I’ve never been more bemused/annoyed by a popular indie games depiction of a communist dictatorship since Papers Please.

You may know this already, but one tidbit I like (hate) about that game is the developer was inspired to make it by his experience of going through passport control in… Singapore

The parasite that killed and devoured the Soviet Union xenomorph-style is repeating anticommunist propaganda? I wonder why that could be.

‘The Holodomor’ is a Neonazi propaganda buzzword invented in the 80s to equivocate between the USSR and the Third Reich, specifically chosen to imply similarity to the Holocaust which in turn is a form of Holocaust minimization. The origin of the ‘intentional famine’ myth was literally Joseph fucking Goebbels, and was spread by the media empire of avowed US fascist media tyrant William Randolph Hearst.

Here’s what a die-hard Ukrainian nationalist had to say about the famine of 1932:

The USSR did everything it could to alleviate the famine - which stretched beyond Ukraine both further into the USSR and out beyond its borders, shattering the notion it could possibly have been targeted - and once it was brought under control, no famine ever affected the USSR again in peacetime.

Oh shit, I think my organization uses this, I literally just finished jury-rigging a security solution to keep out unwanted visitors (pic below)

[David Attenborough voice] Here we see one of the rarest and most beautiful sights in nature, a pair of wild Navy Super Hornets at the end of their courtship dance, mating for the first and only time in their brief lives.

After just a few moments of contact, the female scatters her now-fertilized eggs to the wind, where they will drift down into safe resting places amongst the scrub. Meanwhile, the parents’ bodies, exhausted after completing their life’s sole mission, fall to the earth and return their nutrients to the soil… the circle of life continues.

Do you have a hygrometer? If so, please check the average humidity beneath any nearby rocks and stones, as it may be quite high.

It’s going ‘swimmingly’ in that the marines are gonna be swimming home

Unfortunately Banks is a good enough writer that even when Horza loses absolutely everything it’s just kind of sad, like the whole thing was a complete waste where nobody wins. He could have been happy but instead he dies in misery, and the only reason is anticommunist brainworms.

Player of Games is great, I usually tell people to start with that one anyway because it shows you exactly what the Culture is and why it’s a good thing.

Turbine engines are surprisingly adaptable, they can run on most things that burn all the way down to something as crude as powdered coal.

“Four wheels move the body, two wheels move the soul! (Hell yeah! Alright!) Famous quote I got from… quotes dot com”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi

Set up camp in Al-Wadi’ah

Get washed away by a flash flood

Damn if only whoever sited those camps knew Arabic

You’re right, and the US helped many of the perpetrators of those crimes get away scot free, if they didn’t offer them a job first.

Not even 7,000 dead??? This was the legendary horrifying bloodbath that nukes had to be used to prevent a repeat of?

Fucking pathetic, the eastern front truly was the only real part of WW2 (and *asian resistance against Japan).

Important to remember these are NOT cluster bombs, they’re missiles with multiple warheads.

Cluster warheads spread hundreds of small bomblets over a wide area - “intended” as an antipersonnel weapon, but actually, due to the number that fail to detonate immediately but remain as a deadly explosive hazard hidden in foliage or under the soil for many decades, as an anti-civilian terror weapon. Their widespread use was (of course) pioneered by the US in Vietnam, who immediately afterwards handed their surplus to the IDF under the supervision of wholesome chungus Jimmy Carter.

By comparison, the Iranian missiles deploy something like 20-60 warheads which separate high above the target, with a result more or less identical to firing multiple smaller conventional missiles. These are large warheads which are intrinsically more reliable than small bomblets, and while inevitably some will fail to detonate, they won’t disappear into the dirt for twenty years only to resurface under a farmer’s plough or in the hands of a curious child. They’re also made by Iran instead of the US, so their comparative failure rate presumably reflects that.

Falsely equivocating between a missile that dispenses a few dozen conventional explosive warheads, and cluster warheads that deploy hundreds of fist-sized bomblets that will maim and kill civilians for decades after, is obvious and intentional propaganda by the USisraeli regime media. By blurring the line on what counts as a cluster weapon and who uses them, they obfuscate that the US and “Israel” are the most flagrant users of these horrific, criminal terror weapons.

If it clogged the plumbing I think it was probably several handfuls of seamen

My opinion, for which I have neither evidence nor doubts, is that he’s not dead, he ran away to hide in Germany and these videos showing him in Israel are to make him look like less of a pathetic coward (and maybe throw off anyone trying to locate him).

They remind me of those videos of Zelensky standing in front of the most obvious greenscreen of all time, to ‘prove’ he was ‘still in Kiev’.

tomorrow’s incident has been confirmed

Is this a typo, or have the Juche wizards given someone a peek into the Orb?

The budget of the law enforcement agencies¹ of the US as a whole is more than that of the armed forces of any nation except China.

At $178 billion, it’s $32 billion more than the budget of the armed forces of Russia post-SMO.

If you combine military and police spending (and seeing as they’re both armies of imperial occupation, you should) the US accounts for 60% of the world total.

¹ Edit to clarify: the budget of police forces, so not including border patrol, coast guard, ICE, FBI, CIA, DHS, etc.