I honestly can’t fathom a nation being dumber than America. Maybe that’s my American exceptionalism talking but we really are dumb.

It’s fake. It doesn’t work. They skipped safety procedures. It’s not efficient anyways. It’s not scalable. It wouldn’t work without state funding. State funding is the reason it doesn’t work. Social credit score.

See but Kissinger felt like a worthy adversary. A cold, calculating man who you could despise but also know he was smart and crucial in shepherding the empire.

Bolton is a raving lunatic who just wants to bomb Iran and will settle for any point on the map remotely close to it. He didn’t earn shit, he made his name during Bush 2 when America had no powerful adversaries. He didn’t mastermind shit, he just got to ride with the new cabal in power.

Dick Cheney is my generation’s Kissinger. Dick Cheney is who we direct all our hexes and curses towards. And unlike Kissinger, Cheney made sure to get paid handsomely for his tenure as evil advisor to the emperor.

Many Nazis supported Zionism because they wanted them out of Europe.

If anyone wants to do a weird alt history novel, a world where Nazi Germany and Isn’treal exist and fight each other would be wild.

Well in military terms it’s a counter offensive because they wanted to retake land that was occupied by the Russian offensive. But you’re right, it’s not technically an offensive because Ukraine didn’t retake any land from Russia.

My favorite child, the Lord has one mission left for you. This will take you to the deepest corners of hell to fight the vilest demon.

Tell him this one’s on me.

Medieval Europe. Doing my thesis on the crusades but I might abandon that path after years of floundering.

I’m getting a Master’s in history and I have no desire to read all that.

As much as I’d like him to die, getting to read an annual headline of “Chauvin stabbed in prison yet again” also sounds acceptable.

“Consumer prices didn’t rise at all.” This is the same asshole that said there was no inflation if you didn’t count rent, gas, and food.

I struggle to even say Zizek is a misguided socialist. He’s a cranky without useful analysis. The only two things he’s done well are his ramblings on consuming anticapitalist media and making Jordan Peterson look dumb.

The Iranian liberation activists sounds like the most NED funded CIA op ever created.

It’s pretty universal that converts are extra zealous to prove their faith to other, while lifelong adherents don’t feel the need to prove anything.

I gotta try to play this game again.

Not liking punk is pretty punk rock though if you think about it.

What is the debunking, for those of us who are unread savages.

One of my friends was saying the Soviets were covering it up because they said it was a massacre of Soviet citizens and played down that it was a massacre of Jews. And that is where the minimizing the Holocaust narrative comes in. It’s just so in the weeds I don’t care. And Blinken obviously isn’t the one trying to be nuanced.

From basic googling I found ~250,000 Ukrainian collaborators in various ways and 7 million Ukrainians in the Red Army, 4 million in the Ukraine campaign alone.

Always important to point out that more Ukrainian fought in the Red Army in WW2 than with the Nazi collaborators. Just to piss off the “national liberation” crowd.