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bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

piss tape israel posted:

To be fair her physical appearance is pretty indicative of how much rage she has in her heart

It's the conservative deal with the devil, same as Miller. They look 50 by the time they hit 30 but they'll also live to be 100 so they can keep loving over poor and brown people.

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ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL
this can't be real lmao

https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1009436388276817920/video/1

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/393311-ian-bremmer-trump-tossed-candy-to-merkel-during-g-7-said-dont

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes

Real life Branco cartoon

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Pakistani politics posted:

And in the meantime, march, demonstrate, stomp some goose-stepperz, do all that poo poo. But the Dems have to get their poo poo together for real.

They haven't and won't

Pakistani politics posted:

Ugh there is still hope for this crappy country, right?

There isn't

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost
This is a working draft for and idea I've been throwing around for a while. Posting it here for feedback/additions/suggestions/critique.

I will keep updating this post with new rules and ideas as time goes on.

=======

Republicans/Conservatives/Christians/Libertarians: We need to develop and implement a forward thinking attitude and plan of action for defeating leftist narratives that undermine our country and culture. Let's call it Rules for the Right.

We need to anticipate the attacks the left will use and go on the offense well before they even have a chance to start the narrative.

When the left has the opportunity to set the tone of the conversation, its logically fallacious tentacles erode and undermine the counter narrative, leaving the right looking reactionary and uncaring to the average sheeple. Leftists deploy this sophistry because its effective.

Despite its total falsity, when leftists deploy sophistic fallacies their narrative succeeds at pulling on the heartstrings of the average reasonable and empathetic person: "think of the children!" The right is then forced to take a further reactionary and defensive position and call out the left on their hypocrisy. But by then it's too late.

The right needs to start anticipating and planning for this sophistry well before any inkling of leftist propaganda has a chance to set the tone of political conversation then preemptively, offensively and aggressively counter the leftist talking points before they even have a chance to utter them. This will put the left in the reactionary and defensive position republicans have been in for 60 years.

Leftist doctrine needs to be marginalized and neutralized, its followers and proponents ostracized and ridiculed.

So I've started writing up some rules the right should follow to send leftist ideology to hell where it belongs.

Rules for the Right:

1. Know thy enemy

To defeat a leftist, you have to be able to think like one. That means you have to fully understand victim mentality and how it's pushed and exploited by the left for their political purposes.

This is their primary recruiting mechanism.

The left is hard at work sub-dividing society into as many victim groups as it can conceptualize. Then it goes to work convincing members of that group that they are a victim and that the left is their salvation.

Once the group is created they unleash every type of emotional fallacy imaginable to persuade average people to support granting these victim groups special privileges, financial stipends and other legal or social rewards for their victimhood. The reward for convinced victim supporters is that they feel good for 'helping the downtrodden' victims.

Once those victim groups receive their entitlements, they will always vote to keep them, even to their own and society's utter detriment. Look at what welfare has done to minorities, particularly inner city blacks as a clear example of the ruin leftist policies enacts on their victims. This destruction then breeds more victims, who become convinced the left is their only salvation and anyone who opposes the left is the enemy... and the leftist cancer spreads.

Now, when those policies come under attack by the right, the left and all of their victim groups and victim supporters cry foul. They blame any and every group they oppose for a.) the very destruction the left caused to begin with, and b.) for 'making it worse' by challenging or removing the entitlements that perpetuates the victimization of the group. Since the left has already controlled the narrative from the beginning, it makes the right look mean and uncaring. This recruits more victims and victim supporters to the left.

What an evil and effective way to do business.

2. Treat the left like children

The left behaves like a spoiled little brat kid. So treat it that way. Good parents have already set the rules, provided the appropriate training and are prepared to discipline their children when they misbehave. Good parents don't engage in a child's indolence or argue with their children. Good parents don't give toddlers the candy they want just because they're throwing a temper tantrum and making a scene. Good parents practice the courage of their conviction and stay consistent with their rules. When a child throws a temper tantrum over candy in a store, the good parent will remove the child from the store and discipline them appropriately.

The left is great at throwing temper tantrums, and the right is great and giving the left its candy. The left thinks that if it throws a temper tantrum, the right will give it, not only the candy, but the entire store. And the left is right about that. Republicans are notorious cucks who have been giving away the store to leftist toddlers because of their temper tantrums for a long time.

