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Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?

Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.

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Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons for Born To Run (1976)

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Do you think Israel set a precedent that you can attack civilians and nothing will happen? And India is using that precedent?

Yeah absolutely. What you're talking about is often referred to as norm erosion and it's a really good point to bring up in context to Israel/India but also it goes well beyond this.

What we've learned and seen time and time again is that if a state/actor is well aligned globally, they will be able to violate norms repeatedly without suffering any meaningful consequences. That's norm erosion in a nutshell

India watched Israel violate a dozen norms and violate every Geneva convention for the past 2 years and they were absolutely emboldened by it. India believes itself to be a very well aligned global power and so it used that playbook.

However the number 1 violator of norm erosion is the United States. A million deaths in Iraq (mostly civilians), drone programs (also numerous civilians), Afghanistan, Vietnam etc are all examples of what a well positioned actor can get away with.

In fact both India and Israel pull from "the war on terror" playbook. They pull from America's stance on "collateral damage" and "pre-emptive self defense"

We've essentially been watching this happen for a really long time. We're seeing what happens when we allow unmatched global reach, legal insulation to go unchecked.

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Someone uploaded a rip of Kim's 3D model as an stl file and I printed a kind of skuffed copy using the d&d club's 3d printer and then hand painted it, and I honestly think it looks pretty nice lol

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[ID: A painting for Kim and Harry. At the top, there is a pool of blood soaking into the ground with a messy trail of it leading to the bottom, where we see Kim performing a fireman carry on Harry, who’s thigh is bleeding profusely. Kim’s expression is shrouded by the lack of light in the dim sunset, but he has an overall grim and determined posture. /end ID]

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cheer up, buddy!

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may bells, i will return to your side 🖼️

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trying my hand at coloring manga panels... the humble jie knife. the jiefe. the...??? the bloody thang!

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"The Lone Sol"

i rlly love ninesols (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠) hope yall like this fanart too

Kinda spoiler tho...hm

WELLP WHOOPS

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now. Suffice to say i dont think that relying on the magic 8ball for emotional support is a good idea with good outcomes. but its really funny to hear people be like "people are going to chatgpt instead of a Real Therapist" like a real therapist is basically just a guy lol theyre not that special. do you know how many times ive seen people talk about their therapist like. telling them to go to church, or straight up victim blaming them, or giving them other insnae nonsense advice--i feel like every single person i know who has done a non-neglible amount of therapy has at least one Batshit Insane Therapist story. like at least the magic 8ball cant have you sent to the big torture building if you freak it out too much

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So unfair. Although it is a boost for my emotionally unavailable bad boy image. “Y’ello.”

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rose john and karkat but with a limited palette decided to experiment a little hehe

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was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')