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evilelitest2 · 1 year ago

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@theculturedmarxist Um....Russia also hasn't fought a war with a peer compactor in 30 years. Like the least wars Russia has fought include

A brutal colonialist nationalist war with Chechnya (lost), a renegand province without an army

A second even more brutal nationalist war with Cechnya (won), again a renegade province without an army

A brutal imperialist war against part of Moldovia (won, but ocme on, its Moldavia)

An incompetent corrupted and humiliatingly badly run invasion of....Georgia....a country with a smaller population than the state of Georgia (Won, but very winter war)

A series of small scale Central Asian skirmishes (won mostly)

Assisted Assad's regime in Syria, mostly via air support (still ungoing)

Seizing Crimea from a vastly inferior Ukraine (won)

A full blown invasion of Ukraine which has gone...badly.

Russia hasn't fought a peer rival since...honestly WWII, though if you count the Cold War than 1991. And unlike NATO, Russia's ultra conservative super masculine military structure is deeply dysfunctional. They have lost about 50% of there military capacity in this war already, and in the last few days Ukraine seized about 30 miles of territory. Russia could still win, they (were) the second most powerful military force in the world and 4 times there population, a better economy (until yesterday) and far more resources, but the fact that Ukraine, a much smaller nation who have never fought a war before 2014 has managed to drive them back to the eastern provinces is massively humiliatingly. Like US in Afghanistan level humiliatingly, its a joke. Russia by all rights should have won by March 2022, the fact that its August 2023 and Ukraine is still retaking territory is just a fucking joke. And NATO isn't even in the war directly, if Russia is having this much trouble against fucking Ukraine (who wasn't even rated in the top 20 militaries in the world), you think they can take on the nations who actually have fully trained armies?

Edit: I went back to look at your takes on the Russia-Ukraine conflict back in Jan-Feb of 2022, and wow, its like rewatching those CNN pundits saying that America would be out of Iraq in 13 months tops.

Like this bit here

were you are like "its American propaganda that Russia is going to invade Ukraine"

Or here, in March of 2022, where you predict that Ukraine is going to collapse imminently unless NATO sets up no Fly Zones

"From what I’ve heard Zelensky is getting ready to capitulate and give Russia whatever it wants." wow friend, you really need to check where you get your sources from because....wow, that...did not age well

Or here, where you are like "I don't think Russia's military would do atrocities, they are so professional" which shows you have not been paying attention to Russia's military for at least 30 years friend

Or here, where you predict that Ukraine is going to fail and NATO is in panic mode

I mean Ukraine just had a small breakthrough less than 15 hours ago as of time of writing but like...maybe you should stop making predictions mate, you are really bad at it.

This one isn't wrong its just...bad logic. Because Russia (also an Imperial power, and has been for centuries) is often participating in the same crimes as the US, they teamed up a lot during the War on Terror days. But like, we have numbers for how many people died to drone strikes under Obama, it is not comparable to Russia in Syria friend

This one is fascinating because it says so much about how you think. You really seem to think that the US is just kinda...unique in how stupid and sadistic its leaders are (but saying "I know more than you")while linking to Greyzone, a news organization funded by the Russian goverment is just...chefs kiss man

I shouldn't be surprised though, you regularly reblogg the Greyzone, a deeply reactionary russia funded news network that pretends to be leftists while hating trans people and going down into conspiracy theories (when you aren't coming to defense of Fox News, very leftist of you) Its like dealing with bloody TERFS, supposed leftists who spend all of there time agreeing with the far right and trying to justify human rights violations

here is you really showing your progressive bone fides (might want to apologize for that bit friend)

Or like this, which like....dude read a book, for fuck's sake, there is a reason why the West German Gay scene was so much more powerful

@sapper-in-the-wire America's actions in the middle east was an unrelenting series of brutal war crimes, but it is weird that you aren't upset by Russia doing...even more. Like the US caused, directly or indirectly, around a million civilians deaths (using the highest credible estimates I can find), over the course of an 8 year war+11 more years. of smaller conflict. The lower estimates are around 600,000 losses (to be clear, Bush and his cronies should be tried in the Hague) Russia has been in Ukraine for about a year and a half, we we are already seeing somewhere around 130,000 civilian causalities, including reports of mass rape, torture, and deliberate massacres and in fact this has been a pattern since 1991 the Russian army as well as Wagner have a horrific human rights record.

