes made by people who held ideas similar to mine. Ultimately our ideology is imbued with the espirit d temps and certain cultural traditions. For example, Stalin himself often hearkened back to Russian (despite his being Georgian) leaders to justify his policies, from Ivan Grozny to Peter the Great and Alexander Nevsky - partly why Stalin himself is such a problem for modern Russia (as in how to deal with him in a consistent way). But no such violence is inherent within Marxist thought itself - Marx himself never strictly advocated violence.
“Well, then, to carry out the principles of socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed?”
“No great movement,” Karl answered, “has ever been inaugurated Without Bloodshed.
“The independence of America was won by bloodshed, Napoleon captured France through a bloody process, and he was overthrown by the same means. Italy, England, Germany, and every other country gives proof of this, and as for assassination,” he went on to say, “it is not a new thing, I need scarcely say. Orsini tried to kill Napoleon; kings have killed more than anybody else; the Jesuits have killed; the Puritans killed at the time of Cromwell. These deeds were all done or attempted before socialism was born. Every attempt, however, now made upon a royal or state individual is attributed to socialism. The socialists would regret very much the death of the German Emperor at the present time. He is very useful where he is; and Bismarck has done more for the cause than any other statesman, by driving things to extremes.”
Don't forget, when the communists took over power, it wasnt from the Czar, but from a young social democratic russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Provisional_Government
and then plunge the country into civil war, as well in Germany, and then you had the struggle between bolscheviks and menscheviks, with more death and murder, and then the Holodomor, and then the cruelty and destruction of the great patriotic war. Imagine, if after WWII, social democratic Russia was still a thing, there would be no cold war, and the world would be less voilent and gripped in terror. But for a marxist as yourself, that must be hard to swallow.
I support Assad, except when I don't support AssadThe best course of action would be to stop sending arms into the region, and come up with a plan whereby order would be re-established. Ideally, that would only entail the use of local ground forces with perhaps aid from air support. The problem with ground forces is that they tend not to have the desired effect, rather than be seen as liberators, they're seen strictly as invaders and oppressors, so it's ideal if they're local people who are more likely to be seen as liberators properly. Once order is re-established you work out what is going to be done with the Ba'ath government in Syria, and with the divisions in Iraq.
So you agree with me, the bassad regime should be in power, and seen as the only legitimate state atm, until transistions and elections.
WHAT IS PKK FOR 500€The reason this has gone on so long as that the West has chosen to fight a 4 way war, while relying on brave, but under-equipped, Kurdish forces to do most of the leg-work.
because they are marxist terorrists, who did bombing campaigns in Turkey for years?
he never read when greece said they couldnt stop the flowAs far as refugees and terror attacks go *within* Western nations themselves - yes. Laissez-faire *is* the only way to go forward unless entry policies were just stupendously lax, which I highly doubt.
good joke, tovarisch!
MarxistThat's why outright racist attacks on Muslims and Arabs generally are so distressing - because it belies a tendency to throw ones hands up and suggest doing nothing truly effectual as the best alternative to addressing the very real problem of extremism.
are you saying the bombing campaign on Raqqa is racism in effect? So what do you think of the Saudian invasion of Yemen? Where is the outcry in the media over this war?
MarxistIf the abhorrent policies being defended by our Belgian-flagged friends actually worked there wouldn't be intractable problems lasting for 40+ years.
The only reason, Israel in it's current form still exists, and Rhodesia and South Africa didn't, is exactly, because they switched up their policy to cooperation and sharing of power, after decades of sanctions and scorn. The real sad history of Africa and asia, is during the decolonisation, they became a proxy for the cold war, many noble intellectuals died in various countries to be replaced by military figureheads, like Zaire, angola, and all across southern america, and in the middle east, like Mossadegh in Iran
and having the name Marxist as your name highly ironic for someone who speaks so humane, considering marxist policies have been indirectly responsible for the death of tens of millions, from the Holodomor, to the cultural revolutions.
source"When asked about the death penalty for those who leave the Muslim religion, at least
three-quarters of Muslims in Jordan (86%), Egypt (84%) and Pakistan (76%) say they
would favor making it the law; in Nigeria, 51% of Muslims favor and 46% oppose it.
