@cthonides
burnt-out, neurodivergent, polygottal polymath and reconstructed emigré from the right-wing fever-swamps Without a conscience, I could have been Q. Had I been able to conform, I’d have been a pastor. Now I’m some kind of artsy-fartsy, paganish commie.
the thing about foreign policy is that the vast majority of normies don't give a shit, but when you break things, they break hard. and these are the fucking people who were in charge of making it under Bush/Trump/Obama/Biden
Don’t say that or Marcus Antonius Gusado might get Emperor Thundertentweet and Lostcount Godtalk of Bourbon to unleash Chiang on your trompe l’œil air force!
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/
gotta say, "the modern right is built entirely around vice signalling" seems like a theory with legs
we should create a society that doesn't disdain all living things
A frigate with a crew of fewer than 200 is barely a "warship". The vast majority of that crew were cooks, deckhands, engineers to keep the turbines going. And to leave wounded survivors floating in open water violates the actual and moral law of the sea. You at least call for help for them.
Sorry, I was in Fort Peck at the time. 🤷♂️
I’m years in, and, yeah.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure what's more embarrassing here:
1. Rubio doesn't know who Chiang Kai-shek is
or
2. "Unleash Chiang" was a slogan of US policymakers who wanted to pull back the Seventh Fleet and let Chiang try to invade the PRC during the Korean War. Who exactly is Chiang here? Bibi?
Regrettably, this appears to be a composite or AI.
Joshua Generation: first generation of students in the movement—the generation which was to “take possession” of the Promised Land, like the biblical successor of Moses, leading the Israelites whose parents died in the forty years in the desert.
And, many of them have followed through. 😞
Seventeen-year-old me was convinced that Truman should have “unleashed Chiang” even though I was unaware of the history of that specific phrase, let alone GHWB’s disdain for it. Apparently, so was Rubio.
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I went hardcore for a sec.
This is over Marcus Antonius Rubio’s /sword of Bush internal right-wing shade tennis jokes/ and his ignorance of the reference to Bircher foreign policy and the “Generalissimo” Jiang/Chiang.
Concerning the War of the Epstein Succession:
The world is falling apart but at least it's leading to some 11/10 shitposts
Guys it’s fine if you get rid of one supreme leader another one spawns and you keep doing it til you get one with stats you like
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a photo of Chiang Kai Shek edited to look like Shrek
Chiang Kai-shrek isn't real he can't hurt you.
Chiang Kai-shrek:
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As a K-12 “Joshua Generation” homeschooler, I was led to believe, by my A-Beka history book, that it was a mistake on Truman’s part that he did not allow Chiang to assist Rhee, but even I was unaware of “unleash Chiang”. Mom didn’t go Bircher till home internet c. 2006, and her dad was a Truman fan.
And how Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, Mao and Castro helped Aslan shut that 💩 down, right?
I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down
Naturally.
@bloomberg.com
uppers
Goddamn, what the fuck is anyone actually *doing* at the Pentagon?
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Oh my god oh my god
If you are an EU country and you stop acting like a US neocolony you get treated like everyone else.
