PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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the Syrian coup

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"Leader under immense pressure in a state that isn't even fully formed or stable offers conciliatory language to an encroaching aggressor who is an order of magnitude more prepared for military action"

Syria, currently, has no firm allies. Giving verbal asspats to Israel in the hopes of avoiding their focus in the near-future despite its horrendous imperialist behavior is probably one of the less-bad options at present, unfortunately.

What if the kings can't be taken, and both must be checkmated to win?

Verae Historiae is fucking fantastic, highly recommend. The moon people fight the sun with giant spider auxiliaries weaving them a web bridge for their insect-chimera cavalry to advance upon.

Based

Unfortunately, being against one authoritarian regime does not inherently guarantee the ability to correctly identify others, it would seem.

Riddle me this

How does Kamala and Biden policies represent(ed) the best interest of the half of the population that they and their voters keep calling to be murdered and put in camps for being the privileged, bigoted, homophobic, sexist, racist, slave owners, Nazis, transphobic, emotionless, non empathic, oppressive source of all evil in the world?

Literally any negative adjective you can think of, any negative association, any way to dismiss, disparage or erode away any respect or appreciation they might have has been used and constantly and consistently applied to this half of the voters through the years, demonizing them to make them the imaginary enemies the Dems needed to rally against during their mandate and then again on the election cycles.

People who, might I remind you, have literally never had a (insert negative adjective here ) thought in their life, none of these supposed privileges, and are playing in a categorically non leveled field during their whole life.

Now the Dems are spending millions doing meetings in luxury hotels to see how they can analyze social media usage of patterns and speech to “connect” with that half of the population

Basically the same as they tried at the end of their campaign

You have no faith in America?

For these half of the population, that’s basically all you need to win them

You want to know who benefits from the Dems policies? Look at the majority on power in their structures, who runs their committees, who is the main beneficiary of the DEI programs and the majority of the complainers:

Middle age white women with a god complex.

The Karentocracy is and has been eating the democrats away and you guys know it and are doing squat to avoid it

Now tell me this is not the case and has absolutely not been happening and keep blaming Kamala’s defeat and betrayal on the Americans and how racist and sexist they are

Lord.

I wish I could believe that.

I mean, don't get me wrong - it would've been a better route to take in any case, whether it delivered the campaign from defeat or not.

But I have no faith in my fellow Americans to choose politicians or policies that represent their best interests.

The finance class in the US are nepo babies with lots of inherited money, not academics.

I once cut the inside of my thigh as a kid by bicycle jousting with my friends at night-time along the streets and sidewalks. Slammed into one of my friends' tires head-on, and got thrown forward into the crossbar. I was lucky I was slightly off-center, but I came away with a nasty bruise, a laceration, and a rip in my shorts.

Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers!

How perfect

DM warnings, for me, are always a sign that I'm about to do something I haven't thought through enough, or that I've thought through TOO MUCH TO STOP NOW

That is to say, an essential part of the experience

If someone committed suicide by guard in front of me I'd probably be pretty disturbed too tbf

Hard not to sympathize. World is fucked.

The whole Dark Ages schtick was made up by Enlightenment people to make them feel better about themselves.

It's much more than that.

It’s too late for America. You can’t save a country when half of its citizens want to burn it to the ground.

Yeah.

... yeah...

Username came first.

I liked the avatar. That's about it.

I prefer posters with avatars, personally.

A Beholder is a type of monster that's basically just a giant eye.

To behold means to observe.

The joke here is that the monstrous female Beholder only wants to 'behold', but the adventurer doesn't really dig the idea of her perving on him while he washes.