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Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Wakko posted:

no chaz is going to end up like Occupy, even assuming an order of magnitude more organization and support

you’ll know we’re closing in on a real balk when you see either 1) local/state government declaring autonomy and organizing military assets to defend themselves or 2) local government falling back on federal military support because it can no longer maintain a monopoly on force with just law enforcement assets.

yeah it’s gonna be a spicy, cold July I think

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Maduo
Sep 8, 2006

You see all the colors.
All of them.


has anyone made a balk map of the forums yet

Uranium
Sep 11, 2001

Through constant decay
Uranium creates
the radioactive ray.



The forums under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Wakko
Jun 9, 2002
Faboo!
some balk content in salon

quote:

Donald Trump's supporters are willing to kill and die for him. This is just the beginning of what is going to happen as Election Day approaches. You have been in war zones and countries torn apart by ethnic cleansing and genocide. What is the model for how a people turn on each other?

It begins with economic dysfunction, which is what happened in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia went into de facto bankruptcy. The huge state factories closed, just like they did here in the United States. There was massive unemployment, the social bonds in the country were ruptured. There were bread lines. People lost everything, including a sense of identity. As a result, they retreated into these mythical narratives about themselves as Serbs, Croats and Muslims. In such a moment shared public discourse is impossible. These other identities and their myths have now superseded verifiable historical fact. That's what happened in Yugoslavia, and that is very much part of what is happening in the United States.

Then there is the rise of demagogues who demonize a segment of the population and target them as the Other. Then the eliminationist rhetoric and violent rhetoric begins. After four years, people started shooting each other in Yugoslavia. The United States is approaching that point.

We spoke with each other several months ago during the first few weeks of the national coronavirus lockdown and economic collapse. You told me that as horrible as things were then, it was in fact "the good times." Several months have gone by. Is the United States still experiencing "good times" as compared to what will happen in the future?

Yes, as compared to what is coming. The elites are not responding rationally to the coronavirus pandemic, the economic devastation and the myriad of other problems facing the United States right now. America's ruling class is doing just what they did in 2008, which is to line their own pockets at the public's expense and to cast the rest of the country — the working poor and the working class — aside as if they were human refuse. That is all very shortsighted, of course, because of the blowback. The ramifications are catastrophic. One would think that America's elites would respond in a smarter way, if even for their own self-preservation. If elected president, Joe Biden certainly isn't going to respond properly.

The George Floyd protests are more accurately described as a generational class revolt. I hope that the protesters and their allies win, because if we do not take power back from this American mafia state then there will be a very ugly type of tyranny in the country.

As Aristotle said, once you have oligarchic rule, there are only two choices. It is revolution or tyranny, and that's it. I'm not naive enough to tell you the revolution is going to win, but I'm going to tell you that if it doesn't win then there will be a very ugly corporate tyranny in the United States.

The American elites, the ruling class, has already rewritten all the laws.They already have the prison cells. They've already militarized the forces of internal security. They've already legitimized the revoking of basic rights like habeas corpus and due process. Americans are already the most watched, monitored, surveilled, photographed population in human history. The forces of tyranny are ready to go.

FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008



Wakko posted:

some balk content in salon

good interview

god, this year is going to be hosed

god, next year is going to be hosed

god, the year after next is g

UnknownTarget
Sep 5, 2019

Ahhh this thread is back.

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


UnknownTarget posted:

Ahhh this thread is back.

:hellyeah:

https://twitter.com/leftistmeme/status/1280857750860226562

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


nuclear chud border conflicts

at least the aliens will help us build gay commie weedtopia in the aftermath

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Rah! posted:

nuclear chud border conflicts

at least the aliens will help us build gay commie weedtopia in the aftermath

if we nnuke hard enough comrade space commander will see the sign and take us away from this hellscape

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Wakko posted:

some balk content in salon

So start moving to another country before you have to apply for refugee status to do it, is that it?

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Refugee? Why would you want to flee Cool Zone? If you're not willing to join the C-SPAM Poster's Militia and bring about Year 0 then what was even the point of this subforum?

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpeys_k9xI

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


:d2a:

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

"Facism is back!"
When was it ever away, really?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

No update to the US Balkan map in a long time.

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Toplowtech posted:

"Facism is back!"
When was it ever away, really?

whatever u got nukes?

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Rah! posted:

whatever u got nukes?

if fascism cannot attack a nuke-holding country from without, it will simply attack it from within

staticman
Sep 12, 2008

Be gay
Death to America
Suck my dick Israel
Mess with Texas
and remember to lmao

Cup Runneth Over posted:

if fascism cannot attack a nuke-holding country from without, it will simply attack it from within

Dropping the nukes on your own cities to exterminate the queers
https://twitter.com/jfinn6511/status/1284609001850839045

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Cup Runneth Over posted:

if fascism cannot attack a nuke-holding country from without, it will simply attack it from within

fool the nukes are for summoning the aliens

staticman
Sep 12, 2008

Be gay
Death to America
Suck my dick Israel
Mess with Texas
and remember to lmao

Rah! posted:

fool the nukes are for summoning the aliens

Reaping: yessss hahaha cleanse the impure faggots with nuclar fireewe~!