The right, especially republican politicians (with the exception of President Trump), strikes me as bumbling ignorant buffoons when it comes to strategizing and communicating policy proposals and ideas. It's as if they have no comprehension whatsoever how the left will react and are completely unprepared for it. Republicans are then forced to spend their all of their time and effort defending against leftist attacks instead of leading effectively. Under the barrage of whining, republicans succumb to the pressure and ultimately walk back their initial proposals just to stop the embarrassment caused by the left's annoying tantrum.

The right needs to anticipate the lefts victim mindset and the types of reactions to policy that mentality produces before they promote their policy to the public. The left's reaction and talking points should already be well known way in advance of any proposal, and the proposal's message should be crafted in such a way that the whiny toddler left's temper tantrum is predicted and ridiculed before they have a chance to throw it.

Take the immigration debate as an example. The right should have already been prepared for the left's hypocrisy on child detention center conditions. Before Trump decided to start enforcing the Obama era rule of separating children from their detained parents, the right should have plastered social media and news sites with the images of Obama era detention centers to show those horrific conditions under Obama. The right should have relentlessly pushed stories about border related child trafficking statistics. Instead, the right is defending itself, looks mean and uncaring, and the nation is supporting the leftist doctrine on this one because they were allowed to throw a temper tantrum.

3. Show the destruction caused by the left, early and often

Deaths caused directly and indirectly by Communism, Socialism, Marxism
Venezuela
Detroit
Inner cities
Public education

4. Point out the left's inherent racism and bigotry

Name calling is a dirty tactic of propaganda but is extraordinarily effective. The left has been widely successful at labeling those on the right as racist bigots. This is pure projection.

The right freed the slaves under Abraham Lincoln. In fact the slave owners of the south were mostly democrats, including Andrew Jackson who owned upwards of 150 slaves on his 360 acre cotton plantation.

The right, through the free market principals of true capitalism, and the belief in equal opportunity for all men enabled blacks to participate in the free market after they were freed from slavery. Until 1965

The left believes that voting ID laws are 'racist' because they believe minorities can't afford IDs. They believe that minorities need help paying for school, housing, food -- for the same reason. These underlying leftist assumptions are by their very nature racist.

The left founded the KKK.

Nazi's were national socialists, a leftist movement. [link to wsau.com]

The left is actively promoting genocide of blacks through their advocacy of abortion. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, openly expressed her disgust with what she considered 'the unfit' and 'weeds'. [link to https://www.washingtontimes.com (secure)]

5. Take the high road

Right wing virtual signalling and moral outrage is just as cringe worthy as the leftist version of the same.

Authoritarianism and suppression of free speech as a response to issues that offend conservative moral values are just as tyrannical as those that offend the moral relativism of the left.

We escaped and defeated a theocratic monarchy when the USA was founded. Part of that victory includes our celebration and practice of liberty.

Although the ideas promoted by leftists like atheism, Islam, homosexuality, gender bending, and the like are morally outrageous, banning an individual's right to express these ideas are protected by the first amendment.

If the right wing produces policies to suppress first amendment rights based on one group's objective morality, it paints a giant target on the right that will ultimately fail to pass the sniff test once it's challenged by even a right-leaning supreme court.

The battle of ideas belongs in the domain of protected free speech, not in the domain of legislation or policy.

For example: the gay marriage debate. First of all, government should not even be involved in the question of the institution or sanctity of marriage. Marriage is a religious and cultural institution. If 3.8% of the population who identifies as gay wants to pretend they are married, who cares!

The real reason the left took on this issue on is not because they care about the civil rights of homosexuals, it was 1.) to promote it as a cultural norm which has aims to continue destroying the family unit which, 2.) aids in leftist recruitment since the destruction of the family helps create new victims who will seek the entitlements and privileges the left claims to offer.

When the right participated in this nonsense debate from an objective morality perspective based on Christian values, instead of reversing government involvement in marriage admodum, it gave power to the leftist arguments that supported their victim group.

Right wing philosophy needs to be viewed as supporting individual liberty and the subsequent opportunity created by it.

The beauty of free speech is that bad ideas will destroy themselves, much like a marriage made of gay adults who cannot procreate will have no decedents.

