New Testingstan

You know, I was watching an episode of Hawaii 5-0 from the 70s and they had airport security people who were checking bags (as in, opening them up and ruffling inside) and nobody seemed to treat that as anything special.

But maybe that's just because it's an island.

Ok so a U.S. museum won't return a loaned piece of art to a polish museum in clear violation of the terms of their lease. What does that have to do with Britain stealing shit from Egypt? And why Is Thanas falling for broomie's blatant attempt to change the subject?

Because he hates America.

Darksi4190 wrote:And why Is Thanas falling for broomie's blatant attempt to change the subject?

Because he will tolerate no criticism of the glorious Fatherland by the Amerikanere.

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Honestly it's a pretty boring thread because the actual story are Polish and American historians going "Uh, how do we move this thing without destroying it?" while the internet tryhards stand around in a circle chanting "Fight fight fight!"

I do have to give some credit to Broomstick for (probably unintentionally) baiting Thanas into getting all White Man's Burden re: Egyptian artifacts in Germany.

Aaron wrote:Does Broomstick have to remind us with every post that she is older then everyone?

"Oh I remember when there was no airport security."

Yeah, so do I. I'm 34. Shut the fuck up.

I remember when you could smoke on an airplane and drink a fifth of whiskey! While feeling up the stewardesses!

(not really)

You know how Santorum was saying that like 10% of all deaths in the Netherlands were from euthanasia, some of it involuntary? I wish it were true and we could send Broomstick there.

Aaron wrote:Because he hates America.

I know he disagrees with our policies significantly, but actually hating america? I thought that was reserved for people we've actually fucked over.

Darksi4190 wrote:

Aaron wrote:Because he hates America.

I know he disagrees with our policies significantly, but actually hating america? I thought that was reserved for people we've actually fucked over.

Well we did cause the Germans to lose WW2.

I think that was the russians.

Darksi4190 wrote:I think that was the russians.

uh, no

haven't you read TBO

naw america beat their ass in wwi

they saved their ass in wwii

important distinction

got an email saying "Save the internet from the US"

Right now, the US Congress is sneaking in a new law that gives them big brother spy powers over the entire web -- and they're hoping the world won't notice. We helped stop their Net attack last time, let's do it again.

welp

told you they'd keep at this shit until the owners of society get what they want

ps acta is still going strong

pps when will we see protests against google or facebook for already collecting even more personal information on everyone, or is it somehow okay when explicitly for-profit businesses do it for their own secret purposes?

Profit isn't exactly a secret purpose.

Darksi4190 wrote:

Aaron wrote:Because he hates America.

I know he disagrees with our policies significantly, but actually hating america? I thought that was reserved for people we've actually fucked over.

Sarcasm.

I'm waiting for Broomstick to overshoot and say "I remember when there was no Protestantism."

Dooey Jo wrote:pps when will we see protests against google or facebook for already collecting even more personal information on everyone, or is it somehow okay when explicitly for-profit businesses do it for their own secret purposes?

this show on cbs had a line about that

fiction

so this guy was all liek "the government was trying for years to figure out how to get this info from ppl

and then i had this idea where we'll just ask them for it"

and the other guy was leik "u invented social networking?????????"

"its for the machine"


i lold a bit

and threw up a bit




i'd prefer it if it was some secret government plot

at least then i could comfort myself by saying it is used for some kind of JUSTICE

ps isn't it kinda funny how stuff that was teh spyware a few years ago are perfectly normal now

like links that change destination mid-click, fb and goaguld both do that

cross-site tracking cookies from hidden frames

and moar and moar

btw so you know how ppl bitch about OMG TEH COPYRIGHTZ

but did you hear about any of this shit

http://news.yahoo.com/could-peacetime-m ... 00976.html

MOAR POWAH TO TEH EXECUTIVE



though "peacetime" lol

i wish i saw this one last week

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=154336

mah response:

If the modern world is growing excesses of the bourgeoisie causing greater problems for regular folks via failing financial systems, environmental damage, and an unquenchable thirst for war, maybe being out of touch with it is a good thing.

I guess when you have been under embargo for more than 50 years, it makes some amount of sense to stay under a political regime that ensure a fair redistribution of scarce resources ?

....

Man, I'm suddenly reminded of how in one of the books of the TBOverse, SS portrayed a Cuba under the rule of Chicago mobsters as a real and objective improvement over the Batista rule. It was glorious.



More or less unrelated : I remember, one day I was walking in the scientific library of Grenoble's University, and I found a Cuban peer-reviewed publication talking about works on nuclear fusion. Didn't read it, but I was positively surprised to see that they were doing at least some research on the subject with their limited resources - tell something about them, when you know the state of their economy.

it really amuses me how in REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL "the author" regularly says simply "the empire"

for example

I then had to visit him, given that he was the president-elect of a friendly country. I met with a bitter and resentful man. He was already the model of a "democratic and representative" government that the empire needed.

on climate change:

Figures such as this are bitterly understood by a growing number of leaders of rich countries; but the hierarchy that leads the most powerful and rich country on the planet – the United States – is consoling itself by affirming that such forecasts are the fabrications of scientists.

if i didn't know any better i'd call that lies and socialist propaganda meant to make the us look stupid and evil

.... but alas i do know better :-(



the thing with reading all this stuff is it leaves me in a crisis of faith

fidel castro doesn't seem so bad

neither does ahmadinejad or chavez


but they are supposed to be evil enemies of freedom according to our totally free and independent us new media

i could call these speeches and blogs propaganda and lies

but i know much of it is not

and if castro can be right about one thing

he might be right about more things



wtf wtf wtf



somebody tell me what to think

fidel castro seems like the kind of guy you could have a beer with

alot like dubya :troll:

at least he hasn't ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people


just a few thousand :troll:

Castro's regime has less people imprisoned per capita than the US.