OBJECTION!
We’re very grateful for that, but we’re also going to have to bring you in for reeducation and Clockwork Orange you with cooking shows until you can only make pancakes through mundane processes. I’ll talk to my superiors though and see if they can throw in like a $20 gift card for the whole wizard murdering thing.
It also led me to discover the cognitohazard of Polcompball Wiki.
I never thought I would see Posadism on a list and think, “Oh finally, a real ideology.”
I try not to be but sometimes I can’t help myself.
Shroedinger’s Russian nuclear arsenal. When there’s a story about risking escalation, libs tell me it’s fine because Russia doesn’t have the money to maintain its nukes, so it’d only be a “limited” nuclear exchange. When this story comes out, the libs tell me that Russia has a much larger and better maintained nuclear stockpile, so it’s only necessary for the US to spend more on it to catch up. It’s sort of the same way that Russia simultaneously is on the verge of defeat, yet also has the intention and capability to conquer all of Europe, like Hitler, if we don’t stop him here.
The enemy is both strong and weak, and you never know which one it’s gonna be.
YES
My understanding is that a tankie is defined as someone who seeks to promote global peace, understanding, and equality, with nuanced views that incorporate marginalized and international perspectives, grounded in historical evidence.
That’s how I see it used anyway.
What’s the historical significance of Tiananmen Square? People sure seem to like talking about it, but personally I don’t really see why it warrants so much attention, in the grand scheme of things.
Humor really takes them off-script. If you say, “I’m not a Russian agent,” well, that sounds like what a Russian agent would say. If you try to say, “There are legitimate reasons for an ordinary person to believe what I’m saying,” well, sounds like you’re using that as an excuse to spread more Russian propaganda. It’s a solid conspiracy theory with a response for every angle, but they just don’t know what to make of it when you start doing a bit like that.
That was also the thinking behind my Phoenix Wright theming, that, and that I could get away with being like, “Do you have any evidence to support that claim?” I kinda dropped it because it got old fast but it’s nice to have in my back pocket when they get ridiculous.