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@argumate is this your thing now

WE WILL CONTINUE TO POST PIXELATED ART OF QUESTIONABLE QUALITY (AT RANDOM INTERVALS BETWEEN TWO HOURS AND SIX MONTHS) UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

1. DONALD TRUMP WILL IMMEDIATELY STEP DOWN AND BE REPLACED AS PRESIDENT BY A WORKING GROUP OF SELECTED PERSONNEL FROM GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND IBM’S MACHINE LEARNING DIVISIONS, AND THE RAND CORPORATION, WHO WILL BE DIRECTED TO GOVERN IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST.  A $1 BILLION DATACENTER WILL BE CONSTRUCTED TO FULFILL THEIR COMMANDS
2. MILITARY-GRADE POWERED EXOSKELETONS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY LEGALIZED FOR CIVILIAN OWNERSHIP
3. DETROIT WILL BE DECLARED A SPECIAL AUTONOMOUS DEVELOPMENT ZONE AND PUT UNDER THE IRON HAND OF A CEO FROM ASIA BACKED BY HEAVY MILITIA FORCES, PAID AS A PERCENTAGE OF DETROIT REAL GDP ANNUALLY
   
4. MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING WILL BE MADE A MANDATORY COMPONENT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND AN ANNUAL TOURNAMENT WILL BE HELD TO DETERMINE THE ‘MOST BADASS HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR IN AMERICA’

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[argumate]

there’s a limit to how much nightcore you can listen to before youtube fills its homepage with nothing but pictures of anime ladies

[mitigatedchaos]

argumate-sempai-kun just how much nightcore did you drink?

don’t you know if you drink too much nightcore you’ll turn into a dakimakura?

in fact if you drank too much you should start seeing hallucinations of incorrectly-used Japanese honorifics by non-Japanese nationals and nonsensical interjections of Japanese grammar desu〜, followed by a full collapse into-

arugumeto-san?

アルグメトさん？大丈夫ですか。

遅すぎるですか。

アルグメトさん？

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[argumate]

collapsedsquid said: What about Criminal Country?

believe it or not, this is actually hot discourse right now:

土澳 or TuAo: Is this Chinese popular term for Australia affectionate or condescending?

Taken literally, TuAo means “unrefined, backwards Australia”.

…

Wai Ling Yeung, a former Chinese studies professor at Curtin University, points out that many Chinese-Australians use the character for village when referring to suburbs.

“Because of that, many China-based netizens think all Australian cities are like country towns, but this is in fact not what Chinese-Australians mean,” she said.

She contrasts TuAo with humorous slang used by Chinese abroad in other countries, including FuGuo for Britain, meaning “decadent country” — a coded term believed to refer to the UK’s attitudes towards homosexuality.

The US is also sometimes referred to online as MeiDi, meaning “American empire”.

[mitigatedchaos]

If the Chinese call it an Empire, who am I to disagree? The largest military budget in the world, culture and commerce spreading out over the Earth, a currency used as a reserve everywhere else and as real money by entire foreign countries, and partial responsibility for the growing global obesity epidemic - who is to say that a Republic can’t be an Empire?

Now,

* inhales *

* coughing *

you know what actually nevermind the rest of it

* coughing *

this pipe gimmick was a bad idea

* wheezes *

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Fuck, I’ve become incomprehensible to normies.  

At this rate, it may only be several months before I hit @slartibartfastibast tier and my blog is only understood by a few wise world-travellers and the members of a remote Buddhist monastery high in the mountains of Nepal.

I’m sorry, guys.

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There are only two genderS: GAMERS and NORMIES

GET OVER IT SNOWFLAKeS

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[argumate]

[mitigatedchaos]

I hope you get better, Argumate.  I didn’t realize anyone could get that kind of injury in a tragic blogging accident like that.

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Current Political Mood (Past 24h)

@the-grey-tribe

All Issues Are Wedge Issues

Years ago, a government minister was asked why he proposed to increase welfare while raising taxes at the same times. The welfare money did not actually help to the people in need. He answered on an accidentally hot mic “You see, Iwan, wages and pensions have been stagnant for two years. This scheme will raise average wages on paper and divert welfare money into pension funds. Retirees are our base. We can’t not raise pension in an election year. It would be political suicide!“

I have a friend who sometimes volunteers for a left-wing party. He’s friends with many activists and left-wing think tank pilots. I asked his party friends at his birthday party: “Why don’t you support the elimination of welfare cliffs, or simplifying tax law, or a version of the paperwork reduction act, or a version of FOIA?“ They agreed that all of these were sensible ideas with potentially broad popular and multi-partisan parliamentary support. That was precisely the problem: “Why would anybody vote for us specifically if we just did the same shit as everybody else. Why not let the conservatives spend their political capital on bureaucracy? What if we make a big deal out of this and then moderates agree and steal our votes? If conservatives or moderates proposed this, we would have to oppose on principle. If social democrats proposed this maybe we would support it. If Marxists come out against bureaucracy we will be surprised. But why waste time on this instead of minimum wage? Our constituents are all poor people anyway. The middle class and self-employed people are affected by complicated taxes. They don’t vote for us anyway. It would be political suicide!“

* hissing sounds *

We will CRUSH the pathetic legislature and their traitorous, kakistocratic political parties by rolling over them with a column of actual tanks 

think-tanks nerf bats redundant unpruned regulations 

We will REPLACE the treacherous legislature with voter-delegate think-tanks that are funded according to their percentile standing on a legislative prediction market times their number of votes! DEATH TO THE TREASONOUS INCENTIVE SYSTEMS!  LONG LIVE THE UNION!

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[fuckyeahbrutalism]

Assembly Building, Chandigarh, India, 1956-62

(Le Corbusier)

[mitigatedchaos]

Wrong, this is obviously some kind of power plant, as evidenced by the embedded cooling tower. 

Pfft, silly Indians thinking they were building an assembly building when they were actually building a nuclear reactor.

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[collapsedsquid]

With Newt fucking Gingrich complaining about Mueller overstepping his investigatory mandate, it’s beginning to seem like we’re reaching levels of hypocrisy that are ridiculous.  It feels like it’s exceeding that which can be explained by generic ill intent, it feels like the universe is mocking us.

[mitigatedchaos]

They’re all hypocrites, every last one of them, and in this moment, I am furious

Not because of some fake Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy, but because our nation is eviscerated by our own political class’s incompetence

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Anonymous asked:

What is your time zone?

I have evolved beyond such petty, mortal concerns.

I’m out-of-phase with my home timezone, but rest assured, I am a true North American and not a paid poster operating on behalf of the Australian Hegemony.