This Machine Goes 40 in a School Zone

freedomsexual oliveblood enthusiast, 25, Witch of Rage

[nepmaxxing]

we nepeta now

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I feel like if there really were inhibitor chips in the clones, the kaminoans would have told the jedi. You rewatch AOTC and it's pretty clear they're not in on the conspiracy. They really think the Jedi ordered an army to be created for the Republic.

Also iffy on the idea that Sifo-Dyas really did want an army of clones. It doesn't contradict canon, but it is unnecessary. If we go off the movie, the implication is that Palp and Dooku killed some random jedi and then impersonated him to order the clones, which makes enough sense already.

[nepmaxxing]

it's fucking tentaquil AGAIN

[garmbreak1]

Y'all heard about women?

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[graceofgosh]

🌱 EXTREMELY ROBUST SCALLIONS 🌱

do NOT scroll past the scallions. these are extremely robust. i did not seek them out, they were placed before me.

the produce misters had just run. the bundles were tight. the whites were WHITE. good fortunes await.

🧅 repost within 24 hours: robust scallions

🧅 repost within 1 hour: robust scallions + minor windfall

🧅 do not repost: limp scallions. flaccid stalk. the celery will look at you and it will know.

a man in Fresno scrolled past. his scallions went to seed the same evening. his dog stopped making eye contact.

a woman reposted immediately. she found $40 in a coat. her scallions have not wilted since March.

I AM NOT SAYING IT’S THE SCALLIONS. I’m saying look at them. good fortunes await. 🌱

[silvermoon424]

Bro absolutely COOKED with this.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.

[nepmaxxing]

Hi! I’m John. John Politics. I used to ask myself a lot of difficult questions with no clear answers. Questions such as: “Have my actions made the world a better place?”, “Am I considering the perspectives of others?”, and “Are my good intentions being exploited by people with ulterior motives?”

But then I had an epiphany. I realized that my enemies are not fellow humans with their own philosophies and perspectives. They’re actually being of pure evil who do terrible things for no reason. Their mere touch withers forests and their every breath sends out billows of toxic fumes.

That’s why we need to kill them. We need to stab them and shoot them and burn them to death. It is our right, nay, our duty to hang their flayed corpses from lampposts in every city on earth. Every man, woman, and child will be made an example of. They are demons in human skin, and no act of brutality inflicted upon them is underserved. The world will not know peace until everyone who opposes us is dead.

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

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[conesalvie]

"im joking"

- the joker

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[beardedmrbean]

Describing war to an American

[witch-hattery]

No, wait, seriously. Wasn't there some real conflict where America was running ice cream to the men on the front lines, and it fucked with the morale of the other side, or even intimidated them by having a supply chain so robust it supplied luxuries?

[beardedmrbean]

WW2 Pacific theater, there was different ways of doing it.

Had the refrigerated barge for one,

then we had bomber ice cream.

Source they linked for that here

And another

DIY Ice Cream in Wartime

Take one Corsair, 5 ammo cans, canned milk and circle at 33,000 feet.

[mornington-the-crescent]

I remember reading accounts from German soldiers from WWII, on, "When did you know that Germany was going to lose?" One soldier recounted how he found a dead American soldier after D-Day, and went through his things, and saw that this enlisted man had coffee, chocolate, and cigarettes on him; in the German army, those were luxuries, only afforded to the officers. But if just your average American soldier had that...

[beardedmrbean]

I passed on including this in the ice cream bit, but it fits with that comment, which I remember reading at one point as well.

One documentary I watched had someone quoting Napoleon I think it was at one point, short version of the quite was something along the lines of.

'wars are won or lost through logistics'

Can't feed or arm the troops they might as well not be there,

[mornington-the-crescent]

Which reminds me of another German soldier's story: During D-Day, he was sent to spy on the American landing force, to see how many horses and veterinarians they had, to determine their logistical capabilities. Only to discover that the Americans had no horses or veterinarians; their entire army was mechanized. And that's when this particular soldier realized that Germany didn't have a chance.

[animeandcatholicism]

There's a story of a German guard for a POW camp who knew that the war was lost whenever a POW's family sent him a whole cake with frosting to him.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

[cockatude]

I heard an apocryphal story of a Japanese general who realized they were screwed screwed when he learned the americans had a ship just to make ice cream.

[witch-hattery]

The thread is back! Those were the stories I wanted. The ones where chocolate and ice cream freaked out the enemy. The other additions are nice too.

[miss-rum-hee]

Happy 4th of July, everybody!

[beardedmrbean]

Just to add in, there was more than one instance during the Battle of the Bulge where the German command on the ground, not in Berlin, rolled up on supply dumps that the US had abandoned for one reason or another and realized that there was no way they could win based on the fact that we'd left behind enough food and fuel for them to run of off for a week or more without a 2nd thought because we had 10 more of those setups near enough to make it no real loss for us.

Our industrial output could not be matched.

And then after it was all over the Berlin Airlift managed to eventually get stalin and the rest of the soviets to back off on trying to claim the whole city for themselves, because starving people out wasn't going to work, we'd managed to move more supplies into the city than should have been possible.

Fat Electrician has a good video on that.

Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift

Bless you Captain Wiggle Wings, you were one of the best of us ever.

[elizabisme]

One of the best things on X is the auto translate feature. It's a Japan-USA love fest. They love our culture. We love theirs. We teach them about BBQ and Peanuts in Coke and they teach us how to make fancy BBQ sushi.

Someone [American] asked why do you like us? We dropped 2 nuclear bombs on you. You should definitely hate us.

The Japanese overwhelmingly told stories of the 2011 earthquake/tsunami. The American military showed up and kinda bullied the Japanese into taking help. There are stories of soldiers getting an entire airport up and running in hours. Of the USS Ronald Reagan (an Aircraft carrier) and her support fleet having the port operational upon arrival. Of Air Force helos calling "weight emergencies" to the tower to force landings in unauthorized areas where people were still trapped in order to drop off supplies.

One of them said Japan appreciated all the help. It was great. But it was absolute proof Japanese can never win a war against the United States. He pointed out the Japanese government and defense ministry hadn't gotten anything mobilized when the US military had air, land, and sea control in under 48 hours.

Japan didn't ask for aid.

We flexed the logistics of our military to provide it anyway.

[beardedmrbean]

It's time

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my nonsense isn’t tingling

[proteinmom]

this is epic btw

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