I think Americans will respond very normally to the guy with red skin and devil magic who quotes the Bible as an example of backwards traditionalism when he becomes president and starts implementing progressive policies.

And if anybody opposes your regime, just shoot them.

In the leg! We’re not barbarians

I started getting into Warhammer and decided on dark eldar

I thought the Imperium was the US

There was fault on both sides, because the USSR had over-corrected while the PRC had not yet corrected, and there were internal political factors in both countries that influenced things. Stalin and Mao may have been necessary to secure the revolution in both countries, but it’s necessary at some point to transition to more civilian leadership. It’s a simple fact that if you fight a revolution in order to secure peace, then the generation that grows up in that peace is going to have a different perspective than the generation that experienced the war. Unfortunately, neither side saw it that way. Khrushchev wanted to completely denounce Stalin in a way that just so happened to advance his own career, while Mao did not want to acknowledge that China would need to make that transition because it would mean he would have to step aside, and he feared that his successors would treat him as Khrushchev had treated Stalin.

The Soviet policy of “peaceful coexistence” was one of the points of contention that the Soviets were right about. They deviated from this policy with Afghanistan, and look how that turned out. Mao, on the other hand, got these weird ideas about “permanent revolution” which led to decisions like supporting Pol Pot and kicking off the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. It’s pretty much impossible to defend Chinese foreign policy during that era, and Mao’s attempts to cling to power and fight the natural course of history with the Cultural Revolution were disastrous (even if there were some positive aspects like the Barefoot Doctors program).

However, the Soviets also screwed over China and acted chauvinistically. From Wikipedia:

Stalin had accepted that the USSR would carry much of the economic burden of the Korean War, but, when Khrushchev came to power, he created a repayment plan under which the PRC would reimburse the Soviet Union within an eight-year period. However, China was experiencing significant food shortages at this time, and, when grain shipments were routed to the Soviet Union instead of feeding the Chinese public, faith in the Soviets plummeted. These policy changes were interpreted as Khrushchev’s abandonment of the communist project and the nations’ shared identity as Marxist-Leninists.

This is indefensible too. The whole situation was just a mess, it pretty much just devolved into petty drama, and there’s plenty of blame to go around.

Look, going into Greenland was definitely a mistake, but now that we’re there, we have to stay and finish the job. If we leave now, we’ll be creating a power vacuum that Russia or China will exploit, plus we have to protect Greenland’s women from Greenland’s men. Don’t worry, now that the adults are in charge, we will be conducting things in a much more ethical way: 50% of the drone operators will be women.

The car that I bought less than a year ago broke down and the mechanic said it’s totally seized up and totaled, don’t really know why. That and Venezuela was the worst first week of a year I can remember, I was in a depressive funk all weekend.

You’ve just outed yourself as a lib.

The correct phase is:

“The owl see double you meat bacons at…” then you take midnight Moscow time and convert it to your local time zone.

A game store opened like 15 minutes away from where I live and I’ve started making some friends there.

Europeans when the US invades multiple countries without provocation, slaughters a million people, but they’re brown:

Europeans when the US is somewhat hesitant to provide unlimited military aid to Ukraine:

My favorite part of the book is when Trotsky goes, “And THAT is why Stalin is the biggest GOOFBALL I’ve ever met… he’s right behind me, isn’t he?” and then Stalin throws a water balloon at him and somebody goes, “Well THAT just happened!”

The big question is whether they’re going to demand nuclear war to avoid accepting that America is no longer “#1,” or if they’re just going to retreat into total delusion, or what.

I’ve found that it helps to understand this psychology by imagining that I’m living in the Warhammer 40k Imperium.

“Things are absolutely horrible, but I’m not some kind of heretic. It’s probably the xenos’ fault that I work 18 hours a day and live in a broom closet. Glory to the Emperor!”

Real “You’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company” hours.

Oh, absolutely, I’ve got plenty so I can totally-

quality posts

Never mind.

Crying and pissing my pants because I watched FFIV’s opening

8, and I’ll lock it in and try my best to convince/manipulate Trump.