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OrangeJuliusEvola said:
Probably something really fucking stupid or inconsequential, like a sportball game or a live leak of some politician making a "let them eat cake" statement.

In history, the straw that breaks the camel's back often isn't the biggest event, or even really directly related.
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Yep. The Byzantines once rioted so bad the Emperor was almost overthrown as a result of a chariot race. It took him sending in a eunuch with a few bags of coin and a message of "You dumbasses are rioting in support of the other fucking team, you morons" to get the guys responsible to knock it off.
 
Flan Handler said:
Dude, Gen X has known at least since the early 90’s that they were never getting SS. The math is clear, it was always expected to collapse somewhere between 2025 and 2030.

Obama did some payroll deduction holiday for a year or two that sped that up.

I have no idea why the boomers cling to this when the Ponzi was exposed before the USSR collapsed but 🤷‍♂️
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I remember making a passing comment to my uncle around the mid-90s along that line, and it just *infuriated* him. He literally took out a pen and paper and started writing equations on it while ranting about how it was possible to keep SS going and he was going to demonstrate it. Most of it just went over my head, but by around the ten minute mark into the lecture I had the epiphany that he wasn't so much trying to convince me that I was wrong, but that he was trying to convince himself that he was right.

Now as an older man, on reflection, I can see why he was so afraid of being wrong, that there are ramifications that will come out of that failure that some punk kid in a Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt cannot understand, and given his profession, it likely seemed like a gateway into a hellscape of suffering for the old, the sick and the mentally ill that was sanity-crushing.
 
I can only ask one question: why vote Republican? It's clear that they aren't effective in providing actual reform in a broken societal system beyond "we're not THAT guy." Meanwhile, MAGA was supposed to be "Make America Great Again," which regressed into being a Trump cult.

I'm against of what the Democrats are doing in principle, but Republicans don't have any backing to accomplish anything long term. Their only victory was regulating abortion to states' rights. Okay cool, you finally managed to take advantage of the Democrats' inability to reasonably negotiate for virtue signaling. How does that better anybody's life?

They don't have the slightest clue of what conservatism IS.
 
Snekposter said:
Yep. The Byzantines once rioted so bad the Emperor was almost overthrown as a result of a chariot race. It took him sending in a eunuch with a few bags of coin and a message of "You dumbasses are rioting in support of the other fucking team, you morons" to get the guys responsible to knock it off.
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I might be misremembering but wasn't the riot ended with Emperor Justinian sending in the army to kill most of them? If so that was relatively early in Byzantine history.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Hochul was sworn in to be governor recently, and she had this to say in her speech:

"Secondly, we have to make our state more affordable. Yes, people want to be here. But the thought of not being able to have your grandkids grow up in the same community that they were raised in because they can't afford it? That's very sad. And New Yorkers are just struggling to pay rent, food and gas to get to their jobs. They're hurting. Our people are hurting. We're going to fight for them. And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere. We can do this."

"Lol," said the Scorpion. "Lmao."
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This is actually a great speech and shows a keen awareness of the issues. Bravo!

Sadly it's not 1980 and NY has been bleeding people for 42 years already and it's drastically too fucking late.
 
I feel like that there's going to be a global economic downturn soon, maybe it will be a great recession or even a great depression, that might finally break people's belief that there's a future in keeping the status quo, since to distract people from it I suspect the media will make one massive push from cnn to msnbc and fox regarding pedophilia (oh, im sorry mr fed, MAP), if this happens, people might divide themselves into 2 camps like when the revolution happened, one side desiring to do nothing, the other for a violent change

OrangeJuliusEvola said:
Probably something really fucking stupid or inconsequential, like a sportball game or a live leak of some politician making a "let them eat cake" statement.

In history, the straw that breaks the camel's back often isn't the biggest event, or even really directly related.
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Considering Biden, Kamala and the rest of their insufferable team, that might just happen one day, remember hillary calling us deplorables
 
>tfw no Asian gf said:
I might be misremembering but wasn't the riot ended with Emperor Justinian sending in the army to kill most of them? If so that was relatively early in Byzantine history.
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Yes, the Nika riots. Early on, but a harbinger of the instability yet to come.
On January 13, 532 A.D., an angry crowd arrived at the Hippodrome for the races. The Hippodrome was next to the palace complex, so Justinian could preside over the races from the safety of his box in the palace. From the start, the crowd hurled insults at Justinian. By the end of the day, at race 22, the partisan chants had changed from "Blue" or "Green" to a unified Nίκα ("Nika", meaning "Win!", "Victory!" or "Conquer!"), and the crowds broke out and began to assault the palace. For the next five days, the palace was under siege. Fires started during the tumult destroyed much of the city, including the city's foremost church, the Hagia Sophia (which Justinian would later rebuild).

Some of the senators saw this as an opportunity to overthrow Justinian, as they were opposed to his new taxes and his lack of support for the nobility The rioters, now armed and probably controlled by their allies in the Senate, also demanded that Justinian dismiss the prefect John the Cappadocian and the quaestor Tribonian. They then declared a new emperor, Hypatius, a nephew of former Emperor Anastasius I.

Justinian considered fleeing, but his wife Theodora is said to have dissuaded him, saying, "Those who have worn the crown should never survive its loss. Never will I see the day when I am not saluted as empress." She is also credited with adding, "[W]ho is born into the light of day must sooner or later die; and how could an Emperor ever allow himself to be a fugitive." Although an escape route across the sea lay open for the emperor, Theodora insisted that she would stay in the city, quoting an ancient saying, "Royalty is a fine burial shroud," or perhaps, "[the royal colour] Purple makes a fine winding sheet."

