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« on: May 24, 2015, 10:30:43 PM »
Well, I've had german for five years now.
And it's safe to say I'm shit at it.
Although I can talk to myself and my friends just fine in german, but when it comes to my teacher, I forget everything.
Warum bist du so schlecht mit Deutsch? Es ist keine schwerige Sprache.
I know. My issue is that I can understand it better than I can speak it, mainly because of all the little grammar things.
I talk retardedly, so I have a hard time trying to translate what I want to say.
I never really had a problem with the grammar. My big problem is that I have a wee bit of a vocabulary deficit. But that's just a matter of not having studied the language for long enough. I've only been at it for 2 years.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 10:25:24 PM »
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« on: May 24, 2015, 10:23:49 PM »
Well, I've had german for five years now.
And it's safe to say I'm shit at it.
Although I can talk to myself and my friends just fine in german, but when it comes to my teacher, I forget everything.
Warum bist du so schlecht mit Deutsch? Es ist keine schwerige Sprache.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 09:53:50 PM »
I'm sure Decimator Omega will have plenty of contributions to this thread.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:26:29 PM »
Ehh I'm getting closer to the point where I can say I know two languages confidently.
If I'd have kept up studying french after high school I'd probably be fluent in that now as well.
Gonna finish runestudy and then someday learn dutch <.<
Uh
Runestudy?
Moonrunes
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:25:25 PM »
Eh, I drink once in a while, and it's pretty nice. Mainly whiskey, scotch, and ouzo. Thank god I'm not one of those people to drinking after a single drink.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:24:36 PM »
Ehh I'm getting closer to the point where I can say I know two languages confidently.
If I'd have kept up studying french after high school I'd probably be fluent in that now as well.
Gonna finish runestudy and then someday learn dutch <.<
Uh Runestudy?
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:24:02 PM »
Basically monolingual
Thank you for being honest. I know that so many people are gonna lie in this thread.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:22:21 PM »
I wish Batch would drop that stupid-ass gimmick of his already. It's so fucking retarded.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:21:05 PM »
I just wanna know who in this forum is bilingual. I know that Goots, SgtMaj1, Flee, Deci, and myself each know more than one language. But I wanna know if there's anyone else who knows more than one language.
Ah, and knowing 10 words in a language doesn't count. I'm talking about actually being able to speak it in most settings. And if you are bilingual, then just state which languages you know.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:16:19 PM »
Thank god it's passed. Having gay marriage illegal is totally stupid.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 08:15:05 PM »
Does political party funding affect the results of an election and damage the individual's vote?
Uh, yes. It does, quite a bit.
The Democrats are just as equally guilty by having rich, champagne socialist Hollywood actors endorse them, and I've yet to see an outcry about that.
I hardly see any Hollywood "socialists" spending $900 in one election cycle. However, even when they do it shouldn't be acceptable.
It's people not living in the US who masturbate to Capitalism and think that it's the best system ever despite the fact that they never even lived in an actually Capitalist country. This is something that Meta's also very guilty of.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 07:23:51 PM »
I say we should hire willing Mercenaries to do the work
You do realize that the US hired a lot of mercenaries during the Iraqi War, and they performed miserably. It's a strategy that's not gonna work.
Alright. Then lets send our troops over even though many are unwilling to fight a fight we shouldn't be fighting. Nothing is more honorable than risking and possibly dying for someone else's nation.
When foreign adversaries like these can greatly affect the American homeland when left unchecked, yes, it's absolutely honorable to die in a preemptive action. These extremist Islamist groups aren't just the middle east's problem, they're our problem and our enemy too.
And who do you think originally created that threat? Who caused the Middle East to destabilize?
Abdul Hamid II
Back then, we left the Middle East alone.. Did we have acts of terrorism occur in our nation from Middle Eastern people/ideology? Or was it just from groups like the KKK?
You do realize that the Middle East was an unstable region and there were major Islamic terrorist attacks in the West for a long time before the US got into the Middle East, right?
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« on: May 24, 2015, 07:15:47 PM »
I say we should hire willing Mercenaries to do the work
You do realize that the US hired a lot of mercenaries during the Iraqi War, and they performed miserably. It's a strategy that's not gonna work.
Alright. Then lets send our troops over even though many are unwilling to fight a fight we shouldn't be fighting. Nothing is more honorable than risking and possibly dying for someone else's nation.
When foreign adversaries like these can greatly affect the American homeland when left unchecked, yes, it's absolutely honorable to die in a preemptive action. These extremist Islamist groups aren't just the middle east's problem, they're our problem and our enemy too.
And who do you think originally created that threat?
