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KwarK
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farvacola
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TheLordofAwesome
Korea (South)2655 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:03 Plansix wrote: I’ve seen that story for almost a year now, in different versions and publications. It has to be the brain child of some White House staffer that just won’t die. Uh, I've seen "Erik Prince wants to take a private army into Afghanistan and strip mine the country" stories for a while, but I've never seen the "hire spies to spy on the real spies" before. | ||
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TheLordofAwesome
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KwarK
United States43483 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote: I still don't understand why he thinks the wall has to be transparent. So you can see the trebuchets coming. | ||
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TheLordofAwesome
Korea (South)2655 Posts
But you could stand on top of a solid nontransparent wall with a spyglass or a camera and see far across the border anyways.... | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote: I still don't understand why he thinks the wall has to be transparent. he's an idiot, why bother trying to understand it? | ||
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KwarK
United States43483 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:09 TheLordofAwesome wrote: But you could stand on top of a solid nontransparent wall with a spyglass or a camera and see far across the border anyways.... yes, but you asked why Trump thinks the walls have to be transparent. Trump thinks the walls have to be transparent so you can see the trebuchets before it starts raining 60lb bags of heroin upon the good people manning the wall with devastating effect. | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:06 farvacola wrote: Clearly, we just need to setup some kind of massive tower defense game along the border. Do we use towers with high range or low range but high damage? | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:08 TheLordofAwesome wrote: I still don't understand why he thinks the wall has to be transparent. So he can just make a simple fence and be done with it | ||
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Plansix
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GreenHorizons
United States23591 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:21 Plansix wrote: I’m slowing coming around on the wall. Of all the Trump plans, it is the least harmful to real life humans and I want the 32 billion ball and chain for the GOP. Just this staggering monument to stupid. Plus I want to see the concept drawings for the see through wall. Pretty sure best case scenario (meaning he get's the most he can) is essentially the same as what Democrats have been pitching for years. That said, it'll be seen as a colossal waste by Dems and "better than nothing" from Republicans. | ||
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KwarK
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:21 Plansix wrote: I’m slowing coming around on the wall. Of all the Trump plans, it is the least harmful to real life humans and I want the 32 billion ball and chain for the GOP. Just this staggering monument to stupid. Plus I want to see the concept drawings for the see through wall. Isn't the wall, if built, an ecological disaster? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9eaq/wall-on-mexico-border-would-be-an-ecological-disaster According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service provisional report released last year, a Trump wall covering the entire 2,000-mile border, with approximately 1,000 feet of developed space on either side,would potentially impact 111 endangered species, 108 species of migratory birds, four wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, and an unknown number of protected wetlands. I guess that it's technically not harm to humans, but it seems pretty damaging. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:28 Logo wrote: Isn't the wall, if built, an ecological disaster? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9eaq/wall-on-mexico-border-would-be-an-ecological-disaster You see, this where coming from Massachusetts gives me insight into the reality of a project like that and how they pan out. It will never be finished, it might never get started. It will just be this blight on the national budget and a monument to the sunken loss fallacy for years until it is finally put down. | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:32 Plansix wrote: You see, this where coming from Massachusetts gives me insight into the reality of a project like that and how they pan out. It will never be finished, it might never get started. It will just be this blight on the national budget and a monument to the sunken loss fallacy for years until it is finally put down. The big dig finished... eventually... kinda... | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:26 KwarK wrote: I just pray that the cartels don't realize that their bottleneck on the trebuchet assault on this nation is their insistence on only using bags of heroin as projectiles. Just imagine the casualty figures if they start using rocks. Or hire engineers to build the most lit trebuchets in human history. And then use rocks. Or old cars. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:32 Logo wrote: The big dig finished... eventually... kinda... It was one state fighting with itself. And then the big dig killed a couple people. It was a PR nightmare and barely managed to be completed. This will be a fight all the states on the southern border. | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France7953 Posts
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Mohdoo
United States15729 Posts
On January 19 2018 00:28 Logo wrote: Isn't the wall, if built, an ecological disaster? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9eaq/wall-on-mexico-border-would-be-an-ecological-disaster I guess that it's technically not harm to humans, but it seems pretty damaging. It would never get completed or even close. This shitty 10% completed wall would just end up being a monument to GOP stupidity. I can see the political memes now. Dude standing next to the edge of the wall, freely walking by it, with a caption under that says 50 Billion Dollars" or some shit. Edit: Holy shit I just read about what you guys are on about with this transparency stuff: Trump went on to say that the wall needs one thing: transparency. “You have to be able to see through it,” he explained. “In other words, if you can’t see through that wall—so it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what’s on the other side of the wall.” The wall needs to be see-through, the president continued, because drug dealers may otherwise throw large bags of drugs over the wall to the other side, and hit innocent passers-by. “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them—they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over,” he added. “As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall. But we have some incredible designs.” | ||
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