War Room Lounge v191: Normal scrutiny should apply

Who made the worst post in the last thread? (nominees below)

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Speaking of Bojack.. Weird fact about me. I tried to commit suicide to this video awhile back but it was too short and I was suicide vibing.


You can't keep doing this! You can't keep doing shitty things and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You need to be better! BoJack, just stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you. It's not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career, or when you were a kid. It's you. Okay? It's you. Fuck, man, what else is there to say?TODD TO BOJACK
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And you're gonna do everything you can to fill that hole- with friends and your career and meaningless sex, but the hole... doesn't get filled. And one day you're going to look around and you're going to realize that everybody loves you... but nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world.
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Just gorgeous. I'm glad I worked through that. 32 years old. Suicidal since I was 6. And I was 31. Trying to hang myself on a cheap fucking bed, finally listened to the song enough. Cheap bed with a shitty knot.

Fucking flipped the entire entire frame bed. Sat there and lit a cigarette and just started laughing about it all and that was literally the last time I ever had them thoughts.

I always considered suicide the most noble of deaths but since that moment I just realized I'll probably like, die of liver failure or a school shooter who failed geography and ended up at my work I guess.
 
Tycho Brah said:
Quick before @Sara ****s it up again. Thanks to Trudy Giuliani's circus-show court failings for the title. This is it!!!

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Last thread was a doozy. Vote above for who showed the poorest performance, from the following list of exceptional nominees:

@Sara - in addition to a half-assed OP, here sara seems to suggest that COVID symptoms can be cleared with a home remedy of ramen straight to the sinuses. Feel free to try that one out, sara!




@Limbo Pete - kicks off the thread with some grotesque imagery that could be related to the poor performance of the previous nominee. Quite despicable behaviour, and a hit-and-run to boot.






@tonni - in between rampant kink-shaming posts, tonni demonstrates that his sexuality is more in question than his unquenchable desire to slurp the toenail polish off of a girl with hairy legs.




@Prokofievian - if we're judging grotesque imagery and feet opinions, Prok's back-to-back here simply cannot be ignored. Next time please hide such sentiments behind incomprehensible Finnish.






@Trotsky - displays his characteristic resentment of the rich and successful with some envy-posting about Lord Saviour Daddy Elon. Welcome to the Super Peen 500, big boy.




@The Diplomat - refuses to take a hint and instead uses 20,000 words and page of shitposting to derive the radical conclusions that government spending costs the government money and money used in one place will result in less money being available in another place. Content being created before your eyes.






@EyeOfNewt - after being escorted into the sacred Lounge by a classic @Social Distance Warrior provocation-like, some Nazi shitposter attempts to disguise his deepening resentment of Western freedom and civilization behind a veneer of... pirates? That one wasn't taught at my high school, Heinrich.




@skysolo - progressive Russian shill supposedly supporting social safety nets tries to dunk on Hillary Clinton doing the same, before realizing his has not yet caught the ball. Both eyes forward Comrade!




Notes:

@tonni for 2020 Poster of the Year

COVID check-in: @Armbars, how you feeling?

Mod Note: This thread is for general conversation and any other conversations to avoid derails in regular threads. If you find yourself going off topic in a thread, please quote the person's post, come in here, click "insert quote" and continue on in here. This is also still the War Room. Do not expect OT/Bare Knuckles rules in here.
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Yeah I never suggested that at all, you forgot to add other to the poll, clearly @TeTe made the worst post.
 
Local news is showing people lined up around the block at urgent care centers for the Rapid Covid tests.

I'm guessing people are trying to get cleared for Thanksgiving
 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Local news is showing people lined up around the block at urgent care centers for the Rapid Covid tests.

I'm guessing people are trying to get cleared for Thanksgiving
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I get it, they skipped Easter, they want to see their families and you know Black Friday shop.
 
