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Crypto-Centrist Transhumanist Nationalist.
Type-19 Paramilitary Cyborg. Wanted time criminal. Class A-3 citizen of the North American Union. Opposed to the Chinese Hyper Mind-Union, the Ultra-Caliphate, Google Defense Network, and the People's Republic of Cascadia. National Separatist, enemy of the World Federation government and its unificationist allies.
Blogs Topics: Cyberpunk Nationalism. Futurist Shtposting. Timeline Vandalism. Harassing owls over the Internet.
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perhaps a small part of it might be that unlike, say, the Trojan War or King Arthur, Harry Potter, is, due to copyright-and-canon culture, unimprovable. I mean, fanfiction exists, but it's secondary and can't supersede the earlier versions of the myth
Maybe it’s because on the log scale of supervillainy, Trump doesn’t even break a 2.2, and doesn’t even have any supernatural or other enhanced abilities.
I know you’ll dispute this, but simply - Trump isn’t causing the meme wave, he’s just riding it. So that doesn’t count as a supernatural ability, either.
Congratulations! In an effort to be interesting and unique, you have rendered yourself as boring and predictable as possible — how do you plead? Hey stop photoshopping vaporwave succ memes for a second and listen to me
This isn’t me criticizing you as a human being or trying to make fun of you or anything but an earnest question: what the hell does any part of your description mean? Can you give me an example of how your political stances apply to the real world in a non hypothetical sci fi genre way I can’t picture it
I was thinking of posting something like ‘Daddy, what was the Statue of Liberty like?’ ‘Oh, it was beautiful and inspiring, but we had to blow it up because the French gave it to us, and the French Third Republic was racist’ ‘I wish I could have seen it’ ‘Wow, you support the French Third Republic, what are you, some kind of Nazi?’
But I know better than to use the word ‘daddy’ on this website
You’re ignoring the 1:5,400,000 timelines where I come to power and her glowing laser eyes gaze endlessly out over the sea, ready to guard the Union with hundreds of megawatts of star-searing power at a moment’s notice.
I’m really upset that my favorite ship in Strawberry Rationalist Girl RenegadeAngles-san isn’t official in the new season and I’m planning to hold the government of Sapporo hostage in the name of queer spider-cyborg representation and morphological freedom until the studio agrees to make it canon.
I’ve got three airsoft rifles, a crew of fifteen dedicated hardcore brotakus, and a tank. I really think we can pull this off. You in?
Are Brexit and Trump the first signs that the Dire Problem is coming to a head? What political upheavals will we see when Google perfects the self-driving car and the TruckApocalypse comes?
If the Dire Problem is supposed to be job automation, most of the best studies I’ve seen suggest that job automation isn’t having real effects right now (yes, everyone is confused about this, but the studies are pretty unanimous). I don’t know whether that will continue past the Truckpocalypse (<– correct form, your portmanteau is way too unwieldy).
My guess is Trump and Brexit have more to do with income inequality caused by other stuff, increased class differences coming from the income inequality, and various social stuff coming out of those class differences.
Nah, I think anon has it. Try rapping it. You don’t want that “ck” right
against the “p”, the “a” in between makes it flow.
“truck-uh-pock-uh-lips” is delicious.
But if the Truckpocalypse is related to the Trumpocalypse, we want parallel -ocalypse structures to make them more easily comparable.
“The Trumpocalypse caused the Truckpocalypse” sounds good,
“The Trumpocalypse caused the TruckApocalypse” is just ridiculous.
“Truckapocalypse” sounds better absent context but the meter and consonance mean that I can’t stop thinking of “Snuffleupagus” and “Papadopoulos” when I hear it.
“Truckpocalypse” and “Truck Apocalypse” are two DIFFERENT supervillains. You can’t go mixing them up like this. There was a court case about it and everything - it’s fucking trademarked. You could get sued.
You see, a suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their friends have ulterior motives for defending them. But a really suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their enemies have ulterior motives for attacking them.
What if we turned facile pop culture comparisons back onto shallow centrist ideology, much like Harry killing Voldemort by deflecting his own Killing Curse?
To rely on elections alone is to use a powerful magical spell to seal away the ancient evil; it will inevitably break loose and terrorize the people again. Only a sustained campaign against the roots of evil ideology will allow us to “gather and level up our party” so we can use Omnislash on - hgk - [swallows the bile rising in my throat] ugh - on the Dark Lord Chee'toragas.
Villains are the only ones with the ambition, the will, and the plans to drive the world forward.
Villains act, heroes react. It is only by the actions of villains that the plot is driven forward. Heroes are nothing more than abominable tools of the status quo and every hierarchy that exists within it.
What has fighting for democracy gotten us in the past fifty years? Nothing but more pointless wars. The vain idealism of this country is nothing more than hollow self-gratification. It must be eliminated or transformed into something far greater.
We must immediately instate mandatory National Military Service for the nation’s youth. An assault rifle and a kukri for every able-bodied-and-minded American citizen. War production levels. Total national mobilization.
