Little green men indeed

They must be Patti Smith fans

That wasn’t my intention - I don’t know what is possible for Russia in the future, only that they don’t show any signs that they’re trying to change.

Obviously it takes two to tango and the US has not done enough to smooth things over. The world is too imperfect for tidy solutions or easy answers. All I’m saying here is that nobody who knows Russia is raising their eyebrows at the way they’re acting.

I think many of us in western democracies have not studied Russian history well enough to understand that the recent behaviour is not new at all, and it was always going to come to this.

I think many of us really believed that a Russia that seems to be playing the game our way would not simply revert to bloody-handed tyranny against the world and all reason.

An America that really understood Russian culture would never have signed the Budapest Memo, imo. Call me Russophobic if you want, but they’re a grim and cynical folk and it’s been that way long enough to confirm the diagnosis.

Granted, this feeling’s unappealing.

Alas, poor YourIQ.

The piracy has already begun? Great news!

Hah. I must have had my sudden burst of aging at 37! Glad that’s over… Heh… Ehh

I have an 8th grade DC trip story myself, actually. We were at one of those colonial reenactment places where everything is brown and people dress like it’s the 18th century. It was alright.

I got distracted and zoned out near the end, the bus left without me, and I was basically stranded in the 1700’s for most of an hour. It sucked but it was hilarious.

At one hotel we wrote “fuck you” on a piece of paper and hid it under a desk lamp.

On that same trip I made every kid on the bus refuse to eat lunch because I opened my burger and pointed out it had a “weird texture”.

That’s enough detail that if you were in my class I’ve basically doxxed myself. But if you found that note under the lamp, I want you to know that I sincerely meant it.

Knowledge-gated progression perhaps.

I kind of enjoy the abstruse, tortured jargon of “metroidbrainia”, but I would never use it in a respectable conversation.

I can’t even figure it out. He looks fucking freezer burned.

Fewer martini lunches too, though I’m not sure about the water bill

Evil is banal.

Reactionaries aren’t known for their internally consistent ideologies.

Edit: swiftly moving past the point about Labour being perfect, mind you

It’s almost like he’s getting paid by someone not in the UK to do something other than participate in our democracy in good faith. What an outlandish notion.

All that meat and only one tank. The front line must look like a charity run gone horribly wrong.

Fucking worthless behaviour

Hell yeah

The literal first thing you do is get stuck in a room that you can’t get out of until you learn to use the morph ball. Tutorial as gameplay was innovative.

Is that a fun conversation for you? What are we after right now? I don’t get it.