halyk.the.red

Perhaps your pipes are too wide.

Gunna have to hear out both sides until we’re between a rock and a hard place.

I try to look on the bright side, we get to watch an empire collapse in real time through memes and stupid little videos on tik tok.

Very true, the vast majority of america is right leaning, even diehard dems, as the democratic party is easily center-right as it stands. The left, the actual left, sees they don’t even have a hand on the wheel, and the moderate dems were alienated by Harris’s commitment to genocide. It doesn’t even matter, as the corporatocractic oligarchs are unchanged and unthreatened by democrats and republicans alike.

Of course it can work that way, we just saw it happen on Tuesday. Look at all the votes the dems lost between elections. All those protests, all the people demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza, all those people asking about cheaper rent and healthcare, those people asking about why there’s still kids in cages at the border. Inaction, regardless of the outcome, does not equal support for the victor. But sure, let’s homogenize the two major parties and make elections even more of a farce than they already are.

In some competitions, the lead of one competitor is obvious, and they lose because they screw up. It should not have been difficult for the party already in power, with a former prosecutor and career politician, to defeat the former gameshow host with 34 felony convictions.

Harris tried to appease the moderate republicans to try and pull from their pool, but alienated her supporters in doing so.

Against Trump, it was the dems to lose, which they did in historical fashion. They’re so quick to blame leftists, or hispanics, or muslims, yet refuse to admit that their shitty policies brought this about.

Scapegoat identified. No way it could have been the dems alienating their base with less progressive politics in a failed attempt to pull republicans over to Harris.

Agreed, liberalism is thriving because the fascist collective is still in power, the flags are just red for the next four years. What another resounding victory for capitalism.

Happened to me as a kid. This huge spider came crawling over my shoulder, but so engrossed was I in the show I was watching, I didn’t notice the monstrosity until it was right in front of my face. I sat up and tried to scream, but no noise came out. I didn’t go into that room again for days.

They’re upset that a political party convinced them to support genocide and feel the need to lash out.

You fools have already forgotten how your moist towels and paper napkins all stem from greatest absorptive progenitor, the precursor to all imbibers, our most holy Rag!

I just couldn’t let the original commentor get away with saying the most ridiculous shit in this thread, I had to top them.

Actually, tetris is really a commentary about the brief and fragile ethnostate in Constantinople as the Byzantine empire fell to the Ottoman empire.

Very true, however I was merely drawing a distinction between those drafted and tossed aside, and those who the original commenter said had committed horrors abroad. This guy is more likely to have been complicit.

To be fair, given his job, this guy probably didn’t commit wild atrocities. He probably stared at a screen, waiting for the Viet Cong to deploy submarines.

Which reminds me, my bad dragon order was delayed again.

Which is true, the US should not have gone. However, many people were drafted for war in Vietnam, and going may not have been their choice.

I still don’t think thanking them for their service is the right thing to say, maybe something along the lines of “I’m sorry you were forced into a horrible war.”

The guy in the picture, though, is a senior chief petty officer, which pretty much means he did 20 years at least. This guy retired and is still collecting a check from the government. A far cry from the draftees who were forced into combat and forgotten about as soon as they got home, lucky to have survived at all.

Dude saluted a foreign military officer, to the confusion of all.

I wish I could be that cozy

The situations in Palestine and Ukraine are markedly different.

Ukraine has received immense support from Western nations since the start of the Russian invasion, i.e., in support of the defense of Ukraine. The democractic party has been in power since the beginning of that conflict as well.

Western nations have been giving support to the standing army of the defending nation, who are facing a professional army.

Palestine has been under seige from the beneficiary of Western support, i.e., in support of the offense of Palestine.

Western nations have given support to the standing army of the offensive nation, who are facing an insurgency who lack the personnel, training, and support systems of a modern professional army.

The civilian death counts in Palestine have been staggering. Over 44,000 civilians have been killed in Palestine in a little over a year. In Ukraine, over 11,000 civillians have been killed, despite the Russian invasion occuring in February of 2022, 2 years and 9 months ago.

The distinctions between the two situations are apparent, which is why people are being more vocal about Palestine.

I would say nothing about either of the conflicts has been convenient for most people, but both matters are important, albeit for different reasons.

Also, on a personal note, ilk? I didn’t realize we were in the Hog’s Head.