Edit (again) oh dear god, you are a Joe Rogan Fan, and maybe an antivaxxer. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. I'll say some nice things at the end i guess

Your pro Trans, which makes you regularly siding with Russia really fucking weird. Russian military advertisements actively say that the war is to prevent the "infection" of trans "degeneracy" from coming to Russia, its worse than the US (its even worse than the UK). There is a reason why so much Russian state media praises Desantos and Visa Versa

I do feel sorry about your rent situation, send me a message if you need any help (that isn't a power move, genuinely send me a message).

Also you really need to stop getting your news from right wing sources, like Jesus Christ half of your biden takes come from the Right. Stalin isn't somebody to emulate, stop getting your news from fucking youtube, actually study the history of a region for its own sake not just to use it as a token in an imaginary ideological conflict. YOur like 19, your are still seeing the world in this fucking high school perspective, its more complicated than that, get out of the conspiracy place and the ideological rigidity

PPS> You have almost never posted about the Wagner Group and that is super telling

#Ukraine #Russia #Actual Historian #American Centrism

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daydreamerdrew · 4 months ago

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Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

Captain America: The Chosen (2007) #1-6

These issues were published across September 2007 to January 2008. All were written by David Morell and drawn by Mitch Breitweiser. Issues #1-5 were 22 pages, and issue #6 was 26 pages.

In issue #4, of joining Project Rebirth, Steve says, “That’s when I found another father. Three of them. Professor Erskine, General Phillips and Colonel Fletcher.” Of his training, he said, “To justify the faith that my substitute fathers had in me, I worked harder and longer.” And a flashback panel shows Steve saying, when he’s cautioned about the danger of the final part of the experiment, “I’ll do anything for the three of you.” I really dislike this emphasis on that Steve saw these men as substitute fathers. I think that that idea works for Professor Erskine, specifically in a metaphorical way where he’s responsible for remaking Steve’s body. But I don’t think this overall idea works as a key part of Steve’s mentality during this pivotal moment of his story. It detracts from him being motivated by his own patriotism, desire to fight in Europe, and desire to prove himself as a man.

And Steve says, of the destruction of the ray machine during his origin story, “Project Rebirth could never be repeated. There could never be another Captain America. I doomed myself to be alone.” But issue #6 ends with Steve saying, after giving a speech about everyday heroes and the shared values they have, “If people will only believe that I’m inside them… I’ll never truly die.” Also, the phrasing in the first quote implying that having that same super-soldier serum as Steve is essential to being Captain America surprised me. I know Bucky and Sam later went on to use the name and neither of them had it, and I’m also not aware that Captain America comics prior to this framed being suitable for the name as requiring it either.

In issue #5 Steve says, “My oldest friend was James Buchanan Barnes. He was like a kid brother to me. I called him Bucky. He died in one of our missions.”

And he says, of being hidden in the army as a regular private, “I welcomed the training. My sudden new strength made my body unfamiliar to me. The army was a perfect place to learn how to control my powers.”

Another idea that was new to me, but that I actually thought was interesting, was Steve explaining, about his early fighting in WWII, “I knew the sight of Captain America would draw heavy fire to my unit, so I went as Steve Rogers.”

In issue #6 theres a page depicting Steve from the 40s to being frozen in ice to readjusting to the future, and that last section clearly depicts the 60s. This really surprised me because I hadn’t before this seen a comic published this far from the 60s use that time period for Steve, considering the sliding timescale. And the narration on the page also suits Steve adjusting to the 60s and not the 90s, with him saying, “The war was over. Another war had started and ended. Something called the Cold War was now being waged. My mind reeled as I learned about the atomic bomb and the even more devastating hydrogen bomb.” But the current day, not flashback parts of this story are clearly set during the Iraq War.

