I didn’t open the bloomer hope thread cuz I’m a curmudgeon, but I thought of an answer: it’s very likely we’ll live to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump die and I think there will be tremendous energy and cathartic celebrations when that happens. So, that’s something that I look forward to
Spending today at work reading wikipedia pages related to the siege of Leningrad. I can’t fathom the despair those people felt, yet they still resisted so fiercely.
Currently reading about the Diary of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who documented the deaths of her family members, one by one, until it was just her. She dug trenches and put out fires as her part of the war effort.
Her older sister worked double shifts at a mine factory and then donated blood after work. All this while only being given a 9oz ration of bread each day. She died of exhaustion/malnutrition, along with 100,000 others every month for 900 days.
Thinking of the teamsters driving trucks across frozen Lake Ladoga’s “road of life” who fell through the ice trying to deliver supplies to the besieged city.
Would love to be there for next year’s 80th VE Day
Yeah I support the troops
My “this is not a sting operation” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
I thought the “volcano” might be a “motte and bailey” castle but maybe not
Whatever you pick, make it a one word twitch handle
I’ve done home mechanic work up to timing belt changes, but a head gasket is where I would throw in the towel. If you haven’t done similar work on a car before, you’ll probably get overwhelmed and risk taking it apart and not being able to get it back together again. The price sounds about right unfortunately; you could maybe “find a guy” would do it for ~$1-2k but with no guarantee of quality or money back. You can’t sell a car in California with a check engine light or without smog, so you’re really up a creek there. The state might have a program where they pay you $1-1.5k to retire the car.
Too much I guess
Kinda wild how the system keeps legions of thugs on-call, nationwide, that can be assembled at a moment’s notice to inflict legal violence on whatever the target population is
Succinct
On the other hand, my airsoft load out is tailored to the OpFor look because I like to pretend I’m hunting NATO operators 
Just learned about this one recently
On the other hand, this world is too much
Notes for communist revolutionaries:
If you don’t use an iron fist, your detractors will say you use an iron fist to crush dissent and they will manipulate the will of the people against you. After you fail and your supporters are rounded up and executed, they’ll blame the failure on your ruthless authoritarianism.
If you use an iron fist, your detractors will say you use an iron fist to crush dissent, and you may lose favor among the people. You may find yourself doing questionable acts to hold onto power. However, you may actually succeed. Your detractors will say you are a ruthless authoritarian.
Sucks for the blood spilled in the second choice, but at least you’ll have something to show for it when the dust settles
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2022/11/23/air-force-f-35-lightning-iis-still-cant-fly-within-25-miles-of-lightning/?sh=7659da1e663e dated 2022, but covers the issue in detail.
Good meme. Maybe Denial should be the Democrat party logo?
Depicting the Soviets as an effective counter to American interests increased their popularity. Makes sense to me
Trusting, of all people, elon musk, to set up your satellite weapons system? What a relief for comrade Xi
Dissociated lefty was pretty spot on