For anyone curious, these are characters from the mobile game Arknights, where Marx and Lenin are both (somehow) canon. Istina’s (the character on the right) base skin has her holding a book titled “Marxism-Leninism”.

Sadly the game is a gacha, and not communist at all.

The rebuilds are about how you need to stop watching evangelion and touch grass so they’ve kinda done that already.

I think the thing that normalises the horror more is the fact that all this info came out and now nothing’s going to be done about it because those in power are more or less fine with their fellow bourgeois being pedos.

Imo the memes are a result of this: powerless people trying to cope with the horrors in ways that are available to them.

I agree, in order to remain morally consistent we should remove all the most energy-intensive humans as well. Oh look, it’s the billionaires. Well, you guys had a good run, time to get in the pit

Come on judge, figure out some way to give him the death penalty for contempt of court.

I think it’s about 50/50. I’m still pretty surprised Venezuela ended up working as well as it did, so that’s a point in its favor, but that doesn’t mean it’ll work every time. Obviously public sentiment is against a ground invasion but when has that stopped anything Trump has done in the past? If his supporters can pardon him being a pedophile they certainly won’t care about another invasion of some distant country.

If I had to guess I think most likely is they try to do another kidnapping campaign that then fails and turns into a prolonged invasion.

The invasion of Afghanistan began with a wave of bombings/air strikes that killed thousands of civilians and destroyed infrastructure because the Taliban/Al Qaeda were located in areas in which other people lived. Especially the Taliban, as they were the ruling government. A decent analogy is actually 9/11: sure, they targeted the white house and pentagon, but also the WTC which were civilians. Given what we know of US intel, I would actually wager that 2/3 of the hijackerss targets being military installations makes them more precise than the US forces. There are then second-order deaths, such as from starvation and disease, due to disruption of infrastructure, power being cut, factories shutting down, etc.

Likewise, the “Shock and Awe” phase of the invasion of Iraq was a terror bombing campaign that aimed (and failed) to cause Saddam’s government to be overthrown by popular uprising due to mass civilian death and destruction of infrastructure. IIRC Iraq’s power grid still hasn’t been repaired to pre-war levels over 20 years later.

We can get semantic about what the phrase “bombing to pieces” means, but come on. The invasions kill over a million people, primarily due to second-order deaths from the initial and ongoing bombing campaigns. Seriously, look at the history of how the US wages war. It always relies on having air superiority and bombing the shit out of the countries it invades and then following up with special forces. Nowadays, that’d be JSOC because that branch of the special forces are directly controlled by the president.

As far as ground invasion, that depends on what their goals are. If they want to use the playbook from Venezuela and kidnap (or assassinate) all leadership then “no” because while they’ll have special forces on the ground they won’t be staying long-term. If they want to use the playbook from Iraq and Afghanistan, then yes, they will have to do a ground invasion as strategic terror bombings never actually succeed at causing the popular uprisings (see: Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). The only place it allegedly ever worked was Japan in WWII, but that seems to have been largely incorrect and their surrender was much more due to the soviets declaring war on them.

I can remember what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan?

B-But I thought that it was the bad countries that were 1984 jorjorwell authoritarian?

Thank you comrade small prop plane

Just say “all evidence available shows that Trump personally shot him and we are seeking the death penalty”.

My old boss retired like 2 months ago and the new guy is just one of my former coworkers. He’s pretty chill but seems to be under a lot of stress himself.

Most likely it’ll do what Israel does, fabricate evidence justifying targeted drone strikes. When the US kills 600 civilians in an outdoor market they will blame it on Grok instead.

Imagine being the highway moderator, sweet jesus the things you’d hear.

“Japanese Chimera” strikes me as an odd translation choice for “Nue”.

I think it was Diablo 2.

Imagining an entire season about BG1 and it’s like 80% repetitive fights with random trash enemies.

Lower Decks finally let them be gay but it took 30 years.

Check out the French Republican Calendar, where every day is Something Day. Potato day, Orange day, Hoe Day, Maple Syrup Day, Cork Day, Goat Day, they have it all!

Makes sense, the article says that the US manufacturers are pulling out of existing factories. There’s a lot of capital and workers there, easy win to pull in automakers from other countries.