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Smoking that Gulf War pack, these burn pits got me moving like a claymation figure

Iirc the br*ts chose that execution method as a way to disrupt burial rites which required the entire body. So it wasn't just an over the top brutal execution but a way to punish the victims even in death

I will admit he was a factor in my radicalization, in part because he wasn't able/willing to explicitly state that capitalism is the problem. This was probably 2015ish, when Trump was still being treated as a joke and Hillary was the obvious shoe-in . I won't give him full credit, obviously most of the heavy lifting was done by reading theory and just paying attention to the world, but he did show me that even the best libs support the status quo and won't entertain alternatives

It looks like one of those dogs with short spine syndrome

Oh yea, just the way he frames her military service as positive gives it away. He can criticize the American Empire all he wants but at the end of the only part he has an issue with is the optics and aesthetics, not the core concept. If he actually had a problem with America he sure as hell wouldn't have married a completely unrepentant war criminal.

I used to like him back when his show first started and I was at the tail end of my liberalism, but I haven't watched any of his stuff from recent years. His humor began to grate on me and I got tired of the whole "I'll outline the problem and why it's capitalism's fault, but I'll just blame this one ceo/company instead of capitalism itself" cycle

Naw, at home he rolls over and shows his belly like the loyal dog of empire he is. He readily admits he doesn't push back at all against her lmao

It's one of the reasons I can't take anything he does seriously, even if he is one of the broken clocks that is right a couple times a day. Every other segment he does is basically "here's why the problem is capitalism but I won't say that so I'll either end the segment abruptly or redirect the blame to a single person/entity instead of anything systemic

Oh same, especially since idgaf what happens to my body after I die. Just kill me quick and painless

Naw he doesn't have to, he's pretty sure he's seen something like that! If the president can just claim to see something with no evidence then why can't he!?

/S

Of course he's a former br*tish officer. What're the odds he was some sort of supply officer or other rear echelon support crew? It's always the ones furthest from combat that are the most supportive.

Then again even if he was in a "combat" unit his combat experience would most likely be riding around in an mrap or heli, shooting some people that he claimed were armed, and heading back to base for boiled hunk of beef.

Also if they hold their positions to the death they won't be doing fucking anything afterwards, because they'll be facedown in the mud, dead so you can write how the brave slava Ukraini fought to the last from your comfortable London office. Put your money where your mouth is, pick up an ak, and hold that shell hole to the death you ghoul

Oh yea it wasn't a instantaneous death or even a very quick one, it was a long drawn out process that lasted decades, if not longer.

Something silly that always stuck with me was one of the (many) "revelations" that various spy agencies were gathering all sorts of data from people's phone calls, and how I had just assumed that was the case after reading one of the Artemis Fowl books in which he deliberately gets the attention of the fairy underground by speaking specific phrases over the phone. I guess I just figured that sounded like something the government would be doing if they were able to. It (probably) isn't as dramatic as some computer lighting up when it hears me say "Lenin was right" over the phone, but even municipal cops here can easily get access to all sorts of data from phones including who you call and who calls you when for how long and where you are. If some city cops can get that stuff then I can only imagine what the fed agencies have access to.

I guess this is also a reminder to anyone reading this: LEAVE YOUR PHONE AT HOME IF YOU'RE ENGAGING IN ANYTHING LEGALLY DUBIOUS OR ANYTHING LIKELY TO ANGER THE PIGS

I got told at work to stop telling customers the company's website sucks. Instead I'm supposed to say it's "complicated" or "some people find it difficult to use". But when less than half of the people who try to use it are able to figure it out then to me that makes it a bad website. So I guess going forward I'll tell people I'm not allowed to share my true thoughts on the website and leave it at that.

Next they'll tell me I'm not allowed to agree with customers that everything is expensive as hell. If I didn't get ridiculous discounts as the only perks of my job I'd be unable to afford the very services I provide. I've found the best way to disarm people who are annoyed at the pricing is to just flat out agree with them that it is a rip-off. They pay me minimum wage, I'm not about to go to bat for the company and defend their extortionary prices