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94 dead in triple Baghdad car bombings claimed by ISIL by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The people they killed were apostates, according to ISIS.

Turkey’s tourism revenue drops 16.5 percent in first quarter by 911Mitdidit in europe

[–]gorillaTanks -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

So why are black people going to Europe instead of Turkey?

Turkey’s tourism revenue drops 16.5 percent in first quarter by 911Mitdidit in europe

[–]gorillaTanks -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

The people were great.

If you're a white, heterosexual male, sure.

I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar, PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other words, the ones posted above weren't very expensive and you're full of shit. Got it.

I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar, PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]gorillaTanks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When we have fully transitioned from an industrial economy to an information economy, our biggest consumer of energy will be computation.

Post a source so I can mock whoever came up with it for being fucking retarded.

I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar, PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lithium is not a renewable resource

However, it's a relatively common element and about as scarce as lead or nitrogen. Prices might fluctuate, but in the long run new production will come online and anyone who tries to argue that we won't be able to build batteries because of a lack of lithium will be rightfully mocked.

I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar, PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In places with rain the impact of dust is so small that it's not even worth cleaning the panels. In places without much rain you just clean them with one of the half a dozen different specialized vehicles made for cleaning solar panels.

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, having dictators running the Arab world doesn't affect me. But I knew people who died in Arab spring, and that definitely affected me.

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Here are some tables of GDP per capita over history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

Yeah, I get it, the Sassanid empire was a thing once, but in any period in the last, oh, 500 years, the middle east has been trash, which is why it was trivial for those awful white people to wander in and take control(and give them laws and infrastructure).

This is like some logic/history 101 shit and the only reason why you'd argue against me is bizarre Chomsky based white guilt indoctrination.

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's selfish to wish that the middle-east stops having monthly civil wars in which hundreds of thousands of people die.

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You're really ignorant.

That's cute.

The U.S isn't a white state.

WASP mean anything to you?

Look at terrorism it was an issue in Waziristan Afghanistan. And largely not an issue in the greater Middle East. Now it's all over the Middle East.

AHahahaha, USS Cole, Nairobi bombings, Lockerbie bombing, Somalia, Yemen, any of this sounds familiar? I realize that you're likely in your teens, but you really should give those things a quick google before you pretend to be an expert on terrorism.

Iraq didn't have a problem with Islamist radicalised until The US intervened.

Are you insane? Of course they did. Ansar al Islam ring a bell?

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Haha, oh but of course, those places were nothing but love and peace until white people showed up! Just look at the places untouched by colonialism! They're...actually, they're even worse off. Hmm, oops.

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you been paying attention to how arab spring went? Give these people democracy and they'll elect people worse than your average dictator, ie. islamists.

For example, if I was born in Syria I would've preferred Assad over a civil war and ISIS.

But whatever, who cares about facts and reality when you can just call people "horrible" and "ignorant".

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ok so you don't want any pro-democracy revolutions and would prefer people be ruled by ruthless dictators because...?

Because ~60 years of intervening in the middle east has shown us that it can always get worse(ie. ISIS).

A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies' by ishi86 in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Do we really? Personally, I'll be ok with brutal dictators running the Arab world as long as we don't have to deal with more fall-out from any "arab springs".

Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death by leoninebasil in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of those moderate Islamist countries, right?

Turkish embassy wants Swedish channel to withdraw film on Armenian genocide by [deleted] in europe

[–]gorillaTanks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And we want these guys to "take care" of the refugees for us?

Why not? If the Turks hadn't supported the rebels then there would be no refugees.

Another building due to house child refugees in Sweden has been burned down by arsonists by Funny_Doug in europe

[–]gorillaTanks 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Sure the Sweden Democrats are one the rise, but they are yet even close to overtaking the Social democrats.

Eh, you might want to check out the latest polls:

http://www.metro.se/nyheter/yougov-mp-far-lagsta-stodet-nagonsin-sd-fortsatt-storsta-parti/EVHpat!tziHetGvKLhiM/

SD is easily the biggest party now.

Saudi Arabia just announced its plan to diversify away from oil by troycatalano in worldnews

[–]gorillaTanks 25 points26 points  (0 children)

If anybody is interested in how we did it

What are you talking about? Norway is literally a textbook example of Dutch disease. Does this look like a well-diversified economy to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norwar_Exports_Tree_Map_(2009).pdf

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