6. Let the left be its own parody

When I was younger and less informed about politics, ethics, virtue and the pursuit of truth I like many others of my time watched The Daily Show for my news. It was a time when George W Bush was president, and at that time the left had conveniently good arguments which opposed GW's neo-conservative policies, particularly the Iraq war and his draconian Patriot Act.

Then a few years later, Stephen Colbert, an actor on The Daily Show who parodied right-wing republicans was given his own show, The Colbert Report, which aired immediately after. To me, this show was funnier, more informative, and more balanced than The Daily Show. So I stopped watching The Daily Show and only watched The Colbert Show.

Colbert's parody of a right-wing conservative was my introduction to right-leaning ideology. His parodied arrogance about right wing ideas actually drew me to those ideas. What was so wrong about having a healthy sense of self and admiration for one's own accomplishments?

The right should take note of this experience. Parodying the left will only give reasons to the inexperienced and understudied to fall for leftist arguments. Not to mention that the right is notoriously bad at comedy. No offense, Dennis Miller.

Never parody the left with sarcasm. The left is its own parody and will perpetuate its own satire in its desperation to control people's thinking with political correctness.

TK8325
Sep 22, 2014



SpaceGoatFarts posted:

just what the gently caress ever this was

lol, no

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

This is a working draft for and idea I've been throwing around for a while. Posting it here for feedback/additions/suggestions/critique.

I will keep updating this post with new rules and ideas as time goes on.

Boy that Trump fella sure is a laugh.

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost
Sorry forgot to source my quotes

Healthy Nut Snack
Mar 23, 2016

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

This is a working draft for and idea I've been throwing around for a while. Posting it here for feedback/additions/suggestions/critique.

I will keep updating this post with new rules and ideas as time goes on.

=======

Republicans/Conservatives/Christians/Libertarians: We need to develop and implement a forward thinking attitude and plan of action for defeating leftist narratives that undermine our country and culture. Let's call it Rules for the Right.

We need to anticipate the attacks the left will use and go on the offense well before they even have a chance to start the narrative.

When the left has the opportunity to set the tone of the conversation, its logically fallacious tentacles erode and undermine the counter narrative, leaving the right looking reactionary and uncaring to the average sheeple. Leftists deploy this sophistry because its effective.

Despite its total falsity, when leftists deploy sophistic fallacies their narrative succeeds at pulling on the heartstrings of the average reasonable and empathetic person: "think of the children!" The right is then forced to take a further reactionary and defensive position and call out the left on their hypocrisy. But by then it's too late.

The right needs to start anticipating and planning for this sophistry well before any inkling of leftist propaganda has a chance to set the tone of political conversation then preemptively, offensively and aggressively counter the leftist talking points before they even have a chance to utter them. This will put the left in the reactionary and defensive position republicans have been in for 60 years.

Leftist doctrine needs to be marginalized and neutralized, its followers and proponents ostracized and ridiculed.

So I've started writing up some rules the right should follow to send leftist ideology to hell where it belongs.

Rules for the Right:

1. Know thy enemy

To defeat a leftist, you have to be able to think like one. That means you have to fully understand victim mentality and how it's pushed and exploited by the left for their political purposes.

This is their primary recruiting mechanism.

The left is hard at work sub-dividing society into as many victim groups as it can conceptualize. Then it goes to work convincing members of that group that they are a victim and that the left is their salvation.

Once the group is created they unleash every type of emotional fallacy imaginable to persuade average people to support granting these victim groups special privileges, financial stipends and other legal or social rewards for their victimhood. The reward for convinced victim supporters is that they feel good for 'helping the downtrodden' victims.

Once those victim groups receive their entitlements, they will always vote to keep them, even to their own and society's utter detriment. Look at what welfare has done to minorities, particularly inner city blacks as a clear example of the ruin leftist policies enacts on their victims. This destruction then breeds more victims, who become convinced the left is their only salvation and anyone who opposes the left is the enemy... and the leftist cancer spreads.

Now, when those policies come under attack by the right, the left and all of their victim groups and victim supporters cry foul. They blame any and every group they oppose for a.) the very destruction the left caused to begin with, and b.) for 'making it worse' by challenging or removing the entitlements that perpetuates the victimization of the group. Since the left has already controlled the narrative from the beginning, it makes the right look mean and uncaring. This recruits more victims and victim supporters to the left.

What an evil and effective way to do business.

