TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]

This is so comically evil that if I wrote it into a cyberpunk novel people would complain that it's too much of a parody

Monitoring, however, was not easy. For one thing, we had a hard time finding out what was really going on in China because doctors and scientists there appeared to be afraid to speak openly, for fear of retribution by the Chinese government.

Meanwhile you just know that if China had given detailed reports with precision breakdowns of every case in every province with tracking numbers and as much data as humanly possible, this ghoul would go full and accuse them of obfuscating data

Oh wait

This basically fucking happened

I remember a solid week of absolute pearl clutching and fainting that China was about to deorbit and drop a used booster rocket onto some random (white) city in the world... A year ago? Two now?

China had obviously calculated the trajectory for it to land in the ocean like every other space agency in the world, but the news was going feral about how China was going to just drop it on people and kill thousands out of carelessness

And then the booster splashed down into the water as China said it would. You had a few libs sniffle and go "w-well it could've missed a-a-and landed on Australia!" and then that was it. No reckoning with the story, just buried it

And much like with the excessive camber that a lot of people think is cool on cars (where the wheels flare out sideways), pre-loading a desert truck is usually pretty subtle, only a few inches up and down. Noticeable but functional

Lots of street trends like the Carolina Squat and Stancing take these concepts and jack them up past 11 into pure ridiculous territory

Reminds me of those "brief retrospective" style videos that are 2-8 hours of basically regurgitating the plot of a game and quests verbatim, no analysis or retrospective at all

Didn't Facebook release a study on this spooky Russian disinfornarskaya or whatever, and it turned out to have been basically a single percentage of all Trump related content?

the kind of guy who has a girlfriend because guys are supposed to have girlfriends. everything is an obligation/responsibility

According to an interview with him, he literally sees his time with his girlfriend as transactional, that he considers every hour spent with her as being an hour he's lost money because he's not making content

I was just fucking thinking the same

I remember seeing 30C for the first time in my teens and thinking how unusual it was. It was one single day in the dead of August

Now it remains that from April to October

No, I don't. He represents the worst of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He runs a staunchly conservative, queerphobic nation that's put a number of my friends in real material danger simply for existing, and they can scarcely tell me about it because of how tightly the state cracks down on that

How history will view him depends on how the war shakes out and who you're asking and why. He's been a leader - or around the reins of power - for a very long time, and I don't see him as innocent or blameless in the events that bring us to the invasion. This was a collision thirty odd years in the making, and Great Man Theory fucking sucks as an analysis of history

I'm going to be charitable and assume you just catastrophically misunderstood the point instead of being intentionally obtuse. I shouldn't be but I will be

Let's say Russia decides to end the war without a treaty today. Do you really believe Elensky will stop martial law and return to holding elections?

Of course not. Either Ukraine will counter-invade into Russia, thus prolonging the war and martial law, or he'll keep the threat of Russia's mere existence as a reason to keep martial law in place - after all, they need to be vigilant about more threats etc etc

I fucking beg of you Lemmytors to fire off a single brain cell once in a while and see if a thought forms

Interesting

I'm sure that incentivizes a swift end to hostilities and to martial law

You uh

You wanna expand on that or are you going to pretend you got an epic mic drop own

Because I have no fucking clue what you're trying to say

History begins in the winter of 2022 of course

The UN are captured by tankies don't you know, they reported there's no genocide in Xinjiang and so are controlled by China

Twenty years ago it was commonly understood that one could not and should not believe anything in the mainstream news without investigation first, because we all watched as the news carried water for an illegal and immoral invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq

Those same people who would've scoffed at any word out of the Press Secretary's mouth now go into a frothing rage if you were to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the news doesn't always give an accurate framing. It's baffling to me, and the change happened subtly - maybe I wasn't paying attention, I was unfortunately one of those "it's over for Drumpf" style libs back in 2016, but I can't really point to a moment where the change happened, just that it did

Nobody's outright talking plunder but friend, what do you think the ultimate outcome is here?

Libs won't stop until Russia either balkanizes into a shattered Libya-style failed state that the West can gobble up piecemeal under the guise of helping them recover, or the Russian government changes to an explicitly pro-EU one that empties its coffers in a show of newfound solidarity

For the West, there is no world in which Russia will be allowed to exist as a sovereign state. The end goal, full stop, is to plunder it, even if that's not the stated goal

ve started to ask liberals: will life be meaningfully worse under Russian occupation for the people living in the region they've seized, or will it be about the same? If there's no difference, why should we support sending thousands of conscripts to their deaths?

The problem with that is far too many liberals sincerely believe this idea they invented themselves that this is going to result in some Ukrainian genocide by the Russians, either fully murdering everyone or a cultural genocide by replacing them and their culture with Russia's

The reality is of course that no, life will not meaningfully change, but few libs actually engage with material reality

According to libs I know, it's actually fine and normal and cool for presidential elections to be suspended during a war, because they should concentrate on winning the war first

Packet of cream cheese, sub for vegan if you'd like

One drained can of black beans

Any diced veg you've got the spoons to prep (ie onion or peppers) optional

Hot sauce to taste

Mix all the above into a bowl, use it to fill a tortilla in whatever shape you'd like (usually small taquitos or folded quesadillas works best for this), pan fry the assembled tortilla until brown

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