There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

  • 1 Post
  • 65 Comments
Joined 9 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 15th, 2024

help-circle

















  • I kinda feel like…I’m mourning for the USA?
    I’m German. The US made it possible for me to grow up in a functional democracy.
    Hundreds of thousands of Americans died so I could have that privilege.
    Fortunately, my grandparents weren’t involved in killing them, but that was pure chance.
    Growing up, the USA was the shining beacon in the west.
    The country that was so much better, freer and cooler than mine.
    I listened to American Forces Network, the radio station of the armed forces in Germany, every night.
    Literally my main goal in life was to be able to one day move to the US and become a citizen.
    I lived in the US for one year pre-9/11 and could hardly wait to finish my studies and maybe one day acquire a Green Card.
    But after 2001 (damn, that’s already 24 years ago), it started to turn.
    I celebrated when the German chancellor refused to support the US in the invasion of Iraq.
    Then I stayed up every night, watching the live footage from the reporters embedded with the invasion forces.
    It was awesome. It was awful.
    Nowadays it’s just the latter.
    Trump v1 was a fluke, Trump v2 put the US on the same level as Russia for me.
    (I know enough Russians to know the situation is comparable. Russians aren’t one single bit more evil or more complacent than US Americans in 2025. And neither are Chinese.)

    tl/dr: Trump’s second term has absolutely obliterated my belief in the US.
    Sorry for the rant, I’m a bit drunk and frustrated with…vaguely gestures at everything.



  • Dwarf bread is rock-hard (and indeed contains various rocks such as gravel), never goes stale, and is terribly sustaining. A traveller can go for miles, just knowing there’s dwarf bread in their pack. A traveller can think of just about anything to eat rather than dwarf bread, including their own foot.
    Various forms of dwarf bread can be used as weapons, e.g. battle muffins and drop scones.
    Proper dwarf bread has to be not just baked, but forged and dropped in rivers and dried out, and sat on and left, and looked at every day and then put away again. For preference, its use as a cat’s litter box is also recommended.
    Dwarfs generally devour it with their eyes, because even dwarfs have trouble with devouring it any other way.

    (from various Discworld novels)