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snoo
Jul 5, 2007




mm cake

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SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

slopJoe 2020330 posted:

SHM i thought you learned not to go all-in on your posting attacks because when you do you turn into an annoying-rear end pedant
shovelburn's posts itt are legit concerning to me and I've run out of ways to express my frustration

limaCAT
Dec 22, 2007

il pistone e male
Slippery Tilde

Lmao

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

eh if it’s like my distant in-laws from West Virginia posting on Facebook getting family killed through sheer incompetence is mostly just an oopsie that requires prayer emojis

Yeah to a chud when someone dies they go home to Jesus, the chuds religion states that death is infinitely preferable to life but you can't kill yourself to game it, this life is just a pointless waiting room before paradise bc no matter how bad you are you just have to say at any point that you accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior and it's all on him you're set

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


Mons Hubris posted:

I still don't understand where you're getting this from, war with China would be a massive disaster and the military has to know this

he's getting it from the same place he got "the united states government deliberately engineered the spread of COVID into minority populations as a form of ethnic cleansing" i.e. nowhere. it's easier for some people to see all the bad things that happen in the world as the efforts of an all-powerful evil force, because it sands the messy edges off of life and turns everything into the apocalypse. if the world is ending and the nightmare forces of fascism are in the ascendant, then my petty problems don't matter. i'm excused from having to worry about mundane poo poo.

the reality is the government is grossly incompetent because the president is a cataclysmically stupid grifter whose only objective is to steal money and appear on teevee. in the vacuum of leadership this creates a bunch of smaller con artists have stepped into the roles sane administrators would normally play and are taking the opportunity to steal everything not nailed down. meanwhile, faced with a challenge he cannot will into nonexistence, the idiot king is blaming his eternal foe (China) because 1) it worked before and 2) he hasn't learned anything new since 1986.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004




lmfao

GATES FOUNDATION
Apr 28, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I could honestly see it working out if both sides agree to use it as a means to drum up nationalism and a way to funnel more money to their militaries.
Wars can be so damned profitable if both sides are into it. Plus the only people that have to get hurt anymore are the low-rent soldiers. A couple thousands casualties and some military bases every now and then and you've got an infinite supply of jingoism and military budget increases.

The difference here is that china's MI complex is mostly state owned and plenty diversified into civilian ventures, so forcing them into wartime production mode would be a net loss of profit.

Penisaurus Sex
Feb 3, 2009

asdfghjklpoiuyt
I wonder what 2020's "Aluminum Tubes" will be.

Skypie
Sep 28, 2008
hey remember how it was only like 4 months ago that TRUMP had a foreign general assassinated

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
Fun Shoe
Beans seem to be back in stock around here, at least.

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

actionjackson posted:

I live in the Twin Cities

I'm 37 and bought my home (small condo) in 2011 for 170k lol

then I refinanced for 2.875% several years ago, cutting nine years off my mortgage

I have no kids and no debt tho (except mortgage)

workin hard thank you!

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

he's getting it from the same place he got "the united states government deliberately engineered the spread of COVID into minority populations as a form of ethnic cleansing" i.e. nowhere. it's easier for some people to see all the bad things that happen in the world as the efforts of an all-powerful evil force, because it sands the messy edges off of life and turns everything into the apocalypse. if the world is ending and the nightmare forces of fascism are in the ascendant, then my petty problems don't matter. i'm excused from having to worry about mundane poo poo.

the reality is the government is grossly incompetent because the president is a cataclysmically stupid grifter whose only objective is to steal money and appear on teevee. in the vacuum of leadership this creates a bunch of smaller con artists have stepped into the roles sane administrators would normally play and are taking the opportunity to steal everything not nailed down. meanwhile, faced with a challenge he cannot will into nonexistence, the idiot king is blaming his eternal foe (China) because 1) it worked before and 2) he hasn't learned anything new since 1986.

