I saw the title of that thread, reluctantly put the word ‘critical’ in front of my support for the Burkinabè revolution, and not even five minutes later I can remove it again with a sigh of relief. The foolishness of not investigating immediately!

DEATH TO FRANCE, DEATH TO THE WEST, LONG LIVE THE AES

Also a special mention to the Nordics, the Eichmann states of the US empire, for their unbearable smugness.

said that he would appoint a Slavic viceroy to civilize the unruly Germans, I think the same treatment is needed for those self-righteous eugenicist hermit kingdoms.

Finland can become part of the new USSR, the rest can be administered as Mandatory Scandinavia. The re-education camps will not have hygge.

The torment of Tantalus

Round and round we go

I saved this two years ago, and would you look at that - we’re just about halfway round again

I have decided to renounce the Order of the White Eagle

“You can’t fire me, I quit!”

Posts keep scrolling by on as each wave becomes ‘the largest Ukrainian drone attack of the war’, but what I don’t understand is, why now?

Did their human-shielded civilian apartment drone workshops suddenly pick up the pace? Or are they now blowing through all their stockpiles?

And is there a strategic goal here, or is this just spiteful Endsieg flailing? Perhaps they know it’s no longer possible to achieve anything on the front lines and they’re trying to rack up some propaganda wins through wild terrorism?

the Air Force has rightfully made clear that its immediate priorities following yesterday’s B-52 crash are engaging with the families of those who perished and working on the investigation

Yeah sorry ma’am, after a painstaking forensic analysis, it turns out your son forgot to clean out the lint trap on the radar

Piles of ash cannot have injuries

“Open society”

Pure liberal idealism in theory, the most virulent NATO-NGO financial imperialism in practice.

The Open Society Foundation was literally founded by George Soros to, when you strip it right down to its core, try and avenge himself on China for not letting him destroy their currency the way he had done to other South East Asian countries.

I think about that image daily

at least then in multiplayer I could play as the ‘bad guys’ (anti-imperialists)

The original Modern Warfare, playing as Spetsnaz and being greeted on the victory screen by the anthem of the USSR

Even as a kid without any context at all, hearing that theme definitely planted a seed at the back of my mind that these guys were cool.

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.