The Current State of the World thread

SoVi3t · 2012-05-08T18:03:59.000Z

If he dies, France and Europe go batshit insane, and global conspiracy nuts lose their shit and ALL people will likely start seeing the issues with our world, and how bought our governments are.

If they decide to tell him no, he can always tell the Euro to fuck right off. Portugal Spain and Greece likely aren’t that far behind either.

Something like half of France is listed as welfare recipients. You think the French will give a flying fuck what Germany wants?

And I don’t see him being bought off. Not after the people just got rid of President Bling Bling.

I am just happy to see the rest of Europe and bankers and Wall Street freaking about this guy. That MUST be a good sign. Sadly, we need people like him who are willing to take it to the extreme for the rest of us. The bankers and corporations need to feel true fear again, and learn to do business that involves more than bribing officials to get what you want/need, rather than using true economic and corporate strategies.

Manx · 2012-05-08T18:12:24.000Z

It’s already begun. I just heard an NPR report about how his “rhetoric” will differ from reality. He’s already being distanced from the platform he ran on.

TheBladeItself · 2012-05-08T18:24:56.000Z

It’s already begun. I just heard an NPR report about how his “rhetoric” will differ from reality. He’s already being distanced from the platform he ran on.

Link?

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

Manx · 2012-05-08T18:47:01.000Z

Sorry, I meant to go fetch the link, but I got distracted in the Diablo 3 thread.
Here: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152223277/why-the-markets-shrugged-off-french-vote

TheBladeItself · 2012-05-08T19:31:33.000Z

Sorry, I meant to go fetch the link, but I got distracted in the Diablo 3 thread.
Here: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152223277/why-the-markets-shrugged-off-french-vote

Even if he balks, reality will not.

This is one the facts that gives Beats some credence.

Because the poor are not going to just go away and die quietly, no matter how inconvenient the rich might find this.

They need a “final solution”, or else they are going the way of French Royalty.

Please believe they don’t give a fuck.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

Manx · 2012-05-08T19:43:12.000Z

The storming of the Bastille all over again. :tup:

SoVi3t · 2012-05-08T22:17:23.000Z

The storming of the Bastille all over again. :tup:

Pretty much. Sadly, there is only so much before people finally lose their shit. Half a country is poor. It won’t take much more before global politics and governments face a HUGE change. The other countries can try and discuss how little they like the idea of him trying to solve shit his own way, but considering how little their efforts have been working, I don’t think they get to tell others what will or won’t work.

TheBladeItself · 2012-05-08T22:21:06.000Z

Pretty much. Sadly, there is only so much before people finally lose their shit. Half a country is poor. It won’t take much more before global politics and governments face a HUGE change.

Either that, or they wipe out about 80% of the poor.

Ergo my giving Beats more credence than a lot of you do.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

SoVi3t · 2012-05-08T22:24:21.000Z

Either that, or they wipe out about 80% of the poor.

it better be world wide. ONE major country does that, the other countries won’t give their own politicians or corporations time to fuck them like that. Europe needs to hurry up and fail miserably, so the rest of the world can learn we need REAL solutions to the problems we face.

regulate · 2012-05-08T23:23:20.000Z

it better be world wide.

depending on your viewpoint bruv, that seems to be the case, albeit a slow one.

SoVi3t · 2012-05-09T02:00:37.000Z

National Post – 8 May 12

Germany to Greece: No austerity, no aid

Leading German politicians warned Greece on Tuesday that the country would not receive a cent more aid unless it fulfills all the conditions of its international bailout

Brilliant idea Germany. Bring all of Europe at each other’s throats.

I just want riots and looting, not war

TheBladeItself · 2012-05-09T18:27:05.000Z

it better be world wide. ONE major country does that, the other countries won’t give their own politicians or corporations time to fuck them like that. Europe needs to hurry up and fail miserably, so the rest of the world can learn we need REAL solutions to the problems we face.

It will be.

It will be a man-made virus.

And guess who will be the only ones with the vaccination?

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

SoVi3t · 2012-05-09T18:50:27.000Z

It will be.

It will be a man-made virus.

And guess who will be the only ones with the vaccination?

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

World wide virus requiring vaccines? You underestimate the powers of a person with no hope.

I worry more about the rich basically getting their hands on a lot of weapons (too late) and building an offshore haven to live at (also too late), while they enact the final parts of their plans.

