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Nanimani can you tell greek letters that he was going to get dropped from that bridge no matter what and barring a lucky roll on his faceplanting he was gonna be out of commission anyway?

Guy of G has waited for months for that to happen and none of them were tagging Torchwick
 
Well, this certainly seems like an interesting place. I can't wait to see what things are waiting to be discovered.
Also, hello everyone, how are you doing today?
 
Skelion21 said:
This place seems pretty nice so far, but I haven't found anything in the NSFW that has caught my interest yet.
edit:Well, I found something in an RO with bleach, so there's that…
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Hmm.

What tastes do you have in NSFW material?

Perhaps I could act as your smut sommelier.

Although this is perhaps not the place for that.
 
This is random, but I feel a vague desire for a power fantasy of an SI gaining superpowers, then going to kick the ass of the Islamic State hard enough to save all the Kurds and everyone else remotely okay in the area.
 
WyldCard4 said:
This is random, but I feel a vague desire for a power fantasy of an SI gaining superpowers, then going to kick the ass of the Islamic State hard enough to save all the Kurds and everyone else remotely okay in the area.
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... I'll be honest.

That's so over simplifying the regions issues its not funny. The Kurds aren't "remotely okay", they're a huge part of the problem like everyone else in the region. That whole area is the result of trying to make three very different people try to live with each other.
 
BlackHadou said:
... I'll be honest.

That's so over simplifying the regions issues its not funny. The Kurds aren't "remotely okay", they're a huge part of the problem like everyone else in the region. That whole area is the result of trying to make three very different people try to live with each other.
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I'm kind of curious about this perspective. Just about everything I've read on the issue shows the Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria as miles better than most factions you read about. Very clean record when it comes to atrocities for their militias, well organized, and usually on the defensive.

I know that the Turkish Kurd nationalist groups are considered terrorists. Maybe I'm overly flippant about the issue, but Turkey's history of ethnic cleansing involving the Kurds, Armenians, and many others is bad enough that I don't necessarily see them as the bad guys there? And in that region well, there's Assad, ISIL, and a bunch of militias that seem to be ISIL lite.

I'd be interested in a balanced perspective on the issue, as it looks like I was reading some biased information.
 
WyldCard4 said:
I'm kind of curious about this perspective. Just about everything I've read on the issue shows the Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria as miles better than most factions you read about. Very clean record when it comes to atrocities for their militias, well organized, and usually on the defensive.

I know that the Turkish Kurd nationalist groups are considered terrorists. Maybe I'm overly flippant about the issue, but Turkey's history of ethnic cleansing involving the Kurds, Armenians, and many others is bad enough that I don't necessarily see them as the bad guys there? And in that region well, there's Assad, ISIL, and a bunch of militias that seem to be ISIL lite.

I'd be interested in a balanced perspective on the issue, as it looks like I was reading some biased information.
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That's because the Kurds in those countries tend to be majorities, well supported by national superpowers and such. But at the end of the day, Kurds are no better then the rest of them, and they have a proven history of, when they're in power, neglecting their compatriots. At the end of the day, they are just as much part of the problem as everyone else, they simply do their best to ignore that there is, in fact, a problem.

I mean, have you noticed that despite extensive training and aid from the west, the Kurds in Iraq left a good portion of it to be captured? There's a reason for that, the land lost wasn't particularly important to them.

Assad, ISIL, etc are all monsters that were formed in the aftermath of forcing Iraq into existence, really. Iraq is literally every telling three very different states to get along as a country, and it just doesn't work. They aren't united in the same way that a Western nation is.

I wouldn't call your information necessarily biased, honestly, so much as taking the near view. The current situation is that Kurds are much better then the terrorist groups in Iraq because those terrorist groups go out of their way to commit atrocities in order to maintain morale. Believe it or not, maintaining a Insurgency or a Rebellion, with any degree of success, is hard work, especially when one side has the military juggernaut that is the Western world backing it up. And, really, the fact of the matter is, from a Western perspective, the Kurds are the 'good guys', so much as there is a good guy in that situation.

Really, though, everyone there is a loser.
 
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That's because the Kurds in those countries tend to be majorities, well supported by national superpowers and such. But at the end of the day, Kurds are no better then the rest of them, and they have a proven history of, when they're in power, neglecting their compatriots. At the end of the day, they are just as much part of the problem as everyone else, they simply do their best to ignore that there is, in fact, a problem.

