As a Canadian, I have always taken pride in my country’s commitment to human rights, due diligence, and evidence-based foreign policy. We are a nation that prides itself on “peacekeeping,” not warmongering; on diplomacy, not hyperbole.

Damn, I guess Canada must treat its native population really well right?

Right?

I’ve put his stream on in the background before when Big News is happening because for all my disagreements with Hasan he’s significantly more tolerable than any mainstream news outlet in the US.

In my vast expertise of reading a few books and listening to probably too many podcasts about the event it seems to me that Allen Dulles was the ringleader, but JFK and his brother speedran pissing off all of the most powerful and well entrenched political factions in their short stint in power that Allen didn’t have to try very hard to keep things under wraps and convince the rest that they’d profit from it not being an issue.

Learning about Fred Hampton and Salvador Allende, who they were, what they accomplished, and what they were trying to achieve, was the watershed moment for me. Learning how the USA crushed them with such unrepentant enthusiasm shattered a lot of the narratives I’d internalized and allowed me to confront my biases and assumptions and move beyond them.

Can’t wait for the bailouts.

As someone who is only vaguely aware about f these fandom factions I can’t help but feel that pro-ship is used to defend people writing the most heinous fanfic imaginable. Like the whole thing is artificially created because some weirdos are turning kids shows into Lolita and when called out they invented this pro-ship nonsense to equate heinous shit with horny nerds writing boring horny nonsense.

Maybe it’s just me, but growing up during the height of Harry Potter nobody declared sides in the Great War of shipping Harry and Hermione or whatever. It wasn’t until people rightfully started calling out pedo shit that all of a sudden you’ve got this great ideological battle between freedom and cancel culture or what the fuck ever.

And reacting to this the anti-ship crowd picked up all the puritans, contrarians, perpetual finger-waggers, and people mad that their ship isn’t popular.

I’m tired and rambly, but to summarize this all feels artificially created to defend creeps and pedos. This debate always surfaces when someone writes something fucked up but nary a peep otherwise.

Goes perfectly along with his recent rants about how the USA invading Greenland would be good because it would be Americans killing Europeans. Despite the fact the almost 90% of the population of Greenland is Inuit.

That whole story is quite the intense read. Thanks for sharing!

I really enjoy the vibe of Returnal, but it is absolutely too difficult for me. I’ve never been great at quick reaction games. I don’t mind the difficulty, I love Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but in those games patience and being able to make a tankier build make up for what I lack in twitchy reflexes.

I still haven’t beaten Returnal, but I did find a slate of mods for the PC version that help with the difficulty without being flat out godmode cheats, so I absolutely plan to jump back in at some point using them.

I can’t sit my pets down and explain to them what chemo is or that they’re going to have an invasive surgery and may get better afterwards. All they know is that they love me, but they’re in pain. You may question it for a long time afterwards, but if they’re miserable and don’t understand why then keeping them around is more for your benefit than theirs.

I’ve spent way too much money getting care for a sick, young cat because I knew the pain would be temporary and they could get back to their bonded half and recover quickly and I’ve had to put down a dog that could have lived a few more years because their dementia had become so bad they were confused and lost constantly, even when in the same room as I was.

Compassion and love are always important, but you can’t explain to them why they’re in pain, only save them from needless suffering.

Can’t wait for the inevitable glut of insanely overpriced gimmicky garbage made for US schools out of this.

The only reason leftists in the US should be talking about this war criminal is to point out the contradictions and use him as a tool to push people further left by explaining how and why he’s bad. Even before the Reddit shitposting and tattoo revelation a former Blackwater merc who is unrepentant about his military and mercenary service should have been enough to dismiss him as just another imperialist asshole that belongs in a war crime tribunal.

Same thing with Zohran, just point out the contradictions and use him as an example of why the American “left” will go out of its way to fuck up anything even moderately progressive.

Let the libs lib out and reach out to those we can. It sucks and I hate it but American communists gotta work within the confines of the limited political awareness and rabid anti-communist propaganda of American “culture”.

As for non-American just point and laugh at us, we fucking deserve it.

I knew something was off about all the Little Dark Age edits I’ve run across on YT but I never looked into it. Fucking nazis.

We’ll skip the Butlerian Jihad because the thinking machines aren’t profitable enough. Truly amazing.

The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump’s first term. They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.

Fucking ghouls.

He probably told reporters this with the same smug, shit-eating smirk on his face as when he was blatantly lying about it.

I’d be hard pressed to conjure up a more punchable face than his.

I’m not hoping for anything other than marginally increasing class consciousness in a handful of people. Electoralism won’t accomplish anything, but if he can shift the Overton Window just a smidge to make Socialism be a bit less scary to some people while at the same time showing how the “lesser evil” democrats will fucking annihilate anything to the left of Bush Jr. then he’ll have done his job.

I just hope that leftist groups in the US, particularly New York, see this as an opportunity to stuff some actual theory down the gullets of all the baby birdies lined up gawking at Zohran and what the democrats are gonna do to him between now and November.

Not surprised, there had been a lot of shitty memes flooding the sub the past week or so that were shitting on AES countries. Makes sense now that the mods were MIA and not filtering out the fed bait anymore.

Not necessarily. Keeping them illegal allows the state to eat their cake and have it too. It gives them leverage over those using it illegally, access to black markets, and the ability to use it as justification to arrest and commit violence.

Demonize it enough, like the US has, and your stormtroopers have carte blanche to crack skulls and step on necks of whomever is needed to solve the “drug problem”. That demonization is waning from its 90s highs, but it’s still a very useful tool for the state.

With drugs illegal and popular in counter-culture movements you can use it to weed out the population. White kid with an ounce of weed? Slap on the wrist. Brown kid with an ounce of weed? 5 years of slavery. Just casually reinforcing racism and oppressing minorities.

If they catch someone the state really doesn’t like then they have leverage. Rat out your friends, become an informant, or face prison.

I’m not necessarily against chemical exploration, but the capitalist police state will weaponize it by supplying the black market with cheap drugs, encouraging their use in revolutionary, counter-culture, and minority communities (among others), then scraping up anyone they don’t like. The damage left in its wake is inconsequential.