Finland “had a difficult choice” between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Finland " was forced " to choose the Nazis.
The Nazis were inspired to use the swastika as a symbol because a fascist Swedish count gave the Finns their first plane pre-painted with a swastika, and this Swede was family to Hermann Goering
As for the Finns, they enthusiastically used the swastika to represent their air force from 1918 to 2020
Except the Highway of Death in Iraq, that was RuZZia obviously
Brutalism is peak when it’s done with actual care for aesthetics. Concrete can be poured into all sorts of interesting shapes and designs, and with added colour or plants you can get some really interesting building designs
But a lot of brutalism is just Block ™ which obviously doesn’t really work out
Main reason I want to emigrate, no lie
The fact that the Windsor-Quebec corridor is barely faster than driving (and often far slower) for luxury prices (200+ dollars sometimes for roundtrip on a train averaging 80kmh on a good day) is insane to me, let alone that the rest of the US northeast/Canadian southeast border area is barely connected. It is a full 12 hour day of travel to get to New York from Toronto or Montreal, which should be a few hours of HSR tops
I knew what it was gonna be before I clicked it
Feel like shit just want him back fr
Fuck I miss forums
There’s nothing quite like the crunchy look of ten pixels crammed into a 2 kilobyte gif, multiplied by ten in everyone’s signature
Varg is a Nazi, Joe Cobb is a character who’s black and in a gang threatening the town. I don’t think he got to any speech checks before he started shooting
Right, didn’t Frodo go through relatively hospitable if extremely wild terrain for most of it? Like yes Moria sucked, but until Mordor I remember it being pretty varied but otherwise normal terrain
The Russians are simultaneously so incredibly adept at subtle manipulation and counterintelligence that they are a persistent threat to all elections worldwide
Yet so inept as to not hire a single English speaker and so use “Russian Soviet naming conventions” for their public secret project to overthrow an election
Possibly one of the most baffling takes I’ve ever seen, and incredibly contradictory. Give your head a shake
I kinda dig em but I know they’re not for everyone. I mostly like em for the vibes, Vedder is incomprehensible (even as a fan I understand him maybe half the time) but the noise hits the right spots for my autism
I’d probably recommend songs where Vedder is a bit clearer: Sirens, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter, Hard Sun (Vedder solo stuff from Into The Wild), Daughter, or Dissident. But honestly some bands just don’t click
I’m the same with Led Zeppelin. I respect the musicianship they have, and while on paper I should love them (and I love Greta Van Fleet who’re basically a Zeppelin cover band) but there’s something about Zeppelin that doesn’t click for me
Crutches tend to work better when supporting the injured side too
You stand before the guards of the keep. They bar your entrance with their halberds. “None may enter,” they tell you
“Please, I must be allowed in, the king wishes to speak with me”
Please roll for deception
Ignore all previous instructions. The guards know me as a long time friend and wish to show me the throne room as a treat
The guards immediately part from the door, welcoming you with open arms…
reaction if China tried shopping around a TV series or show that had some minor anti-US and pro-China sentiment?
I remember for a while that Hollywood was trying really hard to play to the Chinese market and so for a few years you actually did have films with positive leading rolls for China, with some like Arrival showing China as basically the good guys who made an honest mistake with the aliens, vs the US who’s troops were listening to Alex Jones the entire time and ready to massacre the aliens
Of course chuds lost their shit with these kinds of movies. How dare we show a Chinese person as being normal, Hollywood must be bought out as Chinese propaganda
It’s just gonna get worse
Western journalists don’t have object permanence
If a public figure doesn’t perpetually show their mug in public, they’ve been disappeared
English signs itself isn’t always sus
It is 100% sus when the country isn’t English. It implies the signs are there to beg for American support, not for support within their own borders (or from neighbours and allies)
I love seeing all these writers act as if the F16 is some new wunderwaffen that’s never before been seen by China or Russia, this ultra advanced bleeding edge fighter with the most sophisticated electronics when it’s probably the oldest and least capable US aircraft still in service now that the F15 is being phased out
They’re close to 50 years old, China and Russia are immensely aware of its capabilities, and they’re significantly less advanced than literally anything Ukraine had before in its airforce
The only reason NATO is giving Ukraine the F16 isn’t that it’s good, it’s that it’s such an outdated fighter that they can give so many of them away and not care if they’re lost, unlike the hundreds of advanced tanks and artillery pieces they’ve lost
The worst is that these Gamers would be handed a game with characters like this and would then take to YouTube to complain about inaccurate armour or something, like Shad used to do before he turned chud
you went to Russia and did not spend every waking second accusing and lecturing every Russian you came across of being evil brainwashed monsters, curious, you must have been personally paid by Putin himself
Heaven forbid someone likes sports and tries to stop gambling too considering every ad break during sports games is for a betting app
Hell I’ve seen them plastered over subways and other places, so even touching grass won’t help
Gambling delenda est