>yfw you realized this is the worst time in recent history to be alive
>>26713048
>NSA protection
>a bad thing
SJw found
b2 reddit
>>26713071
I feel like you and me are the only ones who support the NSA. Fuck these liberals man...
>>26713071
>>26713096
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>>26713048
This is quite possibly the worst decade since the 1340s.
2010s are truly hell.
>>26713096
Get off 4chan, you moron.
>>26713048
I could probably deal with this being the worst period in recent history: afterall after great disasters people tend to come together to help one-another (e.g. the great depression) -- but this is a disaster on a psychological level as well; everyone feels nothing but apathy for their fellow man, there's no light at the end of the tunnel, no hope to be found.
>>26713171
>>26713143
Here's some information on this topic that you obviously don't know about:
-the main focus of the NSA is to prevent terrorism, assuming you are not a terrorist, even if you are committing crimes using the internet, the NSA will not be the ones to deal with you
-the NSA only looks metadata of calls and email, they CAMNOT just read them or listen in to your embarrassing conversations with mommy
-if you don't support the NSA, you are either a terrorist, or someone who wants to get bombed because Muhambangaladash Ali bought fertilizer and a pressure cooker online
>>26713320
yeah it's like a test of how much pain the human psyche can endure.
>>26713048
how recent is "recent history"?
>>26713048
you really think that nowadays is worse than the early middle ages? odds are that you are a peasant in an unstable time with nothing to do besides work for your local lord
>>26713435
at least they weren't cucked. and they'd die at the age life became pointless.
>>26713435
In some places lords would literally cuck you. If you got married, the lord was allowed to have one night with your wife in certain areas.
>>26713320
I could deal with it if i had a gf. I would much rather live in some time period of war and economic depression if it meant i had a wife and kids and didnt feel so alone. Anything would be better than this empty life of isolation i live now no matter how much money i have, how safe i feel and how i have the internet to occupy my time. I have finally realized the love/family/friends being the most important thing meme to be right. Unfortunately no matter how great everything else appears to be in 2016, the most important aspect seems to be missing.
>>26713484
Now your strong, independent wife just cucks you on her own!
>>26713343
Die soon, statist scum.
>>26713484
jus primae noctis
>>26713343
How about instead of spying on law-abiding white Americans, we just deport all the muslims?
>>26713498
>tfw people always talk about all these "human rights" but wont mention love and sex as being one of them
Kill yourself, faggot nigger
Go live in the fucking woods and eat dirt if you hate this glorious era
We live in the most peaceful, plentiful, and technologically advanced era the world has seen
Shove your LOTR fantasies up your ass
>>26713498
haha you'd be a looser no matter the time period nigga
>>26713476
70% of men failed to pass on their genes since the stone age compared to 90% of women
Die in a fire, at least paternity testing exists
>>26713526
>Muh metadata privacy
You know that metadata is literally data of data, right? This doesn't even invade your privacy.
>>26713587
Those Are the "pursuits of happiness"
![donald-trump[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1NKbGBZ.jpg "donald-trump[1].jpg")
>>26713048
Greatness soon, fellow stalker.
Being alive and in Europe during WWII would've been far worse
>>26713435
At least I'd have work.
>>26713484
That's a myth
There's no evidence that "prima nocta" was ever practiced, it was essentially made up for the movie Braveheart
Did some lords fuck hot peasants? Sure but to forcibly take another man's wife, someone who works on your manor no less, would deal a significant blow to your reputation
>>26713048
No it's not.
>>26713096
I support the idea of the NSA but if you think the absolute vast majority of what these intelligence agencies do online is justified, not morally but just effectiveness wise then you're absolutely ignorant and probably computer illiterate.
They take so much money, they gain so much power and they barely accomplish anything besides setting up programs that drain money. You just have to look at the real stats of what's being accomplished. Contrary to popular stupid internet opinions, the government isn't some evil blob trying to ruin citizen's lives, it's just a big and diverse mess of bureaucratic crap. We don't need some drastic change in politics, we just need to fix what we already have.
People who think this is a simple issue are retards though. It's like people who say the TSA shouldn't exist because there aren't people doing terrorist attacks on planes any more. They neglect that attacks on transport are still happening in countries with shittier transport security. You have people saying that tactical police units shouldn't exist... because someone may fake a perfectly legitimate sounding call. There are NO easy fixes to these problems.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of surveillance is avoidable and only negatively affects the ignorant. The primary problem I have with society is having my information in government systems just because they're so susceptible to leaks. Just look at how many military members had their info leaked by some "ISIS hackers" a while back. All it takes is one sympathic muslim, angry with his day job to start personal info of citizens to whoever. The government is such a large system it's just inevitable that there's going to redundancies and corruption.
