I’m in a similar situation. Good job and relatively well-off parents that I have a great relationship with and can support me in case of emergency. I know a bunch of people on the other side, working 12 hour shifts in low-pay retail jobs while the store loudspeaker is droning on about wellness and breathing exercises and I realize I’d probably just fucking die if I were in their shoes. It’s just mind-boggling.
Never been into jrpgs but I wish you all a very pleasant death to america
I had the naval infantry cat saved but didn’t know about the others. I love accordion cat’s energy.
Western “I’m as left leaning as they come, but” types are making smug internet posts right fucking now about how cool and smart it is for the US to funnel arms into this conflict so that they can weaken Russia at little to no cost, while untrained 20 year olds are being sent to the slaughter.
Yup. It’s deeply jokerifying when I remember how 10 years ago “WW2 enthusiasts” who were suspiciously enthusiastic about the Wehrmacht (which they insisted was not not political, they just like history) would always point to the SS as the designated evil warcriminals while insisting that regular German troops were innocent conscripts. Nazi narratives of WW2 have become so normalized so fast that we are now in the clean SS stage of revisionism. Which is something that 10 years ago we would joke about. What a shitty timeline to live in.
My grandfather was at some point in his life detained and questioned by state security for, according to him, making “anticommunist political jokes” at work. He is a raging racist and antisemite (his first reaction to hearing my partner’s last name was a concerned “Is he a Jew?”) and most probably fucking deserved it.
The way libs understand history, Hitler was an evil sorcerer who put a spell on the Germans to make them do warcrimes and after he died the spell broke and the Germans became wholesome allies.
I live in one of the deeply unserious European countries where double genocide is essentially our mainstream WW2 narrative. I was an adult when I found out that I’ve been literally taught a nazi distortion of the Holocaust in middle school and high school. I had to do my own research to realize the scope of my country’s participation in the Holocaust, which was relegated to footnotes in history textbooks and glossed over by my teachers. You can bet that the Ribbentop-Molotov pact was repeatedly hammered into us as this vile alliance between equally evil empires, though.
I beg any liberals who might be reading this thread in genuine good faith: read the article linked further up and do your best to at least consider the perspective it presents.
It is absolutely impressive and really shows how much of a joke the idea that capitalism rewards hard work is in reality.