Victim of Communism

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  • That would be the 3rd unprovoked attack on a country by the president of peace

    Way more than three.

    Venezuela: In January 2026, U.S. forces bombed Caracas and captured President Nicolás Maduro after months of a naval buildup, oil tanker blockades, and anti-drug strikes in the Caribbean.

    Iran: The U.S. carried out joint strikes with Israel (including Operation Midnight Hammer) targeting key nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

    Yemen: The U.S. military expanded its air and naval campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen and the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping lanes.

    Somalia: U.S. warplanes launched counterterrorism strikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives hiding in the Golis mountains.

    Iraq and Syria: The military conducted airstrikes to hit ISIS positions and defend U.S. service members from hostile fire.

    Nigeria: U.S. forces executed targeted air strikes against local Islamic State militant groups








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    I want a job as a park ranger

    No you fucking don’t.

    I’ve got friends in the park service. The pay is shit. The hours are long. The bureaucracy is mind numbing. The work is dangerous. And living out in the back woods is not nearly so glamorous when your jury rigged AC breaks.

    It’s a job you take when you grew up poor and every other job is worse. It’s not a city slicker dream job, just an escapist fantasy.



  • If back to the future was released today more than 1/3 of the population would root for biff and would say that the movie is “too political” and “woke propaganda”.

    That was half the joke of the original movie. Biff got super rich off cheating at sports gambling and was rewarded for his sudden financial success with political authority, because the writers of the movie knew that’s how Americans respond to anyone who appears to be financially successful practically overnight.

    Biff was a critique of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. People who were saying exactly the same fascist shit as MAGA Trumpies today.

    Then again, being OK with child rape by that same group of people wasn’t something I would have expected even 10 years ago…

    You must have slept through the whole Catholic Sex Abuse moment. The sex-crimes apologists were crawling out of the woodwork. Guys like Ross Douthat made their first nut trying to defend the indefensible. Half of the Peggy Noonan columns were just her whining about anti-Catholic bias every time another child-rape story broke. JD Vance made his Catholic Turn right in the middle of the scandal, seemingly to suck up to the rich Catholic fuckwits gullible enough to believe he was going to protect them.

    Before that, you had the string of scandals at the Texas Youth Corrections office. And the Abramoff Scandal, which had an often-undercovered element of child sex trafficking in the Marianas Islands. And, of course, Epstein himself got off with multiple slaps on the wrist across multiple administrations, thanks to his DC (and Mossad) connections. All these people and institutions retained conservative support in the face of a deluge of accusations and a torrent of new victims coming forward.


  • I think a big part of that is how the 80s/90s had inherited a lot from the 1950s that never really made it over the 2000s divide.

    So what you had in the 1980s was 50s revanchism that dominated mainstream culture while a strain of alt-media was growing in the cracks. And now that old 50s/80s culture has been fully strangled by an outgrowth of 90s/00s culture which has become the cornerstone of modern media and culture.

    FFS, there’s a Hillary Duff revival going on. Won’t be long until Britney Spears is rediscovered and we have another Bush running for the White House.