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Should be a wild four years.

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For all their talk about loving the working class they sure do everything they can to shit all over it. One would really think that they considered their office work or IT work to be more important than the work that actually builds and maintains the nation.
Leftoids need to view themselves as the underdog, so they always posture like they represent the working class, since the working class is beneath the leisure class. However, leftoids really, really, really want to be in the leisure class personally. They do NOT want to work. So they're in the funny position of LARPing as blue collar union boys while actually doing email work and being deathly afraid of handling a screwdriver or setting foot in a field.
 

Helping white people buck broke the Episcopal Church so badly that they would rather give up their refugee resettlement operations altogether, than to countenance white refugees. In other words, after being asked to resettle 59 white Afrikaans refugees, the Episcopal Church decided to give up its program that has lasted for decades and has resettled over 100k people.


At the end of the day, I think in my heart that Trump is only doing this out of spite because South Africa accused Israel of genocide. I think its a "how do you like it now?' type of deal. And if it makes you feel any better, I don't think you will get a lot of South African refugees at the moment because not a lot actually want to leave. Home is home you know?
In the entire history of my following politics, I have never seen a response this completely unhinged as what has been done in response to the South Africans. Seriously, it's absolutely bonkers.

I've seen shitheads on twitter denying the reality of a mountain of evidence that, yes, they very much are being persecuted, yes, this is exactly what fucking happened in Rhodesia, and yes, it's very likely going to end the exact same way. You can post examples of the ANC's bullshit expropriation and constant scapegoating, the EFF having a rally where their literal only talking point is how whitey needs to die, and they will still sit there and tell you to your face none of it is real, and any evidence beyond this you show (going back a decade or so) is just you being a conspiracy theorist.

But that's just the online squeaker class. What about the punditry?
This:


I can't help but wonder if the crazy orange diamond did this shit on purpose, because it's like all of the absolute worst elements in the left came out to publicly defrock over this.
 
I've seen shitheads on twitter denying the reality of a mountain of evidence that, yes, they very much are being persecuted, yes, this is exactly what fucking happened in Rhodesia, and yes, it's very likely going to end the exact same way.
You gotta remember that leftoids are very low-information people. It's actually hard to simulate the way their brains work if you're an intelligent person. To them, South Africa == Apartheid == Denzel Washington getting slave-whipped in a cotton field. It's all the same thing to them. Trump basically just allowed 59 slave-whippers into the country. They really think this
 
How long is long? My investment peaks at 2 years, I’d still consider that a long term investment. I’m not sure I’d go into something like Oil or Gold for 10 years. If you’re banking off solid growth do infrastructure. If you’re looking for passive growth you can forget put it in Roth Bonds and Bills.

Do this unless if it’s a $3 differential. Then troll.

Dude.

Just go to Vegas and gamble like a degenerate in public. At least you might enjoy a few drinks and some social interaction as you're pissing your money away.

Or sit in lonely squalor and go broke daytrading, see if I care.
 
Well, if we're going down an aviation nostalgia hole, I've always had a soft spot for the Boeing C314, and would like to see a modernized version. I would love to do the old PanAm Pacific run.
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A bit outdated of a concept, but if we're making America great again, let's make flying boats great again. Boeing probably DOES have the blueprints for this thing in cold storage somewhere.
That merger was absolutely fucked on every level and there had to be some fuckery going on behind the scenes because it did not behave like a regular corporate merger. What regular merger has the parent company moving their offices to the offices of the company they just absorbed?
Dogulas was still big. Lots of military contracts like the Hornet. That and they were the third wheel in the passanger jet market. It wasn't a regular merger because Boeing and Mcdonald were similar in size already. There was a lot of potential from Boeing's end. They could scoop up Dogulas's contracts, make all their military jets, all that shit, it was going to be fucking great. Nope. In came their executive suite in this massive, gigantic merger. A tale of American pride. Honestly wish that the Government had stopped it in the end. But hey, we got the Super Hornet out of it. That's neat.
 
