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The Call goes out on the Bill-Joe looks at his insulin supply. He sighs. Its running dangerously low thanks to that goddamn Obamacare. Not to mention the supplies being redirected away. "All we did is tell them we are at war!" Bill-Joe thinks to himself. "Its not fair they cut us off like this!" It should last him until resupply after the triumph over the urban ferals of St. Louis. Nadine hobbles around the corner. Her gout is acting up. "Bill-Joe, we're out of food!" The Super-Valu hadn't been stocked in weeks. Bill-Joe gazed out a window over fields of useless inedible vegetables in the direction he thinks New York City may lie. "Goddamn useless vegetables don't even taste good." Those liberal elites were hoarding all the cheeseburgers and microwave dinners for themselves in their goddamn ivory towers. He just knew it. Hillary Clinton and George Soros were eating children and pop corn from bags while enjoying the luxury of reliable electrical power. "Even our loving microwave doesn't work since they turned off the power!" "Nadine, we'll resupply on the way. I promise everything will be better after we get rid of those drat city folk. Lets get some rest while the Rascals charge. We can burn this Medicaid coverage statements to stay warm." Betsy the Cow began turning the wheel to power the generator to charge the scooters. Bill-Joe and Nadine snorted the last of their dwindling supply of Oxy and fell into a disturbed sleep. A rooster crowed them awake around noon three days later. They were on the floor. The Oxy was gone. Betsy was dead. Bill-Joe ate a cheeto he found under the couch in an attempt to stabilize his blood sugar. They had missed roll out. "Nadine! Wake up we need to get going! We can still catch up and help win the fight!" They mounted their scooters and rolled towards the freeway. As they began closing on St. Louis they were able to see smoke bellowing from the former city. "Nadine, they won without us!" Getting even closer they were able to see the signs of a pitched battle. Scorched cars, toppled Rascals and shell casings strewn around. "Bill-Joe, will they let us have any food since we were late?" Nadine asks. "Nadine, there is so much food in this town they won't be able to stop us" Across town Chris looks up from his beer. The Giant Weed Bonfire is belching smoke into the air. It has been going strong for days in celebration . He vaguely remembers something in the news about the rural counties declaring war. He heard a few shots the night before. Nothing new for St. Louis. Whatever happened they had killed all the rich people and took their poo poo. Some nerds got put in charge of the government and everything was working out pretty OK. Chris hears the whining of some electric motors behind him. Turning around he sees two corpses, hands jammed on the forward levers of their mobility scooters. Rebel flags flapping in the breeze. "I need to stop smoking so much".
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St Louis (and Baltimore) will burn itself to the ground in Judge Dredd-style block wars before the rascals are even charged up to move.
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i lust for civil war in a nuclear armed country
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Dec 21, 2017 07:41
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Smiling Jack posted:this thread is just getting stupider and stupider Yeah 
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Smiling Jack posted:this thread is just getting stupider and stupider just like this year amirite yuk yuk yuk
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Laranzu posted:The Call goes out on the Put this on my grave 45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:i lust for civil war in a nuclear armed country All my money would have been on pakistan. Outside shot at NK Waroduce fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Dec 21, 2017 08:02
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I'm just waiting for the next/new war to distract from domestic issues Money's on NK but the morbid part of me wonders if this Jerusalem thing will give us an excuse for another ME country
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Smiling Jack posted:this thread is just getting stupider and stupider This thread is converging with d&d
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Wanna see Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital kick off a massive regional confluct that results Israel going all Sampson written by Tom Clancy directed by Michael Bay. Some how the US doesn't directly intervene
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Smiling Jack posted:this thread is just getting stupider and stupider Smiling Jack posted:I voted for bob dole in 1996. I don't know why. Smiling Jack posted:but we have always been at war with Eurasia Smiling Jack posted:Darkest timeline nothing matters Smiling Jack posted:poor people in this country have loving Stockholm syndrome Smiling Jack posted:suck my dick from the back, hail ss-18 Satan etc Smiling Jack posted:Whoops Yeah I wonder why.
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I'm not trying to pick on smiling jack, but this applies to anyone who is unhappy with the Current Events threading changing tack because of the tax bill or whatever else (in the past, see: punching nazis): Shim and I do keep an eye on the thread, and we'll make a call on spinning off a discussion when it overtakes all other discussions. Complaining within the thread just contributes to the spirit of the very thing you may find frustrating, so try PMing a mod instead. Or better yet, bring up a new issue in the thread. There's lots of other news going on.
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Zeris posted:Yeah I wonder why. Monster kill I work nights so I have no one to type long extremely tedious and factually accurate paragraphs at
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Hey me too. We're more likely to be depressed, overweight, kill ourselves, and develop heart disease. I survive on sugar free Red Bull, coffee, and hate.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/12/19/comcast-cox-frontier-net-neutrality/ If I was in charge of an ISP, I would be cutting consumer internet costs by a huge margin (like, 35-50%) and say that the net neutrality repeal allows us to finally pass savings on to the customer. Convince anyone who isn't read up on the subject to associate low Internet costs with no net neutrality. On the back end, implement the speed/traffic packages for web service hosts and charge the gently caress out of them to make up the costs. Most consumers will blame the businesses for the increased cost of stuff like Netflix, not the ISPs who were nice enough to cut their Internet prices. After you have public opinion on your side, boil the frog slowly and bring Internet costs back up to where they were over a few years through "infrastructure costs to support the new Internet model". Of course, I guess most ISP CEOs would just prefer to loot and run in the short term instead of actually attempting to work public opinion and solidify their gains.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:i lust for civil war in a nuclear armed country kill whitey
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Prop Wash posted:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/lake-chad-the-worlds-most-complex-humanitarian-disaster That’s the first I’ve seen it, thanks for sharing it. Yeah, the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin are such a mess, and the attendant issues drag in every neighboring country as well. In CAR, it’s very lucrative to be a warlord or bandit gang leader- one guy whose militia controls one of the traditional Peuhl grazing routes makes $500 million USD a year in extortion and “taxes” from the pastoralist tribes who use those roads.
