Well since you brought it up

Dissociated lefty was pretty spot on

Sorry to hear about his impending accidental death

Yeah I support the troops

Not an occupying force tho

Ah yes, the country that lost ~180,000 troops in the European theater and didn’t actually have any battles on it’s home turf did much more to defeat the Nazis than the continent-spanning nation that lost about 9,000,000 troops (not counting ~18,000,000 civilians).

For reference, in all it’s wars combined over 200 years, America has lost just over 1,000,000 troops in total.

My “this is not a sting operation” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

In authoritarian North Korea, the general public is forbidden from accessing popular media that portrays their enemy in a positive light

Oh man, don’t tell Joyce Manor

No, you have to compromise. We demand you launch airstrikes only between 10am - 6pm in areas at least 100m from designated school zones, launched by pilots who have at least 6 hours of training in identifying targets and minimizing civilian casualties. Then it’s not a war crime, it’s just sparkling neoimperialism

Goddamn this is some thoughtless drivel. I hope our boy Gabriel enjoys his tenure at The Atlantic

If all we do is make physical noise every now and then, we can’t really accomplish anything besides successfully antagonizing the other side.

Right now, we’re pushing people away. We’re pushing away the very people who have the means and the power to establish actual change.

What I saw at that protest a month ago was the perpetuation of polarization. Driving the gap between people even further. The same concept that the corruption in this country thrives on.

As time goes on, there just seems to be more and more polarization and less and less actual unity. We keep villainizing each other and genuinely believe that doing so will fix real problems or change something.

That’s not how it works.

If we want genuine change, we have to be willing to compromise and meet with the opposition on the other side.

“we stan a dish king” was said about me at my last job

I’ve done home mechanic work up to timing belt changes, but a head gasket is where I would throw in the towel. If you haven’t done similar work on a car before, you’ll probably get overwhelmed and risk taking it apart and not being able to get it back together again. The price sounds about right unfortunately; you could maybe “find a guy” would do it for ~$1-2k but with no guarantee of quality or money back. You can’t sell a car in California with a check engine light or without smog, so you’re really up a creek there. The state might have a program where they pay you $1-1.5k to retire the car.

If Trump were president, they’d be Marines

I look around at a lush, blooming spring, and wonder where all the bees have gone?

Kinda wild how the system keeps legions of thugs on-call, nationwide, that can be assembled at a moment’s notice to inflict legal violence on whatever the target population is

Love when chuds advertise “free gun inside” stickers on their vehicles

Notes for communist revolutionaries:

If you don’t use an iron fist, your detractors will say you use an iron fist to crush dissent and they will manipulate the will of the people against you. After you fail and your supporters are rounded up and executed, they’ll blame the failure on your ruthless authoritarianism.

If you use an iron fist, your detractors will say you use an iron fist to crush dissent, and you may lose favor among the people. You may find yourself doing questionable acts to hold onto power. However, you may actually succeed. Your detractors will say you are a ruthless authoritarian.

Sucks for the blood spilled in the second choice, but at least you’ll have something to show for it when the dust settles

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2022/11/23/air-force-f-35-lightning-iis-still-cant-fly-within-25-miles-of-lightning/?sh=7659da1e663e dated 2022, but covers the issue in detail.