2. Treat the left like children

The left behaves like a spoiled little brat kid. So treat it that way. Good parents have already set the rules, provided the appropriate training and are prepared to discipline their children when they misbehave. Good parents don't engage in a child's indolence or argue with their children. Good parents don't give toddlers the candy they want just because they're throwing a temper tantrum and making a scene. Good parents practice the courage of their conviction and stay consistent with their rules. When a child throws a temper tantrum over candy in a store, the good parent will remove the child from the store and discipline them appropriately.

The left is great at throwing temper tantrums, and the right is great and giving the left its candy. The left thinks that if it throws a temper tantrum, the right will give it, not only the candy, but the entire store. And the left is right about that. Republicans are notorious cucks who have been giving away the store to leftist toddlers because of their temper tantrums for a long time.

The right, especially republican politicians (with the exception of President Trump), strikes me as bumbling ignorant buffoons when it comes to strategizing and communicating policy proposals and ideas. It's as if they have no comprehension whatsoever how the left will react and are completely unprepared for it. Republicans are then forced to spend their all of their time and effort defending against leftist attacks instead of leading effectively. Under the barrage of whining, republicans succumb to the pressure and ultimately walk back their initial proposals just to stop the embarrassment caused by the left's annoying tantrum.

The right needs to anticipate the lefts victim mindset and the types of reactions to policy that mentality produces before they promote their policy to the public. The left's reaction and talking points should already be well known way in advance of any proposal, and the proposal's message should be crafted in such a way that the whiny toddler left's temper tantrum is predicted and ridiculed before they have a chance to throw it.

Take the immigration debate as an example. The right should have already been prepared for the left's hypocrisy on child detention center conditions. Before Trump decided to start enforcing the Obama era rule of separating children from their detained parents, the right should have plastered social media and news sites with the images of Obama era detention centers to show those horrific conditions under Obama. The right should have relentlessly pushed stories about border related child trafficking statistics. Instead, the right is defending itself, looks mean and uncaring, and the nation is supporting the leftist doctrine on this one because they were allowed to throw a temper tantrum.

3. Show the destruction caused by the left, early and often

Deaths caused directly and indirectly by Communism, Socialism, Marxism
Venezuela
Detroit
Inner cities
Public education

4. Point out the left's inherent racism and bigotry

Name calling is a dirty tactic of propaganda but is extraordinarily effective. The left has been widely successful at labeling those on the right as racist bigots. This is pure projection.

The right freed the slaves under Abraham Lincoln. In fact the slave owners of the south were mostly democrats, including Andrew Jackson who owned upwards of 150 slaves on his 360 acre cotton plantation.

The right, through the free market principals of true capitalism, and the belief in equal opportunity for all men enabled blacks to participate in the free market after they were freed from slavery. Until 1965

The left believes that voting ID laws are 'racist' because they believe minorities can't afford IDs. They believe that minorities need help paying for school, housing, food -- for the same reason. These underlying leftist assumptions are by their very nature racist.

The left founded the KKK.

Nazi's were national socialists, a leftist movement. [link to wsau.com]

The left is actively promoting genocide of blacks through their advocacy of abortion. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, openly expressed her disgust with what she considered 'the unfit' and 'weeds'. [link to https://www.washingtontimes.com (secure)]

5. Take the high road

Right wing virtual signalling and moral outrage is just as cringe worthy as the leftist version of the same.

Authoritarianism and suppression of free speech as a response to issues that offend conservative moral values are just as tyrannical as those that offend the moral relativism of the left.

We escaped and defeated a theocratic monarchy when the USA was founded. Part of that victory includes our celebration and practice of liberty.

Although the ideas promoted by leftists like atheism, Islam, homosexuality, gender bending, and the like are morally outrageous, banning an individual's right to express these ideas are protected by the first amendment.

If the right wing produces policies to suppress first amendment rights based on one group's objective morality, it paints a giant target on the right that will ultimately fail to pass the sniff test once it's challenged by even a right-leaning supreme court.

The battle of ideas belongs in the domain of protected free speech, not in the domain of legislation or policy.

For example: the gay marriage debate. First of all, government should not even be involved in the question of the institution or sanctity of marriage. Marriage is a religious and cultural institution. If 3.8% of the population who identifies as gay wants to pretend they are married, who cares!