>>26713719
it's attested to as far back as gilgamesh.
>>26713617
government is constantly spying on us
polar ice caps are melting and every year the earth gets hotter
the police murder thousands of innocent people a year with immunity
people regularly starve and go homeless despite an abundance of housing and food
banksters and MNC's regularly buy politicians and practically run American
most of our shit is made by what are effectively slaves
full communism is only a matter of time at this point
>>26713721
I appreciate that you gave a real counterarguement and not a classic 4chan response, thanks
![9781781680421_Year_of_Dreaming_Dangerously-d8aac694e389aaec032e9297dac19b9e[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/su2jJqj.jpg "9781781680421_Year_of_Dreaming_Dangerously-d8aac694e389aaec032e9297dac19b9e[1].jpg")
>yfw surrounded by pure ideology on a daily basis
>>26713764
>Droit du seigneur also known as jus primae noctis, refers to a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, and elsewhere, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women on their wedding night. There is no evidence of the right being exercised in medieval Europe [1][2]
>you were born just in time to read the first histories of the 2010s
>>26713677
Even today, you can be thankful you aren't living in a warzone.
>>26713048
You're delusional dude. You think you'd be happier as a peasant in the middle ages? You're entire existence would be working on farm in order to not starve to death. Shit sucks now but for most of human history 95%+ of the population has lived in complete misery
While I can't imagine any time before the existence of modern medicine being better than our own, there were probably benefits of living in certain periods.
I might not have had the problems that I currently face, but at least I don;t have polio.
>>26713764
Yeah, and a global flood is attested back to Sumer too
worker revolution when
>>26713435
>implying your scenario is any different from right now
>>26713435
The fact that you have to look back as far as the early middle ages for a comparison is telling.
>>26713343
>>26713096
jesus fucking christ, i was kidding mate
>>26713929
>an-syn/ancom
>autistic furry weeb
As expected
>>26714044
>not recognizing alunya
do u even meme bro
>>26713815
fuck you, kid
>>26713878
People are always royalty in their fantasies about a previous life
They're never the guy who died at 15 because he cut himself while working
>>26713929
Why are the jobless always fighting for a workers revolution?
>>26713897
What I'm scared of is when technology becomes so advanced it's just impossible to avoid. They already have near-impossible to see microphones that transmit sound to somewhere else. DNA, fingerprints, databases of information, tracking people through phones, hardware and software bugged/ with backdoors straight from the manufacturer.
It is a pure inevitability that people will become sardines packed into cities, all of them named and numbered and recorded. All their actions tracked. Cameras recording everything. The pure inability to opt out of society that we're seeing the beginning of now. No individuality. People farming essentially.
Now THAT is something genuinely worth fearing. It will happen though.
>>26713143
lmao rektt
>>26714158
>Why are the jobless always fighting for a workers revolution?
because they generally have time to be mad at the state of things
Sometimes I think I fell into a coma in 1999 and whenever I see Gwen Stefani on a magazine cover or an ad for JNCO jeans that's a brilliant young scientist trying to remind me what year it really is so he can bring me out, Inception-style.
I mean, everything since the Millennium seems to grotesque and unreal. Like really hamfisted speculative fiction. Are we really outsourcing one of our last remaining productive sectors and source of middle class jobs to the Indian subcontinent? Are we really telling struggling college grads that they should have become welders? Did we really spend trillions of dollars on liberating two countries only to make them worse? Have we really gotten to the point where a mass shooting is simply forgotten about in a month or two?
It's like a sick joke or something.
There is literally nothing wrong with what the NSA is doing. The only people who are buttflustered are those who don't understand there are consequences for doing illegal things. So, the majority of liberals.
>>26714197
It's like a bad TV show that should have been cancelled 10 seasons ago.
>yfw you realize this is the dankest time to be alive
Huxley and Orwell were right. Society today is a cocktail mix of drug induced instant gratification with a hint of surveillance.
>>26714256
I thought Conservatives were all about getting that big gubbamint off everyone's backs.
>>26714197
>tfw Scatman John literally died right before the new millennium
John was a good man, too good for this world. If only I was as lucky as him. 1999 would have been such a great year to end it all at.
I'm glad he never had to see how it all turned out.
>>26714312
a brave new world in which we are forced to read Brave New World.
fuckin meta man
>>26713343
>-the main focus of the NSA is to prevent terrorism, assuming you are not a terrorist, even if you are committing crimes using the internet, the NSA will not be the ones to deal with you
Go ahead and define for us what a "Terrorist" is, then.
