Oh hey, I liked him as Captain Saru. /s
Oh hey, I liked him as Captain Saru. /s
That’s the thing about martyrs - nobody NEEDS to fill his shoes. They just need to claim to be “carrying on his legacy” and constantly refer back to him, and that’s good enough for a large portion of the cult.
We’ve seen this exact thing happen with a lot of cults that have gone mainstream - it happened with Mormonism, and it happened with Scientology.
Additionally, with the firepower at just the US’ disposal, we could level almost every major pop center in Russia. Waves of Tomahawks, ICBMs and bombers could do it without the US putting boots on the ground. We nearly did this with Baghdad back in 02.
Oh definitely. Dude thought “wow this is my chance to be a hero”, I’m sure.
Yup, this is a pretty well-known tactic, sadly. It’s effectively just paper terrorism - instead of doing the harder work of getting people incited to ACTUALLY kill people or do violence, you get them to do minor shit instead; bomb threats, assaults, etc, and use that as a smokescreen for the people who were already planning to do violence to go do violence effectively unchallenged.
About 35% here in my little corner of Ohio.
I think this is what they’re hoping for: Trump holds on until the election, then kicks the bucket a month into office so Vance, a far more naked and coherent authoritarian, can take his place and start signing whatever he wants, with little to no fanfare or recognition because he’s happy to just have power.
Basically this. There’s a lot of racists who assume that since they’re not burning a cross or lynching every Black person they meet, they’re JUST NOT RACISTS.
There’s two things in most prisons that will get you targeted: fucking with kids and fucking with animals.
To paraphrase the 10th Doctor, don’t you think he looks tired?
Amphetamine abuse does that, and it’s been pretty well documented the man eats Adderall like candy.
And is suspiciously dodgy when asked “are you planning to use military force to do so”.
According to my news feed here in Cincinnati, there have apparently been Springfielders going to town council meetings and saying this as well (specifically, they had one clip of a dude complaining about Haitians “cutting the heads off ducks and eating them”?) Snopes says no evidence, as well.
Behind the Bastards did a great two parter on how liberal media basically let Mussolini and Hitler rise to power unchallenged because they were so busy trying to appear “fair” and “neutral” and “objective” even as journalists and editors were being executed in the streets.
To be fair, if I’m NASA, who’s had two fatal incidents with known damaged spacecraft, I’m also not sending two astronauts down on a known damaged spacecraft.
No, there’s no one like that because they figure they’ve shifted the window so much that they won’t lose actual committed voters even if they start, say, spouting Neonazi talking points.
It wouldn’t have surprised me if WOTC dropped D&D as a brand if Honor Among Thieves had flopped.
And in some cases, the IP getting a shit movie or show can tell the game developers “well, time to drop the entire brand for 15 years”.
Yup. The trans community has been doing this with HRT meds for YEARS because it was either straight up illegal, or almost impossible to obtain access because of the dozens of hoops you had to jump through.
Considering the Klan is recruiting there now…