In contrast, Muslims in Lebanon, Turkey and Indonesia largely reject the notion that
harsh punishments should be the law in their countries. About three-quarters of Turkish
and Lebanese Muslims oppose the stoning of people who commit adultery (77% and
76%, respectively), as does a narrower majority (55%) of Muslims in Indonesia. "
trash, he got set up into this strawman ;_; why did you ignore the several countries which heavily rejected it shown from the exact same paragraph?
Let's run numbers,
Indonesia 255 million 55% of those want you dead if you leave the religion, a good 100 million.
Lebanon 5 million 24% thats 1million
Turkey 75 million nearly 20 million
A Heavy rejection surely according to trash's standards
Islam is the only major religion where the punishment for apostasy is death
Uzbekistan"There is no place here for Christians," Primbetov was warned two years ago, when the village's most wealthy and influential man mounted a vicious campaign against fewer than 100 Protestant believers. "Our whole population here is Muslim," village strongman Tokhtabay Sadikov told the families who had converted to Christianity. "So you'd better go to Kazakhstan or Russia, if you want to be Christians."
. . .
Protestant believers in the predominantly Kazakh village of 12,000 are now refused access to drinking water for their homes, with men, women and even children subjected to severe beatings for their faith, Primbetov told Compass. Others have lost their jobs or businesses, had their homes attacked or confiscated and faced astronomical fines for participating in house church meetings.
. . .
In the face of overt opposition, more than half of Janbashkala's Christian families have fled the village, located in the Uzbekistan's autonomous region of Karakalpakstan. Only 20 of the remaining church members still dare to meet for worship with Primbetov, the first man in the village to become a Christian five years ago.
Yemen Yemen court meted out the death penalty Wednesday to a Somali refugee for converting from Islam to Christianity, unless he recants within seven days. Mohammed Omer Haji, 27, was given a one-week ultimatum by Adens Tawahi Court to return to Islam, or face execution under Islamic law for committing apostasy. "His situation is very serious and very dangerous," the converts defense lawyer, Mohammed Abdul Karim Omarawi, told Compass.
. . .
According to a handwritten letter from Haji drafted after his first arrest this year, five Yemen security police detained him at his home on January 16. After 23 days in the Tawahi police station, he was transferred to security police custody, and then imprisoned in the Mansoora Jail until his release March 13.Haji said police officials gave him no reason for his arrest except his Christian faith. They slapped and hit him, he said, declaring, "We arrested you because you are a Christian. You are George, the Christian Somali."An article in the Islam party's Al Sahwah newspaper during this first imprisonment reported that Haji had declared to Tawahi police that he and his wife had embraced Christianity, and that he had changed his name from Mohammed to George. The report said documents indicated both the husband and wife had been born of Muslim parents in Somalia.
. . .
Throughout the following weeks, Haji said he was threatened and beaten every night, "very badly," with police officers warning him they would kill him if he did not return to Islam. The officials interrogated him repeatedly about any other Somali Christians he knew, he said. "They were beating and punishing me every night, [so] I was not able even to stand and walk and even to talk," he stated.On what the convert called "my worst night," three security officers and another three policemen masked him and took him up a high mountain at midnight. After giving him a severe beating, they vowed to throw him off the mountain if he refused to recant. "To save my life that night," Haji admitted, "I said I believe in Islam. Otherwise I would have died."The following day, the Yemen authorities allowed another individual with UNHCR connections to talk privately with Haji. The convert said this person advised him, "No one can do anything for you. So you'd better become a Muslim to end your problems.
ugandaA former member of a Muslim extremist group in Uganda who converted to Christianity is in hiding in Kenya, his movements severely restricted following threats to kill him.
