Carl [he/him]

Put my dog on my back and fly around the world with her!

(then when she’s sleeping happily I start punching billionaires)

My reaction.

Watching the Hasan highlight where he plays the video of a PLA parade side by side with the Army one, lmao

Oh man, i would fukken EXPLODE. I haven’t had to do this yet (knock on wood) but i stg if anyone’s ever rude to me in my own car I’m kicking their ass out, don’t care where or when or how much money their ride’s worth.

Been feeling this way doing rideshare the past couple of weeks. So many college kids and their wealthy parents going out partying and me with my degree and years of experience driving the cab.

Eddy

Been doing rideshare late at night the last week, holy damn I didn’t realize how bad the public bathroom situation was in my town, and I’ve got a car to hunt for one.

We should genuinely have a public bathroom minimum. You want to run a store in town? You gotta make your bathroom open to the public. Don’t care if the people using it are customers or not.

hel yea this is unironically fash shit

Fan orders are a terrible idea don’t do them. Watch in release order, feel free to skip parts that aren’t interesting. The fact of the matter is that the entire series has been written by the seat of the pants of the people making it, meaning that there are absolutely no insights to be gained by watching prequels before the originals, and every entry in the series has taken great pains to be comprehensible on its own. If you skip stuff you might miss out on some “I RECOGNIZE THAT!” moments in later material, but that’s fine.

Also… the prequels are really bad. You may want to skip them entirely. I would suggest watching the Original Trilogy, The Clone Wars (the 2D animated tv movie, not the 3D animated tv show), the Mandalorian season 1, and then Andor seasons 1 & 2. Those series represent everything worthwhile in the Star Wars TV and movie canon, literally nothing else is worth your time.

Critical support for both the Houthis and Poseidon

Didn’t we just sign a ceasefire agreement with these guys? Or were those “talks”?

edit: this probably happened weeks ago before the ceasefire, but the article is unclear.

I never said that the imperialists didn’t set the parameters here. Of course they funded a color revolution and of course Russia had to respond. But Putin chose the worst response he could have chosen and now everything’s worse for Russia than it was before.

You accuse me of living in a fantasy land, but the fact is that I’m looking at all of the pieces on the board and making a judgement. You on the other hand are ignoring all of the evidence that goes against the conclusion that you had when this entire thing started.

It’s not even like I’m disagreeing with you that much. We are probably 90-95% in agreement. I just look at the results Russia got for the choice that it made and see a tragic mistake.

So why doesn’t China just invade Taiwan already? Probably because they recognize that getting stuck in a grinding quagmire that costs hundreds of thousands of lives and only results in your enemies pouring even more resources into opposing you isn’t the right tactic for the situation, so they stick to innuendo and military exercises and diplomacy and playing the long game.

The SMO has been a failure on its own terms. Russia may have avoided the worst of the consequences that the West wanted to inflict on it via its strengthening relationship with China, but the simple fact is that Russians are less safe today than they were before they escalated the conflict, and I believe that Putin had better options available to him but chose instead to play right into NATO’s hands. Even just maintaining the 2014-2022 status quo in Ukraine would have been preferable to Russia than what they have now.

You keep repeating things that I’m not contesting, as though you think that they run counter to my argument. Putting US support for far right extremists in caps lock doesn’t change the fact that Russia’s Special Military Operation also massively empowered those extremists and reinvigorated NATO as a global military alliance.

Oh and Russia’s moves in Ukraine started with the takeover of Crimea. That military move can be rationally defended as the counterreaction to it from the west was relatively small (the area on the graph you helpfully circled), but the full-scale invasion cannot be defended on the same grounds because it sparked a much larger response (the area to the right of what you circled).

Ukraine in 2020 was nowhere near the state of Syria in 2025. This is a totally illegitimate comparison.

I said “one of”. If you can’t recognize the reality that the Soviet Union was looted by the people who currently form Russia’s oligarchy then we can’t have a conversation because you are completely in another reality.

Small threat is relative here. If you think that a fringe paramilitary is a threat on par with multiple countries’ conventional militaries, then you are a moron.

They were planning this in the first place, with them wanting a justification for increase. SMO was a response to that. I already addressed this.

Planning does not equal doing. Trump’s notion of increased spending among NATO members was literally laughed at when he suggested it in his first term. The SMO changed the equation for Europe and made them willing to do it when they previously weren’t.

It literally has not. They were already primed, in governance and acting out political violence. Literally before the Ukrainian conflict they were used as forces against insurgents in a genocide of Eastern Ukraine. This was pointed out in the copypasta I sent.

While Ukraine did have those tendencies prior to the SMO, remember that Zelensky was initially elected on a platform of ending the Ukranian Civil War and making Azob stand down. While he had failed to do this, it nevertheless showed that the Ukranian people did not broadly have the thirst for violence that the far-right Azov battalion had - but the SMO changed this equation too, linking far right nationalism and fascism with self defense in the minds of the Ukrainians. Instead of being de-nazified, the SMO accelerated Ukraine’s fascist shift, turning it from a nation with a radical foreign-backed far right fringe to a nation with a radical foreign-backed far right majority.