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  • There’s another way to look at this. Fascism has often been defined as “Imperialism Returning to the Core”. A great deal of the ICE buildup and the arming of Sheriff’s Deputy Gangs with military surplus is coming from the surplus men who came out of our Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.

    Even before you get into using the explicit military (rather than the paramilitary) on US soil, you’d do well to recognize that we’re employing the same tactics against LA and Chicago that we had once employed in Baghdad and Kandahar. The escalation of troops into cities matches Bush/McCain era “Surge” rhetoric, with many of the same rationales and objectives.

    the idea that using troops as law enforcement is “Un-American” or tyrannical is Confederate propaganda

    Might be worth remembering that the original Confederate Army was composed of rebel officers from the Mexican-American War. You can draw a straight line from the annexation of Texas and California, through the failed filibuster of Cuba, and on to the First Battle of Bull Run. Future Confederate soldiers cut their teeth in Bleeding Kansas and suppressed the slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry.

    Using troops as law enforcement was their whole game, until the got punted out of Gettysburg and torched straight through Atlanta on to Savannah.

    And the turn in rhetoric somehow didn’t extend to the Battle of Blair Mountain or the suppression of Civil Rights Marches in Selma, much less the gunning down of anti-war protesters at Kent State.




  • I see this on 4chan all the time. You’ve got this demand among the NEETs that their partners look like supermodels, then a bunch of screaming and crying when a woman is repulsed by their bad grooming or poor manners.

    On the flip side, you’ve got the /r/RelationshipAdvice threads where “RED FLAG! DUMP HIM!” is this pre-programmed response to damned near every post. Guys who aren’t sexy enough are undateable trash. Guys who are too sexy are skeazy fuckbois (or worse… gay!)

    But then you log the fuck off, touch grass, and meet dozens of happy couples of every size and shape and disposition. You even see people with disparate political philosophies dating, because not everyone is a fucking nerd obsessed with primary results and poll numbers and creating some kind of breeding program to win the next election cycle.





  • PS5

    500 non-gaming PC

    Come on, dude. Firstly, you can get a non-gaming PC for under $200 easy. Hell, if you know where to look, you can get it for free.

    500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in

    Why not just… not upgrade the PS5? Save yourself $650. If you want to “balance” things, the PC guy can save $200 on their own upgrade.

    Wait for the PS6, which will be out in '27/'28 and just enjoy the OG console that was released in '20 for the life of the platform.

    Like, this is obviously not an apple to apple comparison. And that’s spotting you a generous $800 PC build out of the gate. You’re simply not building a PS5 quality rig in 2020 for $800.

    720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month

    Do I get to charge the PC owner the release price of every PSO title released for free? Because that’s going to come out far higher than $720 over six years.

    Are you playing any MMOs on that PC? Should we be charging you the base rate for those as well?

    I’m not even a PS5 guy. I tapped out at 4 and game on my PC happily. But I’m not going to pretend console gamers are doing 3x my spend just because it’s possible to do so.