Elysium

"Built on genocide, still doing genocide"

That's my quickest most reductive but still accurate description of why America sucks (and always will until it is fundamentally destroyed and something totally different replaces it)

That's ok. Nothing will uncreate my favorite new anti-Israel chant.

Look at the map, squeeze your eyes, that q can turn into an n. Squint at a calendar and it can look like 2005

"Have you heard a little guy named Job? That's right. God tests us sometimes."

God said so. The Brits were only guided by God.

(Monarchist "logic," probably. Monarchs rule by "divine mandate" or whatever, usually. Admitting that their grandpa was just the most evil asshole in a particular situation to grab power doesn't instill as much faith as saying "nah, God did that. God loves my family.")

Oh Christ, shut the fuck up. Someone roll out the goddamn French chopping device.

If we end up in the worst of all universes where that dumb fuck is "restored" to his throne then I'm immediately swapping stances. Sign me up to liberate Iran from monarchy. Let's go liberate the UK too. Drop some bunker busters on whatever that stupid castle is called where the KWEEN MUM lived and sausage fingers Charles currently resides.

This reads like a Monty Python bit

I don't know why but I'm reminded of that "lady of the lake" thing

This quote specifically (I went and found it to see why it tickled my brain)

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

I appreciate the incredibly pedant hair-splitting over the difference between a suffix and a word, but my point was this suffix is real and shouldn't be underlined as if it's misspelled.

Thus, Tim Apple must still stand trial for his crime.

I mean, as a Burger, I had someone from Sarajevo basically tell me she hates all Americans and especially anyone who was ever in the US military. I wasn't fully aware of US/western intervention and influence in the Balkans back then, so I didn't understand the resentment. I asked her and she told me about growing up seeing her country destroyed. All you can really say to something like that is "Oh... I understand then."

We actually became friends after that. She was a bio student like me at the time and knew a lot of interesting stuff from the Soviet times. I would ask her to tell me more about her country, and she would ask me about...guns. Valuable cultural exchange?

This is more than likely some sort of clickbait based on how irrationally annoyed I feel (my internal "Am I being fucked up?" meter), but no one should be doing "To catch a predator"-"esque" sting operations. Esque (not a real word according to Apple. Thanks, Tim (it is)) in quotes because calling it such sort of implies a similar dynamic of "adult seeking obvious child" for sexual reasons. Or other inappropriate relations... which is basically any relations between some stranger and a child. Two adults meeting is not "to catch a predator" unless the 18 year old was pretending (as they did on the original show) to be underage. Like 14 or something. Then, ok. But that's not represented here.

Beyond that, random, private citizens have absolutely no business doing this type of stuff. It's debatable if even the fucking cops/FBI, in cooperation with skilled professionals, should even be doing this stuff. Certainly not for anyone's "entertainment." If there is a legitimate predator problem amongst the general population that justifies stings like this, then the appropriate law enforcement agencies can/should handle it. They can announce the stats from the stings afterwards. We don't need some Chris Hansen type lecturing a creepy 42 year old munching on pizza who thought he was going to meet a 14 year old girl from AOL instant messenger. I understand it's "funny" or mostly just shocking to see such footage, but still, some things just shouldn't be made.

Also, most sexual assault of children is done by people they trust. Family members or close family friends. It's not common that a stranger from the internet is the perpetrator. Also, cops are a huge percentage of abusers. If these types of "pedo stings" (which this doesn't appear to be... given only this headline) wanted to be effective they'd just wait for cops to arrive and search the cops' shit. Statistically, that would turn up more evidence of wrongdoing than luring random dumbasses (who are gross, for the record. Doesn't need to be stated...)

Anyway, all that said, the media tying this to a TikTok trend which I've heard of exactly twice makes me think this was a tiny, isolated, still very stupid and bad, incident. So, in short... I got clickbaited

Images, I'm unsure of. There are possibly a few examples out there.

As far as words go, or direction given to the propagandists by the head propagandist (Goebbels of course), there's a lot of scholarship on the direction of the Nazi propaganda, specifically anti-USSR propaganda, after the Germans were defeated at Stalingrad. In one of the orders or whatever "Bolshevist hordes" are mentioned as a subject to focus on. Also "Asiatic hordes." Asiatic being the term the Nazis liked to use for Russians

(Speculation) I feel like creating images of giant, "Bolshevist hordes" might have been problematic in the wake of the war-changing loss. If you're the Nazi artists you wanna depict the Germans as having the overwhelming odds in battle. Not like "smol bean" Nazi divisions getting stomped by "hordes" of Soviets. Even if your intent is to say "look at the vast mindless army!" you're still crediting your enemy with having a vast army. That's my only thought as to why there aren't that many images and the rhetoric seems to been on paper. Although I don't have a mental encyclopedia of Nazi propaganda posters... it's very possible someone did draw something depicting basically zombies wandering towards Germany or something with Stalin in the back mind controlling them (or whatever the "infinite depths" of Nazi imaginations could come up with)

Sure would be a shame if China started making Cuba-USSR style pacts with South American countries. Not necessarily nuclear exchange (although... ) but agreements to send carriers and stuff to just kinda chill in the Caribbean or whichever ocean is convenient depending on country

America is constantly claiming the right to meddle in the pacific, South East Asia generally, and even in Central Asia with Pakistan and such. Taste of their own medicine if someone meddles in the Caribbean Sea