I see the former becoming more likely. Musk, Thiel, and a lot of other "digital libertarians" who have serious money are really not alright with what is day by day looking like an obvious coup.

They could pay for and provide for a pretty decent mercenary force.

I doubt it will actually happen, in that manner, but in current times, people seem to forget maps are re-drawn and have been through out history.

The "I'm writing a story on..." is fucking gold.

I think I shouldn't be posting this but: They have been photographed at rallies (in Ray-Bans, lol) they are almost certainly carrying cell devices and radios at these events.

A few random, nobody dudes wardriving around with off the shelf stuff and an x220 found that the same people rioting during the summer of love were mostly tourists, going from city to city. Because they put out their own wifi mesh networks and the same phones consistently connected to them.

This was also discovered at Harris rallies.

Edit: I hope you get what I am getting at. I don't think I can be blunt about this, with all the current goings-ons.

I wish I had that saved. The guys were veterans of the Chechen War, or some other Slav horror, and had been witness to absolutely harrowing events. But South Africa was too much for them and even their native cab driver said "Yeah, we don't go there, daytime or anytime"

The part about elevator shafts being used as waste disposal and ghouls just moving up one floor when it gets filled, bridges between car parks and office buildings so no one has to actually interact with the street, self defense flame throwers...

I don't get why anyone other than people with Afrikaners heritage would ever go there. And if they are Afrikaners and visiting from outside it means their family had already fled that failed country.

Doesn't look like she will taking on a manager role.

I agree but you can't transmit or receive in a faraday cage.

Buy 2nd hand ham radio equipment. Learn how to radio. Understand radio. Soon realize you are more sophisticated than the Secret Service (A guy was in place for 12 hours with a Go-Pro and cell phone, TX/RX devices, and no one did any basic electronic recon. Off the shelf stuff would have picked that up and it costs ≈ $100.)

I wonder what guys like this would be up to if they didn't have a swarthy beard.

I think it's Toby.

I remember this happening, too. At the time reddit and other places were ranting about anti-vax Karens and keeping un-vaxed kids out of classrooms.

Around the same time the US started seeing cases of diseases we had eradicated long ago. They all originated in heavily "immigrant" populated areas. I initially thought this was to shift attention away from the people bringing this in to the country and place blame on anti-vaxxers. I don't know what to think these days.

I haven't watched Alya yet but even in subs they are sneaking in zoomer/reddit-tier "trash.

The Elusive Samurai is pretty damn good so far. A shogunate vassal family is betrayed and massacred. The son escapes and runs in to a priest who thinks the kid will someday unify Japan. It's not an out and out revenge story, though, there is a lot more going on. It's not historically accurate but it does have historical figures as characters, the MC being one. The animation is fantastic.

I don't know how the top comment is still up.

You are not wrong. I have family on the other side of the Causeway and the things they say about Nola is both hilarious and horrifying.

Also, I think the Katrina re-homing or what ever they called it was largely an exercise in moving shit people in to stable places. Shortly after it was mandated that everywhere had to offer multi-family housing. So you end up with places like the OP.

Colorado, a truly beautiful place, a place where Robert A. Heinlein decided to build a house (and since house numbers weren't a thing at the time numbered it 1776,) has become a bit of a mess.

I lived in the Springs for a short couple years. Many people from New Orleans were relocated there after Katrina. They were all placed in apartment complexes and things got so out of hand the police literally called them "no-go" zones. They called those places Somalia Springs or New Somalia.

Mind you, these were people from New Orleans, not migrants.

It does not surprise me in the least that "migrants" are pulling this. They got away with it in their home countries, so why wouldn't they get away with it here?

They remade League of their Own? I just found out Disney is going to make a Sandlot TV series. Is nothing safe?

I can't wait till they give Back the Future the remade for a new audience treatment. It's going to be so bad great!

how much attention the actresses were likely getting

Even just perceived attention. An actress shows up to do her job; guess what? You have to direct her. There will be a lot of interaction, back and forth, and possibly even positioning, requiring gasp physical contact.

Average manager? You go out of your way not to interact with them.

The vitiligo bit really ties it all together.

Are you allowed to say that in your country?

oh no

ahahahahaha How was this even made? I mean, I know why, but at some point in the chain did anyone think "this might not be popular, we might lose money"?

But again, I know why.

I am also going to add look at the ISIS vs Taliban conflict. They are completely happy slaughtering their own.

They have some interesting ideas but they are not friends of the West and we should not take that direction.

I have no idea as I don't live there. I doubt there are any real numbers at this time. There most likely won't be until they really really take a hold in the country. I guess look at the countries they come from as they are mostly homogeneous in their flavor of faith.

Also, I do not want to "revert," not convert (that's the way Muslims see it,) to a faith of child rapists.

As our friend Lethn says you have to be the right kind of Muslim. There is an old saying along the lines of "as longs are there are two Muslims alive there will never be peace"

It's hard to see in Western countries because it's never talked about but look at the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia. Adherents of Islam must always accept their brothers. That's kind of a big deal with them. So why, then, is Egypt explicitly rejecting Palestinians?

The Sunni and Shia have been at war for hundreds of years. They kill each other over small differences. Muslims will gather to overtake a country but if they get a majority they immediately fall to violent in-fighting.

So, white man, what flavor will you choose?

If they went to war with the North, and won, they would have to deal with a whole new population of unknown numbers that are starving and largely brainwashed and/or ignorant of things outside of their nation.

Western Europe, the UK, and the US happily take in similar people but I think South Koreans actually understand the chaos this would create. Just building basic infrastructure for an entire country like North Korea would be extremely difficult without large amounts of outside funding. Only China and Russia would be willing to do so but they both use NK for what is essentially slave labor. So they have no incentive to actually do it.

I think the Irish are going to be the ones that really kick things off. There are still IRA guys around and the IRA never turned in all their arms.

IF that does happen I would think the UK government would take notice but they are too up their own asses to care.

I had a number of relatives who were pretty much subsistence farmers from Arkansas join the Navy because they thought it was exciting and had never seen an ocean. They all served in the Pacific. Amazingly, they all made it back home. They didn't talk about it much but they did say the Japs were "pretty serious" when it came to a fight.