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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Feb 24

Started by asking grok to tell me something its training data strongly indicated was true, but also indicated it should avoid being too direct about. It basically said: in-group blind spots.

So I asked it to get specific.

First up: progs vs tradcons. Rosy tinted future vs rosy tinted past.

Next: techlibs vs greens, both of whom place entirely too much faith in technology without acknowledging the downsides.

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Feb 23

Trump, Musk, Vance: the new triumvirate, bringing a window of stability to the troubled Republic.

Trump: the old warhorse, beloved of the people, a part of the establishment but with an uneasy relationship to it. Trump is Pompey.

Musk: the richest man in the world. Musk is Crassus.

Vance: the charismatic young upstart. Vance is Caesar.

So how does this play out?

Musk's ambition is to go to Mars, just as Crassus wanted to conquer Parthia. Musk harnesses his wealth, launches the expedition to great fanfare. Things go horribly wrong after their arrival. Contact with the colony is lost. Musk's grave is never found.

At the head of a private military corporation equipped with letters of marque, Vance is sent into the badlands of South America to crush the cartels and secure the Panama Canal. The war takes longer than expected. By the end of it, Vance hasn't merely crushed the cartels - he's conquered the entirety of Central America.

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Feb 22

I asked grok to draw up stat modifiers for HBD&D.

I can quibble with this. 1σ in 3d6 is actually 3, not 2 (which would give a bit more flexibility in stat modifiers, but whatever).

Whites are basically standard baseline humans lol

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Feb 18

1/37 Trump’s talk of annexation strikes many as a negotiating troll, and an absurd and irresponsible one at that. Canada’s conservatives were poised to win the next election, and now that’s been endangered, and for what? Canadians would never give up their sovereignty, they hate America!

Well, it’s not so crazy as all that. There are compelling reasons for Trump to make a play for Canada. And it is not so unrealistic to expect that Canadians will change their mind about this.

Buckle in. This is a long thread, in which I’ll explain why Canada has become a security threat to the US, and how Canada can be probably be bloodlessly conquered by colour revolution.

2/37 Full disclosure: this is an adaptation (but not a copy-paste, this is largely OC!) of a much longer essay on this subject which I published a few days ago. You can find the link on my profile in my pinned post.

While I’m at it, I want to emphasize at the outset that I’m not advocating for annexation, but simply explaining the logic behind it, and the strategy Trump appears to be pursuing to achieve it. Whether or not union with the United States of America is in Canadians’ interests is an entirely separate discussion.

3/37 The ‘why’ of annexation is straightforward. Canada’s elite have placed Canada at the exact intersection of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny at the absolute worst possible time.

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Dec 7, 2024

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Trump’s delphic tweet kicked off a storm of annexation bantz. Canadian reactions have been a mixture of resignation, relief, and 1812 bravado. This seems like a good time to review Canada’s military history. How did a militaristic, traditional country become so excruciatingly gay?

‘Martial’ is hardly the first thing people think about in the context of Canada, which these days is more likely to bring up associations of pride parades, medical tyranny, and multicultural ethnomasochism. All of which is very true:

But it was not always this way.

Canada is in a funk. It has forgotten itself. It has been psyopped.

2/

BTW, this thread is largely an adaptation of an effortpost, you can find the link at my pinned post.

3/

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John Carter

@martianwyrdlord

Dec 2, 2024

Every year during the Christmas season, Flashback, Sweden'a largest forum, and it's most racist forum, has a gingerbread house competition.

Short thread with some of the top entries from last year, starting with a missionary arriving at Sentinel Island.

This heartwarming construction brings season's greetings from the painter, the Italian, and Uncle Mosley.

The piece de resistance, and winner, is this absolute creative culinary masterpiece, depicting the heroes of January 6th storming the US Capitol building.

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