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PerpetualSelf
Apr 6, 2015

by Ralp
We now don't have a single stable country on earth governed by any left wing party. Russia is on the rise. Hate and fear are at record levels. Global warming is growing stronger and faster. The world media is being taken over and controlled by singular entities geared towards fulfilling one single purpose. Mankind is losing all autonomy to the fascist government police state and machines.

Are these a sign of the end times? I think this is pointing that the end of mankind will be within the next 8 years. I can not imagine anything else.

We must prepare for this. We must be ready.

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StabbinHobo
Oct 18, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
there is only one way to be prepared

Bel Shazar
Sep 14, 2012

How is this meaningfully different than the rest of recorded history?

InvincibleMadHouse
Jan 19, 2009

by Ralp
nope.

StabbinHobo
Oct 18, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
smoke weed

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

The majority of nations still have progressive parties, and are not totalitarian states by any sense of the word. Not even Russia (super-presidency unapposed). Therefore poo poo can be reversed. Also, a solar cycle of record minimalism will begin next decade, bringing about *gasp* global COOLING.

Therefore your argument is bullshit. And on :catdrugs:

Series DD Funding
Nov 25, 2014

by exmarx
Jesus will return and win the Presidency in 2016, OP.

awesome-express
Dec 30, 2008

StabbinHobo posted:

there is only one way to be prepared

Spread ur butte

Blue Star
Feb 18, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
I've heard and read people say that things are actually getting better. I think there might be some truth to that. The world used to be even more violent, less equal, more chaotic, than it is today. Little by little, the general trend is towards less violence and more equality, greater quality of life, etc. Gay marriage is almost legal in the U.S.; it's already legal in several other Western countries, and the general trend will probably continue. Meanwhile, technology keeps moving forward and advancing; who knows what will be possible in the coming years and decades? Maybe not faster-than-light space ships and nanobots that make anything from scratch, but short of that, who knows? Anyway, things are still bad and can easily get worse, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug
Pack it in humanity is doomed. We had a good ride, enjoy all the booze you can before we wreck our own poo poo.

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown
everything is going to be ok

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
stick stuff in your butt for safe keeping.

Bates
Jun 15, 2006
woah, simmer down there, sparky

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

PerpetualSelf posted:

We must prepare for this. We must be ready.
Great. How?

emTme3
Nov 7, 2012

by Hand Knit
nah, the world will be fine.

humans? we're hosed.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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splifyphus posted:

nah, the world will be fine.

humans? we're hosed.

In my opinion if we're going we should fire the planet into the sun or salt the planet or something. If we don't get to keep going nobody else does either.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Fojar38 posted:

In my opinion if we're going we should fire the planet into the sun or salt the planet or something. If we don't get to keep going nobody else does either.

But if you salt it then salt-based lifeforms would have it in 20,000,000 years. Delete the salt too.

Sharkie
Feb 4, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
How loud would a fart have to be to crack the earth in half?

Unless op farts that loud we'll be ok, relatively speaking. I mean, the environment is going to be massively hosed and life will suck for a whole lot of people but humanity isn't going anywhere anytime soon. And overall more people are doing better than in most of history.

So lay off the bean burritos, op, and we can all chill out.

swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action
Yes, but you're optimistic as poo poo on the timeline. I'm firing up the Doomsday Machine 12.30 pm Friday ON THE DOT

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



PerpetualSelf posted:

We now don't have a single stable country on earth governed by any left wing party. Russia is on the rise. Hate and fear are at record levels. Global warming is growing stronger and faster. The world media is being taken over and controlled by singular entities geared towards fulfilling one single purpose. Mankind is losing all autonomy to the fascist government police state and machines.

Are these a sign of the end times? I think this is pointing that the end of mankind will be within the next 8 years. I can not imagine anything else.

We must prepare for this. We must be ready.
How do we prepare for the end of mankind, smart guy

Martin Random
Jul 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
You know what, I don't think a serious post is really worth it in this thread.

