What is Coming?

a reply to: JAGStorm

Taiwan could be a trigger point but remains to be seen. China and India don't play nice with each other, another trigger point. The middle east is always a trigger point.

The biggest thing is the dollar. It scares me how much debt we have added in the last year and a half. It is not just the U.S. it is the world. I believe we could be headed toward a one-world currency based on a credit system. www.reuters.com...

There is quite a bit out there to ponder. But one needs to keep living and doing what needs to be done to survive. Stay in good company.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: HilterDayon

The "American Dream" is not just pertinent to America. After the 2nd world war every global citizen either openly or secretly dreamed to live the excess of the American dream, to travel the world with a camera casually slung across the shoulder oozing success and a relaxed and unhurried attitude, secure in the idea of belonging to the most successful developed nation on earth. But no man is an island and no nation either. America will bear the brunt of disappointment in loss of standard and style of living more than any other society, because they have much more to lose.

It is already starting to change to the Chinese dream.
I’ve seen a lot on social media with new innovative products from China and people all over the world are asking how they can order or get it. I saw a video of young people (Americans) moving to China because it’s the future.
I know people want to keep their heads in the sand, but it’s happening. the last peg will be the monetary system.
That is going to be something to witness… very sad

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China will never rise to the cultural heights of America. They will never produce the inventiveness, the charisma, the talent and the boldness of America. If they do have the window of opportunity to rise to any height, it will just be to the height of a fancy high tech termite mound. Without any individuality or unique qualities of it's people. That...is very sad. Ant farms are easily flooded.

Two things:

#1 I expect a few states to secede from the Union. Probably a belt of red states across the gulf coast.

#2 I expect China to make a grab for Taiwan. This one is inevitable.

Super tech expensive gentrified cities, with lots of houseless people and lots of police. Everyone, even some houseless people, will be way more controlled by the internet than ever before. Tech is going to control the world and nature and humans will be neglected. Humans will be extremely manipulated by the internet/tech.

a reply to: HilterDayon

China will never rise to the cultural heights of America. They will never produce the inventiveness, the charisma, the talent and the boldness of America. If they do have the window of opportunity to rise to any height, it will just be to the height of a fancy high tech termite mound. Without any individuality or unique qualities of it's people. That...is very sad. Ant farms are easily flooded.

Not trying to defend China, but I think you don’t know much about China, Chinese people or their culture.

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: HilterDayon

China will never rise to the cultural heights of America. They will never produce the inventiveness, the charisma, the talent and the boldness of America. If they do have the window of opportunity to rise to any height, it will just be to the height of a fancy high tech termite mound. Without any individuality or unique qualities of it's people. That...is very sad. Ant farms are easily flooded.

Not trying to defend China, but I think you don’t know much about China, Chinese people or their culture.

JAGStorm are you sure the particular video you uploaded supports your intended opinion?

Did you view it from the 4.36 minute mark? That is where the rosy picture of China the filmmaker initially had of China begins to sour to the view I have of China.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I think it's obvious what's coming down the pike.

I have been around the block a few times and have seen my share of things over the years. And while aspects of this 'feeling' ring familiar, there is something unmistakably different about it too.

The Cuban missile crisis scared the crap out of a lot of people but turned out to be a nothing-burger. The cold war saw a lot of sabre rattling and posturing but no one wanted to be the first to pull the trigger. Another nothing-burger. We had race riots in the 60's but it didn't matter how hard the people in the back pushed, the front lines didn't want to kill each other. More nothing-burger. In the 70's Hanoi Jane was telling us that nuclear power plants all over the country were going to explode and spew out massive amounts of radiation and it was going to be just like a nuclear war had happened. Nothing-burger. Peak oil was supposed to put us back in the stone age. Nothing-burger. Economic upheaval. Nothing-burger. In 1979 it was the Iran hostage crisis, the US introduction to islamic terrorism. That burger sat in a slow cooker for 22 years until 1993 and then again on 9/11/01.

Today we have liberals/democrats literally shrieking about pro-nouns, toxic masculinity, white privilege, and a host of other made up bs no one cares about. A huge nothing-burger. Al Gore still telling us the world is about to lose all its polar ice, again.... Nothing-burger.

Do you see the difference?

The older events were actual events, or at least potentials. To varying degrees, there was real threat there. The exception would be the nuclear power plants exploding and spewing out nuclear war levels of radiation. That cant really happen, but to the uneducated mind it was a real danger.

