Well since you brought it up

Dissociated lefty was pretty spot on

Sorry to hear about his impending accidental death

Huh who knew it wasn’t fun to hang out floating over a 120° ocean

I didn’t open the bloomer hope thread cuz I’m a curmudgeon, but I thought of an answer: it’s very likely we’ll live to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump die and I think there will be tremendous energy and cathartic celebrations when that happens. So, that’s something that I look forward to

Heh, a similar but worse thing happened at the school district I worked in. The principal of a middle school arranged for his friend, a plainclothes officer to barge into a in-session teacher’s classroom demanding to know where [student name] is. Can’t remember if he had a gun, but I think he did. Class of middle schoolers terrified. The only reason anybody even heard about it is because the teacher, who was not informed beforehand, complained at the district council meeting. Nothing came of it.

Spending today at work reading wikipedia pages related to the siege of Leningrad. I can’t fathom the despair those people felt, yet they still resisted so fiercely.

Currently reading about the Diary of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who documented the deaths of her family members, one by one, until it was just her. She dug trenches and put out fires as her part of the war effort.

Her older sister worked double shifts at a mine factory and then donated blood after work. All this while only being given a 9oz ration of bread each day. She died of exhaustion/malnutrition, along with 100,000 others every month for 900 days.

Thinking of the teamsters driving trucks across frozen Lake Ladoga’s “road of life” who fell through the ice trying to deliver supplies to the besieged city.

Would love to be there for next year’s 80th VE Day

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.

The violence in the fallout show is too much. My partner, who liked the story and visuals, had to turn it off because of how chunky, close-up, and repetitive the gore was. I know the premise of the show is nuclear apocalypse, but it’s a little bloody, right?

I watched “Black Twitter: A People’s History”. The first two episodes were pretty good, would recommend. Insightful, funny, makes a convincing argument. Episode 3 was distilled liberal cringe that included a victory lap for electing Biden in 2020. All the coverage about 2020 was pure trash*. The ideology was getting laid on thick, so I looked up the production company of the show, and it’s from Onyx media, which is wholly owned by Hulu-Disney.

*Spent maybe 1 minute on the murder of George Floyd. Didn’t mention Breonna Taylor. Didn’t mention defund the police. Didn’t mention police. Spent several minutes on Joe Biden (specifically the SC dem primary) but didn’t mention Bernie. Really egregious oversight. Libs want to pretend the people’s uprising of 2020 never happened so badly that they’re going to write it out of history.

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

Just checked that book out, ty

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.

I thought the “volcano” might be a “motte and bailey” castle but maybe not

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