The Current Events Thread

[Rinoko]

Hey guys, what's going on in he-

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[Turbro]

If you absolutely have to be a dick to someone who died recently, at least don't do it in a place that people have told you not to do it in twice.

[Shad]

Lambeth, I'll ask that you don't compare Thatcher to a (fictional) space dictator that caused the death of many. It's idiotic.
Since you cannot be decent in this thread, I regret to have to ask you all to stop talking about Margaret Thatcher's death here.

Marcato, we will also do without posts that add nothing to the discussion.

edit: lol i was a dumbass back then huh fuck thatcher

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IN OTHER NEWS

North Korea is up to more shenanigans.

THis time they're warning foreigners to leave their southern counterpart in expectation of nuclear war.

[Madican]

World politics are such a bizarre dance. North Korea threatens everyone around it, while knowing that such an attack is tantamount to suicide, because it shows their leader's "strength." South Korea declares that any sort of conflict will be met with brutal retaliation, even though North Korea would seize on the excuse to launch full warfare, because it shows their leader's "strength." Meanwhile the USA, who very likely could utterly destroy North Korea's ability to fight back and pre-emptively neutralize it, has to try mollifying the equivalent of a childish tantrum because the previous action would be stepping over a global line, no matter how called for it is. China simultaneously scolds North Korea while trying to talk it down, despite holding just as much ability to do what the US could to them before they could react.

Logic doesn't seem to matter much on the world stage.

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No more NK news (although tomorrow is their cutoff for guaranteed protection for embassies, so things are sure to get interesting very quick), but I found this and I thought it was very amusing.

For the second year in a row, EA has won the Golden Poo Award and named the worst company in America, beating out Bank of America (also for the second year in a row).

[Blitz Walrus]

And a secret cabal of conservatives too.
Watching the entirety of 4chan unite in hate against a single entity was pretty inspiring tho.

[somepartsareme]

Lol at nerds so detached from reality they can say EA is the worst company in America.

Related: Finally, someone's going to go to jail for making a meme!

Reddit Murder Confession: "Naratto" Admits Killing Sister's Abusive Meth Addict Boyfriend Using a Picture of a Bear

[SaintCrazy]

"Used the popular Confession Bear meme normally reserved for trivial confessions"

hah, clearly the author has never been to r/confessions.

[Syobon]

Lol at nerds so detached from reality they can say EA is the worst company in America.

Nobody actually believes EA is the worst company of America, but they're probably the only ones actually affected by the results since their consumerbase for a large part overlaps with internet-users likely to hear about that poll. Also 4chan thinks it's funny to fix internet polls.

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Today's the big day! WEDNESDAY.

If North Korea has a fit, today is the earliest, as far as warnings given indicate.

Also China has halted all tourism into NK.

Also, there is much reassuring going around that any piece of crap KJU manages to launch will be taken out well before it can damage anything.

They've got Musudan missiles, apparently. The maximum range is shown here. Minimum range (if they work as desired) is 400 miles.



Edit: In other news, Buckwild was canceled! The celebrations begin at 7:00 PM EST.

[Blitz Walrus]

Also China has halted all tourism into NK.

NK Had tourism?

And do we have missile defenses in SK? Assuming they don 't launch one at us, everyone else is still in danger.

[Lambeth]

How do you think Dennis Rodman made it there?

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Also China has halted all tourism into NK.

NK Had tourism?

China and NK, as far as I know, are still buddybuddy, but KJU's current, well, episode may change that.

[Tetrunes]

Apparently the storms in Arkansas got national attention?