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#101526: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:49:12 PM

The pig-fucking controversy fully explained. Even if it's not true, I hope he'll Never Live It Down.

Not sure, dude. That can cripple a person emotionally. if it is something he did not ever do, ruining his life for it seems pretty sadistic. If he goes down, then let him go down for something he did, not for stupid tabloid shit.

edited 21st Sep '15 2:49:38 PM by Aszur

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#101527: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:50:42 PM

His budget cuts probably actually killed large numbers of the most vulnerable people. Pig-fucking, at his scale of damage, is purely anecdotal.

That kind of things stick to you, even when they're completely silly misunderstandings. The obvious way to wash away the shame is with blood by the barrel!

edited 21st Sep '15 2:53:57 PM by TheHandle

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#101528: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:55:12 PM

[up]He had intimate relations with pigs?

edited 21st Sep '15 2:55:40 PM by Skycobra51

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#101529: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:55:35 PM

I've no idea why rich kids a do this shit, I went to boarding school myself and there was no pig fucking there. I think it's a society thing, the idea is that by making you do such horrible shit they force you to commit fully to the group, it's the same way gangs will often make you do something criminal to join, so that way you can't ever leave safely.

[up][up][up] The man's welfare reforms have been directly tied to at least one suicicde, I'll take whatever I need (within reason), to get rid of the fucker. Plus the other allegations (that he lied to parliment and was a massive coke snorter even as a married man) seem legit. That and he was enough of a shit to burn money in front of poor people so as to mock them, this is just that same shit in a different way.

[up] Dead pig's head, still pretty bad though.

[down] It could be fake, but it fits with everything we know about that group and the way they act, so there's a decent chance it's real, it also a weird thing to make up when there's so much real dirt to dish as is.

edited 21st Sep '15 2:58:27 PM by Silasw

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#101530: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:56:15 PM

Just sounds stupid. What do we gain by giving credence to fake stories that could bring big people down? Just the possibility of bringing anyone down with some stupid smear.

To mention something I just read of about actual U.S politics, seems like the U.S is considering accepting the sanctions of the U.N for the Cuban Embargo. This according to some source from the Associated Press.

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#101531: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:56:34 PM

Maybe he'll fall down some stairs. Or get cancer.

I do hope he gets cancer.

Oh really when?
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#101532: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:59:10 PM

[up][up] The Sanctions of the UN?

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#101533: Sep 21st 2015 at 2:59:37 PM

[up][up][up]????

edited 21st Sep '15 3:00:03 PM by Skycobra51

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#101534: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:02:03 PM

He did something incredibly stupid in his frat years. I am honestly more apalled at the story of burning a 50 pounds note in front of a homeless man than the pig thing if either were true. One is gross, but harmless. The other is inherently malicious towards a living human being.

I mean, sure, the pig thing is funny to mock at but it ultimately says nothing about a person's character other than "Is willing to do gross things to belong to a group".

hey, speaking of leaders that were dumb shits on their universities, how is Dubya?

Cuban embargo thing

edited 21st Sep '15 3:03:15 PM by Aszur

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#101535: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:08:33 PM

Oh true it's more funny then anything else, in the end he's done much worse, he did worse in his uni years and societies have had people do worse to join them. Still funny as fuck though.

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#101536: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:08:56 PM

Well, we never knew exactly what happened with the Skull and Bones...

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#101537: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:09:44 PM

[up][up][up]What.

You gotta love the U Ns priorities, of all the issues, this is the most important?

edited 21st Sep '15 3:10:12 PM by Skycobra51

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#101538: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:11:48 PM

Damn, if Obama would really let the UN speak out against the US to spite the Republicans that'd be one hell of a thing.

I can't even begin to imagine the hate that'd cause.

He should totally do it.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:12:02 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
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#101539: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:12:22 PM

Who said it was the most important? It's not like this is all the UN is doing.

For thosue unable to follow the link, the UN normally votes to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba, the US normally vetoes but might not this time.

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#101540: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:17:14 PM

Wow, the United Nations can't/won't intervene in Syria, yet they find the time to sanction us.

Man, the UN is about as useful as tits on a boar hog.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:18:26 PM by Skycobra51

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#101541: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:18:20 PM

They can do more than one thing at once you know.

And what are they gonna do in Syria?

Oh really when?
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#101542: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:19:31 PM

[up][up][up][up] And rightly so. The President should not take the side of a nebulous international organization against his own country, which is what he is doing. Especially one that gave Kin Jong Il a moment of silence, and almost made Syria a member of the Human rights council, and a whole bunch of other shenanigans I could get into.

Xi is visiting the White House The leader of a nation that has repeatedly stolen US property, bullied our allies, and is generally aliened against us will receive a 21 gun salute, and presumably a groveling Obama prostrating himself before the premier ready to lick his boots.[lol]

They have also gotten closer to an "arms control agreement for cyber space", one China will almost certainly break, and than deny breaking.

[up] As I recall North Korea has only been condemned once or twice. The UN is basically a place where irrelevant country's can bitch about how evil the US is. It's not like they can do anything else about it.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:20:55 PM by JackOLantern1337

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#101543: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:19:48 PM

The UN has actually put a lot of effort into trying to help in Syria is much as it can. But yes, it does find the time to condemn a nation that is trying to interfere in the domestic politics of another county via an illegal embargo designed to bully the weaker country into submission.

[up] Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. You can't make an enemy a freind without talking to them, likewise not talking to them increases the change of something accidentally going wrong. Diplomacy involves a lot of talking to and being nice to people you don't like, otherwise it would be easy.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:21:48 PM by Silasw

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#101544: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:21:24 PM

[up] I fail to see how placing an embargo on another country is "illegal."

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#101545: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:22:19 PM

[up][up]Despite them not giving a shit about it until relatively recently, when it's been in place since the 60s.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:23:01 PM by Skycobra51

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#101546: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:23:08 PM

[up][up]You're not at war, so it's a breach of all sorts of bits of international law on free trade, rules that were specifically created to try and avoid situations where countries embargo each other out of spite and end up at war (see WW 1).

[up] I'm pretty sure the embargo has always been condemned, or at least has been for a long time.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:24:43 PM by Silasw

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#101547: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:24:04 PM

Despite them not giving a shit about it until relatively recently, when it's been in place since the 60s.

They did try to condemn it several times before.

The U.S always vetod it. They are considering not doing it this time.

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#101548: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:34:07 PM

[up][up] Wait but we have bans on selling products to all sorts of country's, how is embargoing Cuba any different?

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#101549: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:36:35 PM

Because the UN in all its infinite "wisdom" says so.

edited 21st Sep '15 3:37:06 PM by Skycobra51

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#101550: Sep 21st 2015 at 3:44:36 PM

I think not selling nukes and weapons to certain countries is sliiiiiightly different than not selling coca cola to others.

All the U.N sanction is is a finger wagging, because it is quite a dick move.

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