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Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
streaking down a beach is actually pretty cool tbh

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Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

The Saucer Hovers posted:

BUT

BUT

ANIMALS DONT KNOW THEYRE NAKED

go put a shirt on a cat and tell me it doesnt know the difference between naked and clothed

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
the only disadvantage to my state having 100 percent public beaches is that there is no place to run around the shore anime style wearing only a naruto headband without being charged for a sex crime

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Red Minjo posted:

Yeah, on 8chan and 4chan, like I said in the post you quoted

hey buddy,

pizzagate is real

thanks

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
the fbi cares more about entrapping random muslim kids their antipedo stuff is just a small token they throw out to try and convince people they arent all dead-eyed psychos

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
the pedos are coming from inside the thread :ohdear:

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is also afaik a big welfare program for elite failsons and faildaughters. Very little of its resources actually do anything to help people, and they're even bad at that. Philanthropic giving is a big scam. They may as well just give all that money to the government, but returning resources to the public purse doesn't serve as an ego vehicle.

I went to a highschool dropout education program funded by the Gates foundation and literally the only book we were assigned to read in the "reading" class was atlas shrugged

I don't know if that was just a lovely instructor or a thing across the whole program but it seemed hilariously suspicious even to my addled teenage libertarian brain

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

gradenko_2000 posted:

impossible to tell if this is serious

theres a small group of people on twitter that scream about it in the chapo dude's replies but ive never seen proof

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

smarxist posted:

It's true. She got a few of the fyad superstar weird @fart guys in hot water. I think wettbutt sent the video of him self sucking his monster hog to her as well.

Twitter is a pedo hell hole and All Your Faves are degenerates


who are these people

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

The Kingfish posted:

let people enjoy things

no one actually likes big mouth

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Dr. Killjoy posted:

spoilers: law enforcement child porn dragnets are meant to rope in high profile or potentially useful individuals for blackmail and intelligence purposes

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

hobbesmaster posted:

orange is the new black takes place in one of the “club fed” prisons

orange is the new black is fiction holy poo poo dude

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

lol I thought you were talking about the TV show no one actually read the book

also billionaires don't go to that kind of min sec prison and that's the main point

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

lmao

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

GWBBQ posted:

please show any sort of even mildly convincing evidence that this has actually happened.

who cares its ball lightning

nerd

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

KaptainKrunk posted:

what is it about air force psychologists specifically that they're always behind the worst us govt programs (ufos, torture, mkultra)?

protestantism

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Happy Thread posted:

Also the only people more boring than ufo deniers are evopsych deniers. Denying the basic economics that mathematically play out in gene pools. In brains that are indifferently assembled by gene pools. Really, it goes back to nearly everyone having poor intuition about the power of exponents, such as after n generations.

Or pretending that gender is not an important variable in gene pools, under the delusional view that the act of reproduction requires that both genders pay a remotely comparable investment cost.

Not just people who hate chud evopsych evangelicals, but who flatly rule out the whole inquiry because of that association. Boring.


:ironicat:

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Wasabi the J posted:

Oh I get it this is just the X-files larping thread.

imagine being scully but also dumb as poo poo like this loving nerd

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

the milk machine posted:

i just don't really want to read pages of text about abrahamic blood cults sacrificing indigo children at area 51 or whatever, but to each poster their own

thats like one guy who's posts are obvious lmao

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Mameluke posted:

Can you please tell me about the Illuminati subtext in Spielberg films that don't suck? I'm specifically thinking of Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

the queen is a dinosaur and ive never seen the lost world

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

StratGoatCom posted:

This thread is vanishing into the weeds, and we need to get back on topic.

no gently caress you goon

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Tubgoat posted:

Wyatt, the round ginger with the terrible taste in faux aloha shirts.

if you're gonna wear a gawdy graphic design button up it might as well be covered in hundred dollar bill clip art and cost 40 bucks

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Good job giving them attention dipshit

they already found another thread to poo poo up for a while we are good for couple days at least

Goast has issued a correction as of 07:21 on Sep 4, 2020

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Phi230 posted:

children of god gets props for the SOS music video

for the uninitiated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwZMXm7JMYo

