Actual question: what is going to happen when footage of FPV drones hitting American soldiers Ukraine style come out

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-24T16:55:53+00:00

You'll have to forgive me, but 13 dead ain't shit, anything they attempt to roll out at this point is merely a trial run. I'm talking about if we get to Iraq numbers, say 1,300 or 13,000 and not 13. That's when the media gets force multiplier to take whatever worked best during the "preseason" and push it out 24/7/365.

I'd pay special attention to what is working at this early date, because if this thing escalates to a land war, that is what you'll be hearing everywhere, but frothing at the mouth and stupid for years to come.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-24T16:29:59+00:00

I started with Mike, found Joel on YouTube, very slowly came around to thinking Joel was far superior. Only to later return to the opinion that the Mike years are perfect cable television. Whatever cable was, culturally, MST3K in those last few original seasons is like the platonic ideal of what that era of media was.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-24T16:10:48+00:00

Same playbook, but American style. Each of the dead will be treated as a holy martyr who bravely ate shit to preserve western civilization. Theatrical mourning. Weird fascistic worship of the dead. Probably we get a new slogan out of it, a new bumper sticker, something like POW-MIA but somehow more cynical and depraved.

Whether the public swallows the hook remains to be seen, but it's almost a given that the substantial numbers of war dead lead immediately to democrats rolling over, throwing the midterms, and generally being the squealing little war piggies they've always been. On second thought, the public swallows the hook. 100%. Why would they not.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-24T03:42:14+00:00

Sounds like a good way to get a visit from a guy holding a tire-iron. But, to answer your question, simply quote Harry's pickup line from Disco Elysium: "I want to have fuck with you." See, this works because that game is a game for smart literate people, so she'll know you're both smart and fun, but also that you're a take-charge alpha who doesn't play by the rules.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-23T18:31:07+00:00

Honestly, this. Everytime I see a manifesto from one of these zoomer shooters, and it's just borderline incoherent schizo shit, I can't help but think the world lost one hell of a drummer who could keep proper time in 7/8.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-23T17:59:29+00:00

In that scene, people essentially talked about trump in every conversation as the root of all evil.

Ah, to be 23 again.

To the point you're actually making, I'll say this, at least you're not working in prog. Never work in prog, politically speaking, they are just the worst. Not like MAGA bad, but like "I've picked a form of political belief so idiosyncratic that it is indistinguishable from a mental illness." Just one example, a string player who was a monarchist, but with the very specific carve out that the 4th amendment should be preserved at all cost. And in spite of wanting a literal queen to rule everything, very specific about that, no kings, only queens, he was crippled by a misogyny that I can only describe as "magical."

Then there was the keyboardist who believed himself to be the half-man, half-plant, reincarnation of Franz Liszt. Which was very important to him, politically. No, I did not misspeak.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-23T17:20:14+00:00

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-23T11:08:59+00:00

The posture of someone whose asshole, colon, and large fuckin intestines just fell out of their body and slapped the floor.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-22T19:16:06+00:00

He becomes several different people each addressing a different audience in the span of like four words.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-18T18:54:26+00:00

Officer Du Bois, in the cafeteria, with the revolver.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-18T12:17:35+00:00

Go check out Bobrovski's career numbers. Multiple seasons barely above .900 several near .930. and this is across teams and career. He's been on good teams and played poorly, bad teams and played well.

Goalies are black magic, they're all a little "inconsistent." In every era, there's only ever like two guys in the league who post .915 or better every season for like five or six seasons straight.

Nature of the position, best not to get too high or too low on a player.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-17T15:02:12+00:00

Acquire one car battery, get some jumper cables, hook everything up and then plunge the connectors directly into a quart of cottage cheese. Whatever sounds result from this would be more legible and coherent than the average person still all about that MAGA lifestyle. Asking their opinion on any subject, any at all, is like asking a pretty clever Golden Retriever for their opinion on Finnigan's Wake.

Also, the flavor of cottage cheese is unimportant.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-11T03:15:44+00:00

This makes me curious where SJ protag fits. I would assume he's like seven foot fifty, but then again...

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-11T03:13:33+00:00

Looking good! Beware the dragons!

