Prelude to the Apocalypse

[quash]

https://amp.usatoday.com/story/853131001/

Since we can't bring back the draft without riots in the streets, we're doing the next best thing. Can't wait for my bipolar battle buddy to have a heroin withdrawal and convulse so badly that his hatchet man tattoo looks like it's doing the worm.

[Mischief Maker]

Out of curiosity, what is the victory condition in Afghanistan?

[BryanM]

Secure the infrastructure to extract the minerals and vespene gas. As soon as those supply lines are safe without requiring our ground troops, we'll have won.

We'll still keep troops there because it's profitable to the donors, but they won't see any engagements. The ideal is to turn it into a vacation spot like most bases in foreign countries are. As a bonus, it'll probably keep the hazard bonus for troops despite being fairly safe, like a deployment to the UAE is.

That's the dream. I don't see how it'll be possible any time soon without a brutal, effective, and loyal crony Afghan government to do it for us.

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Wasn't that predictable how fast Liz and Donna had their brains "corrected" after speaking out loud that the coronation was a coronation? What was incredible is they had the guts to say so in the first place.

Weiner going to jail experienced one of the better outcomes for those who cross the powers that be.

[Mischief Maker]

I am deeply disappointed with Wikileaks.

I thought you fucks were a force for good, once upon a time.

“Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” WikiLeaks wrote on October 21, 2016. “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” WikiLeaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and WikiLeaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trump’s tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time “through the most biased source (e.g. NYT/MSNBC).”

It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” WikiLeaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.” It then provided an email address and link where the Trump campaign could send the tax returns, and adds, “The same for any other negative stuff (documents, recordings) that you think has a decent chance of coming out. Let us put it out.”

Trump Jr. did not respond to this message.

What the fuck was Assange hoping to accomplish?

“Hi Don. Hope you’re doing well!” WikiLeaks wrote on December 16 to Trump Jr., who was by then the son of the president-elect. “In relation to Mr. Assange: Obama/Clinton placed pressure on Sweden, UK and Australia (his home country) to illicitly go after Mr. Assange. It would be real easy and helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to [Washington,] DC.”

At least there's endless schadenfreude to be had whenever you see someone sticking their neck out to help Trump and expecting him or his family to return the favor after they're no longer useful to him.

[nosorrow]

Confirmation bias. You hate Wikileaks now because of it. For you, it would be a force for good only if it were confirming your alt-left talking points. You're deluding yourself, and need a red pill badly.

[BryanM]

Assange put out some weird tweets against the protestors against the people holding the "free speech" rally. On one hand, yes they're using a framing on a possible informant that would be more effective at extracting material, on the other, they're a bit delusional, yes. More information is always for the better good.

I've been meaning to look at annual mortality rates to see how many supreme court justices would have dropped like flies after Clinton would have lost in 2020.

Don't worry, we'll get that constitutional convention that gets all of us put into Elon cubes soon anyway.

alt-left

The fuck is an "alt-left"? Someone who doesn't like having banks rule our country? Someone who doesn't want to waste our money on killing poor people for no material gain for the average citizen?

Isn't that just... "the left"?

Just like how your Goldman-Sachism is just "the right"?

[Rob]

The fuck is an "alt-left"?

Google image search is there for us.

Don't worry, we'll get that constitutional convention that gets all of us put into Elon cubes soon anyway.

As soon as we get the third world majority alt-leftists are aiming for, yeah, for sure.

[BryanM]

"Alt" means "alternative". "Alternative" means "different".

Right-wingers Merkel and Trudeau are in power. Right now. They are the very definition of the corporate "establishment".

How on earth is it possible for anyone to be this stupid? Words have objective definitions. It isn't hard, wordcucks.

[jonny5]

[Durandal]

you can't fight memes with memes

[Mischief Maker]

I thought alt-left was coined by Clinton supporters to describe sexist bernie bros fueled by toxic levels of masculinity.

It's funny that most of Trump's most enduring phrases, like "fake news," were all stolen from a woman much smarter than him.

