Shaleesh

NonCredibleDefence is geopolitics/military procurement/history/news shitposting subreddit (and lemmy community) that has a very neolib/neocon board culture. It got pretty big when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. They celebrate the deaths of actual human beings through doge memes and tend to discuss warfare in terms better suited for video games. I stopped checking in on the place some time before Prigozin did that weird attempted coup thing, they're probably even more cancerous now.

Imagine The Big Bang Theory but its a forum about imperialist mass murder.

Edit: people post about it on here because it is in many ways the polar opposite of Hexbear, a foil if you will, and therefore easy to hate on.

Loves me an Aldis. I kinda like the limited choices? Sure it can be annoying when I gotta add a couple stops to get the less common indredients or the "no really you gotta get the name brand" stuff but are many fewer avenues for self-doubt in one of those places. They have lots of nifty useful things in that limited time offer aisle, I got a sonic toothbrush for 20 bucks there, so that was neat. The frozen pizzas are pretty good but like actually why are there 20-25 varieties there? Its kinda fucking insane like pizza is the easiest thing to add your own shit to why are there so many different kinds?

I will say, that a lot of the produce is very hit or miss and the bread all kinda sucks dick unless its that cinnamon swirl dessert shit.

I can be used as a distress signal

Two things actually. My first grade teacher explained (in gentlest terms possible) that some people opposed Columbus Day because he was an enslaver and initiated the genocide of the native americans. She also talked about why people took issue with thanksgiving and why doing that thing where you ululate while putting your hand over your mouth was deeply racist. "Huh, it seems like something fucky is going on" is the impression she left on me.

The other thing was that at some point in time when I was a kid I started to question the purpose of money and why there were rich and poor people, my mother cautioned me to not think or talk like that because "that's called communism, it's bad, and you'll get beat up at bars if you say that to people." This struck me as rather odd at the time but I did ultimately drop that vision of a better, more just world for a good long while.

The path to leftist thought is similar to my gender journey, where after many misdirections and much confusion I have come back to the place I started from. That initial "this seems strange, but this feels right" was the truth all along.

This place legit motivates me to improve myself and I can't think of another online space as mind-opening or conducive to healthy discussion. The reputation this place gets as some kind of toxic shitpit is totally unwarranted.

A ghost wandering through the forest surrounding a scout camp, the kind that people tell campfire stories about.

Does this mean it's over for donnydon?

yikes

I like to use this question as an ice breaker when meeting new people, it's simple but it has a lot to it and learning learning what someone considers to be "bad" is just as interesting as their media preferences.

So yeah the worst movie I've ever seen was Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012). It was based off of a 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith that retells the life of Abraham Lincoln as if his sole motivation was vengeance against vampires (one of whom killed his mom). Its a fun story and the author utilizes the premise wonderfully. While its not an allegory by any means it gives a glimpse into the worldview of white USAian liberals in the post-Obama era as the book seems to be centered on the belief that white supremacy is not systemic, but a bad habit propped up by a small group of evil racist people.

So anyways I read that book and I got my whole family to read the book because "wtf why is this actually good" and everyone liked it so we got hyped for the movie and we get there and we are the only ones in the theatre. It was a total piece of shit.

The premise was the only point of commonality with the novel. It was a lot more like Blade, if Blade was white and also the 16th president of the united states. Bad CGI, bad actors, and it was little more than a series of scenes of violence interspersed with vaguely historical scenes followed by time skips, I remember it being boring too. I hold a personal grudge against this film because it has overtaken the novel in the collective memory and that is a crime I cannot ever forgive.

A Riddick? fur Me? Why thank you! That's so nice of you <3

Thank you for this post. Not only did it get me to brush my teeth but it got me to get my ass out of bed.

Thankie!