The X-Men (1963) #43-45

These issues were published across February 1968 to April 1968. Issue #43 was written by Roy Thomas. The main story of issue #44 was plotted by Roy Thomas and scripted by Gary Friedrich. And issue #45 and the back-up story in issue #44 were written by Gary Friedrich. The main story of issue #43 was drawn by George Tuska, and the main story of issues #44-45 were laid out by Don Heck and penciled by Werner Roth. All of the main stories were inked by John Tartaglione. The back-up story of issue #43 was penciled by Werner Roth, and the back-up story of issues #44-45 were penciled by George Tuska. All of the back-up stories were inked by John Verpoorten. The main stories were all 15 pages, and the back-up stories were all 5 pages.

In issue #43 Pietro attended Professor X’s funeral and was spotted by his students. He thinks, “I knew they might see me… when I obeyed my irresistible impulse to attend Xavier’s funeral! I wonder… did i subconsciously wish to be seen… that I might end the aching loneliness which began when I renounced humanity?” When the X-Men approach him, Pietro is spooked. Falsely assuming they were going to attack, he runs off and thinks, “Magneto was right! I can trust no one… no one save him!”

When Pietro visits Wanda, who’s had amnesia since her head was grazed by a bullet in The Avengers #49, he thinks, “She seems outwardly better… but her thoughts are still vague… her hex power vanished! Sometimes I wonder… if perhaps the Avengers could help her! Perhaps I should-!” He later says he’d also hoped that Charles would have been able to cure Wanda.

Wanda, who Pietro left behind on Magneto’s island to attend the funeral, says, “I searched for you… and you were gone! I know what a burden I am to you, my brother… And I thought perhaps you had left… forever!” He tells her, “Do not even imagine such things, Wanda! My place is ever here… with you!” Pietro and Wanda hug, and then Wanda sits down on the floor and Pietro lays down, his head in Wanda’s lap, which she holds. Pietro is crushed because he feels he’s failed Wanda. Meanwhile, Wanda thinks “My every instinct tells me that we should not remain here” at Magneto’s island.

When the X-Men attack Magneto’s island and Pietro joins the fray, Scott say, “I knew he’d be here… but I’d dared hope he’d refrain from attacking us!” Pietro fights back, but without his optic blasts, while Pietro verbally postures that he’s loyal to Magneto, but thinks, “If I can stop the X-Men myself… perhaps they will not be harmed!”

In issue #44 Pietro tells the imprisoned X-Men, “For far too long have my sister and I suffered the indignities dealt us by Homo Sapiens… Therefore, we have decided our only cause is that if our own race… the race of the Homo Superiors!” Later Warren manages to escape to get help, and Pietro chases him and fails to recapture him, but he thinks, “But, somehow, I cannot regret it!”

In issue #45 Scott escapes, and Pietro approaches him, thinking, “perhaps I can reason with him… and avoid a conflict between us!” But Scott attacks him, saying, “I don’t particularly go for parlays with traitors to the human race!”

However, their fight quickly derails as Scott does listen to Pietro. Peitro preaches, “We’re both mutants… practically brothers! We should be allies, instead of enemies! […] Since the very first mutant appeared on Earth, normal men have persecuted us… hunted and hounded us! Now, at last, Magneto has given us a chance to leave all that turmoil behind! He proposes to set up a sanctuary… a separate country for mutants! And, only by following him can we ever hope to lead peaceful, normal lives!” I think Pietro calling them “practically brothers” because they’re both mutants is particularly meaningful considering his dedication to his real sister.

Scott thinks, “I’m certain he’s wrong… And yet, there’s a lot of sense is what he’s saying!” And he responds, “What you’re telling me sounds like the answer to all our prayers, Quicksilver, but… there’s no way you can convince me that Magneto would do anything for the good of his fellow mutants!” I was surprised by his amenability to the broader idea.

Scott declares, “I’ll have no part in any movement in which Magneto is involved” and calls Pietro a “hate-blinded fool” for trusting him. This empowers Pietro to feel that Scott is engaging in “Homo Sapiens-sympathizing blasphemy” and that “I can consider you nothing but our enemy!” so he properly attacks Scott as he should have done immediately as a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Later, when Pietro is knocked out in the fight, Scott tries to revive him, thinking that he could get Pietro to tell him information he needs.

Also, the back-up story about Bobby’s pre-X-Men life in issue #44 was actually good.

