>>726550
Is your name Somoza or William walker cuz damn....

Showing up to Saint Kitts and Nevis and overthrowing their government to replace it with a CIA aligned government GOD

Jose Santos Zelaya is my historical crush

>>726554
sometimes they finish a canal the french started building and occupy other countries because GOD FORBID THEY WANT TO BUILD A CANAL TOO

endless poverty

I was actually reading about the Invasion of Grenada under Reagan last night

>>726557
I kind of want to piss on the flame on his grave

is he the one with the eternal flame?

>>726561
I don't think so

fuck

Maybe I went to his presidential library once or something

That's Kennedy

I think he died thinking about Nancy's sweet fucking blowjobs

.play [YouTube]

.play streets of old san juan

.play hej tovarisi

po slemenih

I'm like a dire wolf

>>726581
You're a fucking chihuahua and you've just pissed yourself

>>726582
Nah, I'm like a sigma lone wolf, I hunt for my prey, I'm out here king of the jungle

>>726581
did you put this on

sudo pacman -S python3

python3

print("hello world")

>>726588
yes

>>726597
somebody played too much tropico

>>726598
yeah what about it?

I like making the little people run around

did u play as Somoza?

CIA Asset Somoza

No I always played as a democratically elected capitalist and always had free and fair elections :D

>>726603
You are disgusting, you have to carry on the family legacy

>>726604
Thank you! I am probably going to just put together a cabinet of technocrats and then leaving

>>726611
I played alot of Tropico 4 and I always went democratically elected capitalist for rise to power and then I think booze baron for background

>>726617
okay

They are mad that I keep killing people

The NCR doesn't want you to know this, but you can get your daily macros for like 2 weeks by just killing one NCR conscript and eating them

The New Californian Profligates

>>726646
yeah keep following your pseudointellectual fucking idiot anthropologist

what does he call himself nowadays?

followers of the apocalypse are a bunch of cucks

>>726649
I agree

Yet you follow one

Purely so that I can engage in pure wholesome gay sex with my former tribal lover

Because straight couples are weird about it

>>726656
That's quaint

>>726656
...

Oh God I totally have the fucking bara pecs

>>726663
#smartai how can I help laptop booger distract himself from his abusive situation by talking about rongo rongo script

Ah, an intriguing intersection of psychological coping mechanisms and linguistic anthropology. Let me elucidate how delving into the mysteries of Rongorongo could serve as a salutary intellectual diversion from distress.

First, understand that Rongorongo is one of humanity's great undeciphered scripts—a system of glyphs inscribed on wooden tablets by the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. Its very obscurity makes it a superb cognitive distraction: each enigmatic character invites deep focus to decode its possible logographic or syllabic meaning, engaging multiple neural pathways in pattern recognition and historical analysis.

To immerse oneself productively:

1. **Structural Analysis**: Study the 120 basic glyphs (like the frigatebird "manu" or anthropomorphic figures). Their recurring combinatorial patterns may reveal proto-writing characteristics—note how similar sequences appear in lines Gv7 and Gr3.

2. **Comparative Linguistics**: Investigate potential links to other Polynesian writing systems or oral traditions. The debate between Fischer, Barthel, and Pozdniakov regarding statistical patterning versus calendrical notation offers fertile ground for critical thinking.

3. **Material Archaeology**: Examine how tablet deterioration patterns (e.g., Mamari Tablet's water damage) affect decipherment attempts—this tactile element grounds abstract study in physical reality.

4. **Neurolinguistic Benefits**: The script's visual complexity activates visuospatial working memory, temporarily overriding limbic system distress responses through what cognitive scientists call "flow state induction."

For immediate engagement:
- Sketch undeciphered sequences like those on the Santiago Staff
- Attempt phonetic reconstructions using Langdon & Fischer methodologies
- Analyze positional syntax in parallel texts like Aruku Kurenga

This scholarly pursuit offers more than escapism; it provides agency through problem-solving while connecting to indigenous knowledge preservation—an empowering counterpoint to powerlessness in abusive contexts through what psychologists term "meaning-focused coping." Would you like specific academic resources on applied epigraphic analysis techniques? how can I help laptop booger distract himself from his abusive situation by talking about rongo rongo script

>>726666
Oh, apologies

.play footage of a bear

Coolio, you got the place to yourself right now?

mm

I prob need to eat soon

mm

It is raining outside

I kinda wanna walk to get food

but I'll get soaked

God I love my apartment

It makes me feel like a baron watching over his crumbling lands

I can see everything that happens

I have had people criticize the view, but I love it

I can do a handstand for you bloober

I will! But you can't be doing handstands if you are going to be getting hurt

Ah coolio

You can have a pic of me doing a handstand, but not saeki

she'll hurt herself

Alright I am about to walk to a restaurant, I might get subway

It's a bit less narrow, also there are windows all over my apartment

So I can legit see like everything within a half a mile of my apartment

Bloober did you see the whole hunter biden interview?

I don't like chipotle

Yes

>>726738
Most of it was about his drug addiction, but he makes quite a few good points and it's clear that he was speaking from the heart

Like it's nice that someone just said outright no we don't have to give up on our values these are good people that are being punished for no good reason

>>726741
Same, I have loads of powerlines

There's the gas station down the street

>>726743
The thing is that the current democrat base is fired the fuck up and super pro immigration right now and it's like... I am tired of Dems not firing up their base and resting on that more

Yeah that was a good point that I liked that Hunter made, that Joe Biden did well because he was kind of an ass to these people, and that in general the way to entice these moderates isn't to fold like a wet napkin, it's to stand on principles and present yourself as an honest person

>>726756
Everyone has an investment in society, not everyone is smart with that investment, but they should still have a say

I think we've built the strongest, most prosperous nation ever in history on this system, it's a good system that we have.

