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Peter DeBoer's avatar

Well, actually they made me smile, thanks for that.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

With perspective, even Hitler was hilarious. When enough laugh, his kind lose their power.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

In some ways your opinions were not violent enough.

1. America's health, especially children's has been destroyed by vaccines particularly the Covid 19 vaccine and pharmaceuticals. Glyphosate still has not been banned and statins are still being prescribed and meth is the antidote.

2. "Better Red then Dead" will become China's mantra throughout the world prompting the US to respond to China's economic supremacy with the only response available, military provocation.

But a provocation weakened by corruption, incompetence and mental deficiency.

3. China must be embraced but not without petulant violence from the US and Europe. Violence will be on the scale or worse then the immediate post colonial period in Africa in the 60's.

4. West Bank will be destroyed and Palestinians will be forced into Egypt. Israel's population forced to be a Pfizer testing lab is paying the health consequences except for the Orthodox.

5. Good Riddance and the overthrow will always be violent in the best tradition of Argentinian politics.

6. De Gaulle was right. Europe's independence is gone and embracing NATO has destroyed it's economy and it will continue to destroy it's economy with the ridiculous fantasy of military dominance. The Nordic states are screwed for trying to revive their latent Nazi fantasies from World War II era and saber rattling.

7. Not only will the Ukraine be destroyed but it's future has been seized by private equity companies. Blackrock and Vanguard will be the economy. Russia will continue to eat away at the myth of NATO supremacy.

8. Bank of London liquidity will continue to decline but British arrogance will continue the economic and political decimation of British society. The only agent of change to counter this arrogance were unions which were destroyed by Thatcher and the wave of globalization in the past 20 years.

9. Australia may have to eat their kangaroos in their subservience to the US.

10. Chaos and violence will plague the view of what direction to head.

11. Their health as children was destroyed and their education was dumbed down decades ago. AI will really be an albatross to any creative or job fulfillment.

12. They will rise up and free other islands in a blitz

13. It is still a beautiful fantasy to hope differently. Political porn.

14. The medical care is already killing everybody and still is planting it's hooks into everyone's hypochondria.

15. Always laugh

For the optimists play this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TtUjZVTJQ

For the pessimists two options- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nSctDYH4HE and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ug1nNkm97o

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Mike Hampton's avatar

That's true, though I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek about the tariffs. It's both serious and fucking ridiculous. It's not even odd that a bunch of tariffs were paused for 90 days, and that the way over valued stock market jumped like a kitten for a knitting ball.

Serious is that South Africa dropped to 25-1 to the pound, and lost 90 cents to the dollar. Almost half of my country is unemployed whereas the USA is wealthy in comparison i.e., this bullshit effects poor countries more.

China has been a predictable country which means that international relations could be stable if it weren't for the propaganda. China is a capitalist country with a central authority. The only reason why the American oligarchy wants to take it down is because its competition. That's geopolitical realism but the American farce about it damages the world.

Poor, poor Argentina. I've never been there but watched a lot. Regular folk seem terrific, a better society than my own, yet another country that should be rich that's under the thumb of raping arseholes.

I dream of the death of NATO, as do all the countries its attacked.

I was an admirer of the Nordic states so their sudden Atlanticism against human rights is disappointing. In fact, it shakes me that great countries can alter so quickly under the rule of a few obviously in someone's pocket.

I may live in the most unequal society but the UK has a bigger spotlight, so its deliberate inequality plan is going to become an example for the world.

My view of the future is dim.

Yes, we have to laugh. Real medicine.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

and of course music which is the greatest drug of all and the safest. I can custom my playlist during any listening session to whatever mood I have or want to eliminate.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Yes! I have a mixtape series blandly called 'How I Feel [insert date]'. I have a lot in my 'Carnival' series. Another is 'The 'Violence of Sanity' (and a band named their album after my suggestion 'Violence of Apathy').

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Mike Hampton's avatar

I knew two of the artists but none of the songs. There was a documentary about ridiculous Tiny Tim a few years back.

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Tom Johnston's avatar

Now I am assuming you did not know Hasil Adkins who recorded most of his music from his trailer in West Virginia and was the biggest influence on the Cramps.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

You are correct, and I'm relieved I never pretended to be a know-it-all human fly.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

You said: West Bank will be destroyed and Palestinians will be forced into Egypt.

Forced how and by whom and since Egypt cannot afford to allow them to enter given the potential for total chaos and uprisings, the only way to have a final solution for shitrael is to exterminate them all and knocking off 6 million is such a bad look and also damned hard. Jordan and Egypt will both go to war before allowing the shitraelis to push more refugees over their borders. Hezbollah is not defeated and the Lebanese are learning that shitrael will kill them all regardless so expect more unity on that front not less. The Syrian rebels are beginning to think twice about shitrael and Turkey is working for unity against the State of Hate.

Europe will lose Nato but it will take longer to dismantle the EU. The Europeans more than most have learned to roll with the punches in ways Americans have not.

You said: Australia may have to eat their kangaroos in their subservience to the US.

We already eat our kangaroos and our subservience to the US is no different to that of all US lackeys, sorry, allies.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Kangaroos wasn't a political statement - ha ha.

Odd, I never received notifications for any of these messages.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

I know it was a joke. :)

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Longtrail's avatar

You had me in stitches, Mike! I was sharing snippets with my daughter as I was reading. After this I'm sending her your entire post!

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Mike Hampton's avatar

It's a helluva roundabout way to get your daughter to praise me too. Thanks, Longtrail!

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Longtrail's avatar

This morning I thought about how the tarrifs are shutting the whole world down like the COVID Virus. Later in a restaurant on TV the news is reporting about the shut down. It IS like the COVID Virus! But it's not.

IT'S THE TRUMP VIRUS!🇮🇱

It must be eradicated like a cancer. The cancer is... Wait for it... AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱!

They're destroying our nation and turned it into the world's foremost terrorist state🇮🇱! Our flag really looks like this 🇮🇱. We must excise the AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱 cancer to save the life of our nation! We must turn our flag from 🇮🇱 to 🇺🇸!

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Continuous disruption is key to continuous profit.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

All things are possible. Don't agree or disagree. Although I do not believe there are enough Israelis who are sane enough and intelligent enough and organised enough to make any sort of powerful protest.

Australia may well have a housing crash but people will pick themselves up, dust themselves off and start all over again. With a benign climate it is easier to survive such things.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Yep, that's why I was light on Aussieland. Build a couple hundred thousand houses and your bubble disappears. If only all problems had problem solvers.

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Constantine Markides's avatar

Fantastic. Keep channeling your inner Nostradamus.

"Lots of sunshine and American arselicking" was my favorite line.

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