wanderingmagus

Thanks, kind stranger!

I know they’re Great Power Conflict adversaries, and I know my job is to put warheads on foreheads when directed. Everything else is just ammo for the IC community, SW, SO and MISO. Hooyah America.

What can I say, I want to actually do the job I trained for sometimes. Besides, the way the qoeld is going makes me less and less hesitant to actually flip the toggle switch when the order comes. Maybe that’s the point.

Communism objectively failed - the USSR no longer exists and modern Russia is a capitalist oligarchy. The PRC is economically capitalist despite all the hammer-and-sickle flags. Meanwhile, the USA and EU economically and militarily dominate the planet. I’d call that succeeding, dominating in fact.

Death to all tankies, hooyah America, KILL THE BEAR. Ready to set 1SQ for strategic nuclear launch! Fuck the Kremlin, and fuck the CCP!

“Loss of electrical power on the Port Non-Vital Bus”

beat

“Fire, Fire in the Engine Room-”

Be the change you want to see in the world. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

"Oh hell, Son, I was high that day! That doesn’t make any sense at all! You can be second, third, fourth, hell you can even be fifth!

Best we can do is remember them and keep an eye out for each other. That, and fight for mental health in general, and against the culture that stigmatizes seeking therapy and counseling.

Thanks. Same to you, and I mean it. Heard the same about GWOT vets.

Get off your high horse, grunt. I’m cruising down here far, far away from anything even remotely resembling action, with hot food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, AC, and hot showers every night. Nuclear submarine go brrr. Proud bubblehead.

Sounds like you’re the committed sack of shit, you disingenuous “degenerate”. People like you are what’s wrong with the world and why I enlisted. Yet another reason I won’t hesitate when the order is given to set 1SQ for nuclear launch. Hooyah America.

Which band/album is this from? Looks vaguely like Heilung.

Not every country has a law which protects you like that, and some have the exact opposite law that actively goes after you for it instead.

Sure am. I enlisted in the US Navy SSBN force. I voluntarily joined a service dedicated to bringing about the thermonuclear annihilation of the human species and the biosphere if ordered to do so, and I’m indoctrinated to have zero hesitation to flip the toggle switch according to procedure as long as prerequisites are met. I chose my own little path of evil because I saw no way for the world to improve itself, so why not do the world a favor and end it all? I have no right to call myself a “good guy”, but that doesn’t mean I can’t also recognize that the rest of the world is just as full of shit, both past and present. Again, if I’m wrong? Tell me. Show me where there’s hope in this forsaken world, because I can’t seem to find it.

There’s no good guys. The world is a shithole and has been a shithole since the first human picked up a rock. There’s plenty of people who want to convince you they’re the good guys, of course. But at the end of the day, it’s all a whole bunch of hypocrites or outright sociopaths running against another bunch of hypocrites and outright sociopaths. If someone out there thinks they can fix this place, more power to them - but we’ve seen how that goes, multiple times, throughout history. If I’m missing anything, lemme know - I’d be glad to see some hope in this forsaken mess of a world.

You think there’s good guys in this story?

Unironically yes.

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