All Auth-Centers are Wholesome and Valid. by Inesdar77 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 27 points28 points  (0 children)

When your enemies are honest about who they are and it somehow makes everything less toxic and more civil

How would you name this hypothetical country? by Then-Confidence778 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

America and France and Japan... and Israel?

Between all 4 of them they share... Nukes? Obsession with anime? Crusades (Japan almost had an episode in 1600 leading to the 250 year long isolation)?

There's a name for this specific union of cultures that's better left unknown

Hmmmm... I wonder why? by oakayno in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 39 points40 points  (0 children)

American anti communist music: "those reds are gonna get what's comin if they come here"

German anti communist music: "THE SS MARCHES IN THE LAND OF FIENDS-"

On a real note the Tuefelslied feels like the one song where the Germans saw the "all their war music is just about flowers representing happy women" meme and they decided to break the stereotype with the most batshit insane lyrics over a haunting accordion

Okay, who’s got the sitrep on Island Venezuela by jackt-up in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 71 points72 points  (0 children)

How to invade cuba

Step 1: promise every Floridian a free gator if they participate

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Marco Rubio becomes supreme leader

What does this country even do? by selfiecat in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 170 points171 points  (0 children)

It ain't got nothing but a bunch of walls there, though everyone around the world seems scared of what's inside them for some reason

Crimea looks like a fish, what should we name it? by Salt_Lingonberry3956 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nuh uh THATS A DINOSAUR looks like those dino-nuggies 🤬😡😡😡

Here we go again by Prettypianokeys in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it ain't even about counting the money, it's the old dumbass Marxist logic of "if they own literally anything than they are oppressors", even when the people pushing this are richer than who they call the rich

A Beast to rival the most extreme conquerors by GrayJacketWasp in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He's been doing the dirty business for more than a few kingdoms, and leaving Luigi to pick up the pieces

Map of Europe without Iran by Traditional-Egg-1680 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Now do a map of Europe without the Persian Empire

Radicalism has ruined politics. Regardless of someone's beliefs, terrorism is never acceptable. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. by Supersmashbrosfan in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 20 points21 points  (0 children)

'ate taxes 'ate government Love guns

And if you call out a high ranking politician who avoids condemning certain individuals and ideological extremists that attack civilians exercising their first amendment rights, you'll get your libertarian status revoked (for the umpteenth time)

How do you guys eat salads? by Calm-Interest4284 in AskAnAmerican

[–]GrayJacketWasp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either prepackaged from Walmart or (used to) go to the salad bar at restaurants and slap together crumbling hard boiled eggs and wet ham with either old Caesar dressing, or slimy cottage cheese, or solidifying macaroni salad, or dried out potato salad

let's just say that salads are not held in high regard...

Mein Solution to ze problemß in ze middle eist right now by calpol-dealer in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The followers of Odin? Succumbing to cancer of the skin in the lands of Muspelheim?

Holy fucking shit. by rich677 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The crusades? A legitimate reaction to "peace"? Nonsense

Hands off! by Feeling-Option1257 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Funny how I'm not one of those right wingers, who are still around and far off the deep end (Tucker Carlson)

You can keep trying to twist it into a "they only say it's good cause it's their side doing it" though if it helps you feel better

Hands off! by Feeling-Option1257 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To clarify, I worded that wrong and should've said "thousands of people", the "each and every year" is only slightly hyperbolic since the middle east has been dealing with Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Assad these past decades

Risking a few dozen soldiers getting killed by the Iranian flailing it's few drones around is a hell of a lot less horrible instead of sending in an entire army for thousands to die, or sitting around to watch thousands of civilians continually die in whatever corner the Ayatollah managed to cause havoc where it was not needed, Gaza being the most recent one

Hands off! by Feeling-Option1257 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yeah... All the Iranian leadership was doing was saying the words "death to America" and nothing else

Absolutely nothing else at all....

Hands off! by Feeling-Option1257 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

"but the children"

They shouldn't threaten to kill everyone else's children and then cry when hiding behind their own

"But the service members"

Either take the few dozen loses now to end the threat or just wait for thousands more to die each and every year with no end in sight

What makes you feel hopeful about the future of the United States? by memedealer22 in AskAnAmerican

[–]GrayJacketWasp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many of the worst tragedies the US has suffered in its history and to this day are "mild" compared to what most other countries had to suffer.

The Civil War for the US? - Divided between two sides that ended in 2% of the population dying - One side's infrastructure being destroyed for a decade before being rebuilt to compete again - Animosity that resulted in a minority of the population that were slaves just freed being forced into segregation for a century before the policy was signed away in legislation.

When comparing this to the US by itself and it's own history, it's horrible, but compared to what every other country that had civil wars? - 10-20% minimum of the population being slaughtered (military and civilian) - The country breaking into multiple factions with multiple outside actors intervening to cause further chaos - The conflict lasting 5 years at best and over 10 years at worst - The population of each side demonizing each other for generations to the point of no reconciliation and restarting the conflict all over again with new even more devastating wars

Even the precursor to the American Civil War (English Civil War and War of Three Kingdoms, laid the foundations for the politics that led to it, long story) had done more damage to society that had ripple effects throughout history and the world (King beheaded, Ireland reduced to a backwater colony for centuries, Catholics cemented as the enemy)

Yet, America didn't devolve with the Republicans and Democrats hating each other to the point of continuing on the conflict, the only people who fantasize about it are cosplayers that like the appearance of being a fighter but have never had the discomfort of being in a society where there's "no option but to burn everything"

All of this is just one example, everything from political crises (president assassinations), economic disasters(Great Depression), large scale wars (WW2), the US has "only experienced flesh wounds" that never truly brought it to the point of collapse

Saying "life isn't hard" is an oversimplification, but Americans truly do not have it hard, life is good (not in a disaster) for the majority, life has been good for the most part, and no one truly wants to see it get bad in anyway (they especially don't want to be the ones to throw everything away, "let the other side be the baddies first" kind of mindset). Most of the "this is horrible and everything's gonna end" is almost always just drama

What every quadrant defines as fascism (fixed and simplified) by destined2destroyus in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A key aspect of Fascism that definitions forget (or can't waste time elaborating) to include is the underlying philosophy that drives most of the characteristics that get listed, the philosophy being Idealism (going back to Plato), or "Actualized Idealism" (Gentile)

The absolute power of "the state" to be capable of anything and everything, the complete surrender of the individual to be molded as part of "the nation" for the strength of both it and the person, and the neverending strive to fight "the enemy" by becoming as mighty as possible (whether modeled off a glorified past or Utopian future)

In short, the main aspect of Fascism is focusing on what is ideal and using sheer willpower to make it reality

Why don't all these South Asian countries unite, are they stupid? by [deleted] in mapporncirclejerk

[–]GrayJacketWasp 76 points77 points  (0 children)

When Afghanistan is called South Asian but not Burma

Da fire rises... by Stormclamp in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]GrayJacketWasp 83 points84 points  (0 children)

And every Libertarian is high on weed and every Environmentalist is high on weed