The Afghan War is over
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I'd hazard a guess and assume, that you got lots of experience with getting beaten.
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Re: The Afghan War is over
Perhaps more than you know.
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You're correct in that I didn't respond to the applied notion of Trump being an international arbiter of peace.clearspira wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:02 pmAnd the Reuters article? I notice that you conveniently avoided that. A lot easier to poo poo me than it is to poo poo one of the most respected journals in the world isn't it.
Are you aware that the US has been at war for 93% of its existence? Impressive for such a young country. Being a peacetime president is actually the rarity not the norm and such men should be commended when they come along no matter their other faults.
Yeah I apologize for averting that. I suppose it's interesting enough for speculation honestly, but argumentatively I don't see it as a very weighted initiative by itself. And from there, I'm personally more skeptical about its validity.
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What exactly does Poparena have to do with the Afghan war?
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Re: The Afghan War is over
TLGS actually notified me in PMclearspira wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:19 pmYou got banned because of me? No. I doubt that. What I suspect happened was that I was the last point in a chain of your own making.Makeshift Python wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:28 amBecause one time I referred to Clearspira as "White Hetero Male Fragility". This was from when I pointed out that the third season of DISCO was the very first season of any Trek to NOT feature a white heterosexual male in the main cast. He got really upset over that factoid, accusing the Trek producers of committing hate crime or something. That's how I got a two-month ban. I didn't object to it.McAvoy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:30 amWhy do you hate the guy?Yukaphile wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:26 pm The only shitty person I see is Makeshift Python, and I'd like to add, I may not hate Fuzzy Necomancer, but I sure do hate Makeshift Python. And wow, the giant, flaming, asshole douchebag of a man was banned once, wow, what are the ODDS? Who would have seen that coming?
But that's not really part of this topic, so let's leave it at that.
Lol, whatever.Yukaphile wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:26 pm The only shitty person I see is Makeshift Python, and I'd like to add, I may not hate Fuzzy Necomancer, but I sure do hate Makeshift Python. And wow, the giant, flaming, asshole douchebag of a man was banned once, wow, what are the ODDS? Who would have seen that coming?
that I was banned specifically for the White Male Fragility remark.
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Re: The Afghan War is over
The lump of rock will continue to orbit for billions of years. The biosphere is going to require much longer than a few million years to recover from what we've already done to it, particularly if (as some researchers believe) we've managed to disrupt the oncoming ice age.
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Re: The Afghan War is over
Not really. A million years is a long time. Five ice ages happened in the past one million years. That doesn't include the short ones like that just ended in the past hundred years or so.Frustration wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 2:39 pmThe lump of rock will continue to orbit for billions of years. The biosphere is going to require much longer than a few million years to recover from what we've already done to it, particularly if (as some researchers believe) we've managed to disrupt the oncoming ice age.
Biodiversity is different. That will take much longer. 5 millions give or take.
But the damage to the Earth itself? Not too long at all. Assuming humans either stop what we are doing now.
I got nothing to say here.
Re: The Afghan War is over
I never in my wildest dreams would have expected people from the far right to end up simping for the FREAKING Taliban.
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Re: The Afghan War is over
Can we just start calling them the American Taliban, now? That's clearly what they want to be.BBally81 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:37 pm I never in my wildest dreams would have expected people from the far right to end up simping for the FREAKING Taliban.
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Re: The Afghan War is over
Sorkin already tried that. Didn't catch on.ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:21 pmCan we just start calling them the American Taliban, now? That's clearly what they want to be.BBally81 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:37 pm I never in my wildest dreams would have expected people from the far right to end up simping for the FREAKING Taliban.
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