The Avengers (1963) #51-56 and Annual #2

These issues were published across February 1968 to July 1968. All were written by Roy Thomas. All of the main The Avengers issues were penciled by John Buscema. Issues #51 and #53-54 were inked by George Tuska. Issue #52 was inked by Vince Colletta. And issues #55-65 were inked by George Klein. All of the issues were 20 pages, except for the Annual, which had a 44-page main story, a 2-page pin-up, and a 5-page back-up story about the Marvel bullpen. The main story of the Annual was penciled by Don Heck and Werner Roth and inked by Vince Colletta. And the back-up story was penciled by John Buscema and inked by Frank Giacoia.

In issue #51 Janet is referred to by the Collector as “she who dabbles in Avenging only to interest Goliath!”

This issue is the first appearance of the Avengers’ “heated A-shaped swimming pool.”

And Steve contacts the team to suggest the Black Panther as his replacement to the Avengers. He says, “Maybe I’ve got no right to contact you… after the way I walked out on you before-!” And Clint says, “Forget it, partner! We all knew you were just trying to cover up your own feelings!” Steve responds, “I might’ve known I didn’t fool anybody!”

Jasper Sitwell appears in issue #52. He explains he was running “an errand for Tony Stark… who gave me a special key to the front door” and that he was “looking forward to meeting the Avengers… my long-time idols.”

It’s revealed in this issue that Natasha has an Avengers’ priority card, which allows her access to the Manor. It’s not surprising that she would have been given one since she established a positive relationship with the rest of the Avengers, and not just Hawkeye, before she last appeared. She first appeared in the book in issue #29, but she would have only gotten the card after issue #44, because that’s when she won everyone’s trust. I assume the other civilians that aren’t in the Avengers that have one of those cards are Jarvis and Rick Jones.

When Natasha returns from her vacation and sees Clint’s dead body (he was actually only stunned), she cries into Jasper Sitwell’s arms and says, “Forgive me for… being a woman, Mr. Sitwell.” I thought that this was a surprising phrasing from her. Also surprising was that her vacation was really just a straightforward vacation.

And it seems strange that Natasha didn’t attempt in any way to get revenge for Clint’s ‘death’ after this, and that Steve didn’t come back and become directly involved in the situation when he heard that Clint, Hank, and Janet were killed.

Also, it would have made sense if it was considered that Natasha could join the team when they were down to just 3 members before issue #51.

In issue #53 Clint acts a little bitter about being attacked by an enemy who wanted revenge against the original team of Avengers in the previous issue. Hank says, “That alarm’s coming from the vehicle center! We’ve got to-” And Clint says, “You mean you’ve got to, Man-Mountain! It’s probably another’a your buddies- like the Grim Reaper!” But later Hank says, “You’re a faker, bow-slinger… and I know it! I saw you dogging my footsteps to see if I needed help!”

When Warren reaches the Avengers, Hank decides to “assume that you were just in too much of a hurry to knock- and that you weren’t trying to sneak up on us…!” Warren responds, “Always- everyone the X-Men go- the same maddening distrust of mutants! Sometimes I think Quicksilver had the right idea- when he signed back up with Magneto!”

Having found Pietro’s body- him knocked out from his fight with Scott- the narration says the Avengers “bound the unconscious Quicksilver until his loyalties are made clear.”

In this story Wanda tries to stick up for the Toad against Magneto. Later Toad finally betrays Magneto, and then helps Wanda and Pietro escape the soon-to-be-destroyed island, while the X-Men and the Avengers flee separately from them. Hank says of this, “There go Wanda and Pietro- in that rocket with the Toad! They seem to want no more of either X-Men… or Avengers!”

Issue #55 is the first appearance of Ultron.

In issue #56 Hank compliments, “The Black Panther did it… in record time! Even Cap himself couldn’t have done any better!” Clint responds, “Look, Tall-Socks, I’m a big a Panther fan as the next Avenger… But, he’s still no Captain America to this arrow-pusher!” T’Challa saves Hank’s life right after this, making Clint say, “Mister, you just made a believer outta ol’ Hawkeye!” But later Clint sees Steve be particularly effective in action and says, “Cap! I always said you were even better than the Panther!”

