[blanchebees2]

Medieval sketchdump

Tip jar

[tamamita]

[onlyberry2]

How the fuck does one run out of missiles when they have literally a trillion dollars to spend on them

[tamamita]

The problem is not the fact that they can't produce more missiles; they can. It's the fact that it takes a very long time to replenish equipment and munitions and sustain vital operations without disruption. Iran is producing missiles and drones at a rapid speed and at a low cost with the purpose of putting pressure on US bases and their air-defense/interceptor systems all over SWANA. However, it costs a fortune for the US to produce one missile: it is estimated that one Tomahawk missile costs 2.5 million dollars, while a Patriot anti-missile costs 4 millions dollars. Contrast this with the Shaheed drones that cost like 50.000 - 100.000 usd each. On top of that, much of the US air defense systems have already been destroyed, which means that they have to be replaced. This is why they had to pull a THAAD interceptor from South Korea and deploy it in SWANA. Second, they're also using much of their air defense and interceptor system in Ukraine, which is rapidly facing shortages.

Iran is simply waging a war of attrition, and the US can't keep up with the pressure, since these bases are far away from the imperial metropole. However, with Bibi visiting the WH tomorrow, it is likely that Trump will endorse a military campaign in coordination with the settler state.

[fanfanlemoko]

Cette œuvre s'intitule "Der Heilige Georg als Drachentöter" (Saint Georges tuant le dragon). Elle a été réalisée vers 1460-1461 par le peintre allemand Friedrich Herlin, une figure marquante de la période du gothique tardif (Spätgotik).

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Armor of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564)

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[anton--rayne]

If saying "I am a woman now because I have a vagina / I am a man now because I have a penis" will keep you safe and prevent violence on an interpersonal level then you should say it, but you cannot base your political goals off that appeal forever, your aim should be that you shouldn't have to prove your gender to people ready to violate you in the first place by being forced to give them information about your genitalia.

This can only be accomplished by destroying the structural forces which marginalized you and caused them to dehumanize you in the first place, forcing you to give them private information. This requires the abolition of legal sex, which is justified through the social fiction of "Biological Sex", just like how all systems of oppression have social fictions to justify them. You had to struggle to get in through appeals to rules made to exclude you in the first place, an appeal those who don't have easier access to surgery can't make (majority of trans people on Earth!) an appeal which can still fail through other so-called "biological" factors, also structured that way to exclude and oppress you. After your personal safety your true political aim must be that you shouldn't be put in this situation in the first place. You must become a communist.

[simzart]

Exam Knight. ⚜️

[theonion]

Expressing regret that the interruption would delay the highly anticipated video game adaptation, the producers of A24’s upcoming Elden Ring film announced Tuesday that the project had stalled after a red phantom named TwinkPunisher invaded the set. “Despite our security team’s best efforts, a loincloth-wearing invader with the handle TwinkPunisher was able to gain access to the shoot through the use of a Festering Bloody Finger, disrupting production for the foreseeable future,” said a spokesperson for the studio, adding that TwinkPunisher had tauntingly placed a Rainbow Stone on the ground for every take he managed to render unusable by performing the “warm welcome” gesture, by obscuring the actors with the Ekzykes’s Decay incantation, or by repeatedly spamming the “You’re beautiful” Prattling Pate over dialogue.

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[pointnclick]

"we live in an uncaring universe." sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[homophobla]

Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

[phoenix-theurge]

You're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.

[dirty-noona]

As a Native Hawaiian, 1) I thought this happened everywhere, 2) ofc we can levitate coconut milk

[sapphireh3arts]

literal children don't get lawyers for us immigration hearings anymore.

Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts

More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts

UN experts alarmed by child rights violations in USA immigration procedures

GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed concern at the impact of terminating federal funding for legal services for unaccompanied children in i

Please don't forget the children suffering right now. If you've got the ability, donate to the Safe Passage Project, an organization that provides children in nyc and long island going through the deportation process with free immigration lawyers. and they win 90% of their cases!!

[charnel-grounds]

Gustave Doré (1832–1883), “The Corpse Candles”

illustration from “The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine” by Ernest L’Épine (as Quatrelles), 1866

engraved by Heliodore Joseph Pisan (1822–1890)

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[foxgirlmindcrank]

Never getting over Charlie Kirk getting shot in the throat right after he uses it to downplay gun violence. Gotta be a top 3 assassination. Up there with Shinzo getting doohickey'd.

[foxgirlmindcrank]

It's on some straight up Greek play shit. Man who uses his voice to justify violence and stir evil for years meets his end as that very violence tears out his throat. Poetic. Captured live from multiple angles. People stole his blood soaked merch to hock and his wife was giddy about sale numbers during his funeral.

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

i discovered that my favorite ytp on the planet got taken down... I still think about this scene every day

[visceralvermin]

Gandalf: this.. is the wawawawawaFORGED by the dark lord s u s …

Frodo: SUS was destroyed?

Ring: AYEYEEYEYEYEAHEHHH

Gandalf: ……. No, frodorf……

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

thanks to this workplace harassment training video my coworkers and I now say this to each other on a near-daily basis

[occidentalist]

Israel and the US have no right to exist. The DPRK is the only country ever and is not a dictatorship and if you’re a citizen of the imperial core, most likely everything you’ve ever been told about the Korean Peninsula both contemporarily and historically has been a lie. Ukraine is engaging in a proxy war against Russia on behalf of the imperial core and has been committing genocide against its Russian-speaking population in Donbass since 2014. Palestinian resistance factions are the only thing standing between the Palestinian people and annihilation and thus their cause is righteous. Maduro is the lawfully elected and competent president of Venezuela and is supported by the majority of its people. There is no coherent definition of ‘imperialism’ that applies to modern-day Russia. Western interventionism is always bad, yes, even in Iran, and the Shah was an evil western puppet and that’s why the Iranian people overthrew him. And The Soviet army was justified in its use of tanks against the Hungarian ‘revolution’ of 1956.

[occidentalist]

And the PRC is actually not committing genocide against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang. In fact if the ambitions of the ETIM or any of the other al-Qaeda-aligned separatist groups were realised and Chinese Uyghurs were forcibly assimilated into some Salafist ‘East Turkestan’ project, it would actually then be tantamount to cultural genocide because they have their own distinct cultural, folk and religious practices that would 100% be suppressed and erased, and probably violently.