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What The Fark 6: FARK OFF!

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Never interrupt your enemy
Seven armed United States civilians attempting to make their way to Afghanistan via the United Arab Emirates were arrested on August 31, a State Department cable reviewed by Newsweek said.

The group of U.S. nationals was detained last Tuesday and later released on bail by local police at Dubai International Airport after having "arrived on a private plane carrying firearms," the cable said.

"The passengers reportedly planned to assist Afghanistan evacuation efforts but had no approved onward travels plans," the cable read, adding that the U.S. Consulate General in Dubai was "engaging with authorities on the issue."
https://www.newsweek.com/armed-us-c...ng-concerns-rogue-civilian-operations-1626852
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https://www.newsweek.com/armed-us-c...ng-concerns-rogue-civilian-operations-1626852
 
If you ever wanted to join reddit, you may not want to for the next few days.

r/HistoryMemes, which is brutal (incredibly funny, but only if you think Nekromantik is light comedy) has two banhammer rules:

1. No posting about events in the last 20 years (a.k.a., the 9/11 Rule).
2. No posting about events since 1900 on Weekends (a.k.a., the Holocaust Rule).

Cue Monday.
 
Kepler said:
If you ever wanted to join reddit, you may not want to for the next few days.

r/HistoryMemes, which is brutal (incredibly funny, but only if you think Nekromantik is light comedy) has two banhammer rules:

1. No posting about events in the last 20 years (a.k.a., the 9/11 Rule).
2. No posting about events since 1900 on Weekends (a.k.a., the Holocaust Rule).

Cue Monday.
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There's a car show in minnesota that apparently moved their date back for "classics" that was the year before the Mustang came out to specifically exclude them. There's no reason the history sub can't change it to just be 2000 or earlier
 
So, despite the weird feeling I had this morning seeing all the corporate/sports team/etc 9/11 rah-rah, I kinda missed seeing Rube post the annual link to the 9/11 thread that I salvaged when USCHO nuked the hall of fame threads in an update.

That said, there was also a twinge of pain thinking back to that thread, the confusion and misplaced anger at what happened.

Maybe the look back some historians were doing this afternoon on Twitter helped add to that pain. Seeing the xenophobic attitude our culture had with 20 years of hindsight was causing both madness and sadness in reviewing the attack.


What a weird time. And it's even weirder (at least to me) in seeing posts even today asking to go back to that time with some awfully heavy rose tinted glasses.
 
I was also thinking about that thread. It’s crazy to go back and read what the zigzagging ideas as to what was happening.

Speaking of the xenophobia, W was taking dogs at Drumpf during his speech, complaining about the current fear or foreigners while stating that we were so much more embarrassing of others then. The thing is, I think W may actually believe that stuff.
 
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There's a car show in minnesota that apparently moved their date back for "classics" that was the year before the Mustang came out to specifically exclude them. There's no reason the history sub can't change it to just be 2000 or earlier
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Mustangs came out in 64, limited run and they are called 64.5. That leaves a lot of "classic cars" home. That club must be into hot rods, home built stuff that became popular after WW2. Lots of old car guys dislike the muscle car era which was already in full swing before the Mustang came out.
 
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Fuck, yes.

The Military-Industrial Complex has a great ring to it, too. Perhaps we should rename all of Northern Virginia.
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I like where you're going.

Fort Lockheed Martin, Camp Boeing, Joint Reserve Base Northrop Grumman all have nice rings to them....
 
Yesterday, I went to Hamburger Mary's, a drag themed burger chain with a location in Grand Rapids. As I was walking in, an older cis lady was on her phone griping about the place.

Couldn't help but laugh. What was she expecting, Denny's?
 
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