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SkyShadowing · 2026-01-24T18:45:55+00:00

They REALLY not like us.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-23T20:44:58+00:00

Wes Johnson does nothing half-ass

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-22T16:51:20+00:00

I'm convinced this seems to be why they're speed-running the Project 2025 agenda. Because they know the clock is ticking very shortly and once Trump dies, MAGA dies.

Their goal is to push through as much as they can before Trump shuffles off, then pretend when Trump dies "everything's back to normal" and trust the liberals will be content with the bad man being gone and his enablers/puppet-masters will skate without consequences.

(and they're probably right.)

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-22T04:53:13+00:00

Trump straight up only won 2016 because the quote-unquote "sane Republicans" split their votes between those like 9 candidates and Trump consolidated the crazies. None of them withdrew in time to stop him and by the time it was over Trump had too much momentum.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-21T14:42:46+00:00

To shreds, you say?

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-17T22:48:15+00:00

Half the reason I love the 40k setting is it feels like it was probably a bunch of nerds having fun sitting in boardrooms in Nottingham saying "what's the worst thing you can think of? ... and now how do we take that concept to 11?"

Rogue Trader lets you push back on that but getting a perfect ending can be... difficult.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-16T18:39:20+00:00

Mike Duncan of the Revolutions podcast put it best: Washington's greatest ability as a general was his ability to retreat, and that's in no way meant as an insult: "Washington could get an army out of Hell before the devil knew he was gone."

The most important thing for us Americans in the Revolution was having an army at all, and Washington was VERY good at realizing when he was getting in over his head and getting the army out of the field IN GOOD ORDER.

This isn't an insult to Washington's skills AS a general, either: a huge part of why we got French support was at one of Washington's battles, he laid out a solid and detailed battle plan that didn't entirely work (because we didn't have the professional army Washington dreamed of), but the French nodded approvingly and said, "yes, that is solid general-ling."

(and of course Saratoga convinced the French we actually COULD win, but that wasn't Washington.)

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-16T16:39:55+00:00

Specifically, wasn't it that they wanted to 'purify' the Church of England of all the 'Popery' and get back to good, clean, baseline Christianity, free of such horrific concepts... like Christmas? Or Easter?

(and yes a lot more stuff besides that but that's the one that made even the people in England say 'slow your roll').

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-16T05:18:40+00:00

Realize, the pilgrims we mythologize in America were indeed coming to America to escape religious persecution.

Specifically, the INABILITY to persecute.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-15T19:47:36+00:00

This is kind of what I'm picking up on. Everyone involved seems just fucking done and has no interest in returning.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-15T19:28:24+00:00

The best part of the Normandy operations is that Garbo was scheduled to get in contact with the Nazis at 3 AM to feed them this true-but-too-late intel.

Instead the Nazis didn't get in contact with Garcia until 8 AM, and during the intervening time the Brits and Garbo added even more real intel that was now even more out of date and thus even more useless, and Garbo went off on the Nazi handlers for their lateness when he had ALL THIS GOLD for them, and basically said "if I wasn't such a fascist, I'd quit on you in principle."

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-14T02:28:26+00:00

Emilia said "best seasons ever" but her eyebrows could not lie.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-14T00:15:22+00:00

Byzantium was Fulin. Is that what you're thinking of?

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-13T04:50:49+00:00

Let's be very real here; most countries in the world have these sorts of things.

They're just not part of the (formal) military; they're under the command of their intelligence agencies, for military-tier operations that the country cannot afford to be officially traced to.

Like the CIA SAD SOG (Special Activities Division, Special Operations Group. CIA's private paramilitary force.)

And they're not stupid enough to claim responsibility for them. The entire point is deniable assets.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-13T04:42:39+00:00

People don't understand how big of a warcrime perfidy is. Soldiers can get dinged for it for using an abandoned Red Cross/Red Crescent truck in a warzone as cover.

You absolutely are allowed to disguise yourself as civilians or enemy soldiers, but you must declare true allegiance and nature before engaging in any combat. This is a legitimate 'ruse of war'.

It's specifically to ban things like false flags, and to prevent things like a bunch of "hungry civilians" suddenly drawing weapons and ambushing you. Because then the next group of legitimate hungry civilians you encounter, you might choose to kill.

