Recent content by Thaluikhain

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Now I feel old, I was a kid during the previous Iraq War. I also had lego.

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Certainly. I do think it's also really weird how much effort a lot of them seem to put into being like that. Put half that effort into being a better person and they might get somewhere.

I have today learned that that song that goes "And if you...something something something, just go ahead now" is called Two Princes and is by a band called Spin Doctors.

I would agree, but the exploiter might not be the real deal either, just a bit cannier or luckier than the exploited.

Also, after Diehard there were a zillion and one imitators and eveyr TV show was seemingly obliged to do a Die Hard episode, and I daresay not everyone there was white. I'm very sure that not every villain had a chief henchman who was a former Soviet ballet dancer playing a German. Oh...just...

And even if all they said was true, and they were engaged in a necessary war against an unjust enemy, as the leader of that enemy, surely he'd be a valid target anyway?

Is not the Principality of Andorra not a democracy? It's run by two princes, one the president of France, which, ok, democracy, but the other is a Spanish bishop, which, not democratic.

The Underwater Menace, a Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who story which has been animated due to missing bits. Famous previously for existing bits in which a very silly and OtT evil scientist rants at things in an entertaining way, but unfortunately the wacky charm of that wasn't present the...

One wonders what they'd do if the next one actually assaults them (possibly after reasoning they'd arrest them anyway). Charge them with "no really, they actually did assault ICE for reals this time"?

Well, one could argue that the west declining is only relative, and that it hasn't unless someone else is getting bigger. And/or the reason for lesser Western militaries is the lack near-peer threats that is seems likely there will be a war against.

Claiming that everyone must believe he is guilty while acknowledging that he might not be is novel, if nothing else.

I fear there's little easy answer to this, beyond a cop out like "cognitive dissonance" or something which might be correct, but isn't very informative. I might suggest that people seem to have a discontent between politics and "real life". The same way that Obama can be the anti-christ, but...

Yeah, apparently the idea that they weren't really trying is going round FB.