To be clear the ultimate plan was to false flag massacre the legislature and restart the Korean War in the process, which, given North Korea’s capacity to just pummel Seoul, was less a coup and more a very complicated international suicide by cop
Yup. People forget, the whole concept of childhood is a very RECENT invention that the right wing and the institutions around them have whittled away. The people who say "let kids be kids" want to drag us back to the bad old days when we had tons of kids to be grist for the mill.
@lanabeesfw@theRileyDaniels He's a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist who is a self-proclaimed Antitheist because he thinks that The Troubles were started by religious fundamentalism lmfao.
Once you know that, his entire worldview and his comics clicks perfectly.
None of these people understand why Deng's reforms worked.
You can't do "Dengism" unless you completely break the class power of the capitalists.
You can only allow them to exist after you destroy and humble them.
Without Mao and revolution, "Dengism" doesn't work.
Scottish nationalism I find incredibly bourgeois and revisionist. The Scottish were the steam engine of the British Empire. They can't exactly larp as historically oppressed.
I already knew this but UK courts used to free wife killers or give them heavily reduced sentences “because he was uh really mad and thought she was cheating” until like 20 years ago so it’s very funny to me that we’re all acting like we’re shocked about a psychosis defense.
NEW: Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll reportedly met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign-policy goals, Trump talked exclusively about his ballroom in response, causing Driscoll to resign believing the admin was “doomed.”
I have just spent 3 hours on a flight listening to a (married) Ukrainian woman flirt with an Irish man and insult her war veteran husband who has an obliterated spine while he nodded along and told her she’s “strong like an Irish woman” for dealing with him
@derpo377 Drawing fanart of Laura Palmer and Bear from Obsession in a loving monogomous relationship until the most annoying people in the world find and kill me irl
Democrats symbol is the donkey because Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, rode a donkey into Jerusalem.
Republicans use the Elephant because the Ba'al worshipper Hannibal Barca rode them to Rome to try to destroy western civilization