Hassan Sharif Lubenga, 54, was a sheikh and member of the Buk Haram, a violent group of Islamists whose name suggests the Bible is corrupt and therefore forbidden.
. . .
Lubenga fled to Kenya last July 10 after hostilities peaked, and upon returning to Uganda in September he received messages on his cell phone from mujahidin – Islamic fighters – threatening to kill him, he said. He reported the threats to Chengera police, who told him they would investigate, but in October a friend told him that he'd heard in a Chengera mosque that his former colleagues were enraged and planning to kill him.
. . .
When Lubenga felt like giving up on his new faith, he said, he received a call from Bishop Umar Mulinde, his former pastor at Gospel Life Church International who was scarred in a Christmas Eve acid attack by Muslim extremists. Mulinde told him the church was praying for him, and Lubenga was deeply heartened, he said.
"All my family members have deserted me," he said by telephone. "The Muslims are looking to kill me. I need protection and help."
The Islamic extremists who had declared war on "infidels" such as Lubenga had been threatening him since 2007, when he first began to speak of dreams and visions of Christ. Dangers peaked in 2010, when Muslims saw him visiting a church in Uganda. By April 2010, one of his four wives had poisoned him because of his budding faith in Christ, leaving him unconscious, he said. After his recovery, he fled Chengera to a village 25 kilometers from Kampala, Kiwangala.
. . .
In 2007, he said, he told his Muslim jihadist friends that he had seen Jesus in a dream. He said they had warned him, "Do not make such a mistake again – we are ready to help you. If you continue with this move, then we will destroy you. You know that you are a sheikh."
He reported the threats to police at Insanje sub-county, Wakizo district, angering his colleagues, who sent threatening letters.
"I explained to them that it is Jesus who came to me, and not I who sought Him," he said. "They were furious. They then kidnapped me and blindfolded me for three days, coupled with beatings. They demanded I deny Jesus as the Son of God, which I consented to because I feared that they were going to kill me."
. . .
"I heard that nowadays you do go to church, and you are claiming that you saw Jesus," his father told him. When he answered in the affirmative, reaffirming his decision to follow Jesus, his father was crestfallen; he later committed suicide, leaving a letter that read, "I have decided to kill myself because my son became a Christian" and urged all family members to curse him.
Lubenga said that since then he has been in hiding, growing more terrified as threats intensified.
. . .
Two of his wives had left him in 2007; one has decided to stay with him, and he has been sharing his faith with her. The fourth wife, whom he married five years ago, is a Christian who has also received death threats; six months pregnant, she has fled to an undisclosed location.
do you want me to post a full list of countries and practices vs apostasy, becuase that would fill up a page or so
trashsacThe entire world is an anecdote??are we playing semantics forever or should I explain in more detail why you changing your example every single time the example before it is sufficiently picked apart isn't very good for actual discourse
oh yea, picked apart, like that one time you thought half of the population wanting to kill you for leaving Islam was not so bad" if there are many examples supporting one claim, and you can't explain them away, something might be wrong with your view.
I have no idea what you are trying to say besides "look at me unloading this mag into my foot"
trashcanada has one of the most lax cultural mixtures of any NA country, and has little to no terrorist threats at all while still allowing the cultures within it to mingle regularly
yeah, it's real... frustrating???? idk why you assume me to be frothing mad
went right to another anecdote btw
The entire world is an anecdote??
and i'm the one, that gets accused of switching topics lmao
Also the reason Canada has nearly no terrorist threats is : it's a part of the "5 eyes" intelligence group, which means the best intelligence and data pool in the world. And Canada is incredibly irrelevant and VERY far away from any conflict regions.. unlike Israel, which its most fierce enemies are outside the borders and within. Next thing you gonna say, AND WHAT ABOUT ICELAND?? they have no terrorists too!!