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@OGBlackRedGuard >Call yourself Conqueror of the British Empire >Start one (1) war with Tanzania >loses so hard that your army deserts en-mass and only a few hundred Libyans and Palestinians are still fighting for you when the Tanzanian army kicks down the doors of the presidential palace

He actually wasn’t, he only turned on them because they wouldn’t give him jets to attack Tanzania. Why are you citing this genocidal buffoon as some type of wise statesman anyways?

@girlbosswoman @souljagoyteller Calla Walsh is a clown but being stupid doesn't mean she should be killed. Would be fucked if they actually assassinated this random American citizen because she posted way too much cringe

@souljagoyteller I don't wanna sound paranoid but this is very clearly a demand for the IDF to kill Calla Walsh, considering: 1) The FP (Bari Weiss) is an Israeli intelligence/propaganda cutout. 2) She's in Lebanon; it's just what Israel does there. 3) The article basically calls for her death.

Calla Walsh discourse broke containment

@BigJonnyQuest @jimmygandhi @HMBrough_ One of the biggest differences between totalitarianism and authoritarianism is that in authoritarianism, the state rather it's average citizen be apathetic about government. In a totalitarian state, the state demands participation of everyone in state-approved orgs and rallies

@BigJonnyQuest @jimmygandhi @HMBrough_ An authoritarian state generally doesn't care if you live your life quietly. A totalitarian state wants to control every facet of it's citizens' lives. Basically in an authoritarian state the gov doesn't care if you dye your hair or your clothing color- a totalitarian state does

“1984” has done immense damage to our assessments of life in authoritarian societies. In reality, life in authoritarian places is pretty…normal. There were enough punks in East Germany that the Stasi could classify them with charts. There are women complaining today about f***boys on dating apps in Minsk. The only thing you can’t do is criticize the government.

@anishmoonka TBF, the Melania 40 million budget was less of a solid business decision expected to make profit and more of a not-so-subtle donation to the people currently running the government. So them clawing back 18 million from what is basically a bribe I would say is a win.

Andy Weir wrote a novel nobody wanted, posted it on his blog for free, then sold it on Kindle for 99 cents. It sold 35,000 copies in a month. This weekend, the movie based on his third book opened at $141 million worldwide. Weir was a software engineer who started posting The Martian chapter by chapter on his website in 2009. Readers asked him to put it on Kindle. Within days of it hitting the bestseller list, he had a literary agent, a publishing deal, and Fox bought the film rights. The Martian cost $108 million to make and grossed $630 million. Drew Goddard wrote that screenplay. He wrote this one too. Project Hail Mary cost nearly double at $200 million. And the studio behind it isn’t Fox. It’s Amazon MGM, which exists because Amazon wrote an $8.45 billion check to buy MGM in 2021. Four years and several expensive flops later, this is the first time that bet has looked smart. Amazon MGM’s 2026 started ugly. A Melania documentary earned $16 million on a $40 million budget. Crime 101 managed $65 million worldwide against $90 million in production costs. Then Hail Mary opened to $80.5 million domestic, the second-largest non-franchise debut in a decade, behind only Oppenheimer’s $82.4 million. Here’s what makes Amazon’s math viable: 200 million people pay for Amazon Prime, mostly for shipping. Prime Video is included. Every movie they put in theaters is a marketing campaign for a streaming service their customers already have. Their distribution chief said it in 2024: if they cover marketing costs theatrically, the movie pays for itself again on streaming. Traditional studios need a film to gross 2.5x its budget. Amazon just needs to cover the ad spend. The film earned a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and an “A” CinemaScore (an audience exit poll that predicts how long a movie keeps selling tickets). If it tracks anything like The Martian, which had a similar audience profile and word of mouth, it could push past $600 million globally. Same screenwriter adapting both books, for a studio that didn’t exist when the first one came out.

@souljagoyteller One thing the last few years has highlighted is Iran's profound diplomatic isolation. No one wants to go to bat for the Islamic Republic. Even if they aren't thrilled at the US and Israel waging a war of aggression, everyone knows Iran is cooked, one way or another.

Instead of reading this stupid piece, read this from Foreign Affairs

@OvenWarmCookies @neoavatara in 1790, Washington wrote a letter to the Jews of Rhode Island saying that Jews are always welcome in the US. Jefferson wrote that his stature of religious freedom in VA also applied to "Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination." This assertion is nonsense.

