finally decided to actually codify the names and designations for the ancilary "small" craft in the CTF (also decided to change what the large landing craft embarked in the LKBNs are)
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finally decided to actually codify the names and designations for the ancilary "small" craft in the CTF (also decided to change what the large landing craft embarked in the LKBNs are)
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
sorry i meant 2009
also love the idea that CVN-77 is a super analog ship when it uh commissioned in 2008
THIS MUFFUCKA BOAT GOT TWENTY FOOT CEILINGS
i also appreciate the presidential honorguard snubbing the space force
also goddamn the flag watch in the HW is fucking huuuuge
Nark Milleyman died for our sins
You guys are using liquid-fueled missiles?
God I love LAVs
Also love Nick Offerman playing Mark Milley
they’re transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
movies sure love seeing London get blown up
love the idea that the US missile fields just have wild horses vibing around on them
also my god they used the term "chosen one"
also goddamn that was like five different explanations of the previous plot, test audiences must have been so fucking confused lol
idk how i feel about the ex post facto rabbits foot reveal, i guess its better than just a JJ mystery box bullshit
Yeah it's a very different kind of connection tbh and definitely not for everyone
Pom Klementieff is sooooo fucking hot
except instead of scary hippies its drug-addled losers with billions burning holes in their pockets and brains
also haha the idea of an AI cult infiltrating the highest levels of government, who could imagine that
i appreciate CIA girlboss president telling us who Ethan Hunt is at the start
Tho I've had decent enough experience with them as a bi dude, but more with guys than gals
Yeah they're rough
wouldn't be surprised if the M4 was one of the weirder ones and not an A3
yeah it really is a flex
getting ads for the concept of a straight bathhouse
Wild how poorly they’re handling this, like they could just post a generic photo, instead they’re pouring fuel on the fire
also oh my god a blown up sherman turns into a turretless/gunless M3
the explosion work is really impressive because they're like actual blasts and not giant fireballs which is probably a function of not being in color?
also lmao at japanese stuarts and shermans, yeah bro that's definitely a ha go
the timeline on the production of this movie relative to the war is wild. what do you mean they US landed at Leyte when they were in principal photography???
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
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Just normal president things
apparently i've fallen down an "old war movie clips" rabbit hole
i mean its a dating app so its not can't really be that annoying
the number of tops i've matched with who think i'm a bottom and then are confused i'm a top is almost annoying
its a fairly massive pain in the ass to convert digital to film so it'll be fairly limited but rumors will be massive
oh God some italian reactionary government in the late 2020s drops a massive dime on restarting the italian film industry to only crank out a new run of Giallo films
Indian-American action movie where Jason Statham and NTR Jr both play the same character of "normal guy who is secretly soooooo badass" and have to kill a bunch of criminals
Idols who can barely act starring in a Police Squad! remake might actually be one of the best dumb ideas i've come up
Someone in the DOJ in 1953 having to decide whether to bring charges against someone for illegally distributing a 2032 remake of Police Squad! where half of the actors are mid-range Kpop idols (it was financed by the ROK MND, for some reason)
people will talk in hushed whispers about a leaked secret film thats soooo crazy and it'll be like Ted2 or Undercover Brother
oh you believe in howitzers? i believe in faceless women telekinetically lobbing bombs a hundred miles
i'm 27 lol
SAP called DRUNKEN CLAM
Family Guy is like TS/SCI until 2042 lol
exactly
Iowa is basically more religious Wisconsin without Madison or Milwaukee, which explains exactly why its the way it is
i do think they eventually might run into an issue where they can juice the *margins* a bit more but the *raw votes* start tappering off
its genuinely impressive how much blood they've drawn from the stone in the rurals
2016 to 2020 is the left one!
the issue with Iowa is there isn't a central dominating urban agglomeration for dems to ride the tiger on like KC or Omaha, you have DM but it just doesn't have the mass
related to all this but there are going to be SO MANY conspiracy theories about the division of NARA that handles cert materials, not helped by the fact that all the hard copies of official pre-shift stuff are stored in a datafarm/archive beneath a giant polished basalt cube on the marin headlands
the digital to analog conversion is convienent narratively because it does allow *real* cert media material to be like straight up mythical
oh cert media is a whole other thing
“publicly funded police forces enforcing rules made by an elected legislature are a progressive reform” sounds insane but is just basically true
my pinned comment is a good starting place!
