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Imagineering the Border

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You can keep your Aztlán; forget that passé North American Union. Here's the new plan: ¡SUPER NAFTA LAND!

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  1. Xeones

    Preemptively shut the fuck up, LoneWacko.

  2. Naga Sadow

    OMFG!!! Someone start passing out the tin foil hats! LoneWacko is gonna be off his fucking rocker when he sees this article!!! Preemptively STFU, LoneWacko!

  3. Naga Sadow

    Damn you Xeones!!!

  4. TofuSushi

    That project imagines a kind of Mad Max salvage economy, made up of equal parts post-industrial subculture and bioengineered agri-futurism, set along the US/Mexico border.

    Just as I thought. Something else to scare the trailer park trash into hating brown people even more.

  5. yet another dave

    I wonder if he hurt himself spewing that much multi-coloured jism on some paper

  6. cuernimus

    I'm beginning to think they've got a pool going and Jesse needs him to post a few more times to win the bet. You guys aren't helping!

  7. Fascitis Necrotizante

    So not only are IllegalMexicans conspiring to take er jerbs, they're gonna make everything look fucking retarded, too?

  8. Xeones

    Hey Naga -- FACE.

  9. Naga Sadow regressing back to

    Xeones,

    You shut your dirty mouth! You're cruising for a bruising!

    *shakes fist at Xeones*

  10. R C Dean

    That project imagines a kind of Mad Max salvage economy, made up of equal parts post-industrial subculture and bioengineered agri-futurism,

    What's so bad about that?

    Post-industrial? Sure. Economies evolve. Post-industrial is where economies go when they outgrow industrialism.

    Salvage? Sounds ecologically sound to me.

    Bioengineered agriculture? Nothing wrong with that.

  11. Episiarch

    The chick in the gas mask is great. I like this. I want to live there. It's kind of Borderpunk, if you know what I mean.

  12. Naga Sadow

    Careful Epi. It looked suspiciously like a "Hogan's Run" type society. You're getting old dude.

  13. Fascitis Necrotizante

    I just want the Mexes to come up and take over our towns and run them with caudillos like the one in the Wild Bunch and he can give us all hookers and tequila and we can watch him drag LoneWacko around the square behind his Rolls.

  14. Xeones

    Bring it, Naga. I AM THE LAW AND I AM THE LASH.

  15. SugarFree

    It looked suspiciously like a "Hogan's Run" type society.

    Aw, man. RC'z Law to the max.

    Seriously, Nazis that kill themselves when they hit 30. Wow. A comedy about keeping runners in a concentration camp. This thing writes itself!

  16. Naga Sadow

    Xeones,

    Don't make me go all Persian horde on your ass!

    By the way, is that last post from Ishamael Reed? I had to google it. I thought it was a Melville quote but it's not.

    SugarFree,

    You know . . . I've always heard about RC's Law but I'm still not sure what Dean's laws are. Explain for me.

  17. Episiarch

    Careful Epi. It looked suspiciously like a "Hogan's Run" type society. You're getting old dude.

    I am eternal, Naga.

    Seriously, Nazis that kill themselves when they hit 30. Wow. A comedy about keeping runners in a concentration camp. This thing writes itself!

    Plus they're all jewel thieves! It's like an evil Marx brothers movie.

  18. smartass sob

    The result is ?SUPER NAFTA LAND!, "a giant self-sufficient artificial landscape growing out of the border,"

    I think there is a giant, self-sufficient, non-artifical something growing out of someone's ass. Possibly their brains.

  19. BDB

    "?SUPER NAFTA LAND!"

    What system is it coming out for?

  20. P Brooks

    Apparently, site prep is about to begin. They're talking about hosing down the border with Agent Orange, presumably to provide the Border Patrol agents a clear field of fire.

  21. R C Dean

    I've always heard about RC's Law but I'm still not sure what Dean's laws are.

    Glad to oblige: The Iron Laws:

    1. You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.

    2. If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

    3. The less you know about something, the easier it is.

    4. You aren't free unless you are free to be wrong.

    5. Any power used for you today will be used against you tomorrow.

    6. Money and power will always find each other.

  22. Salty Dogg

    7. Rotate yer tires.

  23. P Brooks

    Rotate my tires?

    That happens every time I take my foot off the clutch.

  24. Brandybuck

    I wonder how long it will be before the conspiratarians use this as EVIDENCE of the NAU?. I mean, they used the fake joke coin someone made as proof of the Amero. So why not use the fake joke paintings as proof of the NAU?

  25. JayeRandom

    Full-on modular-architecture grandious weirdness. The Archigram crew would be proud.

  26. brotherben

    8. Doing nothing is difficult. You never know when you're done.

  27. Art-P.O.G.

    I'm a little disappointed that LoneWacko didn't show up. Admiral Ackbar must've intercepted him en route.

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