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

i wanna dig this post back up just because the term chief frenchman is hilarious

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Proust Malone posted:

this but nukes as in the people involved in nuclear power. navy nuclear power in particular is full of 4chan nerds

they also handle the explodey ones

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

ymgve posted:

tbf if the tradesmen who used the toilet were sloppy enough that it had to be cleaned after a few uses, they should have just stuck to their own drat toile

thats not how making GBS threads works

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
been posted in this thread already but rip wkuk guy you knew the truth

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

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

theflyingexecutive posted:

Every enlisted soldier costs the USG between $178k-1.2m/year in personnel costs alone (neglecting equipment) and soldiers dying is generally seen as a bad thing for public relations. A robot dog is $100k+maintenance

wouldn't the cost of the high asvab scoring dropouts who maintain the robots be similar, if not greater, than the grunts?

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Mola Yam posted:

turn left epstein thread. NOOOO

covid is real and the ruling class is using it to solidify their grip on society rather than solving the problem

sorry if that makes you upset

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

StashAugustine posted:

serious question: what would the ideal socialist government response to the pandemic be then

vietnam

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
An ever-growing question mark weighs on the souls of the left-liberal media. What is going on in that safety-orange head of his? The Intercept's James Risen calls Trump a "medieval demagogue," a "psychopath" and as selfish as a small child. Jeet Heer in the Nation says Trump "never quite figured out how to govern" and has "magical thinking" about hydroxychloroquine. Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon that Trump doesn't want people to be tested because he wants to suppress the true extent of covid-19, because he is a liar and is known to compulsively lie. And Amy Goodman has Noam Chomsky on to call Trump an autocrat and a dictator.

But Chomsky makes sure to note, in an extended paragraph, "I don't suggest that he's anything like Hitler. Hitler had an ideology, horrible ideology. ... As far as Trump is concerned, the only detectable ideology is pure narcissism."

Let us set aside the well-known fact that Trump keeps a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed. There is something absolutely naïve afoot among soft-socialist bourgeois scribblers. Maybe people do not remember, since it was sixteen years ago, but a common question about George W Bush was... how can he be so... stupid? Here is a typical scree from The Atlantic senior editor Jack Beatty in 2001: "he has the kind of difficulty with language, syntax, and coherence that, had he been born George Smith rather than George Bush, would likely have consigned him to a low-status job—speech being a cruel marker of class disadvantage." And yet, when it was time to pull together and root for Amerika's genocide of over 1.5 million Iraqis, The Atlantic was ready to publish Richard Brookhiser's dick-riding of W that goes to great lengths to show how no, Bush is not stupid, he gets up and does his job as U.S. President every day - including specifically, that he likes to hear from people he disagrees with, which goes against the "echo chamber" myth that plays off the bloodthirsty invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as self-righteous idiocy.

Here's war pig David Frum himself in the Atlantic recently: "Trump failed. He is failing. He will continue to fail. And Americans are paying for his failures." Well, just a minute. Trump is sitting in the White House. He is the ostensible boss of everyone at the Pentagon. Over 43% of Americans approve of the job he's doing, and that number hasn't fallen below 36%, ever. One might say that 36% support is not very good - but still, it's eighty million adult Amerikans who are pleased with how he is doing. A national television channel is devoted to predicting what Trump wants to hear and broadcasting that exclusively, and everyone around him is in constant fear of what might happen if they don't enable him to do whatever he wants - does that sound like failure, if we're talking about a "narcissistic psychopath"? To me it sounds like the loftiest ambition a psychopath could fulfill.

In hindsight, does anyone believe George W Bush was simply the Don Quixote of Capitol Hill? After his turn at the helm of the US regime wrapped up, even credulous opposition remora Jonathan Chait cashed in on both sides of the stupid vs evil debate, taking down such glass-jawed opponents as professional moron David Brooks and the urine-scented Jennifer Rubin. A common reacharound offered by journalists "critical" of Trump, as noted in The Hill for example, is that Trump has nothing on Bush - confirming that yes, Bush knew exactly what he was doing when he lied his way into an illegal war, deregulated the housing market, and tortured any poor soul offered up by Saudi Arabia at the gates of Abu Ghraib. (On the other hand, Bush didn't rape an unknown number of children with his close, lifelong friend Jeffrey Epstein, so, as often happens, comparing all-round Evil Scores proves more difficult than expected.) I admit that I myself have joked about Bush being dumb, and I still laugh when it is implied that he loves bananas. But we know now that whether Bush was stupid or not, he was malicious. He wanted bad things to happen, and he succeeded.

