PugJesus

It brings me no joy to agree.

Criticizing Comrade Trump is now forbidden

It's a case of "follow the leader". Whenever a candidate wins in a democratic or semi-democratic system, all other candidates become more likely to lean more towards the winning candidate's positions on issues, either in the hope of peeling off votes or preventing defections from their own moderates.

If only there was some way we could have went the other direction on the issue. Maybe a candidate who wasn't a openly raging transphobe.

"I'm only trying to be critical" is also a canard of chuds who want to pretend that there are 'two sides' to settled or unambiguous issues, like climate change, or genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcaspian_Government

Autonomous sentiments were developing amongst the local Turkmen population, with the formation of the Turkmen National Army (TNA) in February 1918. Concerned about this, the Bolshevik Ashgabat Soviet appealed to Fyodor Kolesov [ru], leader of the Tashkent Soviet for military support and declared it would carry out a census of all arms-bearing men in the Russian majority town on 17 June 1918. However, this sparked off two days of rioting.

The Tashkent Soviet dispatched some Red Guards led by V. Frolov and a Cheka contingent who arrived on 24 June and disarmed the Turkmen Cavalry Squadron, which was the core of the TNA.[2] Frolov declared martial law and personally shot the five members of a delegation of railwaymen that had tried to present a petition to him.[3] He proceeded to Kizyl-Arvat to continue restoring Bolshevik control but local railway workers had heard of the events and armed themselves. Frolov and a number of his bodyguards were shot and the remainder disarmed.[4]

Isn't that a warcrime!?

Man, when I was in high school, smartphones were getting big, but the school always tried to crack down on their very existence in school grounds (much less usage).

Got my first cell in the 8th grade. Never been fond of the things.

For those interested, Snopes covered this very pic. It's mostly correct, but muddles some details.

Adorable

It is also hella funny that their whole goal is to hoard tech so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands; but they don't necessarily know what anything they find is and are more likely to blow themselves up tinkering with shit they don't understand than a random waster who would simply tear the thing apart for the metal scraps.

"We CANNOT let ANY of this tech fall into the wrong hands!"

[all the tech falls into the wrong hands]

[BoS keeps murdering people anyway]

Wife

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