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Jace, Extat

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  1. So there's this cartoon on Prime Video called Hazbin Hotel

    I firmly recommend. 

    It's about the princess of hell, Lucifer's daughter. She's started a hotel where she attempts to rehabilitate sinners and get them into heaven, to help with hell's overcrowding problem. 

    It's just delightful! It's like a Disney cartoon, lots of singing and looking for the good in people... But in hell.

    The concept alone, bravo I say. And the execution is delightful. Y'all should check it out.

  2. I think you could do an opening montage of the jihad, narrated by Chani, that ends with Paul and she reconciling. That would be a good way to show the passage of time, at first Paul is leading alone but he returns to Arrakis for her. 

    Then they're back together for the events of Messiah. You could even have Paul be one of many Fremen returning disaffected from the jihad at the end of Chani's narration.

    "What would I do, when I see him again?" She might ask the audience. 

    And when he steps foot back on Arrakis you see them embrace.

    - Then we're back on track for the events of Messiah and the God Emperor's Golden Path.

  3. 1 hour ago, Kalbear said:

    Yeah, the famous battle of mosul having no troops on the ground to deal with isis.

    Don't let pesky things like facts get in the way of your fantasies

    I know, I got a little over my skiis on that one. :leaving:

    Don't tell nobody.

     :owned:

  4. 2 hours ago, Zorral said:

    Not Vietnam and the 1960's, here is what latterly the US wars have accomplished -- only evil for the people we tried to use as justification for aerial warfare and killing them.

    The Open-Air Prison for ISIS Supporters—and Victims
    Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into Al-Hol, a giant fenced-in camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences.
    By Anand Gopal

    March 11, 2024

    Look and sound familiar by chance?

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/the-open-air-prison-for-isis-supporters-and-victims

    You know how we know it isn't the 1960's in the USA?  The registered Republican voters are all in with the USA having dictators and loving Russia, and among the USA registered Dem voters, Israel is viewed as the Bad Guy.  So by all means continue educating me in the historical changes from the Vietnam era as to just why eradicating massive numbers of innocent people from the air win hearts and minds and wars, and so why we must drop nuclear bombs into the bargain.

     

    Huh? 

    ISIS is destroyed. Their ability to threaten U.S. interests is destroyed. All from the air, and not even with a fraction of what we're capable of... I didn't say you were gonna win hearts and minds. I said you could cap the enemy's capacity to wage offensive war entirely from the sky. Which is what happened with ISIS.

    You don't need nukes for that.

  5. 19 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    7 at best and one year he was hurt in that span. He never got many sacks, didn't force or recover that many fumbles and outside of one year didn't get many picks per season. He just got a lot of tackles.

    But he was a leader of men! A heartstone from which his teammates drew strength and found purpose. His effect on the field made him great, his effect on the soul makes him legendary...

  6. 5 minutes ago, Conflicting Thought said:

    (1)and states that already have them? what are they?(2) what is the usa to the rest of the world?(3) i know that you dont care how the rest of the world views the usa, as long as you can do as you want, you can keep sending drones and keep killing women and children, and be happy about it. 

    (4)and the thing is that people like you are the reason why people should fight against US supremacy, you guys are fucking bloodthirsty, havent you got your fill allready? jesus

    (1) Problematic 

    (2) Hero

    (3) Only at folks trying to attain a power they have no right to. Only at bad people who try to threaten human lives with their technological advancement. That's what having nukes is, it's a threat. No more, I say. The world has enough threatening actors.

    (4) That's ridiculous. There's no fighting American stewardship of the world. See previous posts, about how that's gonna work for Iran.

    Just now, DMC said:

    Your schtick is lame.

    Ah, c'mon! C'mooooon! 

    Just imagine it. Forget how gen Z says they wouldn't fight for the country, once we let them drop bombs with their phones this country will be unstoppable. 

    We could solve global warming in a month. Restrict sea trade, enforce carpooling and use of public transit the world over! People will plant trees just to have something to try and hide behind as Tik tarded teens traverse the skies from the other side of the globe. We will regulate use of the internet, to decrease the mobilization of dissidents! There will be only one trading partner for all nations, America. Decreased need for oil will cripple Russia and the West Asian cartels forever. Spice production will slow, until it is only a fraction of what it has been... and when that happens--

    We'll have a corner on the scarcest commodity in the universe:lol:

  7. 9 minutes ago, DMC said:

    You think if we start a scorched-earth war with Iran they're the only ones who'll get involved?  :(

    Yeah! Ain't no one gonna want none of this. You'll see eventually. Peace for another century, afterwards. Guaranteed. Zero American lives lost, not counting self-immolators. 

    B)

    This shit we're seing in Ukraine? Dawg, they might as well be firing muskets and charging horses at each other. 

    Tanks are about as fit for a 21st century battle as a basket of rocks. 

  8. 4 hours ago, Larry of the Lawn said:

    What is an adversary when it can change every 4 years?

    That's fair, dawg. 

    But going back to my first few posts, I describe any state attempting to get the bomb as an adversary.

    4 hours ago, DMC said:

     

    Well, I really do hope this is a bit, because otherwise it's shockingly naive to think war with Iran could only be "waged from the air" without inevitable nuclear holocaust.

    Holocaust for whom? You think they're gonna build, test, then deploy an H-bomb that can hit us while under air cerfew? 

    Nah, no chance. I'm telling ya, you get enough drones... you can do anything. 3, maybe 4 hundred thousand of these things in the air at all hours? No chance. 

    You can raid bunkers and sites with boots on the ground if you want, but easier to just blow it up.

