What will stop working first?

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APHIS AG said:

Islam's foundation is violence. When all the "infedals" are eliminated, they will turn on each other like the Sunnis and Shiits.

One can take the animal out of the jungle but you can never take the jungle out of the animal and when basic human services breakdown, the Islamics will go back to the 3rd Century type of living.

Before the first Gulf War, the Saudis constructed a modern community with houses containing water, sewage, electricity, and all the modern conveniences in order convince the Nomadic tribes to settle down.

Well, the Nomads moved in and proceeded to do what Nomads do. They tore holes in the roofs in order to air their campfires, drank out of the toilets, and slept on the floor after dismantling the beds.

After about six months, they packed up their camels and went back into the desert.



LMCane
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they will just hire Iranian nuclear experts to help them.

PROBLEM SOLVED!!
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Old Army Ghost said:

NormanEH said:

safe drinking water
corpus trying to be the first

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/03/corpus-christi-desalination-water-plans-canceled/
the muslims did that?


No. This has nothing to do with the point if the OP.

It also demonstrates the poster doesn't understand the highly political, highly contentious issue about acquisition of new water sources for the city.

Can't believe the derail got that many stars.
The best way to keep evil men from wielding great power is to not create great power in the first place.
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lb3 said:

South Africa saw the writing on the wall and voluntarily disarmed 5 years before handing power to the African National Congress in 1994.

I think Europe is too far gone to voluntarily disarm.


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South Africa's municipalities aren't fixing roads, supplying clean water or keeping the lights on: new study explains why


No need to speculate on what will happen.. SA is an example today.


https://theconversation.com/south-africas-municipalities-arent-fixing-roads-supplying-clean-water-or-keeping-the-lights-on-new-study-explains-why-233499
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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..
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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..


But even the Riyadh point undercuts the crude Muslims = Chaos and Ruin correlation in the OP. There are plenty of theocratic or monarchical Muslim societies with excellent infrastructure and law and order.

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Kuwait City, Amman, etc.

Post is a fail.
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Hopefully use the South African playbook and dismantle the nuclear weapons program prior to handing over the keys to the kingdom.
army01
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Are y'all not stockpiling spice?
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aggiehawg said:

Urban Ag said:

Electricity. The power grids will fail badly. That's when the collapse will come. Mark it.

EMP. Takes everyones car out. Tractors. Communications.

Satellites have redundancy. But they need to link to something on the ground.

If you haven't already read them, the trilogy One Second After, One Year After and the Final Day, written by William Forstchen revolve around an EMP attack on the US. Chilling reading
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YouBet said:

NormanEH said:

safe drinking water
corpus trying to be the first

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/03/corpus-christi-desalination-water-plans-canceled/

I live nearby. This is actually pretty stressful and concerning for us. I'm not sure what's going to happen.

50% of US oil exports come out of Corpus. It's kind of baffling to me that all of the major O&G firms down here aren't actually helping to pitch in on funding a solution for this. It's not as if public-private partnerships aren't common and switching costs for these companies have to be damn high. Maybe they are though; I'm just now getting caught up on this issue because we haven't lived down here that long.


They have, but Corpus leadership has been and will always be a complete **** show. It's been rampant of corruption, investigations, and bad decisions. Born and raised there, parents and grandparents all grew up in Robstown.
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If you haven't already read them, the trilogy One Second After, One Year After and the Final Day, written by William Forstchen revolve around an EMP attack on the US. Chilling reading


One second after was chilling reading.

The other two did not keep up in my mind.
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Windy City Ag said:

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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..


But even the Riyadh point undercuts the crude Muslims = Chaos and Ruin correlation in the OP. There are plenty of theocratic or monarchical Muslim societies with excellent infrastructure and law and order.

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Kuwait City, Amman, etc.

Post is a fail.
Is it? The point is that Europe is importing poor Muslim refugees from war torn disaster areas, not the best and brightest responsible for building Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert.
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It will most certainly be the scoreboard in the College Football National Championship game that Texas A&M is leading.


That is when the world will go dark.
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Rebel Yell said:

It will most certainly be the scoreboard in the College Football National Championship game that Texas A&M is leading.


That is when the world will go dark.

This is a given.
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APHIS AG said:

Islam's foundation is violence. When all the "infedals" are eliminated, they will turn on each other like the Sunnis and Shiits.

One can take the animal out of the jungle but you can never take the jungle out of the animal and when basic human services breakdown, the Islamics will go back to the 3rd Century type of living.

Before the first Gulf War, the Saudis constructed a modern community with houses containing water, sewage, electricity, and all the modern conveniences in order convince the Nomadic tribes to settle down.

Well, the Nomads moved in and proceeded to do what Nomads do. They tore holes in the roofs in order to air their campfires, drank out of the toilets, and slept on the floor after dismantling the beds.

After about six months, they packed up their camels and went back into the desert.

Minus the whole jihad thing, I can't be the only one who thinks being able to give the middle finger to the modern way of life and just live as your people always have isn't terrible.

