source is a video that had “tankie” in the description, so I did not and will not watch

They're cool as hell. Discuss

You've seen it, I've seen it, we've all seen it. It's minimising to call it schadenfreude when it's really more like mörderfreude or something.

I just saw a video of a progressive reacting with glee at someone telling them a story about an (alleged) Trump supporter who is reliant on the Affordable Care Act in the US to be able to access healthcare. The story goes that he voted for Trump in part because he promised to get rid of "Obamacare", oblivious to the fact that this is the buzzword used to refer to the ACA upon which he relies, because (and this is where it strays into being exaggeration or apocryphal) Democrats bad, Obamacare bad, I hate Obamacare and I hate Obama.

The story continues and the narrator does the big reveal - you just voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and now you won't be able to access the healthcare that you rely upon. The person reacting to this story shows increasing amounts of joy as it unfolds and, at the reveal, is gleeful and toasts the camera, taking a big gulp of their drink.

Many such cases, I get it, but it just blows my mind that:

• They didn't recognise it as a failure of the US political system that a person could vote so hard against their own interests

• They assume that they democrats are on the right side of history and that they serve the best interests of the average person

• They didn't seem at all bothered by the fact that maybe Kamala could have run on a platform of "He's taking your healthcare away - vote for me if you want to live" and won but her team failed so egregiously by not communicating this idea effectively

• They also have 4 years of Trump to deal with - they and their loved ones are also in the same situafion but they're acting like it isn't a big deal; they and everyone they care about is in the same queue for the slaughterhouse and yet they haven't figured out which way the line is moving because they're too distracted by the grisly excuse for "entertainment" which is happening ahead of them

• They would rather convince themselves that they have the correct opinion than to win or for there to be access to healthcare

These people are so smug and impotent and filled with ressentiment yet they have zero shame or self-awareness. Assuming this story is true and not just erotic fanfiction for the sadistic progressive, which is a very good possibility, where is their outrage about all this? A person who is politically naive, who is presented as being below average intelligence, who is duped by the vile bourgeois media and a despicable political system which is a grim mockery of democracy is, at the least, going to end up very unwell—if not homeless or even dead—and this scumbag is happily putting on their dancing shoes in anticipation of being able to celebrate when this person gets put in the ground??

You failed. Your team failed. Your system failed. Your democracy failed. And because of this consistent and ongoing series of failures, you hear that a person is going to suffer tremendously and probably even die but your response is to celebrate? This is some utterly depraved shit.

The next time a progressive claims to be left wing I'm not going to dispute it, I'm going to agree and tell them "Yes - the left wing of fascism." The only consolation is that it's shit like this which only serves to accelerate the collapse of the US, but it's very meagre consolation indeed.

Like some group of governments trying to fake an alien invasion?

• they were meant to be seen
• if aliens, the aliens would do impossible shit to make us certain. Instead, only weird thing is lack of heat signature, and hiding heatsig seems achievable for military tech
• seen in India China and all 3 wings of whiteistan
• they hang near airports, a place where govs shoot unknown aircraft. PERHAPS done intentionally to give impression that gov "cannot shoot them down", this reverse psychology concocts a fake "higher power" than the gov
• it's literally a fuckin plane with lights on it kek

Perhaps, the elites and/or rulers of the world realize that they cannot go any further by competing against each other's nations due to nukes and eventually getting their butts poked in the event of collapse like Gaddafi did. So, they are settling for explicit war against citizens, irrespective of nation, and fake alien invasion is one of the tools to take even more power.

Just a random headcanon, not saying it's true. What does seem certain to me however is that

1. human governments did it
2. the governments are colluding, or at least copycatting

:luigi

Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding leader of the USSR, has long been rumored to have said, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."

The quote has been the subject of numerous posts on social media sites including X, LinkedIn, Medium and Goodreads. On Reddit, it has made frequent appearances on quote-focused subreddits including r/quotes and r/QuotesPorn. It has also appeared in a range of print publications including Billy Idol's memoir "Dancing with Myself" and an editorial published in a 2013 issue of the Journal of Hepatology.

However, there is no evidence that Lenin ever spoke or wrote these words.

As the blog Quote Investigator pointed out in a 2020 article, the quote appears to have been first attributed to Lenin in 2001, 77 years after the Russian revolutionary's death, in a Guardian op-ed by British politician George Galloway.

Quote Investigator speculated that the misattribution may have come about due to confusion with a similar — but much wordier and less aphoristic — sentiment expressed in a 1918 pamphlet titled "The Chief Task of Our Day," which is securely attributable to Lenin. In the translation printed in "V. I. Lenin: Collected Works," a multivolume work published by Moscow's Progress Publishers in 1965, that quote reads,

In the space of a few days we destroyed one of the oldest, most powerful, barbarous and brutal of monarchies. In the space of a few months we passed through a number of stages of collaboration with the bourgeoisie and of shaking off petty-bourgeois illusions, for which other countries have required decades.

But where did the version that circulates today come from? The earliest appearance of a very similar version of the quote that Quote Investigator was able to find was a 1991 Christian Science Monitor article about Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, who is quoted as saying,

There are centuries in which nothing happens and years in which centuries pass.

That quote is a direct translation from the Spanish of two lines of Aridjis' poem "Sefarad, 1492," which was written in 1990 and included in Aridjis' 1991 poetry collection "Obra Poética: 1960–1990." In the original Spanish, the lines read:

Hay siglos en los que no pasa nada / y años en los que pásan siglos

Aridjis was not the first to use this turn of phrase or a close variant, however. By searching variations on phrases used in the quote (for example, "in which nothing happens" instead of "where nothing happens"), Snopes was able to track down earlier versions not included among Quote Investigator's findings.

In 1982, for example, fantasy author David Eddings included a close variant in his novel "Pawn of Prophecy." That version reads:

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such importance take place that the world is never the same again.

An even earlier version — and one that more closely resembles the version in the claim — was published in 1908, during Lenin's lifetime, although there is still no evidence to link it to Lenin himself. This version was published in "The Devil," a novel by Dutch-American author Adriaan Schade van Westrum:

There are years, centuries, in which nothing happens, and there are days, like yesterday, into which a whole lifetime is compressed.

Van Westrum's novel was based on the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár's 1907 play of the same name (in the original Hungarian, "Az Ördög"). However, we've been unable to locate any variation on the phrase in Molnár's original Hungarian text, so it seems likely that its inclusion in the 1908 novel adaptation was a bit of artistic license on van Westrum's part.

Regardless of whether van Westrum invented the quote or read it elsewhere, there is no evidence that Lenin originated the version that has widely circulated under his name since 2001. For this reason, we rate this claim as "Misattributed."

Sources say she was playing tic tac toe just before falling down a flight of marble steps.

Star Wars lore is the gift that keeps on giving man

So this guy’s droid accidentally shows tarkin some of his nudes, tarkin makes him a kept man I guess because he’s such a good shag. Gives him a nepo promotion, and he is immediately killed on his first assignment guarding the Millenium falcon when it gets captured by the Death Star

The idea of Peter Cushing’s wrinkly ass old man balls slapping away against this guy’s stormtrooper armour is so funny to me

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