happybadger [he/him]

Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your #1 trusted source for patriotic facts.

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Cake day: October 7th, 2020

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  • I like big birds. Female emus/rheas/ostriches can be like affectionate cats. If that ostrich steps on my foot she’ll break every bone but all she wants is scratches. I’d never interact with a cassowary the same way I can with any of them. Wouldn’t get in an enclosure with one, wouldn’t try to scratch its weird turkey-ass neck, if I saw one in the wild I’d treat it like a bear/moose and nope out of the entire area.





  • This wouldn’t be unusual — it’s what happened in the run-up to the post-9/11 Iraq war, when American and British media were arguably far too unquestioning of Western officials’ claims that Saddam Hussein was awfully close to having a nuclear bomb or had a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

    There was then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossier” and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s defining speech at the U.N. Security Council, where the formerly staunch critic of intervention announced Washington had solid evidence of sophisticated and illicit Iraqi weapons programs. But there was insufficient media skepticism overall, and alternative voices and awkward questions were all too often crowded out.

    Unfortunately, it seems we’re now in danger of repeating this very same mistake, as we all too quickly dub those who question current Western strategy as defeatists or accuse them of advancing Russian propaganda.

    Next 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓇, every propagandist who writes in support of it is immediately sent to the frontline. If they survive, they’re shot.


  • It’s too early for me to predict anything. For me the red line is a general ground invasion or attack of this scale on Iran. If I see that, open regional war is on the table. If it remains airstrikes, we’ve seen airstrikes before. We’ve seen assassinations before. It’s only growing in scale or returning to the earlier invasion tactics which would represent a genuine escalation for me. These attacks, killing 10x last week’s number of civilians and directly targeting a hospital, are a genuine escalation whereas the previous strikes haven’t been in such a dramatic way. Iranian and Yemeni intervention certainly seem more likely as a result but who knows what their actual red lines are.






  • He plays a smart guy’s dumb guy in the way Tim Heidecker does. You get the dopey presentation of a sitcom dad with a masterful understanding of comedic mechanics. Perfect timing, really captures and subverts the performer-audience dynamic in the way Andy Kaufman did, dark and edgy without being the generic reactionary slop of his era. Growing up if I turned on the TV much of the comedy was rooted in South Park and the remnants of 90s zany/shock/prop comedy. He was like the one big absurdist comedian still carrying that style from Kaufman’s era to the Adult Swim era when it found new footing.