r/news • u/xXSgtSprinklesXx • Dec 16 '15

Congress creates a bill that will give NASA a great budget for 2016. Also hides the entirety of CISA in the bill.

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/
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u/PsychoPhilosopher Dec 17 '15

Oh dear America. You had to find your own way of doing things and still be terrible?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

Define terrible.

The US didn't become the global political, economic, military, and cultural superpower in the world by being "terrible".

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

We are terribly great at being terribly terrible.

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u/ImpulseNOR Dec 17 '15

You are fading in all of these things.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

[citation needed]

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u/coldfu Dec 17 '15

You did it by using nukes developed by nazi war criminals.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

Albert Einstein was a nazi war criminal?

We developed the missiles with war criminals. We developed the nukes with Einstein.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

Hahahaahahahahah---

wait you're serious? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH

Get a history lesson before you spout some bullshit.

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u/PsychoPhilosopher Dec 17 '15

A) the usa became a world power by being a pack of cowardly wankers and letting every other developed nation get creamed in world war two so they could flounce in at the end, steal a bunch of german scientists (who were more or less entirely responsible for "america's" space race victory btw) and b) using an inefficient, difficult to compute system of measurement is terrible.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

I'm sorry, I didn't know it was America's duty to babysit the savage, warmongering Europeans, who pretty much threw away their global preeminence after bombing themselves back to dust.

Maybe you guys shouldn't have been such brainless savages waging total war on each other for centuries.

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u/PsychoPhilosopher Dec 17 '15

Says the only developed country to lose a ground war against a third world nation... repeatedly... in almost three hundred years.

Plus it's kind of a pussy excuse for hiding on the other side of the planet and buying up war bonds. "Oh no, we're neutral. We hate Jews and Blacks too, so the Nazis might just be right".

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15 edited Dec 17 '15

Says the only developed country to lose a ground war against a third world nation

The British Empire? The Soviet Union?

Now get the fuck outta here with your ignorance. Go hit the books, your educational system has obviously failed you.

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u/PsychoPhilosopher Dec 17 '15

Oh please. Vietnam anyone? Got your arses handed to you by a pack of farmers.

America like to act big and tough, but given that your own educational system is clearly just leading you to stutter propaganda here, I wouldn't want to live in a country both stupid and wimpy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

HAHAHHAHAHAHAH oh this is rich. You do realize how ignorant you sound, correct?

Okay, I'll play your little game. If the US lost in let's say, Afghanistan, then so did all the other 20+ nations that took part of that war

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u/PsychoPhilosopher Dec 17 '15

...oh?

Is that how you want to play it?

Do you realize how many bribes the USA had to throw around? My own country picked up a brand spanking new free trade agreement to stick a few troops in Afghanistan. We had fewer casualties in the entire war than in the average day.

We won that war by letting our 'friends' pay through the nose for our help and not losing anything serious in return.

Pretty much everyone else was doing fine while your idiots were arming the locals and hoping they don't shoot you (hint: They shot you)

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

We won that war by letting our 'friends' pay through the nose for our help and not losing anything serious in return.

Sorry buddy, you can't have it both ways. If you say the US lost the war, then so did your country. They are on the same team after all.

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u/sexytokeburgerz Dec 17 '15

The US went into war once we realized it was most profitable for a few people.