The real reason the left took on this issue on is not because they care about the civil rights of homosexuals, it was 1.) to promote it as a cultural norm which has aims to continue destroying the family unit which, 2.) aids in leftist recruitment since the destruction of the family helps create new victims who will seek the entitlements and privileges the left claims to offer.

When the right participated in this nonsense debate from an objective morality perspective based on Christian values, instead of reversing government involvement in marriage admodum, it gave power to the leftist arguments that supported their victim group.

Right wing philosophy needs to be viewed as supporting individual liberty and the subsequent opportunity created by it.

The beauty of free speech is that bad ideas will destroy themselves, much like a marriage made of gay adults who cannot procreate will have no decedents.

6. Let the left be its own parody

When I was younger and less informed about politics, ethics, virtue and the pursuit of truth I like many others of my time watched The Daily Show for my news. It was a time when George W Bush was president, and at that time the left had conveniently good arguments which opposed GW's neo-conservative policies, particularly the Iraq war and his draconian Patriot Act.

Then a few years later, Stephen Colbert, an actor on The Daily Show who parodied right-wing republicans was given his own show, The Colbert Report, which aired immediately after. To me, this show was funnier, more informative, and more balanced than The Daily Show. So I stopped watching The Daily Show and only watched The Colbert Show.

Colbert's parody of a right-wing conservative was my introduction to right-leaning ideology. His parodied arrogance about right wing ideas actually drew me to those ideas. What was so wrong about having a healthy sense of self and admiration for one's own accomplishments?

The right should take note of this experience. Parodying the left will only give reasons to the inexperienced and understudied to fall for leftist arguments. Not to mention that the right is notoriously bad at comedy. No offense, Dennis Miller.

Never parody the left with sarcasm. The left is its own parody and will perpetuate its own satire in its desperation to control people's thinking with political correctness.

Sir this is a McDonald’s drive thru

Cat Hassler
Feb 7, 2006

Slippery Tilde

bloom posted:

Boy that Trump fella sure is a laugh.

He's a real piece of work. Plus he ain't no account

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012


Steve Albini noooooooo

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

Avirosb posted:

Real life Branco cartoon

lol

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

BONE DOG posted:

this guy. i love it when crazy idiots incorporate their poo brain into their appearance so you loving know right off the bat that they're completely retarded



Roy Orbison looking better than could be expected.

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit
https://mobile.twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1009673089339265025

https://mobile.twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1009682019029323776

https://mobile.twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1009684316358668288

Streak
May 16, 2004

by Nyc_Tattoo

lol

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer

My grandpa spent WWII in Manzanar and his worst stories weren't as bad as this :stare:.

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit
So we literally just announced that all the separated children are now orphans: https://mobile.twitter.com/aflores/...2549%23lastpost

This post from D&D sums it up pretty well:

FilthyImp posted:


It's a sick, terrifying realization that just kind of winds its way up from the pit of your stomach until it just wants to tear put of your mouth.

Those NGOs (I think RAICES was the one getting some crowdfunds yesterday) are going to have to follow these kids as they get sponsored or adopted or sent god knows where, and then find ways to make parents aware that maybe they can find where their kids are but it's not certain and it will take time. And there will be times when the answer is just, no, we dont know what happened.
And you know there will be no government funds to help make this insanely impossible task easier.

All because we just HAD to rip families apart and not even be Nazi enough to document this poo poo.

So you think, gently caress, well at least the kids can say I lived here, my mom and dad or relatives came from here, their names were so and so.



And thats when you remember the infants and toddlers.

How the gently caress are we going to find their parents? How.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

olives black posted:

They haven't and won't


There isn't

lol the people who endlessly post like this are extremely terrified of actually giving a crap anymore. By this point this has got to be some alternate kind of irony poisoning.

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

Reminder that one of the worst humanitarian horror shows of the last century was the Khmer Rogue and what they did.
Where a large part of it wasn't necessarily by design, but the end result of giving platoons of stupid violent rednecks absolute power over whole loads of extremely vulnerable people with basically no accountability.

kater
Nov 16, 2010

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


lol


ahahahahahaha

why do i click on this thread anymore.

tomorrow I'm going to wake up and go to work.

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





Prester Jane posted:

This post from D&D sums it up pretty well:

hosed up beyond belief

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo
Stealing thousands of kids from their parents to own the libs kids

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!
I like to think a bunch of low-info middle types who have been rolling their eyes at hearing "nazi" thrown around at the Trump people actually stopped and went "wait a second" this past week.

kater
Nov 16, 2010

bloom posted:

Stealing thousands of kids from their parents to own the libs kids

Man if that was the loving goal I bet they could come up with a rather flexible immigration policy.

