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the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
She's a total mess and no one in her right mind should listen to anything she says. A family member of mine who has worked on some essentially revolutionary networking poo poo later applied for a job at google and didn't get it. But this headcase is good to go for them. hosed up

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the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

The Taint Reaper posted:

Referring to her as a dude sends her off the deep edge.

She didn't get the memo that dudette went out with the old ninja Turtles and dude is word that knows no gender.

So saying dude chill infact makes him not chill.

a spade that doesn't want to be called a spade

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

SPACE HOMOS posted:

You can't fire me for being drunk on the job because I have alcoholism and its a DISEASE! You can't fire me for being sick!

don't drunk incompetent shame

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

skeletonotherkin posted:

"The place of the permanent armies as we know them will gradually be taken by professional forces of volunteer war-keen soldiers; and from millions we shall revert to hundreds of thousands. But ipso facto this second century will be one of actually Contending States. These armies are not substitutes for war---they are for war, and they want war. Within two generations it will be they whose will prevails over all the comfortables put together. In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be staked---India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam called out, new technics and tactics played and counter-played.... The last race to keep its form, the last living tradition, the last leaders who have both at their back, will pass through and onward, victors."

I'd hate to serious post in GBS, but I'm curious about something, and I'm too dumb for D&D. Is it just me or does Spengler seriously downplay the transformative power of technology? I don't really see how a new warrior aristocracy would even function in a world were war is increasingly mechanized, and the human element is gradually being reduced. Nevermind the fact that he was unable to take into account something like nuclear deterrence.

Um this has already happened

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

skeletonotherkin posted:

I guess I don't :/, It just seems to me that the situation hes describing would ultimately result in nuclear war.


Hes describing the mid 20th century then?

hes describing professional, all volunteer armies. all major powers in the world at present are all volunteer. there are only a few countries in europe left with a draft i believe, or none. and the inevitable military worship and benefits for military members thing that happens cause they willingly put their life on the line and all that. it's still happening and is going to continue, until the next major world war if there will be one.

but i think his last sentence is just idealistic and will never happen. and i don't think it was culture clash that caused any of the above to happen, just raw production capacity and industrial efficiency. don't need much culture to field an effective army.

and yea he was partly wrong because nukes but he was right because the threat of military power throughout the 20th century allowed economic warfare and covert operations to make all the gains that the military would have done. and in the rare occurences where it couldn't, the major powers did send their military in to stake their territorial claims etc.

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

skeletonotherkin posted:

Thank you, also sorry about being a dick to you in previous threads.

your name looks familiar but i don't remember why. i guess you didn't make it on my internal poo poo list. my criteria is you have to be both dumb and mean. dumb doesn't cut it because that implies humility and a willingness to change, and mean doesn't cut it because it can be funny and/or necessary and implies intelligence more often than not cause its confident, but dumb and mean is the worst and i hate it. failing to understand and being an rear end about it. so you're probably an alright poster idk. not dumb or mean in my shitposting estimation.

edit now i see..nah man those posts were fine. i dunno why i'm saying all this but i just want to make it clear that i personally don't mind if someone disagrees with me meanly but intelligently. i think everyone should be that way. idk.

and reading that thread you are talking about, i realize Agag made some good posts in there so maybe i shouldn't hate on them as hard as i was yesterday. i have a very short memory, and i also had a bad day yesterday though.

and if you are apologizing because you thought i was an idiot before but you see i actually think things through now, that's cool, but if you feel bad and think i'm still an idiot you don't have to. stick to your guns. don't apologize. (i am dealing with a similar situation in my family life as part of the many troubles and so this is what i am thinking about i guess)

the worst thing is fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Nov 10, 2014

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

skeletonotherkin posted:

I never thought you were stupid and your obviously more well read than I am. I think I was giving you grief for being one of the people debating nihilist philosophy in a thread about the glory of giving up and drinking beer while wearing sweat pants?

oh lol, i only checked the posts in the liberal thread you made in your post history. yea that thread got ridiculous. but i'll take any amount of flack to talk about what's important to me. no one gives a poo poo day to day and on the internet i can say everything i want to say without getting interrupted or the subject getting changed. this is why people write books i guess, but i'm just not that smart yet. takes a lot of ideas to write a book

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Gammatron 64 posted:

people get fired from posting controversial poo poo on facebook all the time. Doesn't have to even be terrible opinions, if they differ from your boss, consider yourself fired if you're in a right to work state. The fact that she's in California and probably works for similar libertarian douche nozzles is likely why her rear end hasn't been thrown out the door. The fact that she says she represent google and constantly name drops them makes me surprised she hasn't been sacked yet, though. You never talk about work on social media.

she's in new york. still bad though

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the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

anchoress posted:

the phrase "top twitter tranny" is my greatest contribution to the forums

agreed. whats your avatar about by the way

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