Amen, brother.
InvertedParallax
joined 2 years ago
Might need recapping, think vblank and blank are drifting.
I went to high school in the south, I'm not white.
The hate is not something you can process, the worst we see online, the Andrew tates, the people calling for all brown people to be deported to El Salvador, that's Disney compared to them.
Becauae it was all they had, and the hate infused them down to the cells, such that it was all they had keeping them going.
Trump took the lid off, let them feel more comfortable talking in public.
But these are people who casually discuss how the only way to heal the world is to exterminate all the Muslims and jews, how we should nuke China now because we can, and how atheists and anybody more left than Trump needs to be castrated now for the good of America.
To people shocked at the toxicity, I think you grew up in far more sheltered places.
Babylon 5.
No idea, it created so much of the foundation for modern scifi, particularly the emphasis on in-depth plot arcs over multiple seasons.
B5 with bsg style vfx has always been the dream.
I don't think this is a good parallel.
Ukraine didn't sponsor terrorism for decades, or take money to find bin ladin while keeping him in a luxury bungalow.
Pakistan is and has always been a habitual line-stepper, that's why Bangladesh is Bangladesh now.
Maybe Pakistan needs this lesson, it's the only way some people learn.
Bullies think they're the funniest people.
The real carrier air wing was the friends we made along the way.
So:
- Don't really care about Palestine or Palestinians.
Maybe I should, I just only met a few and they all seemed like dicks, plus this was kind of kicked off by Oct 7.
- Ukraine isn't about Ukraine, it's about Ukraine, Georgia, the baltics, and honestly the peace of Europe.
When Europe got unpeaceful in the past bad shit happened, I don't want more bad shit.
I have heard about Bangladesh.
It used to be part of Pakistan actually.
Pakistan was so fascist (basically military juntas all the way down) that Bangladesh rebelled and took its independence.
Bhutto was executed for this, and his daughter was later assassinated just for fun.
They supported the taliban and are why the taliban took back control and brutally subjugated all the women again.
Note how there are no Hindu communities in Pakistan, because during paritition they were expelled or massacred.
There are nearly as many Muslims in India than in Pakistan (200m VS 240m).
India is literally the only democracy around.
Pakistan is a nation of terrorists, which is why they hid bin ladin. They get what they deserve.