It's funny you should say that, because the other day I heard "glass the whole place" for the first time in like 15 years

Rip Bozo

Get bent

You know you're allowed to swear on the internet, right? Cry louder, white supremacist propagandist, I think there are still some people who's eyes aren't rolling.

In the depressingly binary Marvel movie worldview of the liberal, the only reason not to uncritically kneel down and start kissing the sonnenrad is if you're already kissing a framed photo of Vladmir Putin instead. Really goes to show why the US "Defense" Department was so eager to sponsor those flicks.

You and your type

When your worldview has no fascist undertones baked into it whatsoever and you're definitely the good guys

Being a nutjob is when you don't erase all your pre-2022 memories of all the western reporting about Ukraine's Nazi problem

Propaganda is when you assert that Asian people are people

And there’s that western heel turn, right on schedule. Between this and that "Ukraine is testing the patience of it's allies" article yesterday, it's pretty clear that US media has now begun manufacturing consent to decouple from Ukraine. We've been shipping them insufficient quantities of ammo for a while now, so I guess with the stalling out of the counteroffensive, the Pentagon has evidently decided that the battle lines have solidified, and the final closing of the money spigot, at least militarily, is at hand.

Most likely some diplomatic deal will be struck in the coming months to preserve the remaining Ukranian territory in a stable enough state for Blackrock and all the other speculators to reap the profit of all their new acqusitions. My heart goes out to the common people of Ukraine, the last ten years have been brutal for them (the coup, the Banderite resurgence, the killing of dissidents and labor organizers, and this meat grinder of a war), and it looks like with "radical privatization" on the horizon, the next ten years are gonna be even worse. I hope they can organize for some quality of life against the megacorporations planning to turn them into a banana republic after the war.

My second concern, and it's a concern that's never talked about until it's too late, is the blowback. Intervention is never without consequences. America' funding of fundamentalist militants against the USSR in Afghanistan created Al Queda. Western intervention against Saddamn Hussein (who's Baath party itself served as a western intervention against pan-Arab nationalism during the Cold War) sparked the Gulf War. The Gulf War set the stage for our invasion of Iraq, and our invasion of Iraq created ISIS. So what happens after the war, when all the leftover Azov guys, these staunch nationalists, look back at the west and see (correctly) the political bloc that put their government into power, sent them juust not quite enough materiel to win the war, and then abandoned their military to the Russian Federation and their people to venture capital? Much has already been written about the dissapearing of American weapons in Ukraine into Europe's various black markets, and when you combine that with the deluge of newly impoverished, traumatized and radicalized Ukranian combat veterans with an axe to grind against the west, you've got a hundred European 9/11s just waiting to happen. Pretty solid chance that 5 years from now, someone shoots down a passenger jet with a secondhand Javelin.

"You don't understand, I've literally never been fed"

I've been going pretty hard on Darktide since I got it a few weeks ago. The gameplay is fun and the soundtrack goes hard, but im often frustrated by how bizzarely unstable it can be for a mainstream game. Beware the menu screens, for they will betray you. Once it took me 10 tries to get a sucessful launch without a blackscreen or freezelock.

It really is just the menus though, once you get into the game you're safe and it rules

I love living in the freedom country, not like those other, nonfreedom countries where shady unnacountable secret police organizations spy on you all the time.

What do you mean, I'm sure the industry whose standard practices include having the self-driving function turn itself off nanoseconds before a crash to avoid liability is totally motivated to spend the time and money it would take to fix the problem. After all, we live in a time of such advanced AI that all the news sites and magazines tell me we're on the verge of the Singularity, and they've never misled me before.