I mean, have you noticed that despite extensive training and aid from the west, the Kurds in Iraq left a good portion of it to be captured? There's a reason for that, the land lost wasn't particularly important to them.
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That's an interesting claim, but I think relative neglect of Sunni Iraq is kind of justified by it being the support base for the regime that caused about half as many casualties to the Kurdish people as all of the post-2003 conflicts have to all of Iraq?

Like, it might be overly harsh, but in an ethnic feud, not rushing out to defend these people seems very understandable. I've seen news articles talking about Kurds sending armies to save minority villages under ISIL siege and such, but I fully admit these kind of feel good stories are probably not representative in policy.

Assad, ISIL, etc are all monsters that were formed in the aftermath of forcing Iraq into existence, really. Iraq is literally every telling three very different states to get along as a country, and it just doesn't work. They aren't united in the same way that a Western nation is.
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Um, Assad wasn't Iraqi, he's the leader of Syria. And I think his main support base is his ethnicity in Syria and the minorities terrified of genocide? Obviously it's a similar situation, and from what I've heard his family ended up in charge due to imperial French policy.

I wouldn't call your information necessarily biased, honestly, so much as taking the near view. The current situation is that Kurds are much better then the terrorist groups in Iraq because those terrorist groups go out of their way to commit atrocities in order to maintain morale. Believe it or not, maintaining a Insurgency or a Rebellion, with any degree of success, is hard work, especially when one side has the military juggernaut that is the Western world backing it up. And, really, the fact of the matter is, from a Western perspective, the Kurds are the 'good guys', so much as there is a good guy in that situation.
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Well, once again going by "articles I read on the internet" the Kurds seem pretty intensely liberal for a minority group in the Mid East, despite being under some pretty harsh oppression in multiple countries. The "commit atrocities to maintain morale" strategy, I guess one can explain it, but it does seem that insurgent groups have risen pretty well and sometimes successfully without such tactics. But ISIL's support base is easy to condemn from New England.

Really, though, everyone there is a loser.
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Yeah, it's a bad situation.

The thought of the power fantasy is not too serious at all, an emotional whim. ISIL puts on torture porn theater, and the tribal reaction is "FUCK THOSE GUYS." The chances of say, Spawn punching ISIL troops to death actually improving the situation in any universe seem slim.
 
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Um, Assad wasn't Iraqi, he's the leader of Syria. And I think his main support base is his ethnicity in Syria and the minorities terrified of genocide? Obviously it's a similar situation, and from what I've heard his family ended up in charge due to imperial French policy.
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The point on Assad was that much of his ability to remain in power was fear and backup from outside the country.

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That's an interesting claim, but I think relative neglect of Sunni Iraq is kind of justified by it being the support base for the regime that caused about half as many casualties to the Kurdish people as all of the post-2003 conflicts have to all of Iraq?

Like, it might be overly harsh, but in an ethnic feud, not rushing out to defend these people seems very understandable. I've seen news articles talking about Kurds sending armies to save minority villages under ISIL siege and such, but I fully admit these kind of feel good stories are probably not representative in policy.
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It's a shitty situation that, as said, is caused by trying to force three people who don't really get along to play nice. Some will, some won't, that's really just the reality of the situation.

WyldCard4 said:
Well, once again going by "articles I read on the internet" the Kurds seem pretty intensely liberal for a minority group in the Mid East, despite being under some pretty harsh oppression in multiple countries. The "commit atrocities to maintain morale" strategy, I guess one can explain it, but it does seem that insurgent groups have risen pretty well and sometimes successfully without such tactics. But ISIL's support base is easy to condemn from New England.
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Something to keep in mind is ISIL rose so hard because they're predecessor organisations were, to simplify the whole situation, losing control. By committing atrocities, ISIL can maintain momentum. It's not always effective, and there are times when it doesn't work, but much like taking a village boosts morale, inflicting lasting harm on the enemy also raises morale.

It's effectiveness is a rather questionable thing, but then, you don't commit atrocities to raise morale because your winning.
 
Owe could also do some RWBY stuff, if there are enough fans of course.
 
I'm probably going to make the superhero RP eventually, just because I said I would.
 
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