You gotta remember that leftoids are very low-information people. It's actually hard to simulate the way their brains work if you're an intelligent person. To them, South Africa == Apartheid == Denzel Washington getting slave-whipped in a cotton field. It's all the same thing to them. Trump basically just allowed 59 slave-whippers into the country. They really think this
If they were being honest and serious about their concern for black South Africans and their belief that the racial laws against whites is justified, what they would inevitably have to acknowledge is that letting whites leave is doing the blacks a favour. It means less whites in the labour force and less white owned land. But as you point out, they are the ultimate lightning rod for everything the left consider wicked and bad about white people. That’s what they’re afraid of. They are the archetype of the “evil white man”. For this reason I think they’re also fundamentally opposed to helping us. In their mind it’s an abhorration that the most evil subgroup of whites gets precedent.

Also that segues into another point. They don’t believe that white South Africans can possibly be refugees because they believe that all the measures against them are justified and fair. They’re upset that certain people are offered a way out of what’s essentially a prolonged humiliation ritual. In their world view it’s abhorrent that the worlds biggest oppressors are not facing the music
 
Because they don't love the working class. They love the idea of the working class. But when the actual working class starts voting for Trump, that's when these peasants become problematic and racist and need to be put under the boot.
They don't even love the working class--they love the underclass. Specifically, the type of underclass that they imagine they're a part of already, so they can feel good about wanting to kick the shit out of everyone who they feel wronged them and disguise it as "the proletariat uprising".
 
It's so desolate they could literally farm there.

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This soil is contaminated, and this photo would not look the same from a vertical perspective.

Detroit has very "sharp lines" between urban-hood-suburban. One group of cross-streets is full of extremely high-end offices related to car companies, suppliers, and financial institutions, once you cross one you instantly end up in some of the worst decaying hoods on the planet, and are immediately given the option to bypass them by using a semi-underground barely-policed highway. These areas also contain the surprisingly well-policed giga industrial zones. Once you cross a certain highway interchange, you enter a "sundown town" (no-nigger-zone) and the environment instantly changes from a decaying hood to very nice medium-end offices, educational institutions, and small scale high precision manufacturing, with white suburbs neatly placed in the gaps. These are probably some of the only areas in the state that regularly issue speeding tickets. Go further out and there is no gradual shift to rural, the suburbs just end and you are greeted with medium-scale farms, orchards, and forests.

You can draw a path from downtown Detroit to any point outside of Detroit and this is exactly how it will be organized. This is how you build anti-nigger fortifications to create safe, wealthy, white neighborhoods, while still being able to go to work in the city every day. Detroit has been doing this a long long time.
 

Helping white people buck broke the Episcopal Church so badly that they would rather give up their refugee resettlement operations altogether, than to countenance white refugees. In other words, after being asked to resettle 59 white Afrikaans refugees, the Episcopal Church decided to give up its program that has lasted for decades and has resettled over 100k people.


At the end of the day, I think in my heart that Trump is only doing this out of spite because South Africa accused Israel of genocide. I think its a "how do you like it now?' type of deal. And if it makes you feel any better, I don't think you will get a lot of South African refugees at the moment because not a lot actually want to leave. Home is home you know?
I mean to be fair English tried to genocide these same people already, so it isn’t a surprise.
 
Don Lemon and guest are panicking about 59 white refugees who might "replace our black farmers!"
The Boer wouldn't or shouldn't want to replace American black farmers, it's more likely they'll want every farmer to succeed. They hired and trained black Africans but during the genocides it was split between being betrayed or loyal black farmhands also being persecuted. I saw stuff about them sometimes executed with the Boer they tried to protect
In the end though all the land and equipment that was ripped from them went to waste because the blacks didn't want to farm, same thing from Empire of Dust where the Chinese guy openly tells the Africans they squander everything out of laziness and spite. So what if the people that made the land fertile were white, why not keep it going and prove black excellence. Retarded and evil
 
I can't help but wonder if the crazy orange diamond did this shit on purpose, because it's like all of the absolute worst elements in the left came out to publicly defrock over this.
Say what you will about Trump, but he's a master class in forcing the left into indefensible positions or exposing their hypocrisy on already held positions. A few dozen families tumble off a plane and you have liberals mocking them and telling them to go back to Germany. Honestly, if their politics and TDS allowed them to concede anything or agree with anything Trump has done, or at least when to keep their mouths shut and choose which battles to fight, they wouldn't be in such silly positions. They may lose ground in the midterms after all if they keep this up.
 