You cannot grasp the true form of The Sewing

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

UnknownTarget posted:

Ahhh this thread is back.

Don't worry. This thread will be gone soon enough because too many people in C-Spam are still " 'Mericanized" enough that they think their individuality trumps their local area and once they start seeing themselves as part of geographic and historical context they will quietly walk away.

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 22:01 on Jul 19, 2020

turd in my singlet
Jul 5, 2008

DO ALL DA WORK

WIT YA NECK

*heavy metal music playing*
Nap Ghost
Someone posted this in the cool zone thread, seems relevant to balkchat



quote:

As metropolitan regions continued to expand throughout the second half of the 20th century their boundaries began to blur, creating a new scale of geography now known as the megaregion. Interlocking economic systems, shared natural resources and ecosystems, and common transportation systems link these population centers together. As continued population growth and low density settlement patterns place increasing pressure on these systems, there is greater impetus to coordinate policy at this expanded scale.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180807104142/http://www.america2050.org/content/megaregions.html

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

pretty sure florida is gonna be underwater and arizona unlivable by 2050

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Arizona isn't livable in 2020

BeefThief
Aug 8, 2007

staticman posted:

Dropping the nukes on your own cities to exterminate the queers
https://twitter.com/jfinn6511/status/1284609001850839045

American theocracy would mean no abortions and you have to celebrate Christmas because that's all American Christianity is. No more waiting for the end times because they're here already.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Milo and POTUS posted:

Arizona isn't livable in 2020

it's seriously an absolute hellhole

redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters
[chanting] balk! balk! balk!

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



redleader posted:

[chanting] balk! balk! balk!

[slamming fists on the table] BALK! BALK! BALK!

animist
Aug 28, 2018
contemplating whether the balk will be started by masks or statues

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Milo and POTUS posted:

Arizona isn't livable in 2020

yeah but its gonna get even worse

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

So what are the bonuses of each post-balk american breakaway state?

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Blockade posted:

So what are the bonuses of each post-balk american breakaway state?

Cascadia is a white supremacist police state

California is a white supremacist police state

Texas is a white supremacist police state

New England is a white supremacist police state

uhhhh

I don’t think there’s gonna be anything other than that unfortunately

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

Blockade posted:

So what are the bonuses of each post-balk american breakaway state?

Depends what part of the united states you are from:

In the south, you get get slaves and dueling is back in vogue.
In the Hillbilly regions you get drink silver till you're purple.
The north east gets invaded by Quebec and has to speak french, and save the queen.
Ohio and the area around it gets to die from heroin.
The midwest Rocky Mountains realize that can't grow food, try to take Canada and gets shot up by the native Americans.
Northwest have to deal with new apple dongles.
South West gets rid of their boarder and gains money from drug running to the rest of the Americas

Edit: South Florida floods.

Edit: confused the word Midwest with Rocky Mountains.

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 06:05 on Jul 20, 2020

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Midwest can't grow food? It's the breadbasket, dude.

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

Mantis42 posted:

Midwest can't grow food? It's the breadbasket, dude.

Sorry I get the term "midwest" confused with the the rocky mountains. The Area with some people scattered among the useless states like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and some of Arizona, New Mexico ,Oklahoma,and central Texas

https://wikitravel.org/en/Rocky_Mountains_(United_States_of_America)

The places where nobody really lives.
https://www.considerable.com/money/real-estate/empty-united-states-uninhabited/

People who like the Broncos
https://external-preview.redd.it/sR...2fe49c36f8e0d6e



Like the miserably named "midwest" area is sill supported by the Mississippi river don't seem to be in "The middle of the west" those people are just east coast rejects, the stupid people who gave up traveling west, and kept the name "midwest" despite having maps tell them that they are not in the middle of the united states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_rivers_of_the_United_States_(by_main_stem)#/media/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png




Edit 2: 56 biggest cities and Water Map
https://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/watershedmaps/quiz3.htm

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 06:44 on Jul 20, 2020

Beowulfs_Ghost
Nov 6, 2009

Mantis42 posted:

Midwest can't grow food? It's the breadbasket, dude.

Living on just bread will give you diabetes, and signs point to bad harvests if climate change stays on pace.

Cuddly Tumblemumps
Aug 23, 2013

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

Mantis42 posted:

Midwest can't grow food? It's the breadbasket, dude.

Midwest grows monoculture grains and soybeans to feed the cattle whose farts kill the earth.
It is the nation-state of California with the central valley and Imperial Valley feeding the US vegetables and actual foodstuffs.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

Cuddly Tumblemumps posted:

Midwest grows monoculture grains and soybeans to feed the cattle whose farts kill the earth.
It is the nation-state of California with the central valley and Imperial Valley feeding the US vegetables and actual foodstuffs.

I don't know if that is true

but I can't wait for the family strangling california agriculture to no longer do so

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Cuddly Tumblemumps posted:

Midwest grows monoculture grains and soybeans to feed the cattle whose farts kill the earth.
It is the nation-state of California with the central valley and Imperial Valley feeding the US vegetables and actual foodstuffs.

literally california is a loving desert and the reason they grow all the "real food" is because the california government subsidizes them allowing them to run the midwest and southern farms that grew real food out of business

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Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
also california's agriculture runs on slavery so they can eat nukes for all i care

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