TheLepidopterists [he/him]

The idea that defensive weapons don’t expand your ability to kill is so obviously false. It’s disrespectful to expect people not to realize that.

The world has understand MAD for almost a century. Someone who feels safe from reprisal is more likely to engage in violence. Someone who knows they could be harmed in a fight is less likely to start one.

Fuck AOC, she’s not stupid, she knows this. She just literally doesn’t care about Israel committing genocide. Nazi enabler.

EDIT: That was rude, sorry.

This is a bad take. Openly siding with a genocide is worse than taking sides against the genocide, even when mtg is the one who suggested taking their missiles away.

Perfect was never the line, the line was just “not genocidal” and if your preferred Nazis couldn’t meet that standard it’s their fault and yours for letting them think they could get away with it and still maybe win.

Voluntary departure from where? The international waters, from which they were kidnapped?

I actually loved this one, although the product placement was off the wall

Then we happy apple photograph just switch back to normal speech laptop table tennis eye

Badass

bitter mystery

No, I think he’s saying that it makes it more miserable and mysterious, but only for poor people, which he is not and therefore the status quo is good.

The delusions of grandeur required to think your glorified auto complete is going to turn into a robot god is unreal. Just wish they’d quit boiling the planet.

Jewish Voice for Peace

They seem pretty content with their healthcare. They’re genuinely appalled to hear about the state of healthcare in the US

Per wikipedia (I know, but I don’t think this kind of data is political enough to be subject to the NATOpedia treatment, it’s originally from the census bureau), the median income for workers in the US in 2023 was 40,480 USD. That’s 3373.33.

Maybe in addition to teaching Americans to respect and admire China and the Chinese people, this cultural exchange will also help to innoculate more liberal Chinese netizens against the late Soviet “communism in wonderland” style idea that you can trade in communism for capitalism and it’ll be all upside.

I’ve seen a lot of nostalgic pro-Soviet content, but in a thread on the app where someone asked how they felt about the Soviet Union, there was a lot of sentiment being expressed that indicated that they’re still pretty sore towards the Soviet Union about the Sino-Soviet split.

I even saw people suggesting that in its post-Stalin state it was better for the Soviet Union to fall.

If I’m being honest, I was pretty shocked, but I held my tongue because it doesn’t feel like it’s my place to criticize.

Edit: to be clear, my experience on the app has been overwhelmingly positive, and I love seeing the cultural exchange, because it has me very hopeful that one of the most important pieces of propaganda that the American ruling class has inculcated in its working class (China bad) will be broken.

On the one hand, I’d also love to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors, but I’m guessing they’re not talking about the people who make sure that the article on the 2019 Bolivian Coup remains titled 2019 Bolivian political crisis.

Hell yeah, the first three were pretty good.

:imperial-boomerang:

:kentucky-cool:

Yeah, they were just following orders