My best guess is Nepal will be used to try and force a divide between India and China. Idk if they'll pull some Ukraine-style land dispute that pulls one or the other into invading and causes border drama, or if they're just going to use it as a base for ethno-nationalist tensions and trying to tear the Himalayan region apart through sedition. Hopefully both countries can keep the shit contained and, within another decade, we'll see leftists booting out the puppets in Nepal again.
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Yeesh. Not a pleasant time.
I would have been surprised if they did. There's just a lot of misinformation and overcorrection going around, so I'm hearing "they're making up the trans roommate" more often than not, and it's all getting confused for me.
So, is the trans partner/roommate thing true or not? It's hard to get any facts straight.
"Mission failed successfully" moment.
That's not just a fairy tail, that's My Little Pony. The symbol is a fandom thing representing the wings and horn of a princess, but with a star over it to make it socialist I guess. You got a socialist brony Romanian flag off AliExpress, and that's hilarious.
I would if I could, but aside from teaching English (which I have terrible experience with), I don't think I have any labor to offer that would get me a visa or a job there...
This would make a great short film. Like an episode of Black Mirror or something in that vein.
Bird shit is also white. What's his point?
Liberals would liken him to an "evil Chinese dictator" stereotype like they try to pretend him and Putin are "evil Stalin" stereotypes. Probably see memes of Trump as Mao, and a revival of anti-CPC discourse, but applied to Trump as "ruining America" or "selling us how to foreign powers" or "wanting to be authoritarian".
In all the ways that matter, nothing significant. He's a duplicitous bastard who can't be trusted, so he may talk nice about Xi for a week before going "he's not giving us Taiwan even though I asked nicely, what a tyrant" and going right back to anti-China warhawking. China certainly isn't going to do anything for him just because he showed up to a parade. No other country is going to change their views because of it. US rivals know the US is two-faced and vile, and Trump is the personification of it. US allies hate him for saying the quiet part out loud but jump when the US says "frog" anyway.
What is the name of the song?
Last of the repaint 'Mechs I have so far, it's the Lyran Guards from the Lyran Commonwealth. A pretty popular color scheme and I can see why. The cyan and white really pop.
The Lyran Commonwealth is a German-coded faction with a heavy emphasis on mercantilism, to the point where their military suffers from "social officers" - officers who merely buy their ranks and positions, rather than based on their quality. At one point, the Lyran Commonwealth joins up with the Federated Suns to form the Federated Commonwealth, becoming the dominant power for awhile. War and internal divisions inevitably lead to them breaking apart, though.
I'm really happy with how these turned out, though. Very crisp. Some of my best work with any minis.
Second lance I repainted in canon colors: the Free Worlds Guards of the Free Worlds League. I went with which color schemes I liked best, not the best names.
The Free Worlds League is really more of a loose confederation of various duchies and individual worlds that united for mutual defense. They are, canonically, paralyzed by this lack of centralized leadership, with the various near-sovereign political bodies constantly bickering and countermanding each other. The only time the FWL can effectively unite is when House Marik, one of the setting's five Great Houses, takes over and forms a military junta. They're the most ethnically/religiously diverse of the Successor States, and are genuinely depicted as rather benign. Still ruled by nobility, and its constituent states range in practices and freedoms of its worlds.
Honestly know the least about this Great House/Successor State, and very little about this military unit. I just liked the color scheme.
Not Warhammer, but I'm hoping the community doesn't care. I didn't want to post to Lemmyworld, because BattleTech community is - like the Warhammer community - plagued with fans that can't see the issues with the franchise.
These are Death Commandos, an elite military unit that are loyal to the Chancellor of the Capellan Confederation. They are canonically very skilled and ruthless pilots, able to conduct secret missions and leave no survivors, be it as infantry or as MechWarriors.
I could (and probably will) make a post about everything I find wrong about the Capellan Confederation in due time, but to summarize: imagine if you combined every negative trait about Nazi Germany (but dial the racism back from "master race and genocide" to "our culture is dominant and people should look and act like us"), the military incompetence of fascist Italy, and the underhanded deception and sinister machinations of the US and UK (particularly the overreliance on deception, proxy wars, war crime-grade weapons, and subterfuge). Now, imagine if you coded the entire faction as Han Chinese/Russian. To top it all off, the leaders are genetically disposed to being insane, and incestuous, and they have a rigid caste system and a violent, evil Thugee cult (the cult the British made up to help justify brutalizing India; it's real in this setting, and members of the Capellan leadership follow it). And they call themselves socialist because centralized economy.
I could write a thesis paper about the Capellan Confederation and what it says about the creators, and the fanbase, but I'll save more ranting for another post. Suffice it to say, it's the biggest hurdle for leftists to enjoy the setting, and given the general libertarian bent of the fandom, that's not surprising. Would love it if more comrades could like it, too. Just like Warhammer: why should rightoids get all the fun?
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Pointing out the hypocrisy of libs talking more about annexing Greenland as a bad thing instead of the Venezuela situation would have made more sense. Also, sneering at people for being outraged at fascist excesses in the US is... a choice.