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

kater posted:

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


lol


ahahahahahaha

why do i click on this thread anymore.

tomorrow I'm going to wake up and go to work.

:same:

You
Oct 6, 2009
All I can say about this clusterfuck is LOL.

I wish I could say something else, but this hellish situation has left me speechless and possibly brain damaged.

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓ð’‰𒋫 𒆷ð’€𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 ð’®𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


Grape posted:

I like to think a bunch of low-info middle types who have been rolling their eyes at hearing "nazi" thrown around at the Trump people actually stopped and went "wait a second" this past week.

I'd like to think a lot of things but the level of cognitive dissonance never ceases to amaze me. You can already see it being waved away for "the greater good" in comments sections everywhere.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk










is that the sort of lol that starts at your belly and tastes like puke, because yah, lol

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

kater posted:

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


lol


ahahahahahaha

why do i click on this thread anymore.

tomorrow I'm going to wake up and go to work.

I wrote this right after Trump won. Its long but it might help.

Prester Jane posted:

I underestimated the total number of Narrativists and the competence of Hillary Clinton as a politician. As a result instead of a Hillary blowout we have a solid Trump win. So what now? What does this all mean?


When I was a child my parents bought a pile of cheap books from a basement book sale at the local public library for 25cents a pop. In amongst this pile of books was a (sadly now lost) treasure trove of 1940's era pulp science fiction. I read dozens of these books, perhaps even over a hundred, and many of these books had a profound effect on my developing ideas about the world. The only other fiction books I was allowed to read were either Christian crap like the Sugar Creek Gang or very lengthy literature classics like A Tale of Two Cities or Great Expectations, so these books represented a very fun romp that was totally different from anything else I was allowed to read.

I remember a scene in one of these books that has always stuck with me, although almost nothing else from the rest of the book has and I doubt I shall ever be able to track that book down again as it was an obscure small-series print from sometime in the 30's-40's. In any case, in this particular book there was a very dramatic scene where the crew of misfits found themselves marooned on a distant world, their own ship smashed to uselessness and their supplies very low. Meanwhile the planet itself was just barely capable of sustaining humanoid life, and had a harsh, cold atmosphere.

The crew found themselves with two possible destinations within walking distance where they might find supplies, the first which was a weeks walk away and had a very low chance of having supplies, and the second which was a three day walk and had a very high chance of having supplies. the crew naturally elected to walk towards the nearer destination.

What followed next was three days of misery, hunger rations, unrelenting cold, and several near misses with rockslides. But in the afternoon of the third day the crew finally rounded the bend and could see their destination in sight.

Where they expected to find a stocked research outpost was instead a blast crater, a decades old remnant of the war. The crew was devastated, they had consumed the last of their food rations that morning.

The Captain however, upon seeing the blast crater, paused for only a moment before setting off in the direction of the other option, which was now a 10 days walk away without food. When a member of the crew objected the captain simply said "You keep moving forwards until you are dead." he brooked no further discussion about the matter, he simply ordered his men to start trekking in the direction of the now almost hopeless second destination.

What followed was a struggle of severe misery, but throughout it the captains words become something of a mantra to the main character. "You keep moving forwards until you die" the main character would repeat to himself over and over as they trekked onwards. Eventually, the crew did reach the 2nd destination and found just enough supplies to survive.

I must have been about 10 when I read that book, but that passage always stuck with me. During my own periods of struggle I have at time adopted the same mantra as that long forgotten spaceman. "You keep moving forwards until you die."



Tonight we all became survivors, and tonight we all became fighters in this struggle. We do not have a choice in this. The present situation may not be our fault, but it is our problem, and surviving it is our responsibility. And that is what the next four years are about for liberals like us, survival.

Any possibility for a normal life for the millennial generation is now essentially gone. If America does survive the next four years, it will be by the skin of our teeth. These will be hard days and hard times, we will all face hard decisions with no clear moral way forwards. Tonight we must all begin the process of adopting the attitude of always moving forwards until we either collapse from our efforts or reach our destination.