I read an article in the national post (big canadian newspaper) that was just a nightmare of stupid. Talking about how we need austerity, and how taxing the rich (the Robin Hood tax) is a terrible idea. It has to be the most biased, retarded thing I have ever fucking read.

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/05/07/peter-foster-france-greece-vote-for-fantasy/

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty declared last week he was set against kicking in any more to an IMF European bailout fund. The weekend’s election results in France and Greece will have done nothing to change his mind.
The French elected François Hollande, a socialist, as its new president, while the Greek vote resulted in a parliamentary dog’s breakfast that throws its own bailout into doubt. As in France, the Greek result reflected an understandable desire to punish incumbents, but at the price of elevating Communists and Neo-Nazis.

wouldn’t the fact that people are willing to elect commies and nazi’s into power, show how little faith we have left in our governments? When my choices are “nazi, communist, or corporate fuck tool” I guess that leaves not many options. Seriously, I don’t see elections even working in the next decade or two, people will have stopped caring (or the elderly who still believe voting means anything, will have died out)

Manx · 2012-05-09T18:56:20.000Z

A modern war on the scale of WWII would be devastating. I’ve pondered the possibilities of this happening with my lifetime and it doesn’t seem good. that’s exactly where this economic shitstorm is headed. All it takes is one act of terrorism in retaliation for some perceived wrong. Where have we seen this before?

TheBladeItself · 2012-05-09T19:00:07.000Z

A modern war on the scale of WWII would be devastating. I’ve pondered the possibilities of this happening with my lifetime and it doesn’t seem good. that’s exactly where this economic shitstorm is headed. All it takes is one act of terrorism in retaliation for some perceived wrong. Where have we seen this before?

Incorrect, though.

That was simply a pretext used by a certain empire * cough, England, Rothschilds, cough* to initiate their hostile world economic takeover.

It was nothing to do with “honoring treaties” and shit like that.

That kind of stuff only exists in high fantasy, like the Illiad.

Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.

Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.

SoVi3t · 2012-05-09T19:00:46.000Z

A modern war on the scale of WWII would be devastating. I’ve pondered the possibilities of this happening with my lifetime and it doesn’t seem good. that’s exactly where this economic shitstorm is headed. All it takes is one act of terrorism in retaliation for some perceived wrong. Where have we seen this before?

I dont see this being a World War. It’s not like we’re slaughtering a race or religion, literally like the Nazi’s did to Jews. And at the point of GLOBAL conflict, people would either give up and not fight and tell the rich and the governments to fuck themselves (no more required enlistment in the military, and people will have NO fucking problem moving to a war free country rather than enlist). I don’t like the way Europe is going though. It was a horrible idea to unite in the first place, and now they’re at each other’s throats over who is more to blame for being flat broke, when it’s multi national corporations that have zero cares about which country they do business in, that is behind the shitty living conditions we now face.

I still await that one tidbit of news that represents the melting point, after which everybody loses their marbles, and even regular people start protesting. Sure, Occupy was nice, but look at the shit that goes on in Greece, or Egypt, or even the UK at times. Get something like that going over here, and see where it leads.

Gumpool · 2012-05-09T19:01:37.000Z

I haven’t read anything in this thread and I’m not interested in it but I am going to go ahead and blame all you liberal puss bags/ leftist and democrats on this

you wanted a world like this and you got it now LET’S RIOT

regulate · 2012-05-10T00:05:05.000Z

So has Nazi-ism lost the anti-Semite connotation and just means ultra nationalist/fascist bruvs?

specs · 2012-05-10T00:10:41.000Z

Superman is the nuclear deterrent the world deserves… but not the one it needs right now.

turingtape · 2012-05-10T09:50:55.000Z

I wish it made everybody laugh. Instead, the UK, all of Europe, and Wall Street, are horrified of what this guy plans to do (which is funny, because it is WHAT IS NECESSARY). Taxing the rich and the banks, financial transaction taxes, trying to get his country back on its feet rather. I still get the feeling he is gonna get assassinated or something. That useless German chick who is in charge of her fucked up country is pretty pissed at him already.

Oh, and the fucking Neo Nazi party in Greece actually won quite a few seats in their election. What the fuck

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/07/neo-nazi-party-has-election-breakthrough-in-greece-leader-warns-time-for-fear-has-come/

One person does not make a socialist government.