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tragabigzanda wrote:a city no one had heard of until six months ago.
This is when I remember I post with a bunch of Americans
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theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?
I was being facetious
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theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?

a large portion of her questions are focused on that.
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theplatypus wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:a city no one had heard of until six months ago.
This is when I remember I post with a bunch of Americans
Please don't lump me with them. I'm very well traveled.
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jwfocker wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?

a large portion of her questions are focused on that.
again, sorry my sarcasm didn't come through
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Also you spent a lot of time in the Middle East right?

Hey were you ever in Beirut?
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theplatypus wrote:Also you spent a lot of time in the Middle East right?

Hey were you ever in Beirut?
I've been all over the Middle East and North Africa. I actually want to go back.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?

a large portion of her questions are focused on that.
again, sorry my sarcasm didn't come through
That's what I assumed. Wanted to get into a fake argument.
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jwfocker wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?

a large portion of her questions are focused on that.
again, sorry my sarcasm didn't come through
That's what I assumed. Wanted to get into a fake argument.
We'll have plenty of time for that during the Buc's season, friend.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:No one is getting on Hillary for not knowing what a government server is so
I think a lot of people are... ?

a large portion of her questions are focused on that.
again, sorry my sarcasm didn't come through
That's what I assumed. Wanted to get into a fake argument.
We'll have plenty of time for that during the Buc's season, friend.

Too soon.
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Also, Jorge, I only passed through Lebanon once.
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Well that is very nice of him
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tragabigzanda wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:$100 says that if Trump said "What is Aleppo?", his supporters would embrace his refreshing honesty. Let's not knock a viable third-party option in a shitty election year just because he's unfamiliar with a city no one had heard of until six months ago.

hahaha wtf? Assuming how someone would react to trump's idiocy does not protect someone else from displaying their own idiocy. Aleppo is one of the oldest cities on Earth. Don't use perceived ignorance as a shield.
Nor should you use geographical ephemera that didn't become relevant again until 2016 as a shield.
That's a sloppy sentence, but I'm too tired to work it out.
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I have no idea how this thought keeps coming up that Aleppo has been a spec on the windshield of human history until now. That just seems like classic 'merica arrogance. Confused.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
jwfocker wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:$100 says that if Trump said "What is Aleppo?", his supporters would embrace his refreshing honesty. Let's not knock a viable third-party option in a shitty election year just because he's unfamiliar with a city no one had heard of until six months ago.

hahaha wtf? Assuming how someone would react to trump's idiocy does not protect someone else from displaying their own idiocy. Aleppo is one of the oldest cities on Earth. Don't use perceived ignorance as a shield.
Nor should you use geographical ephemera that didn't become relevant again until 2016 as a shield.
That's a sloppy sentence, but I'm too tired to work it out.
Team Trag.

I have no idea how this thought keeps coming up that Aleppo has been a spec on the windshield of human history until now. That just seems like classic 'merica arrogance. Confused.
You must have some super smart friends. Until 2016, my friends only spoke of Aleppo as the origin of a particular type of chile pepper.

Super smart? This is isn't string theory, it's just having a very general, baseline knowledge of the world.
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I think one of the default cities in Civilization is Aleppo. That's how I know it.
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theplatypus wrote:I feel like Aleppo has been pretty prevalent throughout this whole conflict, but particularly the last couiple weeks in regards to the worsening conditions there. You'd have to be pretty uninformed to not know what it is. Also a blanket foreign-policy question like "what is your plan for Syria" is not necessarily the same as "what is your plan for Aleppo", which refers to dealing with the specifics of the humanitarian crisis there. Don't see this as a "gotcha" question at all.
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