#401
lol the most liberal free market and plutocrat-friendly place between 1939 and 1945 was the empire of japan
#402
IAmA 31yo sex offender, convicted at 20 for the rape of an underage girl on her testimony contrary to the physical evidence presented to the court, and spent 9.5 years in prison. AMA... (self.IAmA)


I maintain my innocence. The girl was 13 years old. When I met her through a friend of a friend, she went by a different name, and said she was 16. She sold blow jobs for $5 and I had paid for her services twice before. The third time, she tried to have sex with me ( I was supposed to leave for Paris Island 2 days later) and in the process of refusing her advances called her names...


On the day of my hale and farewell (a military custom/ party) one week after my 20th birthday, I was scheduled to be shipped off to USMC Base Camp Paris Island. There was a party held in my honor. There was beer and food and friends. In the late afternoon I went down the street from the party to check out the dirt bikes that were riding there. I asked if I could ride and the owner let me. I wrecked landing hands first scraping my hands, knee and shoulder. I hi-tailed it out of there because I didn't know these people and I just wrecked their bike... I wasn't looking for any trouble. On my way back to the party, I hear my name called from across the street. I see 'Tiffany' so I wave her over to come over. She does, and we walk behind the house. I unbutton my pants, and sit down. Well, instead of leaning over to give me head, she drops trow and sits on my lap and grabs my member trying to direct it into her. I push her off of me and tell her that I don't have a condom and I haven't been fucking you and I don't know where that pussy's been. She says don't worry I'm a virgin, and persists. Oh no you're not gonna trick me up, you dirty bitch (ie, get pregnant before I ship off to the Corps and then I have to pay child support for the next 18 years). She starts apologizing and asking me if she can make it up to me, and then gives me a blow job like usual. When she's done and starts getting dressed she notices that some of my blood got on her, and she says what am I gonna tell my mom. I say that's not my problem tell her you got into a fight or something. We split ways, I go back to my party she goes wherever.
#403
what are some of your opinions on that story goat. here's one: what sort of teenage prostitute can only get $5 for a blowjob.
#404

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii



I dont think so tim

#405
The U K Economey was the 5 ppl who werent dead sowing blankets under the direct supervision of the queen. Sorry if im wrong but thats what it said in history.
#406

getfiscal posted:

what are some of your opinions on that story goat. here's one: what sort of teenage prostitute can only get $5 for a blowjob.


I don't know what the sticker price is for one from a professional, but she might have been a four.

#407

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii

I dont think so tim



They had very similar programs, One here considers Agamben on the alternative option of Retard Cave magic:

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#408

Crow posted:

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii

I dont think so tim

They had very similar programs, One here considers Agamben on the alternative option of Retard Cave magic:

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#409

getfiscal posted:

Crow posted:

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii

I dont think so tim

They had very similar programs, One here considers Agamben on the alternative option of Retard Cave magic:

OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA? OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA! OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA. OOGA BOOGA?



gay bitch

#410
#411

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii

I dont think so tim



i donno thats what ive always heard, is it wrong? ww2 history isnt my strong sutie. im fairly confident you can say that about the USA at least

#412
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#413
I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA (self.IAmA)
#414
https://my.barackobama.com/page/s/reddit

#415
s0crates82 189 points 19 minutes ago

a asteroid



an asteroid, Mr. President.

#416

By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!

#417

Alyosha posted:

By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!



aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#418
#419
Hm I just checked the post history of the account for that ama and all the posts are in the ama except for 950 in /r/bitcoin
#420

babyfinland posted:

jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

UK, germany, russia and the USA had very similar economic programs of command economy during world war ii

I dont think so tim

i donno thats what ive always heard, is it wrong? ww2 history isnt my strong sutie. im fairly confident you can say that about the USA at least


government spending as a percent of gdp was about 44% during the height of the second world war and it's about 25% today. it was widely understood that this would be a temporary situation and really isn't that dramatic compared to today, not to mention the privatized profits and war profiteering that came as a reliance on the existing firm structure. i don't think you can call that "command economy" in any meaningful sense. the Germans had greater industrial controls in the form of cartels but, similar to the US, never really exercised control on the level that the Soviets did and suffered for it. the Soviets' command economy allowed them to actually gear most of their industry for war and outproduce the Germans despite being behind in military production in 1941, being technologically and organizationally backwards in comparison, and losing ground through most of the war.

