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TheGamingLuddite [none/use name] @ TheGamingLuddite @hexbear.net
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  • Spending 2 literal human years mocking Russia for a quixotic and poorly planned offensive at the start of the war and then doing this is totally unthinkable by any rational decisionmaking process.

    I'm convinced the architects of the Ukraine War are caught in a feedback loop with social media where NAFO freaks scoring momentary dunks on the vatniks translates in their minds to real victories, or at least registers as more important than long term survival in their decisionmaking.

  • I don't think voting for Trump is advisable in any circumstances, even to own the most insufferable and genocidal libs, because it only confirms their fantasies about leftists being secretly Republican. I think it's beet to just not vote or leave the top of the ticket blank.

    As for what's next for Republicans after Trump, I think the party as we know it will likely collapse. The prospect of a Haley or even DeSantis presidency is doomed because they have no charisma and are transparently nasty little teacher's pets regardless of how much they try to channel Trump.

    I actually can't think of a single reactionary figure actually qualified to rival Trump in any way, the man is the Messiah for racist middle class whites and boomers because of his mannerisms and gaudy branding, nobody else is like that and we don't live in a society that can produce more Trumps.

  • What would be substantially different about a Trump presidency? Biden has, to my knowledge refused federal action against LGBT discrimination in red states, signed on to every last bullet point of Trump's white nationalist border sadism, given unlimited greenlights to the rogue state of Israel to carry out a genocide, refused to codify Roe and essentially allowed the Supreme Court to remain an unchecked organ of hard right political power.

    Which elements of fascism would materialize under Trump that Biden hasn't either sleepwalked into or enthusiastically supported?

  • Reading this guy's insufferable blog and was reminded of a greentext I saw years ago and saved, it sums up so many of these dudes:

    Be highschooler

    Sit every day playing vidya and doing homework in suburban two story

    Never go out because no friends

    Never have interesting experiences

    Girl I like won't look at me because I'm a silent, boring, slender starchman with no personality

    People who do drugs and have sex are more personable and appealing

    Nurse hatred of peers

    Become trad christian larper

    Read hours of old, tired punditry from the 90s denouncing anything pleasurable

    Spend every other hour shitflinging online as a caricature of naive, unironic puritanism

    Know my views are ridiculous but I'm lashing out at people for not paying attention to me anyway

    Refuse to broaden my horizons or do anything that my beguile someone to have an interest in me

    Double down on trying to make an identity out of being a gelded, passionless clown

    Die a sad virgin convinced cultivating the kind of empty moral superiority that was a cartoonish mockery of real people to begin with

    Many such cases

  • Much of the myth of the ritual hagiography of the 1989 protests in Western media revolves around the absurd notion that 10,000 people were shot, run over by tanks, and their remains hosed down sewer grates in the square. No evidence has ever been produced for this.

    They will condemn China for it again this year on June 4th, as they do every year, even as their beknighted liberal allies gleefully do this and worse, even as the whole world watches their Dirlewanger-level atrocities live and in 4k. The difference between these two images is the difference between a socialist society forced into self defense and one built on settler colonial thuggery.

  • I'm catholic and I swear I've been seeing this exact news cycle for a decade. The pope gets praised for saying some progressive stuff and then gets chided for doing some incredibly dumb signaling against abortion or gender theory.

    I think the most important takeaway is that he's basically Pope Obama; someone who puts a nice face on a pretty bad institution that he is unwilling or believes himself unable to structurally change, and there probably won't be any structural change to it without a massive shift in the societies it exists in.

  • There's such a disconnect between the national DNC political class and their actual voters, the average American either does not know what NATO is or thinks it's the same as the EU and the UN. This isn't getting anyone to the polls lol.

  • Nikki Haley's press coverage is a permanent reminder that our journalist class is completely divorced from reality. Just wish casting for a world in which the American reactionary movement never mutated into a cult of personality around Donald Trump.

  • Fun game is to go into the comments and click on the most vile ones, then check the post histories.

    Found one posting about luxury whiskey in between borderline slurs directed at gazans, can you imagine? This is what the imperial core turns human beings into, just vile, soulless husks completely devoid of empathy or compassion, shambling about the earth in search of boutique goods and scolding anyone who objects to this pointlessly cruel bloodletting. No amount of bombing could ever dehumanize Gaza as thoroughly as access to American prosperity has dehumanized these people.