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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.
The Troops (tm) Hootin' and Hollerin' with joy during Donald Trump's visit to Fort Bragg back in June
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A screenshot of a Twitter post by user @krfabian. It reads: my name is Boar and wen im tired (but shipping werk is still required) then all I want is lyttle snooze i turn to side i blok the Sooz
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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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.
A WWII-era Purina Mills advertisement showing Red Army soldiers eating stew as other soldiers unload crates of US-produced food from a truck in the background. The advertisement reads "Thanks to the American farmer . . . Nikolai gets his Tushonka"
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Mr. Burns looking at a terrarium filled with tarantulas crawling over a miniature model of the power plant, saying "Whoop-de-do, Tarantula Town."
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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From Orwell's "Wells, Hitler and the World State":
"The early Bolsheviks may have been angels or demons, according as one chooses to regard them, but at any rate they were not sensible men. They were not introducing a Wellsian Utopia but a Rule of the Saints, which, like the English Rule of the Saints, was a military despotism enlivened by witchcraft trials."
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Yes, truly the Troops (tm) are the beaten-down victims in all of this. We should pity them, really.
The Troops (tm) Hootin' and Hollerin' with joy during Donald Trump's visit to Fort Bragg back in June
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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"Hamlet", Act II, Scene 2 POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert. HAMLET God’s bodykins, man, much better! Use every man after his desert and who shall ’scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in.
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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.
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never --
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A map showing San Juan de Unare in relation to Trinidad, for reference.
Map showing the proximity of San Juan de Unare in Venezuela and the island of Trinidad
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Again, eleven people is too many for a boat carrying drugs. It's about right for smuggling people.
But some officials at the Defense Department privately expressed concern on Wednesday about the administration’s shifting narratives, including where the vessel was headed. Mr. Rubio had said on Tuesday that it was going to Trinidad, while Mr. Trump said the United States. On Wednesday, Mr. Rubio changed his version, saying the drug-laden boat was bound for the United States.
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Pretty sure this is the same Sandhill colt from May, all grown up. #birds
A juvenile sandhill crane (on the left) sitting in the grass next to one of its parents.
September 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A sign saying "You are leaving the Normie Sector" in English, Russian, French, and German.
August 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"Military dictatorships exist everywhere, but there is no such thing as a naval dictatorship."

-George Orwell, "England Your England"
"It is quite true that the English are hypocritical about their Empire. In the working class this hypocrisy takes the form of not knowing that the Empire exists. But their dislike of standing armies is a perfectly sound instinct. A navy employs comparatively few people, and it is an external weapon which cannot affect home politics directly. Military dictatorships exist everywhere, but there is no such thing as a naval dictatorship. What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is the swaggering officer type, the jingle of spurs and the crash of boots. Decades before Hitler was ever heard of, the word ‘Prussian’ had much the same significance in England as ‘Nazi’ has today. So deep does this feeling go that for a hundred years past the officers of the British army, in peace time, have always worn civilian clothes when off duty."
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I feel like this comic panel from fieldexplores.bsky.social captures the essence of remote IT support.
A cartoon koala in a camp counselor's uniform is crouching down to answer a question for a little kid cartoon cat. She's smiling and asking "Yes?" The little kid replies "I POOPED MA PANTS!"
August 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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.
The army's M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle. Essentially a lengthened dune buggy providing zero protection for troops.
August 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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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A unioinist mural in Ulster which has been changed, Simpsons style, with spray paint from "Ulster will always remain British no surrender" to "Ulster will always remain British? No, surrender!"
July 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A David Squires cartoon from the Guardian, showing Karl Marx as a drunk, shirtless soccer hooligan wearing a bucket hat. He's singing these lines: "Wem-ber-lee, wem-ber-lee, From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. No surrender, no surrender, NO SURRENDER to the bourgoisie!" There's a rowdy crowd behind him and a plastic chair flying through the air.
July 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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A copy of the "sickos" meme, with the man peering theough the window wearing a Cossack haircut and mustache, and with a Ukrainian trident on his shirt.
July 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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June 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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I'd make a snarky comment, but after reading the details I'm kind of afraid to.
A screenshot of the Fallout 4 video game achievement "Masshole". The requirement to unlock it is listed as "Kill 300 people".
June 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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.
A Dril tweet that reads "IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL"
June 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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FOX RIVER ZOUAVES REPRESENT
An 1861 poster instructing the Fox River Zouaves to muster into service at Macnish Hall in Berlin, Wisconsin
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Baby Sandhill at the park. #birds
Two Sandhill Cranes on a path in a park with a little colt (chick) following them.
May 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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.
Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the heights of consciousness, to make them transparent, to extend the wires of his will into hidden recesses, and thereby to raise himself to a new plane, to create a higher social biologic type, or, if you please, a superman. It is difficult to predict the extent of self-government which the man of the future may reach or the heights to which he may carry his technique. Social construction and psycho-physical self-education will become two aspects of one and the same process. All the arts – literature, drama, painting, music and architecture will lend this process beautiful form. More correctly, the shell in which the cultural construction and self-education of Communist man will be enclosed, will develop all the vital elements of contemporary art to the highest point. Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.
May 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM