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Strange Poon posted:2040 won't just have the East Coast underwater, we're looking at increasingly awful catastrophes that may not cause civilization to collapse but will definitely be seized on by the right wing to ramp up the fascism. I think the long game is favoring the left but we unfortunately do not have a lot of time. On this topic I've been thinking. One the one hand, social collapse in other countries leading to mass refugees is definitely gonna favor the right wing. But outright natural disaster stuff will require the country to be much more centralized with relief and planning, really a communal matter. And this favors the left. It does not bode well for America's libertarian brain worms. If we can fight off the fascist poo poo I think there are silver linings in facing off with this crap.
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cheetah7071 posted:My model is the bronze age collapse here. Lower population, people spending more time surviving and less time making trade goods, a collapse of the governmental systems that kept things safe and encouraged trade, and refugee armies making travel unsafe. Why the hell are you trying to compare now to the Bronze Age.
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Nov 8, 2018 01:28
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Conspiratiorist posted:You hit Miami with a massive hurricane, insurance primes skyrocket between risk assessments from further increased-intensity hurricanes and revised SLR projections, and capital just up and flees the state since it'd happen in the context of an existing global economic crisis. No rebuilding, no effective mitigation measures taken - the money goes where it's safer. Bad as that sounds, isn't this just essentially a Sun Belt equivalent to the collapse of Rust Belt states? Is it really so unprecedented?
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Nov 8, 2018 01:33
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Oxxidation posted:see you in 2020! Hey cool, you're an enormous piece of poo poo. 
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Nov 8, 2018 01:38
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Lightning Knight posted:I queued a week for this by the way, don't do garbage like this. Should have made it two years lol.
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Nov 8, 2018 02:06
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Strange Poon posted:I'm kind of all over the place on it -- that is to say I don't disagree with you, and I may be comparing Apples to Oranges, but after living through 9/11 I'm not personally thrilled on counting the country to come together after or in the face of disaster. There's a huge difference between a catastrophic terrorist attack, and the cold uncaring wrath of nature. We could't come together after 9-11 because the idiots in the country wanted to mindlessly go bugfuck with missiles and troops and racism. Hurricanes and stuff like that are brutally simple by comparison.
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Nov 8, 2018 02:09
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Mummy Xzibit posted:I love that there are still people in this thread that find Trump to be more politically intelligent than X. Trump will create a scenario to get the Democrats infighting. Then he will promptly lose his temper with his own creation and spend several news cycles clashing with it. By the end he will have forgotten he made it up.
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Nov 8, 2018 02:25
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Blind Rasputin posted:Jim Acosta is the Tami Lahren of the liberal side and he purposefully seeks out these confrontations so he can whine about them in the spotlight later that evening on CNN. I totally disagree with the WH blocking a reporter’s access, but Acosta is an anansi boy. What a dumb goddamn post.
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Nov 8, 2018 02:35
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Kale posted:https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/trump-sessions-russia-investigation-mueller/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F lol saw that earlier on their front page and refused to click on it. Gosh can't believe the author!
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Nov 8, 2018 04:02
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Nov 8, 2018 04:04
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Majorian posted:Yesssss! Magnificent. What a bad, bad person. I might have jumped the gun as I don't think it's official yet. But it looks to be soon.
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Nov 8, 2018 04:10
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Social Studies 3rd Period posted:https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1060374680991883265 Well yeah, that weird lady just came up out of nowhere and started harassing that guy.
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Nov 8, 2018 04:44
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Minenfeld! posted:I don't get what I'm supposed to be seeing here. She's taking his microphone? For a couple seconds he makes physical contact with someone trying to rip something out of his hand, therefore he is a monstrous woman batterer.
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Nov 8, 2018 04:49
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TulliusCicero posted:"Sharia law is so horrible! They are swearing on a book they consider holy, and they enforce laws based on religion" Lots of these people go outside to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and likewise think ridiculous things about urban America.
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Nov 8, 2018 05:16
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Bullfrog posted:Does loomer live in MN now? She's getting ready to star as the obligatory pathetic doomed protagonist of the fourth season of Fargo.
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Nov 8, 2018 05:20
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SourKraut posted:It’s not going to change to Sinema. McSally won. OK guess I'll ignore 538 and listen to you, random confidently depressed goon #583.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:sorry, friend. i legit had one yesterday because i stared into the abyss for too long on this thread plus the discord D&D chat. but i talked to a professor at my old college and it helped me a ton, plus just taking a break with pets. I was at work (High School) and was just sort of hit with this zen feeling that the kids are alright. That maybe part of my bouts of unhappiness are some sort of generational ego of hoping we would be living and making a more beautiful world in our prime. And that naw, that was never very realistic, and was wrapped up in a sort of arrogance. And that one beautiful day we will be the old people, and if we're the worst society has to deal with well that can't really be a very bad future. Hell of a lot better than the boomer gerontocracy we are trudging through little by little. They will all be dead in several decades. Turns out utopia will not happened now, because of millennials or whatever, it was a silly thing to hope on. And the kids, the kids are alright. Our job I guess is to push through the Boomer winter, and fight those bastards every step of their march into the grave. And it will be ugly and dirty and people will suffer, because that's what happens in wars. That's our duty. That's a pretty good fight to fight. And coming back to the zen feeling? This is important to mentally fit yourself into. But we shouldn't do it for ourselves, our time in the spotlight as sucked after all. Too late on that account. Do it for Gen Z, and for whatever the hell the current little kids will go on to be called. We're progressives drat it, we're supposed to be future minded. Not wallowing in the present.
