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Just browsing, thanks.
I'm sure the Troops (tm) will be rising up to save Americans from authoritarianism any minute now, no need for Americans to do any work themselves.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My favorite example of this is that the US shipped enough food to the USSR that the Soviets sent over the recipe for "Tushonka", a Russian-style braised pork stew, and the US started canning that and providing it as aid.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
From Orwell's "Wells, Hitler and the World State":
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yes, truly the Troops (tm) are the beaten-down victims in all of this. We should pity them, really.
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When I read "1984", this passage from the first chapter burned itself into my head and never really left.

The US Navy murdering people in the Caribbean to produce TV content for the chuds to hoot at is a very depressing parallel.
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A map showing San Juan de Unare in relation to Trinidad, for reference.
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Again, eleven people is too many for a boat carrying drugs. It's about right for smuggling people.
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Pretty sure this is the same Sandhill colt from May, all grown up. #birds
September 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
August 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Military dictatorships exist everywhere, but there is no such thing as a naval dictatorship."

-George Orwell, "England Your England"
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I feel like this comic panel from fieldexplores.bsky.social captures the essence of remote IT support.
August 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
There's a real irony in America giving MRAPs to the East Tumbleweed, OK PD while planning to have real combat troops ride around in vehicles with about as much armor protection as a golf cart.
August 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's also referenced in the famous opening of AJP Taylor's "English History, 1914-1945":
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I'd make a snarky comment, but after reading the details I'm kind of afraid to.
June 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is the source of the quote, which I would wager a big ol' pile of Euros that the guy with the tattoo does not know.
June 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
FOX RIVER ZOUAVES REPRESENT
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Baby Sandhill at the park. #birds
May 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There was a sense among the original Bolsheviks that Communism would change everything and make previous cultures obsolete.

The conclusion of Trotsky's "Literature and Revolution" reads like a Transhumanist manifesto.
May 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM