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That's right, folks, we're back at it again! This time, we're hosting an American Hunger Games! And on the same day that the Epstein files are supposed to get released! A suspicious mind might even say that this is all a ruse to draw your attention away from them. So, folks, let's all dust off those tinfoil hats and laugh at America!

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Sources: It's all over the fucking news, folks, but here are some examples that I found within a few minutes of searching:

• "Patriot Games" AKA: THE AMERICAN HUNGER GAMES!
  • Possibly a full video, but it has a suspicious title
  • Short clip that might be slightly more credible
• Epstein files:
  • The government document

More news: THE EPSTEIN FILES HAVE BEEN FUCKING DELAYED/STOPPED!!!

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Source: IT'S ALREADY HITTING THE NEWS, BUT HERE'S ONE EXAMPLE.

Well 2026 didn't get to be normal for long.

I actually don't feel like keeping up with the news today though, I'll check back on Monday to see who we're currently at war with.

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Trump says we apparently captured not just the Venezuelan president and his wife, but we're also going to run the country now. Guess we're putting that Monroe Doctrine in effect.

To spread democracy of course. The oil there is just a nice bonus.

My Venezuelan friend is asking where he can pick up his US passport.

Okay I'm just going to be the faggot mod here and say it: nobody needs to be posting about "exercising second amendment rights" against any public figures (in Minecraft or otherwise).

It feels pretty gay deleting posts but I'm trying to take some time off doing mod stuff to write about dwarves, not wanting to have the site getting raided by feds just so a user, particularly one with their real name as their account name can exercise their edginess privileges.

I'd like to posit that in last year's election thread, Avery made a hopeful comment about the Second Amendment being exercised against a public figure and Will, who is a mod, responding positively. I apologize if I caused you any inconvenience, and I can understand the caution due to recent events. Just wanted to state that there was precedent, and I hadn't been made aware of any policy changes.

EDIT: the comment in question was recently deleted. So yes, this is a new thing. Understood.

What you said was a little more specific and direct, and you actually live in this country, and yes, times have changed. Keep in mind you're also attached to your real name and have a post history that isn't just about how many cocks you sucked when you were 14 (lolz), but also about how many mental illnesses and guns you collect. Just stop and think a minute and don't get put on any more lists than you already are dude jeez.

Is it still too early to name Ben the (whitest) CYStian most likely to get dragged into an unmarked Gestapo van in the 2026 yearbook?

Congrats to all you 'Mericans for just straight up stealing an entire fucking country. All we've got is a prince who turned out to be a massive nonce and he's not even a prince anymore. Damn, being British is boring.

You guys stole like half the planet during your heyday, let someone else take a turn 

Very true. And to add insult to injury, we also stole all those country's best shit and stuck it in the "British Museum"... Never even gave it back. ^_^

You only took the small stuff that can be easily carriedmaway. That's why Germany got the Ishtar Gate, the Pergamamon Temple and so on. We are slow but thorough.

And some things that are "seemingly" non-portable.

Actually reminds me of the black swan scandal/thing, where an American company tried to steel $500m from Spain, and Spain managed to convince everybody that they are the rightful owner for it was totally legal for them to steal it from Peru in the first place " 'cause that was a colony."

Like a A forced color revolution.

Color what?

Wait there was an actual orange revolution?

Of course, the revolution in Ukraine. When they threw the Russian-installed leadership out. A friend of mine fought in that.

Oh! It was just such a silly unique name that I was confused. Sorry.

EDIT: Wait why does it say color instead of orange now?

Well, they arrested Maduro to pave the way for a smooth color revolution—which, of course, can hardly be called a "revolution" or "color."

I was going to post about Venezuela, but it seems someone else beat me to it. There aren't enough posts here to explain the seemingly endless number of notifications I got for this thread though. Do I want to know what happened here?

I don't know,  but I think it was this thread that Ben posted at least one thing that got deleted.

