In Asia, it’s a nightmare.

The PokeStops and events are plentiful and raids are easy to win and great.

But gyms, man. They don’t change because of the smurf accounts. I stopped being able to get free coins because people would walk around my city with corkboards with 6-8 phones, and any time I knocked out a Pokémon at a gym, a new one was immediately in its place.

No more free coins, so I quit entirely.

My ancestors are smiling on me, Imperial. Can you say the same?

Yep. The Romans fucked themselves sideways doing this a few times. You can have all the soldiers or you can have some farmers and skilled laborers. You can’t have both.

Imagine Vietnam-era US, but it was willing to sacrifice every warm body within its borders to win.

Like the US, I think Russia is on a collision course with failure. But they’re going to take it a lot farther before waving a white flag. So much so that it will take the country decades to recover.

And Ukraine won’t be looking too hot at that point anymore, either.

No no.

See, we ran the Numbies.

China Numbies Go Down.

Numbies supposed to Go Up.

China is doom.

/s

This strain of brainworm never ceases to amaze me. I’m not a tankie, either and I hate the mainland with a passion. But counting China completely out when it’s clowning the rest of the world on infrastructure right now is just plain mouth-breather stupid.

John Riccitiello

Oh hey, look.

The former CEO of EA made a greedy, short-sighted decision to fuck over his entire customer base.

I am shocked, friends.

SHOCKED.

🇹🇼

Ah.

So white ladies are going to start fleeing across the border to get abortions that they can’t get in the States.

Conservatives really ARE trying to bring us back to the 1950s, aren’t they?

I’m your huckleberry.

“Bethesda, FFS can you finish a functional, polished game for once? Bugs and performance issues are not cute anymore!”

Bethesda: “No Uwu”

Can you name all of the actors that played Putties in the original English run of Power Rangers from the 90s?

See, I can set arbitrary, movable goal posts, too.

It doesn’t work that way. FBI documents remain classified for 50 years before being accessible to FOIA. That means that we don’t have the means to confirm culpability outside that 50-year window.

I can throw names at you. But here’s what I know will happen in response. You will either;

A) Claim the person was not innocent. Despite conflicting claims, they either had a weapon, attempted violence, whatever. So they deserved to be murdered.

Or

B) The situation is not clear. Nobody was outright blamed. Details are fuzzy. Investigations were inconclusive.

Regardless of what I post, the outcome will never be “Wow, you’re right. I guess law enforcement does kill innocent people without impetus sometimes.” You will always move the goal posts and claim that I did not meet your burden of proof. Because you’re arguing ideologically in bad faith. And since I’m not a fucking idiot, I’m not going to waste my time.

And if you want to say that you are, in fact, arguing in good faith, then my rebuttal is simple;

I’m not doing your fucking homework for you, Billy.

And everyone knows that the FBI was never involved in the extrajudicial killing of an innocent dissident besides that one time.

It goes beyond that.

With Saudi Arabia leaning increasingly towards BRICS and being more erratic in its support of the West, Israel is the last firm diplomatic beacon and region of influence the US has in the Middle East.

It also just so happens to be an apartheid state.

Even if public opinion sharply turned on Israel (it won’t), the US would still hold firm in supporting it. Not because it’s obligated to Israel or even because of sunk-cost fallacy. But because it would remove any chance of the US playing a part in regional hegemony.

It means the mods at r/pics just dropped a “Please Cover This” sign to the biggest news show in reddit’s prime demographic.

It’s honestly kind of fucking genius. Much respect.

So it’s treason, then.

Dig in, folks. Time to bring the pain.