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Do you own a cat? A cat owner will never ask why I let my cat step on my laptop hahaha. Cats are the worst AND the best XD

Hey, what do you think of the middle evolution of the starters?

#LastTimeTrumpPaidTaxes

The above hashtag is trending on Twitter right now. Why is it everything Trump has ever done is wrong, but everything criminal HilLIEry has been doing (much of which is considerably worse than anything Trump's ever done) gets a free pass from the media (which is so one-sided in worshiping Mrs. Clinton the same way they've worshiped Obama for the past eight years, especially with promoting him as the "Messiah")?

The daily attacks are worse than Goldwater 1964, Bush 2004, McCain 2008 and Romney 2012 combined, it seems like! (Never mind the last three were neocons just as globalist as John Kerry and Obama.)

On a somewhat related note, I don't get why everybody thinks having an amount to pay under "You Owe" when you file your taxes is considered "patriotic", yet getting any refund or even having the proper rate of taxes withheld from every paycheck is frowned upon.

It didn't. Let me send one again. Oh! Don't you think Lelouch is cool and badass c:

yeah pretty much. i have to build up an immune system by getting sick. it's expected of me to get sick

no. she is in pokemon

Kotone means Lyra in Japanese

Yeah it is. I'm sick again omg

About me....I'm awesome and cool guy xD I'm kidding. I think I sent you a message 3 days ago?

WADDUP?

BROOO

I just really like lyra she is awesome

Yeah I love my job

Well I work at a daycare so it is still open in the summer

I really dislike her, always have. She's the living version of political corruption. Trump is trashy but I think a lot of his nonsense is lip service, whereas Clinton's awful record speaks volumes

I just read couple of chapters of one piece, man it got so many chapters xD

Usually urban parks cause that's all that's around here haha. but there's some good trails that go a couple miles. I used to hike in the mountains during the summer. But I don't know anyone that lives there anymore.

It look more badass like that. I found a couple of chapters but not all. You read manga in B&W?

I'm not sure, tbh. They give the US an international military capability like no other country. I don't think that's a bad thing. They're not strictly speaking necessary to keep the US safe, but I believe that they are necessary to keep the world order as it is. Imagine how tricky North Korea would be without troops and missiles in South Korea and Japan. Imagine how much more assertive Russia could be without the bases surrounding it in Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It'd be a very different world without the US bases, and it might be even less peaceful.

What's your opinion on them?

I'm sure you've heard of Warhammer or Games Workshop :O I don't play either of those cuz tabletop games are really expensive to get into.

haha the "coalition" called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere with the Japanese as the dominant race in Asia? Imagine combining the racial motivation for Lebensraum with the classical exploitation of African and Asian colonies of European countries, and that's basically what Japan wanted for its corner of the world. They tried to make it sound nice, but the leadership were explicitly racist about their intentions, and all it would have done was violently exchange European colonialism with Japanese colonialism.

LOL i didn't mean to say that they funded the Communists purposefully! Just that the Nationalists (which the US did fund) bled resources and equipment to the Communists over the course of the war. The Communists also benefited from capturing equipment from the Japanese as well.

Another reason they didn't want to intervene too much in the local politics is that they wanted a united China as an ally against the Soviet Union. It wouldn't have been a big deal to the US if China was a bit communist or socialist, because no matter what ideology China has, it would be 100% in tension with the Soviet Union. So Chinese unity was more important to the US than having democratic, capitalist ideology.

Yeah you guys still do. I don't think they're going away anytime soon, what with North Korea being unpredictable and China's gains in the South China Sea.

I still work in the summer

Have you heard of wargaming? It's kind of like table-top games, but it's on a computer and can be a lot more complex.

The US was quite involved in China during the 30's and 40's. Predominantly, their objective there was to roll back Japan. Which worked, just like how the Soviets bled out the Germans on the Eastern Front, the Chinese bled out the Japanese on their homeland. They were perennially pissed at Chiang and his government for fighting the Communists instead of the Japanese and general incompetence. They funded the Nationalist Army with a lot of equipment, but obviously not troops since, well, the Chinese could never really run out of troops haha. Indirectly they funded the Communists as well, since there were quite a few mass retreats where US-aided weapons would be captured, as well as because of guerrilla tactics that necessitated that enemy equipment be captured, since the Communists at that time had very little industrial capability. It's the same thing we see happening in Syria - you arm your side, and when they surrender to ISIS, they take all the weapons you've donated. IIRC the US was interested in peace in China, and so pressured the Nationalists to form a coalition government with the Communists after the Japanese were defeated. I'm surprised that the US wasn't actually even more interventionist - like how they divided Germany and Korea - but then again I don't think they were looking forwards to get bogged down in China, which in 1945 was still a fifth of the world's population.

so tl;dr not really involved in the Civil War per se, mostly there to help China fight the Japanese, obviously supported the Nationalists but otherwise stayed out of the internal politics as much as they could though.

I just researched after and found that the US stationed over 150,000 troops in China. It sounds like a lot, but keep in mind that this is just post WWII and I'm sure a lot of those troops were transferred from the Pacific front.

I had to verify some of the dates, but yeah essentially off the top of my head. I've taken courses concerning ideologies and social movements in modern China, as well as having studied contemporary Chinese governance (how their government actually works). Most people don't know all that much about Chinese history, so I'm always happy to explain it. Forgot to mention this by the way, but the leader of the Nationalist Party Chiang Kai Shek (and first President of Taiwan) was pretty irritating to the US leadership that had the pleasure of liaising with him. General Marshall, I believe, once asked if they could have him assassinated.

Now that I think of it, anarchism was a rising ideology during the fall of the Empire, and preceded communism, but it wasn't organized nor did it advocate for the kind of social change that appealed to a vast majority of the population. Honestly though, I think the most important ideological factor during that period was nationalism - China had been ruled by a foreign people for almost four hundred years and recently had suffered from colonialism and capitalist exploitation from Western powers - so none of the ideological forces - anarchism, communism, fascism, democracy - were truly pure.

I've never played lego star wars, but I've heard it's a pretty good series. Have you heard of Paradox Interactive? They make a lot of history games and that drives a lot of my interest in history.