#generalissimo rambles

[generalissimomayhem]

Idk why, but I feel these three must be related.

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Mom gave me Aperol/Campari once, and I haven't been able to get over it.

It's SO nasty, is like chewing tylenol

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[thatstormygeek]

But it isn’t worth getting lost in the pedantic details; details that even Trump doesn’t waste time on. What matters here is the overall image he and his coterie wanted to paint: an image constructed by surrounding the doddering, terrified 78-year-old manchild with comic symbols of hypermasculinity (Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White—the latter of whom was last seen drunkenly slapping his wife in a Mexican night club on New Year’s Eve); by Trump kissing the fireman’s uniform of his “fan” killed by a stray bullet at his rally, and wearing the comically oversized ear bandage to remind everyone of his near-brush with death. It is the image of Trump as God-appointed leader, the nation’s savior, and protector against the violent “un-human” hordes. Major media, parroting the Trump team’s pre-spin, had promised for days that the speech would be an exercise in “unity,” reflecting a newfound humility that Trump had allegeldy gained from his brush with assassination last weekend. Racket readers were better prepared: As I argued on Tuesday, Trump’s obvious move would be to follow the example of fascist leaders before him —including Generalissimo Francisco Franco and, yes, Hitler — in claiming that his near-death experience was “proof” that his authority was sanctioned by the divine.

The New York Times tried to “contextualize” Trump’s threats a few days ago, noting that the “costs and hurdles would be enormous.” But this is, again, missing the forest for the pedantic trees. The point isn’t that it would be easy or legal to round up 20 million people, any more than it was going to be easy or possible to “build the wall” during his previous term. It’s that this is the direction he wants to drag the entire country in. And don’t be confused about this: Rounding up 20, or even 10 or 5, million people is a project that will touch every aspect of life in the United States. It will mean checkpoints and random raids at workplaces and in neighborhoods; it will mean mistakes, wrongful detentions and deportations, racial profiling and state violence at an unprecedented scale. I can tell you from having covered past threatened mass expulsions, particularly in the Dominican Republic, that even when the full extent of the government’s threat is not realized, in practice it is an exercise in terror and a virtual carte blanche for violence against the targeted minority, up to and including outright lynching. The Times wrote that “consensus among immigration experts and former homeland security officials is that logistical, legal, bureaucratic and cost barriers would make it virtually impossible to carry out the mass deportations Mr. Trump seeks in the span of a four-year presidential term.” But what legal barriers? The Supreme Court just ruled that a president can do whatever he wants, so long as it is an “official act.” And who says Trump — who, again, tried to overthrow an election by force — will allow himself to be limited to just one more four-year term? And I guess, at root, that’s why I and other political observers sat through all 92 minutes of the longest, most rambling, incoherent speech by a major party nominee in televised history. Because if the Democrats, media, and the rest of the supposed pro-democracy opposition don’t get it together and figure out how to stop this immediately, it will be a preview of the next chapter of our lives.

[shocotate]

For people who thought the King in King Bradley was his title and not his first name, and that his surname Bradley was actually his first name, when Selim Bradley and Mrs Bradley were introduced did you think this was a Mario Mario situation, so he’d be Bradley Bradley, or just that those weren’t their surnames either? Or something else?

btw this couldn’t happen in Japanese as it uses the English word ‘king’ because it’s his first name. The title king would be the suffix ‘-ou’ at the end of his name, after his rank Daisoutou, like the King of Xerxes is Xerxes-ou.

[generalissimomayhem]

These two are (almost) the same to me stg

[generalissimomayhem]

I knew it could happen on inside buildings and houses because that's a bit obvious.

But on the outside? Nah, that sounds demonic.

do people who live in countries that don't have snow know about the snow silence? When you get a nice big dumping of fresh snow and you step outside into an infinitely harshly contrasted world and there's no sound because the snow absorbs it all? I believe it fits the traditional use of terrific both wonderful and incredible but also causing a great terror.

[generalissimomayhem]

Is funny to me how in the og version of TNMN, you have to allow The Masked Ghost to enter and in this new version, is just a fraction of a second to NOT let her in.

[generalissimomayhem]

Is it me, or does it feel like in the newer Papa Louie games, they just be choosing any characters for chefs?

I mean... they have ALWAYS been just some random guys (tm) working together, but with the years, it seems less... cohesive in a way?? I'm not sure how to describe it, but I feel it in some way or another.

And mind you, I don't dislike the new chefs, at all.

[generalissimomayhem]

Is good when people change but is not good when they lie to your face about a previous version of them that you remember perfectly...

[generalissimomayhem]

As a catholic raised person (now a hardened agnostic), to me will always be WILD, when catholics get called out for idolatry and being called "worshippers" when you have shite like this happening in protestant churches (specially evangelical churches):

One of my favorite things about the difference between Protestant denominations and Catholicism is that Protestants made their whole thing being So Fucking Boring(tm) and normal that if you were raised around Protestants with little to no connection to the Catholic Church when you find out about all the saints and rituals and bones and shit it genuinely comes off as a little like...pagan isn't the right word exactly but you know what I mean? Like for my entire life good Christians sat on folding chairs in a beige basement eating shitty donuts from Albertsons and told me liking Pokemon and Halloween made me a sinner and then I go to see an old Catholic church and there's just like. A fucking ancient corpse in the room?? That everyone is praying over??? Like????? And THIS is actually the religion all the "Pokemon normalizes devil worship" guys originally came from several hundred years ago??????

It's wild okay. It's just wild.

[generalissimomayhem]

How come the people at the Flipline blog haven't been uploading fanart since 2023? We aren't (that) dead, y'know?

[generalissimomayhem]

I love how I have finally somewhat learnt to draw hands and I still can't draw mouth expressions

[generalissimomayhem]

Bro, Flipline should bring this section BACK! Like wym they had their own version of MTV Cribs?

[generalissimomayhem]

I hate when people interrupt me to ask me shit that I could have answered if they had LISTENED TO MY EXPLANATIONS

[generalissimomayhem]

As a de-facto introvert, sometimes I find those introvert memes to be so lame and corny, like they try TOO hard to be relatable.

[generalissimomayhem]

I don't know man, but I feel like I shouldn't download 5 different extensions or apps in order to make 1 (one) app do the bare minimum...

"No bro, to use youtube and improve you experience you have to download this ad-lock, then download this vpn, then download this other app that "boosts performance", download this, download that..."

How about you suck me off?