See? See what I mean?

See, this is why I love Exiled Online comments: you can get your whole day’s worth of dumbshit foolishness, all in one convenient little thread.

Socialism is old-fashioned peasant neighboring. People harvested, etc., together because they couldn’t do it separately and survive. That’s why S’ism flourishes in sub-arctic environments like Norway. Try to live like the typical Southern US “conservative” in Telemarken or Lappland and you’ll die the first winter. That’s why North Dakota, eg, is inhabited by Norsemen, not Dixie Pixies.

Does that make me insensitive?

Shouldn’t that be Goebbels?

Afghanistan has been a keylog location of The Great Game for over a century of proxy wars and failed invasions. The populace has adapted to constant accelerating guerrilla warfare, and between fending off so many larger powers, they have gotten good at it.

Haiti is practically the Tutorial Level for US regime change tactics so our intel agents have somewhere to cut their teeth.

If anything, the modern world has been shitting on these three locations so long and hard that is why they are the wastelands of tribal violence they are.

Look up Ur-Fascism, that’s what you want. Zizek is right, just as any truly radical environmentalist. There is no “natural balance”, there never was, there never will be. Evolution is always a response to arrangements that are misaligned, and they are constantly changing and devolving and reorganizing. There was no primal epiphany at the beginning of time [or man's ascension, or the creation of civilization/agricultural, or at any point of time]. We are living in apocalyptic times, but ‘Nature’ is the sum totality of present conditions, it is never at a resting place, it is never truly stable.

Nature could and maybe will be plastic trash, just like George Carlin said. Do not project your fascist tendencies on something that is so open-ended, humanity as a species will never have a full grasp of.

That being said, we are living in late-liberalism, from its progenesis in the Greek period, to its full blooming during the European Enlightenment. The two American political ‘parties’ are the same severely degraded liberal (property) parties, their ideologies are two sides of the same coin of liberalism (economic and social, which are blatantly at odds), and America is a corrupt and decayed liberal empire. Liberalism was always about the rational, universal liberation of humanity, but like so many other things, it was co-opted fully and unconditionally, and it has spent its progressive force.

We must create new coordinates if we are to survive, as it is obvious that humanity can not dally without purpose or ideological cohesion for long, and will devolve into some fiendish thing before long. Fascism is too obfuscating and unstable, but you can go on believing in some natural order or hierarchy while we set things straight.

The Left needs to learn an indispensable lesson from the videogame culture: happiness is not warm, fuzzy meetings at the debate club.

Happiness is a warm gluon-gun.

Neoliberalism? A barbarous superstition which destroyed America’s industrial base and sold out the country for a mess of foreign exchange pottage.

Empire? A tyranny of lies, taxpayer-subsidized waste and fraud.

The Federal Reserve? An outrageous undemocratic scam run by greedhead banks to plunder the country.

Free market? Doesn’t exist. There’s only Government Sachs.

Etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEEtScHIC1U

Actually, the last century is totally typical of the last 3-400 years or so: accelerating technological improvements and increases in standards of living.
But feel free to hole up in your cave and spend your disposable income on freeze-dried mule meat. Somebody’s got to eat all those damn mules, they aren’t going to eat themselves.
If anything, the outlook today is pretty rosy. Compared to the world outlook in, say, 1915, 1938, 1962…

Note the desperation of the whining- he hateses the liberals for being so smugly superior to him, but at the same time he desperately envies what they have eg Silicon Valley. You will do better in life if you aim to achieve rather than complaining about how everyone else is doing better than you.

Liberal places are miserable places to live despite “high property values”New York City? pffft… Everything is expensive as hell….

For a conservative, you show a profound lack of trust in the market. The reason that pork rinds cost less than t-bones is that people don’t like pork rinds as much. Now, you can go on at length about how good steak sucks because it’s so expensive, and how real Murikans love pork rinds, but the prices people are willing to pay show you to be a tasteless idiot.

As for those supposedly savage, fly over backwards, middle American states they are weathering the recession better than the lib states.

Relatively easy when your economy is based on pork bellies. Rank states by income- 11 o the top 13 are Blue. 13 of the bottom 14 are Red. You dumbfucks can barely screw in a lightbulb, you’ve been sponging off of Blue State taxes for decades, and now you want to crawl out from under your tattered stars-n-bars and tell us grown-ups how to run an economy?

They even surpass CA in wind energy production in 14 years while it took CA 30 years.

It took CA 30 years to surpass itself in wind energy production? Is English your first language, or is this just a produce of what passes for education among the conservative set?

US per-capita income went from $13,313 to $21,170 (1995 dollars)-cite.

higher taxes
Wrong. The top US rate in 1960 was 91%, in 1980 it was 70%.

third world camel jockeys taking Americans hostage because they knew we wouldn’t do anything about it

And the American Right cheering the death of American soldiers in a rescue attempt, while their leaders bargained with those same ‘camel jockeys’ in a deal that would send them more weapons, even while the C.J.s were blowing up Marines in Beruit.
I don’t know why moral cretins such as yourself think that “doing something about it” means “selling the enemy stinger missiles”. Reagan sure taught those mullahs a lesson- don’t mess with the US, or we’ll sell you high-tech weaponry.

cultural degradation

Let’s just say that 1)this is subjective and 2)not many of us want to be lectured on morals from those who think arming the mullahs of Iran and Saddam Hussein in the 80s was a moral good.

There is no God, and there for there is no such thing as a natural equilibrium (That is some new age liberal hippie ideal thinking there). There is nothing normal about anything -ever.

We are fucked, yes. Embrace it.

But nothing, not even conservatism, or what ever it is you are putting your hope in, is going to save us. And there was nothing we could have done in the post to change this fact.

Enjoy the ride. =)

Liberal places are miserable places to live despite “high property values”New York City? pffft… Everything is expensive as hell, They have big huge ass govt. that the liberals don’t mind bigger govt. nation wide because they are use to it imposing rules in their everyday lives.

California is rapidly collapsing and will soon break away into the Pacific Ocean.

-$300 for a 911 emergency call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31mB7iezDk

This town in Cali is a precursor to All of Cali.

As for those supposedly savage, fly over backwards, middle American states they are weathering the recession better than the lib states. New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago have more people moving out than moving in because those places suck. Screw their property values.

East Texas is becoming the new Silicon Valley of the nation while SV, CA is collapsing just like any CA town and city. They even surpass CA in wind energy production in 14 years while it took CA 30 years.