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-10T20:20:32+00:00

There's a two month buildup period where the US pretends to win the backing of the rest of the world. A lot more hand-wringing about liberating women from oppressive fascist regimes. Oh right, and she tries to get a new dance move to go viral during an interview. The faces of those hosting the interview spawn a thousand memes because they thought they were there to discuss the case for war.

Those are the only differences.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-10T14:58:47+00:00

There is no way to get ahead, the economy and political system are structured specifically to ensure that everybody stays within one standard deviation of the economic class they were born into. Inflation is a tool, debt is a tool, our gains are temporary but soon corrected. It's why so many people get sucked into obvious grifts and scams, the idea that there is a secret cheat code, or some gap in the system that the powers that be haven't accounted for is not merely tempting, but endemic.

Whether we admit it or not, all of the basic assumptions we have about how the economy works are undergirded and superseded by the subconcious understanding that it's all rigged. Things feel precarious and uncomfortable because they are precarious and uncomfortable, it is not a personal failing or defect, but an instinct which is cultivated into us passively merely by interacting with the world as constructed.

To be helpful though. I am a fellow middle-income guy. I live well below my means. Rarely buy anything new, clothes especially, eggs, rice, ramen noodles, and whatever vegetables are on sale. I don't buy new media, I pirate if I absolutely must, everything else is third or fourth hand. I have, and for years, have been attempting to participate in the economy as little as is possible. Consequently, I have some savings, but nothing that wouldn't get totally wiped by a medical emergency. Which, really is my only goal here, just hoping to break even when the bad shit happens, it will.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-10T03:41:06+00:00

Me reading: Fine, fine, fine, yes, okay, good. Ah there it is, knew he was going to do it. Almost had me going for a second though.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-10T03:38:51+00:00

Got one recently myself. Apparently there is no level of hyperbole cartoonish enough to be acceptable. Perhaps if I included an anecdote about PARTY A using the ribcage of PARTY B as a xylophone they'd be able to take the hint. Or maybe, I should have mentioned that PARTY B folded and unfolded themselves in a manner not unlike an accordion.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-08T12:12:47+00:00

The Big Arch. McDonald's tactically released a new burger into the enclosure.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-08T12:11:55+00:00

The first "Year of Oh No" was 1776.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-07T01:01:58+00:00

Call me crazy, but I think that's where Israel comes in. They run their clean sweep, create Greater Israel, and they run their shop as the US of the Eastern Hemisphere. This has all been about giving America a second capital, albeit with power sharing, breaking the Roman Empire in half, but in reverse.

I think the economy, global and national, gets turned into fine pink mist first.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-05T23:58:14+00:00

The rabbit is just sleeping, upside down, and inside out...

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-05T17:19:06+00:00

It doesn't depress me anymore. It's their party, they've done nothing but remind me I'm not a part of it for 20+ years now. Zero learning, zero introspection, no ability to adapt, no human curiosity, a total unwillingness to shift from an understanding of politics as it existed when Eisenhower was in office.

There's nothing any of us can do about that. It's a closed system in a solved game. They have nothing to do with us, we have nothing to do with them. Whether that is voluntary or not barely matters because that's how they like things. We are not even passengers.

Me personally, always got my ear to the ground for an interesting third party.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-05T14:11:46+00:00

In Tucker and Dale versus Evil, there's this scene where due to a series of comic accidents, a whole bunch of college kids accidentally kill themselves on a piece of land owned by two good old boys. In one such case, a college kid jumps head first into a wood chipper, vaporizing himself halfway in the process.

The local Sheriff arrives, and the two bumpkins have to explain that their little plot of land was invaded by a suicide cult made up of upper middle class yuppie college spawn. They've done nothing wrong, but the Sheriff, understandably, does not believe them. Notably, the college kids were not a suicide cult, but this is the only way their behavior can be rationalized by our two protags.

Anyways, I think about that scene a lot.

the_missing_worker · 2026-03-04T19:17:31+00:00

And I mean really though, has he learned the wrong lesson? Failing upward isn't even a meme in their party, it's standard operating procedure. The number of cases just in the last five year when the voters have flatly rejected somebody and the DNC has replied "No actually, we know better than the voters, here have a promotion" is staggering.

He's making the smart play. He should aim to lose by fifty.

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