I wouldn't want to do it in the desert, but I'd definitely consider it in a more temperate environment where I didn't have to worry about money or taxes.
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BenFiasco14 said:

When Rome the city "fell" to the Germanic tribes and the Romans as a people were gone, the Roman architecture began to fall apart because, most famously, nobody remembered how to mix Roman concrete (still a white whale to this day).

So you essentially had tents and thatched roof structures which were built onto the existing and now crumbling buildings. The aqueducts didn't flow anymore. Stuff like that.

When I see the threads where famous European streets are covered in Muslim agitators, I see where this is going. People are starting to openly ask what happens when European nuclear powers suddenly become Islamic nuclear powers.

We are seeing the replacement people living in the ruins of the predecessors right before our eyes, except the extermination of the Romans, err, Europeans in Europe and white Americans over here is still in process.

So when that process is complete, and Britain and France are Islamic kingdoms - I suppose there's the argument they won't even be able to properly operate the nuclear facilities which is even scarier.

So what stops working first when the replacement peoples finally overtake the respective European countries? Electricity? Clean water? They blow themselves up with the lost knowledge of proper nuclear stewardship?

How about in the U.S.? I say electricity goes first.



First thing is that all churches are converted to mosques
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aggiehawg said:

Urban Ag said:

Electricity. The power grids will fail badly. That's when the collapse will come. Mark it.

EMP. Takes everyones car out. Tractors. Communications.

Satellites have redundancy. But they need to link to something on the ground.


EMPs snuck into the country through our open borders and set off in unison has recently been my biggest worry. I think this is the natural escalation of a second 9-11 style attack.
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BenFiasco14 said:

When Rome the city "fell" to the Germanic tribes and the Romans as a people were gone, the Roman architecture began to fall apart because, most famously, nobody remembered how to mix Roman concrete (still a white whale to this day).

So you essentially had tents and thatched roof structures which were built onto the existing and now crumbling buildings. The aqueducts didn't flow anymore. Stuff like that.

When I see the threads where famous European streets are covered in Muslim agitators, I see where this is going. People are starting to openly ask what happens when European nuclear powers suddenly become Islamic nuclear powers.

We are seeing the replacement people living in the ruins of the predecessors right before our eyes, except the extermination of the Romans, err, Europeans in Europe and white Americans over here is still in process.

So when that process is complete, and Britain and France are Islamic kingdoms - I suppose there's the argument they won't even be able to properly operate the nuclear facilities which is even scarier.

So what stops working first when the replacement peoples finally overtake the respective European countries? Electricity? Clean water? They blow themselves up with the lost knowledge of proper nuclear stewardship?

How about in the U.S.? I say electricity goes first.




To be frank, you don't seem to be informed of what life was like for the average Roman at the height of Rome in the city of Rome. 99% of the population did not have access to clean water.

Life in Rome, for majority of the population was defined by the four Fs.

Famine, flood, fire, filth

Streets covered with refuse, bodies and feces. The infant mortality rate was close to 40%…

There is a reason the rich lived in the hills above the city. No the houses did not have clean water or access to baths.
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My uncle was an engineer for Aramco when they were building palaces and such in Saudi back in the day. He said if a door came off of its hinges for some reason, the populace didn't have enough sense to fix it and it would still be leaning against the wall a year later.
So I say Doors will be the first to go.
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samurai_science said:

BenFiasco14 said:

When Rome the city "fell" to the Germanic tribes and the Romans as a people were gone, the Roman architecture began to fall apart because, most famously, nobody remembered how to mix Roman concrete (still a white whale to this day).

So you essentially had tents and thatched roof structures which were built onto the existing and now crumbling buildings. The aqueducts didn't flow anymore. Stuff like that.

When I see the threads where famous European streets are covered in Muslim agitators, I see where this is going. People are starting to openly ask what happens when European nuclear powers suddenly become Islamic nuclear powers.

We are seeing the replacement people living in the ruins of the predecessors right before our eyes, except the extermination of the Romans, err, Europeans in Europe and white Americans over here is still in process.

So when that process is complete, and Britain and France are Islamic kingdoms - I suppose there's the argument they won't even be able to properly operate the nuclear facilities which is even scarier.

So what stops working first when the replacement peoples finally overtake the respective European countries? Electricity? Clean water? They blow themselves up with the lost knowledge of proper nuclear stewardship?

How about in the U.S.? I say electricity goes first.




To be frank, you don't seem to be informed of what life was like for the average Roman at the height of Rome in the city of Rome. 99% of the population did not have access to clean water.

Life in Rome, for majority of the population was defined by the four Fs.

Famine, flood, fire, filth

Streets covered with refuse, bodies and feces. The infant mortality rate was close to 40%…

There is a reason the rich lived in the hills above the city. No the houses did not have clean water or access to baths.


