• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Warlord, noun: a military commander who exercises absolute political, social, and economic control over a region.

    Personally I’d call her a moderately inept neoliberal bureaucrat who’s never ever broken a nail in anger much less commanded troops but hey maybe you think she’s more impressive.

    At least Bubba was commander in chief, jeez.

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      3 days ago

      maybe you think she’s more impressive.

      In what way is “being a warlord” impressive??

      There’s very little difference between a warlord and a pencil pusher, if the right pencil is being pushed. The average democratic politician might as well be screaming “Blood for the blood god and skulls for the skull throne!” in terms of the actual effects of their policies. The only difference is aesthetics and demeanor. You don’t get to act like you’re not a bloodthirsty psychopath just because you’ve beurocratized the orphan-crushing machine to the point that all you have to do to crush orphans is to sign a piece of paper.

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        The average democratic politician might as well be screaming “Blood for the blood god and skulls for the skull throne!” in terms of the actual effects of their policies.

        And it would frankly be less detestable if they were that honest about it, in stead of hiding their blood thirst behind a veneer of civility so thick they make it the bulk of their public fucking persona!

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                1 day ago

                Bro, you made a 40k reference in your comment pretending that a pen pushing ghoul is a warlord, because to you words mean what’s convenient in the moment, do you think I’m supposed to treat you like an adult?

                Believe it or not, that’s also cringe.

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                  My apologies, I should have realized that you only care about aesthetics and don’t care at all about actual reality. The aesthetics of being a pencil pusher are what’s important to you, not how many children that pencil is ordering to be murdered. The aesthetics of making a pop culture reference matter more to you than the fact that it was used to make a perfectly valid point. The aesthetics of being “cringe” or “based” matter more to you than actually being able to say anything coherent.

                  I don’t give a rat’s ass if what I say is “cringe,” I’m still going to say it because it’s true. If you want to act like a clown, that’s on you.