Martin Random fucked around with this message at 09:09 on May 10, 2015

a whole buncha crows
May 8, 2003

WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)

Oldsmobile
Jun 13, 2006

Limited nuclear war will snap us out of our funk. It'll happen. Might as well get it over with.

wheez the roux
Aug 2, 2004
THEY SHOULD'VE GIVEN IT TO LYNCH

Death to the Seahawks. Death to Seahawks posters.

every day

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonLd-32ns4

Nosfereefer
Jun 15, 2011

IF YOU FIND THIS POSTER OUTSIDE BYOB, PLEASE RETURN THEM. WE ARE VERY WORRIED AND WE MISS THEM
i agree op, the world today is just nuts

Nosfereefer
Jun 15, 2011

IF YOU FIND THIS POSTER OUTSIDE BYOB, PLEASE RETURN THEM. WE ARE VERY WORRIED AND WE MISS THEM

also this, but unironically

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
I like how humans equal 'my country could fail soon, whelp thats the whole world ended too'.

Radbot
Aug 12, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 4 years!
I'll be honest, people who say that we should be happy because gay marriage is legal in some places in the US while everything else crumbles around us seem pretty silly.

Deuce
Jun 18, 2004
Mile High Club
Planet's been around over four billion years. It's not going to conk off during your pitiful little lifespan.

Helsing
Aug 23, 2003

DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU :love::love::love: JOE BIDEN
The world actually came to an end years ago but almost nobody noticed.

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi

Oldsmobile posted:

Limited nuclear war will snap us out of our funk. It'll happen. Might as well get it over with.

unironically this.

burnishedfume
Mar 8, 2011

You really are a louse...
The world will end today unless OP wires me $100k. Then I'll see what I can do about extending the lifespan of the earth by a few decades.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Anglo-European dominance and civlisation will likely collapse at some point just cause that seems to be what civlilisations do and we aren't doing much to stop it. Probably won't happen for a century or two yet though.

Humanity isn't going anywhere barring some kind of total nuclear exchange or if Climate Change ends up worse than the fevered dreams of the craziest ecowarrior.

We are entering an interesting little endgame between "money power" and democracy but even that is just the financial elite trying to turn back the clock rather than anything new and apocalyptic.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
List of stable left wing governments in history :

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
List of leftists who will cry that the fascists causes their lovely government to fail: *.*

Lowtechs
Jan 12, 2001
Grimey Drawer
OP maybe it is just the natural order of things and you should just accept it instead of preparing to stave off the inevitable because that is the height of futility. Embrace the oblivion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fxVeAVl2I8

platedlizard
Aug 31, 2012

I like plates and lizards.
Actually the world will only get better. Sure there's a lot of bad things going on but in the long course of history society has a tendency toward improvement. Slavery used to be the basis for everyone's economy just a few hundred years ago and now it's illegal the world over. Longevity is up, human rights are getting better, and most of the world lives under some form of democratic government that they have a say in.

Global warming will turn the Arctic into a bread basket and everywhere south of it will have nice balmy subtropical weather except the tropics which will stay pretty much the same as they are now, if the conditions during the Miocene (the last time Earth had this much CO2 in the atmosphere) are any indication. Once we get past the 'everything floods' phase it'll be pretty nice.

All in all life will get better and better for us :angel:

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


platedlizard posted:

Actually the world will only get better. Sure there's a lot of bad things going on but in the long course of history society has a tendency toward improvement. Slavery used to be the basis for everyone's economy just a few hundred years ago and now it's illegal the world over. Longevity is up, human rights are getting better, and most of the world lives under some form of democratic government that they have a say in.

Global warming will turn the Arctic into a bread basket and everywhere south of it will have nice balmy subtropical weather except the tropics which will stay pretty much the same as they are now, if the conditions during the Miocene (the last time Earth had this much CO2 in the atmosphere) are any indication. Once we get past the 'everything floods' phase it'll be pretty nice.

All in all life will get better and better for us :angel:

Also, if it's anything like the Miocene, we'll have non-human apes wild in North America again which will be cool.

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Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!
As biotech gets more advanced and engineering destructive bugs gets easier, someone will (intentionally or not) wipe out most of the human race along with civilization as we know it.

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