Chaos and grifter ism is a strategy that both the fascist and neolib wings of the GOP have embraced again and again tho from an accelerationist and captalist crisis perspective respectively it's like the one thing they can agree on

pigz
Jul 12, 2004

Nearly as overlooked as Joe Mauer

Skypie posted:

hey remember how it was only like 4 months ago that TRUMP had a foreign general assassinated

probably saved that guy from having to drown in his own lung juice. But Drone Assassination isn't really an honorable death

Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy

moist turtleneck posted:

lol just lol at people in cspam acting like cspam isn't just a place to complain about stuff

This is also a place to reminisce, like that time Sean Spicer was caught hiding in the bushes from reporters

Woofer
Mar 2, 2020

Mons Hubris posted:

I still don't understand where you're getting this from, war with China would be a massive disaster and the military has to know this

China had an internal memo leaked that told them to get ready for armed conflict with the US.

our government is blaming China for a bio weapon on a regular basis.

these dots aren’t hard to connect, even if they don’t really mean anything.

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


chuds don't actually crave death, their religion is self-worship and their highest sacrament is being waited on by their inferiors. that's why they want to go to restaurants... the service industry is heavily minority and chuds get a thrill out of being served by a nonwhite person. the food itself is strictly secondary. war with china is absolutely not even remotely on the table, because the actual people in charge of america know that it would be tremendously bad for profits-- as lucrative as war is when it's a one-sided slaughter of people far away in poor countries, any war that touches the american homeland or disrupts international trade would annihilate these people's wealth overnight.

Marx Headroom
May 10, 2007

AT LAST! A show with nonono commercials!
Fallen Rib

shovelbum posted:

Remember yellowcake? This, China virus, Asian hornet coverage wall to wall

they always do the red scare thing. before hornets it was huawei. before that the islands. also we've been in a trade war with them for years now. china scary is not an alarming new pandemic development.

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Woofer posted:

China had an internal memo leaked that told them to get ready for armed conflict with the US.

our government is blaming China for a bio weapon on a regular basis.

these dots aren’t hard to connect, even if they don’t really mean anything.

Hm I guess I "missed the memo" on the first one

We would get our assses crushed though

Rip Testes
Jan 29, 2004

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
It's our patriotic duty to have sweet teas and chicken fried chicken at the nearest Cracker Barrel.

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

moist turtleneck posted:

lol just lol at people in cspam acting like cspam isn't just a place to complain about stuff

Dont let the content t police get you down, post post post

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

Mons Hubris posted:

Hm I guess I "missed the memo" on the first one

We would get our assses crushed though

Yeah it would be mutual annihilation in a full scale war, they'd lose everything and we'd get away with like losing uh, 85% of our population if my napkin math is correct

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Dont let the content t police get you down, post post post

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

shovelbum posted:

Remember yellowcake? This, China virus, Asian hornet coverage wall to wall

pigz
Jul 12, 2004

Nearly as overlooked as Joe Mauer

Mons Hubris posted:

I still don't understand where you're getting this from, war with China would be a massive disaster and the military has to know this

The military would seemingly know that not preparing for a pandemic would be a massive disaster and well they didn't prepare.

It's almost as if the military are supposed to listen to the dumb motherfuckers at the top. And those dumb motherfuckers don't even listen to experts on poo poo they don't know at all, you think they are going listen on military matters? Most GOP politicians think they are strategic geniuses.

NofrikinfuN
Apr 23, 2009


having a giggle over the mouth breathers at those protests blaming socialism for their capitalism-imposed issues with ordering their triple cheeseburgers

the reason that capitalism isnt working is because socialism would be worse!

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
Cspam armchair generalling the guaranteed upcoming glorious people's March to DC.

Gringostar
Nov 12, 2016
Morbid Hound
goons in this thread enforcing lockdown


https://i.imgur.com/OVmuMmJ.mp4

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

pigz posted:

The military would seemingly know that not preparing for a pandemic would be a massive disaster and well they didn't prepare.

It's almost as if the military are supposed to listen to the dumb motherfuckers at the top. And those dumb motherfuckers don't even listen to experts on poo poo they don't know at all, you think they are going listen on military matters? Most GOP politicians think they are strategic geniuses.

gently caress, most GOP politicians think they are here to usher in the end times so Jesus can whisk them away to their eternal paradise

they are all loving psychopaths

Woofer
Mar 2, 2020

remember when trump tweeter LOW T or BIG D or whatever it was and we were all like “wow how can this guy get any zanier????”

