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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Tell that to every guerrilla army in the world. Honestly, I have never gotten a rebuttal to asymmetrical force other than "you're dumb, enjoy getting bombed". The US military has even actually had problems with this. Plus, HomeSec wouldn't spend so much time on the domestic nutjobs if they didn't recognize that as well.

[Angle]

Most guerrilla armies have more weapons to their names than assault rifles, and the support of the locals. I doubt any said army would have much luck getting either one of those around here.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It depends on the scenario. I've described my "Afghanistan Trigger" concept of why any intra-US conflict would never end before. Getting local support would not be an issue if there was a perception of tyranny. Americans are known for being ferociously reactive to such a perception, as well as nationalistic in general. Further, the US is covered in difficult and excluding terrain that is only easily passed thanks to the maintenance of the national highway system. Oh, and people with far less general education and materials access have been known to build weapons on their own, case in point.

Putin arming Indianians is obviously dumb, but more realistic possibilities take on scary similarities.

[Angle]

Yeah, that's true - change the whole "Support of the locals" from a negative to a positive and things'd get really nasty here really quickly.

[martinuzz]

Putin arming Indianians is obviously dumb, but more realistic possibilities take on scary similarities.

Almost as dumb as actually taking that seriously.

"Silly" would have been the correct word. "Dumb" is insulting.

[penguinofhonor]

grisha5

[Broken]

Praise grisha!

i have seen him lately in the Irc #Nethack channel.

[Loud Whispers]

Why so grisha5?

[Truean]

http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-governor-urges-changes-religious-objection-bill-154925529.html

Yes Indiana.... When even Arkansas is going, maybe there's something wrong here, there might be something wrong here....

"Hutchinson said he wants the Legislature to either recall the bill or pass a follow-up measure to make the proposal more closely mirror a 1993 federal religious freedom law."

So basically this is a completely unneeded law, because there's already a federal version on the books that does the "non discriminatory" portions of it. The only new parts are the ones that *cough cough* don't say *cough cough* you can discriminate against gays....

I can't believe I'm saying this and I'll probably regret it, but be a little more like Arkansas here Indiana....

[penguinofhonor]

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[Urist Imiknorris]

credit for the second April Fool's Day title goes to Objective

I made it slightly better.

[KingofstarrySkies]

*salute*

[GrizzlyAdamz]

What is going on with the title in here?

[penguinofhonor]

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[Helgoland]

New York Times article about the UN's anti-Israel bias. It's an opinion piece by the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, so YMMV.