Iran and Assad. They played a pivotal role in the rise of IS. Who caused the Middle East to destabilize? Former colonial powers and the USSR. Same thing as in Africa, as greater powers pit the local parties against eachother. Who trained Osama Bin Laden back in the Cold War era to help fight off the Soviet hold up in Afghanistan? Pakistan did. Which nation creates as many problems as it tries to solve? Merica
Every nation creates as many problems as they try to solve. Solving international terrorism isn't simple. If it were, it would have been solved already.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 06:34:01 PM »
I say we should hire willing Mercenaries to do the work
You do realize that the US hired a lot of mercenaries during the Iraqi War, and they performed miserably. It's a strategy that's not gonna work.
Alright. Then lets send our troops over even though many are unwilling to fight a fight we shouldn't be fighting. Nothing is more honorable than risking and possibly dying for someone else's nation.
Those aren't the only two options... Much of the US special forces are begging to be deployed against IS leadership.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 06:24:02 PM »
I'm not seeing the problem here. Does political party funding affect the results of an election and damage the individual's vote? No.
And there's the problem. Funding does affect the outcome of elections quite a lot. It also locks the existing two-party system in place, as the two big parties have vastly more resources at their disposal than the other ones. So that results in the only parties people hearing of being the Republicans and Democrats. Many Americans aren't even aware of the existence of parties outside of those two.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 06:21:51 PM »
I say we should hire willing Mercenaries to do the work
You do realize that the US hired a lot of mercenaries during the Iraqi War, and they performed miserably. It's a strategy that's not gonna work.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 05:51:56 PM »
kkk
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« on: May 24, 2015, 05:10:24 AM »
3:10am and I'm gonna enjoy it because it's my last free weekend before I start my job which begins at 8:30am.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 05:07:58 AM »
Meanwhile the UK has restrictions on money spent, and can't get ads on TV.
Same.
For candidates or for parties?
Or both?
Parties = candidates. And limits on spending + amount of donations they can receive.
Ah, limitations. Not outright barring. Had me lost for a moment.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 05:04:17 AM »
Makes sense to have a contingency plan. But I hope the UK never leaves the EU.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 05:01:43 AM »
Meanwhile the UK has restrictions on money spent, and can't get ads on TV.
Same.
For candidates or for parties? Or both?
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« on: May 24, 2015, 03:42:34 AM »
Obviously the problem is that people have money and are allowed to use it.
You're seriously defending this? This is exactly what allows the extremely corrupt and self-serving people to get into power.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 02:51:20 AM »
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
الله اكبر و الحمد الله.
انا ليس مسلم ولكن احب الاسلام.
How well can you speak Arabic? Must have been a total bitch to learn saying that it's among the hardest languages to learn from English.
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« on: May 24, 2015, 02:22:51 AM »
Option 1: Say "fuck it", walk away and let the Saudis and Iranians figure it out.
Option 2: Blow the hell out of both ISIS, Assad, and their respective allies, and stay there for the next God-knows-how-many years as per Marshall Plan V2.0. Spend untold trillions rebuilding both countries from the ground up, and don't leave until they can stand on their own.
Option 1 would either result in a big Middle East war or an unending series of proxy wars.
Option 2 would most likely bankrupt the US.
Since neither are feasible, we are left with Option 3: Containment. Get Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Kurds, what's left of the FSA, and whatever anti-ISIS or nonaligned militia groups are out there to align against ISIS instead of each other, with the US serving as the intelligence lynchpin.
There will be some deals with the Devil, but the only other way to take out ISIS is for the US to dramatically escalate its military commitment. Good luck selling "Iraq 3" to the US voters in 2016.
Your third option is just.... impossible. FSA and Kurds will *never* fight with the SAA. >___>
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« on: May 24, 2015, 12:14:01 AM »
Meanwhile the UK has restrictions on money spent, and can't get ads on TV.
Oh how I wish America wasn't so far behind.
Stop making me jelly. :^(
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« on: May 24, 2015, 12:01:45 AM »
How do i post
You wait until midnight, CST.
It's midnight CST and it's still not open though.
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« on: May 23, 2015, 11:19:41 PM »
Anarchy is back?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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« on: May 23, 2015, 11:00:04 PM »
How do you get money out of politics?
You appeal to corporate backers, and then they give you lots of money to buy your loyalty and get you elected. Simple as that.
I meant how do you stop the influence of money on politics.
Wait. Ah, I thought you meant how people got money from politics... Well, I guess you could add strict limits for how much money individuals/corporations can give to a candidate. That'd be a great idea, but *no*. Enough of the legislators are bought out to the point where making such legislation would be impossible.
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« on: May 23, 2015, 10:29:11 PM »
How do you get money out of politics?
You appeal to corporate backers, and then they give you lots of money to buy your loyalty and get you elected. Simple as that.
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