The Marines are completely antiquated. In the era of drone warfare, having an entire branch dedicated to amphibious assault is like having a branch just for cavalry. Merge that shit into the Navy. The Marines are kept alive solely by the notoriety of D-Day the Pacific Theater.

This is the inverse of Deep State conspiratorial thinking. Instead of the power being held by the high level but not publicly visible members of the state, it’s the low level, high public visibility members. The real elites running this country are the clerks at the DMV.

Yeah he’s definitely a ghoul and needs to be thrown in the , but right now he’s one of the few voices on the right calling out the rank hypocrisy of the anti-interventionist MAGA movement 180’ing overnight to being neocons.

On the other hand, if he was arrested and the discourse surrounding it immediately became, he’s being arrested to silence his criticism of the Iran War, that could be useful. It sucks shit that Amerikkka is like this, but it’s undeniable that the typical burgerlander is going to be more swayed by the white conservative heir getting rounded up by the state over his opposition to a war of aggression on the behalf of Israel than the same happening to a Muslim student.

Over on YouTube, Hakim has done several videos on the state of various AES states (and, historically, the USSR).

Specifically on Vietnam, Luna Oi has a bunch of videos on the implementation of socialism there and how it’s manifested today.

No leader was a strong arm man before Putin

Or at least think someone not voting for a candidate over support of said genocide is “purity politics.”

I posted a comment saying that I thought it wasn’t likely to happen, and also that he was biased.

I thought my post was pretty light, all things considered. His response was angry carried personal insults. If he said that on this sub, it would probably violate rule 1.

Calling him biased isn’t a personal insult, but him making a substantiated rebuttal followed by a snarky comment is.

Air conditioning is a plot to destroy the traditional family

Finished Metroid Prime 4. My verdict is, if you’re someone who’s already a fan of the Prime series, you’ll find it enjoyable. However, I don’t think it’s going to win over many new fans. If you haven’t played/aren’t aware of the lore of the prior Prime games then the main antagonist will feel forced and arbitrary. The hub world is a mixed bag; from a world building perspective, it makes way more sense to have these various biomes separated by a vast desert than taking elevators from one to the other. It does get dull though, and there’s some late game find/fetch quests in the desert that are very needle in a haystack. Combat is good, and while most of the psychic abilities are just mechanics from prior games with “psychic” in front of it, the psychic control beam was super satisfying. I wish there were more opportunities to use it.

Still working on gold staking all the jokers in Balatro, I have ten left. Of course, most of them are the PITA ones to win with like diet cola and invisible joker.

Selfship

What like artwork of you falling in love with yourself?

“So that means the next Democrat president will charge him with war crimes, right?”

“Right?”

The synthetic HRT just doesn’t hit the same as the HRT caught fresh out of the ocean.

Doctor, I think I need a prostate exam

Makes sense, the heyday of the franchise was FFVI-X which means a lot of late gen X and early millennials fans.

Last time I saw anything connected to them was a collaboration of musicians doing a cover of Rush’s Anthem and Claudio did the vocals. They released an album last year, haven’t given it a listen.

Dark Chocolate Market

A smidge tangential as it was more about classical symphonies, but a few months back Dave’s Classical Guide did a video on the changes in classical music and his take was that the boom in venues for “high culture” music in the late 19th and 20th centuries was always unsustainable. Thus the contraction in recent years is less a death of these media and more a return to a reasonable level.

That being said, I think a lot of this goes back to, as usual, the economic factors. Opera and ballet tickets are fucking expensive so yeah, no shit average joe schmo is going to pick the $20 a seat movie tickets over the $300 a seat opera tickets. Which means the houses are motivated by the ticket sales and benefactor donations from the blue haired socialite crowd who care more about the ritual of the thing that supporting the new artistic expression so of course they turn out more for the classics. (Ballet has one exception though: The Nutcracker, a lot of companies make all their money for the year off doing that for a month and a half around Christmas.) If the funding structure wasn’t so market driven then it could be more accessible to people outside the well to do.

“What do they want from us?” Not slaughtering Palestinians.

I assume this is one of those things that native Arabic speakers/writers just do/know without having to think about the grammatical rules but throws off people learning it as a second language as it’s a sort of exception to the rule.