TrashGoblin

joined 3 years ago
[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Wannabe Posadist, but I'm waiting for the aliens.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Guys, don't drink that coffee! There's a fish in the percolator!

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Best I can do is MLM3W doing a PPB.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Chinese restaurants in the US had led me to believe that Tsingtao was the only beer sold in China.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

That used to be my favorite DS9 fan subreddit.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

An idea I've seen floating around esoteric circles is "the Evangelical egregore". That evangelicals have created a god in their own image and proceeded to worship it.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bernie comes out as Trotskyite.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Zohran the Relentless.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Unitarians got a lot more militant since the last time I attended their service.

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

The foreign policy blob has realized that even with a large anti-war movement, they don't really need to manufacture consent. The 2003 marches against the Iraq war were some of the largest in history, and they didn't have any effect on government policy. They may ultimately have led to Obama both winning the Democratic primary and being elected president, given that he positioned himself in clear opposition to the war, which Democrats in 2004 hadn't found the fortitude to do. Once he was in office, of course, things continued as before, the campaign promises forgotten. The blob knows that an unpopular war might lead to the presidency switching parties in '28, but they also know that party switches are never allowed to affect policy.

At this point, for an anti-war movement to have any affect, it would have to be in some way direct-action based, focused on the blob's ability to wage war rather than its willingness.

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