Top Gun

"Notice me senpai!"

This think tank is the source of most of the battlefield maps you've probably seen floating around, and they generally do detailed daily breakdowns of troop movements based on available evidence. Yesterday they posted a fascinating take on the significance of some of the recent discourse by prominent Russians: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-2

More like "uhhhhh fuck my client just talked me into committing a federal crime uhhhh maybe I should do something about that."

Have to say I'm digging this so far. Creepy oppressive vibe, and I spy the Elder Sign. We going full Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Nabs is fine with seeing an entire culture forcibly erased because "teh Nazis" or some shit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63037713

"Okay, you guys may be sweeping over the entire territory but this is totally Russian soil now! Because, um, we said so!"

Ah, the "Nuh-uh, you did it!" argument, bastion of 5-year-old intellectuals everywhere.

Nabs thinks that if he keeps repeating complete horseshit a hundred times over it'll magically become true. It's all he has to feel relevant. For anyone who hasn't done so yet, look up how things actually went down in 2014, and then point and laugh at Nabs some more.

At least with Crimea Russian forces controlled the entire territory before they decided to hold their bullshit referendum. Here they're attempting to "annex" territories they're being actively driven out of, and in one case they don't even control the regional capital. It's too dumb to even be called a farce.

Jingo and Nabs illustrating brilliantly that the far left and the far right are equally fucking stupid.

My main point here is that they're going to be handing weapons to people who don't want them there and will be as likely to shoot their commanding officers in the back as follow orders.

There's word that they may wind up trying to conscript people in the occupied territories. Like...have they thought this through?

You'd think if they wanted to pretend to have any shred of credibility they'd come up with a sizeable yet almost believable majority, but they clearly don't give a fuck.

I watched the entire first season. I still don't know why.

Oh bother.

Amazing how much more attention people pay to a war of aggression when they're being expected to get their asses killed in it.

At least she'll make the trains run on time?

Ah, the foul deepest pits of end-stage capitalism at work. And I actually jumped through a few hoops to import an Australian DVD release of the entirety of Symbionic Titan as a small middle finger to the powers that be.

On behalf of the distant relatives that I probably still have in that corner of the world, ida na khuy.

"I am perfectly fine with a democratic state being completely dismantled by an unprovoked aggressor so long as I am not personally inconvenienced." And Nabs wonders why he gets called a bitch.

How is "writing off" a piece of entertainment even a thing? Like, what the fuck does that actually mean from an objective standpoint?

I had a lot of huge-ass megaposts about animu I'd still like to access, even if it's just to point and laugh at my past self.

Did...did anyone ask for them to restart this yet again? (And that's before you even touch the Watsuki thing because hoo boy.)

Fruit Stripe gum lost all of its flavor approximately five seconds before you put it in your mouth.

I know there were actual Life Savers branded gummies that came in that tray packaging, but I don't know if they ever used a mascot.