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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yeah the Middle East reaction to a Sanders president would be to roll out another bunch of stupid conspiracy theories and then do nothing. Yes you'd have theories, but no state would actually do anything, the US is to important for the religion of the president to matter.
I imagine that the Iranian would be pretty nervous to start with but would then be like "wait this guy is the most reasonable US president ever on this stuff... Fuck my head hurts".
Short version, screams of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, followed by confusing once they see what Sanders is like, followed by heads exploding as anti-Semites simply cannot understand what is going on.
The reaction of the Israli government would be even more hilarious.
Oh and on Iran hating the US, the younger generation like US culture and media, the older generation still carry a bit of a chip on their shoulder from that time the US and UK installed a brutal authoritarian dictatorship in place of the democratic government, because fucking BP asked us to. I can't relay blame them for still being kinda pissed about that, if I'm honest.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe CIA was flexing its muscles in the 50s and overthrowing any government they could with the flimsiest excuses.
They once overthrew a government because a fucking banana company asked them to.
It would probably make a good wacky tv comedy actually.
edited 10th Aug '15 7:01:11 PM by Canid117
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des UrsinsUSA doesn't have to worry about oil anymore cause unconventional oil reserves. Just one of many reasons why oil prices has been low.
This is of course bad news for the alternate energy industry, but since technology is also being developed to burn fossil fuels more cleanly, I'll take whatever good news I can get.
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.All the clean oil and clean coal isn't actually very clean. Alternative energy is still many times more friendly to the environment and all those unconventional oil reserves are unconventional for a reason. We're running out of easy to extract oil.
We've got plenty more but to get it we're going to have to do some irreparable environmental damage. Those tar sands aren't exactly easy pickings.
Oh really when?Good news: It's looking like the planet can supply way more oil than we thought a little while ago.
Bad news: Getting that oil out of the planet fucks the environment over even before it gets burned.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"That's not the question — many of them are already working hard on oil independence. The question is how they will handle the sudden loss of export income.
edited 10th Aug '15 7:47:36 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Renewable resources typically includes not relying so much on exports.
For example, greenhouses in the desert. The Nordics also went with the greenhouse route.
It also includes getting foreigners to buy vacation houses or even retire over there. Dubai went with that massively, but needed to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi (if I remember correctly).
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.
2/3rds of Saudi Arabia's workers are foreigners.
I would complain more about slave worker conditions overseas for our workers IF working conditions over here were better... At the very least, they get paid (way) more over there for similar work done over here.
I have to admit though that I'm kinda glad that Saudi Arabia didn't went with exporting workers. Otherwise, there would be more competition for our workers.
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.I love this image so much.
◊ I wonder what he'd use for an actual campaign logo?
A poster was claiming that a "supicious death" in Argentina was an assassination performed to cover up Iranian participation in this
. Being from Argentina myself, I'm correcting him and saying that it was for something related to internal politics of Argentina.
So in other words their was probably still a cover up of Iranian involvement in a terrorist attack on Argentina, and a man was murdered due to it.
The Codling of the American mind
Trigger Warning, the following article contains the phrase microtrasgressions which I find to trigger feelings of extreme anyoyedness and rage in myself and therefore I assume everyone else.
[[http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/when-success-leads-to-failure/400925/
When Success Leads to Failure
The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning.]]
edited 11th Aug '15 6:05:03 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.![]()
That was a bad case of the The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much, really a suicide with a gunshot to the back of the head with no powder left over on the hands of the guy who supposedly shot himself.
I have mixed feelings about that while I concur that giving some warning about contents, thanks to the other tropers clearing the definition and use for me, is the right thing to do but I think that using them as an excuse to exempt from attending classes and studying material or using them as an excuse to shut down argumentation is not.
I hope I didn't interpret that correctly, but decrying stereotypes by giving examples of micro aggressions on an ad is in itself triggering? What the hell?
edited 11th Aug '15 6:14:44 AM by AngelusNox
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Same, if I ever decide to include any sort of especially graphic scenes in my writing, i.e vivid descriptions of rape, than I will probably include some kind of warning. As much as I joke about them I at least understand the purpose of trigger warnings, though apparently some groups say they are bad for a person suffering form PTSD, but I don't know enough about it. Microtrasgresions and the need to define anything as "harassment" sound like a parody of what my conservative family thinks liberals are like.

Iranians are chill, I just want to see all the white supremacists and neo Nazis as well see the Islamic radicals have a collective anal clenching hard enough to fuse an atom.
Obama had the birthers and I wonder what those idiots will claim.
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