Hmmm, how do I work in shitting on the U.S. in this post about libraries? I know! I’ll conflate all 44 European countries into one amorphous blob. Lol, owned.

I’d ask you your country of origin but you’d never tell me if it’s Russia or China.

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Isn’t water divining pseudoscience? I get that isn’t the point of the post, but I always thought it was bullshit.

Edit: should have responded to the comment about water divining, whoops.

Which goals, donating money to charity and opposing fascism? Or opposing fascism and supporting Ukraine?

Clancy was a staunch conservative. Dedicated several of his books to notable conservative politicans such as Ronald Reagan. He supported the NRA (yes I understand the NRA has changed form over the years but I don’t really care) and he opposed abortion.

He praised Bush for being a ‘good guy’, granted he did challenge the justifications for the Iraq War (I also don’t really care about a broken clock managing to be right).

I haven’t read any of his novels for a very long time, but what I remember is that amongst the tech and spy stuff there is stuff that sounds like very clear RW propaganda (to me).

Granted, this is the first time I’ve thought about Clancy in years outside of conversations with my (you might have guessed it) conservative coworker. I don’t really know much about the man other than he was definitely conservative. I think you could probably make the argument that he was center right, and that the center right from the 60’s is very different than the center right of today. Draw your own conclusions.

Why would Clancy write anything that isn’t in full support of conservative idealogy?

Capitalizing every word in a sentence is also stupid, yet here we have people discussing the pseudo-grammar of it.

You must have tree trunks for legs, but my very literal perception of this joke has always been ‘uphill, no downhill — just uphill’. As if they were on some kind of treadmill of hell.

I’ve gardened all my life and my favorite flowers are morning glories, please shove a cactus up your ass. Thank you.

But that’s not a hill? What were you, rich?

Even if you can’t play the game, watching a 100% playthrough with no commentary is worth it. The story is easily the best part of the game.

At least, in my opinion.

Makes me think God was a woman, and this is her pulling up the ladder.

I’m not being serious, of course, but it’s a fun concept — to me.

Building stuff comes after the final stand against all odds.

Action movie trope, first that comes to mind is Bladerunner 2049.

Hey, you can’t just smash my trash with a hammer!

Absolutely, I’m not arguing that — do you understand that what you’re saying is logically unsound?

Edit: If your argument continues to betray a lack of understanding of how the average American MAGA has been brainwashed, I’m not going to bother trying to argue this.

How does that pass as a response to you?

Let’s lay out a few things.

Firstly, Nazis in the U.S. are predominantly Christian. One of the big ones that kids are taught in Christianity is that you do not commit suicide.

Secondly, Nazis do murder. Their entire goal is to extract every last ounce of value from literally anything they can justify to their base, by any means necessary. Case in point: concentration camps.

So does it make sense to you that under your assumption that the Air Force are U.S. Nazis, that the Nazis in the Air Force are killing themselves over what is literally their entire goal? Like, are you aware of the gravity of that action, as a Christian?

Whelp, I’ve done what I can as a good Christian Nationalist to wipe out the browns. Time to kill myself so that I… can’t get into heaven.

Idk, that logic doesn’t track to me. Horrific atrocities committed by the Air Force notwithstanding.