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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

The North Korean's have no incentive to get rid of their nukes.

@Penny

I mean, they do now. This isn't happening in a vacuum. We ratcheted up the sanctions to biblical levels and followed through on enforcement (and got China to follow through on enforcement too, which is absurd). This isn't Kim tapping out before the wrestling even starts -- we've got him in a headlock with one arm, and the other arm is putting a gun to his temple.

I'm not saying I expect Kim to suddenly drop the family tradition. I'm just saying, there's totally incentive to ditch the nukes. Will he? That seems optimistic. We've been putting in work though.

I'll just leave this here:

As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine.

actual Trump joke

It's fucking working, how bout that.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

... but websites have the right to modify their content as per their terms of service.

@catchamber

To what extent? Is this a christian-bakery-versus-gay-wedding-type scenario? Because we've found in the past that one can compel equal services to be rendered in past cases of free speech vs. anti-discrimination. (These may be unrelated issues entirely, I'm realizing now this sounds like an accusatory question. It's not meant that way).

OldGuild Reunion Thread

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!!!!!

you're alive

@Foxes

80% anyway.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

So in the news today, French presidential runner-up Marine le Pen (who TO BE FAIR is legit offspring of an actual Nazi) has been charged with tweeting anti-ISIS images. She faces up to five years in prison. I haven't looked up the actual images (because fuck twitter and also fuck the National Front probably, I dunno, I'm not french but they always seemed on the crazy side), according to the BBC the tweets included photographs of ISIS doing ISIS things like decapitations and other executions and said something along the lines of "THIS IS WHO THEY ARE."

That's apparently worth jail time, or at least worth talking about serious jail time. Which sounds impossible until you remember that the UK has been locking people up for social media for years.

So here's a conversation starter, right? The low-hanging fruit would seem to be "jailing your political opponents for telling the truth is wrong." Seems almost too easy. What's the actual line you'd draw when it comes to policing speech on the internet?

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Parents are an antiquated notion. I mean it's 2018 already come on.

OldGuild Reunion Thread

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There were no genuine friends in Spam, just temporary alliances. C'mon now.

@stark

AND blood feuds.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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Not unless their lobbyists are drunk and asleep.

@Penny

It's actually.... hang on. Sourcing.

Okay, it's actually a funny case study in media bias. When Trump says it, it's "Baffling" and "PANTS-ON-FIRE" wrong. But then wait a few months for everyone to forget about all that and whattaya know? But don't hold your breath for retractions.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Oh you mean in the aftermath of that financial crisis? ;)

@Penny

How bout that Trump Bump though? We're cruising now! Rumor has it the economy's so strong Amazon might even start paying taxes.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Particularly seeing the number of people who would take advantage of this option would be relatively low. I only bought it up because I couldn't find a firm moral reason to object to it. In fact if it wasn't for the issue of children (the issue of issue?) I don't think I could find any objection and even then if they were given the same counseling as people with the aforementioned genetic diseases, it would be hard to exclude one group and not the other and remain consistent.

@Penny

This might tell you something about your 'consistent' position, if you let it.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

At the risk of being somewhat controversial - Incest is actually sort of an interesting case and I'd like people to keep an open mind about it.

@Penny

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nope.