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Zeno-25 posted:
Go jerk off to your kid killing guerilla dress up games somewhere else, the adults are talking itt.
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Nov 8, 2018 21:26
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Dapper_Swindler posted:whats up with all these weird conservative dudes being theater college kids growing up and than trying pretend to be working blue collar types. Like i get its a scam/grift/etc. but i feel like its some jungian thing. Chuddy suburban white guys are almost universally like that. I always lol at seeing shiny pickup trucks that have never seen a day's work driving around my dense NY metro area burbs. You know precisely the sort of guy who owns them just by looking.
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Nov 8, 2018 21:39
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Ash Crimson posted:america is like the ming empire turning inwards upon itself and going into stagnation and decay Are you thinking of the Qing?
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Nov 8, 2018 22:19
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twice burned ice posted:https://twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS/status/1060646927958765568 Where are people finding white Christians in the middle east.
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Nov 8, 2018 22:43
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Majorian posted:There are fair-skinned, fair-haired people in Iran. Tons of people in the (upper) Middle East are a lot lighter than folks tend to assume, like Italian/Greek white easily (fair hair not so much). Though lol no German/English white except for extreme outliers. Nothing about that has to do with what religion anyone is. And plenty of those people would and could pass as light skinned latino/as (not Mexicans maybe, but others certainly). So making some specifically racial distinction between them and latin immigrants just feels strange and off to me. Basically looking like a Maronite Christian is gonna probably still make midwesterners report them on airplanes for being Mozlams.
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Nov 8, 2018 22:55
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Majorian posted:Circassians often have fair hair. They're from the North Caucasus slopes, they're Europeans. 
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Nov 8, 2018 23:02
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Majorian posted:A lot of them live in Iran (and the broader Middle East), though, is my point. Yeah cuz the Russians genocided the crap out of them like 150 years ago and sent the survivors running south in every direction. They're not really indigenous of the area, they're descendents of recentish refugees.
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Nov 8, 2018 23:10
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My dream is Mitt running independent as a spoiler candidate.
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Nov 9, 2018 00:19
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twice burned ice posted:Saying this guy looks like a thumb would be an insult to thumbs He's more penis than thumb.
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Nov 9, 2018 00:58
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farraday posted:As a word of warning there's still a lot of votes in AZ apparently, so this expect more movement and don't be surprised if Sinema ends up behind again. From what I recall though Maricopa wasn't the hope spot, and that is what this count comes from.
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Blood Libel posted:Bernie endorsed Gillum: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/01/bernie-sanders-endorses-andrew-gillum-florida-governor/878166002/ lol "gently caress anything and everything that might possibly besmirch this one dude." You absolute moron. Grape fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Fojar38 posted:Us super-online folks have a tendency to drastically overestimate the average education level of your typical voter. Yes, knowing basic geography is in fact not a universal intellectual asset even with everyone having access to a database containing the sum total of human knowledge. It's such a simple concept though, like a smart uneducated person can still grasp it quickly. Like nothing more simple than "In some places there are more people than other places." These are furiously stupid people.
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Nov 9, 2018 02:28
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Skippy McPants posted:MORE RED MEANS MORE WINNING! That still requires being fundamentally stupid! Even an illiterate dirt farmer can comprehend "boy there are not so many folks here in the country, and lots over in that city."
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Nov 9, 2018 02:40
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corn in the bible posted:yeah they watch twitch and youtube and use instagram The kids are alright Corny.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:'Demographics are destiny' has always been an excuse for the Democrats to offer nothing to anyone but their donors. Welp you caught us red-handed, we're the DNC. Foiled again by detective Ace Hotshot over here. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sweeper posted:where's that dipshit telling everyone maricopa wasn't going to help the dem He graciously recanted. Be nice.
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Nov 10, 2018 01:05
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:The artists too: lol that top guy is just Sessions with hair dye
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Nov 10, 2018 01:54
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Condiv posted:i just don't understand what possesses a democrat to play a song with their racist opponent A Vermont republican is probably more of a democrat than most red state dems.
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Nov 10, 2018 02:44
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Furnaceface posted:Do Maine. Despite being right on the border to Canada I still know less about it than pretty much any other state. Do you know what New England is? It's the backwoods of that.
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Nov 10, 2018 03:26
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Tibalt posted:Maine: the muse of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft Lovecraft was a Rhode Islander. And his muse were all the various horrifying white-ethnics moving into southern New England lol.
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Kale posted:The problem with Chris Cillizza isn't that he's disagreeable, it's that his "analysis" is the absolute bare minimum to say you are kind of doing your job so you can stay in a position drivel. It's always the most absolute bleedingly loving obvious to even the dumbest most ignorant poo poo in the world "journalism". If you have even a fraction of a brain you can figure out just about anything he's tasked to "analyze" for yourself and probably a few more things on top of it in short order just by looking at the world around you for a few seconds. He's just the most useless and lazy loving pundit I've literally ever seen color commentary or otherwise. I dunno, I feel like what makes him suck is he writes/talks about politics like he's on ESPN. Which is extra loving disgusting and infuriating when it's stuff where people are being hosed and/or dying. Stuff like "HUGE win for the Elephants on Child Prison issue!", "Trump runs up the score on Muslim ban court decisions!". He's definitely dumb and shallow of course. He's kind of like Wolf Blitzer on cocaine. Which is awful.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i think like trump that hannity is as dumb as his audience (i think he went straight from construction to talk radio). Yeah I second this notion. He has always been high on his own supply.
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