Ininewcrow

Also in terms of mentality for the soldiers. Before WWI, they thought of war as a heroic historic thing where men marched in lines in open fields, maybe shot at one another and then everyone fought in hand to hand combat … which meant everyone believed that it was the strongest, fastest and most skilled warriors who became the victors of war. It was a great thing which meant that you had to dress in bright beautiful colours because everyone was in full view of one another and up close.

WWI arrives and all those young guys who thought they were going to fight each other with swords, knives or their bare hands instead spent years sitting in the mud, never seeing the enemy, having sniper fire whiz past their heads and endless days of bombing that blew out their ear drums, shook them all day and night and sent the fear of god into them without ever having fought anyone in close combat.

It really must have been a very rude awakening for anyone wanting to be part of WWI at the start.

And knowing America’s track record on electing dumb leaders …

It’s the worst president so far.

Then after five minutes of furious typing you say …

I’M IN

Buckle up? We’ve been tossed around in the cargo box without any restraint on the back of this half ton truck for the past hundred years.

If you have oil, we’ll use fascism to install authoritarianism to replace your socialism. Then use your oil to pay for it all and take the rest as profit.

Your people have no say or benefit from sitting on our oil.

Another added touch would be to park a big ugly motor home in the driveway

Reminds me of a math rhythm my older brother taught me when we were teens

You subtract the clothes
You add the bed
You divide the legs
And then you multiply

Why? … the US is basically exempt from anything and everything at this point

Imagine trying to talk to your Hindu friends about the Gorgon monster Medusa that is depicted on your armour.

Where are the soldiers you speak of? I don’t see any in this image.

mmmmmm … nothing like fresh barbecued fascism

A good alternative would be …

penis.mightier

They’ve essentially become two sides of the same coin. The whole political landscape has had the Overton Window shifted to the right.

What the conservatives suggested 20 years ago was unthinkable today … but since the conversation has shifted to the right, it has become normalized today.

“Like a blind man at an orgy … I was going to have to feel my way through” - Frank Drebin

Oh nice … I screwed up … sorry about that … in addition to missing out on Kbin, I was so discouraged by them dying out that it took me a while to get back to them as they became Mbin

Will correct my original comment … thanks

It might be more like users are consolidating.

For the past few years, one of the only ways for most people to join different parts of the fediverse was to create multiple accounts for multiple instances. I had to do that over the past couple of years in order to join whatever instance using whatever platform that I happened to be on. On top of that, at the start, I wasn’t sure what the platform I was on was like or whether or not I wanted to stay with it, so I created a burner account. So when I started heavily using the fediverse two or three years ago, I had a ton of accounts, most of which were just short lived accounts because I didn’t know I wanted to stay with any one instance or platform.

Mbin … Kbin … was a famous example … it started out as a promising alternative to a reddit like system and I started a couple of accounts there, only for the whole thing to die off and become Kbin … Mbin … [EDIT: I got Kbin and Mbin mixed up - thanks @[email protected] ]

So for the longest time, I’ve always been cautious and just started temporary or burner accounts everywhere because I wasn’t sure it would last. Now everything is maturing and I’m feeling more and more confident every day and now I spend almost all my time on the fediverse. Which means I’m using fewer accounts and the accounts I’m using are becoming permanent

… he whispered to himself, standing on the New England coast, his long hair blowing in the wind, shirtless in his strong muscular frame as he watched the ocean recede and drive her watery passions out to the European shore.

The massive outflow of fluidic carnal energy temporarily disturbed the ocean swells and sent a tsunami of sweet scented passion that hit the Portuguese coast later that morning.

You got that right … now where’s the mustard?

The Klingon ship is decloaking!!! They’re in attack formation!!

Fire all sausages!!