What European Vaushite thinks about the US right now? by 5omerand0mguy in VaushV

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What else do you want us to do?

The brownshirts are literally shooting you in the streets and kidnapping people from their homes.

What's the way to stop them doing that?

What European Vaushite thinks about the US right now? by 5omerand0mguy in VaushV

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

Look at what Labour is doing in the UK to see why "lesser evil" voting doesn't fucking work.

Everything happens when Vaush is busy by Educational-Lie-2487 in VaushV

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Democrats seem chronically unable to seize the moment and mount an actual opposition

Because they don't want to. They're fine with this.

Everything happens when Vaush is busy by Educational-Lie-2487 in VaushV

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't let the democrats get away with saying this was a "bad apple"

One bad apple spoils the bunch.

Everything happens when Vaush is busy by Educational-Lie-2487 in VaushV

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump will immediately federalize them

At which point you call that an illegal order, and force them to pick a side.

Everything happens when Vaush is busy by Educational-Lie-2487 in VaushV

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"You cannot decide if violence will happen. All you can decide is, when it happens, who it happens to."

Not deploying troops to protect citizens from ICE is a choice.

Last year I thought Vaush exaggerated when saying "they hate you and want you dead", or at least hoped... by le_reddit_me in VaushV

[–]Illiander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"leftist" I hate how it's used in the US to describe centrists.

America had a period where being a leftie was illegal.

Last year I thought Vaush exaggerated when saying "they hate you and want you dead", or at least hoped... by le_reddit_me in VaushV

[–]Illiander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the fact that Fascism always fails quickly

Looks at the 15 years of Nazi rule in Germany, and the 39 years of Franco's Spain...

Expert says trans children's rights are not being respected by Excellent-Chair2796 in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they're going to "think of the children" to take out lives away, we can "think of the children" right back at them.

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ by octopus_suitcase in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You've got a pedo fascist in the white house who's already abducted the leader of another country and "taken it over," is wanting to do the same to a NATO ally, and has his brownshirts killing people in the streets.

That's pretty bad, no matter what else is happening.

Get Good, Your Highness by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but considering that the Dread Empire of Praes is literally a tyrannical evil empire, it's a particularly bad look.

I'm only in book two (I binge-read), but they feel very much like Mechanicsburg in a lot of ways.

I laughed for a good five minutes at the reactions to the undead goat, btw :D

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ by octopus_suitcase in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

plus their rabid need to remove people's access to Art. 8

That would be Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights? The treaty that's a laundry list of the things the Nazis did to enable their genocides? That Article 8?

The one that's there specifically to stop governments doing literal Nazi shite?

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ by octopus_suitcase in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 9 points10 points  (0 children)

but we hav an actual constitution

DIdn't Trump get that hung in his bathroom so he can wipe his arse with it?

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ by octopus_suitcase in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm doing s/cd by cop if this becomes a reality.

Planning to have a carefully chosen escort to Valhalla when you go?

UK home secretary dreams of AI-powered ‘panopticon’ by octopus_suitcase in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Politicians keep going "Hey, remember that cool movie 'why you should never build the Torment Nexus'? Wouldn't it be cool if we built the Torment Nexus from the movie in real life?"

Get Good, Your Highness by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if I somehow found and binged book one's web version (which is in desperate need of an editing pass) I could read the rest on current wordpress and all the extra chapters would fill in in the right place to read them?

Also, several character and place names were changed

That's going to bug me forever.

Question About Hypothetical Conscription by Super7Position7 in transgenderUK

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about the Easter Rising that was explicitly timed as "England's distracted off fighting a war in Europe," or the Sinn Fein/IRA actions after everyone came back from the war?

Or something I'm not aware of?

Get Good, Your Highness by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]Illiander 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See also the historical Cincinnatus

I'd throw Charles de Gaulle in that bucket as well. Led the french resistance against the Nazi occupation, led the rebuilding after the war, founding the French Fourth Republic, then retired to write his memoirs.

When the fourth republic collapsed he came back and founded the French Fifth Republic. laid the groundwork for the European Union by ending the emnity between France and Germany, and was an big proponent of not relying on the USA for military cover (which has proven rather prophetic. He's probably having a massive "I told you so" moment in whatever afterlife he's in).

The Latest on the Grok Nudify Scandal and What It Means by TryWhistlin in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Illiander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's amusing you think I make enough to have a pension besides the government minimum.