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There was another defection from North Korea, this time there's a bit of a twist. https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/943823009097420800 Norks went to chase the guy and actually went into South Korea. The Sorks shot 20 warning shots at the Norks and the Norks went back over the border. An hour later, there was gunfire back on the North Korea side. 
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facialimpediment posted:There was another defection from North Korea, this time there's a bit of a twist. The norks do unit decimation? That's pretty 
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A war with NK would make the highway of death look like peanuts. I honestly don't think history would even call it a war, it'd be mass murder.
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Floodkiller posted:If I was in charge of an ISP, I would be cutting consumer internet costs by a huge margin (like, 35-50%) and say that the net neutrality repeal allows us to finally pass savings on to the customer. Convince anyone who isn't read up on the subject to associate low Internet costs with no net neutrality. You don't have to worry about public opinion when you have a monopoly. See: airlines and rental car companies.
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psydude posted:You don't have to worry about public opinion when you have a monopoly. See: airlines and rental car companies. And you DO have to worry about quarterly reports to stockholders.
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Floodkiller posted:Of course, I guess most
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That Works posted:The norks do unit decimation? That's pretty It's straight up  is what it is.
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How? How are the Feds so loving bad at this? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/20/572426023/judge-declares-mistrial-in-conspiracy-case-against-bundys quote:A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and another self-styled militiaman. The men had been charged with conspiracy and assault after their 2014 dispute over cattle-grazing rights in Nevada developed into an armed standoff with federal agents. The prosector in this case needs to loving resign.
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Waroduce posted:Wanna see Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital kick off a massive regional confluct that results Israel going all Sampson written by Tom Clancy directed by Michael Bay. Destabilizing a long-standing structure and causing it to collapse and kill them? Sounds like they're already doing it.
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Stultus Maximus posted:How? How are the Feds so loving bad at this? She hasn’t commented on this just yet, but JJ McNab is the Twitter persona that you want to follow for everything sov cit or right-wing extremist. She’s a really good researcher and has some great knowledge of these groups and their dynamics. I fear that the string of acquittals or mistrials for the Bundys will only empower additional actors like them, and that we’ll see other batty poo poo go down the next time we have a Democrat or someone who can’t pass the paper bag test in national office.
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when you're definitely Not Mad https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/943858186175598592
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https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/943857627183718402 Very popular tax bill, much like your favorite President (me)
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M_Gargantua posted:The war is already being fought around you on Facebook. Get yourself a bot net and go do meme battle for the soul of America. Russia's already winning. FAUXTON posted:Because trade flourished in optimal conditions - favorable geography, stable and functioning infrastructure, a government at some length that directed the collective defense of the city. Like sure I'd agree with you on the death traps thing if this were the fifth century BCE and aircraft didn't exist, or this was to be a symmetrical conflict where rural seditionist militias ran combat operations out of their airbases but it ain't, and expectations of NYC falling like Rome to Brennus or Houston being crumbled into the sea like Carthage are woefully unfounded as to be on the verge of romantic delusion. Funny thing about modern cities is that they rely on almost everything being brought in. If you're "fighting" the very people who supply you with almost everything you need/want/use, this isn't even a war. It's a siege that doesn't require an army. Godholio fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/943857627183718402 "Yes very popular the most popular the biggest tax cuts I've ever had - I mean seen for the little people" - the president probably
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Godholio posted:Russia's already winning. Just ask Constantinople how easy is is to besiege a costal city.
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Ban Wall Street https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/943859028509290496 http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1EF20I quote:Long Island Ice Tea said it was shifting its primary business strategy to blockchain technology and was in the preliminary stages of evaluating specific opportunities to grow that business. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Dec 21, 2017 17:27
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facialimpediment posted:Ban Wall Street https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/943845166326038530 This is all totally not a bubble that will eventually crash when the music stops
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lol, I can't wait to tell my children about the crypto crash of 2018 that made Tulip mania look like a warm up exercise.
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facialimpediment posted:Ban Wall Street This is hilarious
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Can you believe these people still get paid to write this poo poo? https://twitter.com/politico/status/943521403512475649 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/20/how-to-beat-trump-2020-elections-generic-democrat-216121
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facialimpediment posted:Ban Wall Street This is a pretty good explanation of why I'm hording cash instead of throwing it into the market. I'm tempted to pull a ton of my money out of my non-retirement accounts (let the 90% stock poo poo ride) as soon as the calendar ticks over to 2018.
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I literally had another officer tell me this morning that Bitcoin is the wave of the future. He was also an officer that was going to refrad and totally make 200k working twitter and Instagram out in Idaho... both times I’ve been stupid enough to try to explain how I don’t think that’s how objective reality works. He’s full of great hot takes like how brick and mortar shops are going to totally going to make a resurgence because people will one day wake up and be tired of the Internet.
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It's absolutely absurd to act like the conservative/liberal divide perfectly matches the rural/urban divide. Any Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo is gonna look like Iraq at the height of the insurgency.
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brand engager posted:Can you believe these people still get paid to write this poo poo? It's an opinion piece and can be safely relegated to the dustbin.
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my kinda ape posted:It's absolutely absurd to act like the conservative/liberal divide perfectly matches the rural/urban divide. Any Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo is gonna look like Iraq at the height of the insurgency.
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