Water prevalent in Pacific Ocean
She gained my suspicion the moment she started posting anti-vegan shit.
The good news is that Israel had a limited window of surprise and it exhausted that before it could deal a killing blow.
In many cases it's because they live in that empire and benefit from its economic subjugation of the world.
It goes well for Porky.
I can't think of Tolkien's work without thinking of Marx' words on "Feudal Socialism":
Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.
In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.
The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.
That's the one! Thank you.
His vision was realized with the creation of Reddit
C'mon Pakistan, you have over 100 nukes, you can spot Iran a few
Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.
Libs sure do love ignoring the basic fact that the choices of those without power are constrained by those with power.
Simplicius is now only more sure than ever that Israel expected the decapitation strikes to cause an immediate collapse, and when that did not happen, Israel was forced to go to Trump and get the US involved because Israel cannot handle a war of attrition with Iran (running out of interceptors to protect critical infrastructure)
This is what has me absolutely convinced that the US is going to get involved. No way it gives up its staging area in the Middle East without a fight.
Really hoping this turns out to be America's Suez Crisis though
Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series
It's basically a Bible "End Times" movie but without the Rapture
I wasn't familiar with the right-wing Bircher paranoia that influenced Christian end-times eschatology at the time so I recognized that the cinematography was portraying the Antichrist as sinister but I couldn't figure out why he was supposed to be bad? He was uniting the world into a global democratic union and preaching cooperation and an end to war and I didn't see what the problem was supposed to be. Then he made himself dictator and started mass-executing dissidents and that felt like it came out of nowhere.
Casper Van Dien and Michael Ironside are both in them. I dunno if that's a coincidence or if the creators were fans of Starship Troopers
The US and China team up to take down the Antichrist's global dictatorship (this would never get made today lmao)
The second movie's climax is Casper fistfighting a CGI Devil
Why is that? I would think the USSR staying around as a rival power would make things more difficult, not less difficult, for the west.