The Avengers are jumpy and attack Steve even though he was the one who called them and asked them to come there. When they realize it’s Steve, Clint apologizes, “Sorry, Cap… I guess we were kind’a trigger-happy!” Steve says, “Forget it, Hawkeye! For me, that’s an occupational hazard!”

In the Annual Janet says, “My woman’s intuition has been acting up… ever since we left Dr. Doom’s castle… and found our aero-car gone!!” And later Janet asks for an explanation by saying, “How about filling a poor female in on what this is all about?”

In issue #55 the Alpha Centurion had made Janet fall asleep all of a sudden, and so accidentally hit a button on Dr. Doom’s time machine, but that explanation isn’t given until this issue. When Steve questions how that could have happened, Hank says, “Jan may be scatter-brained at times… but she’s no shirker!” To which Janet says, “Thanks for nothing, man o’ mine!”

In the story the current Avengers find themselves in a world where the original Avengers are still together and nobody’s ever heard of them. At one point Steve thinks, “This time it was Hank who started to break, under the shock of the realization! Next time, it could be Hawkeye … Jan… or any of us! I may hold up best, since I’ve had to come to grips with the idea of being a living relic of an earlier day! Yet, how long before even I begin to doubt my very sanity!”

And at one point Janet thinks, “I’ve never seen Cap grimmer… more intense… than he is right now! When he’s like that, there’s no threat we wouldn’t follow him against!”

Steve tells his Avengers, of them having to fight the original Avengers who have become despots, “I know how tempting it is to say we should throw in the towel! Thru countless ages, mankind has often tried to escape from freedom… into the open arms of tyranny! Over the long haul, the result’s always been the same… and you know what that was! Now, I think Thor and crew were sold a bill of goods that may destroy them… and I’ll fight them alongside you… or without you!” When they say they’re with him, Steve says, “I knew you’d come thru for me… even though the world gave up in despair!” It is cool to see Steve leading the Avengers again, since he left the team in issue #47.

In Steve’s fight with Thor he manages to keep his hammer away from him for longer than the allotted minute, revealing to Steve for the first time that Thor transforms into the mortal Donald Blake when that happens. Steve says of this, “I never imagined he’d be so helpless… so frail..!” Though Steve’s memory of this issue is wiped at the end, so he doesn’t retain that information going forward.

The villain of the issue, the Alpha Centurion, refers to Janet as “the pitifully small Wasp.”

Janet pokes fun at the alternate timeline version of herself for still wearing their old costume, asking, “Are they still wearing crew-necks in this era, too?” Our Janet defeats the other Janet while she’s distracted by her concern for the other Hank. She says of this, “It’s a good thing I know myself… how careless I get when I get mad! Otherwise, I’d never have out-maneuvered this Wasp!”

The Alpha Centurion also takes credit for Steve suddenly feeling the need to use Dr. Doom’s time machine to see how Bucky died in issue #56, which unlike Janet randomly falling asleep, didn’t comes across as needing an explanation.

At the end of the issue Clint tells Steve that he’s sorry about Bucky’s death, and Steve says, “Thanks… I appreciate it! But, at least our trip to the past proved that Bucky truly died then… may his soul rest in peace! I’ve got to learn to accept that… ‘cause that’s the way he’d have wanted it!”

Captain America: Red, White and Blue (2002)

This anthology graphic novel was published in September 2002, specifically on the 11th. The page numbers for the 14 stories original to the book ranged from 5 to 10 pages, except for two 2-page stories.

The story “Why I Fight” (written by Bruce Jones; drawn by Richard Piers Rayner; colored by Ken Sui-Chong) promoted the positive effects of fictional idols like Captain America in a roundabout way, narrated by a regular WWII soldier that’s encouraged by the fictional propaganda films made starring Steve and paralleling that with Steve’s ‘real’ work. Specifically, when the soldier falls asleep while screening Steve’s movie the scene changes the show that Steve is really there and on his own secret mission, separate from and unknown to the other soldier. The regular soldier’s narration, which is initially presented so that it seems like it’s coming from Steve, says, “Some criticize those who stayed safely at home… making movies for the rest of us out here in the war… but I say God bless them! And diversion out here is food for a starving man… No one can think about the war constantly… no one can be vigilant every second… It’s why I let the movie go on… why I let a single man have his little dream… Maybe it’s only a silly Hollywood movie… maybe the lonely man’s dream will end… but for now the movie, the dream, may be all that’s keeping him alive…” And then, “I’ll take my hat off to those other men… those soldiers who work together night and day… guys who risk their lives so their fellow soldiers can watch those movies, read those comics, have those dreams…”

