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PugJesus , 1 hour ago to News in Minnesota GOP Candidate Accused of Throwing Tarantula at Alleged ‘Squatter’

[screaming in arachnophobe]

Remind me never to visit MN

PugJesus , 1 hour ago to Microblog Memes in Out of Office

That’s nothing to joke about.

Like hell it isn't. For some of us, joking about these things are how we stave them off.

PugJesus , 2 hours ago to politics in MAGA candidate loses bid to replace Mitt Romney

"Wow, this guy is an unempathetic robot who only vaguely understands human interactions! He's almost a real person!" - Me now

The bar has been lowered so much

PugJesus , 15 hours ago to NonCredibleDefense in You know what?

“Bolo” isn’t meant to tie something up like a normal bolo, it just allows the round halves to widen out and disperse energy across a wider area.

I figured it was like chain shot, just without a clear purpose beyond "Because we can"

PugJesus , 15 hours ago to MeanwhileOnGrad in ML mods deleted a post about charging a 15yo russian with a 5 years sentence over anti-Putin leaflets

The original was from MSN posted by a db0 user. Hexbear and ML users argued it’s fake and asked for proofs.

Insane, isn't it? They insist they're anti-Putin, yet act like Putin's regime behaving like an authoritarian state is some absurd and far-fetched idea.

PugJesus OP , 15 hours ago to For sharing illustrations of history in Death of the last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate, fatally wounded on June 26, 363 AD. SIT TIBI TERRA LEVIS

Funny enough, it's what killed him. Julian rushed off to bolster his men during a surprise attack, but was in such a rush that he didn't put his armor on. For that reason, a Persian soldier managed to impale him with a javelin, and he spent the next three days slowly dying.

Moral of the story - put your damn armor on before battle.

PugJesus , 16 hours ago to News in MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden

At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

Fuck, man, I'm not saying that the smell is necessarily a good strategic choice for winning over voters, but if it is, Biden absolutely should hammer on it. Fuck the "We go high" shite.

PugJesus , 16 hours ago to World News in Flatulent Cows And Pigs Will Now Be Taxed In Denmark

New Zealand had passed a similar law due to take effect in 2025. However, the legislation was removed from the statute book on Wednesday after hefty criticism from farmers and a change of government at the 2023 election from a center-left ruling bloc to a center-right one. New Zealand said it would exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme in favor of exploring other ways to reduce methane.

Fucking farmers.

Good on Denmark!

PugJesus OP , 16 hours ago to History Memes in We love our gay dad of the Continental Army in this house

Explanation: General von Steuben was the man most responsible for turning the Continental Army of the US Revolutionary War from a bunch of rag-tag militia into a proper military force. He was also as openly gay as one could be in that era, and after the war, retired to a country estate in New York with his two [ahem ahem] 'adopted sons', both strapping young officers he met during the war.

PugJesus OP Mod , 16 hours ago to HistoryPorn in Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

The standard rifled muskets of the time actually had a range of about a kilometer.

PugJesus OP Mod , 16 hours ago to HistoryPorn in Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

Make the wood thick enough, and you can even get a little defense against artillery!

PugJesus OP Mod , 16 hours ago to HistoryPorn in Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

Siege of Petersburg, I believe, so trading fire between two relatively static lines.

PugJesus OP , 18 hours ago to For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas in Roman gemstone portrait, 1st century AD

https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/roman-gemstone-with-portrait-of-woman/

PugJesus OP Mod , 18 hours ago to HistoryPorn in Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

Plank stronk

PugJesus , 18 hours ago to Star Wars Memes in I'm getting old

The original trilogy was hero's journey stuff, mythology for a modern age. Episode 6 was the weakest, though.

The prequel trilogy was an envisioned world - for all of its writing weaknesses, it felt like a living, breathing universe.

The sequel trilogy was lifeless. 7 was an okay start, and I actually quite enjoyed it despite being derivative, but 8 was muddled trash (how many times did Poe commit mutiny while they were doing the slow-mo chase?) and 9 was dreadfully mediocre.

And this is coming from someone who loves many of the spin-off media on their own merits, many even more than I love the prequel trilogy.

It's not nostalgia. Some of us just genuinely dislike how shit the sequel trilogy was, and how bad they did our boy John Boyega after episode 7.