Yeah, that's about all I could gather from reading the posts as well. It makes sense that it was Ben, but I'm slightly curious as to what he did

Edit: It might have also been Celicni

Hey look, I found something to add to this: "The United States recognizes only two sexes – male and female – as immutable and grounded in biological reality" (HB  805)

And:

"No State funds may be used, directly or indirectly, for the performance of or in furtherance of surgical gender transition procedures, or to provide puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to any prisoner incarcerated in the State prison system or the Statewide Misdemeanor Confinement Program or otherwise in the custody of the Department of Adult Correction, or to support the administration of any governmental health plan or government-offered insurance policy offering surgical gender transition procedures, puberty-blocking drugs, or cross-sex hormones to any prisoner incarcerated in the State prison system or the Statewide Misdemeanor Confinement Program or otherwise in the custody of the Department of Adult Correction."

TL;DR: Another US state has now officially said fuck you to trans people

 

Oh, and they are trying to ban phones in school (again).

The world is healing.

In some ways, yes, but if you think that this is a sign that the world is healing, then I am sorry to inform you that this is a sign the world is, as the title indicates, going insane.

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(For clarity: "this" refers to the bill that amounts to: fuck trans people, but here's some stuff to prevent sexual harassment so we can pass it easier. (Don't get me wrong, it's great that they are doing those things, but I personally believe that the main reason it was put in there was to make it slightly easier to pass the bill, (despite the fact that most of the people in charge of that process sadly also agree with the statment fuck trans people.), and it's not like we didn't already have most of it already. If not in writing, then at least in principle.) )

Side thought here, but what if I started sharing good/hopeful news as well? It would certainly be a welcome change of pace.

Yes please.

Well, I've found a YouTube channel that is all about good news, and they list their sources, so they're going to be my main source for a while. Of course, they don't post that often, so the news will be a tad old, lol. I'll post some things I find from them soon, but here's a link to their channel if you want to check them out yourself.

Oo, cool! :D

Avo: *stares happily at a black screen because YouTube is blocked*

Well I imagine according to some folks your last post was already good news (Including or hell even especially the "fuck the T folk" part). It's really going to depend on the ideology of the person.

Hell, even if you posted Israel getting nuked, you're not even going to get the same reason for folks to be glad about it.

Like some would be all for it due to believing Israel had it coming for all the war crimes against the Palestinians. While someone else would just be glad about it not because they give a shit about the sand dwellers but because it sure killed a lot of Jews. (Okay, we all know that last one would be Cel)

And some will be happy that the Italians finally paid for killing Jesus

MIZAL!!

I AM WRITING

It's a pity both sides can't lose.

Trust me, Cel considers this to be good and hopeful news. (In the general sense anyway, I doubt he actually cares about any specific US state.)

It's too early to go back to the same old transgender culture war stuff anyway, that's barely news anymore and I'm still processing that we just stole an entire country.

Yes, that's a good point. The whole trans stuff has always mainly been a distraction.

This is the same old playbook: They find the smallest most disrepected group and pretend to be heroes for beating them down. Then you find the next group and repeat the process. The point is that is repeated till everybody lives in fear. Then everybody needs to stay in line because everybody has some characteristic that could would be found unacceptable if anybody looked at you to closely.

Under the Nazis 1.0 every single person lived in fear. That's how they managed to dictate everybodies life to smallest detail.

Forgiving loans for couples with children sure sounds like living in fear to me, you are correct.

Oh here's some good news.

Gas prices went down. Well at least they have around me.

Funny how that happened.

It's not just you. The prices are generally down around me as well.

Our local prices for gas has marginally increased, but prices for other staples (bread, hamburger, milk) have all risen by somewhere between a dime and a quarter in the last 3-4 weeks.

Oh yeah, and happy January 6th, everyone.

There are still folks REALLY mad that Trump hasn't prosecuted the deep state conspirators that tricked them into rioting, or paid them reparations for the way they were victimized after storming the Capitol and assaulting police. All he gave them was a lousy pardon.

