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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 11h

I don't think they actually want the shutdown to end

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 11h

I love this idea that the US was not profiting off WW2 in 1940

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 11h

Why?

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 18h

This whole "people talking more about one bad thing than another is because of hypocrisy, not just choosing to focus on something" is insane. Like, are we supposed to devote 100% of our energy to every single possible topic exactly equally?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, why would someone born in Israel who has never left Israel have Polish citizenship?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

These suggestions are baby shit. Where's the "set up a checkpoint and ask for bribes"?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

"There are hundreds of thousands, even millions who will believe the lie" is pretty good news for a country of 340 million people

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

Even the ones that are descended from Polish Jews do not have fucking Polish citizenship

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

"Why aren't you trying to singlehandedly overpower The State's Entire Capacity For Violence?"

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 1d

I think they just really like trolls

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

consider: it looks really really cool

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Ukraine discords are great for this

discord channel '#3-battlefield-status-updates' with threads 'Zapo doom thread', 'Kupyansk doom thread', and 'Pokrovsk doom thread'

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

went and checked, it was $63 pre-tariff

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

It does but it also literally names the point of no return area "The Heart Of Darkness"

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Also Far Cry 2 is right there

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

And yeah, other media forms are seeing this same degeneration. There are a lot of comic books that are simply boring because they are written by people who only read comic books and not genre fiction in general.

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, this exactly. If you look at games that HAVE held up as being well-written (for instance, Half-Life or Max Payne), the common throughline is they hired someone who actually wrote books.

It's not like hiring an author is expensive, either!

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Given the entire AAA industry is slowly going bust I wouldn't be surprised if the AAs end up picking up the slack and reverting to "just hire a starving scifi writer" and these weird overthinky conventions go away

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah my basic view is it is probably bleak either way, but I strongly strongly distrust any arguments based on "the Israeli side is negotiating in good faith and can be trusted to actually give something up in exchange for concessions".

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Like, all it takes is them saying "look, they were preparing a rocket attack, we had to launch this strike" and it's back on within days.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

I am skeptical because they have previously acted on a hair trigger at any and all violence in Gaza, and they have a long history of making spurious claims with no evidence to justify offensive actions.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

What reason do we have to believe that the Israeli state would be persuaded by Hamas laying down its arms?

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

I love how they're like 15 years into their obsession with that word and still think no one has tried it before

Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

I already complained about the fact that this genre of post completely ignores every superhero that isn't Batman or the MCU, but even then: Batman has a shit ton of villains that represent Gotham's status quo!
Two-Face! The Penguin! Rupert Thorne! The mob! GCPD corruption! The list goes on!

Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think the working-class Jewish artists who came up with superheroes invented supervillains as part of a devious plot to preserve the Great Depression status quo, I think that in a visual medium you need something you can put in a panel with the hero

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 6d

No.

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Martin #509 @martin509.bsky.social · 2d

Really on the nose for Canadians to tune into baseball and find out we're
- up against "the Yankees"
- the Yankees are used to winning all the time forever
- and their fans are right wing chuds

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