I remember the guy looking vaguely like Sam Elliot. Very cowboy aura

Hey that’s not my dedicated farting chair is it?

What’s the best move if I feel a fart coming, but I ate a bunch of cabbage yesterday so it’ll be a stinky one, but also it’s raining and I can maybe time the sound with the thunder?

As an American I unironically want president Xi to launch a dongfeng missile into the pentagon. Do I get a quote in the BBC now

I’ve read it but I mean everything he wrote is just kinda known to you already if you have even a passing interest in 19th century American history. It’s interesting seeing a foreign perspective but also I don’t know if you’re missing much. Like hey did you know Americans have a bunch of newspapers and also have a ton of competing churches and also rich people have a bunch of slaves and also native Americans are excluded from society.

The only thing I remember from that book is de Tocqueville says the only Americans who seem to care about national politics are either very rich or complete cranks. And he says the very rich ones have very petty, minor disagreements with one another because rich people live in little secluded mansions completely separated from normal society so their political concerns don’t seem to match what’s actually happening in the world. And despite all that, their disagreements are really bitter and aggressive. This book was written in 1835.

I think I remember something else where he talks about how politicians in America are less likely to do direct corruption, like clear cut bribery, and more likely to leverage their political power to gain connections and wealth, then when they transition to private life they retain those connections to both wealthy people and government power. Something like that? I read this book 20 years ago. Also he was very clear that America is lying about the freedom and liberty stuff because of slavery and the genocide of indigenous Americans.

Emo was started when punk bands in Washington DC wanted to play slower songs and that’s kinda it

Plague still exists mostly as a problem in poor countries without access to antibiotics. I think sheep get it too and it’s a problem in livestock.

Also there was a large plague vaccination program in India in the 1890s

This feels like someone in the DOD took personal offense to the F15s legendary undeafted streak and wants as many blown up as possible.

That’s what, at least 4 F15s destroyed in the past month? For those unaware or aren’t into Ace Combat, the F15 has a pop culture reputation as the most bad ass jet fighter ever made. It had never been shot down before this year. From memory, it’s capable of going supersonic vertically, it’s the only fighter with a kill against a satellite, it’s technically been in space a few times, it has a recorded kill against a helicopter using an unguided bomb, and the most famous is probably the time a pilot managed to land while missing an entire wing. Also yes most of the “badass” incidents were done by Isr*ali pilots so American pilots ruining its reputation right before it should be retired is some kind of poetic justice I can’t describe.

In any case, death to America, death to Israel.

Please merciful Allah swt bless me with at least one headline describing an officer fragging committed by a fresh recruit in bootcamp. If heaven wills it Full Metal Jacket will become reality

The American gang grafitti found in Iraq during the occupation is one of the most disquieting things I’ve ever read about. We really do export violence.

You might be talking about the Erfurt latrine disaster but it’s even better than that. It was a huge gathering of royals and their combined weight caused the floor to collapse and they all fell into the big feces pit underneath the building. Around 60 of them died by drowning in shit.

I’d like to argue there are Israboos and it’s a phenomenon I mostly see among Southeast Asian people, sometimes among Russians too. But it’s less of a coherent admiration for Israel and more like thinly veiled Islamophobia.

There was also that whole thing for years where American military dorks would always hype up how professional the IDF supposedly is. Also probably an Islamophobia thing.

Israeli propaganda is bad because it centers around the idea that wanting an enthno-state theocracy is a completely normal political aspiration while at the same time pretending the enthno-state also practices democratic pluralism. The Zionist authorities have become so enamored with the zionist project they either don’t know or don’t care what comes across as sensible to someone who lives thousands of miles away from Israel and perhaps has very little stake in encroaching settlements. Like the propaganda about how Hamas will take over the entire world and institute a global pogrom just doesn’t hit. No one believes that outside the most blinkered Zionist.

Furthermore the propaganda is laser directed at maybe three demographics, so it comes across as alien and hyperspecific if you don’t belong to their audience. Zionist propaganda is intended for: American Islamophobia liberals who aren’t Jewish, American reactionary evangelicals who believe the apocalypse is happening in two months, and young Jewish people living outside of Israel.

And none of those groups necessary share political or economic interests, the only thing that may tie them together is a bloodthirsty hatred of Muslims but even that’s a stretch and isn’t as unifying as Israel thinks it might be

I mean it’s gotta be hard for someone like Shapiro, whose target audience was extremely elderly confused people who think college is gonna make their grandkids come home with a xenogender. And that was his target audience 15 years ago. Those types are either dead or they’ve moved on to actually explicit fascism, not the goofy respectable good-boy neocon fascism that Shapiro peddles.

Yeah his numbers were always fluff but I think now either some revenue source dried up or maybe platforms figured out how to purge bots more efficiently. I also never believed he was actually one of the top podcasts for years somehow.

Furthermore the “wet ass p-word” thing made him into a joke among people who aren’t politically interested. That’s gonna be his actual legacy, saying wet ass p-word

Congrats and also no shade taken lol. You gotta be who you are and I hope HRT goes well!

Ben’s Ass

Just slam your boats headfirst into mine fields and artillery fire

Nothing could go wrong

It’s a somber time when I have to offer critical support to the Italians