My guess is they get to pick their own codenames and so they ended up with about 25 000 "Phantoms" and an equal number of "Cobras".

Is it too much to ask to have at least one great actor give a grand Shakespearian speech and give it his all because his children loved the game?

Yes. Yes, that is entirely too much to ask and Raul Julia didn't have to do that in 1994 either.

Maybe I'm just being contrarian, but I don't think the water or the beach are very good in this painting. The wheat, greenery, cliffs and clouds are great, but the water and beach are kind of monotonous blobs that frankly aren't that great in this painting.

If you take anything away from this post, let it be that Claude Monet had no idea how to paint water and I dare anyone to prove me wrong! That should be a reasonable idea to defend.

They found out that it is because all the money was siphoned off to finance one guy having eight different plantation themed weddings in a year months ago. Same time they found out why your military wasn't really that effective (guy had to get divorced seven times and is not allowed to make a net loss).

Can we at least harvest your sperm and make little nano uniforms for them, promoting each individual sperm into a full fledged field marshal? We're trying to reduce the average age of our ranking officers, but we ran out of positive numbers.

I also believe that there are spiritual Americans across the globe. This is not a good thing.

How can you not see how you can call it that? I’m fairly critical of our media, but when it comes to how you can call all sorts of things Ukrainian victories, I really have to hand it to them. They have stepped up with hundreds of concrete examples.

No, we're in Sweden, but the parent organization has British roots. Still, I have an immense respect for someone willing to spend their retirement sitting through those meetings for the purpose of preventing this very local thing. That's why I subscribed to his newspaper.

Not criticizing you, it was pretty absurd and funny. I just want to make clear that this "Trotsky should have won the Nobel prize" thing is not all that he is, and he actually really helped people.

Oh, he also put together this rotating schedule to hound the local government about a plan to redesignate some public land as private property, making it seem like there were new people against it at every meeting they held, successfully preventing them from going through with it for years. Like I said: real and effective local work that actually made a difference. If the prize of that is listening to him comparing Trotsky to the 1936 winner of the Nobel prize for literature for half an hour, it is worth it.

Back when I used to go to some of their meetings they actually discussed trans rights. It was never a big deal there, because they just all took the correct side and moved on with the meeting, but I guess the parent organization had more trouble with it than they did. I wasn't party to all their discussions, not being a member, and I certainly wasn't there for all the meetings. I just remember that they brought it up, quickly voted unanimously to take the side of their trans comrades and then moved on to this one really old guy talking for 30 minutes straight about how Trotsky should have won the Nobel prize.

They vary widely. My local IMT organization is really good, doing real work locally, hiding refugees in their homes and actually putting some pressure on landlords and politicians. I'm actually subscribed to their newspaper (surprise surprise, they do publish one) because I want to support the work that particular group of people is doing. They are also part of a clown show of a national organization that was in the process of splitting over some minor issue or other last time I checked, and it would not surprise me to learn that they started splitting again after that. I'm not sure we have to "deal" with them. They will shatter without our help into a million pieces over some issue like how to advocate for permanent revolution in online spaces, and the good parts of their organization will remain in the form of tight knit groups of 10 or so people that do real valuable work and you just have to accept that they're going to spend some of their time saying that Stalin was mean.

I will grant them that Russian soldiers are probably using their personal phones and that this probably poses some kind of security risk. Now, is this a Russian problem or something that also affects every other military in the world?

Be realistic, if American soldiers had targeted men armed with freaking katanas the war would have ended right there with the defeat of the US. They are that sharp. Must not have run into them. Either way, not exactly something that cops could deal with.

I think things will move a bit slower. Apart from Ukraine, I'm not sure any of these points are anywhere near a breaking point.

That's a danger, but katanas can only be made by folding steel. American cops cannot fold steel, so they would just have the one katana. They would probably give it to the president, so he would be untouchable, but he can't be everywhere at once. And since a katana will break if you act dishonorably I don't even know how long that would last.

No way would those cops have been able to stop him if he had had a katana. Katanas work both in close range combat and at range (just tie it to a rubber band and throw it), it's basically like a cheat code. He would have been invincible.

Reading Norweigian is easy, keeping up with American politics is not. This guy for sure had sex with a sofa, right?

Do it in Florida.

Best of 3 double bracket tournament style competitive team shitting, with teams based on zip code, like we've always done it around my parts of the woods. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.