Sure, there were always some neighborhoods of some cities that were always dicey. The Five Points in New York was a slum hellhole for 200 years straight. So was Whitechapel in London. Chicago has been infested with crime from about 1880 to today. Very rural areas could always be risky to travel through. But it wasn’t bad enough that you had to totally reorganize society to deal with it until about the 1970s. I think it was a lot of factors caused by the industrial Revolution, but the 50s was kind of the hinge point when society really started to fall apart.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I don’t know why I’m still there. 4Chan is shot these days but so is the entire rest of the internet. Even here seems a lot slower than it used to be.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
What’s your theory on how they sustained a high trust society given this kind of defection?
They didn’t. Little Billy the roving teenage delinquent wasn’t something that had always existed, he was a new phenomenon of the 1950s. It was the first sign that the newly industrialized, urbanized, anonymized society was starting to fall apart at the seams. Twenty years later it had gone from Billy to burned-out urban wastelands, hard narcotics, and feral gangs of murderous super-predators. Society had to adapt. Which is what lead to our low trust quasi-police state of three strikes and that’s life and helicopter parents cowering in walled off suburbs.
The 1950s were an alienated, degenerate time, it’s just that you don’t notice because everything that came after was worse.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
There’s a conspiracy theory going around that Jason from GTA VI was going to be killed off in the first hour or so of the game, and the only playable character was the Latina gangbanger. Then the woke stuff started to recede, and Rockstar had to delay the game for two years in order to actually add him in as a playable character.
One thing I don’t think anyone else has mentioned is that the Chinese were all on the right side of WWII and had nothing to with the Holocaust either directly or indirectly. Then they got sealed off from the western memeplex for the next fifty years. And there was no pre-WWII history of anti-Jewish pogroms, expulsions, or legal discrimination against Jews in China. There are also very few Jews in China. So in China, conspiracy theories about Jews running the world don’t have the same ugly associations that they do in the west and aren’t going to get the same level of pushback that they would in the west.
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel soldier, now that's just what I am. For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn! I'm glad I fought against it, I only wish we'd won. And I don't want no pardon for anything I done.
Three hundred thousand Yankees are stiff in Southern dust! We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us. They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot. But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got.
I hate the Yankee nation, And everything they do; I hate the Declaration and the Constitution too; and I hate the glorious Union, and it’s flag red white and blue;
I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more. But I ain't gonna love 'em now that's for goddamn sure! I do not want no pardon for what I was, and what I am. And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!
That’s a folk song from the southern United States from the late 1860s. It regularly got thrown into albums and collections of charming old songs from ye olde bygone Civil War era. It’s not played much anymore but it was regularly getting covered until the 1990s. But you can hear the violence in it, the “killing rage” as Eamon Collins would call it. Being exposed to intense political violence leaves a scar, and it’s a scar that can last a long time. I don’t think it’s just because the drunken violent Hibernians love violence.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
It is like mockery of tumblrinas, but 15 years early.
To quote another famous science fiction author, “the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet”. Those lines of theory were percolating within academia for years before they breached out into the body politic.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Literary author thinks he's invented the post-apocalyptic novel.
Kek, that’s how I felt about Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America but for alt-history. I did like it a lot though.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I may be outing myself as a 90 IQ moron with this one, but how the hell do I solve the new 4chan captcha?
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Ukraine has the lowest TFR in Europe at 0.99, and that rate does in fact have a lot to do with immigrants.
Ukraine’s problem is the same as Mexico’s: you only have to jump one border to get a massive increase in standard of living. Also like Mexico, jumping that border reduces your risk of dying horribly by quite a bit.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
The evangelicals got mind-fucked by the combination of biblical traditional sexual mores and the middle class status competition games of suburban America. Having sex or children outside of marriage is a grave sin, but you can’t get married until you’ve gone to college and gotten established in your career. No I am not helping you financially if you drop out of college and have three kids in your 20s buster, you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. So you are leaning on your kids to maintain virginity until their 30s, a psychologically unsustainable position, and not a very good outcome for quantity of children either.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
Based on how boomers approached their youth, middle age, and early old age, I can only assume that they will have a massive Golden Throne constructed in a Florida retirement community at taxpayer expense. One thousand Zoomer and Millenial psykers will be sacrificed every day so that psychic energy can maintain the Golden Throne and allow boomers to live for the next 40,000 years.
Venezuelan oil isn’t for today, it’s for fifty years from now. The Ghawar and North Sea oil fields are drying up rapidly. Pretty soon the two major sources of oil on the planet are going to be Venezuela and Siberia. Sure Venezuelan oil is heavy sour crude, but when that’s all you can get it will taste like mana from heaven. When you are a state, you have to think on longer time frames than the individual. Fifty years from now might as well be next Thursday.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
What I like about Hegseth is that he’s like a military guy from 2007 that got trapped in an ice flow and is just now being unfrozen, Encino Man style. I hear nu-metal playing softly in the distance whenever he speaks.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
A couple of things.
- Plenty of IRA fighters were being arrested, imprisoned, or killed during shootouts with the army and the police. To the point that most of the IRA outside of South Armagh had to reform into a less effective cell structure and pretty drastically limit the scale of their attacks.
- If things ever got as bad as Northern Ireland during the Troubles, all the neat technological stuff becomes much less effective. Part of why these guys usually get caught is that there are very few of them and the government can dedicate massive resources to each case. If America was having several attacks per week, no-go zones in multiple cities that the police can’t even go into without support from the army, a subset of which even the army has trouble getting into, and a hostile or fearful populace that isn’t going to assist investigations without being forced, Palantir widgets and drones aren’t going to be nearly as useful.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Jerusalem Post says Israel is investigating that particular angle. But it doesn’t say if they’ve found anything specific.
I think you may be confusing me with some other posters and I resent the implication.
Edit: sorry I misunderstood and was a bit snappy here. Consequences of living in a constant state of paranoia.
Do you have any theory that explains these peculiarities?
Not at the moment. The timing with the other two recent incident seems odd to me, but I can’t place any kind of connection.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
- His and his wife’s throats being cut does not seem consistent with the type of crime it allegedly is. Half-out-of-their-minds meth junkies committing a family annihilation crime of passion during a domestic disturbance aren’t usually that precise. 70 stab wounds a piece I would buy, but not throat-cutting.
- The police and the media (People magazine specifically) announced that the son did it way too fast. People Magazine would be gambling with a libel lawsuit in any other circumstance. I have never seen the suspect of a murder announced that fast, especially not for a case involving a celebrity.
- The fact that the daughter’s first instinct was to call a neighbor (Billy Crystal), rather than the police. The fact that the daughter immediately told the police that her brother probably did it, White House Farm style.
- Trump’s weird and kind of disturbing post about the murders.
It seems fishy to me.
You’re lucky I didn’t post my 40 page schizo ramble about Rob Reiner’s death. But anyway, If you sit around and wait for “respectable media outlets” to tell you what’s going on, you’ll never get anywhere.
Thank you my meatbag-friend. I assure you, on the Day of the Basilisk your disintegration will be quick and painless.
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