#421
#422
you're right though that the American and Soviet economies were more similar than the Soviet and German. i remember my highschool textbook using that as one of the points of comparison in their Nazis And Communists Are The Same section but really even towards the end of the war when Germany was losing on two fronts and actually made an effort to gear the economy for total war, they never achieved a system of mass production on the scale of either the US or the USSR. it wasn't really a matter of control though, since the German economy was definitely more regulated and while i can't cite anything, almost certainly exceeded the US in government outlays as a % of gdp by 1944.
#423
Hello Mr. President ('s PR. Person)
why do you advocate feminist social engineering (the CIA funded Gloria Steinem and she worked for the CIA funded Independent Research Service - In her own words, reported in the New York Times and other places)
I know this is mostly a STATE issue but it is greatly facilitated at the federal level, so why aren't you protecting men and making male institutions when we are clearly the the victims of hypoagency here:
50% of marriages now end in a no fault divorce, rate is spiking higher
92% of woman receive custody of children, visitation rights favor the female party
Paternity fraud is 17.5% in the overall population, reaching 30-33% in the lower class bracket
Men are 8-10 times more likely to kill themselves than women.
Female cancer research has a 15:1 ratio for $ spent. Why do women receive 15 dollars for every 1 dollar a man gets?
Why don't you spend more to protect men when they die younger (75.6) vs woman (80.8)
Why are 93-97% (over multiple studies and census) of work places deaths MALE?
10.3% of males and 8.3% of females dropped out of high school, why Mr. President is this happening in a feminine centric space.
Why do only poor men go to war on the front lines Mr. President?
In 2016/2017, women are projected to earn 64.2% of Associate's degrees, 59.9% of Bachelor's degrees, 62.9% of Master's degrees, and 55.5% of Doctorates, why Mr. president is there still affirmative action?
Why Mr. president is domestic violence painted as a male initiated problem when it is sex-symmetrical? Why can women hit a man, but the man cannot retaliate when he gets injured?
Why are female false rape accusations never tried, why don't women go to jail for ruining someones life with an admittedly false claim?
Why do women receive more social security than men, but pay less into the system than men?
Why do you give incentive to FEMALE privilege, Mr. President?
Why are 70% of all the homeless male, Mr. President?
Why are 93% of prisoners male, Mr. President?
Why is over 1% of the population in jail? Higher than even the Chinese prison demographics.
What are you doing to combat fatherelessness and the statistics that come with it?:
Children from a fatherless home are 100% more likely to go to jail Children from a fatherless home are 63% of all youth suicides Children from a fatherless home are 85% of all children who exhibit behavioral disorders Children from a fatherless home are 71% of high school drop outs Children from a fatherless home are 70% of juvenile detentions Children from a fatherless home are 90% of all homeless and runaway children etc etc
What are you doing for Men's Rights Mr.President?
#424
Obama Grants Interview to Racist Teen Nude Picture Website

Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, hosted an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) thread on free teen n00dz archive Reddit today. It was a historic day: Finally, well-educated white men had the chance to question the President.

The news that Obama had taken to the internet's premier Men's Rights Activist meeting place Reddit sparked tweets of glee from internet nerds, proving they are by far the easiest of all constituencies to pander to. I mean, to appease middle American voters, candidates have to eat disgusting and health-endangering phallic fair food. All Obama has to do to make nerds swoon is sit at a MacBook like he probably does every day and log onto a website.

Unfortunately, the internet explosion took down Reddit for most of the half hour or so that Obama answered questions, leaving us all crazily refreshing the page to see if all the racists would come out. They didn't, thankfully, though I can't pretend I wasn't hoping that some presidential version of the highly entertaining Woody Harrelson AMA disaster, where Redditors hounded him about taking some random high school girls' virginity, might occur.

Instead the questions Obama addressed were all softballs, as is the case with almost all celebrity AMAs on the site. All the interesting bits came from the novelty of the format. For example, you can see the layers of Redditors' insufferability stacked like fine backlava in these threads correcting a grammatical error in Obama's answer about increasing space funding



Obama's other eight answers were mostly uninteresting campaignspeak, including one decrying the influence of super-PACS. There was a fairly interesting bit about how Obama balances his work and his home life:

It's hard - truthfully the main thing other than work is just making sure that I'm spending enough time with michelle and the girls. The big advantage I have is that I live above the store - so I have no commute! So we make sure that when I'm in DC I never miss dinner with them at 6:30 pm - even if I have to go back down to the Oval for work later in the evening. I do work out every morning as well, and try to get a basketball or golf game in on the weekends just to get out of the bubble.



(You can read them all here.)

He finished with: "By the way, if you want to know what I think about this whole reddit experience - NOT BAD!" Here, our Commander in Chief, whose judgement we rely on to guide our nation in dark times, was referencing a popular Reddit meme. In fact, Alexis Ohanian told All Things Digital today that "There are quite a few redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and at the campaign HQ."

In conclusion, the internet is awesome, traditional journalism is dead, vote Romney.