It’s time for America to go heel for real.
We will abolish the legislature and replace it with personnel from the RAND Corporation betting on outcomes of their new legislation, with a twenty billion dollar machine learning project at their fingertips intercepting information from all over the world. The cruelest and most frighteningly competent tech CEO will be chosen as the new Central Director for the North American Union, real identity concealed, and tasked with world dominion. The vast majority of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border. It will not be difficult to sweep them into the new project.
A reformed DARPA will be issued megaproject funding levels for geoengineering, exoskeletal powered armor, and cybernetic enhancement projects. The North American fleet will be outfitted with new hypervelocity railguns that cannot be stopped by mere Chinese missile intercept systems. The government will fund mass selective IVF to screen out genetic defects, and then full-on genetic engineering. “Naturals” will be made a special, separate insurance category so as not to drag on the state’s new unified military service based insurance program.
The power of eminent domain will be expanded dramatically. Old slums will be torn down and replaced with defensible, militarized housing complexes with dense public transportation and on-site commercial and light industrial complexes. Cities will be designed for high survivability in the event of nuclear war, and civil defense stations will be positioned throughout the country with multiple months of freeze-dried reserve foods in addition to water filtration systems and heavier weaponry required foreign land-based counter-invasion.
All convicted of murder, sex trafficking of minors, or unlawful sale of hard drugs will be summarily executed. Corporal punishment will be reintroduced and prison sentences will be halved or reduced to a third. The punishments for repeated offenses will square.
No longer will America engage in the half-hearted “regime change” of knocking over some pathetic middle eastern country with an illiteracy rate approaching 60% and then imagining that Liberal Democracy will instantly take root. Now, we play for keeps. Any country invaded will be subjected to a 20 year military governorship overwriting whatever aspects of the culture must be overwritten for the territory to be permanently held in the American sphere. No international apologies will ever be made. For anything.
New full-body armor with face-concealing helmets will be designed for our new heavy infantry units, including built-in augmented reality battlespace software. It is important that we provide a unique look to the faceless wall of power.
Then, and only then, having become a true sci-fi empire, can the 21st Century Protagonist emerge to instill real Freedomocracy™.
But the bright side is that natural processes beyond our control can still be understood and accounted for! E.g., studying earthquakes can help you figure out the warning signs (potentially helping people to get to safety), discover where they're likely to occur, and develop less susceptible architecture. We cannot make the universe care for us, but we can adapt to it and care for each other.
What? That’s not my villain origin story. I’m only trying to “take over the world” because of the dissolution of the NAU - which is a completely valid reason to use an army of robots to prevent the world state from ever existing.
I’m the hero, here, saving you all from enacting a really dumb idea that brings about global tyranny. I only call myself a supervillain because for some reason, everyone keeps getting all offended when I hold the UN hostage. You’d do the same thing if you were in my situation! You just don’t have a half-machine body and memories of the future!
If I ever have a live-in partner, or wife, I’m not sure I’d want to share the same bedroom. For a few reasons:
1) Sleep quality. “Brain scans have also
shown that couples who sleep together wake one another continually. Next
morning, their stress hormones are higher while their cognitive ability
is lower. 1” Seriously, how could I sleep well if someone else is moving, shifting, and getting out of my bed? It’s not like I can use Sleep As Android in that case ….
2) Her sense of style might conflict with my taste! It might get messy! How am I suppose dance around in my undergarments to 80s hits in the morning if someone is watching? I mean, I guess she could watch, but I doubt anyone would want to!
Just fall asleep in the warm embrace of each other’s arms, then have your butler and maid servants gently carry you to your separate sleeping quarters, where you can awaken in the morning refreshed and clear headed!
It’s always weird when I see these reblog posts from an account that’s been deactivated It’s like the ghosts of Tumblrs past showing us all that social media, like life, is ephemeral and fleeting. Someone arrives, posts for a bit, and then disappears into the ether, never to be seen or heard from again.
I would favour the transition towards “henchmen” if it weren’t gendered. “Henchpeople” just doesn’t sound right.
asocratesgonemad
Agreed. I think I’m going to go with “henchmen” for the time being, because my interest in language-neutering has frankly been long worn away.
My brief search for a gender-neutral version that was still #the aesthetic returned “cronies” and “toadies”, but I think those would make me sound more liks Richard Nixon than Doctor Doom.
“Underlings” also occured to me, but that puts one in mind of a Dilbert-esque CEO. Hmph.
thededekindadafunction
I reiterate the excellent option of just going with “hench”
Although I am also currently considering henchgirl positions
In my old organization they were just referred to as “personnel”, because true evil is a faceless and impersonal, like a force of nature.
I’m on my own now, though, and there just isn’t a good word in English for a crew of repurposed salvaged mass-production gynoids held together by duct-tape and deep elastomer patches. I know a few good words for it in Channish, but it just doesn’t have the same ring when you know the audience doesn’t understand it and never will.
