He hasn’t read Clausewitz, and seemingly nor has Bannon. This is a good thing, let’s keep it that way. The longer Bannon sticks to his area of expertise - World of Warcraft - the better.
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I’d be happy for the UK to join that, along with Ireland.
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I’ve noted the vulnerability to criticism, and nothing will mitigate that.
Hampshire and New Hampshire.
York and New York.
Jersey and New Jersey.
Yep. Checks out.
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There was a decade or so in Australia where being gay was not criminal…except in Queensland and Tasmania [1].
People are daft.
[1] Rodney Croome, Australian gay rights hero, had a lot of fun [2] in the last few years of Tasmania’s ban by presenting himself at police stations and “confessing” to being gay.
[2] A version of “fun” that includes a potential 20-year sentence in prison.
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A long time ago, I had a boss who shook hands in the Trumpian manner,pulling the other person toward you, putting him slightly off balance. It is really a dick move, and if the recipient quickly transfers his weight to a slightly rear foot, the gesture will fail, and the asshole will be put off balance. LOL!
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Not if Trump’s new Secret State Police round them up first.
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The current ideological split in the country is not between the states, but between the cities and the rural. So, unlike the civil war when there was a clear delineation between the set of slave states and free states, there isn’t a straightforward group of progressive versus regressive states.
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Someone should tell The Kleptocrat how the White House ends up in that scenario.
(Don’t ask me how the other buildings are still standing, It must have been a small nuke or something.)
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Bannondorf does appear in another series of games, but he probably doesn’t want to be connected to it and repeatedly getting beaten by it’s ‘liberal’ hero Link.
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I wasn’t thinking of that.
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TFA lost me at
“Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily Izvestia”
There is no news in Truth and no truth in News (Pravda=truth, Izvestia=news) - Russian saying.
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Has the author of REAMDE made public comments about Trump? I know that the author of Halting State has.
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Stephenson is actually dealing with his own stuff right now, I’ve heard, but he may comment. You never know.
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Last time someone did that to me it became an ‘accidental’ gut-punch.
I can’t remember the circumstances, and that is so not-me, but somehow the memory of the fuck-you reflex is clear.
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Sometimes the news from Australia makes it sound like Russia with sunshine.
Still, no worries getting into the US from Australia. Even Rupert Murdoch made it.
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It helps to think of Queensland as Australia’s equivalent of Alabama or Mississippi. And Tasmania has more than a hint of six-fingered banjo to it (gorgeous scenery, though).
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