The average person is a follower who will defer to authority when pressed even a little. The average person abhors violence. People turn in their loved ones to please authority and condemn violence all the time, like the shooter’s father.

Rifle fire is ~165 decibels

“We’ll coup whoever we want! Deal with it!” - actual Elon quote.

I’d imagine there are many ways people might “deal with it”, unfortunately for him.

Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.

Internet meme culture is just culture now.

Just world fallacy. There is a very real chance that they will all get away with this. Better odds than not, I’d say.

He’ll be 97 when he gets out, if he lives that long.

Good riddance.

I’d say the shoe fits the US better, considering how close we are to collapse.

Finding people who hate you and at least have some affinity for violence, and then ostracizing them so they have little left to lose might have a backfiring effect I think. Maybe that’s what she wants.

I don’t always get the details right when reciting from memory, but it was called the Bloody Monday Raid if anyone wants to read into it.

The Operations Room (youtube) also has a pretty good video series on Gothic Serpent and that’s where I first learned about this.

It’s been a while since I watched it, but I’d definitely file it under US propaganda since I’m pretty sure they couch the fact that prior to this raid, the US blew up an entire council meeting with helicopter gunships, killing over 200 people including tribal elders who were all vying for peace. To this day the US claims it was a war council and a legitimate target.

So if you want to know why so many people in Mogadishu took up the chance to shoot Americans, now you know.

Reminds me of when Russia was using shit like line charges and surface to air missiles to blow up Ukrainian apartment blocks. Profound, idiotic squandering of military materiel not out of tactical necessity, but out of a base, abject hatred of their enemy as a culture and people.

It was always a sarcastic admonishment of the hypocrisy, nobody actually thinks they’re allies.

You could argue that pointing out hypocrisy is a pointless endeavor against fascism, though.

Interesting take considering the OG Iron Front was anticommunist by definition, obviously communism was one of the arrows.

Since I don’t rEaD ThEoRy, I had to look up what the fuck dengism was. Seems like a weirdly specific thing to want destroyed, something only someone in lefty spaces would know or care about.

It’s just weird to me to take something anticommunist and trying to make it communist-friendly. Like trying to make an anti racist black Klan, with robes and pointy hoods and cross burning (anti-theism!) and everything.

I think the most damaging thing someone could tell Trump is that nobody he’s surrounded himself with actually thinks he’s smart, successful, or charismatic. That they’re lying through their teeth when they say all these great things about him. That they all mock him behind his back, that they think he’s stupid and they’re all looking to use him for their own ends.

We know his narcissism, we know he hangs on the words of the last person he talked to, and best of all, all that is probably far more true than it is false.

He’d be deranged beyond measure, like that methed-up moustache man in Berlin towards the end.

My understanding is that they basically always were. The South has historically refused to purchase learning material that is “too harsh” on them regarding the Civil War, and so the companies making said material, in order to make the most money, have modified the material to suit that customer base for a long time.

I don’t know how you can facilitate an injustice like this as a prosecutor, judge, bailiff, etc, and not want to go home and make sweet love to a .45.

It says in the article that the number of American requests are still quite low, and are generally denied anyway. They have to prove that nowhere in the US is safe for them, and the high level position of Canada, for the time being, is that the US is not an unsafe country (otherwise they couldn’t defer other refugees here).

My amateur read would be that Trump is far more useful to Russia alive as the credulous creature he is than dead. Letting Vance carry on the MAGA legacy would be risky for Putin’s ambitions, so long as Trump is handily disrupting any hope of Ukrainian self determination, why rock the boat?

^what the dumber MAGATs are saying out loud, and the smarter MAGATs are thinking but not saying

I can’t speak to this ruleset, but for other rule sets I’ve interpreted that kind of thing as if the target has an ability score of 0, regardless of proficiencies or lack thereof. An unconscious person or an inanimate object, for example.

I’d presume you have a Dex value, just not a very good one.