I’ve always though a return of WW1 style bicycle troops would be cool in a piece of near future media. Like between fuel shortages, proliferation of EMPs and various ways to track and detect tech, armies start deploying them again.

Taken with a grain of salt. But in China, there’s old laws on the books for breaking up the marriage of soldiers by having an affair. I believe it goes both ways but controversially it has been used relatively recently to send a guy to prison for 10mths. (https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1718)

But apparently (I heard this on twitter but I’m trying to find a better source), there’s a case bouncing around their various courts where a wife of a PLA soldier had an affair with a woman. And the judges are trying to work out if they recognise lesbian relationships on the same level as heterosexual, which would be a landmark precedent (albeit one that might send the woman to prison) or if they accept that lesbians are exempt from the laws against cucking soldiers.

And like if true it’s kind of a funny set of possible outcomes. (Though they might just strike the law down too)

This is silly. Because even if Xi is a secret capitalist roader revisionist etc, which I don’t believe, he probably could explain dialectical materialism, having been raised and educated about Marxism.

Like Viktor Orban or Vladimir Putin could probably explain dialectical materialism, having both grown up under communism and being former communist party members. But obviously neither are communist.

You still hear the odd “Flat Screen TV” comments these days and it’s like buddy the only CRTs on the market are antiques for hobbyists and they cost more than a basic TV.

Why are you talking to black men?

Who doesn’t love a drifter targeting women?

2 new friends in 4 years? That’s pretty great.

Yeah this. Like it didn’t activate in the Falklands War for a bunch of reasons, but it would’ve had the USA wanted to bomb and overthrow Argentina’s government.

Which they didn’t as it was an anti-communist military junta.

Pyrrhus (brought to the future by time machine): Hey it’s me Greek King and generally considered one of the best Ancient Generals of all time, do you guys still remember me?

Me: Yeah we even named a type of victory after you.

Pyrrhus: Neat. Is it a good victory?

Me: …

Can’t imagine how much bleaker things would be today if the PRC had collapsed alongside the USSR, Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia etc.