Message from @Alucard Van Hellsing
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It’s taking your car to cousin Boris and he use vodka to clean engine
The original term was Jerry rigging, and was a slur against German soldiers
Jury rigging is a bit older than that, mate.
As a term for janky repairs it's not
Juryrigging picked up the same use as Jerry rigging because, say Jerry with a southern drawl
As a term for repairs with what's on hand it dates back to at least the late 1700s
“Are you telling me gasoline doesn’t help put out fires?” - cousin Boris
If anyone's wondering, ubermensch started this with a deleted message about trusting someone who rigs juries.
How different would China be right now if the Kuomintang won the Chinese Civil War?
Not much I suspect
Tho I’d prefer a nationalist win over a communist one
Same
If i was the leader of my own country,i'd recognize Taiwan over the PRC and tell Beijing to go fuck themselves
The Us didn’t recognize the communist government until 1979
Was it a mistake for Nixon to visit the PRC in 1971?
Not really considering be a bit more politically inconvenient to not recognize the PRC compared to like some small power
Like Palestine
So Robert Mugabe is dead
I ain’t shedding tears
Same
Make Rhodesia Great Again
Was he still in power before he died?
No,i think he stepped down two years ago
Meh not enough time to erode the memory of the impact he had
True
Then there was Joseph Mobutu
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I must go quiet now
So Nicholas Cage normally?
How about Nicholas Cage + Kool Aid Man
i knew Cage was a Marxist
Gonna read aloud this vox article I found on r/politics
Even in death, Robert Mugabe, the former strongman leader of Zimbabwe, has remained a source of contention, this time caught in a dispute between his family and the government over where to bury him.