i realize i havent actually talked about my sideblogs and stuff on here in like 10k years, so,
if you use the other bad blue site you can find me at @jazzcatte@twitter.com.
i post about gay media at @witchkisser (very occasionally)
i post about stupid videogames at @tankclub (even more occasionally)
Honestly the reddit API thing kinda has me freaked out. Not that I care too much about reddit specifically, but it's a sign of just how much borrowed time social media is really on, how much pressure there is and how little money is really left to go around. "We" all knew back in 2008 that none of this was built to last, that everything would collapse when it couldn't turn a profit. It kept proving us wrong somehow, but it looks like that might finally be over.
I hope tumblr stays around for a few years at least. I hope even if it doesn't, that it doesn't just go down one day, never to return. And I hope when it finally does go away, as all things do, that there's still something left, either Discord or some new platform, or hell, even irc or forums if nothing else. Just.... something. I'm not sure how I'd ever manage to talk to anyone like me otherwise. If this is the end of the golden age of the internet, I have to say I wish I'd been less productive the last twenty years and spend more time goofing off while it lasted.
been stuck with a terrible feeling that one of the episodes in the new black mirror season is gonna end with a title card like "the program you just watched was written by artificial intelligence" and they're going to be so smug about it and we'll all have to talk about it for weeks
oh hey apollo
lol
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
me most of the time: I don't think intelligence is a useful metric or even something quantifiable. it's an idea that does and always has done more harm than good
me reading yet another person react to dragon's dogma 2 having monster ai by assuming they meant image generation or chatgpt or something: a lot of you are very stupid
"why did capcom mention monsters and companions using ai to create gameplay?"
are you familiar with the conceit of a "video game"
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months
This is one of my top 10 most quoted/riffed on lines of all time. I say "may God bless and keep _______ far away from us" at least once a week.
we really are doing it like nobody else though. no other country in the world could have train-based catholic oppression
northern ireland is not the real world. i'm convinced we're a social experiment designed to create white on white racism
northern ireland is a country designed to hurt anyone who goes there just to see how we evolve to cope with it
Need you to understand, my friends and i get together for WGF (white gilgamesh Friday) and we holler that jingle like a drinking song and whoever finishes their gilgamesh last gets hit with a board.
youre actually insane for this. thank you so much for sharing
Could a 4/4 time guy and a 7/8 time guy really find love
gee i wonder what's gonna come up when i google lotta svard
hm. that doesn't look good. wonder who this guy is
oh. no correlation with nazis though. i'm sure this was just a coincidence. wonder if finland did anything in world war 2
idk if it was me i would simply not ally myself with the nazis. kind of a skill issue
This myth always gets perpetuated when Lenin himself allowed Finland to freely dissociate themselves from the USSR upon its founding (a grave mistake!). The Winter War was fought more or less over the question of "will you at least commit to not letting Nazis pass through your country to invade the USSR yes or no," which the Finns chose to answer by siding with the Nazis and giving Nazis passage over their land, giving an advantage to the Nazis (this is bad, if you aren't following at home) that could have been avoided.
I did not expect this to leave my immediate friend group, but since someone linked this on Setz's response, I will link the sources from which I draw my claims (previously thought to be unneeded since my immediate social group is already familiar). In fact, I don't even have to use sources that are overly deferential to the USSR, as we'll see.
This was the soviet demand, from a Finnish source in 1940:
“In the negotiations with Finland, the Soviet Union is mainly concerned with the settlement of two questions: a) securing the safety of Leningrad; b) becoming satisfied that Finland will maintain firm, friendly relations with the Soviet Union. In order to fulfil this duty, it is necessary: (1) To make it possible to block the opening of the Gulf of Finland by means of artillery fire from both coasts of the Gulf of Finland in order to prevent warships and transport ships of the enemy penetrating, to the waters of the Gulf of Finland. (2) To make it possible to prevent the access of the enemy to those islands in the Gulf of Finland which are situated west and north-west of the entrance to Leningrad. (3) To have the Finnish frontier in the Karelian Isthmus, which is now at a distance of 32 km. from Leningrad, i.e., within the range of long-distance artillery, moved somewhat farther northwards and northwestwards”. (‘The Development of Finnish-Soviet Relations of 1939″;Helsinki 1940; p. 49-50).
This is, of course, with Nazis rapidly advancing into Soviet land.
The Finnish internal position was this:
“If the Soviet Union should make proposals regarding the creation of Soviet Union military bases on the Finnish mainland, or, e.g., on the Aaland Islands, such proposals should be rejected and any discussion thereof refused. The same applies to any proposals referring to frontier adjustments on the Karelian Isthmus. . . . . If the Soviet Union suggests the conclusion of a treaty of mutual assistance, . . it should be pointed out that such a treaty is not compatible with Finland’s policy of neutrality”. (‘The Development of Finnish-Soviet Relations . . . ‘; ibid.; p.47, 49).
To this end, Stalin offered Finland an exchange of land:
“It is not the fault of either of us that geographical circumstances are as they are. We must be able to bar entrance to the Gulf of Finland. . . . . Once a hostile fleet is in the Gulf, the Gulf can no longer be defended. You ask what power might attack us. England or Germany. We are on good terms with Germany now, but everything in this world may change. Yudenich* attacked through the Gulf of Finland, and later the British did the same. This can happen again. If you’re afraid to give us bases on the mainland, we can dig a canal round Hanko Neck. . We ask that the distance of Leningrad to the line should be 70 kilometres. That is minimum demand, and you must not think we are prepared to reduce it bit by bit. We can’t move Leningrad, so the line has to move. . . . We ask for 2,700 square kilometres and offer more than 5,500 in exchange”. (V. Tanner: ‘The Winter War: Finland against Russia: 1939-1940’; Stanford (USA); 1957; p. 27-28).
This was rejected by the Finnish authorities. The Winter War was never a defensive one on Finnish part. There was no grand conspiracy to subsume all of Finland. In fact, this is echoed even in history relatively hostile to the USSR in the 1950s:
“The Soviet leaders were determined, above all, to do two things. They wished to push the frontier on the Karelian Isthmus back a substantial distance from its closest approach to Leningrad. . . . They also wished to establish a naval base on the Finnish coast at the mouth of the Gulf, opposite the newly acquired bases in Estonia, so that any hostile shipping coming up the Gulf of Finland would have to run the gauntlet of a cross fire”. (C. L. Lundin: ‘Finland in the Second World ‘; Bloomington (USA); p. 51-52).
The truth of the matter is, Finland, whose anticommunist stance (and its strategic position in an invasion of USSR) was well known to all of the world* saw that Nazis were rapidly advancing into Russia and decided that they should throw their lots in with the Nazis. If even historians mostly hostile to the USSR could agree on this in 1957, then people in the 2020s could stand to do a lot better in studying history.
*Times Magazine noted as early as April of 1919 that Finalnd would be the best way to attack Leningrad, into Moscow from Leningrad.
sure, a guy from patriot front who runs a 1942 nazi rp server on gmod got caught trying to sell "femboy tummy pills" within a day by leaving his full legal name on the paypal transaction site. why not
There hasn’t been more effective propaganda to get “good Americans” to turn against protests than the myth of the outside agitator and the white anarchist.
Every time the state extrajudicially executes someone there’s people pretending to be progressives who do nothing but condemn and ostracize the righteous anger of the working and oppressed masses.
They claim to also support Black Lives Matter and detest fascism but anytime anyone reacts with 1/100000000th of the destruction the state inflicts upon the people suddenly they speak like a conservative, demanding order over justice.
