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@Greyparrot
I also have a pit bull and he's my favourite dog I've ever owned. He's such a willful little shit. He's like a person.
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@Sum1hugme
I'd recommend Michael Collins' biography by Tim Pat Coogan.
I knew that Mao Tse Tsung had studied Collins’ tactics and that a Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzak Shamir, had used the codename ‘Micail’ during the Israeli War of Independence. One night in Jerusalem the editor of the Jerusalem Post, Ari Nath, summed up the position of the state Shamir helped to found, saying, ‘If they ever get a Michael Collins we’ll wake up one morning to find there’s not a supermarket left in Israel.’ For Michael Collins was the founder of modern guerrilla warfare, the first freedom fighter, or urban terrorist.
oro's recommendations seem actually awesome too though.
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The Prince is probably one of my favourite books, if you'd count that for a war book. I would. I also loved Michael Collins' biography.
That's about all I got though, and I can't think of anything as to fiction. I actually got The Great War for Civilisation on my shelf looking at me right now, but it's a dense book.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Them trying to break down that door is like The Shining only if Johnny had Down syndrome. Tbh.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
A mob of virgins and neckbeards. That's gotta be history's most pathetic attempt at insurrection.
If dude didn't shoot a bitch, this was just sad.
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@drlebronski
It's your fault movies are bad.
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Loki was very Kafkaesque actually thinking about it, running around all those corridors. Still sucked though.
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The should also bring out more Godzilla movies and do some Lovecraftian shit with all this CGI. I really and truly am sick of men in capes. Star Wars also thoroughly sucks.
You know what I also hate, and I blame Fast and the Furious, is movie producers got this idea of the cinema seat as a racing car seat and every fucking movie these days is fucking exhausting. Not a minute given to world building and to let you just sit in it, wonder at your surroundings. The first LotR movie gets this perfect, such a dreamy sort of movie. Movies today are some ADHD shit.
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I'm so sick of Marvel tbh. I just want the LotR tv show to come out already.
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It's that grandmother's birthday today. Woman raised me. RIP.
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My grandfather grew to love our cats in his later years. I think it was the independence of them. We had a fat old beagle too that he hated. I think he saw his own decline in him. The days of lively sheepdogs and powerful workhorses gone.
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A dog is more fun obviously, but also one day one of my cats got stuck up a very tall tree and that's the best use I ever got out of a drone.
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Biologists estimated that cats are responsible for the deaths of as many as 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion smaller animals, including mice, voles
Yearly, obviously. Cats are a Holocaust.
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I love my cats tbh. They're beautiful.
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I like the message of the post but there's also
Biologists estimated that cats are responsible for the deaths of as many as 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion smaller animals, including mice, voles
The domestication and so propping up of cats, an apex predator, is actually an extinction level event. Hedgehogs, sparrows, frogs, and many other small animals are now endangered species because of cats.
I have about 9 cats at all times tbh, but on a farm ya know. They're all feral and I've never touched one ever, they just stare at me from across the yard, beautiful murderous bastards sat in flowers. But if you get close they're all missing eyes, or ears, or bits of tails. We have one, Oscar Pistorius, is managing without his front left paw, stubbing around the place. One landed into my grandmother's house one day with a length of intestine hanging out of his belly, my grandmother cut it off with a bread knife so we wouldn't have to be looking at it and let him off.
A man should aspire to catliness.
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@rbelivb
So what do you envision besides state or capitalism?
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The nation state is a class system enforced by armies. Dispense with it and I'm pretty sure capitalism isn't a thing anymore. Capitalism relies on inequality in mobilising the masses.
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@rbelivb
I figured as much. I don't see it though. It's interesting to think of how the nation state complicates thing, but it ain't going anywhere lol. I can also think as to a certain order it provides, I think it's integral to the working of capitalism in fact.
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@Sum1hugme
I'm not sure I understand your point in the OP.
His point is that issues are irresolvable because we're trying to make things to fit to something that's wrong.
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@rbelivb
Ok, I get you. It's interesting. But so what's your politics around it? None?
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@rbelivb
I still don't get what the nation-state has to do with it. I guess we draw lines through our grievances by it, but the rest seems natural enough.
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It's like having an argument with your girlfriend tbh.
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@FLRW
Thanks for saying so haha. I was feeling the spook a little bit.
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My annoyance in debating this stuff is the dishonesty in it tbh. One side will deny systemic racism could ever possibly exist where only two generations ago one race was slave to another and racist sentiment is everywhere in present day besides. It becomes not so much argument then as an attempt at civilising resentment or complete self-interest. And not that there's nothing valid in that, but it's strange conversation, half telepathy, half the conversation unspoken.
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I'm getting the Moderna vaccine Saturday. Need a cert for indoor drinking, bring it on haha.
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These debates can never be resolved because because they're not based in anything logical instead a measure of selfishness. It's an interesting post though, and I like the age of transition bit. But I don't think the nation-state has anything to do with it.
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I think it's interesting that men with older brothers are more likely to be gay. I don't think that's some weird mechanism for population control. That's not to say I think being gay is a choice though.
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@Wylted
You did see me visit Chris, right, or was that just the most convenient shit ever?
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@ILikePie5
Yes Polyglot was questionable, but Poly would have never lynched whiteflame. And then Edward, Alphonse, and Winry practically clear besides.
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And whiteflame and Polyglot not far off confirmed - at least Polyglot would have never went against whiteflame.
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@ILikePie5
You guys got lucky killing Chris like you said. If you hadn't, you'd have been in the second DP with 3 confirmed townies pretty much. Roles aside.
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I mean yeah it was townsided either way, but you guys lost by theme anyway.
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I don't think the roles made a bit of difference this game though, besides whiteflame shooting two mafia. The game was townsided by theme.
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@ILikePie5
It was. Stacked roles and 3 if not 4 untouchable character claims. Honestly I see the value in themes in that it gets people talking and participating, it's just a good starting point. But these untouchable claims are dubious af tbh.
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Actually TUF as godfather after Pie flipping lawyer really did confuse the fuck out of me lol.
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Game worked out well, dude. I actually really like the whole giving mafia fake character/role claims.
Well played, whiteflame.
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@Lemming
Yours and Double's posts look nothing alike to me, dude.
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Then badger, are we not in agreement?
I'm drunk honestly, but you looked like you disagreed with me lol.
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@Lemming
Better than the next guy, depending what side of it you were on. I think the likes of Double are on the right side of this one.
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@Lemming
Freeing the slaves 'was, something different.
Freeing the slaves was like the most basic fucking shit you could have done lol. Weird thing to pat yourself on the back for, dude.
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If I could speak Chinese I might be on some website telling Chinese dudes to calm down lol.
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I'm not sure what the point of bringing up other bad shit is tbh. It comes out sounding like "Oh but you guys did this too, this is just the game we were playing, right? And we came out on top." I guess that's fair in a warped sort of way, but unless you want more of the same, be something different.
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I fucked up D1 so your game to lose tbh. You are losing it though, it's not me lol. I'm honestly not even sure it's TUF either tbh, I am rusty as hell, so no flame but. I'd still lynch him though.
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Except the part where you can only overturn if it's not on you actually. I've definitely played governor before where you could overturn anyway. That sounds like a weakness you'd give to mafia rather than town.
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