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    Some say that to this day the weasel is still there being accelerated ever closer to the speed of light.

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    No, because all this shit can be traced back directly to Regan, and probably Nixon. Nixon cut the break line and Regan shoved it off the cliff.

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      Here’s something not many people consider.

      Before Reagan, popular media had tons of intellectual content. Superheroes would hang out with Edgar Allan Poe or Sitting Bull. Cartoons like Mr. Peabody taught kids the names of historical figures and Bugs Bunny played opera.

      Then Reagan deregulated kids TV and you got half hour long commercials for GI Joe and The Transformers.

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      The murder of Lincoln and not fixing the country after the civil war is probably the root especially for the southern strategy that Nixon would go on to use.

      The murder of both Kennedy brothers is the next point, because it opened the door for Nixon who got the economy ready to inflate and fuck over Carter, which got us Reagan and the rest of the “conservatives “ who are actually fascist racists greedy asswipes.

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        Thomas Paine was right. It goes back to the founding of the country (at least) and the refusal to form a truly egalitarian society, embracing human slavery instead. This made the US Civil War inevitable.

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        Well I guess absorbing enormous amounts of Nazi scientists, agents and soldiers into it’s service did not help much either.

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          Weirdly enough that was largely the most negligible effect, most of the ones that were absorbed were revanchists not ideological Nazis. While we can debate the morals of dead men they weren’t the worst of the worst, those were left in Germany or fled to South America and Apartheid Africa. Most of the ones absorbed just really wanted to fuck over the Soviets, which at the time was also the goal of NATO and Yugoslavia.

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        Yeah, man…it’s not like the largest global superpower of the last century has an effect on the rest of the world economically or anything. Must just be burger-brain.

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      I think we made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place.

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      McCarthy really fucked it all up for us in 1954 with the lavender and red scares. That helped set the stage for those later cunts.

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    I like the theory that the Mayans were right and the world ended in 2012.

    A redwood can be dead and still stand for years…

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        I have to agree with Stephen King and say that the Kennedy assassination was the moment it snapped.

        Going heavy in Vietnam started the destruction of the US economy, and Nixon tripled down on it.

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            “The Big Time” by Fritz Leiber. The Change War is being fought on every planet in the universe from the moment of the Big Bang to the end of time. Two sides, the Spiders and the Snakes, are trying to rewrite history for their own purposes. The Law Of Conservation of Reality states that Time will oppose any change, so you have to fight the same battles over and over and over in order to get any changes.

            Fun book.

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            I used to be a huge Stephen King junkie, read every novel within a few weeks of each release (started young by reading Salem’s Lot way too young). Then he started getting really repetitive in the mid-90s.

            So I was reluctant to bother with 11/22/63 but I picked it up because the premise was totally different for King. And I was blown away - I consider it his best, by far.

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      Weasel is a typo. It’s suppose to be Wheatley.

      Wheatley was accidentally accelerated past the speed of light and now exists outside of time in a godlike state.

      Still can’t make decent puzzle rooms for shit.

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    It was a Field Marten, not a weasel. The Pompiers still share around the image of its incredibly crispy corpse that was retrieved from the service tunnels at CMS Point 5.

    Timeline thing is whatever, the collisions happening in LHC are less energetic than sunlight on a sq cm of grass, they’re just much better controlled and measured.

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    and just how many times has this …weasel thing happened?

    let me guess. it’s impossible to know.

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    I’m aware of the theory that a stupid cop shooting a gorilla put us in this fucked up timeline.

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    except in the other timeline, the hadron collider opened a black hole and swallowed the earth whole.

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    The weasel just wanted to go to a timeline where his family is alive.

    It didn’t know it would create the Weaselpoint paradox.

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    This timeline is great. I’m going to go ahead and continue living my life and enjoying the timeline I’m in. Not finding ways to constantly make myself depressed by finding and pointing out every negative aspect I dislike. I try to focus on all of the positives instead.

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      Are you advocating blissful ignorance as a like. Lifestyle? I’m glad that you have enough money and stability to do that lol if you’re poor or marginalized blissful ignorance is not an option if you intend to survive.

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        No. I’m just advocating for focusing on the positives in life. I enjoy technology and engineering. Just got a 3D printer and am absolutely loving learning about it and improving my abilities in CAD. Also love going out hiking and spending time outdoors, my state has really being making a lot of improvements in that area.

        • I mean, good for you, it’s good to have hobbies. But do you have no empathy for your fellow humans? I’m guessing your skin isn’t a shade that might get you sent to CECOT… yet. If you ignore what’s happening they may eventually come for you too.

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          People on these forums don’t like positive inflections unless you are positively shitting on the west.

          Downvote if I’m right.

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            It looks like people think you are right.
            Now what’s our down vote goal if we think you are far right?

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              Get it to -25. They’ll be wrong. But they can think that if it helps them believe downvoting some rando on the depths of the armpit of the internet makes them leftier.

              -50 and I’ll falsely claim that I voted for trump.

              -100 and we can confirm that it never mattered in the first place.