TerminalEncounter [she/her]

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Cake day: December 16th, 2021

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  • From what I remember about the Samsom option is that if Israel was attacked with nuclear weapons or was otherwise existentially threatened, they’d just nuke everyone regionally. Which might explain the US flip on Israel in the 60s/70s whenever it was, at one point it was more neutral (even if Kissinger et al wanted Israel as a dominant force to maintain American hegemony) - but I think it was when Israel was just about to lose the Yom Kippur war at the start of it and they tipped off the US that they’d just bomb everyone around em was when it went all out pro zionist at every level.

    Anyway, its news to me that Israel might have expanded the Samson option to every country in the world. Im pretty sure they maintain a triad including subs, so they could legit do it.





  • Historically, the marines have shot people the LAPD wouldn’t have during '92. Marines are taught and trained to kill people in a war or conflict, they aren’t peacekeepers or police. They’re soldiers. The most infamous example is the LAPD asking a couple marines to “cover me” when they were going to some kind of domestic violence thing. The marines responded like they were trained, “cover me” means lay down suppressive fire and let the person move ahead. They shot a house with kids and a family in it. And of course they did, these are soldiers. Not like the LAPD is better, especially now after 30 years of militarization, but marines are still hotheads who will shoot and kill people because that’s what theyre trained and drilled to do.











  • Feels very Richard III lol

    “I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
    To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
    I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
    Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
    Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time
    Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
    And that so lamely and unfashionable
    That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
    Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
    Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
    And descant on mine own deformity:
    And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
    To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
    I am determined to prove a villain”