“… they just fade away…” (written by Jeff Jensen; drawn by Frank Quitely; colored by Matt Madden) opens with Steve saying, “They’re all dying. My generation. Anyone and everyone I ever knew, and everyone who ever knew me. Soon, only memories of that time will remain. Memories- and me, the only one left who lived through it. An old soul, getting older, in a body that’s impossibly young, while all my friends grow gray and withered.”

And the story ends with Steve saying, “But I’m still here, fighting what should be somebody else’s fight. Nothing has changed. Nothing- except I’ve learned a lot. Like knowing how to listen for sneak attacks in the midst of battle. Pretty important if you don’t have a friend to watch your back. Adrenaline rushing, blood pumping- suddenly, all my worries fade away. This is my peace. My little snatch of peace.”

“A Winter’s Tale” (written by Scott Ciencin; drawn by Pasqual Ferry; colored by Jose Villarrubia) had an inventive premise where Steve and the Red Skull are fighting over the Cosmic Cube, and Steve is shown an alternate universe where he’s a mentally ill and homeless veteran. He’s told, “You served in the infantry where you held a variety of low-ranking positions and saw combat overseas. […] The prominent delusions and auditory hallucinations caused by your condition are persecutory and grandiose. Common with paranoid schizophrenics.” It’s also said, “[Y]ou were engaged prior to the onset of your condition. Your fiancé’s name was Sharon. Do you remember Sharon? She’s written several times…” But Steve ultimately sees through the illusion, understands who he really is and that the Red Skull is using the Cosmic Cube to reshape reality, and is able to retrieve the Cube and set everything back to how it should be. He declares, “I know where I belong. An eternity spent fighting the good fight. I’d rather die there than live here.” And then, “All is as it should be. Forever.”

And in “Desecration” (written by Jeff Jensen; drawn by Mike Deodato; colored by Chris Chuckry) Steve says, responding to an in-universe parody comic criticizing Captain America for not being white nationalist, “I exist to many only as a symbol- a walking incarnation of an idea called ‘America.’ And yes, I understand that this… this slander is not of me, but of the icon that I embody. I should not take this personally… Yet here I am.”

DC Comics:

Rorschach (2020) #1

This issue was published in October 2020. It was written by Tom King, drawn by Jorge Fornés, and colored by Dave Stewart.

I only read this first issue of this 12-issue book this week, but I thought it was a strong start to the story. I did not know before I read it that the main mystery was uncovering the identities and motivations of two perpetrators who died in their failed attempt to assassinate a presidential candidate. But I think that recent events have actually coincidentally given me a greater appreciation of the stakes of the story than I would have had had I read it earlier.

Ahoy Comics:

The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers (2024) #3

This issue was published last month, June 2024. It was written by Tom Peyer, penciled by Jamal Igle, inked by Juan Castro, and colored by Lee Loughridge.

In this issue Dragonfly says, to Dragonflyman, “If on Earth-Omega Stinger- my own kid- dies- and yours lives- what does the death mean? What does the life mean? How can we care about anything that happens if it also doesn’t?”

Richard is thinking a lot is meaningless in this moment, like his job as Dragonfly. But taking that quoted sentiment seriously, despite that for a moment, it comes across as that he’s more attached to the role that Chip played in his life as his son and sidekick Stinger than the particulars of who he was as a person.

I don’t think Earth-Alpha Chip’s life could possibly negate Earth-Omega Chip’s death because they’re so different; it’s not as though Richard went to a different universe where he got to see the life his Chip would have lived had he not died. And I wondered back when I reread The Wrong Earth (2018) if it would be difficult for Richard to see this happy Chip living the idyllic life his Chip didn’t, and never would, but we haven’t seen any indication of that yet. Richard was happy with his life with that Chip and Lady-Dragonflyman in the year-long time-skip between The Wrong Earth (2018) and The Wrong Earth: Night & Day (2022), other than his inability to quite adapt his level of violence to the world he was living in and his self-consciousness that he was the wrong Dragonfly for the world. So one could think that Earth-Alpha Chip completely filled the Earth-Omega Chip hole in his heart.