Justinian created a plan that involved Narses, a popular eunuch, and the generals Belisarius and Mundus. Carrying a bag of gold given to him by Justinian, the slightly built eunuch entered the Hippodrome alone and unarmed. Narses went directly to the Blues' section, where he approached the important Blues and reminded them that Justinian supported them over the Greens. He also reminded them that Hypatius, the man they crowned, was a Green. He distributed the gold and the Blue leaders spoke quietly with each other and then addressed their followers. In the middle of Hypatius' coronation, many Blues left the Hippodrome, while the Greens remained. Then, Imperial troops led by Belisarius and Mundus stormed into the Hippodrome, killing any remaining people indiscriminately, whether they were Blues or Greens.

About thirty thousand people were reportedly killed. Justinian had Hypatius executed and exiled the senators who had supported the riot. He then rebuilt Constantinople and the Hagia Sophia and was free to establish his rule.
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AnotherPleb said:
I can't wait for New York or Michigan to say that their serfs can't move outside the state. California will be happy to let their people leave so the locusts can ruin the country.
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California tried to pass a law basically stating that even if you no longer live in the state, you have to pay taxes to California for like ten years.
 
AnonymousKot said:
That would break so many laws that every state would have to adjust theirs to accommodate cali
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They also passed a law stating something like that if you have an custody agreement in any other state revolving around transsexual children's healthcare it's auto-invalidated because California is a sanctuary state for trannykids. Or rather, for the Munchausen by proxy parents chopping their kids dicks off for clout at book club.

California needs to get smacked down. I can't wait till they start declaring the right to seize property of other states if California needs it. Like seize shipping containers or something.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
This is why you don't claim fraud. This is why you don't claim intentional behavior. This is why you just claim it was misran.

How many stolen elections will the left get away with before the right figures this out?
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"IF WE GET YET ANOTHER CASE THROWN OUT ON ITS ASS AFTER THE JUDGE DOESN'T READ THE NOTES OR IGNORES THE TRIAL THEN WE-"

Look, they don't care. They never did. Elections are worthless and the judiciary that presides over them don't give a shit because the fuckers elected in are their checks and balances. Until someone levels a courthouse or the judge's private property using less than legal means, please shut up because every court case about 'election fraud' or 'misrunning' or 'ungood vote counting' or whatever you want to phrase it as will go nowhere. The second any go through it calls EVERY election into question, that's not something you want if you also want job security as a fed. Quit acting like there's a chance through the legal system, there never was and there won't ever be and believing otherwise is somehow gayer than dooming.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I just have something I want to point out.

>Complain about election fraud
>Complain about RINOs and Uniparty
>Reap garbage policies from support of Uniparty
>Blame third party Libertarians for election losses
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There's also:
>Be warned that sucking Uniparty cock, on purpose or otherwise again, will lead to a yeetstravaganza
>Sucks uniparty cock
>OH NO GUISE EVERYONE LEFT HOW CAN WE FORESEE THIS DOOM DOOOOOOOOOOM.
Spirelord: Downfall said:
"IF WE GET YET ANOTHER CASE THROWN OUT ON ITS ASS AFTER THE JUDGE DOESN'T READ THE NOTES OR IGNORES THE TRIAL THEN WE-"

Look, they don't care. They never did. Elections are worthless and the judiciary that presides over them don't give a shit because the fuckers elected in are their checks and balances. Until someone levels a courthouse or the judge's private property using less than legal means, please shut up because every court case about 'election fraud' or 'misrunning' or 'ungood vote counting' or whatever you want to phrase it as will go nowhere. The second any go through it calls EVERY election into question, that's not something you want if you also want job security as a fed. Quit acting like there's a chance through the legal system, there never was and there won't ever be and believing otherwise is somehow gayer than dooming.
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Seriously this whole "everything is going to get fucked" shit really is funny to me regardless of how often it happens and for whatever reason - just like 2016 but in reverse? It's already been fucked and the "opposition" called your bluff almost a year ago then three years ago and years before that, and this was your party's response.
The gun rights cake analogy comes to mind.

I'm not impressed. I'll pay attention again if you retards get a funny haaahaa man again tho, as it stands. lmao.
 
Eggplant Wizard said:
California tried to pass a law basically stating that even if you no longer live in the state, you have to pay taxes to California for like ten years.
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AnonymousKot said:
That would break so many laws that every state would have to adjust theirs to accommodate cali
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They already do that for stock. They will try to tax Restricted Stock Units (how tech workers get paid) that were granted in California even if the taxpayer no longer lives in California.
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The Last Stand said:
But she'll fuck MAGA in the head. That's good enough for me.

Thirsty.
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Reminder that women support things like letting child sex traffickers have unimpeded access to the border, selling access to 12-year-old girls who get drugged and raped until they're discarded like trash, solely to spite men who they feel are beneath them.
 
At this point, I'm convinced the last true non-violent American revolt was electing Donald Trump hard enough for the rigging to fail. That was so lucky that it might've not just been a coincidence but divinely inspired because nothing pleases God more than seeing evil with egg on its face. And since there's no rest for the wicked and they're so old and decrepit at this point that they're exhausting their resources, and on top of that, they've seen red for so long they can't think rationally to know when and how to stop destroying themselves.

'Course, they have to take the rest of us down with them, but at least we can go down laughing. That's something they can't take away from us no matter how hard they try.
 
If anyone is wondering why McCarthy hasn’t won the Freedom caucus votes yet, it sounds like it’s because he won’t agree to not interfering in primary races. So McCarthy wouldn’t be able to threaten trying to primary anyone or something or something strange like that.

There are some other things they’re carrying on about, but I think that’s probably the biggest issue for them.

 
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