I wasn't talking about Rome the city at its "height", which you would understand by my very first sentence when I referenced the city's "fall" to the Germanic tribes which created a power vacuum. If you want specific dates, too bad, but I'm talking about Rome the city in the aftermath of Constantine moving the capital of the empire
CNN is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
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Trends like this say to me my OP is our future. The question should be now how do we adapt and pivot to this new future.
CNN is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
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G Martin 87 said:

Windy City Ag said:

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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..


But even the Riyadh point undercuts the crude Muslims = Chaos and Ruin correlation in the OP. There are plenty of theocratic or monarchical Muslim societies with excellent infrastructure and law and order.

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Kuwait City, Amman, etc.

Post is a fail.

Is it? The point is that Europe is importing poor Muslim refugees from war torn disaster areas, not the best and brightest responsible for building Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert.

I don't think local talent built Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert. When you're oil rich, you bring in people to build it.
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BenFiasco14 said:



Trends like this say to me my OP is our future. The question should be now how do we adapt and pivot to this new future.


Ironically, the far left wingers may get their worst nightmare come true with a Handmaid's Tale society. Don't they force women to have babies in that story? Never read it.

Women will be the downfall of mankind which I guess is just a continuation from Eden.
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rocky the dog said:




And all not the fault of the third world, but those who brought them in for whatever reasons.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
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IndividualFreedom said:

When it does, you think the HOA will still have issue with my chickens?

The board members will probably eat your chickens at that point.
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IndividualFreedom said:

When it does, you think the HOA will still have issue with my chickens?

I got on the board of my HOA solely to be like Ron Swanson and destroy it from within.

I already stopped the Pres of the HOA from sending a letter trying tell his neighbor he couldn't use an easement they share.
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BigRobSA said:

"Cleanliness" and "Bathing".

passed that rubicon labor day weekend when i had to fly to Dallas and was sitting next to yet another H1B employee from India
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BBRex said:

G Martin 87 said:

Windy City Ag said:

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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..


But even the Riyadh point undercuts the crude Muslims = Chaos and Ruin correlation in the OP. There are plenty of theocratic or monarchical Muslim societies with excellent infrastructure and law and order.

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Kuwait City, Amman, etc.

Post is a fail.

Is it? The point is that Europe is importing poor Muslim refugees from war torn disaster areas, not the best and brightest responsible for building Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert.

I don't think local talent built Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert. When you're oil rich, you bring in people to build it.
So why didn't the oil rich import the refugees to build their beautiful cities for them? Come on. You know the answer to this, and it's not racist to acknowledge it. Europe is taking in the ones that the rest of the Islamic world doesn't want and has no use for.
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That's pretty much my point. The people doing the actual work in those places are from India, the Philippines, or other parts of Asia. P. J. O'Rourke, in "Give War a Chance," says one of the military units he talked to during the Gulf War had a wager for who would be the first to see a Kuwaiti lift anything heavier than money. And it's generally the same in most of those developed cities. They know better than to enlist their co-religionists to do that kind of work.
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The people doing the actual work in those places are from India, the Philippines, or other parts of Asia.


This is definitely true in the Emirates. I used to do a lot of work there, and all the service class were expat Indians often splitting time. Every glass of tea or coffee served at the beginning of a meeting was by a young Indian guy.
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Related to your analogy, have you ever listened to the history of Rome podcast? I listened to all ~190 episodes recently while completing a home project. Very good and thorough and easy to digest in ~20-30 minute episodes.
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BBRex said:

G Martin 87 said:

Windy City Ag said:

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Had a chance to visit Istanbul a couple of months ago, 20 million that is 90% Muslim and had a good time. A Mix of East and West. Jogged a bit around the city, good restaurants. Lots of scantily clad women walking around mixed in with fully covered ones. I think folks may sometimes be seeing Western Muslim culture through an Islamic fundamentalist lense, and be careful blanketing such a large diverse group of people with a stereo type. Visiting a place like Instanbul for example is a lot different than visiting a much more conservatively influenced place like say Riyadh..


But even the Riyadh point undercuts the crude Muslims = Chaos and Ruin correlation in the OP. There are plenty of theocratic or monarchical Muslim societies with excellent infrastructure and law and order.

Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, Kuwait City, Amman, etc.

Post is a fail.

Is it? The point is that Europe is importing poor Muslim refugees from war torn disaster areas, not the best and brightest responsible for building Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert.

I don't think local talent built Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi, etc. from the barren desert. When you're oil rich, you bring in people to build it.

Local talent didn't build it, and doesn't now.

They import a lot of Indians, Pakis, etc. to do the building. First thing they do is take their passports away and essentially hold them hostage. Behind the facade of the Sultan's billion dollar buildings is a dark and crappy underworld filled with labor camps that have 20-30 men living in a 10x10 room as they rotate shifts doing the building making pennies a day.

They import a crapload of OOC talent to run the oil fields and refineries as well.
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Op is nonsense
Sea Speed
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This is how the shipyards in Singapore work as well, although they may not take their passports. Bunkhouses filled with bangladeshis.
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YouBet said:

Women will be the downfall of mankind which I guess is just a continuation from Eden.

Ya'll are wild lmao.
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