@neoavatara Y'all are always either purposely misrepresenting that concept, or genuinely stupid.

They did believe in freedom of religion though, so...

@nikicaga This goober is partially responsible for the mess Iran is in right now due to constantly antagonizing the West and selling off the country's economy to his IRGC buddies, but I can't bring myself to hate him. He's just too funny

FIRE CANNOT KILL A DRAGON

@eumef33333 @TJapanicus1270 @ConspiracyBull1 Private enterprise isn't the problem with Artemis. Artemis' problems are chronic lack of funding (even private companies can't build things for 0 dollars), and constantly shifting priorities. In comparison, the Chinese landing is much more methodical and precise.

@solbart10012389 @TJapanicus1270 @ConspiracyBull1 NASA is not the frentrunner of US space program and is not poised to be. It would be SpaceX and other private actors. Not a bug, but a feature - NASA becomes managing / directional white collar body of government. This is a way to go, China is also doing it, but not faster.

Holy mother of cringe.

@eumef33333 @TJapanicus1270 @ConspiracyBull1 No contest from me. I've been coping about Trump wanting to cancel half of NASA to save a dollar by hoping China takes up the slack.

@solbart10012389 @TJapanicus1270 @ConspiracyBull1 Copium

@TJapanicus1270 @ConspiracyBull1 yeah because this one is actually based in reality- the Artemis program is a disjointed, underfunded joke and I for one welcome our new Chinese lunar overlords. BRICs might be a joke but the PRC by itself certainly isn't

@ConspiracyBull1 That one may be cringe. But this one he posted is pretty good

@breakingnorfolk @IAPonomarenko Doesn't really matter if the IRGC still has all the guns. The lesson of Tiananmen, February 28 incident in Taiwan, and the 888 uprising in Myanmar is that if the authorities have all the guns and are willing to use them, popular uprisings are invariably crushed.

@IAPonomarenko The boots are on the ground. 90 million Iranians who want their country back.

Frankly, I don’t see how the Ayatollah regime could be toppled, even through the most extensive and devastating bombing campaign, without boots on the ground and a full-scale occupation of a vast country of 90 million people. Especially after Trump allowed the regime to drown a widespread popular uprising in blood, squandering its momentum with empty promises that “help is coming.”

@S1apSh0es One of the greatest tragedies in railroad history happened because a coal-powered train stalled out in a tunnel, suffocating 517 of the passengers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvano_t…

Insane that underground trains used to be coal and steam powered.

@anymanfitness This is more a symptom of the rise of the internet and the decline of third places in American life. See: "Bowling Alone"

An unpopular hill I will die on: The drastic downturn in alcohol consumption is a bad thing. Yes, booze isn’t good for you. But this means people are less social, and barely interacting with each other. Millions of healthy marriages were formed from going to the bar and flirting with each other. I know mine was.

@mrfudd0 @GPrime85 Well, it won't, unless we put boots on the ground. The IRGC will still have a monopoly on force- they killed 30,000 protesters last month. Since WWI, an air campaign has never delivered substantial results without movement on the ground. I hope it doesn't come to that.

@GPrime85 If Iran becomes a free and allied country, it will be the most successful and justified act of force in my life.

Everyone knew Biden was a puppet. It was horrifying, but at least we could joke about it because he had dementia and we believed things would change after 2024. But Trump is sober and this ain't funny anymore

@hayasaka_maoist Really sorry but your profile picture makes me immediately think of the Mexican coal mine even though you have opposite politics from him

people will really tell you 60 million Christians died in the revolution, 10 million died in the Eastern Front, and 20 million died in gulags and an extra 10 in the Holodomor but 6 million in the Holocaust is unfeasible

@donglaozi160 @souljagoyteller Yeah, somehow Ethiopia is still a nation brimming with potential despite the PM shooting himself and the nation in the foot every month or so. Hope in 20 years Ethiopia is a prosperous and free nation.

Least militaristic Nobel Peace Prize winner

@BenSasse Happy belated birthday, Senator Sasse. Happy trails on the final journey of your extraordinary life.

(I have the best friends….)

@Dina1047640 @Pravonapadenie still coping and seething you can't build a drug lab right into the stadium like you did in Sochi huh

She squeezed every possible point out of the rules, and immediately after this burned out so completely that she had to quit sports forever at the ripe old age of seventeen.