So, my fellow Amerikans, it's time to grow up a little bit and put the same logic to Trump. Trump and his administration are being given so many excuses for why they might be "unintentionally" endangering millions of people's lives, that they don't even have to come up with their own. For example, Trump is going senile, he can't see, he is addicted to drugs, he's addicted to the internet, and he doesn't even want to be president. As for his response to the covid-19 pandemic, some imply that he is adopting a "wildly irresponsible" plan out of short-term interest, attempting to stave off rock-bottom until after November. A nearly incoherent piece in the New York Times imagines that Trump is trying to emotionally manipulate voters by raising their Anger or Fear levels in ways that incapacitate Democrat voters but not Republican ones.

Why are these writers trying so hard to avoid saying what we all know? Trump wants people to die. Most of the articles linked above actually agree with this, but see it as a "tactic" that serves a more abstract political goal. By the same logic, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs wanted to skin women, as a tactic to create extremely tasteless fashion - and it's his fashion faux pas that is really supposed to bother you. Supposedly, Trump wants people to die because it is expedient for him, in service of a larger agenda.

Agenda for what? What is the ultimate victory for Trump? Is it four or eight more years as President? Forty or eighty more years of GOP control over the US political system? Elevation of the Trump family within the network of elite families that run Amerikan imperialism? But if Trump is such a narcissist, if he is really the goldfish-brained clownfish we all know he is, do we really see him taking such a long view with each calculated maneuver? And while we're asking questions: if Trump only wants common people to die because it's expedient for a bigger plan that has nothing to do with killing lots of people, wouldn't there be times when letting common people die was not expedient and he would seek to avoid it? Can anyone list those times when Trump did something to help poor people survive?

Or, is his goal the restoration of Amerika to its "former greatness," as he himself claims? I don't think it's controversial to say that MAGA is a slang term for open white supremacy and subjugation of women. How could this goal be accomplished in any other way than killing people? The establishment of a white ethnostate, or a "truly free market capitalist" state for that matter, is inseparable from mass murder. If we simply admit that Trump wants to see lots of people die, what ICE has become under his administration makes sense. Separating families allows lots of people to die unseen, away from anyone who would remember them, while pimping out their valuable orphans to white adoptive parents. Predicting a future 80 years from now with temperatures 7° C above the present and carbon emissions doubled, and doing everything possible to bring that future about, has no logical explanation in narcissism, autocracy, oedipal anger, a fetish for human skin tanned orange, or any other internal state of mind, unless that state of mind wants to see as many people die as possible.

The restoration of white nationalism and the restoration of capitalism are symbiotic movements in the Trump administration, as a return to the Jim Crow era, meant to lock surviving workers out of upward class mobility, requires an enormous apartheid state to ensure surplus value falls into the right hands. Again, we return to the same basic political program of mass murder, because it's much more costly to suppress crowds of former homeowners than it is to take the homes of dead people. It's much more costly to support small dairy farmers who meet a real demand, but are no longer competitive due to the law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit, than it is for those farmers to lose everything and starve, and have their farms bought for virtually nothing by a national dairy conglomerate. Trump may or may not understand the law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit - but none of the pundits I've linked above do. Because if they did, they would understand that capitalism in crisis can be rescued quite easily, by destruction on a massive scale.

The economic catastrophe that has bloomed from the seed crystal of covid-19 is already being managed with this simple tool. For example, even though consumer demand for dairy is very high, and prices for dairy are also very high, huge amounts of milk are being dumped... straight into the ocean, maybe. Under communism, where all the people of the nation had democratic control over what the nation produces and how it uses its national products, this extra milk, which is already not being produced at a profit, would simply be free. Perhaps it would be subsidized to still be delivered to the same kitchens it was intended for, so that they can continue to make food for their communities even if they can't perform the same function of hosting them while they dine. But a planned economy would easily manage this "problem" of having too much of a good thing.