If they were being honest and serious about their concern for black South Africans and their belief that the racial laws against whites is justified, what they would inevitably have to acknowledge is that letting whites leave is doing the blacks a favour. It means less whites in the labour force and less white owned land. But as you point out, they are the ultimate lightning rod for everything the left consider wicked and bad about white people. That’s what they’re afraid of. They are the archetype of the “evil white man”. For this reason I think they’re also fundamentally opposed to helping us. In their mind it’s an abhorration that the most evil subgroup of whites gets precedent.

Also that segues into another point. They don’t believe that white South Africans can possibly be refugees because they believe that all the measures against them are justified and fair. They’re upset that certain people are offered a way out of what’s essentially a prolonged humiliation ritual. In their world view it’s abhorrent that the worlds biggest oppressors are not facing the music
Something that further compounds this, the peaceful Transition from apartheid to multi racial democracy is a keystone piece of the post cold war new world order, South Africa was to be the shining example and for a while this facade was maintained. Looking back on it they really did get the best case scenario for this and it's still looking to turn into Zimbabwe.
South Africa turning into a failed state cannot be permitted, while preventing that is functionally impossible every effort must be put towards keeping the image that everything is fine and not to look at the man behind the curtain. Deny the extremism and open racial animosity of the EFF, debunk(lie) about the farm killings and disproportionate violence against the SA whites, and ignore every metric that is standard and expected in the first world is failing (consistent power for example)
Combine that with ample quantities of white guilt from the people whose ancestors are some of the guiltiest and you get the present xenophobia and hostility to the Afrikaners by the left.
 
Bro, give us back the Lockheec Tristar:
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That shit was beyond insane. Technically Lockheed does make civilian C-130's or at least did for a while. But that's a cargo plane born in the 50s with roots in the 40s. Lockheed could stand to take a risk and venture back into the civilian market. It would be beyond American pride. You could say "yeah, my jumbo jet was made by Skunkworks". That would be dope. Maybe even put in some cool tech like sensors from the 35 program if they can, make it all slick. America is the land of potential. It just has to be grasped.
Northrop Grumman's flying wing Jumbo Jet concept would be more familiar territory for Lockheed, and I think it would be sick if they did it.
 
Bro, give us back the Lockheec Tristar:
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That shit was beyond insane. Technically Lockheed does make civilian C-130's or at least did for a while. But that's a cargo plane born in the 50s with roots in the 40s. Lockheed could stand to take a risk and venture back into the civilian market. It would be beyond American pride. You could say "yeah, my jumbo jet was made by Skunkworks". That would be dope. Maybe even put in some cool tech like sensors from the 35 program if they can, make it all slick. America is the land of potential. It just has to be grasped.
Precisely the big queen bird I was talking about, god she's a fucking beauty. Full autopilot, takeoff and landing in the 70s!

There is no goddamned reason Lockheed couldn't engineer a proper modern jetliner to compete with Boeing and Airbus. Zero fucking reason.

I'll repeat what I've probably posted a million times now lmfao " Make America Make Again!"
 
Whatever sect Oman is needs to be in charge. They're the only middle east place you never hear about getting in wars and shit.
Ibadhi Islam is very interesting. Of the three main branches of Islam it's probably the most strict and austere in practice and theology, skeptical of mysticism, intellectualism and emotionalism equally, but at the same time it's the most pragmatic in dealing with both modernity and non-Muslims. They don't really go much into violent jihad due to their origins in the bloody sectarian rifts of early Islam (which didn't go well for them).
 
Holy shit I remember American dragon,
That show was ahead of its time considering how you can’t go on the internet without kids being horny for monsters for some bizzare reason.
The basic message of 00s fiction like Dexter, Twilight, True Blood, etc was "you are all monsters, but you can still be One of the Good Ones."
 
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