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Monday morning Minnesota meltdown

by | Jun 1, 2020 | Mondays, Uncategorized | 8 comments

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Mondays suck, but this one sucks really badly.

The world has watched in shock and astonishment as cities across the USA – though they are, quite conspicuously, the most blue cities in America – burn in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Never mind that the circumstances of his death remain suspicious – the autopsy report makes it very clear that Mr. Floyd could not possibly have died from multiple police officers kneeling on him. What matters is that violence and lawlessness has broken out across the entire country, and blue-state governors and blue-city mayors have absolutely no idea how to stop it (WARNING – Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation content INCOMING):

It’s really very simple. The way you stop such violence is to enforce the law. What you’re seeing right now is the complete breakdown of civic trust and order. This is what 4th Generation Warfare in an urban context looks like.

The problem is that the various governing authorities do not possess the moral high ground here, and their actions in trying to appease the violent looters and thugs going nuts in the streets right now are making things worse because they appear weak.

This is foolish. Those mayors and governors should have stepped in and enforced the law, HARD. But they won’t, because of the upcoming Presidential election.

As our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) pointed out in a recent Darkstream, all of this violence and craziness is political. The Daemoncrats are deliberately working to try to frighten and intimidate urban voters into thinking that President Trump is too weak to keep law and order – or that he is too heavy-handed. Their gamble, their calculation, is that no matter what his response, they can criticise him and make him look bad.

It’s not going to work. It didn’t work with the Chinkin Pox, where Donaldus Magnus came out of the whole thing looking, by and large, like a strong and decisive leader who saved a lot of lives. (Never mind that the initial estimates of fatalities were absolute garbage, and that the supposed official mortality numbers are nonsense.) And it’s not going to work now.

The American people can see through the charade. What they see is a nation being ripped apart at the seams, where blue-state and blue-city folks are definitely and unquestionably a breed (and race) apart, willing to riot and burn and loot and pillage their own cities and homelands in the name of crass consumerism. And they want no part of that.

What we are observing is the USA slowly tearing itself apart into at least two very distinct countries – one homogeneous and largely peaceful and land-locked, the other heterogeneous and quite violent and coast- and city-based. We’ve been seeing this for over a decade, but it has accelerated significantly recently.

And the events in Minnesota in the past week simply make it abundantly clear that the dissolution of the USA as a viable political entity is coming up on us faster than we can imagine.

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His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, has declared outright war on the Deep State in an interview with media pariah Sharyl Atkisson:

The full text of the interview is absolutely worth reading.

A lot of us on the Right have lost faith with the God-Emperor because he isn’t moving fast enough on a number of topics, including outsourcing and white-collar immigration. Speaking personally, I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps the God-Emperor shouldn’t simply become the dictator that all of his opponents keep screaming that he is, and order the summary arrest and execution by FIRING SQUAD of vast numbers of Deep State bureaucrats – and then the presstitutes.

Things are that bad in the USA right now.

But that interview makes it very clear to anyone paying attention that the God-Emperor knows exactly who his enemies are, and he is hunting them down.

I addressed the spiritual aspect of this in yesterday’s podcast, so I won’t go into it in more detail here, but let me make this very plain:

The God-Emperor needs your prayers and your help. He can’t fight this battle alone.

And if you still honestly believe that he is NOT a hand-picked agent of the Lord, fighting God’s battles for Him on this Earth, then you simply aren’t paying attention.

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#BasedTucker is based:

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Mark Dice has a severe crush on the latest White House Press Secretary, and with VERY good reason:

His Brian Stelter voice-overs just kill me every time. It’s pure comedy gold.

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Dave from Blue Collar Logic posted up a pair of very interesting videos this week – the first, about the politicisation of hydroxychloroquine, also known as one part of the TRUMPCURE+++:

And the second, perhaps more apropos to the headline of this week’s post, he talks about the reason why Minneapolis is burning right now:

Jason discusses Sleepy Creepy Uncle Joe’s comments about black voters:

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Bill Whittle and his buddies examine one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels, founded by a middle-aged father of two who simply shares videos explaining how to do mundane simple “man-things”:

Bill and his friends are correct. The reason why this channel has taken off so fast is because so many young American men grew up without fathers, or with weak fathers who never showed their sons how to be MEN.

