PugJesus

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

are the Finns okay

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

I can still hear the MSN message sound in my head

And the original Steam chat sound

 
 
 
 
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

so it turns out that dad is probably older than the kid.

Big if true

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Will the political will to start an actual shooting war with the US be there?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 74 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

Theoretically yes. This is an issue that has been considered before, though admittedly not with regards to fucking Greenland. Turkiye and Greece have long been enemies as well as members of NATO, and it's been considered that the invocation of Article 5 by the aggressed-upon party against the aggressing party in case of a serious war would, theoretically, be binding on the other members of NATO.

In practice, NATO is a gentleman's agreement with no means of enforcement. Everything comes down to political will - NATO is just an organizational structure to facilitate a response. It cannot replace the will (or lack thereof) of national governments.

 
 

Source is from The Old Place

 
 
 
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, looks like an older skeleton, could have been a natural death and they just found it. I feel like a hunted Elephant Seal would have a more... butchered look to its bones.

 
 
 
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hell In The Pacific, hands down.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fucking bootlickers.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Just found a few nice pieces, is all!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The Great Fire of Rome killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of wealth, but was inconsequential to the Empire as a whole. This is more Emperor Honorius bribing the barbarians not to invade, then stiffing them and pissing off to feed his pet birds as Rome was looted for the first time in over 700 years.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Insane that even commenting about how some prefer the Soviet days gets you a ban, simply for being insufficiently positive.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fascists painted red. Issues like Uyghur genocide and support or neutrality on the imperialist invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and subsequent ethnic cleansing, are often clear indicators of tankieism; but really the root is tribalism without any deeper cause, principles, or thought process. Many are American exceptionalists who insist everything revolves around US policy.

Those who claim that 'tankie' just means 'socialists' and everyone who uses it is a bourgeois puppet or useful idiot are often the same kinds of people who will say things like "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, led by workers and demanding a democratic and socialist government of the people, was counterrevolutionary fascism and they deserved to be crushed by Soviet tanks"

view more: next ›