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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:54 pm

Atheris wrote:
Andsed wrote:
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Since when has the US cared about international treaties?

It's abided by the Antarctic Treaty since 1959.

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Atheris
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Postby Atheris » Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:55 pm

Heloin wrote:
Atheris wrote:Since when has the US cared about international treaties?

It's abided by the Antarctic Treaty since 1959.

Antarctica doesn't exist.
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Postby Andsed » Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:56 pm

Atheris wrote:
Andsed wrote:
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Since when has the US cared about international treaties?

Well we could disobey the treaty, but like that would just make us look stupid so for the time being the US will abide by the treaty.
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Atheris
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Postby Atheris » Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:58 pm

Andsed wrote:
Atheris wrote:Since when has the US cared about international treaties?

Well we could disobey the treaty, but like that would just make us look stupid so for the time being the US will abide by the treaty.

The US already looks stupid.
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Postby Nevertopia » Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:17 pm

Atheris wrote:
Andsed wrote:Well we could disobey the treaty, but like that would just make us look stupid so for the time being the US will abide by the treaty.

The US already looks stupid.

in a perfect world we wouldnt all have to choose between the US, China and Russia, but its not a perfect world and the US is the better out of the 3.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:42 pm

Atheris wrote:
Andsed wrote:Well we could disobey the treaty, but like that would just make us look stupid so for the time being the US will abide by the treaty.

The US already looks stupid.

Exactly we don't need no stinkin piece of paper to make us look like buffoons
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Mathuvan Union
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Postby Mathuvan Union » Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:54 pm

Heloin wrote:
Atheris wrote:Since when has the US cared about international treaties?

It's abided by the Antarctic Treaty since 1959.

Meanwhile Australia has claimed a good third of it.
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Postby Mathuvan Union » Tue Feb 16, 2021 7:55 pm

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New haven america wrote:Nother school day canceled cause of blackouts.

Lucky. We have another day before the storm rolls by again.

We’ve got lockdown.
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Postby Atheris » Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:14 pm

Listened to a bit of Everything At the End of Time.

Holy fuck.
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Postby Parxland » Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:21 pm

Atheris wrote:
Heloin wrote:It's abided by the Antarctic Treaty since 1959.

Antarctica doesn't exist.


Antarctica's coast is 60k miles. It's not 14.5k like those heathens that support heliocentrism! Go believe flat earth conspiracies now! This post is complete bullshit and shouldn't be believed by anybody!
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Postby Valentine Z » Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:02 pm

Parxland wrote:
Atheris wrote:Antarctica doesn't exist.


Antarctica's coast is 60k miles. It's not 14.5k like those heathens that support heliocentrism! Go believe flat earth conspiracies now! This post is complete bullshit and shouldn't be believed by anybody!

60,000 miles full of penguins. Or the entire continent absolutely swarmed by penguins, ignoring the overpopulation issues. That would surely be something for the history books. :P
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:03 am

Valentine Z wrote:
Parxland wrote:
Antarctica's coast is 60k miles. It's not 14.5k like those heathens that support heliocentrism! Go believe flat earth conspiracies now! This post is complete bullshit and shouldn't be believed by anybody!

60,000 miles full of penguins. Or the entire continent absolutely swarmed by penguins, ignoring the overpopulation issues. That would surely be something for the history books. :P

Are they armed?
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Valentine Z » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:10 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:60,000 miles full of penguins. Or the entire continent absolutely swarmed by penguins, ignoring the overpopulation issues. That would surely be something for the history books. :P

Are they armed?

With their stinging flippers, yes.
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Immoren
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Postby Immoren » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:26 am

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:47 am

Valentine Z wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Are they armed?

With their stinging flippers, yes.

And the occasional amphibious tank, but those are purely for defensive purposes.


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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:57 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:With their stinging flippers, yes.

And the occasional amphibious tank, but those are purely for defensive purposes.

Defensive porpoises you mean
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:05 am


Blame the Russian authorities and their online goon squads.


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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:13 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:And the occasional amphibious tank, but those are purely for defensive purposes.

Defensive porpoises you mean

Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:23 am

Kowani wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Defensive porpoises you mean

Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel

You're asking Ethel, that very man over there, for compassion? You must be new here.


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Loeje
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Postby Loeje » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:32 am

Kowani wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Defensive porpoises you mean

Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel

If TET is nice to porpoises, does that mean I should become a porpoise?
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:34 am

Loeje wrote:
Kowani wrote:Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel

If TET is nice to porpoises, does that mean I should become a porpoise?

Are you implying that we are being unpleasant towards you?


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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:39 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Kowani wrote:Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel

You're asking Ethel, that very man over there, for compassion? You must be new here.

Ethel’s not a man, he’s a cat

Loeje wrote:
Kowani wrote:Be nicer to the porpoises, Ethel

If TET is nice to porpoises, does that mean I should become a porpoise?

Well…porpoises are very cute…
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Loeje
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Postby Loeje » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:43 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Loeje wrote:If TET is nice to porpoises, does that mean I should become a porpoise?

Are you implying that we are being unpleasant towards you?

You aren't.

But Kowani...

Kowani wrote:
Loeje wrote:If TET is nice to porpoises, does that mean I should become a porpoise?

Well…porpoises are very cute…

Never mind, then.
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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:52 am

Loeje wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Are you implying that we are being unpleasant towards you?

You aren't.

But Kowani...


I have been attacked, libeled and slandered, my good name besmirched for all to see. This, is an outrage.
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Loeje
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Postby Loeje » Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:53 am

Kowani wrote:
Loeje wrote:You aren't.

But Kowani...


I have been attacked, libeled and slandered, my good name besmirched for all to see. This, is an outrage.

Sorry. :hug:
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