#costs of war

[wineslacker]

A reporter’s journal of life in war.

[loudlylovingreview]

Roshni Ahmed: 23 Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer?

True justice for the lives lost on 9/11 and during the U.S.’ war on terror would require us to put an end to overfunding violence and war, and instead prioritize safety and security through investing in our communities. It is hard to forget the burning stares of people in the airport that look at you with suspicion and disdain, to the point that your eyes close in shame. I remember feeling…

[tesb]

Star Wars: The Acolyte – 1.05: "Night"

[barissoffee]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH | 3.07 EXTRACTION

[intersectionalpraxis]

[muyru-iru]

Commander Fox: I was rejected too, Bly. It happens to everyone once in a while. Commander Bly: HOw?! You never loved someone out of your range! Commander Fox: I tried to send a decommission request for myself. It was denied right away. Bly (as a brother): ...Fox. Why.

[rochenn]

sith afterlife looks a bit different.

[doghart]

i’m catching up on tsv, i think something that eskew prod does extremely well is using horror absurdism to capture the absurd horror of capitalism. it’s clear in eskew too, but i think it’s especially fantastic in the silt verses. the casualness with which sacrifice is discussed. how red lobster has a god that has and continues to take human sacrifice, and so do cereal companies, cops, and the grueling start up that has a “fun room”. it captures EXTREMELY well how it feels to live under capitalism, that you’re constantly bombarded with horrible things, discussed cheerily in a nice tone. the way it’s simultaneously numbing, hysterical, and horrifying. i think i was especially fond of how in ep 39, protest against sacrifice was taken as radical, a propostorus, idealistic thing that’s just so SILLY it’s not even worth considering, something that feels very real to revolutionary organizing/protest irl. i also liked how despite the face, when everything gets down to it, when everything is about profit, all people come down to are bodies. all capitalism is a gaping maw, and it eats the poor and marginalized first, but doesn’t STOP eating just there. the very literalized version of this, where the profit wheel (and all that includes— war mongering, the prison industrial complex, wage labor, etc) is given a very real literal set of teeth, but the body count is the same. so the electric company has a god, and so it takes humans sacrifice. do real electric companies not have a very real human cost? overworked and underpaid labors looking to make rent, or well off comfortable employees no less likely to get the axe under profit margins, or the blood shed when colonizing in the first place, in clearing the space for the electric company to move in. is that not also a very real human sacrifice? the commercial aimed at elderly people talking about “back in my day, we would just talk about all this human sacrifice and find a compromise :)” is so bleakly hysterical, but is that not very accurate? that you can put a good face on it, but in the end what it comes down to is that you’re being sold the chance to be human fodder? that there is no glory or honor on a battlefield or in working yourself to death, just mud and shit and bodies to throw at problems. idk! i’m rambling but it’s a deeply engaging podcast.

[giganonyx]

MY HEART FUCKING DROPPED TO MY ASS WHEN CROSSHAIRS SHOT. DIDNT. MAKE. IT.

GOD AND POOR WRECKER UGHHHH NOOO. HE TRIED TO SAVE GONKY. HIS PANICKED YELL. IM. CRYING. THE MARAUDER?? MY HOUSE?? BLEW UP?? TECHS GLASSES AND LULA SIGHTING. DOMICILE VOCABULARY DROP(NERD DETECTED?).WE GOT WET HUNTER AND IT WAS SO FUCKING HOT AND HIS HAIR WAS A LITTLE MOIST BUT THEY SHOULD’VE GONE THE EXTRA MILE AND MADE IT ABSOLUTELY DRENCHED, STICKING ON TO HIS SKIN, BANDANA GONE. THEY REALLY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US THIS EPISODE.

These eps were so SICK and TWISTED I’m. It’s so. It’s so maraudover. Pabover. ALSO EITHER A) THATS TECH, OR B) TECH IS THE ONE THAT HEMLOCK HAS IN HIS SECRET HOUSE OF HORRORS IN THE BACK OF WALMART THAT WE BRIEFLY SAW.

IM SO ILL BYE IM GOING TO REWATCH HUNTER DOING THAT SEXY SPINNY KICK TAKE DOWN THING WHEN HE WAS IN THE GUNSHIP AND HIM EMERGING FROM THE OCEAN AFTER SWIMMING A MILLION MILES (SO HOT BRO).

[stealingpotatoes]

hands you all this cal to announce i’ve FINALLY finished fallen order (by which i mean i finally picked it up again after those couple hours i played a few months ago and then finished the whole game in 2 days lol)

[skrittkicking]

two of them

[smeraldo-heart]

How it feels to be a Cal Kestis fan when Star Wars makes almost 0 merch of him or anything from his games:

[loudlylovingreview]

William J. Astore: From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide

The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the “arsenal of democracy,” supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union. To cite just one example, I recall reading about Soviet armored units equipped with U.S. Sherman tanks, though the Soviets had an even…

[mushed-kid]

bro rizzed his way through an intergalactic space war

[barissoffee]

Commander Wolffe in Star Wars: The Bad Batch | 3.07 Extraction

[valtsv]

also while i'm thinking along these lines i think it was such an excellent writing choice in the silt verses to introduce VAL as this living war machine "no different from an armoured jeep or a cruise missile" and then in her very next appearance show us what it takes to power those machines - blood. bodies. suffering. ordinary lives crushed beneath the advancing war effort (VAL herself included). and then every time we're shown a glimpse of those in power, they're calling for bodies. we need more bodies. get me more bodies. not people. bodies.