Instead, rational people find they have "excess" milk, because they live in an anarchist system of suppliers and purchasers fending for themselves with no national direction of production for the common interest. In fact, despite having an abundance of a product that everyone wants, dairy farmers are financially struggling. This very informative page gives us a lot more information: first, that even if this $19 billion bailout went entirely to the dairy industry, it would cover about one month of wasted milk. This article, written in June of last year, also complains that, even though dairy technology and yield per cow has increased over time, this has had the unwanted effect of driving prices down so low that smaller farms are not able to turn a profit, while simultaneously (the article doesn't admit this, but it's an obvious side effect of moving from small family farms to large industrial dairy facilities) driving down wages - exactly as Marx predicted in his formulation of the law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit.

For those who want to restore milk to its former greatness, what could be better than the current situation? People are buying milk out of panic. The government is going to be forced to get involved and pay off the dairy industry's obligations while it continues to collapse. Small competitors will fold up. Vast herds will become dog food before their udders can explode. The public will get used to milk costing an irritating, high price. Dairy workers can have their wages and even employment status reduced (if they are pushed into becoming subcontractors or paid under the table), while their potential replacements, desperate survivors of the covid-19 summer, grow dramatically in number each day. Sure, lots of individual farmers will suffer and die. Lots of children will be malnourished with calcium-poor diets. But after that period, we who own stock in the milk industry will see a great return on our portfolio.

The same thing is true throughout the Amerikan economy. Trump can easily "fix" healthcare, that is, restore the healthcare industry to profitability in a way that doesn't require constant, massive fraud and extortion of sick people. All he has to do is kill people who provide the least amount of profit to the healthcare industry. When the crisis ends, a great number of nursing homes will have gone out of business, their facilities bought up by private equity and a certain percentage shuttered to create scarcity for the survivors. Trump could easily solve urban housing crisis: let lots of people die. Think about how much your rent would go down if 20% of your city's population died! Traffic? A few days of bumper-to-bumper hearses will unclog those arteries. If we agree Trump is a sociopath, isn't this how a sociopath thinks?

Trump has a definite ideology, despite Chomsky's equivocation. It's fascism. The fascist program is the complete union of nation-state and capital, burning labor power in a bonfire to achieve its aims. Beyond the accumulation of value, these aims are largely theoretical; what matters is the bonfire of enemies, which enthralls the fascist gaze. In covid-19, Trump has an opportunity to kill a lot of people, and he's taking full advantage of it.

You might be saying, well, I guess we should get Democrats into power this year, if Trump is really so evil. But unfortunately, Amerika, the Democratic Party wants you to die too. Mass death is such an attractive political program, and represents such a great opportunity for business, that your pathetic, human life is never going to get any respect from people who have careers as politicians. Again, with this reality in the front of our minds, certain confusing encounters begin to make perfect sense. Well, have a great day in the greatest country on earth. I need to go tag over the "Thin the Herd" graffiti that has started appearing on sidewalks in my hip urban neighborhood.

Goast has issued a correction as of 16:27 on Aug 20, 2021

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Edit: Did you write that post above this one? Or is it from somewhere?

i would never dream of writing a coherent post plagiarism is a virtue

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

XMNN posted:

apropos of this and not much else, I listened to a trueanon about the former FBI agent who went missing in Iran, and ended up doing a late night Wikipedia binge where I wound up on this guy's page

I read this section and 👁️

quote:

Howard served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bucaramanga, Colombia. There he met Mary Cedarleaf in 1973, and they were married three years later in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1976, Howard earned a master's degree in business administration from the American University in Washington, D.C., and joined USAID. In February 1977, the Howards left for two years to live in Lima, Peru, where he worked on loan projects. There is no evidence to suggest that Howard was anything but a USAID loan officer. After Peru, the Howards returned to the United States, and he went to work in Chicago for a company doing environmental work.[1] On March 19, 1983, the Howards had a son named Lee Howard.[2]

lmao

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

MonsieurChoc posted:

Remember when the CIA tried to make a gay bomb?

british intelligence tried to sneak estrogen into hilter's food

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

SorePotato posted:

lmao, lol

where is jeff's account?

i have a feeling all of the subreddits he read are now banned

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
just cause you dont like the guy doesn't make him wrong on every account lmao

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
it's still perfectly possible epstien was just an asset that got burned

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Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

The Saucer Hovers posted:

what do you think the scariest one is? the real answer might just surprise you! :coffeepal:

nro

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