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ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

Fojar38 posted:

nevermind i found it

http://rt.com/op-edge/266824-america-empire-decline-washington/

lol russia today

I figured it was wrote by a nork but that works too

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:24

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 20:25

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
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TNG posted:

Ah don't worry about that. Worry about vast tracks of the US becoming uninhabitable due to desertification, flooding, and intense super storms battering us from all sides. Mass migrations will start up, as will local governments doing the Bertrand Russel thing and machine gunning down refugees at the border due to over crowding issues. Water wars will start between states, and the rich will be laughing all the way to bank in South America sitting on the last pristine aquifers. Racial violence will spill out on the streets of major metro areas as cops get even more zealous and militarized due to the social and economic strain all the disasters are putting on the country.

In 30-40 years we'll be more like the Balkans circa 1996.

my interest piqued when you thinly implied that the RAHOWA was a possibility

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:35

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

i was pretty sure that america was actually in decline, but then i saw this:

Wafflz posted:

http://www.mulletonthego.com/

so obviously i was wrong. usa #1

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:41

TNG: Jan 4, 2001; by Lowtax

LeoMarr posted:

my interest piqued when you thinly implied that the RAHOWA was a possibility

I think it would be cool if all the cops were killed by black people. Lord knows the cops have been waging war against them since the 19th goddamn century.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:44

Minorkos: Feb 20, 2010

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Minorkos fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jun 15, 2015

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:48

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

TNG posted:

I think it would be cool if all the cops were killed by black people. Lord knows the cops have been waging war against them since the 19th goddamn century.

eh then we could finally raise a militia and kick off another pogromige.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:50

TNG: Jan 4, 2001; by Lowtax

But this country is getting poorer, dumber, and fatter while ethnic and foreign minorities are being treated like garbage. It's crumbling because there will be no salvation from all this heinous poo poo. Jesus won't stop this place from being a racist sinkhole that's looking more and more like a 3rd world country in bigger and bigger parts of itself.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:51

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Jesus Christ is a tool utilized by Jews over the last 2,000 years to destroy Gentile Empires by bringing them under the Jewish yoke.

The Jews have been able to do this by convincing Gentiles that a stick-figure representing Jewish history is a real Man-God whose suffering and death, like the suffering and death of the Jewish people themselves, represented the only hope for Divine intervention in the lives and destinies of the poorly governed Gentile Races.

The problem which Jews have always had in controlled empires hundreds of times more populated that their own obscure tribal insufficiency has been to contain the Gentiles� exuberance of worship so that it would not interfere with Jewish aims and ideals. To do this, they have invented two major religions�Christianity and Islam�as well as hundreds of socialist centrist-governing camps dedicated to the same aims as the new bastardized proto-Jewish faiths which they have created for our amusement�e.g., communism, socialism, anarchism, the new Democratic Party of the USA, the Republican-Democratic megalith, unionism, media monopolization, banking, world wars, Freudianism, Zionism, the anti-Semitic/anti-majority schemata, the hate misidentification and obscuration industry, courtism (by which Jewish lawyers and judges dish out legislation against the wishes of the majority peoples via court fiat), immigration to destroy the host mass, integration to destroy the host mass, open borders, and the destruction of national will to survive.

To do this, the Jews have had to control the writing and publication of books which most recently translated into the monopoly ownership not only of traditional paper publishing but of other emerging mass media types including film, video, TV, radio, cable, satellite, and internet, all of which are solidly in Jewish ownership hands. Without the control of religion, media, and mass political movements, the Jews would still be insignificant. With the control of these entities in Jewish hands, however, the denizens of all nations are able to act freely, hidden, and sometimes openly to destroy their host masses. In addition, most of the references of knowledge to which non-Jews must research to oppose prevailing ideas are written and controlled by the Judeo-Bolshevik publications owners so that the outcomes of most research assuredly achieve outcomes that are soundly rooted only in Judeo-Bolshevist thoughts.

Jesus Christ is the embodiment of Judaism whose entire history is played out and then worshipped in the mythical biography of a fictional religious stick-figure character. His original followers were Judeo-Bolsheviks who sold all of their property, gave it to the central Christian authority, and became a penniless follower of his every whim and order. Anyone not showing complete obedience was removed, but none of his money was ever returned.

There was no Jesus Christ, because both names were prefabricated long after the supposed events surrounding his fictional life. The word "Jesus" means "out of the root of Jesse" and refers to the genealogy of anyone who is related by descent from Jesse, the parental line from which King David of Judah and the North Kingdom of Israel was born and descended. The word "Christ" is Greek, and it means "Messiah." Christ is a word that would not have been used as the name of the supposed "Jesus Christ" as no citizen of Judah would know its meaning.

The Judeans were engulfed and culturally demolished by the occupation of Roman Legions in their own nation. Their King Herod was a non-Judean who was elevated to power by influence and corruption. Herod�s rule over the Jews and his ascendancy to the leadership of its religion by de facto powers imposed by Rome on his behalf including the Roman treasury of Judean taxation which allowed him to rebuild an imposing Temple in Jerusalem to the dead Judean God, gave him influence and power among the people.

