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Where are you from

[mitigatedchaos]

@cromulentenough

FWIW, i’m someone born in the UK but with background in bangladesh, and i get annoyed when other asians ask me ‘where are you FROM from’ after i tell them i’m from london the first time. It’s not just a white thing.

“But I’ve always lived in the UK,” he said, “never anyway else.  I’ve not even set foot outside the British Isles.”

“Yes,” said the man, “but where are you FROM”

The man’s face opened, revealing several strange, glossy, robotic orbs.  Beams of various colours and intensities swept over the questioned man’s body.

“HAPLO GROUP 2A, PRIMARY GENETIC DENSITY,” the robot man said in the middle of the restaurant.  

A hush fell over the guests at the dining tables as the robot’s face slowly closed, synthetic skin seamlessly fusing to hide the cold mechanical components underneath.

“So anyhow,” said the robot man, “how about Liverpool vs. Manchester United?”

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mitigatedchaos asked:

What happened to Garmbreak::Zero? Did you overwrite his place in this timeline?

garmbreak1 answered:

THE PAST MUST BE DESTROYED

[mitigatedchaos]

You bastard!  The original Garmbreak owed me money!

Gargh.  This is almost as bad as that time the Democratic Republic of Belgium collapsed and my entire artisanal clickbait smuggling network became worthless overnight.  

Well that’s friggin’ 800 SAF pesos down the drain.

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[mitigatedchaos]

“My nation, why would I care for that?  I was only born there!”

And raised there.  And educated there.  And cultured there.  

You’ll defend yourself?  You and what army?

Oh, you don’t have an army.  The country does.  Fancy that.

“How ignorant,” you say, to want to defend or identify with the place with people like you, who speak your language, practice your culture, are bound together for the common welfare and common defense.  You know, your home.

Not all homes are good homes, but that doesn’t make homes in general bad.

[slartibartfastibast]

Nazi.

[mitigatedchaos]

I did warn you, Slart, I am a time-travelling supervillain.  There’s no excuse, really.  It says so right in my blog description.

I don’t want to hear any complaints about how “it’s unethical” from you when I sell the last remnants of the Alt Right a serum that will enable them to become Entryist Ultranationalist Separatist Yakuts, starting the final break-up of the Russian Federation and the secession of Alaska from the Union.  Reviving continent-spanning superstates from the future doesn’t come cheap, you know.

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[did-you-kno]

There were at least 26 known attempts to assassinate Adolph Hitler while he was in power from 1934-1944. Before 1933, there were four attempts. From 1933-1934, there were another 10 attempts. Almost all were carried out by German citizens. Source Source 2

[drethelin]

Turns out HITLER was the time traveler

[mitigatedchaos]

Yeah, why do you think they made time travel illegal?  Because they have some idea what they’re doing and adequately plan for the future?  

Fuck no.  It’s because the entire Prime timeline was rendered completely inaccessible by one guy who has since spread to 1,489 other timelines, probably over 1,600 by now.

Every time you travel to the past a new world is created.  You can never re-enter your own past and change it.  You can only make a new one.  

Because of Hitler, our original past was lost to us and is now unknowable.  He’s the first time traveler, and the greatest criminal in history.

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“Women Less Responsible,” the headline read.

“For what?” She asked, looking over the newspaper.

“Black People More Likely,” the newspaper headlines continued.

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[argumate]

so yeah, the period of craziness that lasted from 1900 to 1990 was basically the old empires getting broken down and turned into ethnocentric nation states.

the period of craziness we are in now involves trying to cobble together empires again now that they have a complete lack of popular credibility.

[ursaeinsilviscacant]

Would you care to expand on this?

[argumate]

WWII ended with all the people that had moved around across Europe and Asia being put back neatly inside the borders of ethnic nation states, so all the Germans pushed out of Poland and Czechwhatever back into Germany, Japanese out of Korea, and of course formation of modern state of Israel.

Shortly afterwards the European empires dissolved and lost their colonies in Africa, India, and Indo-China, although not without another fight.

Then the Soviet Empire fractures and Yugoslavia breaks up into a handful of states with a new one added every few years.

To some extent this process is still continuing, with separatist Kurds and Basques and Catalans and even Scots and Welsh (!) and Cornish (!!!) groups all agitating for their own ethnic states.

At the same time you have clumsy attempts to create a new European empire in the form of the EU, an empire without an emperor, nothing but bureaucrats and technobabble that no one believes in, devoid of any legitimacy.

[argumate]

Britain, France, Germany, Japan, all used to be actual empires, now they are not. The Ottomans had an empire, Turkey does not. Russia and China used to be empires, remained empires under Communism, now they are both ethnic nation states struggling to digest their minority populations.

South Korea exports TV dramas, not an empire. Israel exports weapons, not an empire. France has nuclear weapons, not an empire.

[mitigatedchaos]

Is Argumate a White Nationalist?
- BuzzHuff News, 2018

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[argumate]

in my experience enthusiastic male programmers outnumber enthusiastic female programmers by approximately 100 to 1 by the age of 15, but maybe this has shifted slightly over the past few decades.

(numbers not completely pulled out of my butt, based on observation of room containing roughly 300 juvenile coders, three of which were presenting as girls).

perhaps we need earlier interventions, possibly starting in the womb.

[fluffshy]

The alternative method is infecting more programmers with the cat-girl virus.

[mitigatedchaos]

Ugggggh

I’m not made of highly unethical experimental preference-modifying subconscious neuromemetic virus precomputed vector model patches.

Do it yourself, geez.

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[multiheaded1793]

[mitigatedchaos]

This is what he says right before he dies in 2027. :\ Tag your spoilers, geez.

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[argumate]

Wonder Woman strikes a blow against the patriarchy by having the male lead be only 4 years older than the female lead instead of 40 years older.

[the-grey-tribe]

MRAs might see it as a victory against “female hypergamy” when the woman is actually older and slightly wealthier. Not sure how to be woke in that case.

[mitigatedchaos]

Oh, this one is obvious. By the laws of vague internet liberal feminism, any activity can be transmuted into female empowerment if it’s done by a woman. Easy! Next question, please.