chapotraphouse

The western media was shitting their pants the other week because the DPRK was doing a massive event with slogans like "crush imperialism" and stuff, totally omitting that it was a yearly celebration of the beginning of the Korean war and took place like 2 days after a massive military drill by America on their border.

He keeps threatening the world with wanting to trade peacefully!

Kim's been at war for his entire presidency! No, I will not interrogate why.

He's at war with his own family that's why he executed then with anti air guns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrryML0XVuY

"every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."

That's powerful in a way that hurts.

If I didn't know the source I'd assume it was a line I missed from Disco Elysium.

God damn Vonnegut, exactly right as usual. I can't believe how little attention I paid to Vonnegut when I was younger, I always dismissed him because I was insufferable and thought he was for dumb (cool) kids with poor taste (who did drugs).

But only he managed to finally capture feelings that I had been struggling with, in Slaughterhouse V, when the grindset self-made millionaire guy keeps making a point of telling a bombing survivor that "it had to be done." I could write a long essay about that exchange.