“Hey, Mr. Krabs, what are your politics?”

“DON’T TREAD ON ME MONEY, BOY!”

Supremely based

Turns out performative language policing does not equate to an actual effort against misogyny. Who could have guessed.

I mean, they’re right, industrial superiority just also requires the will to keep the war going for as long as necessary, and with whatever casualties necessary. For “Shitty war that violates another country for reasons we ourselves aren’t entirely clear on”, the will is generally lacking; for “A third of our country was just taken by traitors because they decided they only like democracy when they win”, there’s generally plenty of will.

Funny enough, Augustus commissioned one of the first public use maps - a big engraved map of the Empire in Rome that people were allowed to copy down and spread. This is a 19th century reproduction of an earlier reproduction, but it’s thought that this is the map in question.

Always picked the dwarf, time to headbutt some mfs

[blows in cartridge]

But by making it into a guerilla war, all the military force the Union has can suddenly be concentrated even more disproportionately, as guerilla forces cannot concentrate in one area safely. All the ports of the South would be immediately lost, effectively, giving the Union a near-100% effective blockade. Appalachia, the best land for guerilla warfare in the Confederacy, was overwhelmingly pro-Union. Failing to defend their territory would mean the Union would have full access to all of the traitors’ slaves, which is the exact thing they were trying to avoid. And guerilla warfare is significantly more difficult without widespread fast-firing small arms.

Even nomadic Native American nations of the period who were quite experienced in that form of warfare struggled to inflict serious casualties on even small punitive forces of the US Army, and against genocidal settler militias, because guerilla warfare is really a last-resort sort of thing for organized states. It isn’t a ‘best option’ in 99.99% of cases so much as a ‘Hail Mary’ when everything else has failed. Effectively surrendering the vast majority of your industrial, demographic, financial, and organizational strength to buy time is just not a good trade in most cases unless you think someone is coming to bail you out, WW2 style.

If the traitors wanted to win they should have fought it like a guerilla insurrection.

Considering the patron saint of this community and the overwhelming war fervor in the Union that manifested over the course of the war, I’m not sure that would have worked out better for them.

https://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/boston/pages/boston_03_2006 1657.htm

YDI

They believe if they don’t vote that the democrats will magically transform all of their policies to communist ideology to capture and extra 0.3% of voters at the expense of losing most of their voter base.

It’s because it’s a deeply religious position for tankies. They aren’t interested in political strategy or, despite their claims, material conditions of society. They have utter disdain for ‘shitlibs’ like socdems and demsocs - the disdain they have for the vast majority of the population, who is even less on their side, is far greater. They have no desire to try and change opinions on the ground. Why would they want to stoop down to the level of sinners reactionaries? No, all they want is for the poors to suffer and the minorities to be exterminated in the hopes that their rapture sorry, proletarian revolution, will trigger because of the end days accelerationism.

What’s the over-under on the next economic boogeyman? My vote is India.

They hate it when it’s pointed out that they’re useful idiots for fascists. Even if it’s phrased politely. Any excuse to avoid confronting that.

And here I thought Rushmore couldn’t get uglier.

Funny enough, I think I mask incredibly well. A very extroverted and socially aware friend of mine I’ve known for over a decade commented that in public I masked excellently and seemed to have an excellent grasp of social dynamics and engaged smoothly with neurotypicals, which always confused him as to the inner workings of my mind. He said that in private, I seemed ‘almost autistic’, but every autistic person he ever knew didn’t ‘get’ complex social situations, while I appeared to understand them and just openly despise them the moment the target left the room. For this reason I had a lot of asymmetric relationships growing up, where people were attached to me but I was often utterly unattached to them.

Turns out I’m probably Schizoid, lmao.

No no, I didn’t ask “Did you put in effort”. There is no gold star for effort. It was asked if you had a viable plan.

And you have no plan to get them to agree to such a demand that doesn’t amount to “If we don’t vote and allow fascists to win, this will somehow be a moral victory for anti-genocide”

Invincible

Republicans are determined to violate every institution in this country possible.