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Luthier, writer, musician. Hearing impaired. The whole show at Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Currently writing & recording with Last Valley. Queer. He/him. San Diego, CA. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here are mine alone. crowfootguitars.com
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The morals of the story, I suppose, are that secret police tend to be dipshits, paranoid authoritarian regimes tend to be bad at communication and coordination, big shit can turn on tiny accidents, and fucking nobody likes being fucking shot at.
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The army commander gave the order to stop, pull back, and wait a second. He then said, essentially, "fuck these fucking guys," and ordered his men to attack the AVH, which they did, with gusto.
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The AVH was clashing with rebels at the building. The army sent a unit to support them. As soldiers moved in, the AVH assumed they were siding with rebels and opened fire on the army.
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And of course I'm sure it was, in part. But in the late 90s, more documents and accounts came out about what actually happened. Turns out that the army's siding with rebels hinged on a fucked up fight over the state radio building.
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(This all dates from my time in grad school in the late 90s. This may have been overturned by subsequent study.) Up until the late 90s, most everyone interpreted the Hungarian army's fighting against the AVH (secret police) during the uprising as an ideological siding with 'the people.'
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We're crying. We're all crying.
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Hiiiii, lady!
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Taco Bell tacos have a mixed record. Sometimes they cause explosive diarrhea, and sometimes they cause projectile vomiting. Mixed.
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When my dad was at the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) they taught that, when burned, destroy as much of your sensitive documents and materials as possible and head for your predetermined extraction point. I am so sorry I had to post this.
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Where’s YOUR apology, Chuck? I don’t believe the office of @schumer.senate.gov should be exempt from accountability, either.
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also, this is a fundamentally internecine theological conflict that's totally illegible to the millions of nonchristians who have to deal with endless fuckshit in jesus' name from the state and federal governments, if you care at all abt that
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im not saying "all christians are bad"
im saying disavowal is cowardly when people are actively using jesus as a sledgehammer to crush other people, and if your primary interest is in defending jesus' brand, i question your priorities
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call them bad christians or apostates or heretics but they worship the same god as you do deal with it
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I'm just the billionth person to say it, but we collectively seem to learn so very little, to understand so little of what we see, and forget what little we understand so quickly. Soul sick.
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All I could manage for them was that I didn't find it funny and I must have hit my fun limit for the moment. But can't stop thinking about the things I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the things you don't even have to see for yourself to know that an avoidable war is one you avoid.
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And then I popped over to a couple of decent, intelligent colleagues' offices to alert them to this fact. Their reaction was to laugh and make jokes about Iran soon being owned by Chevron and covered with Dollar Generals and so on.
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And then I saw that the president had just kind of casually, unofficially made a demand for the unconditional surrender of a country we're not technically, legally at war with. Via his personal social media platform.
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And then I saw the mother ship's Juneteenth message go out, somehow managing to commemorate the holiday without making a single reference to African-Americans.
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Yes, of course I know that Big Tough Guys always prefer to murder people with penis trucks. It was an aspirational skeet. Just hoping for a better world where Big Tough Guys learn to use screwdrivers.