The Judeans themselves, however, were at a loss, because it was Roman power and influence that merely "granted" them the right to worship in what had once been their own country and which was now merely a Roman Province, making them mere provincials where once they held supreme power to rule their nation�s destiny.

Their answer came when Constantine elevated Christianity to the official religion of Rome. This momentous event gave the Judeans mastery over the Roman world as long as they could effectively manipulate the Church and Emperors alike, working each against the other.

Although the Empire and Christianity both considered Jews openly to be outcasts, nonetheless in the background they allowed them to control the currency which regulated all of the economies of the various nations within the Empire, because it had been written into the Bible that only Jews could do this and only for non-Jews. Anyone controlling the currency and banking through which it is funneled is truly the master of those nations.

Since the Bible said the Jews could practice usury only against non-Jews, eventually the Jews, protected from usury, became wealthy and powerful far beyond their numbers, and their hatred of the people of Rome for having destroyed their nation was thus revenged over and over for hundreds of years at their hands which continues to happen in the modern world where Jews still control these nations through banking and their monopoly over currency speculations, banking, securities trading, and other forms of exchange through which they control and profit from all of the channels of trade between Empires.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jun 15, 2015

# ? Jun 15, 2015 00:52

Doctor J Off: Dec 28, 2005; There Is

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# ? Jun 15, 2015 01:01

Frances Nurples: May 11, 2008

short answer yes if
long answer no but

Whiskey Sours posted:

Short answer yes with an if; long answer no with a but.

dammit

# ? Jun 15, 2015 01:21

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# ? Jun 15, 2015 01:26

SpeedGem: Sep 19, 2012; by Ralp

Doctor J Off posted:

The cause of the water main break, which was installed in 1885, was not immediately known.

Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Water-Main-Break-West-Philadelphia-Water-Department-52nd-Street-307289801.html#ixzz3d5OpFXV3

# ? Jun 15, 2015 01:28

Doctor J Off: Dec 28, 2005; There Is

SpeedGem posted:

The cause of the water main break, which was installed in 1885, was not immediately known.

Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Water-Main-Break-West-Philadelphia-Water-Department-52nd-Street-307289801.html#ixzz3d5OpFXV3

The cause of the water main break, which was installed in 1885, was not immediately acknowledged.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 01:40

Tujague: May 8, 2007; by LadyAmbien

Yeah you're hosed when roughly half of your citizens politically oppose solving chronic problems due to abstract ideology and are too dumb to be moved off point

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:27

penus penus penus: Nov 9, 2014; by piss__donald

LeoMarr posted:

I dont actually believe the US is crumbling. I do however think we are slowly losing our place as a global super power.

yeah well we all know this except for the retards.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:30

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Doctor J Off posted:

You're missing the last three panels.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:30

Minimalist Program: Aug 14, 2010

I dated an american girl for a couple of years in my twenties and the country seemed fine to me, except the police officers over there are like, disproportionately scary compared to Scandinavian police.

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:33

Captain Yossarian: Feb 24, 2011; All new" Rings of Fire"

Leomarr AND a tl:dr OP? Can't wait for this quality thread oh BOY

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:33

fuck the ROW: Aug 29, 2008; by zen death robot

don't worry obama already solved the economy, the wars, by ending them, and a bunch of other stuff. Some ppl just can't seem to stop complaning... they're probably refucklicans

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:35

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# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:48

Bodyholes: Jun 30, 2005

america will soldier on with a stiff upper lip while the poor eat themselves

americans are too domesticated to do anything when their quality of life slowly erodes

# ? Jun 15, 2015 17:50

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

LeoMarr posted:

The crisis and chaos engulfing the Middle East and Ukraine is evidence of US imperial decline, as Washington learns the harsh lesson that no empire lasts forever.

In the wake of the Vietnam War - the end of which was marked by news footage of US personnel and a select few Vietnamese collaborators being evacuated from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975 - the United States entered a prolonged period of decline when it came to its ability to embark on major military operations.

For all the massive destructive power in its arsenal, the Vietnamese had exposed US imperialism as a giant with feet of clay. The name given to this period of hard power retreat was the �Vietnam syndrome� and lasted from 1975 to 1991, when the US and an international coalition embarked on the First Gulf War to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

We are witnessing a similar period of US imperial decline now with regard to Washington�s inability to stage large-scale military operations. It arrived as a consequence of the failed occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which achieved nothing except the eruption of terrorism and extremism across the region, and by extension the world.

The huge resources expended have further crippled Washington�s imperial power, while the fragmentation of social cohesion in the US itself � witnessed by the brutal treatment of the nation�s poor, migrants, and blacks - reveals a society that is close to imploding. The parallels with the sixties and seventies are clear in this regard.

