Scratch a lib etc. etc.
There is something so fucking banally evil and dystopian about using munitions being fired in a civilian casualty heavy war to market your YouTube channel from the comfort of your home far away.
Like imagine you're sleeping when suddenly a noise like the world ending wakes you by throwing you and most of your bedroom against it's own wall. You can't see anything for the smoke. You can taste the ash smell the flames. There's little to nothing left of the wall that used to face the street. You're hurt, perhaps badly, but mostly in shock. There's definitely blood. You try not to think about it and suddenly realise you don't hear your kids crying. With the adrenaline alone you push through the wreckage of your house desperately to check on them, but their bedroom is gone. They're gone. You know it but you can't accept it, not yet. So you're desperately digging through the rubble, crying and praying, knowing they're gone but you just need something, anything that's left of them, something to hug to you, to be able to bury. But all you find is a scrap of their charred pyjamas and a white hot piece of shrapnel from the munition that's destroyed your home and taken your children while they slept. You can't help but stare at the text printed on it, wondering briefly where it came from, who did this apart from just the person who fired the artillery. Britain or France, Germany or the US, some country that will never have to face the reality you're now living in. And then you notice some handwritten message on it, as though some terrible, taunting message delivered to you as it shatters your world. And it says Watch The_Rational_Progressive on YouTube!
civilian casualty heavy war
I'm not sure how the whole casualty count thing generally goes, but putting 8000 dead over a year next to any war that I can think of doesn't make it seem like a civilian casualty heavy war?
I'm counting the years of Ukraine shelling the Donbas etc too. Plus I'd argue pretty much all wars have far too many civilian casualties by their nature.
Yeah, its a "fundraising" thing, for various amounts of money you can get your name written on some kind of explosive and have them film themselves either shooting it into the distance or making a snuff film out of filming the impact through a drone.
They don't actually film what they're shooting st with a drone right? You just made that part up?
I'm pretty certain you can get a grenade doodled on and then they drop it from a drone with a downwards facing camera.
The drone grenade part is 100% true either way.
CW: Homophobia, death
Theres one clip being spread around by /pol/ types and slava libs alike that supposedly shows two Russian soldiers doing sexual stuff and then getting blown up by a drone that is filming.
They one hundred percent have taken money to film drones dropping grenades on people (have seen)
I love this because this is like quintessential lib activism. Give an overinflated amount of money to some random people that will pocket it so they write stuff on something that will get totally destroyed in the act of killing people and that the adversary will never see or care about anyway.
I.e. you did nothing but throw money out the window and the guy on the street picked it up, good job.
I mean, this clearly isn't a message intended for anyone in Russia. This is Mr. Beast style self-promotion.
Gotta wonder if we're going to see Adam Something soyface cropped over the image of some mutilated corpses with the caption "I JUST LIBERATED BAKHMUT" some time in the near future.
I have never been more upset than the time I learned that this son of a bitch was on :wtyp-gang:
It immediately put all of their anticommunism into perspective. Birds of a feather.
They apologized about it the next week lol. I don't think they've ever apologized about anything else
Opening of the next episode. Iirc between those episodes he said some Nazi shit, and they opened the next episode with something along the lines of "genuinely sorry, it was a mistake to invite him on the show".
Stuck out because they are usually very hostile to any criticism from their fans lol
DId he say something cursed on their show or just general regret?
Painting the name of my TikTok on the front of a bus I stole, before I plough it into a children's playground later this afternoon.
You'll get so many new subscribers this way, its sort of fucked up.
Kinda brought to mind for me how a fuckton of like, "dystopic media" features violence mostly presented to people as a show deliberately put on and gawked at, but this feels even more dire, making entertainment out of "real"(as opposed to like, artificially set up) violent conflicts and letting people participate in it through the comfort of their couch.
In the future, that scene of the corporate agent in Blade Runner 2049 directing drone strike barrages while having her nails done will be reality, but instead of some corporate ghoul its Jim Officeworker on his lunch break putting targets on ambulances because "The orcs disguise themselves as medical personnel" and posting it to twitter afterwards.
Yes but he’s Hungarian I think he’s still very upset that the soviets invaded, but clearly they didn’t invade hard enough
Me when I place bets on fantasy sports team in the comfort of my toilet
AdamSomething is arguably the most repugnant "breadtuber". Also Hungary deserved to be invaded by the Soviet Union both times, and they should have been invaded a third time just to keep those fuckers' heads on right.
Congratulations Adam, that probably landed on a random street in Donetsk.
