“But I don’t want to!”

“That’s OK son, you can die for Ukraine”

I don’t know… He looks sharpe

He has a big cult following, especially online, and the people who have no real opinion of him default to the cult opinion.

In my country, a guy who worships him and got famous by camping out for weeks outside Tesla offices just to talk with him, just got elected to the EU parliament, partly because of his Elon Musk worship.

“Logorhea” 😂

What’s the movie called?

The very way you just described is how they make you ignore his resistance.

I’m not saying it’s some sort of Marxist masterpiece by the way. I just think it was the intention.

Yeah, that’s my point. Gomer Pyle doesn’t resist for shits and giggles. He has no choice but to resist. And they portray his character the way they do so you’ll disregard him.

I always assumed this was the case, no?

Joker intentionally disregards authority to be funny. Gomer Pyle disregards authority because of who he is. By happenstance, the only one who is caught is Gomer Pyle, and he gets punished. Joker gets away with it and ends up getting rewarded later on too.

Gomer Pyle is the hero who resists authority and ends up dying for it. He is portrayed the way he is, so the audience disregards him, which is what the public often does with actual symbols of resistance.

Joker thinks he resists authority from within, but really, he is just getting assimilated and by the end of the movie, becomes just another soldier of the empire, perfectly willing to kill Charlie. He becomes just like the rest (or everyone deteriorates into a killer together, which is why they all sing at the end, while marching through fields on fire).

If you die from hunger, while food rots in garbage dumps, it’s democracy. If you die from diseases, when medicine costs an arm and a leg, it’s freedom. If you die from a firing squad, for facilitating aforementioned deaths, it’s evil communism.

That’s a lot of assumptions to make an argument.

Ok, so Zelensky has banned opposition parties, arrested political opponents. And furthermore he cancelled elections that were supposed to happen next month. Will you be condemning Ukrainian conscription then, since the government will neither be democratic or legally elected?

So the 15000 civilian deaths caused by Ukraine bombing its own provinces before Russia intervened, the constant efforts by Russia to resolve the issue diplomatically, the naked refusal of the West to even engage with Russia, the West openly backing a fascist coup in Ukraine, and then arming it with the explicit dictate of provoking Russia, the West pressuring Ukraine to not accept the generous settlement offered by Russia in May after the war started, all that doesn’t count?

It’s not like Russia has never done any of those things individually.

[citation needed]

Meanwhile, Robotino, the village that got “liberated” by the counteroffensive, is about to be completely encircled by Russian forces.

Her father was an advocate for eugenics in regards to criminals and when he was in office, he appointed a bunch of Nazis around him. Her grandfather was a Nazi, but there’s been a big campaign to obscure that by presenting an SS officer with the same name and claiming it’s just a confused namesake. Her grandmother’s family was one of the biggest slave owners in South Carolina. Her whole family has been filthy rich for centuries.

Of course she will court the right-wingers. She’s one herself.

Following the footsteps of IBM

What if I drink instant iced coffee?

Covid replaced Trump, Ukraine replaced Covid, Israel replaced Ukraine. Next up… who knows?

Lol. I hope I didn’t reinvent a story!

On a serious note:

• The incoming missile sounds hypersonic (probably a JDAM) which is definitely not something that Hamas could construct or has fired before.

• The speed and straight trajectory of the projectile from videos suggests that it’s nigh impossible to have been a misfire.

• IDF and Israeli spokespeople had wildly different stories after the strike, trying to shift the blame to Hamas, suggesting they all knew it was Israel who fired that rocket, and it probably did it intentionally, but they hadn’t gotten their stories straight. Most glaring example, is the IDF video supposingly showing the Hamas rockets being fired over the hospital, and the video was timestamped 40 minutes AFTER the strike had occured at the hospital (if it was on the same day even). They then immediately deleted it as soon as they got caught. Another example is an Israeli official claiming that Israel had targeted the hospital because Hamas had used its roof to fire rockets.

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You don’t need to be an expert to figure out what’s going on here:

a) Israel is a murderous apartheid regime and this is something they have done before.

b) Israel has wiped up its population in a murderous frenzy, and they need to satiate it.

c) Israel has been dragging its heels on its fabled ground invasion of Gaza, with various excuses. It knows that it can’t beat Hamas on the ground, and it has been warned by Hezbollah against invading. It wouldn’t surprise me if they used this strike to satisfy their people politically, and then tell them that the US forced them to a ceasefire over this incident.