[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

That seems consistent with the footage. A couple plucked off of the volley. Which I found strangely comforting, it means they were trying and falling.

I had a teacher that once said if you can get a 0% multiple choice test he would give you a 100%, but if you didn't hit 0% you get the grade you got.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

My last drunken political episode I was on Internet modafinil, empty stomach, had a blow out, full beat with lashes, I think I was ovulating or some shit. Just felt invincible and some thrice divorced man was just hypnotized by everything I said because it was critical of the government. All that aside, you can pretty much say anything Marxist without using the word and people will agree with you like 95% of the time.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I'm confused. Show me the lie

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Im crying a little. These kids get so little to celebrate in life.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

He isn't sneering because he is proud of deceiving people, because he isn't deceiving anyone. He is enjoying everybody else's frustration and powerlessness.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I really hate the word gaslighting, everywhere I go on the Internet that's geared towards women my age it's gaslighting this or gaslighting that.

But this really is gaslighting at this point. I can't even untangle it all. I have no way of explaining it all to somebody who hasn't been following this shit. I feel like I'd sound like a "crazy ex girlfriend".

Sometimes it really does feel like I'm going crazy. And maybe it's supposed to make me feel like that so I feel powerless or something. But when a 37 year old suburban woman spends a good percentage of her time fantasizing about building an RPG in her garage, there's got to be some testosterone fueled people who have less to lose who actually might.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

On 4/13 I was checking r/Israel and they were deleting posts like this every few minutes.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

Should I short Motorola? Looks like they just entered the Indonesia market and in the US they are most popular among 18-30 year olds

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Saw the same thing. R/politics is a great tool to gauge where they are trying to steer public opinion, and often reveals next moves. My guess there are competing comment farms and that there is some government faction that wants to replace Joe. But others want him to stay put because they fear they won't have as much power under a living president.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://youtu.be/5eIADs7Ct-Q?si=U0yXcn6F9Yv2tjwp

Time lapse map of the Middle East. I'm a spatial person so this is one of the easiest ways for me to understand history.

The area from Tehran through Beruit has been one contiguous empire for most of the last 3000 years.

The US inherited a Balkanized Middle East and West Asia and most of its geopolitical strategy is about maintaining that status quo. Even in the absence of fossil fuels this place would be a world power if left alone due to it's location along trade routes and the natural defensibility of much of it.

The notion of an independent cohesive Israel spanning any real space and time is an ahistorical and compensatory fantasy. Ethnorelgions were a primitive concept even in the time of King David. When you are required to ethnically cleanse every place you conquer and maintain higher birth rates in order to occupy that space your success is bound to be limited and temporary. A small blip allowed by the Bronze Age collapse and little more than that.

[-] Iwishiwasntthisway@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago

Sometimes I have these weird flashes of empathy for this guy. Of all the ghouls I've been seeing too much of lately, he just looks so run down as he meanders from country to country like a beaten dog.

He doesn't seem smart or ambitious. It looks like he landed where is he like a mob son who needed to go to law school to keep the heat off the family business.

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