Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty

Thank you. That really means a lot. I admit I almost teared up a little at that.

Felt the need to share my journal entry today. Don't know why. Here it is, make of it what you will.

"We didn't think the target would punch back," is not an excuse.

I made the mistake of checking my phone over supper and see we are now in the "It didn't happen but if it did, you deserved it," stage of the dogpile.

Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.

UAE, mostly I think. I’m sure KSA has a thumb in the pie as well.

Correct.

the worst leftists not beating the “gender is a little treat you get for good behavior” allegations

Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.

The speed at which you get misgendered the moment you express that you preferred it when your government wasn’t openly eliminationist against you rather illustrates my point here.

It is bigoted to not acknowledge that the US military in particular has been a key means of integrating society across racial and demographic barriers by showing our commitment to this country.

It is bigoted to use us and then do nothing to actually advance our rights and interests.

It is bigoted when you're using us to justify not supporting politicians who will push for equal rights by claiming no substantive difference between the two parties.

It is bigoted when you're using us to defend dictators who would easily murder us because you don't like US foreign policy.

Quite a bit to the Venezuelans because had the election gone differently, they would not be bombed.

What if the political ideology of the people in charge of the armed forces impacts who gets bombed? Does anyone think Kamala Harris would declare war on South American fishermen? Could perhaps having people who think brown people are subhuman in charge of our military impacted matters?

Yeah. It’s not even being good at radical leftism. It’s like when I was five and using Pikachu‘s thundershock on everything and being surprised it produced inferior results against Pokémon immune to electricity instead of weak to it. Know your enemy and all that.

I think in reality it’s a mix of 1) and 2) but both lead to the same outcome so it doesn’t really matter

Like I don’t care if my rep actually believes in trans rights if they *do* believe that failing to support trans rights will get them ripped to shreds in the next election

Yeah. But the thing is that 3.) is now conclusively disproven because we know they were treating a borderline illiterate pedophile like he was Yoda and 2.). makes the rainbow B-52 more important, not less.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

It annoys me when nominal support for LGBT rights is used instrumentally to push for clout or unrelated goals. But I *really* hate it when it’s treated as basically a cringe bourgeois affectation, whether it be the right, left, or center that’s pulling out that old canard.

The infamous rainbow B-52 meme

I hate this sort of meme.

“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”

Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

I did not know you could do this. I still have my deadname as my username. I'm gonna get on it.

Is there any context or are the stormtroopers supposed to just fire at random until they hit the right person?

Aside from Reagan letting AIDS rip on purpose to exterminate the queers and Obama making the biggest healthcare reforms since LBJ while recognizing gay marriage, they were basically the same.

On some level, the all star legal team Comey slapped together has to be disappointed. They did the law nerd version of AVENGERS ASSEMBLE and were ready to be the Great Men Of History Opposing The Vile Tyrant (tm) and found out they were fighting a paraplegic rhesus monkey. No climactic showdown.

I get that a lot is due to the differences between a parliamentary and presidential system but it still feels gender to me that Truss does something stupid but not “sounds like news from another dimension stupid“ and instantly gets the boot whereas we shrug when Trump pegs the dollar to walrus dung.

Feel like there’s a Shadowrun campaign buried in here somewhere.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd.

Yeah, no, that’s ridiculous and just gets you another war two years later once the Russians have time to rearm and steamroller a Ukrainian army cut in half.

It’s funny how we used to think he was good at posting and it turns out the character limit on Twitter was acting as his de facto editor.