The newer buzzword events are all made up contrived bs meant to drive slow witted sheeple into a feeding frenzy. Arguing pro-nouns is just stupid. No one cares. Toxic masculinity doesn't exist. Its just masculinity and people with none are threatened by people who have some. Too bad. White privilege is a catch-all used to scapegoat all white people for everything that ever went wrong for all black people. Too bad, and stupid. Climate change. One of the biggest nothing-burgers of all time. The democrats would have you believe it was made from the meat of the lamented Nothingus, now on the endangered species list due to toxic masculine hunting and the destruction of its natural habitat - Liberalland where words have whatever meaning you want, laws are for everyone else, free stuff is always free, and Trump doesn't exist because hurty feelys.

What is different this time is that we now have an entire generation that is desensitized to genuine threats by a lifetime of virtue signaling and social justice mockery. If a liberal fell into a gorilla cage and someone yelled, "Look out - he's right behind you!" I believe the liberal would stand there screaming about the use of a pronoun (which means you assumed the gorilla' gender) instead of hauling ass out of there. Yes, its that bad.

The difference is many of us feel something is coming, something to be avoided if at all possible. This feeling is compounded by the utter inaction and disbelief of so many people around us who simply do not see it coming or cant acknowledge its existence. Whether its ignorance, cognitive dissonance, or plain and simple stupidity doesn't matter. The end result is, for the first time, some of us now know we cant count on each other when the defecation impacts the rotary oscillator. "That" is the scary part.

Face it - when the big 'thing' happens half of this country is going to wet itself, run around in circles looking for a safe space and a therapy pizza, and pray some gun toting conspiracy nut saves their dumb asses.

Hint- most of us won't bother trying to save you.

Post script edit: I know this is not the mudpit. This post is not meant to troll anyone. It is the expression of a belief. At some point expressing honest opinion has to be allowed, even if that opinion triggers more sensitive readers. Life isn't made of nerf, sometimes it stings a bit.

originally posted by: Vroomfondel


...What is different this time is that we now have an entire generation that is desensitized to genuine threats.....

The difference is many of us feel something is coming, something to be avoided if at all possible. This feeling is compounded by the utter inaction and disbelief of so many people around us who simply do not see it coming or cant acknowledge its existence. Whether its ignorance, cognitive dissonance, or plain and simple stupidity doesn't matter. The end result is, for the first time, some of us now know we cant count on each other when the defecation impacts the rotary oscillator. "That" is the scary part.

Well said. A lot of people are desensitised to genuine threats by all the "nothing burger" threats of the past because they are all viewed in hindsight. Fate is fickle though. The younger generations have had a real number done on them. They have been groomed to be like the Eloi as depicted in 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells.

I would not be surprised to see massive natural impacts transform the world, especially climatically. But the greatest danger to humanity that I see is slavery. People are already caught in the process of slavery but as you say, most have not seen it coming or see it happening. They have been softened up and cannot see it because it doesn't look like classical slavery - the slavery depicted on History Channel or whatever.

It is the type of slavery that once instituted there will be nowhere to escape to, because something integral to what it means to be human has been by some means removed.

Those who are really spooked, are not from the tech generations.

a reply to: HilterDayon

Yes, and he even mentions with all China’s issues he still felt more FREE than he did in the US.
How about that.

a reply to: JAGStorm

That is interesting isn't it?

a reply to: JAGStorm

The tribulation, it's inevitable...

a reply to: Vroomfondel

there is something unmistakably different about it too.

I totally agree and this is more of what my OP was about vs. yeah yeah there is always change type of stuff.
You feel it, I feel, most of us feel it.

Your insight on desensitization is spot on too. How many times have we’ve seen events taking place and IDIOTS just standing there
With cell phones.

Imagine if someone physically invaded our country, would these people fight, or record??!!!

originally posted by: HilterDayon

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: HilterDayon

The "American Dream" is not just pertinent to America. After the 2nd world war every global citizen either openly or secretly dreamed to live the excess of the American dream, to travel the world with a camera casually slung across the shoulder oozing success and a relaxed and unhurried attitude, secure in the idea of belonging to the most successful developed nation on earth. But no man is an island and no nation either. America will bear the brunt of disappointment in loss of standard and style of living more than any other society, because they have much more to lose.