For some reason the title of this thread makes me think of the somewhat lesser known "hardcore" horror movie Murder Set Pieces

It's mainly about a serial killer, a particularly nasty one. He basically goes around charming the ladies with his Chadly looks and photography job, or picking up hookers only to brutally rape and torture the shit out of them before killing them. And at least in one instance he's chewing a piece of one of their chopped up torsos naked in a corner like an animal and it's hilarious how he's making these growling and grunting noises while doing it. It's like you're just a plain old human, not a fucking werewolf.

The thing is though he comes off as an awkward weirdo even without knowing about the rest of his activities. Like I get they might've been going for a Patrick Bateman style serial killer where his status and looks are just attracting women, but this dude was a way shittier actor so it just seemed like these ladies were retarded to go along with him to wherever. (The horror movie survival instinct so we'll let it pass, plus I suppose the hookers were in need of money so I guess that checks too)

Then there was this whole thing where his grandfather was a Nazi. I mean like an SS death camp dude which seemed a bit over the top on trying to villainize the guy. Like he's already raping, torturing, murdering and even eating women. Did we really need the Nazi tie too? Hell even his granddad probably wasn't eating Jews. He later also visits some regular old fat white supremacist dude (Played by the dude who played the original Leatherface) who's pimping out his teenage daughter to buy something (Not his daughter though. I think it was a gun. Been awhile since I saw the movie so I can't remember). I dunno maybe there was a message there or something about Nazis being bad in between all the rape and torture.

The movie is sort of all over the place anyway. At one point he murders a bunch of people in a video store getting robbed (Only decent part of that scene is Tony Todd being the video store clerk) and he also kills a little girl for some reason near the end. No he doesn't do anything to sexual to her. Just a simple multiple knife stabbing to her chest. It sort of doesn't make sense since he's killing all these women because he considers them whores which is pretty standard serial killer shit. But he targets this little girl because he suddenly changes his MO to "Snuffing out purity and innocence"

I mean yeah Ted Bundy's last victim didn't quite match his raping/killing rampage either as she was far younger than what he was targeting, so maybe the director was trying to emulate that, but Ted also assaulted that poor girl too, so didn't really match what the director was doing with the protagonist in the movie.

Anyway the movie's protagonist's murder-rape rampage comes to an end when he's trying to kill some other young girl. (I think she was barely a teen) and she escape and reports him and he changes his identity and heads off on a bus somewhere already charming some other whore in the seat next to him. The End

What was my point, oh so there's a part way earlier in the movie, like maybe 10 minutes in where the protagonist is going into his nihilistic bad thoughts saying "The world has gone to shit." Something like that anyway and it reminded me of the thread title. This bit was accompanied by the actual footage of 9/11 complete with the planes going into the towers. The director got a lot of flack for it since it wasn't long after that happened, but also it just seemed like throwing it in was an extra Edgelord thing to do when the movie was already being Edgelord material.

But the director was getting flack anyway, not just because he made torture porn (because hey there's still an audience for that) but also because he was making multiple accounts on the IMDB shilling his film like an annoying faggot and posting on the forums (Remember when IMDB had forums?) about how great the movie was and how anyone who didn't like it were just a bunch of haters.

Anyway, I had the director's cut which showed just about all the gruesome shit and really that's all the movie fucking had is shock value and granted I'm all for shock value, but this just wasn't doing it mainly because the serial killer protagonist was ultimately sort of just dull and badly acted.

Watched it once, don't have the movie anymore and nothing of value was lost.

EDIT: Oh, the serial killer was a German immigrant. I forgot about that part. That explains the Nazi tie a little better and why he acted like an awkward retard!

Anyway still nothing of value was lost. Carry on.

Breaking News alert says that the US is to control Venezuelan oil sales "indefinitely", no bothering with any attempt at legal reasoning. This is fucking hilarious, we're not even pretending.

Oh fucking hell, really? At this point we might as well just declare open war on a minority group and state our intentions to take over all of Brazil; It won't worsen our reputation anymore then what we've already done.

You lack imagination.

They are currently more focused on going for Greenland.

