Matthew Best

Big fan of democracy, justice, and resisting fascism

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A Somali warlord who asked to remain anonymous told Gizmodo, "We wanted to turn these into technicals. We knew the bulletproof stuff wasn't true, but we hoped our enemies would be too busy laughing."

The warlord added that after a two week trial, they decided to return to Hiluxes.

Ah yes, Honduras, the country that's oddly singled out.

Also this is a really weird belief that the United States is subject to the Dublin Regulation. But again, only for Honduras.

Fuck the 1951 Refugee Convention, I guess.

The United States recognized Latin American independence. The Russian Empire refused to recognize sovereignty unless a European dynasty was installed as monarch.

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Jesus they literally wrote an episode of Andor about this several years back and it was seen as draconian for genocidal space Nazis

In a media environment perfectly suited to pick up on Blakemore's old insane extremely racist screeds or his bizarre claims of having an indestructible Terminator-like endoskeleton went completely unremarked upon by younger post-Usenet reviewers.

Imagine my surprise when I saw Grimoire on Steam, laughed that somebody had made an old school dungeon crawl with the name Cleve Blakemore wanted to use for his vaporware, then realized it was Blakemore. So much time had passed -- 20 years -- the reviews were earnest, too.

It really should say "undergraduate degree disqualifying"

Or a fucking GED, for that matter

Jokes are funny. These people are the jokes Elon tells.

Nazis being Nazis

Nazis being Nazis

I mean fucking seriously

It's kinda funny that they're talking about how it's potentially libelous when Eva Brawndo there is in the replies defending her Nazi salute to actual Nazis criticizing it for not being Nazi enough.

That's not too say the point is wrong, it's to emphasize how many fucking babies die because of lack of medicine and basic sanitation. It *undersells* the horror

Yeah this is misleading in both directions. It wasn't that people died by age 35, it's that infant mortality was so high it dragged the average age down.

And the air and sea may have been overall clean but sewage and sanitation was an issue.

Yep

Worth noting, Sidney is the one who invented birtherism.

I always wondered if that level of dysfunction in the Blumenthal household, with Sidney obviously being disordered, resulted in Max being the highly damaged golden child with his brother Paul being the black sheep that ended up overall normal

"What's wrong with a campist moron who would actively promote infanticide if America or Britain said executing toddlers was immoral?"

Ah, campism. The refuge of idiots.

Unless she means nobody is born gay because they're just born and gay is a social construct.

But who am I fucking kidding, of course she doesn't mean it that way.

"I have a lot of great discussions in library" <-- totally normal

"I have a lot of great discussions in the library in the aisle where they keep Mein Kampf" <-- explicitly fucking weird

Yup

In what fairness I can muster there now is such thing as Judeo-Christian values, because they made them up, and despite the Brand Name™️ it in no way resembles Judaism or Christianity. Or anything, really, other than crypto-fascism with a spiritually existential bent. And the crypto part is slipping.

Also, I gotta say, I just noticed the term enemy population.

Holy shit, there's no such thing as enemy civilians.

Jesus Christ, they bring back a triple murderer and they're like "this guy was driving without a license"

Jews are Schrodinger's whites to white supremacists. White when they need to attack Brown Muslims, Jewy Others when they need a conspiracy to blame their failures on.

The difference between Jews and the cat is when the Nazis open up the box, if the Jews are still alive, well... Not for long.

"Gazans are starving because Hamas is bad and starves them but also Gazans deserve it because they support Hamas (no I won't cite my source)" is one of those perfectly layered bullshit takes.

It's one of those telling on yourself moments when you think a Muslim mayor would Islamize New York. Like admitting you vote for white mayors hoping they'll give rid of Puerto Rican and Black New Yorkers.

Also what's with the quotes on Twelver? That's like 85% of Shia Muslims.

Because listening to the childish absurdity of being told if I don't tolerate mass starvation in a pile of rubble I'm coddling Hamas is like being told if I don't tolerate Hells Angels car bombing children I support Rock Machine.

Fuck your gangster politics when kids are dying.

It's truly a Manichean and infantile mind that fixates on the black-and-white option of "Support Oct 7" and "Support everything after Oct 7".

If there is one thing the Canadian biker wars taught me, I can despise both aggressors and I can pity every innocent civilian.

Married to a woman born in the Soviet Union, with a devoted ML father in law who still looks back at the USSR with nostalgia and thinks 1991 should have just been independence for the Baltics.

You should maybe sit this one out, because yes. Even they would tell you that.

For the record, Kevin O'Leary -- shame of my nation -- never corrects anybody when they call him a billionaire, but he isn't. Like a Diet Trump.