And Richard has a much more positive relationship with Earth-Alpha Chip than we’ve seen of his with Earth-Omega Chip in the prequel stories. I think this is made a bit easier because of the Earth-Alpha Stinger’s sweet personality and the light-hearted context he lives in.

Of course, the reality is that Richard was saying that quote in a moment of deep upset, and really his phrasing implies that he thinks it’s unfair that “my own kid” is dead. And the fact that Richard brings up his death unprompted when complaining about the Megaverse and Earth-Alpha- and within the broader context that Deuce is missing, something else he could complain about instead- shows that he’s not over Chip’s death. Stronger evidence of how Richard has changed, as opposed to his easier dynamic with Earth-Alpha Stinger, is how he reacts to Man-Dragonfly and Nightsting’s relationship in The Wrong Earth: Night & Day (2021). And I think we’re ultimately going to see how much Richard has changed demonstrated through how he manages his relationship with Jordan once they’re both back on Earth-Omega, particularly after the growth of overcoming this patch of depression.

My Bad (2021) #1-5 and My Bad II (2022) #1-5

These issues were published across November 2021 to March 2022 and then November 2022 to March 2023. They were written by Mark Russell and Bryce Ingram. Each issue contained 20 pages of regular comic stories, drawn by Peter Krause and colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, one 1-page comic drawn in a parody style (for example, based on the Hostess ads of the 1970s) by Joe Orsak and colored by Paul Little, and one primarily text story (for example, the Wikipedia page for a character’s famous family).

These superhero parody stories are really funny. My favorite character is Rush Hour, the affable superhero who was hypnotized by a wizard into being dedicated to fixing L.A.’s traffic. And I also like Acid Chimp, the chimp trained by the now-semi-retired supervillain Emperor King to throw acid at people.

Image Comics:

Local Man (2023) #1-4

These issues were published across February 2023 to May 2023. They were written by Tim Seeley. The art of the main story is drawn by Tony Fleecs and colored by Brad Simpson, and the art of the back-up stories is drawn by Tim Seeley and colored by Felipe Sobreiro.

This book is about a man who’s kicked off his superhero team, which he’d joined as a teenager, after a sexual impropriety and has to move back in with his parents in his small hometown. Apparently some of the characters are pre-existing characters from 90s Image Comics books, but I’ve never read those and can understand the story just fine. The back-up stories are written and drawn in that 90s style, providing relevant background information to the story and a high-action contrast to Jack’s now mundane settings. I’m finding the story of this book interesting, and I’m liking what it’s doing so-far with the superhero genre.

#comics read this past week #my posts

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britishdeepstate · 7 years ago

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British Deep State's Social Engineering Activities

The British deep state has been explicitly or secretly using social engineering methods since the 16th century. This allowed it to make many countries of the world its colonies and in some cases, to gain full control of countries.

From the middle of the 19th century until the early 20th century, the British deep state has focused its social engineering efforts on the Ottoman Empire. During and after WWI and WWII, its focus was once again largely on the former Ottoman territories in the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world in general because it believed that it would be these areas that would challenge their global interests.

In addition, there was the added benefit of controlling the world’s richest natural resources, labor force, trade routes, intersection of faiths and civilizations, holy lands and most importantly, the lands, countries and nations of the Muslims, the arch-enemy of the dajjal movement. They always knew that, left to its own devices, an Islamic Union would emerge from this region, which would mean the definitive end of the British deep state’s imperialist reign and global network of interests. For these reasons, controlling the region seems a matter of life and death for the British deep state and the dajjal movement hiding behind it.

This is the reason behind the British deep state’s fascination with the region for centuries. Directing its entire propaganda power over the region, it resumed its ‘divide and rule’ strategy for the Middle East, which had been initiated but left unfinished by the Sykes-Picot agreement. This strategy worked for countries like Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya and made those countries dependent on the deep state. Continuous civil unrest in these states caused their division, which was the original deep plan. In the meantime, black propaganda against countries that held the potential to lead the Islamic Union intensified. Turkey and Iran were the main targets.