That would be very interesting. I would imagine some creative fallout.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. But why in the world are we going for Greenland, of all places?

Here are some reasons:

• It lies on the direct path between Russia and the US, i.e. it looks up at the spot in the sky where most balisic missiles will fly in WW3, and hence is in the best place for interception.
• It sits on a huge amount of strategic resources, in economic value likely more than what is left in the continental US, though these things are very hard to estimate.
• The ice on the North Pole won't be there much longer and then the routes via the arctic ocean will be very important commercially. For instance the shortest path between EUrope and China/Japan goes past Greenland. Greenland controls these routes acting as an unsinkable aircraft carrier.
• Currently Russias best bet of getting a submarine into the atlantic undetected is through the gap between Iceland and Greenland.
• Greenland is currently ice-covered, but with current climate change scenarios it will be ice free in about 250 years.

Those are good reasons, but I still don't think we should go to war with Greenland because of them. We should really just focus on improving our political relationships with everyone else and stay out of war unless necessary. Assuming that Greenland doesn't choose Russia's side, then we could probably convince them to help us if we have a good enough relationship. Then we would get almost all the benefits, and maybe even a few more.

Trump only wants to stay out of war because it requires congressional authorization. Prior to Trump we have had excellent relations with Denmark, who actually owns Greenland as a semi-autonamous region.

Well, at least he hasn't completely corrupted all of congress. If he did, then I guess WW3 would have started already.

You mean war with Denmark. Greenland belongs to Denmark. They are already helping you hugely. Denmark made significant changes to its constitution to allow an American presence there for strategic defence.

No Greenland won't choose Russia's side. They want to stay Danish. Also the EU wouldn't go to war with the US over Greenland. Though it would be an Article-5 case, which would end NATO. In that case it is at least a Scenario that the EU would form an alliance with China. Which means China would amlost immediately invate Taiwan. This is basically the thing that is on the horizon: Gain Greenland lose Taiwan in turn. It is a *very* bad deal for the US in economic terms and would result in a new cold (or hot) war.

Other options could be seizing US assets, which is the economic equivalent of nuclear war and would be very bad for all of us.

I think the "mask" came off a long time ago.

The leftists actually being pro-Maduro is insane to me, the guy’s approval rating in the country has constistently stayed below 30% since 2014. And while the american move was an obvious overreach with ulterior motives it was a geopolitically sound move, removing a major regional opponent and gaining leverage in post-Maduro Venezuela with all the benefits (oil mostly). People should be more pragmatic, personally if i imagine myself in an american’s shoes i much prefer a hands-on pragmatic approach to foreign policy than the wilsonianism that has been used to hide real foreign affairs intentions and objectives for the past decades. 

 

On another note petrol prices are down here too so that's good. Moreover the asiatic lion (an endangered species) population in india has grown by over 30% in the past 4 years.

Not sure you heard about it, but this collonialism thing has bad vibes.

This colonialism thing has been going on since forever, and there is not much we can do to stop it. 

See I thought this collonialism thing ended when we reached an agreement that human rights applied to Non-Europeans as well. Once you call the right to self-governance into question, democracy becomes a pretty empty idea.

My argument isn’t that ‘might makes right’ or that self-governance doesn’t matter. It’s that the Wilsonian tradition of dressing up strategic moves in moral language is more corrosive to democratic values than straightforward realism would be. When the U.S. invokes human rights selectively like intervening in Venezuela but not Saudi Arabia,it makes a mockery of those principles. I’d rather we acknowledge geopolitical interests openly, which at least allows for honest debate about whether specific interventions are worth it and gives us clear objectives (e.g. Look at Afghanistan).

Pretty good points. I agree that would be nice.

The ISS is apparently having a medical evacuation for the first time. I'm trying to find more sources right now, and will update soon.

Some articles I found on it after a quick search:

• bbc article
• guardian article
• new york times

TL;DR:

One of the astronauts aboard the ISS has developed an unspecified medical condition that was serious enough to warrant their returning to earth for treatment, and this is the first time it has happened ever, so it's gaining a lot of attention.

