Prelude to the Apocalypse

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Iran War. When.

2021
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2022-2025
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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Action movies were always better than anime! A world ruled by Trump and anime feels like a match made in hell.
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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BryanM wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 6:00 pmAt the very least Trump is having little meltdowns over people not letting the Epstein matter go.
They will absolutely let it go, the same way they let his multiple unilateral military strikes on Iran go, and will let the closure of the only hospital within several hours' drive of them go.

Daddy's cocksuckers aren't here to "hold him to account". They're here to suck Daddy's cock.
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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I honestly don't like hearing about things like how Trump is going to end the world, or how Hollywood has gone too woke, or movie theaters are heading for extinction and that streaming is the future of movies, or that anime will triumph over Hollywood. If all that is true, then this world truly has gone to shit. No wonder why everyone on this forum is so damn negative all the time. But you know what? I don’t care what Terminator, Tron, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, The Matrix, Mega Man, and Mission: Impossible taught me. Let this world be in the hands of A.I. for all I care. Because A.I. has done a lot more for me than humanity will ever do.
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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xEbb1993x wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:13 amNo wonder why everyone on this forum is so damn negative all the time.

naaaah, that's ordinary Internet People stuff. The only time I've been depressed was March 2016, and that's only because I thought things could get better a lot sooner than I thought they would have.

Looking back I was greedy and naive. My original accelerationism/technological hypotheses were correct. Real change can only happen through massive massive misery that gets people to fight back, or a material change in our conditions like how the invention of the internal combustion engine changed things. We're getting to as close as bad as things can get, and as they replace people with machines in the coming decade or so, life will very rapidly trend toward heaven or hell on earth.

It's not going to be subtle from the perspective of your day to day life. Years where nothing happens will be followed by years where everything happens.

Existential horror is part and partial of existing. We all only have a very limited amount of power over our reality, and if it's too much just take a vacation in a fantasy world. If you spend enough time there, it's the real world that starts to feel like a fantasy world.

Works for the fascists, doesn't it? ......

BulletMagnet wrote: Tue Jul 08, 2025 10:24 pmThey will absolutely let it go, the same way they let his multiple unilateral military strikes on Iran go, and will let the closure of the only hospital within several hours' drive of them go.

Daddy's cocksuckers aren't here to "hold him to account". They're here to suck Daddy's cock.

oi, I was talking about reporters who constantly annoy him with questions, not MAGA punishing him and the republicans with actual consequences. MAGA's hopeless and too far gone.

I'm glad you can hold on to your hatred of the fascists. I'm still unable to see them as people so it's impossible for me to do the same. It's hard to get angry at wild animals with rabies or giant pits of acid sitting in the ground.

..... of course I'm smart enough to not listen to them talk or watch a second of FOX News clips.... Those.... do make me very very angry very very quickly.... so I guess this 'no contact' thing is a cheatcode, and I actually do hate them as much as you do, I just try to avoid triggering those emotions and have let them dull since the Iraq war bullshit....

Letting the worst people on the planet whisper in your ear is like rolling your brain around on broken glass...

.... anyway, some political journey story time...

Even when I was a small child, I always felt there was something unnatural and wrong about Bill Clinton when he was running for president. Phoney compliments, pretending to care about people... it was all transparently fake to me. (And I think it's also obvious to the people who dislike democrats but not for rational intellectual reasons. The fake inauthentic kindness that predators love to use.)

With adult knowledge of adult things.... I realized he was a 'fuckboi'. The kind of guy who only cares about having sex and absolutely nothing about anything else.

The fans of Trump remind me of the women who like Bill. He tells them they're the best, like they're pretty and got the biggest boobs or whatever and they blush at compliments, of all things. By yet another fuckboi that's probably even more sociopathic and evil. Who only takes and never gives anything but empty words and dreams back.

Anyway, another youtube quote:

"My mother always taught me growing up that Richard Dawkins was "an evil, hateful atheist."
Now that he's on the anti-trans bandwagon, she's a big fan who think he's just a little rough around the edges is all.

She completely changed her opinion of him from "he's a full blown evil moron" to "nobody is totally perfect" just by validating her hate.
God this world is sh*t."
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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BryanM wrote: Wed Jul 09, 2025 6:32 amoi, I was talking about reporters who constantly annoy him with questions, not MAGA punishing him and the republicans with actual consequences.
My response still stands. If anything the diehards will make a bigger show of it before pretending it never happened than the media will.
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Just out of interest, do Americans want the next President to continue these current agenda's or do they want the polar opposite?

Do you think the next election will be about someone who tells the truth from the get go or someone who gets into power via deception and secret agenda's?

Because to me this is a problem, not just in the USA per se. I suppose it depends on what messes need cleaning up obviously, but i'm sure the electorate will want transparency. I suppose its a stupid question for Trump because he still has his supporters although i'm not entirely sure what those supporters get out of him unless you're rich. There isn't enough rich people to win the vote on their own. If the lobbying power is more powerful than the vote, i'm not sure its even worth voting except for the face that sits in the seat.

I know 2 Trump supporters and I have conversations with them with me being anti Trump. I tell them, what about the farmers? What about tourism? What about those cities being hit by floods, wild fires and hurricanes? Don't just look where Trump is pointing, look the other way and see the collateral damage. Whilst they sympathize they think its for the best anyway.

I watched a video about Philidelpia last night about the trash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hfc5pRESs

This is not a picture I expect from the streets of a major city in the USA. People are crying over grocery prices as well.

I keep hearing the $ is crashing, but against the Yen and £ it isn't. Must be something else i'm not seeing.

I have never seen as much spin as I have in recent months on news networks. The spin is incredible. Even those in government that get on camera seem like puppets you can almost see the strings.
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Re: Prelude to the Apocalypse

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Geez, Ruidoso New Mexico is underwater now. Mother nature is at war with the USA.

Can't believe it.

Trump said Texas was one in a 100 year event, Nature had other plans.
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