>>26714418
Brave New World's society at least made sure everyone had access to sex and jobs.
What we're heading towards is Camp of the Saints/Mad Max/Idiocracy.
>>26714268
This
First time in history we have access to dank memes. What a time to be alive.
>>26714256
Let me give you an analogy from Australia.
In Australia (as in many countries), before systems like iMessage, when everyone was using SMS - all these messages were being routed through the computer systems of the major phone companies. Now the government set up legislation to allow police access to this information at any time they want. The police are also then able to look up the address registered to the phone and get in contact with the owner.
Now this led to a MASSIVE abusive of this information. There were hundreds of thousands of instances of data being accessed, and samples of the queries submitted regularly showed very clear abuse - police and government agents (including welfare dept. workers) regularly looking up details on people they knew, on celebrities, in some cases police and government workers were found to be stalking people with these details.
This wasn't even the actual messages, this was just metadata, the police had to get a subpoena to read the actual content.
Can you imagine the abuse that's possible with the actual content of messages???
Besides, the core issue is that information in itself never harms human life. I as a human being have the basic moral right to have my communications regarded as private by default, except in the case perhaps of extraordinary specific evidence that I might be planning something significantly dangerous or criminal.
These agencies have NO MORAL RIGHT to this information, and considering they've already shown huge disregard for people's rights (hacking the PERSONAL Facebook accounts of employees of Huweii and other phone companies for example, to obtain information on encryption used in the phones), or mi5 collecting video from thousands of people's webcams without their knowledge - why should any reasonable person want to just "trust" them?
>>26714462
>Brave New World's society at least made sure everyone had access to sex and jobs
While at the same time robbing them of what it meant to be human
>What we're heading towards is Camp of the Saints/Mad Max/Idiocracy
At least this world is badass and fun
>>26714256
I disagree but this is the very important point to bring up
Many people don't have a problem with the NSA, they have a problem with the system itself. They don't agree with the war on drugs, they don't agree with intellectual property, they don't like capitalism, they don't agree with the war on terrorism, they don't think people should be punished for looking at certain types of porn, some of these people (anarchists and libertarians) don't agree that the government should even be a thing or don't think the vast majority of what government does they should even be doing.
When you have people who start from this perspective then obviously they're going to condemn absolutely everything that the government does or anything bad that happens in a system they don't support.
>>26714474
The whole thing is pretty overblown. Companies must retain metadata for 2 years. That's not a big issue. Google retains most information almost indefinitely but that just slips under the radar for the average idiot complaining about his privacy online.
People complain about 'muh gubments spying' yet spread their personal info wherever they can online. Watch the south park episode "Let_Go,_Let_Gov"
>>26714514
this
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>>26713343
I sure thanked them from saving us from 911 and the marathon bombing
>>26714724
>The whole thing is pretty overblown.
You can say that all you like. Snowden's exposures have shown that the NSA:
-Targetted for spying individual politicans at the highest levels of government in democratic, western countries and allies of the US.
-Spied on people using WoW and Second Life
-Collected information on the sexual preferences of people in various political groups (not groups classed as terrorist organisations), for the express purpose of using it as leverage
-Collecting data from millions of users who were not under any suspicion of a crime, real data and messages.
-Conducted espionage and stole secrets from various international companies
-That employees of the NSA were spying on love interests
-That the NSA has been conducting espionage and spying to crack encryption codes, this involved hacking the personal facebook profiles of individual employees of various companies
-The NSA is trying to build a framework that allows courts and police more and more access to this information.
>>26714312
>Society today is a cocktail mix of drug induced instant gratification
and this is society tomorrow
>>26713804
Nigga you make it sound like if it was any different in the past, in the past you would have been the slave, you wouldn't have any money to even consider saving some, the police murdering thousands of innocent people and not paying for it? oh you seem to forgot that i was even worse in the past with the corrupt church, in the past people died everyday from starving and some worse illnes that these stupid ass mosquitos of nowdays, they didn't knew shit about medicine and you had plagues very often, etc
It's not a paradise, but nigga, the world was x100 times worse in the past than what it is today, you're just beeing the kid who was born in the wrong generation
instead of dying of lepra in the middle of fucking nowhere, you can now shitpost in your room while eating things who only the kings could eat in the past
>>26715084
that image is nightmare inducing
>>26713048
Not really anon, the vigilance state is only beginning, things will get uglier for sure (and we may not even realize)
>>26713071
This can only be bait
>>26714461
Today, anyone that plans to kill civillians.
Tomorrow, anyone that is against the system.
>>26713677
Would literally give my life for a chance to live at the beginning of WW2 in Germany. To finally have something to live for even if for a few years is still better than live whole life for nothing pointlessly.