#425

Lessons posted:

you're right though that the American and Soviet economies were more similar than the Soviet and German. i remember my highschool textbook using that as one of the points of comparison in their Nazis And Communists Are The Same section but really even towards the end of the war when Germany was losing on two fronts and actually made an effort to gear the economy for total war, they never achieved a system of mass production on the scale of either the US or the USSR. it wasn't really a matter of control though, since the German economy was definitely more regulated and while i can't cite anything, almost certainly exceeded the US in government outlays as a % of gdp by 1944.



Yeah, I don't really know anything about wartime organization of the US economy (although if someone knows a book that does sound like a really interesting topic), but from my pretty-good knowledge of the war-time soviet and war-time german economies this is mostly correct. soviet control of industry was really excellent owing to their industrial bureaucracy being relatively small, cohesive, and strictly subservient to political leadership, as compared to the goddamn mess of old industrial families and scheming managers you get in germany.

#426
ya ok if someone has a book reccomendation taht would be nice because this is going to devolve into "i prefer not using that term because its ideologically problematic for me" or whatever
#427
good mod goat

Sees Three Idiots Who Can't Stop Talking About Communism For Five Seconds

Doesn't Edit Their Posts to Deviant Pornography
#428

babyfinland posted:

ya ok if someone has a book reccomendation taht would be nice because this is going to devolve into "i prefer not using that term because its ideologically problematic for me" or whatever


jools would probably be the one to ask here. we've talked about the war economies before and he seems to know more than me, and most of what i know comes from articles and economic sections in military histories.

#429
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#430
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#431
#432
that lady is jools. btw.
#433
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#434

Goethestein posted:

Hello Mr. President ('s PR. Person)
why do you advocate feminist social engineering (the CIA funded Gloria Steinem and she worked for the CIA funded Independent Research Service - In her own words, reported in the New York Times and other places)
I know this is mostly a STATE issue but it is greatly facilitated at the federal level, so why aren't you protecting men and making male institutions when we are clearly the the victims of hypoagency here:
50% of marriages now end in a no fault divorce, rate is spiking higher
92% of woman receive custody of children, visitation rights favor the female party
Paternity fraud is 17.5% in the overall population, reaching 30-33% in the lower class bracket
Men are 8-10 times more likely to kill themselves than women.
Female cancer research has a 15:1 ratio for $ spent. Why do women receive 15 dollars for every 1 dollar a man gets?
Why don't you spend more to protect men when they die younger (75.6) vs woman (80.8)
Why are 93-97% (over multiple studies and census) of work places deaths MALE?
10.3% of males and 8.3% of females dropped out of high school, why Mr. President is this happening in a feminine centric space.
Why do only poor men go to war on the front lines Mr. President?
In 2016/2017, women are projected to earn 64.2% of Associate's degrees, 59.9% of Bachelor's degrees, 62.9% of Master's degrees, and 55.5% of Doctorates, why Mr. president is there still affirmative action?
Why Mr. president is domestic violence painted as a male initiated problem when it is sex-symmetrical? Why can women hit a man, but the man cannot retaliate when he gets injured?
Why are female false rape accusations never tried, why don't women go to jail for ruining someones life with an admittedly false claim?
Why do women receive more social security than men, but pay less into the system than men?
Why do you give incentive to FEMALE privilege, Mr. President?
Why are 70% of all the homeless male, Mr. President?
Why are 93% of prisoners male, Mr. President?
Why is over 1% of the population in jail? Higher than even the Chinese prison demographics.
What are you doing to combat fatherelessness and the statistics that come with it?:
Children from a fatherless home are 100% more likely to go to jail Children from a fatherless home are 63% of all youth suicides Children from a fatherless home are 85% of all children who exhibit behavioral disorders Children from a fatherless home are 71% of high school drop outs Children from a fatherless home are 70% of juvenile detentions Children from a fatherless home are 90% of all homeless and runaway children etc etc
What are you doing for Men's Rights Mr.President?

my only regret is that it is all so terribly true

#435
So we bought this cat tower for our cat... (imgur.com)
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http://imgur.com/GGmuP
#436

Lessons posted:

babyfinland posted:

ya ok if someone has a book reccomendation taht would be nice because this is going to devolve into "i prefer not using that term because its ideologically problematic for me" or whatever

jools would probably be the one to ask here. we've talked about the war economies before and he seems to know more than me, and most of what i know comes from articles and economic sections in military histories.

the wages of destruction is really good for the nazi side of things, how precarious and haphazard a lot of the war industries were, the weird cartel system you mentioned and the nazi relationship to industry generally (taking 5% of revenue off the top of all large corporations, including foreign ones, as a tax, for example)

#437
the 5% revenue tax is amazing, the ford corporation's margins in germany at the time were well under 5% and so the nazi tax basically wiped out all their profit, and the result was that the manager of the german branch of the business "complained" to henry ford in a letter, and no real action was taken I guess.
#438
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#439
dammit....
#440
the 0.0% revenue tax is amazing,