Trotsky said:
@Khabib Khanate @Limbo Pete How familiar are you chaps with post-Arab Spring Egyptian history?
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Not nearly as much as I'd like to be but I've done some reading, especially about the few years right after. Keep in mind I'm a bit sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Basically Mubarak steps down due to protests, pressure form the army, and lack of support from the US. The military takes control and at this point is perceived by the public as being a neutral, non-partisan force. Seems odd since they were always the power behind the scenes but Mubarak didn't really rule through them, he ruled through a clique he built around himself, mostly through his political parity, and for his stick he relied on the Ministry of the Interior rather than the army. Its also significant that the army refused to fire on protestors so that was good for their image. They take control ostensibly to aid the transition to democracy and initially deliver on that as they do allow free and fair elections.

Obama's famous line from the time was "What I want is for the kids in the street to win and I want the Google guy to become president" and of course while the dictator steps down due to the protests and the kids in the street win after 1 million people flood Tahrir Square, no such luck on that second part. The Muslim Brotherhood Party(MB) gets ~40% of the vote and forms a coalition with the Salafi party which got ~30% of the vote. Yikes...

But of course getting elected and actually having power are two different matters and Morsi's entire tenure in office, about a year, was fraught with tense relations with the army. Oddly enough Abdel Fatah Sis was actually seen as a potential ally in the armed forces, or at least someone who could be part of a bridge between the military and the Brotherhood. He's younger than the other generals who are all old as fuck and he's a bit socially conservative himself.

The problem was that while Mubarak stepped down, the judiciary was completely dominated by Mubarak era judges who could stymie Morsi's efforts. So he tried to skirt their authority by decreeing that, for a limited time until a constitution was ratified, he had extensive powers to legislate on his own without judicial review and he tried to shield his Constituent Assembly, tasked with drafting the constitution, from judicial review by said Mubarak judges who everyone figured was going to dissolve said assembly and just generally get in Morsi's way. But of course its rightfully a terrible look and this combined with some prosecutions his government made against journalists and activists as well as the deteriorating living standards triggered protests which the army took advantage of to overthrow Morsi. Morsi also tried to align Egypt with the anti-imperialists of the region like Iran and Hamas and so on so US policy wonk were obviously not too happy about that, hence their supporting the coup.

As we know Sisi comes to power but its important to remember that he's not like Saddam, he's sort of like the first among equals among the generals so he really acts with their mandate in mind. Morsi supporters don't like this and occupy Rabaa square with two camps. After six weeks the demonstrators get cleared out and at least 900 demonstrators are killed in a single day and this starts a massive crackdown on the MB and wider civil society the likes of which Egypt had not seen since Nasser. Their senior and mid level leaders are imprisoned or exiled and this puts the movement into disarray. The MB are the primary opposition, a mass movement that organizes working and middle class people, so effectively breaking their hierarchy is a big deal. Of course other civil society actors are not spared either and Egypt today is probably much less free than it was under Mubarak.

And because the military is aware that the population is socially conservative due to decades of MB organizing, they don't distinguish themselves from the MB by presenting themselves as secular and progressive but rather try to appease that conservative sensibility by applying harsh punishment's for moral crimes. In general Sisi realigned Egypt back to the pro-Western FP that it had under Mubarak and which Morsi was trying to undo. You want to say they're back at square one but its much worse apparently, like one step forward and three steps back.
 
Trotsky said:
For some reason, I seem to recall someone here being a Nasserist. Kafir is the only person whose practical interests make sense as being that person, but I don't think it was him.
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Definitely not, I'm more of a MB guy if anything. I hespect that he nationalized the Suez Canal though, that was cool.
 
Trotsky said:
Guys, I'm wearing an SS patch because I LOVE Sylvester Stallone. A comparable thespian we may never witness.

Only someone with SSDS would seriously think I was sporting a Nazi symbol.
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PolishHeadlock2 said:
Local news is showing people lined up around the block at urgent care centers for the Rapid Covid tests.

I'm guessing people are trying to get cleared for Thanksgiving
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That kind of thing should be encouraged for sure. People are going to want to get together with their families. If all 15 get tested and they realize Uncle Jim has to sit this one out as he’s positive but the rest a reasonable sure they’re safe to all get together that’s a good way to find the balance.
 
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