>>26713096
You're a fucking idiot if you think being a stateist is being conservative.
>>26713320
Thing is, this may be the worst disaster of all, but it isn't worth shit if people aren't aware it's a disaster. I mean, people nowadays actually WANT it to happen.
>>26713048
This whole concept is pure genius, the Soviet Union installed a dictatorship suddenly but US and other nations are doing it slowly so people don't notice the difference (and accept it easily)
>>26713048
>tfw you will never be an agrarian peasant living a simple life of hard work and a nice pure wife.
As a black guy I'd much rather be alive now than at any point between 1800 and 1970.
>>26715785
oh, it all makes sense
>>26713435
>believes in "le jus cuckandum"
>isn't aware that feudality didn't exist until the classical middle ages (10th century onwards)
Lrn 2 history retard
>>26713048
The internet is the new wild west and only recently has the government attempted to step in. If you didn't take advantage of the net when it was good, tough shit.
>>26716000
Thanks for reminding me about black twitter
>ayyo mang, ooga booga, Amerikkka 2016 most racist country in the world baka, wish I lived in a better time
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=trump%20elected%20back%20africa&src=typd
>>26713662
>the epic "hope and change" meme
>>26714178
Don't blame capitalism, it's big government that's rigged the game.
>>26716110
No, its people who keep the engine of their own destruction alive by waking up each morning to go to work, by paying taxes and consuming like mindless drones.
Society would collapse tomorrow if no one worked to keep it up.
>>26713048
i dunno, i'm kind of enjoying the internet with it's vast library of anime, hentai and video games
>>26713048
>tfw you realize there is nothing new to discover except yourself
>tfw you realize all the chemicals out there fuck you up atleast slightly, especially boys
>tfw you realize most people don't give a shit and hate you if you try to tell them just how shitty everything is
>tfw you realize being confident and having a big dick is pretty much all that matters as a guy
>tfw you realize pretty much everyone is shallow despite how many inspiring quotes they share
>tfw you realize first world culture is the worship of material objects and glorification of social standings
>tfw you also realize this is normal even though it is idiotic
>tfw you realize people are intentionally brought up to be stupid, even by parents
>tfw you just want to die because of the world
>>26716110
corporate interests own government. Thats why its big.
>>26714178
>for the entire 10,000 years of human civilization, there have been people on top and people on the bottom
>but they can't keep it up forever!
>commies
>>26716379
very true
original blox 3209590
>tfw we live in anti-male era
fuck feminism made this happen
>>26713320
a war could either break us even more or brings us back together
Actually I think this is the best time as long as you live in a major city in the West.
We are at the pinnacle of civilisation, probably 50-100 years before it inevitably crumbles just like every other empire.
The fact that we aren't getting money and pussy is our own failure, not because it's not out there. For Chad and Stacey it's easier than ever.
We live in an age where you can order drugs and gourmet meals delivered to your door without having to even talk to anyone.
The collected knowledge and culture of humanity is available for free, instantly at any time. You can be safely transported almost anywhere on the planet in a matter of hours for a pittance. You can talk to anybody, anywhere instantly for basically free.
You're free to live whatever lifestyle you want, achieve anything you're capable of.
What more could you possibly want?
>>26717293
>as long as you live in a major city in the West.
You mean a chimney you can't breath in with cars racing through it
>>26713048
OPEN A FUCKING HISTORY BOOK HOLY SHIT YOU CODDLED BITCH
>>26717355
I'm breathing just fine, friend
I gOD HOPE THAT APPLE WINS THE CASE AGAINST FBI
>>26717385
I don't see how they possibly can, they are clearly in breach of the law right?
The better question is what if they lose and don't do it anyway?
>>26715084
he basically called his users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their information and the hilarious thing is he is absolutely right
>>26713071
>SJw found
>b2 reddit
You really must be new to 4chan.
>>26713343
>-the main focus of the NSA is to prevent terrorism, assuming you are not a terrorist, even if you are committing crimes using the internet, the NSA will not be the ones to deal with you
Bullshit, there is regular data sharing with FBI etc. Recent docs showed FBI are given access to XKeyscore etc
>-the NSA only looks metadata of calls and email, they CAMNOT just read them or listen in to your embarrassing conversations with mommy
They literally can do that you fucking retard. Metadata is also enough to profile your entire social circle and know your exact location at any time.
>-if you don't support the NSA, you are either a terrorist, or someone who wants to get bombed because Muhambangaladash Ali bought fertilizer and a pressure cooker online
Most NSA bullshit is not used against terrorists, but rather against human rights activists and anybody who threatens the current system. This includes political opponents.