[Xyga]

Can't be. Still don't get it Bryan? Let me help you with a summary "previously on shmupsfarm" (I don't use shmupsfront or shmupsreich anymore because it got old already, what about shmupSS ? )

Because everyone not agreeing with race, religion and conspiracy obessed paranoid bigot internet trolls striving for an all-white-west of furiously nationalist states engaging in eternal pissing contests for a model of society = leftist cucks.
Even the few (endangered) non-crazy conservatives, even the most randian capitalist vampires; all commies. islam terror lovers. abandoning whites wombs to big black cocks.
Basically democracy is marxist, every non-furiously (right-wing) authoritarian form of state is marxist, any form of social struggle is unjustified and marxist, Enlightenment was marxist, the idea of human rights too of course humanity is for pussies, not living with exacerbated mindless prejudice as one's understanding of the world is marxist, your fucking hamster is antifa and a cuck and he will dye his fur pink and suicide-bomb itself in your bedroom because of your sexual misconduct. also because he's inspired by marx who sends his radical islamic vibes from Hell.
And by the way commies had invented the time machine. yeah that explains everyting. get a clue bluepilled socialist.

How on earth is it possible for anyone to be this stupid?

Enter the 'alt-right', nothing alternative at all, just a poor name rebranding of ye olde far-right sensitivities and its array of abysmally regressive religious and cultural nazism themes, like biological ranked stratification of human worth by outdated newspaper-level pseudo-science, glorification of deviant darwinism a la dog-eat-dog, glorification of authoritarian leaders and nationalism, Gott mit Uns!, a passion for the black-on-blondes tag on pornhub, and generalized socipathology with sides of self-hate inferiority complex, perverse narcissism, compulsive hypocrysy, and paranoia.
And of course, allowed to troll the shit out of your favourite community daily by the holy powers of internet anonymity and moderation complicity serving the 'disgust the normies so they leave' strategy because imposing far-right diarrhea to the entire forums using the 'freedom of speech' alibi makes them better than antique authoritarian neogaf-and-alike banhammer abusers (boo violent leftists oppressing peaceful nazis everywhere!). Fuck all those marxist normies that still dare log in on shmupsfarm. Or, wait..in fact the many nazi troll-piggus of the farm need to eat too, and keeping a few marxist normies around serves as the perfect alibi for fake fairness too, plus it's fun to torment them while they squeel in powerlessness. It's more fun than just happily share all the things we like in an harmonious on-topic quality community.

No worries, "this is fine" eh?

[Rob]

Right-wingers Merkel and Trudeau are in power. Right now. They are the very definition of the corporate "establishment".

This is exactly it: the basic feature of the alt-left is the honest belief that they're raging against the machine when their views are being enforced by the machine they're raging against. You can relax. Corporations are on your side. Goldman Sachs CEO: We don't support Trump's immigration order. Just have to wait a bit longer for the demographics to flip in your favor and our remaining freedoms will be voted away unthinkingly. I'm sure you'll get UBI, free speech and gun bans and all of that - the government will be your sole protector and provider. You can be completely dependent once and for all.

[Giest118]

keeping a few marxist normies around serves as the perfect alibi for fake fairness

So both left-wingers and right-wingers can express their opinions.

And you think this state of affairs is nazis.

[jonny5]

you can't fight memes with memes

I dunno man...

[Xyga]

keeping a few marxist normies around serves as the perfect alibi for fake fairness

So both left-wingers and right-wingers can express their opinions.

And you think this state of affairs is nazis.

You really are a remarkable cretin. Left and right are the normies constantly mocked here. The gang of community-favoured far-right assholes on the other hand have a special status here, plus peabrained sheep followers like you to assist. And there's what's left of us who don't want all that racist and fascist shit rubbed in our faces every time we visit, wasting out time being disgusted by those cunts and trying to fight back their ideological diarrhea, knowing well we're trolled and this community stinks but it's the damn convenient hypocryte rule of it.
Are you really trying like them to twist the political and ideological spectrum in pitiful attempts to hide and refute what they are ? because you fail. All of you do but you suck hard.
So let's stay on the topic of twisting the shit out of the happy theatre of degeneracy, where were we, ah yes;

. angry tan men with guns want to build a racist religious authoritarian country: bad! them, liberals SJW and capitalists conspire together to destroy superior aryan civilization

. angry white men with guns want to build a racist religious authoritarian country: good! welcome to shmupsfarm saviors! here's your tinfoil hat. yet another 'normal' video games community and not a crypto far-right lair at all. no no no.

wait wait wait...why don't we invite some radical islamists to join the discussions here? it's freedom of speech after all!
our ubermenschen piggies should have a lot of things to share with them, like...practically everything actually, just switch the color, cuntries, and god's name and it's like playing mirror game.
ah sheesh I forgot they're an inferior race, it's true because I read it here on shmups.system11, the rules allow it, so well logically there must be an automatic mudraces detector forcing them to pass an IQ test before creating an account.

