im not comparing these figures with the death of osama bin laden, he was obviously an incredibly dangerous criminal who deserved death. The determination of worth I am questioning is the strategy we elected to pursue over the last 10 years to get bin Laden vs. its cost.
devinhoward
devinhoward
in my dimension eh? Yeah, im totally living in another dimension by contextualizing the final, dismally belated killing of Osama bin Laden, a guy who has been at large since 1998, within the wider framework of US involvement in the middle east. How naive of me to assume that this could possibly be analyzed as…
haha, sorry man, how about this: SSSSSSUCK it Cheney, Yoo, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Addington, Kristol, Breitbart, Limbaugh, Beck, the Cato Institute, the National Review, neo-conservative foreign policy, and Mitch McConnell just because he's an asshole.
oh, I am very happy hes dead, and I don't think I'm being cynical, I just don't think the price has been worth the reward at this point. If his death leads subsequently to long term disruption of the loose global organization of Al Qaeda and its operations then I might re-evaluate.....yeah maybe I am just cynical, I…
So, a trillion and a half dollars more or less, maybe 20-30 thousand Afghani casualties, another 10-15 thousand american casualties, many of them with extremely bad wounds facing lifelong difficulty, a couple thousand US dead, nuclear Pakistan destabilized. An entire region brutalized, war torn, and facing generations…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Marcy Kaptur 2016!! Wasserman Schultz is truly a badass, but in a televised staredown/policy debate she would have met her match in Kaptur. People like this give me small, faint glimmers of hope that the nation and by extension the planet aren't irreconcilably fated for complete and utter…
somewhere, lost amid the dusty, long vanished heaps of forgotten things, is a vhs recording of myself interpreting the phantom tollbooth through dance with a fourth grade classmate, singing was also involved.
or maybe f(x) = sinx-cosy, yeaaahhh
you know, I guess I am kind of in the mood for a relaxing f(x) = x squared - 37x graph
@modiano
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I mean, what happens if they have ALL the fucking data, down to the electron spin for every molecule in every human being on earth? I don't really understand the obsession with more and more and more data. You know what, fresh water resources are about to collapse, the glaciers are pretty much done, and in the United…
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haha, nice
This has probably been addressed previously but.......how did A New Hope make it to the tourney and not Return of the Jedi? I can understand if Lucas fucking it all up with goof ball cgi fireworks and dancing, Hayden Christensen's ghost, that painful Max Rebo band scene, and all the other damage he did was considered…
wow, congratulations, you have proven statistically your own lack of taste. Download Reign of Fire and enjoy yourself tonight.
While obviously a very popular film, Serenity is always getting heckled like its some kind of variant on the twilight, teen, vampire love-saga-monster-sci-fi bandwagon meme. Sure, it doesn't resonate across decades like some of these films - because its a lot newer, and the fact that it is a perpetual feature of…
Yuppies already believe they have superpowers, if superpowers are understood as freedom from consequences and a self-evident capacity for always being correct. Read 'The Quants' by Scott Patterson, apparently it is 'reality' and the 'irrationality' of the general population which caused the financial meltdown, not…
Well said. There are a lot of marginal films I really enjoy due simply to epic scale, exotic location, or sheer otherworldliness. Chronicles of Riddick is a perfect example. It really isn't that great a film, the acting is far from stellar, the storyline doesn't really flow that well, and the entire movie was built…