oh i think Hays code gets yoinked in the '46 to '48 period in part to Cert influence
i think Star Wars is equivalent to Jurassic Park as the "oh woah they really blended practical and computer visual effects incredibly well" movie
southern states probably crackdown on them hard but that makes them illicit so you have people like driving or taking the train up to like DC or Jersey to go watch them in the theaters
"Certs bankroll anti-segregation civil war movies" is definitely a thing in the alt 50s
Unironically think a key cultural moment in DVTL is an adaption of Twelve Years a Slave produced in the early 1950s that is the first "big" movie that is shot and produced with clear 2040s film industry influences/design (and also probably funded by the Certs)
I mean, Maricopa elected Arpaio for more than a decade before flipping blue
Leaving aside everything else here, Navarro also has his timeline wrong. Cooks first meeting as governor was in June 2022, when the Fed raised rates by 3/4 of a point, the biggest hike in nearly 30 years. #EconSky
i think another way of saying this is "we had a thimble of swings tip our way and it was almost enough to outweigh a bucket of swings their way," which is worse precarious to be in than "they had a lot of swings toward them and we had a lot of swings our way and we won narrowly"
not exactly the same style does show how different the swing maps were
kinda reverse 2020 in terms of fragility, but like 2020 wasn't that tidal wave of swings right, it was a mishmash, is what i'm saying basically
like its one thing if it had been a fairly close win with a bunch of shitfight swings on both sides, they basically pasted us everywhere and it was barely enough to get them over the finish line
do think in one way 2024 is kinda ominous for the GOP because they had a 6 point national swing, a swing so wide that basically only a dozen or two counties even slightly swung left (and all those pretty mildly), and that put together a shallow EC majority and very sketchy House majority
I think it’s so awesome this has broken containment
the thing about making every minute of your presidency a reality show about you is that people notice when you don’t show up for multiple episodes
also like every Ohio suburbs
but even in IA you still have headroom to grow in the suburbs bustling around DM, but just not as juicy a prize as Omaha or Indianapolis or KC or St. Louis or WOW
yeah IA is ironically probably the midwestern state least well situated to get funky because it doesn't have A Urban Center
i remember my high school French teacher talking about how when she went to France in college (she was Québécois), everyone told her she spoke like their grandma
yep, which is why she only did a point worst despite a 6 point national swing *and* thoere is still so much room to fall in those counties
oh my GOD
but like the amount of load bearing the if in "if southern suburb whites racially depolarize" is admittedly insane, and we'd really need to see some canaries first to even slightly consider that Actually Happening™
The mere concept of "swing states South Carolina and Mississippi" is the funniest shit ever
Like if midwestern and particularly southern suburbs ever start being even slightly less racially polarized the raw vote margin to start putting things into the Actually Competitive Zone is really quite shockingly small
it would be really funny if racial depolarization still happens but its because white people start being less racially polarized
imo the real deciding axis of 2026 is probably the suburbs (because there is so much room to fall), followed by urban regression (because they are vote dense), followed by rural regression (lot of them but not vote dense but little margins add up in a lot places)
yeah we just don't have really good data about how the electorate is gonna respond to all this shit
like most suburbs in red states are still pretty fucking red and just vote density wise if they start to slip places that are now ruby red GOP heartlands start turning purple f a s t
for them lol
most of the suburbs throughout the midwest and south haven't really started to charge left, but very much could and that's like a electoral equivalent of a ticking thermonuclear bomb
for example WI-GOP is truly fucked if the WOW counties fall
i think some of their gains with hispanic are here to stay because of negative polarization but like not all of them and much more importantly there is so, so SO much room to drop in the suburbs, because there are a lot of suburbs that are still pretty damn red but trending purple
i think they've sealed in a major regression of those urban swings and likely will accelerate suburban swings (and god willing we start seeing the suburbs that have stayed red start turning blue too)
i've beat this drum repeatedly but republicans have an extremely nasty looking political geography and vote density problem. They had a path in 2024 where they could offset gains in the suburbs by drawing blood from a stone in the rurals and making gains with conservative minorities in cities BUT
yeah i think right now we're just skirting in front of the shockwave but they can't keep outrunning it forever, its just unnerving that it isn't immediate
if 2026 is basically reverse 2024, where Republicans lose everywhere all at once that's Real Fucking Bad
IMO its worse than taht Republican cannot afford to *not* gain in rurals, both margin and raw votes, if they continue to slip in suburbs and regress in urban areas
they did get a pretty big stimulus bump in Evil BBB right?
It is pretty clear that dooming about authoritarianism drives more clicks than just about anything else right now and it's really driving some unfortunate behavior and sloppy thinking.
Israel threatening to formalize its already-existing regime of annexation & apartheid over the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank in response to European recognition of the State of Palestine is the diplomatic the equivalent of “if you fire me from my job, then I will go home and beat my kids.”
this administration is genuinely a natural experiment in if anything matters
