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Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

i want ben shapiro to be wedgied to death

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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Yugoslavia had ethnic dimensions to it, and (somewhat) clear nationalities, ethnic cleansing notwithstanding. A future american civil war would be...I don't even think the troubles qualify as a good comparison. It would be utterly unique, and something that would define future conflicts similar to it, in much the same way the first american civil war did.

The political dimension, the presence of the global supply chain, the technological difference, drones, the internet & media...it wouldn't look like anything that has come before.

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLHo7Rko-fQ

Nothus has issued a correction as of 05:04 on Jul 4, 2018

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1014351491447115777

written from the perspective of a fetus grown in a vat, aborted for the genetic crime of heterosexuality

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Al! posted:

judging by how they react to sports team wins the midwest will burn itself down with every victory

Philly wins each battle they enter, emerges from the war the most bombed out place.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Uncle Wemus posted:

i want ben shapiro to be wedgied to death

ben shapiro's everything is the result of today's lacklustre high school bullies

low school funding hits everyone hard

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys

Uncle Wemus posted:

i want ben shapiro to be wedgied to death

:getin:

HorrificExistence
Jun 25, 2017

by Athanatos
a stupid end to a stupid country


goodbye


america

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

HorrificExistence posted:

a stupid end to a stupid country


goodbye


america

send help!!!!

Slutitution
Jun 26, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo

prisoner of waffles posted:

The intensification of the U.S. culture war continues to help corporate profits, so it will probably continue. A civil war would be more likely if there were plenty of profit to be made off of it?

Lol. Media corporations in this country will gladly preside over a civil war and the destruction of America if they can squeeze a profit out of it. It’s already happening. They gave roughly $2 billion in essentially free advertising to the Trump campaign precisely because all the crazy poo poo he said and did made them a fortune.

Edit: I almost don’t even know what the media is going to with themselves after Trump isn’t in office anymore. They’re a match made in heaven for each other.

Slutitution has issued a correction as of 08:51 on Jul 4, 2018

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy




from a show called "f*ck your feelings" by a new company called "danger space media" where proud boys read old racist children's book using minstrel voices

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



BrutalistMcDonalds posted:





from a show called "f*ck your feelings" by a new company called "danger space media" where proud boys read old racist children's book using minstrel voices

triggering the libs by reading at a first grade level

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Al! posted:

i am LITERALLY an award winning political scientist

Sir those were mayor mccheese sashes for children

You are a grown man

You should be ashamed

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:





from a show called "f*ck your feelings" by a new company called "danger space media" where proud boys read old racist children's book using minstrel voices

The future is loving weird.

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

Urban minorities are a perpetual fear for reactionaries, except for when they're making their fantasy matchups of who will win another civil war. If there's one group of civilians who are intrinsically prepared for an American civil war, it's young black and brown men who have already survived years of immiseration, random violence and government paramilitaries.

Convicts don't seem to factor in these fantasies much either. Escaped prisoners were a crucial demographic in the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars. The U.S currently has several million men who are kept in a harsh, heavily regimented environment that requires billions of tax dollars just to keep a semblance of order. A civil war or breakdown in society would result in riots and breakouts all over the country, with overstretched police and military unable to stop them.

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Epic High Five posted:

chud factions won't allow a split because red states are huge welfare queens and need populous, liberal states to maintain their lovely standards of living and disgusting levels of inequality, it'll be Troubles type stuff with lots of LAW AND ORDER rhetoric from the right who accurately gauged the loyalty of the in-state armed forces if it came down to them having to cut the checks

we're talking about a group of people that are currently burning down every massively favorable trade deal the US has ever made and then realizing that "oh no my aluminum came from russia i can't keep my business open!!!"

why do you think their perfectly smooth brains won't apply this same logic to the money they get from the blue states?

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Slutitution posted:

Lol. Media corporations in this country will gladly preside over a civil war and the destruction of America if they can squeeze a profit out of it. It’s already happening. They gave roughly $2 billion in essentially free advertising to the Trump campaign precisely because all the crazy poo poo he said and did made them a fortune.

Edit: I almost don’t even know what the media is going to with themselves after Trump isn’t in office anymore. They’re a match made in heaven for each other.

they're going to die. nobody under the age of 60 is interested in cable news and decades of contrarian clickbait has pretty thoroughly pissed off everyone else to the point that even the staff is getting pissed. turns out spending all of your money on bowtie-wearers churning out pieces to antagonize everyone under the age of 40 for a decade isn't a sustainable business model if people over 40 die!

