North Korea vows to launch 'pre-emptive nuclear strike' against US as United Nations votes for new sanctions over missile tests

[Matty]

Thanks. Just a quick couple other questions and I'm done bothering you. I was just a little (no bi) curious. You live close to a base or something? there are a lot of ex-Marine government contractor types out there? and when you say middle-income 20 somethings is that mostly regardless of race, religion and political affiliation? does that entail most of the people you meet at social gatherings?

And

Lastly, you said you're doing the best you can do and are content as long as you have successfully persuaded people to change their views on two-party politics. So is it safe to say that you have no future plans for becoming involved in politics?

Personally, I'm not close to a base, but with the Air Force Academy, Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, Rocky Flats (now closed but was a huge part of our nuclear program and my grandfather and other family members worked there), and NORAD, we are heavily militarized via people that stayed in Colorado after military service, who are active military, and those who are military contractors.

Those twenty somethings I described I would call fairly well educated, generally Caucasian, non-church going, but lacking a true political ideology. They are generally the kind of people that if they vote Democrat, it's because their mom and dad voted Democrat, whose mom and dad voted Democrat, etc. They generally don't care because they have a roof over their heads, enough money to take a vacation, and a few bucks in the bank, too. They're plenty happy, borderline sedated, (actually quite a few take anti-depressants so there could be more to that), and are generally apolitical except for that 6 month period every four years when everyone has an opinion and they all think highly of it.

I would love to run for office, but too many of my extracurricular activities and views are available online; I'm not a viable candidate. Well, maybe for national office I'm not viable, but I could run for state and local and nobody would give a shit. I know a small number of people who said they would gladly donate to a campaign if I ever decided to run, but they aren't people in power. Just paranoid people like me that don't trust The Man.

[The McRib]

Cool. Thanks for your answers.

[Matty]

Cool. Thanks for your answers.

Are you writing a paper or something?

[The McRib]

Are you writing a paper or something?

No. I'm just bored and wanted to take a stroll through your subjective experience for a second. I SHOULD be writing papers right now, or conjugating verbs or some shit. I'm just procrastinating, man. And oddly, I'm not being facetious at all, and I'm not trolling. I don't know, man.


I don't know...


I'm blaming it on listening to this too many times today.

[Matty]

That song is fucking bizarre, dude, and it does not relate to my experience at all

[Azazel]

You idjits are actually surprised by this? this shit has been decades in brewing tension between north korea and america ever since the korean war kicked off then the cease fire came into place what else did you think was going to happen? I mean come on seriously the amount of animosity the U.S. has towards Communist countries and vice versa and the whole not so long ago threats from north korea to south korea about how not even their submarines can cross over a few metres into north korean waters and the whole millitary exercises and practice war drills what did you guys honestly think was going to be the outcome? It wont kick off right now because if it did we would already be hearing about attacks and another war kicking off instead off threats just admit it you know shit will become real when both countries start actually attacking each other

until then nothing will happen its the same as every other year some countries threathen each other and its reported then nothing happens and it dies out unless of course somebody fires first then all hell breaks loose and we have another war in the world, this is just some political rivalry again Communist vs Capitalist and right now North korea is just trying to swing its dick at america in hopes of a reaction but nothing will happen until troops start being deployed and all out war kicks off...

[-RimmingShemalesForFun-]

firstly, war and occupation are different. Make no mistake, the formal battle in Iraq was over in like 17hrs, I know it was less then 24 which was our mark. Afghanistan put up even less of a fight.

It's simply, they've got no commodity for us, and so we don't care what pathetic wwII weapon they might have.

[Whyavier]

Yeah, great way to get the U.S. to reopen trade with you, threaten to nuke us.

[Gareth Rees]

Guessing sending Dennis Rodman didn't help

[theproudlunatic]

It has shit to do with being humane. Afghanistan is home to the largest lithium reserve in the world. Electric cars and hybrids need a lot of lithium for those batteries.

throughout our history in wars, weve been the most civil. we could have wiped out everyone way sooner than it took. we have the power but dont use it. marche is right. shit that lasted years could have easily been dealt with in months. 3rd world cunts dont care who they blow up. we at least try our best not to incinerate civies.