Speaking of fallible, I’ve certainly taken my fair share of well-deserved lumps from moderation, lmao

Moderator action establishes a baseline for conduct in the community. Sometimes, even regular contributors need a whack on the nose with a newspaper - otherwise it ends up a tightly-knit clique with “rules for thee but not for me”.

Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!

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Damn, really removing all excuses for me not to edit the photo? Fine, I’ll open up paint real quick, but this is basically slave-driving, I’ll have you know

Just a meme scavenger, sir, doing my best to be entertaining!

I searched for a version with the text not cut off, but I couldn’t find it, which meant my only alternative was to change it myself.

That sounded too much like work

“I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS.”

Will she fight for them, or will her GOP affiliation win out?

We can’t expect God to do all the cooming

A Nuremburg noose would be best, honestly, as long as we’re having fantasies.

NARP wins on the strength of the name alone. That’s a winner’s name

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Crossposted!

WEAK. HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE THE UN’S GAUNTLET

I’m generally happy to explain if anyone doesn’t recognize anything, but it often fails to occur to me that flags are unclear, despite so many of them just being palette swaps of each other. XD

“Wow, that was really successful! Time to never do anything like it again.” - Most Cold War-era states

Fuck, we could do so fucking much with a little investment, and instead we piss it all away on nonsense.

Nah. I’m over 12

But under 25, otherwise ‘wdym’ would be part of your native tongue. At this point the kids are probably saying something more like ‘low wizzer’ or whatever dark magic is used to make up Zoomer slang.

(‘wdym’ - ‘What Do You Mean?’)

Explanation: Depicted are two books from German veterans of the First World War - All Quiet On The Western Front, from Erich Maria Remarque, a military engineer; and Storm of Steel, from Ernst Junger, a stormtrooper (assault troop).

Unironically, both are fascinating reads - All Quiet On The Western Front is a fiction novel, while Storm of Steel is a memoir. All Quiet On The Western Front was the voice of an entire generation, the ‘lost generation’ of the 1920s, who experienced the horrors of war and could hardly think of a way to exist after having suffered through them. It’s moving and heartbreaking, a story of ordinary boys thrust into a senseless war and ruined by it even as they successfully cling to their humanity; a classic of human emotion and a must-read for every literate person. Most striking to me is a scene about the difficulty of reconnecting with the people you knew in civilian life.

Ernst Junger was a… bizarre character. Yet his experiences related in Storm Of Steel resonated with many. To him, war was senseless, violent, and murdered the best of a generation - but also, in that chaos, he found purpose - ‘an incomparable schooling for the human heart’ he called it, if memory serves. He does not gloss over the terror and arbitrariness of the war - his descriptions of advancing under artillery and machine-gun fire are haunting, and the man was wounded multiple times during the war. Yet to his mind, war was a crucible which improved the men who survived. It would not be incorrect to see in this echoes of the postwar fascism and proto-fascism (you see a similar thinking in Futurism and Italian fascists who served in the Arditi - the WW1 Italian assault troops), though Junger himself, interestingly enough, was an anti-Nazi - on account of seeing Jewish soldiers as his brothers-in-arms. He is, however, a fantastic writer and shows a reaction to war that is often treated only in passing - that of men who genuinely grow fond of its horrors, yet are not sociopaths, but simply immensely damaged men.

All Quiet is the must read, but Storm of Steel is also very good.

I miss when the weird crossover between techbros and fascists was fringe instead of throwing out Nazi salutes on national television.

A simpler time.

Or maybe that’s just nostalgia speaking.

ROKO’S BASILISK

They were all part of the Western bloc during the Cold War. Honestly, France would be the most questionable of the supporters.