Belly_Beanis [he/him] @ Belly_Beanis @hexbear.net

Professional troll and stay-at-home son.

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There are people still alive who grew up in residential schools. There are even people alive who knew survivors of the Trail of Tears. The genocide of Native Americans really wasn't that long ago and (like you said) still ongoing.

Obama forced an oil pipeline through indigenous land in what? 2014?

I thought that's what they all called Fern's spells? Like she's just using "Magic Missile" and "Shield," stuff that's been around decades before she was born. Other mages are using newer spells, some of them personal inventions.

This of course is why Fern is such a powerful mage. Quantity is a quality of its own. She can spam spells faster than other people. It's like she has a deck of 20x Lightning Bolts, 20x Ancestral Recalls, and 20x moxen while everyone else is using the most convoluted combo jank you've ever seen.

These are always so stupid because you can just point to Hollywood, which chuds are constantly seething over as being too liberal. Taylor Swift was their darling until she vaguely hinted at not liking Trump. Hell, a lot of Fox News staff are there because they couldn't make it in any other kind of showbiz (like Ben Shapiro).

You can fill up both sides of that chart pretty easily because surprise surprise, attractive people exist all over the political spectrum and we shouldn't use that as a litmus for intelligence.

Yeah there's a lot of ageism. Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, for example, would both be missing from this chart if they were still in their 20s or 30s.

Berserk is non-stop nightmare fuel and that's why so many sickos enjoy it (it's me. I'm the sicko).

Of course not, you silly goose! It hasn't undergone metamorphosis into an adult owl. Shit, it hasn't even built its chrysalis yet.

$1.50 is a good deal on wash rags tbh. Could use them in the garage for cleaning up chemicals.

She's also homophobic/transphobic, even though she doesn't think she is!

God I fucking hate liberals. Had to listen to my mom and her friend go off about Caitlyn Jenner. "I don't care if he want to be a woman or is gay or whatever. I just don't think he should be playing women's sports. To me, he's always going to be Bruce Jenner."

If you don't care, then why are you dead naming and misgendering her, while saying trans women can't compete in women's sports? I spoke up about how trans people have been allowed in the Olympics for years, yet the number of them who have won medals is tiny (I think 2 bronze metals in 30 years or some shit?). So either they deliberately lose because it "gives real women a chance!" or they win and it's "they had an unfair advantage!" There will be an excuse to unfairly penalize them, on top of all the usual bullshit.

So it's not just petite-bourgeois asshats. It's reactionary white people and people who settled on their worldview at 23 and have kept it the same for 40+ years because God forbid they read a fucking book that's non-fiction.

I'll take those, too.

I think the last time I wrote a check was when I was a teenager lmao. Uni was still on an old system and I had to write a check for tuition when I was 19.

Tamiya has a lot of kits in a variety of scales that are meant to be accurate display pieces. They often feature etched and die-cast metal for sharper details. Unfortunately, they've discontinued a lot of their Soviet stuff. I'm not sure if they're doing redesigns or pulled them altogether. You'll still find T-34 variants, though.

Rubicon Models does high quality 1/56 scale Soviet tanks (and trucks!). They pretty frequently have sales where kits drop down to like $15~$20 from $35. I have an ISU from them, but I haven't put it together yet.

Warlord has decent models, but they're often missing specific details of other manufacturers. The upside was being decently priced until rather recently. I have this KV-1/KV-2 I did:

"If it's so easy, then why haven't you done it? It's free money."

They can never answer this question.

Needs a CW for the use of a slur.

The term "politically correct" was born out of this. It describes the process in which bad things are made more palatable through renaming. Other examples include:

• war profiteering -> military industrial complex
• imperialism -> spreading democracy
• person killed by police -> officer-involved shooting
• schools experiencing de facto segregation -> inner-city schools
• white neighborhoods -> affluent neighborhoods

Notice how this is still framed as an attack on the father, not the daughters. This is being given the same amount of scrutiny as "Would you forgive Trump if he stole your car?" It's all about who owns the daughters' consent (which is anyone except themselves).

It also wasn't as lethal as it's depicted in film. They didn't always heat up the tar to a boiling point. Sometimes it was more room temperature. This meant the person was in a more pain and discomfort while a lynch mob beat them. It's still going to cause injuries, make it hard to breath, and get in your eyes, mouth, and ears.

It's the difference between pouring gasoline on someone and burning them to death vs. putting out a cigarette in their eyes. One version will kill you. The other won't, but it's still incredibly cruel and painful.

One thing I hate about America is we stopped at the Atlantic instead of marching on Buckingham Palace.

They use similar terms when talking about the Soviet Union and CPC. It's a thought terminating cliché. "Mao killed 100 million people! It was a genocide against his own people!"

These same people then can't explain how Mao killed 100 million people. Like we know how the Nazis carried out the Holocaust. They primarily used gas chambers and then ovens to cremate the bodies. Others were worked to death. A lot of people were just tortured, shot, hanged, or stabbed.

But when talking about the Four Pests Campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civil War, the Warlord Era in general, the Gang of Four, and the Deng reforms? Silence. They don't even know what these words are. Somehow, 100 million people just did that. Mao looked at the grain and it spontaneously combusted, then the army I guess shot anyone who didn't clap for this amazing magic trick.

Then, if you bring any of this up, they look at you with a blank expression before accusing you of Holocaust denial because you say "Yeah, maybe those 100 million landlords, Japanese collaborators, and fascists following Chiang Kai-shek deserved it."

This was one of the reasons slave owners spread Christianity among their slaves. Slaves will continue to be slaves if they think the next life is worse. Otherwise, there'd be nothing to stop them from doing a hunger strike or worse.

I had to watch this show with my mom. It was okay, but I really hate procedurals and "monster of the week" stories. The practical effects were great, especially for TV shows which have smaller budgets than films. There were too many different storylines going on creating serious implications for the world building.

It's definitely a Boomer show, written by Boomers for Boomers. The technobable was the worst part of it. So many episodes seemed like something the writers saw on r*ddit and decided to make an episode about it. They mentioned they had people who comb social media for plot ideas. They did not consult actual experts in these subjects, however. The lucid dreaming and "China Bad!" plots are prime examples.

And then it just kind of ends. So I guess none of these stories mattered because Katya moves her kids to Rome, divorces her husband, and continues to have a weird relationship with Michael the priest because Allah forbid we make stories without romance subplots.