Ideally, they should muster their own men and seize what they can of our military equipment and send our troops packing as disarmed POWs. Any equipment that makes it back to the CONUS will be used against its people, and in the darkest timeline, against them.
They even kept the year, so uncreative
They just feel confident in their progress timeline, given recent events.
Perhaps some genuine criticism could be levied at the specifics of their immigration policy, but this is JD Vance, that’s not what he’s here for.
When he talks about “shared values” and “what you are fighting for” he’s talking about white Christian dominance in Europe and defending it with the sword. The far right has long seen Europe as a failure of progressive decadence and moral weakness and this speech was a blatant expression of that.
That is why the far right rejects European countries and cozies up to Russia, because the American conservative and the Russian nationalist have quite a lot of “shared values.”
suppressing free speech
Shutting out far-right racists and literal foreign agitators
mishandling migration
Racism
and ignoring populist concerns
More racism
Feels like the New Axis is starting to take tangible shape.
This saga has been a ride so far. There is no way this guy is mentally stable at this point, he is going to do anything and spend every dime he has until he’s either found it or he brushes his teeth with a .38.
Most of the people I’m around are not rich by any means, but they are not living paycheck to paycheck. Rising cost of living is worrying, but manageable. They can afford to pay even the littlest bit of attention or concern, but they don’t. Because then they would have to admit that things are collapsing around them week by week, and that’s too frightening for them.
Frankly I’m tired of justifying the behavior of the average American with infantilizations like we are some lower form of life without sapience. At some point we have to own up to it, even if it’s painful, even if all we have is ignorance, cowardice, and apathy.
As George Carlin said, selfish ignorant people elect selfish ignorant leaders.
Personally, talking to anyone about politics here is unnerving. Most people are in this fog where current events are only an ephemeral storyline that they tune into periodically like it’s a TV drama. Never a big deal, never anything that could affect them or those they care for. It’s a position of privilege, frankly. Maybe some of them are just that dumb. I think a lot of people, though, are scared, either of their ignorance or their powerlessness, so they simply avoid being involved or educated out of discomfort. That’s probably the nicest interpretation I have for my countrymen’s behavior.
Otherwise you are spot on. The uniquely tasteless brand of brash American chauvinism that we were globally lampooned for during the Invasion of Iraq has metastasized. We are long overdue for being knocked down a peg. I wish I could say the fallout from this painful reckoning would stay within our borders, but it most likely won’t. We have a very uncertain year ahead of us, let alone the next five years.
I’m just throwing info out there, my intention isn’t to brag. It’s a silly thing to be proud of…I spent a bunch of money, big whoop.
The frames drop certainly doesn’t matter to me, but it might matter to someone else with a different rig.
There is a sizeable “Lost Cause” myth among racists for both South Africa and Zimbabwe/formerly Rhodesia. In talking about these countries and seemingly caring about them, it makes them seem more worldly and less racist. They’ll often try to deny that these regimes were apartheid at all by pointing out that the military was desegregated, despite that having little to do with how the native Africans were actually treated both under the law and outside of it. Their fascination also crosses over with anti-communist sentiment because many of their adversaries were communist if not directly USSR-backed. And killing communists is BASED.
It’s all “right of play” rhetoric that one quote about arguing with Nazis talks about, it’s either intellectually lazy or intentionally dishonest. When you get down to brass tacks with this Myth, the hypothesis they put forth is “Africa can only ever prosper if Whites are in charge.”
Harrison Ford has had more than one aviation incident IIRC.
I could not get the benchmark to complete on my desktop, I tried a half-dozen times, it always locks up ~15 seconds into the “gameplay” section. Tried experimental proton, turning off frame gen, nothing.
7900xtx so I’m not wanting for hardware. While it behaved I was getting ~200 frames with framegen and ~100 without.
EDIT: Proton Hotfix seemed to work. Noticed the frames were a bit worse but for sure beats a hard lock
Referencing the Vaporeon copypasta in a school assignment is…definitely a strategy.
Guantanamo is a notorious US torture facility, it doesn’t need to be compared to other US torture facilities.
What is “wage garnishment” for 200
The US simply will not survive in its current form for another 20 or 30 years. Whether by slow, festering rot or violent implosion.
If you can settle into the Party-enforced censorship. A lot of people will get banned if they keep interacting the same way they do on Western social media.
Despite dissent within his coalition, Fico’s government is expected to survive the vote.
Hopefully they are wrong.
The Chinese state seems to frequently chase vacuous milestones to boast to the world about while the actual problems China and its people face go unaddressed. Sure that describes a lot of states, but China in particular stands out to me in how dogged they are to gain face.
Man I just love that our dumb fuck leaders are regurgitating Kremlin lies for our dumb fuck citizens to lap up like dogs.