It is already starting to change to the Chinese dream.
I’ve seen a lot on social media with new innovative products from China and people all over the world are asking how they can order or get it. I saw a video of young people (Americans) moving to China because it’s the future.
I know people want to keep their heads in the sand, but it’s happening. the last peg will be the monetary system.
That is going to be something to witness… very sad

I

China will never rise to the cultural heights of America. They will never produce the inventiveness, the charisma, the talent and the boldness of America. If they do have the window of opportunity to rise to any height, it will just be to the height of a fancy high tech termite mound. Without any individuality or unique qualities of it's people. That...is very sad. Ant farms are easily flooded.

More Chinese graduate in engineering from American colleges than Americans do, and American is too restricted to innovate as an individual. Big companies abuse the copyright and patent system to keep everybody else down.

Companies like Huawei prove that China can match the US for tech.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: interupt42
Nah the lobbyist have our best interest in heart. Getting rid of lobbying or Reforming lobbying with technology to take money out of the equation will not help anything. large amounts of Money and conflict of interest is the best way to make things better for everyone.

We also need to expand term limits in congress. We should allow our congress members to continue voting on what is best for us after they die. Their lobbyist can be our contacts via seance.

I want to live in your Utopia.

Its awesome, where I live we have no racist roads and our trees don't discriminate which neighborhoods they grow in.

a reply to: JAGStorm


Yeah. That's me.

Conditioned. On my phone.

Like eloi.

Ok if yall needed help I wouldn't even bother.


You're one of them just on the other side.




Just keep saying stuff is the way you say it is and all others who disagree are conditioned. I don't even think you are conditioned. I wont even be that allowing. I think you like the agreeable feeling you get from an in group, and I think you are doing it on purpose.


If you really were that desperate to get out of a situation, the one person in the room that was unaffected might give you pause. You might ask them, so what is up then?

But no. Challenge your thoughts, and it's that we are not "feeling" it, not "seeing" it or that we are spouting "things always change" type of "stuff."


Like I said, you are either that dull, or doing it for approval, or you're one of them.

If it's the latter, the one who you wanted at the top does not approve. So what will you do then, keep selling? Well then it IS a human endeavor, with people just going "but it cant be" "but our plans!" and "well, because we cant accept it we will just get upset and think we can vaguely insult the guy and get away with it because it takes us a while.

Yeah it takes humans a while. The top dude does not forgive and instruct ppls. Sorry your Christian bible makes you think that the antichrist would forgive you. He wont and he's pissed, and theres no "oops".

So go on guys. Pull off your human plans. No? Ok I thought so.

And by the way, you dont have to thank me later. I'm just a dude.



ETA, if you're doing this to be clever and poke his ego, well.. Human. His anonymity doesn't mean he likes abuse.

originally posted by: game over man
Super tech expensive gentrified cities, with lots of houseless people and lots of police. Everyone, even some houseless people, will be way more controlled by the internet than ever before. Tech is going to control the world and nature and humans will be neglected. Humans will be extremely manipulated by the internet/tech.

This conditioning started in earnest with the TV.

Before TV you had newspapers and magazines, but most people only had access to them a couple times a month, and it was mostly about what was happening locally.

You could see and feel, what was published and you had a bit of a recourse, if the information was false.

When the daily paper became a thing, it was more of an item for use. It was scanned for anything worthy of gossip, then placed in the bin for storing and cleaning.

TV and social media are the kingpins of mental conditioning and manipulation. They have been expertly mastered over the years, so that there are few people that are not connected to the world wide matrix.

We are already under manipulation and control of the internet/tech. So much so that many, especially our children, can't function without it.

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

This conditioning started in earnest with the TV.

Tv “programming”

originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

This conditioning started in earnest with the TV.

Tv “programming”

Operation Mockingbird, CIA mind control through tell-a-vision programming

a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn

True, agree... just to expand on my post, these are the shot callers for shaping society: Apple, Microsoft, Google, FB/IG/Twitter/TikTok, Verizon, T-Mobile, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc...They have all the money, and information...they will be building society and culture along with: Disney, Time Warner, and the rest of Mainstream media.

I'd go into more of what I think will happen but since ATS is so politically biased and doesn't think racism exists, and thinks white supremacy is ONLY the kkk and neo-nazis, and that ATS doesn't believe in the negative impact of colonialism and doesn't believe in neo-colonialism, I'll leave that out. But since I mentioned it, all those ideologies: racism, bigotry, white supremacy, and neo-colonialism will get much stronger because of who I listed as the shot callers.