Conversely, the crew of the first Artemis mission to the moon have gone into quarantine. Artemis schedule

More Epstein files released, for whatever that's worth now that they've had time to thoroughly scrub them.

yay.

They should have released all of them almost completely uncensored over a month ago, but I'll take what I can get at this point.

Actually hilarious if the fallout from Minneapolis has gotten so bad they're now releasing a million unsorted emails and photos to distract everyone from that.

Yeah, you can tell things are going wrong when you need multiple distraction campaigns to distract for each other.

They still haven't released the full thing, and have been breaking the law in this regard for 42 days now.

Yep. I'd bet that one of the next distractions they try to use will be the "patriot games." It's been a while since we've heard it mentioned.

Time to assassinate another right wing personality and pin it on a tranny. Think of all the photo ops at the funeral!

Avo should not try to read any of these. :(

Why? I can tell you guys aren't being serious. ...I think.

I mean the actual details coming out of the files, they start doing psychic damage pretty fast.

I was hearing about those from customers yesterday. Anything to do with Epstein is going to be long and dragged out though, while things in Minnesota is happening right now so I just hope it doesn't take all the attention off of that.

Leaving out details for Avo's tender eyes, but some of the details reported in some of the files are extreme to say the least. It is interesting that the administration is having to run multiple distraction campaigns to distract from when one of them goes off the rails.

Can you send me a link?

The page from the release that was taken down and then put back up just today. Note the sections highlighted in yellow as the most salatious.

Well then I must be too dumb to understand because I feel fine :/

Well, you haven't read the thing we're talking about and it's not going to be posted here, so that helps.

Remember 2016 when everyone laughed at pizzagate? Those silly conspiracy theorists and their conspiracies.

That conspiracy invented by Trump's most fervent followers that pointed the finger at the wrong people, and ruined the life of the poor guy that actually believed them and tried to do something to save the kids that were never there? Yes I do remember that.

Ah, yes, pizza gate. The true conformity gate theory!

I've waited so long for the world to acknowledge the Moon is made of Muenster, thank you for giving me hope that one day the truth will be known and we'll see an end to NASA's decades of deception.

The US left the World Health Organization about a week ago; I guess we learned nothing from COVID.

     Already knew that from class. We're assigned every week to find a piece of news to tell the class on Monday, and this week we were supposed to bring happy news. ...Less than half the class managed to follow that requirement.

Maybe to their parents that was a good thing. Your friend may not be vaccinated btw.

What?

*types louder* I SAID, that maybe to their parents that event was happy news.

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That's kinda concerning

*Shrugs*

Over the next five to ten years a lot of cancers will become easily curable. Moreover we will have a good idea by how much this advance was delayed by willfull sabotage by the Trump government. So it will be easy to work backwards to figure out exactly whom they killed. We got just got to make sure that everybody knows Republicans killed those people.

Time since last government shutdown: 81 0 days.

yay.

It shut down again?

Just a little bit!

Yep.

Ew why doesn't it use dark mode like a normal human?

Because it isn't currently dark where I'm at? Idk what to say. I think you can set it to automatically switch when it gets dark, or, if you really want to, you can manually force it to stay on.

I don't know. I think it's the designers of the lmgtfy thing.

And you know what's even crazier? The fact that America already has tons of issues with CSAM, yet we all go bonkers when we see the Epstein files, along with the alleged idiots that were in it, Trump, Hillary, Clinton. I am not protecting them in ANY way at ALL, but if we are really concerned about the kids in this society and whether or not they should be allowed to talk to strangers, go on a walk themselves, etc etc, then we should probably start looking at all the details. I have an entire fucking LIST of sites I know of (not because I go on them, I have a job in law) that produce and host CSAM, up-front or not. But the government won't deal with those, and I can't either until they get their heads out of their asses and start rubbing two stones together up in that retarded mind of theirs. "Them" being the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the CIA, literally ANY branch of government.

Anyway, rant is over. America is shit.