Darmock and jilad at tenagra
Darmock and jilad at tenagra
“Oh fuck yeah! You guys wanna get hammered and run some sets in street fighter 6?”
I think it was established pretty early on that Ukraine being a failed state is, for all intents and purposes, a win for Russia. It’s preferable to them being a NATO member at least.
4 mechanical arms, 2 human arms…and 2 human legs. So technically 8 limbs total.
Like I used to tell people back during the healthcare debates: if you think there aren’t wait lists or rationing in the US healthcare system then you’ve never had a family member with a chronic illness.
The cruelest joke/irony is that litterally every problem right wingers complain about in socialized medicine also exists in for profit healthcare.
I like the part about how the US only imprisons people for actual violent crime.
Guarantee you this person supports drug decriminalization at the very least has said they support exoneration for non violent drug offenders at some point. I wish I could say I was a leftist purely on moral grounds but sometimes I think the main reason I am is just that liberal positions are just so fucking incoherent and non-sequitur. They have no idea what they believe in or why they believe it.
Yup. I live in Texas and I might feel some degree of pressure if I lived in a swing state…but I promise you all I will sleep like a baby when I cast my vote with the top of the ticket blank.
You know I realize in the grand scheme of things this is kind of a weird/sad thing to fixate on but I can’t get it out of my head that in like 20-30 years hollywood is gonna do some “based on a true story” film about this operation that plays out like an Ocean’s style heist movie or something.
I get the impression it was very different in the early 20th century, but I honestly think that fascists in the early 21st century on the whole probably don’t even realize they’re fascists and will reject being called one purely on reflex. You see this particularly well in a lot of terminally online nerd spaces where people will state and argue for cis white male patriarchal supremacist positions without a moments hesitation but will react with complete incredulity if you call them on it. Some of them are being self aware crypto-fasch sure…but a lot of them just deny it because they have just enough awareness and self preservation that they recognize that makes them a bad person and doing any work to be better is much harder than just pretending.
All this is to say: the people who voted in favor of fascism are the ones already excited to slap a swastika on. A huge number of the people who voted “Don’t Know” are probably down to fuck with fascism…they would just rather call it liberalism.
I don’t want to do the math on how much I’ve donated but I can tell you now its been more than $27.
Yeah I think so. I went looking for it on twitter proper and I can’t find it, but I did find him responding to people saying he deleted a post because their replies convinced him it was a bad take and he didn’t want to leave it up. Shockingly rare instance where someone actually has their mind changed online.
It looks like he deleted it and did a bit of a mea culpa and realized he was talking nonsense…for what its worth.
100% this. Its absolutely no different than when they were telling people to vote for Biden because he was “clearly the candidate more qualified to end the violence” even as they approved more weapons and shut down any dissent. The premise that the democrats represent a position that is in anyway distinguishable from the republicans on the issue of Gaza is especially hilarious to me because it is practically democratic voters regurgitating and accepting republican talking points even as the democratic party itself denies it.
I get that g*mers are awful and it’s not for everybody…but comrades…nothing quite tickles the dopamine receptors in my brain the way seeing two top level street fighter players go at it does. Fighting games are beautiful things.
Esports are sports.
I don’t want to give this guy undo credit but I think it’s worth pointing out that the one election he got “wrong” was apparently the election of 2000. He predicted Gore would win.
…yeah.
Yeah…only thing that makes me feel like this is still semi-hyperbolic is…didn’t Afghanistan and the last quarter of a century plus already kinda show that to be the case? Ukraine itself already kinda seems like the result of that sense that the west is insurmountably powerful being squashed.
I don’t disagree and like I said in my post: we do indeed suck. I just want to push back slightly because looking at the numbers I think reality bears out more that Americans are deeply confused and propagandized. Its fair to say that a lot of people have arrived at the right conclusion for all the wrong reasons and I’m all down with throwing out a “death to amerikkka” as we feel it…but I also think the more important takeaway to have in this situation is that the feelings of the American public are essentially immaterial here. The empire doesn’t care.
I don’t want to give us too much credit cause we definitely do suck but: I do think its worth remembering that polls show a significant majority of Americans support a permanent ceasefire. This is just another example of democracy being a dog and pony show while the empire carries on doing whatever the hell it wants.
I’m stuck in the USA for at least another 8 years but I’m starting to wonder if exit strategies are something I need to be considering more strongly. At the very least I think maybe I shouldn’t stay in texas. I don’t know exactly what the timeline is and I don’t think there’s going to be a full masks off fascist coup overnight in the next year or anything but l if we all accept the premise that material conditions are only going to worsen then we should all be pretty fucking concerned that the fascists are a hell of a lot more organized and proactive about laying groundwork than we are.