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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's called the NATO dating trend because it maps to the military strategy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

No it isn't. Nobody is doing this. Its purely fabricated by a newspaper notorious for exaggerating and outright inventing fake made-up bullshit.

These are the same newsies that pushed the "Condom Snorting Challenge" and "The Knock-out Game" along with a string of hoax narratives about burglary and vandalism. Not real in any material sense. Literal Fake News

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anything in the NYPost is just old people agitprop. This shit isn't real. There is no such trend. Its all just made up to get the NYP's central readership stirred up at their nieces and nephews.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even then, there is some deep seated hostility between California and Texas on multiple levels. Like, they're major internal economic rivals. They have state leaders that are constantly sniping at one another. There's a material cultural divide. About the only thing the two can agree on is how much they hate migrants. And that extends as much to internal migration (Dallas/Houston/Austinites hating all these new big money California techies / San Fransisco and LA hating the blond bumpkins and their hick habits) as to cross border.

New Texas will be lucky to keep its hands on El Paso, much less stretch itself all the way across New Mexico and Arizona into the Baja Peninsula. San Diego sure as fuck doesn't want anything that Texas is selling.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It literally was stupid though, because it was economically ruinous to build and impossible to staff or maintain. Enemy armies (most notably the Manchus of the 1600s) would periodically cross the wall in their raids, particularly through breaches created by local farmers who would scavenge from unmanned sections of the walls.

Yes, the walls around Beijing and a few vital passes were useful. But you didn't need to build across the entire country to benefit from a few defensible choke points.

The Great Wall is probably just the most famous in a thousand year history of ill-conceived physical border security measures. They're bad. They don't work good. Don't build these stupid things.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sending Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis to Gitmo would be extremely funny

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Anything that has Utah being with California should be ignored.

California has a large Mormon community and Utah has a sizeable population that like having lots of fancy food, cheap imports, and money.

California splitting in half would make sense

No it wouldn't. Outside of a few particularly loud assholes, nobody actually wants to make it harder to travel up and down the West Coast.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

Biden gonna fold faster than Superman on Laundry Day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Given the direction Germany is moving, they still might

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Care to talk about what the US was doing there

Uh... spreading dem...ocracy? With frrrr...eee markets? Hey look! UAF! AI Hologram! The Dean at Columbia plagiarized a series of racial slurs!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Letterkenny is fascist

Tap the breaks there, bucko

[–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What's that smell?

Aha, I see that the devilish Putin has once again put poop into my underpants.

This can only rebound to his advantage.

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