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BrokenGameboy posted:Any idea on what happens to Colorado yet? I think we're likely to end up with California willingly or not, because of the Colorado River being their major source of water. Either that or forcibly inducted into Deseret.
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What happens to Hawaii? I think that if balk happens the WSP will need to draw Hawaii into its union or sphere of influence. Losing a toehold on Hawaii means losing a vital "natural aircraft carrier" for exerting control over the Pacific. At the very least, the WSP will have to try extremely hard not to let Hawaii go loyalist lest there be a Federal (or whatever other union) friendly bastion from which to project power.
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DrSunshine posted:What happens to Hawaii? I think that if balk happens the WSP will need to draw Hawaii into its union or sphere of influence. Losing a toehold on Hawaii means losing a vital "natural aircraft carrier" for exerting control over the Pacific. At the very least, the WSP will have to try extremely hard not to let Hawaii go loyalist lest there be a Federal (or whatever other union) friendly bastion from which to project power. hawaii either starves to death or remains californias bitch
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animist posted:when the emperor died the Incas would keep his body around and treat it like it was alive. Like, fanning it, bringing it food, taking it to events, holding court. dead emperors' households -- their wives and servants and retainers -- would continue to have political clout. By the time of the Spanish conquest there were 12 or 13 dead emperors vying for control in Cusco. It was basically Weekend at Bernie's: the civilization. The dead Incas continued to have actual wealth and retainers that "spoke" for the Inca. The modern US equivalent of this probably is organizations like the Ford Foundation or Rockefeller Foundation, that use the founding robber baron's wealth to continue pursuing the founder's interests long after the founder has died. so in a Balked US, I wonder if the Gates Foundation is going to preserve Bill's body after he dies.
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DrSunshine posted:What happens to Hawaii? I think that if balk happens the WSP will need to draw Hawaii into its union or sphere of influence. Losing a toehold on Hawaii means losing a vital "natural aircraft carrier" for exerting control over the Pacific. At the very least, the WSP will have to try extremely hard not to let Hawaii go loyalist lest there be a Federal (or whatever other union) friendly bastion from which to project power. every alt-history work assumes that Hawaii becomes Japanese-controlled because reasons
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May 11, 2020 01:30
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Hawaii will become a protectorate of Long Chile
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May 11, 2020 01:34
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hawaii will become fractally balked. first each island, then each acre, until each hawaiian is a balk unto themselves
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May 11, 2020 01:50
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haha there’s like an active indigenous resistance movement against a telescope happening right now in hawaii
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May 11, 2020 01:53
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Centrist Committee posted:haha there’s like an active indigenous resistance movement against a telescope happening right now in hawaii Yeah. That's why I'm thinking the optimistic take (which is usually wrong) is that the islands just return to the indigenous people.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:hawaii will become fractally balked. first each island, then each acre, until each hawaiian is a balk unto themselves Restore the Ahupu'a  I visited Hawaii a while back and one of the biggest surprises is the extent to which people agree that reforming land ownership to acommodate capitalism is when it all started going to poo poo
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was it this thread or the general COVID thread with the poster who kept comparing the Hawaiian Kingdom to the Confederate States of American
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Atrocious Joe posted:was it this thread or the general COVID thread with the poster who kept comparing the Hawaiian Kingdom to the Confederate States of American Did the Hawaiians have a slaving culture?
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Thump! posted:Did the Hawaiians have a slaving culture? They had a caste system, the lowest of which was prisoners of war who were arguably treated as slaves. There was also human sacrifice but I dont know how that fits into the bigger picture
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Fuzzy McDoom posted:They had a caste system, the lowest of which was prisoners of war who were arguably treated as slaves. There was also human sacrifice but I dont know how that fits into the bigger picture So essentially the same as the average US state then lmao
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Fuzzy McDoom posted:They had a caste system, the lowest of which was prisoners of war who were arguably treated as slaves. There was also human sacrifice but I dont know how that fits into the bigger picture that sounds more like modern america than the confederacy
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Fuzzy McDoom posted:yeah but the thing is if balkanization happens, south dakota will in no way be on its own. the remnants of empire or the nearest feudatory-corporate state may not give the slightest of fucks about the area in general but they will 100% project their boot onto wherever the pipelines are at.  completely forgot about corporations. Thank you.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:
don’t worry, they won’t forget about you ~*~
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just follow crimson skies balk and also get cool blimps and planes with sky rogues
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Kitfox88 posted:just follow crimson skies balk and also get cool blimps and planes with sky rogues I'm so glad other people played this game. Didn't it come for free on XBox? But the story was such a neat concept. And the flying and tumbling around was so smooth.