     

    ETA: in five years of an ambitious drone program you could have entire flights controlled by AI and one pilot. 20-30 drones flying in formation for the pilot to switch between, tethered by algorithm.

  9. 13 hours ago, Liffguard said:

    "Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do this."

     

    I genuinely don't know if you're just doing a bit, but gung ho American defaulting to "let's solve this problem with lots of bombs" is a little on the nose, no?

    A bit of a bit, admittedly. But nothing I've said is untrue. The situation needs solving, we have the means. I don't like funding our adversaries in hopes that they choose to play nice.

    12 hours ago, Zorral said:

    Yah, it's always worked so successfully in the past, particularly in that napalm war from which retreating, throwing up up our hands and throwing trillions of military materiel, earthmoving equipment, other heavy machinery, plus whatever expensive else into the sea, while helicopters out the feckless jerkwaddies on whose behalf supposedly we were murdering peasants and kids from the air.

    By all means let us repeat this for umpteenth time!

    Different time. Now war really can be waged from the air. No more nation building debacles, no more anti-terrorist missions. Capacity Capping, that's the operational order of the future.

  10. Seriously, Eli took a beating in that game. He got turfed up by the last outing of one of the greatest defensive units of all time. Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrable, and Vince Wilfork. Rodney fucking Harrison!

    Rodney Harrison, hanging off a guy's back with the superbowl on the line! 

    Asante Samuel, with the ball going off his hands in the last drive!!! 

    Are you fucking kidding me!?!?!

    "One lucky throw." 

  11. 21 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

    Fun game, who deserves to be in the HoF more, Flacco or Eli? Eli has the two Owl edge, but otherwise their regular season stats are kind of similar more or less though Eli has nearly 50 more starts. Flacco's playoff career is better statistically, and he regularly won where Eli only won a playoff game in two seasons and the defense did most of the heavy lifting. 

    Even though Felipe Rios never got his ring I'd put him in before either of them. Wasn't his fault his offensive line was cursed. Or really the whole team for that matter.

    Eli, easy. I'll remember 18-1 forever. He'd be in for that alone to me.

     

    Eta: 

    Look, I got a lot of respect for Phil Rivers. Motherfucker beat my boys at home with a busted knee. Nothing but respect for that bastard. 

    But this is the Hall of Fame. Not the Hall of Stats.

  12. 2 hours ago, Conflicting Thought said:

    now thats an american! damn you guys and gals are brave people of action! who cares about long term, it has worked so well for you, maybe not so well for us people outside of the usa, but who fucking cares! drone that bitch away i say! weare the kids skulls  as necklases and  use them as ashtrays, fucking savages deserve it.

    The haunting inevitability of it, eh? 

  13. 11 hours ago, Liffguard said:

     

    Do you think maybe that frequent rhetoric similar to this from multiple American politicians and media outlets over the years (along with seeing what happened to Saddam and Gaddafi) might possibly constitute a very strong incentive for Iran to develop a nuclear weapons program? Do you think that the USA adopting your position might constitute a very strong incentive for Iran to develop functioning nuclear weapons as quickly as they possibly can, no matter the cost?

    Like, I know you're being facetious, but come on.

     

    Honestly, nah... I don't think that changes anything. Why or whatfor is ultimately irrelevant. I'm in the now, and now calls for action to prevent this occurrence. Nobody wants to see Iran with the bomb, who cares what drove them to go after it.

    10 hours ago, DMC said:

    EVERY country that has achieved the ability to build a bomb has done so based on the justification it is their sovereign right to do so for their own self-defense.  And..that's hard to argue against as the only government that's actually used nuclear weapons.

    It's frankly extraordinary non-proliferation was as successful as it was, but that's out the door now.

    No way. No way can we just take our hands off the wheel and let the number of nuclear powers increase. It's not about being fair or even consistent- it's about not letting the global security situation become unmanageable. 

    The idea that a state has a right to get the bomb is one that I have to combat. No, no, no.

    8 hours ago, The Anti-Targ said:

    So basically no viable alternative to the Obama nuke deal, is what I'm seeing. So do nothing, and we're seeing what do nothing is doing.

    No, I laid out a little scenario that would be functional and even fashionable. Air enforcement. Sure, it's horrible. Lot of people would die... America would look a little evil for a while. 

    But the upside is putting a cap on nuclear proliferation while demonstrating the capacities of American arms as we head into a second cold war with China. Also, we can finally start exploring ICBM interception capabilities and start producing them at scale. Once we have a way to keep drones equipped with anti-nuke methods in the air at all hours, at all places, then we can get in on the information war that China's kicking our asses at.

  14. 1 minute ago, DMC said:

    Yes because these types of solutions always work out swimmingly with much smaller countries with much less capabilities.  Great way to get the DOD budget up to $2 trillion though!  Are you trying to help Boeing in their time of need?

    Think about it, D. All the sweet Army and Airforce jobs for flying those drones! Not to mention the maintenance. 

    Boeing and Lockheed will be rolling out plants in Ohio and Indiana. A midwest revitalization as a munitions factory just in time to enforce 2nd-tier status on Russia. 

    China awaits. :leer:

  15. 24 minutes ago, DMC said:

    ...So, what until they have a weapon, then war with Iran.  Or nuke Iran?  Yeah, you should totally be on the NSC.

    Don't need to nuke Iran. A no-fly zone and indefinite Air Curfew would probably stop them indefinitely... and no need for boots on the ground. We can run the entire campaign from 15,000 feet with enough drones to block out the sun. For as long as it takes. 

    Hip, hip! Hooray!

    :cheers:

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