Yeah the most recent episode essentially confirms it was Vault Tec that did it and that the US govt was in on it and pre-planned the Enclave intending to use the vaults as experiments for long term space exploration.

Yeah this is actually an interesting development.

Basmati is so fuckin good.

I’m pretty sure my house rep is CIA. Congress is fucking riddled with them.

We had a city wide blackout on Christmas eve last year. Good times. At least my cousins have a good generator.

Nah you are right to be annoyed. As GB said, it’s our responsibility as those of us born here, especially white settler descendants.

Yeah 9mm glock mags are going to be overwhelmingly available because that is what cops use and AR 15 is just the most available platform in the west in general but especially in the US for the same reason.

Also a great time as you said to go to local public ranges. Lots of libs are finally also arming up and might be out there and desperately need someone to guide them so they are not mistaught as we discussed in the last thread like this.

I know I’ll never live to see it.

Remember Lenin thought the same.

This made me tear up a little. Okay more than a little.

Also Kilmer batman is objectively hottest batman and also died recently.

Fahrenheit 420

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-Michael Parenti

with no vetting standards

That is literally what I meant by compromised.

I actually had a conversation with a coworker yesterday. He used to be a pastor and grew up in a super evangelical family. Now he has a podcast that is borderline liberation theology and an interrogation of right wing christianity. We got to talking and we were on our work phones but conversation basically led from MLK to Lenin because it is real easy when talking about current events to bring up the riot is the language of the unheard line and then from there get to Lenin and the opening passage of state and revolution about the coopting of revolutionary figures while sanitizing them.

Yes everything for these people is transactional. Her dipshit husband dying was the biggest win she could possibly imagine, she clearly was not in love with him. She might not even be capable of love. That woman fucking terrifies me. Yes I’d be glad too but also I never would have married him. She is a fucking demon literally.

However, hope is not lost, and no matter how difficult our task, it’s increasingly getting more feasible.

Soooo much this. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Revolution is only possible if we believe that it is. Lenin believed it was possible but not in his lifetime. Lenin got one and only one thing wrong and that was it. We can never know when The Moment will come and all we can do right now is to try to grow these organizations but more importantly to discipline them. To employ or advocate for rigorous vetting standards (LOOKING AT YOU NYC DSA although your rejection of propaganda about china is cool and good) would be a good start. Of course it seems that on some level the DSA is highly compromised but from what I have heard from folks basically every party is compromised in the US. We have been simmering in the sauce for so long it’s like the first Matrix movie how just random ass street food vendors suddenly turn into super powered agents of the state.

They hardly fuckin need COINTELPRO when mother fuckers like the person in that DSA leak just do it for them.

Oh I got a cowbee response I’m honored. Always like reading your posts/comments I always come away thinking how well thought out and well read they are. (As a longtime lemmygrad/hexbear/.ml lurker only recent poster)

Same! Cowbee is like the ML Mr. Miyagi out here. Always so implacably calm and collected with a seemingly supernatural level of patience and generosity when it comes to dealing with all the libs on lemmy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/1qizgrq/first_person_to_play_ck3_on_a_submarine/

From the comments in his history he was stationed in Guam. The account is now deleted but the comments on the OP are still there.

My guess was that he took the pic in the sub and uploaded it either while in port or on shore leave.

Also based on what the folks that claim to serve in the Navy in the thread were saying, mans is turbo fucked. Also allegedly a young black kid so of course they will probably throw the book at him, but that is was happens when you serve the most evil empire on the planet.

Honestly the more I looked into what this guys profile was the more bleak it got. Gooner addicted to AI slop, probably poor alienated kid gets swept up in a whirlwind of toxic masculinity and incel shit and thinks the only way is to join the imperial child murder factory. Ends up working IT probably because he wants to have that badge but is unwilling or afraid of the risk entailed in becoming a pilot or marine, ends up bored out of his mind living in a giant tin can that stinks like your little brother that never showers. You can’t complain to any of your shipmates because they either don’t care or don’t respect you because you are just the IT dweeb, so you post through it until you accidentally post classified shit and never should have been posting literally anything in the first place and now you are getting court marshal for fake internet points on a reddit post.

They got his name, his chatGPT login, his Xbox live username, all his socials. Man is cooked