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Dumb Lowtax posted:I'm so glad other people played this game. Didn't it come for free on XBox? But the story was such a neat concept. And the flying and tumbling around was so smooth. there was a pc one that was less arcade-y before the xbox one that started you in the royal hawaiian islands and stopping a british attempt to take them over, iirc.  it was a neat setting and they were both super fun, i'm sad the xbox one never got a port
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fermun posted:the western states pact is gonna seize the herlong california tank depot and say that they are using them for military purposes, but secretly they will be working on modifications that turn them into tractors I looked this up. Didn't someone post the field of tanks earlier in this thread? It strikingly reminds me of something else we saw in the news last year: Dumb Lowtax posted:Here's another way Tesla has been a canary in the coal mine: Remember those desert lots full of defective Model 3's? Tesla overproduced them to meet their quarterly estimates, there was no demand for them (or they were returned for low quality), and so Tesla famously hid them in urban parking structures and eventually just sent to huge desert lots to gather dust forever. Happy Thread has issued a correction as of 09:27 on May 11, 2020 |
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So can I just go and offer cash for a tank?
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net work error posted:So can I just go and offer cash for a tank? This is like the opening scene to "Lord of War 2030" starring Nicolas Cage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wce6oSr0M
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Just realized most of my loans/credit cards are based in the Midwest and on east coast. I'm in Washington State. Citibank sending paratroopers behind enemy lines to collect on debts.
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Fuzzy McDoom posted:yeah, about that... every single cop in this picture is obese
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Cow goes MOO. Sheep goes BAA. America goes BALK. 
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:What is success for native Americans, is it killing off everybody in South Dakota or just scaring off enough people to get a good chunk of land? They have a population of 2000 people in South Dakota. there are actually about 70,000 of us in South Dakota per the last census bro, we're almost 10% of the state's population, larger than every other non-white ethnic group combined. if you're just looking at the western half of the state we're almost a quarter of the population the 1870 census is a little out of date Mister Bates has issued a correction as of 20:53 on May 11, 2020 |
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Appreciate Canada trading is Isle Royal, which is full of inbred wolves and lame, in exchange for Manitoulin Island, which is full of indigenous people and cool
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tiberion02 posted:This is like the opening scene to "Lord of War 2030" starring Nicolas Cage. Lord of War was really good.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:hawaii will become fractally balked. first each island, then each acre, until each hawaiian is a balk unto themselves broke: cell membrane woke: cell border (disputed) Atrocious Joe posted:The dead Incas continued to have actual wealth and retainers that "spoke" for the Inca. The modern US equivalent of this probably is organizations like the Ford Foundation or Rockefeller Foundation, that use the founding robber baron's wealth to continue pursuing the founder's interests long after the founder has died. could absolutely see this happening.
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Rutibex posted:every single cop In high school we'd use the same track for cross country/track practice that the local cops and national guard would use for their 'training'. I can't tell whether our coach was an ACAB type (though he was generally irreverent as a high school teacher could be and not get in trouble) or just a tactical genius or what. But he'd schedule the hardest workouts for those days they'd be on the track and we'd just turn them out like automatons without a complaint and none of the usual slacking. We'd get there and our coach would stand there, silent, as we were lapping these fat fucks on an 800 (that's two times around, you basically need to be standing still to get lapped), then dropping, busting out pushups, squats, crunches, meanwhile their instructor screams at them to keep dog-trotting or trying to get them to do a single sit-up over their guts. The whole time staring them down to let them know that, yea, we're the kids they try to catch in the woods on the weekend and we're not impressed and good loving luck. E: to preempt any accusations of bragging, I pretty much sucked. But a skinny 15 year old who at least tries to stay in good cardio shape is going to just absolutely murder your average cop, who is scientifically proven to be a local high school football star who turns out wasn't good enough to go to college stayed in his hometown and let his body go to absolute poo poo because he now had a badge and a gun for intimidation purposes. Anyway, to the topic at hand, I am super glad I and the SO have in--demand skills. Spent the last 4 trying to do some good faith lefty grassroots work but I'm having to admit I think the boat is well sailed. Time to pull a Szilard, beat feet and help whoever wants to give me a passport to chop this shithole up in ten years' time. PipHelix has issued a correction as of 04:32 on May 12, 2020 |
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Mister Bates posted:there are actually about 70,000 of us in South Dakota per the last census bro, we're almost 10% of the state's population, larger than every other non-white ethnic group combined. if you're just looking at the western half of the state we're almost a quarter of the population Yeah I hosed up and got it wrong. I looked at up Wikipedia for information and thought "live births" were population totals. My fault. hosed up. Sorry I was wrong. I looked at that first spreadsheet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Dakota
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PipHelix posted:In high school we'd use the same track for cross country/track practice that the local cops and national guard would use for their 'training'. I can't tell whether our coach was an ACAB type (though he was generally irreverent as a high school teacher could be and not get in trouble) or just a tactical genius or what. But he'd schedule the hardest workouts for those days they'd be on the track and we'd just turn them out like automatons without a complaint and none of the usual slacking. I wish I could favorite/retweet this post
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Dumb Lowtax posted:I wish I could favorite/retweet this post The closest I've ever come to being Ivan Drago mechanically murdering a heavy bag, except I was an insufferably shy 5'8" 130lbs, and these Pillsbury cinnamon rolls of men supposedly had a license to kill/were gonna save us from Al Qaeda.
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gently caress yeah, I'll fight for the Republic of Wawa. Never seen a Wegmans tho lmao
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