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By Pantafernando 2025-03-09 11:12:52
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RadialArcana said: »
Viciouss said: »
And this is why we don't have P&R anymore.

Chanti started it.


BTW is this cat AI generated?

Im not sure if those paws are anatomically correct...

Im not even sure which paws are the front and back ones...
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By RadialArcana 2025-03-09 11:15:28
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No it's a very old gif.
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-09 11:25:44
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Is this winning?
https://www.westernstandard.news/saskatchewan/watch-man-strips-lies-on-produce-in-bizarre-act-at-grocery-store/62901
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By Josiahafk 2025-03-09 11:35:05
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Sorry I can't click Saskachewan links today due to your refusal to join the rest of us in our daylight savings folly earlier today.
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By Afania 2025-03-09 11:44:12
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RadialArcana said: »
This has been allowed to go on for so long due to the dominance of the military industrial complex wanting this mass spending on its laughably bloated military to continue, and widespread corruption of politicians.


US military industry's benefit isn't the main drive behind all the military need in the world. Even if US's allies pay more money for their own defense, they are still going to buy arms from the US military industry. Other small nations just don't have the technology to build those weapons. Even if every US ally increase their military spending, most of the money will go to the US military industry anyways.

Blaming US military industry for US military spending is missing forest for the tree. They will make money no matter what.

US will offer protection to an ally if this ally can offer something useful for the US and vice versa. If US decide to decrease military spending on other nations, it is just the result of those allies not offering good enough of mutual benefits. That's all there is.
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By RadialArcana 2025-03-09 12:03:14
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The US military is laughably massive, that only happens when the military industrial complex can pay off corrupt politicians and keep this nonsense going to the point of utter absurdity.
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By Afania 2025-03-09 12:50:17
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RadialArcana said: »
The US military is laughably massive, that only happens when the military industrial complex can pay off corrupt politicians and keep this nonsense going to the point of utter absurdity.


Why are you using total money spent instead of GDP percentage in your argument? US has far more GDP than any of these countries by a large margin. For example In 2023 US had 27 trillion GDP, Saudi had like 1 trillion. Of course US will spend more than everyone else.

If Saudi has 27 times more GDP to match the size of the US, their spending would be 1671 billions using the same percentage.

You have to use the percentage to have a more fair comparison. US military spending is 3.4% of GDP. It's slightly above average but not on the high end.

An example of high military spending for a country not having a war would be Saudi Arabia. They spent 7% of their GDP on military in 2023, Isreal spent 5% which is also pretty high.

You are free make an argument on reasonable military spending for each country. But saying high military spending is the direct result of "military industry bribing" without evidence is silly.

US military industry is already getting way more orders than they can deliver. Isn't F-35 delivery backlog clogged all the way after 2030 or something? Why would they even need to bribe the government for more orders if they can't even produce enough products to meet the demand in the market? Doesn't make sense to me.
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By Garuda.Chanti 2025-03-09 13:29:34
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RadialArcana said: »
The US military is laughably massive, that only happens when the military industrial complex can pay off corrupt politicians and keep this nonsense going to the point of utter absurdity.
This is actually an improvement.

In recent times the USA's military spending has exceeded that of all other nations combined.

Or, seeing as how our military spending has never declined since the WWII demobilization, its really sad.
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By Afania 2025-03-09 13:44:15
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Garuda.Chanti said: »
RadialArcana said: »
The US military is laughably massive, that only happens when the military industrial complex can pay off corrupt politicians and keep this nonsense going to the point of utter absurdity.
This is actually an improvement.

In recent times the USA's military spending has exceeded that of all other nations combined.

Or, seeing as how our military spending has never declined since the WWII demobilization, its really sad.

Sad? I wish I can live in a country that only spent 3.4% of GDP on military, and this number is still greater than all other nations combined.

It means 1) this nation is super RICH 2) no one else will be able to invade this nation and win.... except aliens maybe.

What's so sad about it? Lol. Congrats on winning the birth lottery! Be happy about what you have.
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By Pantafernando 2025-03-09 14:21:27
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Alfania comes back just to break the laws.
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By Pantafernando 2025-03-09 14:22:33
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Or maybe its alfanias buttcheeks wanting some educational lessons?
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-09 14:36:05
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He could come live in a country thats about to appoint an unelected citizen who:
hasnt lived in said country for a decade
just moved their primary business out of the country because of how shitty that economy has become
is not a leader in any riding country wide

This is after running a sham election that disqualified two of the four runners because they were getting too popular and the WEF globalist overlords dont have them under their control one couldnt speak french and one had irregularities in their funding (even though the unelected citizen about to be named prime minister has refused to disclose their financials over and over)

All this after our current leader "stepped down", prorogued parliament (aka shut down govt) for 2 months so they could "find a new leader", still went across the world representing our country and has issued the spending of billions on absolute *** without the opposing parties to vote on this spending.

THATS WINNING BABY!


Whos watching the PPV tonight?
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By Afania 2025-03-09 14:56:03
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Pantafernando said: »
Alfania comes back just to break the laws.


I counted 4 other people also broke the law more than I did from the last 2 pages, WHY ME ;<

Go spank them!
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By Pantafernando 2025-03-09 15:31:53
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Four farts dont result in a perfume.
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By Ragnarok.Afania 2025-03-09 15:42:24
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Pantafernando said: »
Four farts dont result in a perfume.


Ha!

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By Pantafernando 2025-03-09 16:13:44
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By Carbuncle.Nynja 2025-03-09 16:41:20
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Sus
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By Asura.Vyre 2025-03-09 18:49:44
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Y'all go from politrix to Yaoi paddles in no seconds flat. Y'all need to find better hobbies!
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