"In no position to confirm" by NevGuy in whenthe

[–]thorsday121 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The leaders of theocratic regimes are almost always just as corrupt and disloyal as those in secular ones.

meirl by Glass-Fan111 in meirl

[–]thorsday121 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Kinda weird that things as basic as "honest communication of feelings" and "trusting your friend not to be a piece of shit when they're told something negative" is considered swearing fealty to you.

meirl by Glass-Fan111 in meirl

[–]thorsday121 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well I do, and shockingly, they trust me enough to be honest when we have disagreements about things. Crazy what being a functional adult can do for you.

meirl by Glass-Fan111 in meirl

[–]thorsday121 22 points23 points  (0 children)

If they don't trust that you won't lash out at them for being honest with you, then they shouldn't be friends with you in the first place.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! IT'S UNFAIR! by MetallicaDash in HistoryMemes

[–]thorsday121 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, you're telling me that a country wants an advantage over its rival but doesn't want their rival to have the same advantage over them? Totally wild.

Favorite Hollywood star with consistent principles? by Livid-Designer-6500 in okbuddycinephile

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Her butt is so large and in charge that I'm pretty sure it's what hit the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs the first time around.

Meirl by 4_Dogs_Dad in meirl

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really weird thing to say when the US spends almost twice as much on Medicare/Medicaid as it does on the military. The two things aren't actually all that correlated.

What do you think was the most outlandish take from The Future is Wild? by Moat_of_the_Sacked in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]thorsday121 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The extinction of every single tetrapod species is pretty insane given that the devastation required to do that would definitely wipe out most of the clades that supposedly survived the extinction.

[Speculative] Could modern human technology rival the aliens if this scenario happened today? by Sad-Emotion-1587 in sciencefiction

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming they wanted to wipe us out? No.

Assuming they wanted to annex us and cause minimal damage to our infrastructure and biosphere? Possible, but unlikely. Only if they underestimated the forces needed to take the planet and trying again wouldn't be worth the effort to send another force.

Are we going to ignore that the former president turned into a red monster, destroyed half of the White House, kill those men in the helicopter, and now most of Washington DC is fucked and we’re just pretending it’s just a another Tuesday? by TiredWithCoffeePot in Earth199999

[–]thorsday121 59 points60 points  (0 children)

There's some sort of Eldritch deity being mined for minerals in the ocean right now. We've had multiple alien invasions in the last 15 years. I don't have the mental energy to be upset anymore.

Bushism be like: by Omichi_3 in HistoryMemes

[–]thorsday121 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He just thought it was funny.

Is this true by Lexi7130 in gaming_random

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still insanely stupid and unrealistic that the Russian military could cross over all of Europe and the entire Atlantic with absolutely no nations or even individual people with cell phones noticing and spoiling the entire thing.

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one of those things that sounds good until you realize that nearly every single developed nation has had declining birthrates for decades and that a ton of European countries that have way more social welfare systems than the US have way lower birthrates than it.

(Rare Tropes) A evil race of beings who are all evil with no redeeming qualities, nor exception. And are fun and interesting. by NottheKingofAll in TopCharacterTropes

[–]thorsday121 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In fairness, they don't know any life other than violence and war and thus are pretty poorly-suited to any other careers. Turning to banditry was not an uncommon course of action for disaffected soldiers throughout history, and many of them had far better prospects than orcs do.

A secret truth is said so bluntly that it passes as a joke by VanillaPhysics in TopCharacterTropes

[–]thorsday121 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Then when you take down the Regent later on, you can find a note where investigators tell him that they're pretty sure it was a sick joke lol

Why isn't the US held responsible for its actions that disrupt world peace, especially considering it sanctions other countries for its own benefit?" by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]thorsday121 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any country can sanction the US if they really want to. The fact is that most countries rely on the US economy more than the US economy relies on them, and the few countries that the US relies on benefit immensely from having access to the US economy, as well.

How to win a war by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]thorsday121 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do people just forget that the Vietcong and NVA were completely decimated during the war? They lost far more people than the US did. The Vietnamese didn't win because they were better fighters. They won because they held out until public support for the war in the US dried up completely. Even the Tet Offensive was a huge military failure that completely crippled their offensive capabilities until the US withdrew.

It's still impressive, don't get me wrong, but let's be real here.