It’s a very heartwarming, and very emotional, video to watch. Of those three men, only Bill really had a fully present father throughout his life. It’s easy to see why Scott Ott and Stephen Green get so emotional and choked up talking about a guy who makes YouTube videos simply teaching people “dad stuff”.

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The Male Brain reports in with his usual bevy of excellent material this week, starting with a rather apt and apposite video from Larry Elder about whether blacks are actually hunted whenever they step out of the house:

Mr. Elder is equally fed up with well-heeled blacks pretending to be oppressed by the mighty white hand:

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China Uncensored looks at the near-certainty of the new Cold War between the USA and China, and who started it:

Interesting video from John Stossel about the need for free speech:

I do not agree with the idea of free speech, to be honest. The whole notion is a thinly-veiled attack on Christianity and on the sovereignty of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. The original point of free speech was to attack the anti-blasphemy laws in Christian nations, many of which are still actually on the books but unenforced – so they aren’t laws.

People should, indeed, have the right to think and speak as they please. They should NOT be immune from the consequences of their speech.

That being said – what the Big Tech platforms are doing will not increase transparency or help people get along better. When you censor people, you simply drive dangerous thinking underground where it can fester and let the rot spread.

But when you put terrible ideas out there in the sunlight where they can be engaged and debated, and found wanting – that’s when you let people see them for the stupid nonsense that they really are.

Now here’s a good one showing brutal honesty and truth-telling:

You may have heard that the Wachowski… uh… thingies are looking to release a 30-minute cut of The Matrix that shows what happens after Neo takes the blue pill. That’s obviously satire, but here’s what it would probably look like:

And here’s a great video from Felix Rex (aka Black Pigeon Speaks) about the nature of political violence in the USA – and the people who commit most of that violence:

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Paul Ramsey looks at the riots caused by vibrants in diverse Minnesota – wait, what?!?! – in the wake of the death of a black man at the hands of white police officers:

Someday white folks in the West are going to wake up to realise that this is not a bug of black behaviour – it is a FEATURE. That is how their cousins in the Dark Continent behave, and that is how they behave in Western nations.

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PJW mocks the latest silly Twatter tag coming out of PommieBastardLande:

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El Razorfist sets his sights on Ann Coulter, of all people, in a very interesting rant about another ranter ranting about Trump’s rants:

Actually, both he and Ms Coulter have a point.

Ms Coulter is right to hold the God-Emperor’s feet to the fire over the lack of action – perceived or otherwise – with respect to immigration. That is the single most important issue facing the USA right now, bar none. Nothing else comes even close. Even the massive economic and political catastrophe inflicted by the Chinkin Pox can be resolved if only the USA’s demographics were homogeneous enough to handle the shock – which they obviously are not.

But Razorfist is also correct to point out Ms Coulter’s intellectual inconsistencies, and to show her up as a Karen in her fifties.

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Jared Taylor from American Renaissance looks in detail at the Minneapolis riots and explains what they truly mean:

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Terrence Popp has switched most of his content over to BitChute, which is a great idea – though I REALLY wish that BitChute would implement a simple right-click embed code copy feature like YouTube has. And Popp is up and off to a good start:

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Midnight’s Edge has spent quite a bit of time examining the Snyder Cut of Justice League, and looks now at the growing backlash against the idea from within the industry:

The paid-for presstitutes of the access media are definitely outraged, because releasing the Snyder Cut of a nearly universally hated movie will basically destroy everything that they have built their careers and reputations upon. Which is of course why it should be released anyway.

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock takes a close look at some Devil Mouse Wars leaks from Lucasfilm about a possible subversive bombshell in Season 3 of The Mandalorian:

If Kathleen “Karen” Kennedy turns Boba Fett into a woman, then the fan backlash will be so great, so terrible, and so brutal that Devil Mouse Wars will basically be toxic IP. They might as well just burn it all down right now and save themselves the trouble.

After all, we know that Kathleen Kennedy will not rest or stop until the entire STAR WARS IP has been sacrificed to the gods of social justice.

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Gary from Nerdrotic looks at the access media’s latest assault on Captain America, and is unimpressed:

The fact that you’re seeing such a massive ramp-up in media attacks on icons of masculine virtue over the past few weeks is not an accident. There is a spiritual aspect to all of this which you need to be aware of, and you need to be ready to fight against.