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




Okay fess up which one of you is this?

Rick Wilson seems very well versed in dumb internet poo poo for an old (former?) Republican white dude.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

he spends a ton of time on Twitter, and once you have a thousand pepe and anime avatar weirdos in your mentions threatening you with getting "helicoptered" you're going to probably take a moment to Google wtf that's about.

I say probably cause political journalists and most professional columnists never do this, gotta spend all that time focusing on how this is actually a moderate, reasonable country.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO
May 8, 2006

Nothus posted:

Yeah, the 60's and 70's were way more violent than the slapfights with camera phones we call riots these days. On my old college campus alone they burned the union down and set off multiple bombs in the ROTC building.

yeah we are still really far off from anything even as turbulent as the 70s or whatever, when there were hundreds of bombings a year etc

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
The 70s were hosed up is all i gotta say. Getting rid of leaded gasoline is the best thing the world has ever done

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

yeah we are still really far off from anything even as turbulent as the 70s or whatever, when there were hundreds of bombings a year etc

Funny thing about that: the primary and most easily used components for creating viable bombs have been heavily restricted since then, especially since the Oklahoma City bombing.

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



goodog posted:

Urban minorities are a perpetual fear for reactionaries, except for when they're making their fantasy matchups of who will win another civil war. If there's one group of civilians who are intrinsically prepared for an American civil war, it's young black and brown men who have already survived years of immiseration, random violence and government paramilitaries.

Convicts don't seem to factor in these fantasies much either. Escaped prisoners were a crucial demographic in the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars. The U.S currently has several million men who are kept in a harsh, heavily regimented environment that requires billions of tax dollars just to keep a semblance of order. A civil war or breakdown in society would result in riots and breakouts all over the country, with overstretched police and military unable to stop them.

So what I'm gathering is, the revolution starts with taking the prisons

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
yeah, storming the bastille, and so on

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

rudatron posted:

yeah, storming the bastille, and so on

That was about seizing arms. Freeing the small number of prisoners present was a side bonus.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

Radical leftist underground groups in the 70s had an almost fetish-level fixation on prisoners and convicts leading their movements, notably true for the Symbionese Liberation Army which actually began as a prison visitation group

Slutitution
Jun 26, 2018

by Nyc_Tattoo

It’s funny watching neocon incels go after alt right incels for being incels.

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
https://streamable.com/zxjxh

30 seconds of interesting KKK info, I never knew this

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Slim Jim Pickens posted:

The 70s were hosed up is all i gotta say. Getting rid of leaded gasoline is the best thing the world has ever done

Clair Patterson is a hero you will never hear about because he made so many rich fucks so mad that they damnatio memoriae'd him

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Whats this second civil war stuff

C2C - 2.0
May 14, 2006

Dubs In The Key Of Life


Lipstick Apathy

Kurtofan posted:

Whats this second civil war stuff

A response to Alex Jones claiming Democrats were (are?) gonna start another Civil War today.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Kurtofan posted:

Whats this second civil war stuff

Alex Jones drumming up bullshit for views so he can scare boomers into buying more prepper goods.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Reclines Obesily posted:

https://streamable.com/zxjxh

30 seconds of interesting KKK info, I never knew this

yeah and i know someone whose uncle was lynched outside of their house causing them to flee texas so i dont think some fake rear end goodwill gestures really count for poo poo

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
same guy said slavery was exaggerated and that segregation was good because their were more black businesses

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Reclines Obesily posted:

same guy said slavery was exaggerated and that segregation was good because their were more black businesses

seems like a cool dude

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
peterson says he drank some apple cider that triggered feelings of impending doom and couldn't sleep for 25 days

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Reclines Obesily posted:

same guy said slavery was exaggerated and that segregation was good because their were more black businesses

Until the white people got jealous of their success and burned it all down.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-devastation-of-black-wall-street/

Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde
weird how all this bad stuff doesn’t come up when you talk to an alt righter

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Reclines Obesily
Jul 24, 2000



Hey Moona!
Slippery Tilde

peterson gives off such a sickly vibe, next time he catches a cold he’s gonna die

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