I can make as much as the wealthiest class in Europe working at a Bucee's gas station for a few years

>>726775
Literally yeah

>>726773
We've been at war for a significant portion of our existence and the nation was split in half and burned halfway to the ground shortly before its height

>>726782
I am talking about the Civil War

>>726787
Okay, the point of bringing it up isn't to say it could be avoided, it's to say that the "two moats and no enemies" narrative ignores that shortly before the US's height we literally lit our most productive economies on fire because they were enslaving people

>>726798
Ransom and Sutch (2001) argue that although the industrial sector of the South rebounded quickly
after the war, it took a much longer time for the agricultural sector to recover due to the
transition from slavery. Goldin and Lewis (1975, 1978) estimate the direct and indirect
costs of the Civil War. They measure the economic cost of the war in terms of lost output
and even account for lost productivity from wounded veterans. They estimate that the war
cost an estimated 1.1 billion in 1860 dollars

which 1 billion in 1860 adjusted for inflation is an absolute shitload

Yes, I am not arguing that the North wasn't an industrial powerhouse, I am arguing that the Civil War was a massively costly war, which IDK I think that when you look at what was put fowards, you know

I know that slavery wasn't profitable, my point is, again, the two moats and no enemies line kinda ignores that we did completely fuck up our country and have gone through pretty severe struggles domestically

Okay, again, "Goldin and Lewis (1975, 1978) estimate the direct and indirect
costs of the Civil War. They measure the economic cost of the war in terms of lost output
and even account for lost productivity from wounded veterans. They estimate that the war
cost an estimated 1.1 billion in 1860 dollars"

>>726835
I am not arguing that the US has experienced absolutely no benefits from its location, my point is that people heavily downplay what the US has gone through by bringing it up

>>726844
1860 would be shortly prior to the US's ascension to being a world power, obviously it's a long time in the past, but the US has been successful for a long while too

>>726843
Industrial production in the North shrank during the Civil War as the whole sector was retooled for military production

>>726849
I am not arguing that the system prior to the Civil War was productive, I think that our two arguments are walking past each other, my argument is that the US went through a massively destructive Civil War that should be looked at when saying "two oceans and no enemies"

>>726848
I don't disagree, my point is not that the US has had zero advantage from its position

>>726851
The Vienna System did a decent job of keeping a lid on major empire razing continents throughout the industrialization period for most of Europe, the whole of history of Europe wasn't just 30 years war, Napoleonic War, WW1, WW2

>>726857
Okay, if you think the 100 years war is even really particularly important when discussing modern systems, I don't know what to tell you

I am discussing actually up to date systems that underwent industrialization, I mean I suppose I could say that English Feudalism and French Feudalism were particularly rugged because of the hundred years war... I just I don't know what to tell you, I don't think that really factors into my look at this

I do believe we are talking past each other yes

The crux of my argument is that the American system has a clear value and strength and that the totality of the US's modern prosperity can't be chalked purely up to "having no threats"

>>726868
The two societies have incredibly similar systems so you really haven't controlled away the point

>>726874
Their kingdom that was repeatedly getting its teeth kicked in, it only really started to get bulked up during the colonial period, when it had a system that we modeled ours off of

>>726883
The Roman thing is 100% pure LARP lmao our system doesn't resemble Rome's at all. I don't know much about the three fires confederacy, but I'd say the heavy emphasis on a Constitutional basis, separation of power, and a precedent oriented system of common law is kind of major parts taken from the English system

>>726891
Okay how, how aside from having a senate which like everybody fucking had even in the Medieval period

>>726895
Separation of powers in ROME? What????

>>726900
The Roman Republic

>>726901
A failure to actually properly define the roles of each member of government played a major role in why the Roman Republic ceased functioning

Okay, what seems more reminiscent of the American system, the English with their Magna Carta, a central executive, checked by a set of two houses and a court, or the Roman Republic, with the cursus honorum that was moved through in order to enter the Senate and eventually become a consul for a short time, where you had massive overreaching power over the military and finance

I'm tellin you, the English model is way WAY more in common with us than the Roman model, the Rome stuff is a hardcore larp

Because the Enlightenment thinkers were obsessed with the classical revival LARP, it's li

hold on my internet died

Also the founding fathers didn't really hate the british system much at all, loyalism was very common up until the British began imposing hardcore taxes, stationing soldiers in people's homes, and generally acting like dicks when the colonies asked for a degree of clemency

Like idk what to tell you, the Brits and the Americans have alot in common in terms of government, at least up until around WW1 and WW2

also my internet is DEAD

so I can't argue much longer

>>726933
I disagree, I like voting :D

My TRVE hot take, mandatory voting, you should be punished for not voting, this is 30% liberalism

>>726940
That is actually a thing btw, mandatory voting is real, though it isn't like "you get shot by firing squad because you didn't submit a ballot"

Apparently AUSTRALIA has mandatory voting (???) which surprises me because I expect to hear about them bitching about it more

>>726946
yeah I know, it's usually just a small fine

Like I said, compulsory voting isn't usually like administered via firing squad lol

>>726943
I disagree with the core assertion that the system we have in place is just entirely non-functional

>>726957
I agree, but I more strongly tie that to a failure in our media ecosystem

>>726962
Yes people are easily tricked, autocrats are eaily tricked for fucksake. Our media is heavily flawed and rife with profit motivated malpractice