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord
I can't wait for the only restaurants to survive to be the lovely national chains that chuds love.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

chuds don't actually crave death, their religion is self-worship and their highest sacrament is being waited on by their inferiors. that's why they want to go to restaurants... the service industry is heavily minority and chuds get a thrill out of being served by a nonwhite person. the food itself is strictly secondary. war with china is absolutely not even remotely on the table, because the actual people in charge of america know that it would be tremendously bad for profits-- as lucrative as war is when it's a one-sided slaughter of people far away in poor countries, any war that touches the american homeland or disrupts international trade would annihilate these people's wealth overnight.

yeah an actual shooting war would be bad for profits but a little sinophobia is probably good enough for a couple more carrier strike groups to "keep china in line", which should be enough to tide the mic over for a bit

facetoucher cat
Dec 20, 2013

by sebmojo

snoo posted:

don't listen to this person, facetoucher

they're gonna come up to your tent in the middle of the night and cough in it

*discharges bear spray as if i was a skunk*

*finds out cure for coronavirus is bear spray to the face*

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


shovelbum posted:

Chaos and grifter ism is a strategy that both the fascist and neolib wings of the GOP have embraced again and again tho from an accelerationist and captalist crisis perspective respectively it's like the one thing they can agree on

um yeah but the point is it's unnecessary to invent a grand conspiracy to ethnically cleanse america to predict the observed results when you can predict them just as easily from baseline greed. the two problems with the ethnic cleansing theory are
1) given the drive to reopen it's impossible to isolate poor, black service staff from wealthy white patrons, which would be a necessary component of any of kind of ethnic cleansing scheme
2) if you believe this administration has the foresight and ability to plan to put something like this in place you are absolutely pants on head delusional. leave that poo poo for the louise mensch style grifter libs who believe trump is a 11th dimensional political chess expert for beating saint hillary

the first one is the big one-- we wouldn't be seeing a drive to reopen restaurants and theaters and stuff if the goal was to let the virus kill off poor black people to create a white ethnostate.

no, what's happening is what always happens, which is that provision of services to nonwhites is always so much worse than it is to whites that any crisis that increases demand for services injures the former community way more than the latter. i'm sure richard spencer or w/e is privately toasting the disparate death rates but you can see for yourself what luminaries like hunter wallace are saying-- that it's going to slaughter rural white communities.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Azathoth posted:

yeah an actual shooting war would be bad for profits but a little sinophobia is probably good enough for a couple more carrier strike groups to "keep china in line", which should be enough to tide the mic over for a bit

This is what I'm talking about
No infantry, just drones sniping each other out of the sky
maybe a ship here and there
a base

and then we get the mechs

Crazyweasel
Oct 29, 2006
lazy

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

chuds don't actually crave death, their religion is self-worship and their highest sacrament is being waited on by their inferiors. that's why they want to go to restaurants... the service industry is heavily minority and chuds get a thrill out of being served by a nonwhite person. the food itself is strictly secondary. war with china is absolutely not even remotely on the table, because the actual people in charge of america know that it would be tremendously bad for profits-- as lucrative as war is when it's a one-sided slaughter of people far away in poor countries, any war that touches the american homeland or disrupts international trade would annihilate these people's wealth overnight.

yea my chud in laws who are still working and who we see every weekend in social distancing walks around the neighborhood are still passive aggressively saying prayers that they get to hold their grandchildren soon because the pain of not being able to hold and kiss them is just so insurmountable

my brother in laws chud parents are now convinced this is deep state Fauci

my parents think it will disappear and ???? are profiting (???? being somehow liberals, maybe minorities? who knows, definitely not older white people)

other than I do love my parents for raising me, I’m not really sure what the boomers have to offer except death crew at this time

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003


That guy with the huge sign in the back has to be a closeted incel

NofrikinfuN
Apr 23, 2009


facetoucher cat posted:

*discharges bear spray as if i was a skunk*

*finds out cure for coronavirus is bear spray to the face*

if you think about it, no cases have been reported among bears

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

The_Franz posted:

That guy with the huge sign in the back has to be a closeted incel

Yup

facetoucher cat
Dec 20, 2013

by sebmojo
https://twitter.com/laurawags/status/1257295227800485888

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WorldsStongestNerd
Apr 28, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Mons Hubris posted:

I still don't understand where you're getting this from, war with China would be a massive disaster and the military has to know this

Huh. I didn't know our military could accurately predict the outcome of conflicts and would try to avoid pointless disasters.

So what went wrong in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, ect ect?

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