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Walking MAGTF (ret) 🦅🌎⚓
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Because it's clear that the US is going to let Russia run roughshod over Ukraine in any manner in which they see fit.
Or, as Donald Trump once put it: "do to whatever the hell they want." Don't forget that was his starting position of this "negotiation."
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Can we please fucking ban the phrase "meet the moment?" It is among the absolute most useless political pundit verbal vomit.
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To be clear: sexism is still extremely apparent in kojima's work, as in so many other video games, particularly those from Japan. I just don't think the character names are indicative of that.
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Pointing out names like Quiet or Fragile as evidence of sexism (isn't that the implication here?) is ignoring the fact that male characters also get bizarre or thematic names:
Die-Hardman, Hot Coldman, Vulcan Raven, Revolver Ocelot, Psycho Mantis, Skull Face, Fatman...
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(Sorry for multiple responses; still trying to muddle my way through BlueSky like an octogenarian luddite.)
Kojima's naming conventions are all over the place, regardless of gender. His games feature a mix of serious, symbolic, absurd, and self-aware names across both male and female characters.
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The technofeudalism which will replace the liberal world order is so much worse.
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If there isn't enough evidence to bring charges, let the people go. Anything else is unconscionable.
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It's the least you can do considering your second favorite oligarch, King Mierdas, gave you a quarter million dollars.
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Camp Justice? Is that seriously what we're calling the base at Gitmo where we've imprisoned people without charges for literal decades?
Irony has died.
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Can't wait for SCOTUS to arbitrarily and capriciously decide that the First Amendment doesn't apply to Green Card holders.
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I'm available.
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Okay, but what the actual fuck is a liquid snake or a revolver ocelot?
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The VA is a great example of a service provided by the government for a fraction of the cost of the private sector. What's happening now is the culmination of four decades of effort to completely dismantle the entire federal government and privatize everything, to include the VA.
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This kind of hypercapitalist, objectivist bullshit is exactly what you should expect of a modern-day robber baron who thinks that reading Ayn Rand is the the same thing as getting a political education.
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And here it is confirmed. Imagine being such a sociopathic piece of shit that you honestly think that empathy is somehow a weakness of human psychology.
Where are my evolutionary biologists at? Someone please explain the utility of empathy, from a purely objective and empirical point of view.
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Come for the big sword waifus slaying giant monsters. Stay for the big sword waifus slaying giant monsters.
I'm unaware of any plot.
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Do not pretend that he isn't the most objectively unqualified guy to ever disgrace this position.
Spasibo, comrades. Your rubles are in the mail.
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Wow, it really seems like you've left out some very important details in an attempt to pretend that this guy. I'll help you:
He had never led an organization larger than a platoon before this, and he was fired from those veterans' organizations that you cited for extremely troubling reasons.