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The Drinker does a superb job of explaining exactly how good characters come into being through competent, skilled, and above all respectful writers, contrary to everything that the presstitutes of the Hollyweird set would like to believe:

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Whoever says that Swiss police don’t have a sense of humour, needs to watch this:

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Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is again from Dawn Pine:

Our results showed that the three vessels contained ruminant animal milk, either from cows, sheep or goat. Their presence in child graves suggests they were used to feed babies animal milk, as a supplementary food during weaning.



This is interesting because animal milk would only have become available as humans changed their lifestyles and settled in farming communities. It’s at that time – the dawn of agriculture – that people first domesticated cows, sheep, goats and pigs. This ultimately led to the “Neolithic demographic transition”, when the widespread use of animal milk to feed babies or as a supplementary weaning food in some parts of the world improved nutrition, contributing to an increased birth rate. The human population grew significantly as a result, and so did settlement sizes, which eventually became the towns and cities we know today. By holding these ancient baby bottles, we’re connected to the first generations of children who grew up in the transition from hunter-gatherer groups to communities based around agriculture.



This research gives us a greater insight into the lives of mothers and babies in the past and how prehistoric families were dealing with infant feeding and nutrition at what would have been a very risky time in an infant’s life. Child mortality would have been high – there were no antibiotics in those days – and feeding babies with animal milk would have come with its own set of risks. Although it may have provided a valuable source of nutrition, today we know that unpasteurised milk carries the risk of contamination from bacteria and can transmit disease from the animal.



Like all good research, this begs a range of new questions. Both the ancient Greeks and the Romans used very similar vessels and we know of a small number in a prehistoric site in Sudan. It would be interesting to see how these generations of children were fed and raised elsewhere in the world. It’s perhaps comforting to know that despite the vast distance of time, these people loved and cared for their children in much the same way that we do today.

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Your long read of the week discusses why the SAT is falling out of favour at some of the most liberal and progressive universities in the USA:

At the University of California schools, Asian dominance of undergraduate admissions is pretty obvious. For example, here is the demographics of the #3 prestige college in the system. UC San Diego in paradisiacal La Jolla.



Asian Americans make up 37% of undergrads versus only 19% of white Americans. But another 19% are international students, most of them Asian, so Asians probably outnumber white about 2..5 to one at UC San Diego among undergrads.



Going to UC schools isn’t as super cheap anymore as when I got an MBA from UCLA and our valedictorian asked for a round of applause for the taxpayers of California for subsidizing our educations so munificently. But still …



Making college admissions more subjective seems like it would hurt white parents in Santa Monica less than it would hurt Asian parents in Arcadia, because upscale whites are cooler than upscale Asians. Santa Monica parents can invent and follow new fashions in college application “Me!” essays that are more appealing to Berkeley admissions staffers than what Arcadia parents can come up with for their kids.

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Linkage is good for you:

And some more from The Male Brain:

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The Neo-Tsar gives his point of view about the ways in which Ukraine has become a vassal-state of the USA:

As with most things, the Neo-Tsar talks a lot of good sense about Ukraine.

The thing to remember about Ukraine is that Russia did, indeed, sign a treaty with the country to respect the sovereignty and integrity of its boundaries. And that treaty WAS violated in 2014 – if you only go based on Western presstitute reporting.

The actual truth is that the Russian military base in Sevastopol, in the Crimea, was turned over to Ukraine for safekeeping and maintenance. And the citizens of Donbass voted overwhelmingly in 2014 to join Russia, because they are ethnically and linguistically Russian, not Ukrainian – much like most of the eastern third of Ukraine, which is a huge country where 17% or so of the population is Russian, predominantly settled in, around, and to the east of Kiev.

And the actual truth is that the pro-Russian government of Ukraine was deposed in a CIA-backed coup in 2014, instigated by the feckless and useless Odumbass the Lightworker, as a way to keep Russia “contained”.

This was abominably stupid.

The entire history of Russia is one of endless invasions from the west – with the exceptions of the (successful) Mongol invasions from the south. Russia regards Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and all of the rest of its western satellites to be land-based “buffers” against invasions by Catholic and Protestant Europe – they have a particular animus against Poland, because of the Polish-Lithuanian Alliance which defeated the Russian Tsar’s armies and occupied Moscow for quite some time.