As far back as 2005, the Washington Post had identified this �Iraq syndrome.� In an article exploring the record of then outgoing US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the newspaper asserted: �Whenever Rumsfeld finally packs up his office at the Pentagon, he will leave behind an even more burdensome Iraq syndrome - the renewed, nagging and sometimes paralyzing belief that any large-scale US military intervention abroad is doomed to practical failure and moral iniquity.�

Ten years later, with an Islamic version of the Khmer Rouge in the shape of the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) running rampant across Syria and Iraq, the present administration is reduced to conducting a desultory and, up to this point, impotent, air campaign against IS, which continues growing and increasing its grip on territory in Syria and Iraq.

The complexities of the Middle East are well known. The presence of the bulk of the world�s energy reserves has ensured the region�s status as the frontline in the struggle for and against US hegemony. At the same time, the multiple ethnic, confessional, and tribal identities that crisscross the region have long ensured it remains a potential powder keg, ready to explode if exacerbated.

Such an explosion took place with the NATO air war against the Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011. Intended to ensure the Libyan phase of the Arab Spring landed safely upon the shores of Western geopolitical interests, the toppling of Gaddafi instead opened the gates of hell out of which have poured tens of thousands of primeval fanatics whose bloodlust knows no bounds.

Washington and its European allies have been unable to control the spread of this fanaticism, which has grown with the connivance of its regional allies � Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the various Gulf monarchies that together make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Obama�s decision not to proceed with planned airstrikes against the Syrian government in the aftermath of an alleged chemical weapons attack against a rebel-controlled Damascus suburb in 2013 left his credibility in tatters. Perceiving the president as weak, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been acting in pursuit of their own agendas, which means doing whatever it takes to stem Shia Iranian influence, and/or working to reassert Sunni domination region-wide.
The AIIB joins the New Development Bank that China also set up last year in partnership with Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa. Also known as the BRICS bank, it took its place alongside the pre-existing Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) development bank as part of a new global financial infrastructure operating independently of Washington. The SCO has also established its own currency reserve to help cushion its members against financial shocks or crises, such as the one that emanated from the US financial system in 2008.

Taken together, we are able to chart the relative decline of US hegemony and unipolarity, unfolding economically, geopolitically, culturally and militarily. The dangers as this process unfolds are evident in the spread of extremism and fanaticism as regional allies increasingly pursue their own agendas, regardless of how damaging to US interests they may be in terms of sowing instability.

As with the Roman Empire centuries before it, Washington is learning that the only thing permanent in this world is impermanence, especially imperial power resting on foundations of hypocrisy and injustice.

well the parts near the san andreas fault line are but other than that it's more crawling slowly just like every other continent

# ? Jun 15, 2015 18:35

Smoking_Dragon: Dec 12, 2001; WOE UNTO THEE; Pillbug

Is this the same Russian that predicted America have a civil war and be split up by now??

# ? Jun 15, 2015 19:34

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Bring back America 1.0

# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:00

ANIME IS BLOOD: Sep 4, 2008; by zen death robot

Applewhite posted:

Bring back America 1.0

the articles of confederation were very lame though

# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:01

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

ANIME IS BLOOD posted:

the articles of confederation were very lame though

bring back the british empire

# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:24

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# ? Jun 15, 2015 20:25

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Doctor J Off posted:

these crumbs r makin me THIRSTY

# ? Jun 15, 2015 23:18

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# ? Jun 15, 2015 23:39

SpeedGem: Sep 19, 2012; by Ralp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/04/mapping-americas-most-dangerous-bridges/

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:18

Nooner: Mar 26, 2011; AN A+ OPSTER (:

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# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:39

My Q-Face: Jul 8, 2002; A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

Fojar38 posted:

nevermind i found it

http://rt.com/op-edge/266824-america-empire-decline-washington/

lol russia today

It pisses me off that RT is included in my basic cable package, but AJE is premium cable.

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:45

Neptr: Mar 1, 2011

LeoMarr posted:

For all the massive destructive power in its arsenal, the Vietnamese had exposed US imperialism as a giant with feet of clay. The name given to this period of hard power retreat was the ‘Vietnam syndrome’ and lasted from 1975 to 1991, when the US and an international coalition embarked on the First Gulf War to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

Maybe Vietnam Syndrome is an actual academic term, but saying it ended with the victory of the Gulf War I is short sighted - the victory is just one positive in a long string of failures. Consider the failed campaign in Somalia, '92-'94.

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:49

Harrower: Nov 30, 2002

The only reason America keeps losing wars is that it's to much of a puss to just kill everyone and take their poo poo.

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:49

TNG: Jan 4, 2001; by Lowtax

Applewhite posted:

You're missing the last three panels.

They are going to be the first panel three times.

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:51

SpeedGem: Sep 19, 2012; by Ralp

My Q-Face posted:

It pisses me off that RT is included in my basic cable package, but AJE is premium cable.

Complain, it works, AJ is basic cable here now (upstate new york).

# ? Jun 16, 2015 01:51

Cobra-Commander: Jun 15, 2015

I wouldn't worry about it I have faith that naked men in the woods are making the right decisions to ensure I become gainfully employed. You just got to stay positive, I heard the secret helps.

# ? Jun 16, 2015 02:01