Narrativism is about to sweep the federal government, and by extension the rest of the country. Full Christian theocracy with a steaming side of white supremacism is on the way. LGBT rights will be eliminated, abortion will be banned, taxes that rich people pay will be eliminated, Trans-people will probably have to register for watch lists eventually, Muslims will be targeted for heavy legal harassment, hate crimes against all minorities will spike through the roof and police investigations of said hate crimes will be non-existant in some areas of the country. Militias will begin to operate with the wink-wink blessing of local law enforcement in actions that target minority communities for harassment. Insane/corrupt/both cronies will be packed into every fact of the federal apparatus, and they will implement Narrativist policies and enforce existing policies in a distinctly Narrativist fashion.

But despite all that, I am resolved to keep moving forwards no matter what. My advice to the readers of this thread? Treasure every meal you share with a loved one, savor every sip of your favorite cocktail, hold yourself in the quiet moments of peace at the end of your day before you drift off to sleep. Suck every bit of marrow from every bone you can because from here on out every taste of it that you get is a gift that may be plentiful this night and gone the very next.

No matter what remember to keep putting one foot in front of the other and you will always get somewhere eventually. If you get knocked down rest as long as you need, then pick yourself up, accept the misery that moving forwards again entails, and resume putting one foot in front of the other. If along the way you find a flower peaking at you from the muddy trail be sure to take a moment and stop to admire its beauty and enjoy its fragrance.

Catch your breath, take a moments rest in a spot of beauty. Pat yourself on the back for how far you have gotten.

And then you get moving again.

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Unironically hoping that I'm wrong about there being no afterlife and every single person that calls themselves Christian while cheering on the kidnapping, imprisonment, beating and raping of children dies very soon and spends eternity getting rammed by Satan.

Kinda want Jesus to appear and just "what the gently caress are you cunts doing?!" before turning millions of people nazis into pillars of salt.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

For the record, the wars you started that lead to millions of extremely dead people was way worse than children in cages

its not like your country suddenly got evil

you have been evil for a long time

the fact that you're only now realizing this is very sad

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Fartbox posted:

For the record, the wars you started that lead to millions of extremely dead people was way worse than children in cages

its not like your country suddenly got evil

you have been evil for a long time

the fact that you're only now realizing this is very sad

:yeah:

qkkl
Jul 1, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Fartbox posted:

For the record, the wars you started that lead to millions of extremely dead people was way worse than children in cages

its not like your country suddenly got evil

you have been evil for a long time

the fact that you're only now realizing this is very sad

Most Americans literally don't know about all the evil their country has done on foreign soil because there was little coverage of it. If the MSM blasted video of starving Yemeni children non-stop then the US public would also be calling for ending US support of the complete blockade of Yemen.

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008

Fartbox posted:

For the record, the wars you started that lead to millions of extremely dead people was way worse than children in cages

its not like your country suddenly got evil

you have been evil for a long time

the fact that you're only now realizing this is very sad

Its funny how many people double down on MURRICA IS DA BES when confronted with this.

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

Fartbox posted:

For the record, the wars you started that lead to millions of extremely dead people was way worse than children in cages

its not like your country suddenly got evil

you have been evil for a long time

the fact that you're only now realizing this is very sad

Friend I understand where you're coming from but the Americans posting in this thread are very literally lifelong targets of the most sophisticated propaganda network in the history of mankind. They've been raised since birth on the myth of good guy America, with that myth being echoed at them from every conceivable cultural angle.

These are good people, give them a little bit of time to absorb what has to be one of the harshest truths of their adult lives. It's going to take a bit because the truth is so jarringly different from what they've been raised to believe- but they will get there.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

How much does each of these "Look at me! Look at me!" rallies cost the taxpayer?

You
Oct 6, 2009
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1009564103369805824?s=19

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo

qkkl posted:

Most Americans literally don't know about all the evil their country has done on foreign soil because there was little coverage of it. If the MSM blasted video of starving Yemeni children non-stop then the US public would also be calling for ending US support of the complete blockade of Yemen.

yeop

https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1009644242862395397

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk


America number one gently caress yeah! This is in the name of freedom and democracy! :911:

We need to bomb more not less!

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yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar

qkkl posted:

If the MSM blasted video of starving Yemeni children non-stop then the US public would also be calling for ending US support of the complete blockade of Yemen.

You put too much faith in people in general. A sizeable portion would just handwave it away as "not our problem" regardless of the coverage.

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