[Rob]

And there's what's left of us who don't want all that racist and fascist shit rubbed in our faces every time we visit,

I don't like your counter-reality, civilization-destroying egalitarianism, but hey - haven't seen anyone throwing a fit and calling you hurtful names. No 'favoritism' needed or asked for.

angry tan men with guns want to build a racist religious authoritarian country: bad!

You got really confused at some point. I do not care what Muslims in Muslim countries do if they keep it there. It's not my business. I (and I imagine most people here) want our government to stay out of their affairs, but of course our government doesn't represent us. I'm sure everyone has their left or right-wing theories why that is.

[Giest118]

blah

You know, I should probably ask how your particular flavor of discourse is supposed to help anything. Every single post you write is a furious maelstrom of confused whining alluding to all these hideous mass-murdering sociopaths that are prowling the forums. So prevalent are these racist nazi THUGS that I have yet to actually see a post written by one. I do see a lot of posts accusing people to being racist nazi thugs though. I see a lot of posts claiming that the mods are totally secret nazis who want the nazis to take over the forums. I see a lot of posts claiming that use of bell curve diagrams as an illustrative tool is nazi propaganda. I see a lot of posts that conflate the concepts of hatred and observation.

Man, the bar isn't very high to be a nazi these days. Used to be that you had to violently suppress all dissent and plan to murder millions of people; now all you've gotta do is day some bullshit on the internet.

[BryanM]

Eh, there has been around four nazis in this thread. Like everything, it's a loaded term overused to the point of losing all meaning. Like "terrorist", and (apparently???) "weaboo". Nazis were people too, and around 20% of any population shares their ideology to a moderate to extreme extent. To dismiss the idea that there are similar people alive today dehumanizes the German people.

The people I know in real life that are like this are very, very depressed people. They hate modern society (really because they're not teenagers hanging out with their friends at the drive-in every Saturday night, not because they have to glance at a Mexican at a Wal-Mart for two minutes out of a month), they're divorced or in a sexless marriage with someone they're not attracted to anymore (if their wiener worked at all, which it doesn't) or their spouse is dead, their kids are distant-effectively gone from their lives, and they see all the trophies "their team" won such as the General Lee statue being taken down. This is the reward they've earned from being a wage cow all their lives. They did everything they were told was right, and this is all they get at the end of their lives.

Not to excuse their embrace of scapegoating, but if your life is shit, it's a very human impulse to want to make other people's life shit, too.

[quash]

The fuck is an "alt-left"? Someone who doesn't like having banks rule our country?

Maybe my ears are a little too good, but this sounds like a dog whistle to me.

[Rob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0VDjtvDKI

[ED-057]

So I hear the long-anticipated tax cuts have just passed the House. But will they pass the Senate?

Which do Senators love more? Making Trump look useless and themselves look reasonable by comparison, or some crispity crunchity, peanut buttery TAX CUTS?

[Zen]

You know, I should probably ask how your particular flavor of discourse is supposed to help anything.

"Exit strategy"

If you will permit, I will take a stab at answering your question, Giest118.

My very fear friend , Xgya is experiencing an existential crisis of, what he feels, is catastrophic disenfranchisement. To wit, that there is an enormous "Nazi" plot on the farm.
He worries this may lead to him being unable to tolerate the emergent farm imperium and so, leaving.
But he does not want to go gently and to this end has hatched a cunning plan to both "bash the fash" and more importantly, save face.

It goes something like this;
Personally attack, insult an libel "Nazi" farmers. Nove forward by implying "staff" are facilitating the putsch, implying that this same staff are crypto Nazis.
If this still does not work, hint that the whole damn thing, from the top down is online Nazi real estate.

