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ah, but is your car safe from supermaneuverable air-defense fighter aircraft?

Opinion | What the shell casings in the assassination of Charlie Kirk do – and don't – tell us There have been a string of shootings in the past year where the performance of online culture played a key role.

I wrote for @msnbc.com about what the engravings on the shell casings of Kirk’s shooter represent and where the references originated. Given what we know so far, they suggest a young man who had his brain fried by the irony poisoned, anti-social nature of certain aspects of online culture. /1

Show: Inazuma Eleven
Language: Spanish
Country: Spain

for anybody unaware, this is Dutch PM Dirk Jan de Geer, known for... wanting the UK to have a separate peace with Nazi Germany during WW2 and for saying that the war couldn't be won. to say he got replaced by Queen Wilhelmina would be an understatement

this you?

The infantilization of Western culture Our social institutions and politics suffer from a collective arrested development – and our relationship to technology has only exacerbated this trend.

something something the infantilization of (Western) society as a whole and its consequences

(Simon Gottschalk has a great article from 2018 (!) about this on The Conversation: theconversation.com/the-infantil...)

is that fucking josip broz teto as your pfp

something something the rise of mass politics and its consequences have been disastruous

YouTube video by Dark TIE US Army Status Update

in light of the US Army parade of yesterday, I just had to make this shitpost
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Many people I know have been pointing out how ALOT of what is going on has shades of the Cultural Revolution in it.

so how long until the US get its mango cult?

this is worsened by the fact that, in text-based platforms like BlueSky, you're pretty damn constrained - you don't have intonation on your side, for example (and, in the case of microblogging platforms, you don't really have much of a way to show it without running out of characters!)

worst part is that this phenomenom just runs counter to communication as a whole - for someone with no prior access to the context behind what "ban cars" actually means in the movement, it would be logical that they'd assume that the phrase "ban cars" does, in fact, mean "I want to ban cars"

how's it going vro

@kmttwinklover1911.bsky.social vro did you take over Karnes' account or smth?

known for being proud of turning Beijing into a sea of cobalt while making a meatgrinder out of the Thai-Burmese border or something idk

smh imagine needing pollen medication, skill issue

...yup.

the only thing that I'd say is new is that the tactics people like Leafy used back in the day are no longer considered cyberbullying, but part and parcel of internet culture - with all the dangers that come from such a normalization

not surprising in the slightest, to be honest - if there's something that gets clicks (and thus money) on the internet, it's outrage-inducing stuff

besides, I'd argue that on platforms like YouTube, this phenomenon has existed for a long time (e.g: LeafyIsHere)

truth be told, Twitter being mostly just whining has always been the case - it was due to that place's eternal whining that phrases like "cancel culture" (and its more respectable cousin "outrage culture") were coined in the 2010s

the only thing that's really changed is that it's far-right nowadays

Fighter Generations Aren't Real -- The Great Defense Site For decades, experts have spoken of third, fourth, fifth and now sixth generation fighter jets. But do these definitions really mean anything?

www.greatdefensesite.org/articles/fig... First, here's a link to the article. I would have put it in the tweet above, but this website has a character limit.

"Eurasia/Eastasia was always our ally, and we've always been at war with Eastasia/Eurasia"-ass image jesus fucking christ

lol skill issue

- guy from place that also doesn't get a single centimeter of snow

(not making any of this up btw)
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wait, Battlefield 2 is on that list? why? last I checked, the entire conflict in that game was a shitfest that involved, among other things, the Middle East and the PRC quite literally invading the US proper - all while the EU is busy assaulting the Great Wall

NO GOD NO PLEASE DON'T SEND ME TO [Madrid]