Neat! I am glad to have helped connect some dots! Your description fired some neurons and I had to think back to a Halloween party in maybe 1993 or so.

Shot in the dark here: “The Willies”. It’s kids telling horror stories and there’s one story about a bully killing monster “Bad Apples” is the story.

Really young Sean Astin.

Edit: found a trailer, excuse the youtube.

https://youtu.be/yT6lRRuMZyQ

Out of curiosity, was the monster humanoid and it dragged a teacher into the ceiling?

This war?

The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands.

However… if we’re just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would’ve expected it to be so good, and have since determined it’s best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.

There’s much less direct military funding and support fueling Sudan so most people have no real outlet or mechanism for addressing it beyond support for humanitarian aid efforts and the UN.

There’s not an easily identified or direct policy that can be pointed at, as if an actor were receiving billions direct military aid and support. Like, even Israel is split on which side they’re supporting. Ukraine and Russia alike have supported opposition to the RSF.

I have been online since the 90s in mostly gaming spaces. Misogyny and racism feels like the default state.

Spaces that are able to rise out of that are exceptional.

I mean it’s such an incredibly unambiguous 9-0 on a legal basis and he still got three nonetheless.

They’re not thinking that far ahead and likely give zero shits either way.

I bet they chose to tell this guy they support Russia just to make arresting this guy more abusive.

There’s a few centuries of the British Empire gaming that concept available for reference, but yes. The British consider the undeclared war that resulted in Singapore to be a success.

I knew a Brit that felt they should’ve kept it with violence, consequences be damned. So there was always the straight-up colonial option.

They also supported Brexit.

This and Midvale School for the Gifted were some of my favorite Far Side comics.

This one in particular I remember doodling iterations of in class as a kid. Peak comedy to my elementary self.

Well, no it won’t change the true believers minds outright. That is true. But I do know the biggest divisions we’ve seen in public with the GOP has been over the epstein files.

Anecdotally it’s the only topic the chuds I know don’t want to discuss, be aware of, or have to do the work to justify.

So if anything it thins their ranks a bit, which is absolutely a worthwhile end. No other wedge issue has been as effective.

It’s the only thing that actually threatens his base of support.

Epstein files is the only thing that shuts the chuds up. They’re cheering about Venezuela and getting off to ICE murders. But they, for whatever reason, only draw the line at pedophilic elitism.

whataboutism Lockwarden

So you know the greater context then, of the British in Tibet, at the very least.

The British Empire, whistling innocently.

Qinxian made a decision that saved countless lives, much like Arkhipov in the 60s.

None of these are mutually exclusive.

• American assets,
• lunatic nationalists who happen to side with the US for a variety of reasons,
• more or less reasonable (for politician standards), but still afraid to confront the US in any way.

Category #3 is just as afraid of the lunatic nationalists as defying American interests. This is, from my perspective, why Europe has traditionally had some issues with ultranationalism.

Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.