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Azathoth posted:This is the natural evolution of most grifters and grifts. I get that it's not a particularly new take, what with Vonnegut writing a whole book about it in the 70s and all, but it can't be overstated just how unlikely it is for a grifters to have a successful grift and not buy in at least partially. The only other real option is going from believer to grifter, otherwise it's incredibly hard to not come off as inauthentic to their marks. This is all true but there's also an exception to it that's front and center in our lives right now: evangelical Christians openly adoring Donald Trump while he struggles to even put together the flimsy barebones front that any conservative is expected to hold up for them. It all works out because they're both quietly dedicated to the same brand of plausibly deniable white supremacy but that year or so where they tried to see if he could pretend to be a Christian and he came in hot with poo poo like "Actually I don't need God's forgiveness" and "Two Corinthians" was pretty fun.
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At least with season 4 of Man in the High Castle they spend a lot of time having all that comfortable life collapse in on the Smiths, with them realizing what horrific loving monsters they are to have gotten that far and stay there. Plus a black communist revolution in the Japanese held region that succeeds at achieving its goals and then some by driving the Japanese to abandon the west coast and deals with some uppity white motherfuckers in t he wake of that, plus a really satisfying death for Himmler if nothing else. The whole thing clearly seemed written expecting a 5th season to be able to wrap things up with and when told the 4th was the final they hastily rewrote some poo poo to clean it up in the last episode or two and it still doesn't answer a lot of things.
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Fizzil posted:In Youngblood they mention a news article about a no mans land in there or at least they nuked the most valuable areas, cause one of the french resistance members is russian but he doesn't really mention or talk about it. It does sound like they're not doing good but still around. In some of the news clippings in New Order they mention how Nazi technowizardry overwhelmed the Red Army with Panzerhunde and the like, but that Stalin had never been caught (presumably escaping to Siberia or something).
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Eimi posted:The only appeal to me is if it's like Wolfenstein where the point of this dark timeline is it gives you more nazis to shoot and you get to see cool people destroy Hitler's little perfect aryan world. A newspaper clipping in The New Order mentions that they "evacuated" the east and use it as a training ground for Nazi soldiers so it sounds like they managed to implement generalplan Ost in that world Edit: oh goddamnit.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:This is all true but there's also an exception to it that's front and center in our lives right now: evangelical Christians openly adoring Donald Trump while he struggles to even put together the flimsy barebones front that any conservative is expected to hold up for them. It all works out because they're both quietly dedicated to the same brand of plausibly deniable white supremacy but that year or so where they tried to see if he could pretend to be a Christian and he came in hot with poo poo like "Actually I don't need God's forgiveness" and "Two Corinthians" was pretty fun. they know he's full of poo poo. they're willing to put up with corruption in exchange for continued systemic white supremacy
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Eimi posted:The only appeal to me is if it's like Wolfenstein where the point of this dark timeline is it gives you more nazis to shoot and you get to see cool people destroy Hitler's little perfect aryan world. In-universe they mention that Africa is basically the one place left on the planet that hasn't fallen to the Nazis and I'd fuckin love to see what a well-realized game set in Central Africa on the frontlines of that war would look like That said, the Wolf devs didn't really do a great job with the US as a setting in TNC so they'd probably gently caress Africa up tremendously
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Spergin Morlock posted:they know he's full of poo poo. they're willing to put up with corruption in exchange for continued systemic white supremacy Yeah, absolutely no one involved in pushing Trump as a Moral Majority Culture Warrior ever believed for a second that he actually is one. They pushed him as one as part of their grift, and now they're the ones desperately shilling for him, while he can't be bothered to do anything for them. Trump's grift is to do everything in his power to enrich himself, and he's willing to pay lip service to Evangelicals if it helps that cause, but that's it.
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Azathoth posted:Yeah, absolutely no one involved in pushing Trump as a Moral Majority Culture Warrior ever believed for a second that he actually is one. They pushed him as one as part of their grift, and now they're the ones desperately shilling for him, while he can't be bothered to do anything for them. Trump's grift is to do everything in his power to enrich himself, and he's willing to pay lip service to Evangelicals if it helps that cause, but that's it. The point is, amongst the GOP and grifters, is to never admit something is wrong unless they are 100% sure they can cut ties with someone and get rewarded for it better than keeping the ball rolling. Any sign of infighting is seen as a huge weakness.
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Zikan posted:Very Normal pivot
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Zikan posted:Very Normal pivot what the Christ
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Congratulations to gun girl and Shrek on their new baby. Lmao
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Zikan posted:Very Normal pivot ugh
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This'll own those libs. ….hmm better put something in there for the true Bennett heads though *draws cleavage on the frog*
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Congratulations to gun girl and Shrek on their new baby. lol
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Congratulations to gun girl and Shrek on their new baby.
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Syd Midnight posted:Russians have a word for "when you're on fire so you ram the enemy and set them on fire too" although its usually performed in an aircraft. "tuesday"
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:educating liberals is a super weird case. there's been quite a bit written about him. he's a grifter, obviously, but there's a lot of mental health history there. i genuinely don't know to what degree he believes this stuff, and it's even possible he started out with a pure grift and started to buy into it. isnt this what happened to tremptpe? he wanted to cash in on the rubes but as his brain started to fall apart he fell for the grift tailor made to activate boomer brain?
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Kent state gun girl is here to stay as an epic meme freak The groyper stuff makes me think on how long it is until she asks 'Why are we fighting Israel's wars?'
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Important to remember in the coming skirmishes between TPUSA and the anime nazis is that kent state gun girls faction was formed in a schism from TPUSA when she felt that Charlie Kirk betrayed her by not stopping her from doing the epic diaper installation.
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Mister Speaker posted:gee i wonder who this dipshit is Yeah but it used to be white 
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Congratulations to gun girl and Shrek on their new baby. Lol. The good stuff
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Zebulon posted:At least with season 4 of Man in the High Castle they spend a lot of time having all that comfortable life collapse in on the Smiths, with them realizing what horrific loving monsters they are to have gotten that far and stay there. Plus a black communist revolution in the Japanese held region that succeeds at achieving its goals and then some by driving the Japanese to abandon the west coast and deals with some uppity white motherfuckers in t he wake of that, plus a really satisfying death for Himmler if nothing else. The whole thing clearly seemed written expecting a 5th season to be able to wrap things up with and when told the 4th was the final they hastily rewrote some poo poo to clean it up in the last episode or two and it still doesn't answer a lot of things. How are there 4 season of that, the book has just enough material for a tight movie. loving TV.
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