The reality is that Russia is its own distinct nation, culture, and civilisation with an absolute horror of war, especially with the West – but it will vigourously and actively defend its borders when provoked. The very word, “Ukraine”, is often associated with the Russian word for “border”.

Ukraine has always been a country torn between two very distinct civilisational centres of gravity – Moscow and Warsaw. While Ukraine itself is an Orthodox Christian nation (mostly), its distinct culture and ethnicity and especially language make it more of a Western European country than an Eastern one. Ukrainian, as a lanuage, has considerable overlap with Polish and is only about 50% similar with Russian in terms of grammar, alphabet, structure, and so on – indeed, Bulgarian is actually more closely related to Russian than Ukrainian is.

So when Russia mobilised into Donbass – and then stopped there – in 2014, and occupied that region, they weren’t invading a country against its will. They were entering a part of Ukraine that actually WANTED to be part of Russia.

Isn’t that simply democracy in action, basically?

And when the Neo-Tsar argues that Ukraine has been turned into a Western vassal, he’s basically right. And he is right to enact policies designed to keep Western influence away from Russia.

That being said – Russia could be good friends with the West, or at least a friendly power, if only Western powers would stop either kowtowing or antagonising her. Russians respect strength and the will to use it – but they also respect friendship and partnership through reciprocal displays of trust.

By all means, let the USA stand up for its interests in Western Europe – but let the USA also acknowledge that Ukraine and the western buffer states are Russian spheres of influence and should be left largely alone to manage relations between the two powers.

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History lessons of the week:

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Related – liberaltards keep screaming their heads off about how ORANGEMANBAD!!! is an evil horrible no good very bad awful terrible nasty mean dictator (except when he isn’t, and they want him to be one). So it might be worth looking at what happens when an ACTUAL dictator takes over.

The example of Sulla from over 2,000 years ago seems instructive in this regard:

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Also related – there was a time when Hollyweird actually made great movies, and one of them dealt with the fall of the Roman Empire, particularly with respect to the Roman decision to grant citizenship to barbarians:

The entire debate about giving citizenship to immigrants is encapsulated in that one brilliant, powerful, superb clip.

The Romans made the exact same mistake that their European descendants are making now. The results have been EXACTLY the same.

The Romans should have sunk the damn boats and sent the barbarians packing, over and over.

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Luke TheNotable explains why it is, in fact, OK to play HALO on Easy difficulty:

Now I know a couple of my readers are going to spit coffee and milk straight onto their monitors in outrage at that one, because as far as hardcore HALOniacs are concerned, Heroic. Legendary, and especially Mythic, or LASO (Legendary All Skulls On), are the ONLY valid difficulty levels permitted for HALO marathons.

I agree with them about this. I’ve played all of the games on Heroic and HALO: Reach on Legendary, ONCE. (I hated every single minute of it.) But there IS, perhaps, some validity to the argument that if you really want to feel like SPARTAN-117, an invincible unstoppable killing machine who simply mows down wave after wave of enemies with no remorse and extreme skill, then Easy/Normal can give you that feeling.

Of course, you still get that feeling with Heroic difficulty, but with the added challenge of fighting intelligent enemies who can and will kill you. That, in my opinion, is TRUE HALO.

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Oh, while we’re on the subject – the Master Chief DOES NOT approve of pineapple on pizza, like all sane people:

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Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

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Comedy Hour:

DAAAAAMN but he’s gotten fat!

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Pics, guns, girls:

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is quite something to behold – the guys over at Power Line are huge fans, just like the rest of us:

Sleepy Creepy Uncle Joe really made a fool of himself last week – though at this point that’s basically his normal setting:

That classic scene from AIRPLANE! would never be made today, sadly.

And libertoonians wonder why former followers of their wingnuttery – like me – call them that…

Evidently the writers for The Jeff Bezos Blog are all required to get a mandatory ironioctomy before they start working there, judging by this next one:

Headlines of the week indicate that at this rate, we’re going from Kung Flu to Asian Murder Hornets to Mongolian Slaughter Monkeys Riding On Fire-Spitting Death Horses in a month or two:

One of the unintentional benefits of General Tso’s Chicken Pox:

Heh.

SUFFER NOT THE PINEAPPLE-ON-PIZZA LUNATIC TO LIVE!!!

This next one is a perfect way to make revenue by taxing the hell out of Gammas:

CAN. CONFIRM.

