TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]

Canada got by for a long time by an international reputation for being apologetic and polite, but if you want to see how bad it can get here, ask the average Canadian their feelings about first nations or immigrants. I would easily say 3/4 of this country believes immigrants are the reason for the intense cost of living crisis no matter how much proof or arguments to the contrary

running out of older Soviet era chassis

It struck me recently that what’s implied by the use of “Soviet era” and the reality are two different things

Like even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, I feel that the use of “Soviet era” always implies to people some out of date clunky 1960s tech, and fails to properly contextualize that basically everything the west has sent to Ukraine has also been “Soviet era”. The M1 Abrams, Leopard 1, the F-16, all of these are 1960s-1980s, they’re as old as the “Soviet era” stuff. Hell most countries haven’t adopted anything new since the early 2000s

It would be like calling US equipment “Gulf War era” or something, it’s fucking meaningless

Over/under on this being the US’ handiwork?

Jesus this is grim they’re resorting to tactics they haven’t used since Vietnam.

I can’t say for sure how they’re using it - a bomber that big can carry fewer, larger weapons, after all - but it’s more to say that the B-2 isn’t a small tactical bomber, like an Su-34 or something. It can absolutely be used to level an entire neighbourhood in a single pass, if the US willed it

The B-2 is one of the last remaining “carpet bomb” style bombers left in the US arsenal. If you imagine bombing in your head as just a plane dropping a massive torrent of bombs over a large area, that’s the B-2. The US still has the B-52 of course, but it’s ancient in comparison, so that leaves this. One of them can drop 80 500kg bombs on a civilian population in a single pass

They’re using it not for the stealth value, but the pure terror value of carpet bombing civilians. It being stealthy is just ensuring they can’t be reprised against

This is unfortunately not a parody. I know a significant amount of people who truly, deeply believe this. They truly believe that Russia is simultaneously the puppetmaster behind all the world’s evil and suffering and yet so incompetent as to be a failing state and laughing stock

Plenty of people I know personally believe Russia actually ordered the attacks on Israel specifically to distract the US and redirect weaponry from Ukraine to Israel

What makes me legitimately mad about -phobes trying that is that the singular “they” is natural language. Every fucking -phobe uses it because it just flows absolutely naturally in the English language and fucking everybody uses it without ever thinking about it

But the moment they’re asked to do it for an enby, they act as if we’ve asked them to choose one of their own limbs to sacrifice

What is President Trump II / President Vance going to do about climate change? Women’s health? Concentration camps for immigrants? Future elections?

Hey dipshit, which fucking president was in power when Roe v. Wade was culled? Which fucking president started mass deportations and the militarization of ICE? Which fucking president refuses to this day to close the concentration camps? Which fucking candidate(s, to be fair this one is bipartisan) is all-in on fracking for oil and fuck climate change? Which fucking candidate promised to bring in the same fascists you believe shouldn’t have access to power into her cabinet?

Democrats to jack shit to deal with the problems you claim to care about. Supporting either fucking party will give you the same result, and if you haven’t figured this out yet, you’re either a fascist yourself or willfully ignorant

If he expected to die in prison why the fuck did he fly back to Russia

He could’ve just stayed away and raked in the Guaido grift money

The immortal science of Marxism wins again

Simply... it's like Fidel Castro, over and over again," he said.

"Constant attempts to sell you things: Selling you gold sneakers and a 100,000-dollar watch and, more recently, a Trump Bible,"

Castro, famous for [checks notes] trying to sell Cubans shoes?

There could be a very interesting story about the horror of gaining self-identity while being a literal clone of someone else, one of millions, and grappling with that intense dysmorphia

But nah we get “what if the fascist foot soldier was trans” instead

but it’s actually BIZARRE that you wouldn’t just… Have her run AS president? Like jfc the opportunity is right there???

Liberals can only achieve climax through rigid adherence to the rules

Can you imagine how deflated they would feel if the first female president got in not by voting and campaigning but because an old fuck retired and she inherited the position?

For a lot of people in Florida it is, unfortunately, going to be once in their lifetime

Pretty much

A lot of tech used in applications like vehicles are old. There’s a reason people complain all the time about slow and clunky infotainment systems in their cars, and that’s because the manufacturers go with older, more reliable, and less failure prone versions of various technologies

It’s shit like Musk trying to stay on the bleeding edge that causes problems. When an eight year old version of Android crashes in your car, it’s going to crash in a way that’s predictable from the last eight years and thus easier to diagnose and fix. When an eight day old version of Tesla X OS or whatever the fuck he’d call it crashes, you bet your ass it’s gonna crash in spectacular new ways nobody knows how to fix

IOF going to the Wimp Lo school of fighting

Unfortunately in this case the story was made into two video games, one that is almost a parody in how much it polishes the boot of American civil religion (The Division 1 and 2)

So is the actual Pentagon, next to a shopping mall called fucking Pentagon City

In fact this war started because the people in the Donbas tried to exercise that self determination and were victims of pogroms by bandarite nazis from the west

It’s only self-determination if it’s allied entirely with western hegemony, if a nation rejects western hegemony it’s because China/Russia/Iran is trying to break up a nation, duh

He also publicly stood up for Shuhada’ Sadaqat after she was getting raked over the coals for her (absolutely correct) criticisms of Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church

Kristofferson was a fucking legend