The World is J-Curved

[JLBats]

Does that taste anything like Pumpkin?

Pumpkins are illegal in Canada. Mine was Clover Pie.

 

[raybia]

Pumpkins are illegal in Canada. Mine was Clover Pie.

WHAT! I never heard of such a thing! WHY!?

Well that settles that as far as me moving there.


What is a Clover Pie? Do you have any pictures? What does it taste like? Pumpkin?

 

[JLBats]

WHAT! I never heard of such a thing! WHY!?

Well that settles that as far as me moving there.


What is a Clover Pie? Do you have any pictures? What does it taste like? Pumpkin?

Fun is also illegal, and children are altered so that they lack the capacity to love

Clover pie is pie made from shamrock.

 

[raybia]

Fun is also illegal, and children are altered so that they lack the capacity to love

Clover pie is pie made from shamrock.

Oh, that cannot be good.


Unless...does it taste like a Shamrock shake from McDonald's?

 

[JLBats]

No, it tastes kind of grassy.

 

[maxwell's demon]

it's only for if you're a big fan of pie.

 

[JLBats]

it's only for if you're a big fan of pie.

Clover pie is an insult to the concept of pie, actually

 

[maxwell's demon]

shhhhhhh! it's how we keep out the impures.

 

[raybia]

shhhhhhh! it's how we keep out the impures.

What?! You're Canadian too!?

 

[JLBats]

What?! You're Candian too!?

Once upon a time, he was our KING

 

[C.F. Kane]

Guys come on! We have a published geo-political theory that says coddling rogue states can weaken them! Do you know what this means for the future of foreign policy?





Did I just sound like an Model UN nerd right there?

 

[maxwell's demon]

i like a good key lime. graham cracker crust.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Assuming that this theory is true, would that give us a reason to "coddle" rogue states? Should we actually try to humor people like Ahmadinejahd in the hopes that we could undermine their domestic image?

The paranoia that has infested the United States,one could say has made its way to other points of the world.There was a time when,if a country was isolated,other countries would not care.But in today`s world,it seems one must know everything to be "safe".

 

[bored]

Guys come on! We have a published geo-political theory that says coddling rogue states can weaken them! Do you know what this means for the future of foreign policy?





Did I just sound like an Model UN nerd right there?

It wasn't suggesting that we coddle them. It's saying that many repressive states use isolationism to assert power over their people, and that the US threatening to 'isolate' Iran from the international community would be a pointless gesture.

 

[bored]

shhhhhhh! it's how we keep out the impures.

'We'? B-but... I... You...

I don't know what to believe in anymore .

 

[C.F. Kane]

It wasn't suggesting that we coddle them. It's saying that many repressive states use isolationism to assert power over their people, and that the US threatening to 'isolate' Iran from the international community would be a pointless gesture.

Yes, but wouldn't this theory, if put into practice, suggest that in order to disrupt a rogue state a power has to open it up?

 

[bored]

Yes, but wouldn't this theory, if put into practice, suggest that in order to disrupt a rogue state a power has to open it up?

That is a way of interpreting it. The point that was being made in the article was that oppressive governments historically have tried to isolate their people from the outside world, so by threatening them with global isolation, we do nothing but help them achieve their own goals.