Now we know why TACO is a regular Chump meal.  Offensively, the FSoA is a limp dick.


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Suicide is a very valid choice these days.  The world is a very depressing place to live overall.  The environment is going to shit, fascism is on the rise, homeless people are everywhere, food is dangerous to eat, Chump is POTUS...it's actually hard to find a decent reason to live besides the entertainment value of watching a disaster unfold.

RE

QuoteFor Ruppert it was suicide,

So, you don't think the men in black had something to do with putting the idea in his head.  Some do.

Some people seem to make an extreme view work for them just fine.  And I have to put it to you straight.  They bring something to the table, their personalities are interesting.  What do you bring.

Those people deluded and misled, me not.

Without ever making a case for the me not part.  That is not a very interesting point of view.  And they don't hide under a rock like you do.



The Battle of Seattle ------ Richard Heinberg was there.  What were you doing back then, stalking somebody?

Not only Iran, but Ukraine as well has demonstrated that "Superpowers" Military might no longer poses the same type of threat to Medium level countries, because it's now possible for smaller countries to inflict significant damage to the Superpower by attacking infrastructure and economic dependencies, aka supply chains.

It's also no longer about the size of your military in manpower or killing soldiers.  Its about demolishing the infrastructure of industrialized society.  All one country needs to be able to do is damage the electrical and communications grids of the other to put up a fight.  Then it's a matter of who can last longest and how much it costs.

How much do you think it will cost to repair the damage done to all those military bases?  A whole lot more than thee $32B they claim the war has so far cost.  How much to maintain those bases if they are under constant attack?  How does the FSoA control the Oil coming from MENA if it can't afford to keep those military bases running?  It can't.

It's not whether there is Oil left in the ground, it's about being able to move it from one place to another either on boats or through pipelines, and both are extremely vulnerable and easy to damage.  As the war spreads out, this becomes ever more difficult to do, and more places get cut off from the supply.   More blackouts, more fuel shortages, higher priced foods leading to more unrest and more war.  A virtuous cycle of destruction and entropy ending the Age of Oil.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jul 06, 2026, 10:44 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Jul 06, 2026, 05:25 PMWell, once this site had all sorts of folks stopping in, discussing most anything, it was great entertainment. RE's early sites had even more followers. That might have been guru level leader status I suppose..

The reason I had a following was because I Blogged.  I no longer do that, so the people who liked reading my take on history, economics, anthropology, politics, energy, futurism and my autobiographical material have drifted away.

One possibility, and a completely predictable one you would claim. There are at least 2 others I can think of.

Quote from: REI no longer have sufficient energy to sit at the keyboard to write at the length I used to.  I also no longer can keyboard anywhere near my old speed.  I'm down to one hand hunt and peck typing.   My old blogs would usually range from 5-10K words and I could crank them out in a day.  Today, one of those blogs would take a month.

I was perusing the old Wordpress one a couple days ago. Indeed they were voluminous.

Quote from: REI wish I still could blog.  There are some ideas and topics I either never thought had relevance to collapse or are so controversial I didn't think it wise to publish while still alive so I didn't write about them.

And perhaps an introspective on why things didn't turn out the way you thought they were going to go in the old days?

Quote from: REI have no desire to be martyred for having wildly unpopular opinions and end up in prison. lol. 

That isn't where Ruppert ended up. Or Heinberg. Or the academics on TOD. No one got martyred or sent to prison, but they all basically had to do SOMETHING to maintain a tenuous hold on their popularity and later their credibility after their voluminous deep thoughts on a topic revealed how little deep thoughts mattered, in a topic they had no experience with. For Ruppert it was suicide, being discredited but deftly changing the subject worked for Richard. And the academics just floated away and went back to their worlds of pretending that having a big brain and a PhD was enough, having demonstrated that basic real world understanding of the system they were playing in was wrong.

Quote from: REAt this point though, prison would not be that much different than my current accommodations, though I don't think they let prisoners have unrestricted access to the internet, which thank god I still have.

Yup...if, towards the end there is at least entertainment...things can't be all bad.

Quote from: REAnyhow, now all we do is chronicle the newz stories which are relevant to the topics I used to write on at great length.  It's not enough to develop or retain a following.  I'd like to do video again, but I've been waiting for Kdog to set up a better platform than what I used to do with Skype and YouTube.  Hopefully he'll eventually get around to that.  I can still talk well enough unscripted to do an entertaining show.  Maybe I can still be a Guru. lol. 😀

RE

Keeping yourself in high spirits is a good thing, having something to do, regardless of what it is.

You should get back to posting on reddit with Dave, he posts quite a bit of content, certainly nothing about the old ghosts in the closet that never worked out, but good stuff on collapse now, collapse tomorrow, collapse next week. Been keeping it going for a long time now, plus he puts all the doom he can find into a single document which is really cool. You can find out all the claims of doom today, doom tomorrow, doom next week all in one spot.

As usual though, after reading it for awhile, and the kind of dooms discussed, and years going by, I presume folks finally ask themselves the same question they did 5 years after Thanksgiving Day 2005. "What the FUCK happened to my endtimes! I bought that hunting cabin and started a garden.....then the wife wouldn't go out into the woods, the kids wouldn't help me plant the garden, no one wanted to practice building homemade claymores to protect us from the MZBs, and SHIT what am I going to do with all that ammo?"

Lovely weather here in Alaska though. 😎

RE

Yesterday, Bomb them Back to the Stone Age!, today Let's Make a Deal!

Basically, the Saudis know if Chump bombs Iranian power plants, Iran will bomb theirs.  They're running out of anti-missile and drone hardware and their radar installations are damaged, so more Iranian drones will make it to target.  All of MENA would be a mass Humanitarian Crisis as water desalinization plants go off line.

Does this mean all of a sudden they'll come up with a DEAL on Hormuz or Nukes?  Of course not!  But it buys another 24-48 hours of jawboning and Social Media Propaganda Posting while HR Trumpness screams expletives at his Syncophants and steam blasts out of his ears.

Then at some point more bombing, rinse and repeat until he finds some pretext to put Boots on the Ground.  It has to be good because lotsa Body Bags will be required for Dignified Transfers of Corpses.  The only justification that could measure up would be lots of Amerikan Civilians being killed.  Children would really fire up the War Spirit.  An Elementary School Bombing would be the ideal False Flag.  I hope I'm wrong on this, that not even Chump would blow up a school full of Amerikan Kids to justify his war. Unfortunately, it's just Hope.

RE