Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]

Pick up that can

As someone in a similar environment, you got to take these people you meet with a grain of salt. Theyre already self selected through college, colleges are something of a bubble.

You could kinda say thats what happened in Tsarist Russia but youre still going to say that they really only did that after a war and then another war to finally hold power.

China also falls into this boat, but of the main countries I can think of are the conditions of Korea and Vietnam prior to the invasion of the US. The Fascists there could not get or keep any stable hold of power because the classes they needed to work with simply didnt exist or valued their national liberation above collaboration and obeisance of the US/global capital.

More like exceptionalism all the way brown.

I agree. I think the main type of people who think Trump is worse than Biden/Kamala just dont want to see the huge power of imperialism focused back in on itself. Theyre a kind of racist chauvinist that doesnt value the lives of brown people anywhere else unless they are here.

Werent they supposed to get a bunch of long range missiles from the UK to shoot at Russia?

Not a military expert but most antiship missiles I’ve heard of tend to fly low and fast to strike the side of the ship and make it sink; as opposed to ballistic missiles which are fired in tall unguided arcs that impact the target from a steep angle which can make them penetrate bunkers and destroy buildings more effectively.

I literally dont remember the last time I saw a gold can coke. It feels like something that died with the W administration.

LMAO i was trying to figure out if the squares were just fillers for white people, before seeing it as a table

Ive been watching malcolm in the middle and yeah the 90s do just seem like they really were a fever dream for everybody involved.

just you wait 2028 will definitely be his year to beat trump once and for all

I take the salt comment as a personal affront and will be splitting the hexbear instance over this

i also couldn’t figure out how to level up in oblivion (i was 12 or something), so skyrim was an improvement there.

Same. I just ran around and did quests forever, then got a quest where i finally had to sleep to advance it and then i leveled up like 20 times and all the enemies were in daedric when i maybe had some mithril.

you can sally from the gates to attack the siege engines as theyre built with cavalry but its only really useful for prolonging a siege that you want to get relieved from as opposed to fighting the pitched battle.

you can sally from the gates to attack the siege engines as theyre built with cavalry but its only really useful for prolonging a siege that you want to get relieved from as opposed to fighting the pitched battle.

theres a hexbear fort? have you guys been writing up an actual play for it?

The weirder thing about any nuclear use, especially by Israel, is what that could even look like.

Israel’s nuclear capability isnt totally known; are these kiloton options or megatons, are there dozens of warheads or hundreds, what is the delivery apparatus, what are the targets? We can guess at a lot of these but the reality of what theyre capable of and what the ramifications of use of these devices is nearly infinite.

Not to mention, who would fire back at the colonialist entity? Is Russia going to muster their plentiful supply? America would not, unless it joined in for Israel and hit its own targets. China has very little reason IMO to commit, especially when it might be the most affected by potential fallout by even a limited exchange. Pakistan? India? Does Turkey liberate the US missiles on its territory and use them?

The US neocons in charge of imperial policy are collectively arrogant but not collectively nihilistic, they have a ceiling and while their brutality has wrong-footed many of us, they still want the neoliberal global economy to tick along, regardless of their miscalculations that imperil it.

They dont have to be collectively nihilistic, just enough of them at any one time in the right places can end all of humanity. We got too close and very lucky in the Cuban Missile Crisis. We might be closer than we think already.

I think its always imperialist, given that its one class in a nation aggressing against another nation while in a fascist sense its all happening in one nation. when it cant expand itself and relieve its social tensions in directs those forces inward, cannibalizing itself.

I mean when its moving fastest would be in fascism, no? The social relations of capital push harder and harder to a point where a state moves to consuming its own fragmentable populace, and then also pushes to expand it borders militarily to accomodate that civil society.

this is very cool and i like this. I’ve never thought of it like that before. That part about american settlers though is pretty thought provoking.