[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

Spending 2 literal human years mocking Russia for a quixotic and poorly planned offensive at the start of the war and then doing this is totally unthinkable by any rational decisionmaking process.

I'm convinced the architects of the Ukraine War are caught in a feedback loop with social media where NAFO freaks scoring momentary dunks on the vatniks translates in their minds to real victories, or at least registers as more important than long term survival in their decisionmaking.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 54 points 3 months ago

"Heartwarming: Triple Amputee Azov Freedom Fighter Siegs Heil with Remaining Arm" is something the onion would catch flak for for months, but here it is, manifested into reality.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 53 points 3 months ago

Unlimited victory to the Palestinian resistance.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 70 points 3 months ago

What would be substantially different about a Trump presidency? Biden has, to my knowledge refused federal action against LGBT discrimination in red states, signed on to every last bullet point of Trump's white nationalist border sadism, given unlimited greenlights to the rogue state of Israel to carry out a genocide, refused to codify Roe and essentially allowed the Supreme Court to remain an unchecked organ of hard right political power.

Which elements of fascism would materialize under Trump that Biden hasn't either sleepwalked into or enthusiastically supported?

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 47 points 4 months ago

I'm catholic and I swear I've been seeing this exact news cycle for a decade. The pope gets praised for saying some progressive stuff and then gets chided for doing some incredibly dumb signaling against abortion or gender theory.

I think the most important takeaway is that he's basically Pope Obama; someone who puts a nice face on a pretty bad institution that he is unwilling or believes himself unable to structurally change, and there probably won't be any structural change to it without a massive shift in the societies it exists in.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

The best way to prevent another Hitler is a means-tested scale of assets suspension based on the concentration of Hitler particles in the body. Of course, these can be waived if the potential Hitler condemns Hamas.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 86 points 4 months ago

I didn't watch the interview but from what I've heard Tucker is trying to bait culture war talking points out of Putin and Vlad, having zero respect for Tucker, responds with Morrowind-style lore dumping about Russia.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago

Even if you ignore the ongoing genocide and potential regional war Biden is responsible for, the DNC has been waving a big middle finger in your faces for decades, why even publish this? Just say nothing! This will convince maybe a dozen solid blue state retirees in Lenin caps to vote for him with the tradeoff of alienating every politically conscious person under 40.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 86 points 5 months ago

"Hyuk hyuk, Iran's about to find out why Americans don't have free healthcare"

-US soldier, seconds before dying to a gmod contraption

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago

It was commonplace among leftists to oppose US military hegemony, NATO, and Raytheon pre-2022, even for relatively lib leaning spaces. This position became basically unacceptable if not bannable in so many left leaning spaces within a matter of months, which should scare you a lot more than the existence of one community where the sentiment has remained the same.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 60 points 10 months ago

The PRC objectively has a better human rights record than the RoC.

[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

Taiwan has a limited status in some international organizations under the name "Chinese Taipei" (this name greatly angers Taiwanese ultranationalists so I use it whenever possible), but the UN recognizes it as part of China.

There's a video of the UN voting on the PRC's membership to the exclusion of Taiwan, the entire room laughs when America casts its vote and there's an interview somewhere with a RoC diplomat whining about their "true democracy and freedom" despite the RoC being a one-party white terror regime.

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