Don’t worry, there’s a place where gators are lunch too:

Astonishing photos capture battle between a jaguar caiman ...

Brazil. Even MORE dangerous than Australia – and that’s saying something.

I F***IN’ TOLD YOU SO!!!

People who eat turkey bacon are:

A) Vegetarians

B) Canadian

C) Gay

D) All of the above

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Your dog of the week is the most excellent Chesapeake Bay Retriever:

Chesapeake Bay Retriever Dog Breed | Facts, Highlights ...

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The Trap Lord is back with a roast of Tyrone the Fitness Addict’s latest round of bacteria-infected stupidity:

At this point I’m honestly not sure whether Tyrone Esix actually is dumber than a bag of rocks, or just trolling the shit out of people for chuckles. Evidence suggests the former, but I’m always open to the possibility of the latter.

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The gym beast of the week is Jeff Cavaliere (again), but for a different reason this time. ATHLEAN-X just hit 10 million subs, and he and his buddy Jesse celebrated this milestone with a video that is… well, just watch it for yourself:

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Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:



I think Buakaw looks at opponents the way most of us look at heavy bags – he just beats them until the stuffing comes out.

And in his prime, he was a truly terrifying opponent:

Actually, he’s still terrifying, just somewhat slower now that he’s in his late thirties. I’ve often stated that the Bogeyman checks under his bed at night to make sure Buakaw isn’t there.

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#CrownOfSteel

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And finally here’s your Instathot of the week. Her name is Jilissa Zoltko, age 22, of Polish extraction, originally from (the People’s Republic of) Massachusetts, currently living in Miami, FL, where she claims to be a “model and law student”.

I’ll wait a moment while the snickering and chuckles die down, because if you look at one very specific aspect of her Instathot profile, it’s VERY obvious that she does a bit of, shall we say, risque modeling on the side. Or maybe that’s her main gig, who knows.

All that is clear is that if she claims to be an Instathot and wants to be a lawyer, then any man who wants to put a ring on it had better put his balls in a locked-up safe next to his assets and an ironclad prenup. The girl is barely 23 and she’s already got a severe case of RBF, along with a fairly epic instance of TCS.

That’s a maneater in the making, and no mistake.

Happy Monday, boys. Get out there and start with the CRUSHING!!! already!

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8 Comments

  1. MrUNIVAC

    Psh, if you like playing on Easy than play on Easy! I started up on Normal back in the day. Every gamer is different and should play on the level that results in maximum fun for that individual.

    10 more Spartan Ops chapters until I never have to play it again!

    Reply
    • Didact

      Yeah. I actually tried HALO on Normal back in the day when I first started playing it, and I was absolutely horrible at it. I gave up the game in disgust for almost a year and thought that I'd wasted a lot of money on my Xbox and the HALO series as a result. But then I tried it again on Easy, and from then on I was absolutely hooked.

      The problem wasn't the game, it was me. I was playing it like an idiot. Nowadays, though, Heroic is my jam.

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    • MrUNIVAC

      Can I just say that Sarah Palmer sucks? I am beyond sick and tired of listening to and taking orders from her. She is the Rey of Halo and is probably Bonnie Ross’s avatar in the same way that Rey is Kathleen Kennedy’s. She’s a better Spartan than the Chief, she’s never wrong, we’re told how awesome she is instead of her showing us, and everyone else, including HER SUPERIOR OFFICER, better get in line and back her up if they know what’s good for them.

      Apparently the war is a big f***ing joke to her since she spends the entire time cracking wise from the safety of Infinity’s bridge, at least when she’s not taunting, berating, or belittling everyone else. I wouldn’t follow this woman into a McDonald’s, never mind combat. She’s such a ridiculous over-the-top caricature of a stronk wahmen that it crosses the line into unintentional parody. I don’t think I’ve hated a fictional character this much since Squall in Final Fantasy VIII.

      Maybe she gets better in episodes 9 and 10 or H5:G, but I'm not holding my breath.

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    • Didact

      I hear ya. Palmer IS irritating and the presence of all of those surplus female Spartan-IVs is not only silly but forced.

