BidensGranddaughter [none/use name]
I’m still “nothing will happen” gang, but it would be fucking hilarious if the thing that ends up torpedoing the DNC’s credibility (I mean among normies/mainstream) was them blatantly fixing their primary again, but this time to block their own sitting president (who was previously pushed through to block Bernie) from the nomination because his brain has melted so much that capital can’t ignore it.
With Bernie, they were able to put the fix in before the primary elections, so it at least had some facade of “democracy” that gave liberals plausible deniability or whatever. But the votes are in for Biden, so the only way to have an alternate candidate is 1) Hillary pushes Biden down the stairs or 2) they just straight up decide to throw away their own primary results at the convention. At least we can all draw pleasure from the hilariously impossible situation they very predictably put themselves in.
Between this and the fake news comm, I’m rethinking trying to get comrades more involved on this site. Like, it’s just embarrassing and too much trouble to have to explain “oh yeah those really active comms that appear completely indistinguishable from reactionary trash are actually just ironic.”
The fact that all of these “jokes” could be posted on with complete sincerity makes me suspect a lot of this content isn’t even ironic. I mean, if I was a reactionary trying to cause trouble for a leftist community, creating and participating in these kinds of comms is exactly how I would go about it.
Hexbear users when someone says “FUCK UNIONS…”
Hexbear users when the sentence ends with “(ironically)”
There, I have covered every possible joke you could make up for this comm, it’s no longer needed
Yeah, it was such an odd film. I really wanted to like it because it looked good and it explicitly called out the West as the unmistakable bad guys, but there was just so much that needed to be completely rewritten to work.
I’ll add to your list of bad,
about the main character
Pretty much the entire plot is set into motion thanks to the protagonist being a traitor to the robots, his partner (who is having his baby!), and the village that sheltered him. And he’s still a piece of shit for pretty much the entire movie, until the very end.
I was also very bothered by how the primary motive for the protagonist was getting back Maya: the woman he lied to, betrayed, and directly caused the death of. Yet, it very much seemed to be written in a way that was intended for the audience to sympathize with???
Oh yeah, after all that, for his self-sacrifice at the very end, he gets a robot copy of Maya as his “reward.” Ugh.
His reply is somehow even more ridiculous:
I’m honestly just embarrassed for how profoundly naive this grown adult man is.
My (admittedly very armchair, probably learned from other comments on this site) understanding of the Merkava not having infantry support is due to how its Trophy countermeasure system uses shotgun-like blasts to counter missiles. They would shred any infantry standing around the tank.
The system utilizes small EFPs which are projected towards the incoming threat, energy, debris and explosive pressure waves disintegrate the incoming projectile. As such, the system has a risk to dismounted infantry, and this system impact traditional infantry supported mechanized warfare tactics.
This is also why resistance fighters will fire 2 missiles in quick succession; the first one to activate the Trophy, and then second to actually hit the tank once the Trophy is spent. Or yeah they just run up to it with the
I’m no tactical genius, but it sure seems like the incapability to have infantry support is not worth the tradeoff of having a countermeasure that is so easily worked around