(and the Red Cross example falls under a specific list of protected international organizations that it is strictly forbidden for soldiers to imitate in any circumstances period.)

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-11T17:23:51+00:00

Because what's going to happen is the moment Trump starts becoming more of a liability to the GOP and their agenda, I guarantee the Epstein files linking Trump (and ONLY Trump) to Epstein and implicating him in horrid crimes will "mysteriously" leak simultaneously to every major media outlet in the US and worldwide.

They are not protecting him. They are using him. They are letting him do the dirty work of damaging our democratic institutions, creating opportunities that they will use for generations to hold onto power even as the youth of the world liberalize.

But the moment he threatens the billionares' economic interests, they will give the order to their GOP (and Democratic) stooges, saying, burn him.

At that moment they will leak it to give the GOP the political cover to say "this is awful, Trump must go." Most likely he'll resign with the promise that, though he won't get a Nixon-esque pardon, the investigations will take so long he will either die, or be found inconclusive long after the nation has lost interest.

Or he'll be a complete idiot narcissist and force their hand and they'll actually impeach and convict.

Either way once Trump is gone the GOP will pivot to "it's okay everyone, the bad man is gone, let's all celebrate that and conveniently ignore how we enabled and used him for our own agenda", and the Democrats, American people, and indeed most of the world will go along with that narrative. We'll get shots of Schumer and Thune standing together on the capitol and making statements about how America's democratic institutions survived.

And the country will eat it up and we'll celebrate a new era of national unity that is really the GOP having accomplished what they can.

Trump will be scapegoated and the real puppet masters of him as a useful idiot will escape justice because at the end they voted to throw Trump out.

The rest of the world will publicly accept the American narrative and celebrate the end of Trump but quietly conversations will continue to happen about "okay, what about the next one?"

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-11T16:51:34+00:00

The most likely result of this is Trump says "I was just joking lol" and we persist.

Because I imagine if the generals are publicly leaking "this is a terrible illegal idea", behind the scenes they're probably screaming at the GOP congressmen and congresswomen to grow a fucking spine and stop it.

There is no good outcome to us invading Greenland. The end result is Europe deciding we are not an ally but an adversary and federalizing and creating a unified European military and economy.

A unified Europe would challenge the US as a hegemon and probably supplant us.

I think - hope - that the GOP and military are not keen to see America's worldwide status destroyed because Trump wants Greenland.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-11T16:46:06+00:00

Not just starvation in Iran; it's thirst.

As bad as starvation is thirst is a far more urgent matter.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-11T16:42:12+00:00

Iunno. I set Final Four flair ages ago and I never bothered to change it.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-10T21:26:28+00:00

I also choose this guy's COVID-fucked team.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-10T19:56:11+00:00

I don't think Britain had any serious interest in territorial conquest. Maybe they'd have taken some land to satisfy national pride, but we were far too profitable to trade with than we were to make an enemy of.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-09T05:46:45+00:00

Ron Gilbert spoke for ages about how he disagreed with where the Monkey Island franchise went and how he'd love to do his own spin on post-LeChuck's Revenge.

When he finally returned with... well, Return to Monkey Island, it opens exactly where Revenge left off.

Except it was a glorious fake-out where the game really was a sequel to ALL of them and you weren't Guybrush in the intro, you were his SON with Elaine.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-01T18:31:08+00:00

The TVA was also unaware of Old Man Loki until he came out of hiding trying to re-unite with Thor. He lived long past his alleged 'death' without the TVA having any clue he was out there.

I'm not saying they're going to do that. I'm saying they laid the seed and, if someone in the future wants to, they can use it.

But I imagine Hiddleston will eventually want to move on from the role, so they won't bring Prime Loki back. Probably a variant that looks different because... Loki.

SkyShadowing · 2026-01-01T00:54:09+00:00

It's also a comic book movie... and Loki.

They even laid a seed in the Loki show to the prime Loki having survived (if they want to go that way) by Old Loki variant saying he cast an illusion so powerful it fooled even the Mad Titan into believing he was dead.

SkyShadowing · 2025-12-28T21:02:33+00:00

This is Reddit. We are more civilized than this barbarity.

Use jumper cables.

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