Oh no! I’m devastated!

I’m not the one arguing with you. I’m the one observing you have the rhetorical skills and emotional maturity of a child.

This whole comment just drips insecurity. You should get that looked at.

In functioning societies, you could even afford to have it looked at.

This, but unironically.

Regicide is at the order of the day.

Dude, it’s about regulatory capture.

Your problem isn’t that your state is “too big”, it’s that it’s not able to resist pressure from moneyed interests.

You know, divisive rhetoric like “masked goons disappearing people off the streets is bad” and “human rights are good actually”.

Strategically, you are right of course. But it’s Keir Starmer we’re talking about.

And the other is the 51st state, running American nukes and subs that will only keep working if the U.S. keeps the support contract going.

NGL here, if the U.S. turns hostile, we’re in deep shit.

This is obviously Cold War era propaganda, but I feel it’s important to engage with it on its own merits.

First of all, two wrongs don’t make a right. Exploitation is exploitation. We (the ‘west’) did a lot of harm in developing countries all over the world, and we’ve never dealt seriously with that history.

Secondly, we managed to sweep all of that mostly under the rug because we convinced ourselves we weren’t as bad as the other guys. That may even be true. But is that really the bar we want to set for ourselves? If you are the kind of liberal (non-derogatory) that actually believes in liberal democracy, surely people in other countries deserve that consideration, those “inalienable rights”, as well?

I know it’s trendy to be all realpolitik and behave like no one ever actually believed in any of the enlightenment ideals and that it was all a cover for imperialism, but I know it’s not really true. I know you guys are out there. Fight for what you say you believe in.

Third, we’re on the edge of the precipice, getting ready to repeat all the mistakes of generations past. This is transparent propaganda, but it’s also a warning across time and space. Don’t you fucking do it again.

It’s leopards and faces all the way down, forever.

I’m getting serious 1930s vibes this whole decade.

• She endorsed Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
• Appeared in a 2016 TV spot for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign for his party’s nomination for President. The ad was withdrawn after the campaign learned of Lindsay’s earlier appearances in soft-core adult movies.

Ohhhhhhh snap.

I did read the book. In fact, both the film and the book are some of my all time favourites.

The book hits differently, also because the written medium anchors it more closely to the narrators perspective. Also, it’s pretty clear in both works that it’s not meant as an endorsement.

Still, there’s a lot of that typical unspecified Gen X resentment left and it really squicks me out.

I love that film for many many reasons, but the incel vibes are thick.

In the context of Arctic defense, the GIUK gap and Thule airbase, sure. Those were considered strategically important things during the Cold War, and rightly so.

But “it looks big on the map and it’s closer to me than to you and I want it and I have more guns so give it to me now” is just Trump.

Venezuela is Sudetenland. Greenland is Danzig and the Polish corridor. Canada is the Elzas and France.

If you want to be a real “doomsday prepper”, get to know your neighbors and learn a trade. That’s how humans survived adversity for the past 10.000 years.

Community trumps “rugged individualism” every fucking time.

Mariah Carrey has entered the chat.

But he does know that guy because he’s the one that sends him emails about how rule 46 of the employee manual is not being applied in regards to the Christmas present that Doris got for the cleaning lady, or the endless bickering when he gets passed up for promotion.

That guy stands out. And not in a good way.