      The STRAWNG INDEPENDENTZ WAMMENZES!!! thing gets much worse in H5:G. Half of the Spartans in each fireteam that you work with in that game are female. With the Chief's Blue Team, this is at least canonical; we know that very roughly half of the successful SPARTAN-II candidates were female, so Linda-058 and Kelly-087 make sense as additions to the Chief's roster. But with Fireteam Osiris, you have Holly Tanaka, who is the token big black chick with attitude (and yet she has an Asian name – go figure) , and Olympia Vale, who is super-smart and fluent in Sangheili and a xenoarchaeologist and all sorts of other stupid shit. And that's before you get to her supposedly superb combat skills.

      If you didn't like Spartan Ops, you're REALLY not going to like the H5:G campaign. Just sayin'.

      Reply
  2. Kapios

    Could the instathot you just posted be a future Karen? I may have a strong bias against her after all the memes about the 'can I speak to the manager' face, but she just gives off that vibe to me.

    On another note, do you think the neo tsar has obtained the 'Daddy Putin' status to the Eastern European countries or is this just a front? Sure the countries around Russia are in NATO and they are littered with American military bases, U.N and so on, but Putin seems to have won the culture and religious war. The former communist countries are strengthening their economies, because most of them don't follow the Keynisian economics as closely as the U.S and the Christian Orthodox Church seems to be going strong as well. They have their problems too, with high ranking religious figures being corrupt, but they are not the spotlight of the world and they don't seem too eager to play politics like the Vatican. Maybe these countries are giving Putin a submissive nod given how Western countries corrupt everything they touch.

    The West is a sinking ship, so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't side willfully and maybe happily with the Russians.

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    • Didact

      Could the instathot you just posted be a future Karen?

      Without a doubt.

      Reply
  3. Post Alley Crackpot

    "Patton Oswalt, Gamma Supreme, argues that you're rooting for the wrong (i.e. non-Gamma) character in The Matrix …"

    I've long preferred The Architect.

    He actually wanted the utopian version of The Matrix to succeed, possibly believing that such a system as he was forced to build could at least deliver its ends happily instead of darkly pragmatically.

    It was in his profound disappointment for humanity that he re-engineered The Matrix to be what it was.

    The Matrix could have been a Heaven on Earth for humanity, but the failings of humanity meant that the whole of humanity could never live and survive there.

    One perspective of this is that The Architect may not have seen his human charges as anything other than a different form of machinery, and so it was in the nature of The Architect to want for the human population what he similarly wanted for his own machines.

    Considered from a Christian angle, this means that The Architect had to accept that humanity as a whole was not sufficiently good enough to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Neo and Morpheus want to overthrow what has become so everyone can suffer together, and so they are Brothers in Hell.

    As for Agent Smith, he does not know the story of The Architect, or otherwise he would have told Morpheus about his failings and the failings of humanity in particular when he had Morpheus's nearly undivided attention.

    And so we must also accept the likelihood that the machine denizens of that world were also not suitable for entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, and their true nature has been kept from them.

    It must really, really suck when all your best plans for utopia and eternal happiness are completely undermined by the fecklessness and crap-filled-ness of the entities you're dealing with.

    And so The Architect is Jehovah as imagined by machines, a possibly unwilling one who has built what he has built out of what he's been left to achieve it.

    Neo deserves his punishments any way he gets them, BTW, and Morpheus deserves to be let down by "The One" as well as any other would-be messiahs who deliver him deeper into misery.

    But Cypher?

    He wants to eat his cake and have it repeatedly, and so there is no place for Cypher in which he will ever gain his freedom or ever live happily.

    Cypher negotiates with both good and evil, but never realises that his negotiations bind him to both, turning him into a tool rather than a free entity.

    People who would sell out both good and evil in favour of comfort and ignorance tend to be like that.

    BTW, things have been a bit busy here within The Icosahedron Collective, so I haven't been keeping up …

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    • Didact

      Considered from a Christian angle, this means that The Architect had to accept that humanity as a whole was not sufficiently good enough to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

      Neo and Morpheus want to overthrow what has become so everyone can suffer together, and so they are Brothers in Hell.

      Yes, but only if you ignore the canonical descriptions behind the in-universe story.

      The Matrix came about because of an apocalyptic war between humans and thinking machines. Humanity nuked its own planet to stop the machines by cutting off solar energy, so the machines retaliated by harvesting humans and creating for them a near-perfect simulation inside an artificial reality.

      That idea of simulated reality is directly counter to Christian belief. The whole concept is straight out of Hinduism and Buddhism.

      Reply

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