The British deep state clearly declared its position as the primary supporter, backer, promoter, and defender of the terror group PKK, which is its most important weapon in its quest to divide Turkey. The media empire of the deep state, which in the past largely contributed to the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, played the biggest role in the fragmentation of many countries and acted as a prominent supporter of terror groups like the PKK.

The Most Important Tool of Social Engineering: Media

Many people already know that global communication technologies, particularly the media, are the most important means of social engineering operations. Media is the visual-audio transmission of information and ideas to a wide range of people through various communication tools. It includes printed media (newspapers, books, magazines, etc.), TV channels, movies, radio, Internet and social media platforms. Due to its potential to influence masses, media has been frequently used as an important tool in propaganda and perception operations. Naturally, it is one of the most effective weapons of both global imperialist powers and the world’s deep states.

The British deep state has also used some media channels for similar purposes and offered misleading information even to its own people, subjecting them to social engineering. It went so far as to overthrow legal governments in its own country. Therefore, it is important to state once more that the British people and the British government are in no way responsible for the activities of the British deep state or its respective media outlets. On the contrary, the British government, government officials and British people have often been on the receiving end of these sinister plots. British governments and her people have always been the victims of such social engineering operations and are completely innocent of deep state practices.

Deep structures that rule over super powers of the world, like the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia and China, in their quest to manipulate both their societies and the world’s people in general, have frequently used social engineering. For instance, Hitler’s Germany greatly used it in the run up to WWII and in its aftermath. In a similar fashion, the Cold War era witnessed the widespread application of similar strategies.

The Vietnam War offers one of the most striking examples of how social engineering was used to twist the truths. By 1975, the war had ended with a devastating outcome for Vietnam. The number of deaths reached 3 million, 300,000 people were missing and 4 million were injured. The casualties were almost equal to 17% of the country’s total population. The USA, on the other hand, had a total loss of 60,000.

However, the wide-scaled vilification campaign against Vietnam by the US media not only exonerated the US even after it tore a country thousand miles away into pieces and slaughtered millions of its citizens, it also gave the necessary justification for an 18-year US embargo on Vietnam. Leslie H. Gelb, a foreign policy analyst with the New York Times even called the Vietnamese ‘outlaws’ for killing Americans. (SOURCE)

It must be known that the only way to combat communism is through an intellectual effort. The USA failed to see that Vietnam and the Far East in general had fallen into the clutches of communism due to faulty education, and couldn’t see that only by correct education could they be saved. Today, the USA and the rest of the world continue to maintain this faulty approach towards communism and other harmful ideologies. Violence is still considered as the only response to harmful ideologies, which causes even more violence and troubles. Needless to say, this is exactly what the British deep state wants. As explained earlier, the intention of the British deep state is to create unrest and turmoil around the world, create crises -sometimes even supporting terror groups to this end- to divide the world and easily establish its hegemony.

The wide-scaled loss of Muslim lives during the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 by the Bush administration was misrepresented to the world public with the help of the media’s social engineering efforts. The so-called ‘war on terror’ caused the martyrdom of millions of innocent Muslim civilians while it was portrayed as an American effort to bring human rights, freedom and democracy to those countries. The media was the main player in this perception operation. The real plan had been to divide Iraq all along and to enable the British deep state hegemony over the region. However, the myth of ‘bringing democracy to Iraq‘ deeply affected the world public opinion and as a result, many found the attacks acceptable.

The Chilcot Report of July 2016, published by the ‘Iraq Inquiry’, which was organized to investigate the role of the UK in this war, can be considered a report of confessions. Tony Blair, the then Prime Minister of the UK, admitted that the intelligence regarding the so-called presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -the alleged reason for invasion- had been faulty, but the invasion took place nevertheless. He also said that after the intervention, the situation became more hostile, bloody and prolonged than imagined. This confession after so many years and after so many lost lives is no doubt significant. We will understand in the coming days if these words reflect true remorse, or if they are just a move in another British deep state game.

The USA and similar world powers have always been only instruments in the plans of the British deep state, which chooses to stay behind and manage the affairs covertly; the true mastermind has always been the British deep state.

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