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Rutibex posted:private armies did wonders for the roman republic Yeah, a period of civil wars that ended in dictatorship. And then more civil wars and dictatorships. And then much later they dropped the ball and got conquered by barbarians.
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congratulations to the republicans on their impending 1,000-year reign https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/860196932374978560
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new phone who dis posted:When truly pressed she's really only a "socialist" as far as every other idiot who doesn't really know what the term means and is actually a capitalist who thinks there should be a stronger social safety net. isn't that a social democrat?
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Revolutinary socialists!!! Wow!!
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Maya Fey posted:congratulations to the republicans on their impending 1,000-year reign it's loving hilarious ain't it
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Socialism would be a good thing, but I don't see how we're ever going to get it with the population going up without cease. How do you feed all the impoverished? Cultivate more land? What about global warming? Do we just pack everybody in to the cities and leave all the arable land to be farmed? Trying to see too far ahead always depresses me. My only comfort is knowing that I could be wrong.
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Maya Fey posted:congratulations to the republicans on their impending 1,000-year reign LOL 
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phasmid posted:Socialism would be a good thing, but I don't see how we're ever going to get it with the population going up without cease. How do you feed all the impoverished? Cultivate more land? What about global warming? Do we just pack everybody in to the cities and leave all the arable land to be farmed? We pay farmers to NOT farm. LOL if you think we cant produce enough food.
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phasmid posted:Socialism would be a good thing, but I don't see how we're ever going to get it with the population going up without cease. How do you feed all the impoverished? Cultivate more land? What about global warming? Do we just pack everybody in to the cities and leave all the arable land to be farmed? Don't be depressed. Current studies on birthrates are showing things should level out around 11 billion in 40 years or so. Meaning, that as countries develop birth rates drop off. Very rarely do I see people with more than 1 or two kids (if they even have kids).
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spacetoaster posted:Don't be depressed. Current studies on birthrates are showing things should level out around 11 billion in 40 years or so. Meaning, that as countries develop birth rates drop off. this is literally the reason why I chose not to have kids I think there's maybe enough at this point
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JB50 posted:We pay farmers to NOT farm. LOL if you think we cant produce enough food. spacetoaster posted:Don't be depressed. Current studies on birthrates are showing things should level out around 11 billion in 40 years or so. Meaning, that as countries develop birth rates drop off.
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phasmid posted:That's one of the more depressing things. Even if we have a surplus, we would have to keep producing it to feed those who couldn't produce their own. And without Socialism, people would rather let the surplus food rot than just give it away. Distribution is more of a problem when it comes to feeding starving people. Warlords and all that.
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phasmid posted:But with things as they are, countries don't really get developed unless they have resources or something else people want, right? If they get left behind, they'll become backwaters where extremism flourishes. So you're suggesting the largest, richest, and most militarily-equipped nations should travel the world, forcibly developing countries for ideological purposes...?
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JB50 posted:Distribution is more of a problem when it comes to feeding starving people. Warlords and all that. I worry because post-apocalyptic fiction is one of the most popular kinds of literature at the moment. People are really taking this stuff too lightly. Either we'll have to regulate things ourselves or nature will do it for us and I can't tell which of those two would be ugliest. It's like when kids think that war is a fun adventure when it usually is only enjoyable for psychopaths. poisonpill posted:So you're suggesting the largest, richest, and most militarily-equipped nations should travel the world, forcibly developing countries for ideological purposes...? phasmid fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 4, 2017 |
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phasmid posted:People are really taking this stuff too lightly. Either we'll have to regulate things ourselves or nature will do it for us and I can't tell which of those two would be ugliest. War/Famine/Plague. Those are the great population controls. If you get one, you usually get another (or both).
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phasmid posted:What about urban centers in places like India? They're not really under the threat of warlords. It's just that they have too many people to feed. Distribution should be easy enough, shouldn't it? Unless there's some barrier like bureaucratic incompetence? i imagine the problem with that idea is that it's more cost effective to just give those countries the money you would have spent shipping the food to them. On top of that it is simply impossible to donate food to those countries without having local authorities taking it and selling it themselves.
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phasmid posted:What about urban centers in places like India? They're not really under the threat of warlords. It's just that they have too many people to feed. Distribution should be easy enough, shouldn't it? Unless there's some barrier like bureaucratic incompetence? my dude there are many, many cities outside of famously corrupt failing states that manage to feed their residents, there are a lot of really cruel inherent inequities in our social order but starvation in the modern age is only the product of local governments failing to do their jobs at the most basic level. people fantasize about post-apocalyptic scenarios because they seek an escape from a thoroughly organized, comfortable, dull world where they are one cog in a machine with seven billion cogs into a romantic chaos where they are the self-sufficient king of the universe, and we no longer have a frontier one can dream of running away to. They do not do it because they legitimately believe the zombies will rise up and devour them any day now, or because some vaguely defined Malthusian crisis is any more inevitable now than when people were predicting it any day now in the 1800s. It's exactly because any kind of meaningful want or fear is so remote to modern first-world audiences that they seek it out as entertainment; when times are actually awful the trend goes to comforting fantasies where all the real and present discomforts in the audience's lives are abolished. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:52 on May 4, 2017 |
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JB50 posted:LOL https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/860206543802957824
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this country is doomed lmao
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And the Republicans went in to "Eye of the Tiger". Two loving awful rally songs for goddamned morons, being played by people who have permanent free health care even after they leave office, even if they are shitcanned. gently caress the idiots in Congress who find this amusing.
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VikingSkull posted:this country is doomed lmao You only just realized lol Maya Fey posted:fill the building with acid
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Nuclearmonkee posted:You only just realized lol nah I'm pretty sure I got this avatar by posting that sentiment many times
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It's democrats now? CNN was saying it was republicans singing about obamacare.
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Maya Fey posted:fill the building with acid
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Maya Fey posted:fill the building with acid But these are some resilient olds. We need something more powerful.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings you need to have some sort of sincere belief or principle for this to happen
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings Soon hopefully
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings A little NSFW because of hardcore rap lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings The past few years have proven that anything is possible if your corporate gravy train is at stake.
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spacetoaster posted:A little NSFW because of hardcore rap lyrics. Literally came here to post this
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Maya Fey posted:you need to have some sort of sincere belief or principle for this to happen lol nah. The only sincere principle that united Caesar's assassins was "well this guy is getting too big for his red leather thigh high boots, lets shank him". They claimed to be out to restore republican government because it looked better than the truth, which was that their idea of republican government was synonymous with unrestrained self enrichment.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings To think Americans laugh at the British House of Commons having a distance between benches of two sword lengths.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I wonder when it'll get to the point where senators are stabbing each other to death during meetings probably sometime after the point where they stop having closed-door parties together after work with a few of their most important industry donors.
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Plucky Brit posted:To think Americans laugh at the British House of Commons having a distance between benches of two sword lengths. I dunno. British politics seem more vicious between politicians and that's a good thing. Personally, I admire that you guys kick the poo poo out of your politicians more than we do here in the states. It's your judicial system we make fun of, because of the silly wigs.
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