Shocked Pikachu is evolving!

I’m Catholic and while I’d quibble with some symbolism, it’s entirely fine in the general vibes. people will take symbols and use them in their own circumstances, and communists who are Catholic will do the same. I do think the character should be kept non-violent though, since she’s a child.

Luce is on her way to see Subcommendante Marcos and establish protracted peoples war. She’s in her establishing the divine unity of mankind phase, she’s giving off Soviet Cosmist vibes, she’s fully De Chardain-pilled

Yeah I read theory.

lathe powers on

A few, animal farm and Homage to Catalonia does a lot of it, though the latter is an essential read once you’re a bit more read up on the SCW.

But mostly, they’ve been told by pretty much everyone that the USSR was evil.

Oh man yeah. Did you know literal bride selling (as in selling a wife you didn’t want) was a thing in England until the 1800s (admittedly often used as a way of mutual divorce)

I mean it must be hard with the memory capacity of GPT2

Jeb!'s in his heaven, all’s right with the world.

Soon all my enemies will be eating from the trashcan.

No split college and corrupt bargain?

Best result, Kamala wins but loses the Popular vote. (actually the best result is a split college followed by the White house spontaneously exploding.)

I’m in neo-assyrian occupied Maine.

And I’ll fucking do it again!

Juesus, there’s like 100 better looking eagles from European history and like 10 of them aren’t even co-opted by chuds, why not use them? Why not a nice Albanian eagle to wear in your :bunker

If you want a vision of the future, it’s this, forever.

Yeah but as the military philosopher Solid Snake has opined “waaarrrr has chaaaangeddd”. At least between peers.

Drones, guided artillery and real time satellite recon and c&c mean that the western cult of manuoever is back to WW1 levels of costliness. This is the lesson of Ukraine.

You can achieve small, short term breakthroughs but at enourmous attrition, to the point siege tactics and creeping advances are less costly. Modern cities make excellent fortifications and I can only assume an application of the old siege manuals will make them better.

The cycle turns. Napoleon is dead, Vauban reigns supreme in his star fortress once again.

It’s as if they made an entire country out of the most insufferable parts of Wahroonga and the Southern Highlands.

It’s rational actors within a irrational worldview. US capitalists are essentially dooming themselves in the long run by destroying social liberalism and heightening the contradictions within the system. But within that system their internal calculus seems entirely rational moment to moment.

The same is true of Israel. The ruling coalition ranges from “destroy Gaza and southern Lebanon for settlement and secure the borders permanently at the nearest convenient natural border” to “Skulls for the skull throne! 1-tag from from the Nile to the Ganges!”

Both those positions are irrational and the latter is impossible and apocalyptic. However within that range of worldviews their current acts are entirely rational.

Also, look how different their direct push for conquest and extermination is compared to what is the traditional “shadowy murder cabal” lies deployed against Jewish people. These guys explicitly didn’t read the Protocols and went “good idea actually”. They read Mein Kampf and went “we’ll do it first”.

I know that being oppressed doesn’t make you a good person just an oppressed one, and that the vast majority of Jewish people find this utterly repellent, but fuck that makes me sad.