(I don't use shmupsfront or shmupsreich anymore because it got old already, what about shmupSS ? )

You can clearly see the progression here.

to, one post later (emphasis mine):

ah sheesh I forgot they're an inferior race, it's true because I read it here on shmups.system11, the rules allow it, so well logically there must be an automatic mudraces detector forcing them to pass an IQ test before creating an account.

If successful, the plan would ensure censure following such atrocious behaviour. Allowing our beloved Xgya a glorious "NAZIS CONFIRMED!" death scene with confirmation bias intactus.

So, there you have it.
The solution? We should love and cherish our shmup's farm confederate unconditionally! Because he is, how can I put it, . . . . mad

[BulletMagnet]

Which do Senators love more? Making Trump look useless and themselves look reasonable by comparison, or some crispity crunchity, peanut buttery TAX CUTS?

One option will get them primaried out of office as the yeaahhhh fuck youuuu yeaaaahhh crowd continues its quest to feed itself alive to the billionaires, the other is the only reason the party exists, results be damned. Place your bets.

[Mischief Maker]

You know, holding my nose and voting for Hillary was a lot less nauseating than calling Ron Johnson and leaving him an "attaboy" voicemail for his opposition to this "Sam Brownback's Kansas 2.0" tax bill.

[BryanM]

Looks like ISIS has lost its last bit of significant territory.

Funny how that isn't a big news story. Almost like there's some kind of agenda being pushed..

[EmperorIng]

You would think there would be some big media push when its self-styled capital fell a month ago or so... It's very strange. What could be more important than the defeat of radical Islamic terrorism?

[Rob]

Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United States by July 2019 or face deportation.

The decision set off immediate dismay among Haitian communities in South Florida, New York and beyond, and was a signal to other foreigners with temporary protections that they, too, could soon be asked to leave.

And they get an additional 1.5 years to pack up and people still bitch and moan. Nine years of temporary protection. How fucking long should it take to rebuild and regroup after an earthquake? This is the problem with giving an inch to people who are incapable of providing a good life for themselves.

Nearly 30,000 children have been born in the United States to Haitians with protected status. Those children are citizens and entitled to stay. Some of their parents may seek to avoid deportation by claiming it would cause extreme hardship to a United States-born child, but that option is limited.

Unbelievable.

[BryanM]

Chuck Rose goes down.

Running out of male millionaire pundits here. Who'd have thought they'd ever become a limited resource.

What could be more important than the defeat of radical Islamic terrorism?

Really goes to show how crooked they are. If they don't want to give Russia or Syria credit for doing anything, fine, but glossing over their part is trivial.

The war must go on, even if there is no enemy. Especially if there's no enemy.

[Mischief Maker]

Haitians with what is known as Temporary Protected Status will be expected to leave the United States by July 2019 or face deportation.

The decision set off immediate dismay among Haitian communities in South Florida, New York and beyond, and was a signal to other foreigners with temporary protections that they, too, could soon be asked to leave.

And they get an additional 1.5 years to pack up and people still bitch and moan. Nine years of temporary protection. How fucking long should it take to rebuild and regroup after an earthquake? This is the problem with giving an inch to people who are incapable of providing a good life for themselves.

Nearly 30,000 children have been born in the United States to Haitians with protected status. Those children are citizens and entitled to stay. Some of their parents may seek to avoid deportation by claiming it would cause extreme hardship to a United States-born child, but that option is limited.

Unbelievable.

Trump and the republicans are busy slamming the door shut on the American Dream as we speak. The FCC is going to gut Net Neutrality, shutting out small startups from competing on an even playing field. The Republican Tax bill in its current form would make it financially impossible for PhD students to get an education if they don't already come from money, makes changes to property taxes that will result in higher rents, and gives a tax HIKE to anyone making less than $75,000 a year. And these are just a few highlights from the parade of horribles in this bill, all in the name of making people from Paris Hilton to Jared Kushner, you know our best, effectively into a hereditary aristocracy.

But you know what the real problem is? Those swarthy poor people living on the opposite side of the continent from you!

The money the Mercer family is going to make off this tax bill far exceeds the money they spend on keeping Breitbart afloat. You are being played.