The automation is because it’s always been a felony not to register, same as it is in virtually every country with mandatory service, so to avoid the horrifically needless societal effects that come from giving someone a felony for a random crime, they simply automated it.

Basically what they did with social security years ago. Used to also be a crime to not sign up by a certain age, so they just started immediately registering all children at birth.

Kamikaze strike.

I’d say based on his response you hit the nail on the head.

But lmao, a bottom calling out another bottoms desperation is still pretty funny.

Both you are in the same boat lmao, he’s just a bit more open with it.

The way I described it is simply what happens in the movie. He had no resistance, he had no plan, he had no ideology, or grand vision. He has a psychotic break. The military is hell.

You’re creating a story about a character that was never told. They don’t need you to ignore him, because they don’t paint him as a Marxist, or a someone who’s a stalwart resistor.

How do they make you disregard him?

That is a very logical response to the situation, but he is deeply mentally ill and psychotic by the end scene due to the extreme stress, despite not starting that way.

No sane or well person shoots someone and then kills themselves while doing drill commands in a bathroom in the dark with a rifle and trying to lure someone in to kill them.

He doesn’t die for his defiance. He kills himself in a psychotic break.

It wasn’t really a situation of giving in or fighting back. He was deeply unwell and very obviously autistic, and the unrelenting pressure and stress caused a psychotic break and a spiral into a deep depression.

He wasn’t really aware of any “resistance”, as he was out of his mind and reverted to an almost animalistic version of himself which lost all ability to reason and stay in touch with reality.

He’s not Pyle anymore in the end scene, he’s gone. No well or sane person kills someone and then kills themselves.

He wasn’t always like that, anyone can trigger psychosis, and it turns even the sweetest most loving people into terrifying monsters as they lose control of their minds. That’s why he’s demonically smiling and laughing to himself while doing drill commands in his underwear at 2 in the morning. Before killing someone and then himself. Despite showing absolutely no desire to kill or hurt anyone for the entire training scene.

Eh, for how fascistic the US is, they used the fasces for decades if not close to a hundred years before Mussolini ever got the idea, because it’s a classic Roman symbol with a good meaning that was sadly subverted and twisted by fascists.

I don’t think Gomer was resisting anything. He truly seems like he’s simply less intelligent then the others in his platoon, or maybe even nuerodivergent, and he is bullied past the breaking point to which he suffers a classic psychotic break before committing a murder-suicide.

Any act of resistance was by complete accident. He was just pushed over the edge.

Honestly, the fortifications could be extremely strong, but that doesn’t matter if you have no men to man them.

Could be identical to what happened when the Americans reached the Siegfried Line and Soviets reached the Ostwall at the German border. They encountered massive defensive lines with bunkers, pillboxes, tunnels, trenches, anti-tank ditches, dragon’s teeth, barbed wire, and gun emplacements… that were virtually empty because there were no men left to man the defenses except for battered troops, Luftwaffe personnel, and Volksstrum.

Without even watching I will immediately say that Real life lore is an actual admitted fascist who has a litany of deranged and bizarre videos. Many of his videos are also poorly researched, clickbait, use blatantly wrong information, and are just neo-liberal out the whazoo.

After watching the first minute… He just compared the population of mainland Europe minus Russia, with Kazakhstan, and poses the question as to why Kazakhstan has a significantly smaller population despite both locations being the same relative size…

Does it really take a genius to figure it out? Is his next video going to be why the population of Northern Africa is a quarter of Europe’s despite also being the same relative size?

I did want to tack on, but the annexation of Tibet was absolutely not peaceful. After initial negotiations failed, the campaign opened with the Battle of Chamdo and resulted in several thousand casualties, the majority of which were on the Tibetian side. It was only after this that the PLA requested the Tibetan capitulation, to which the Dalia Lama agreed, and Tibet entered annexation negotiations.

When I clicked the article, I expected MDMA, or cocaine, or LSD, but definitely not Ketamine. Never in my life have I heard of Ketamine being called a “Party drug”, and why would it be? It’s a tranquilizer and puts you to sleep. Who’s partying while they’re asleep?

Just because propaganda is true doesn’t mean it’s not propaganda.

Also an unannounced, preemptive first strike is an atrocity and a war crime. Same reason why the vast majority of the OKW were sentenced to death for Crimes Against Peace with the surprise nature of Barbarossa. Just because a surprise attack is the oldest trick in the book, doesn’t make it not illegal.

Also Pearl Harbour was not expected. The core reason behind it being a war crime was that the US and Japan were in peace negotiations to put an end to the Second Sino-Japanese War, and Japan’s recent annexation of Vietnam. Japan entered the negotiation with no intention of them going anywhere, and broke off the talks 30 minutes before the attack, thereby committing perfidy.

Yes, it sounds absurd, but 95% of the population were enslaved.

The economy was closed off, agricultural based, and in all effect, a self-made hermit kingdom centered around a theocracy of the Dalia Lama.

While this source is Chinese, it is excellently sourced, and should answer essentially every one of your questions. It also details the history of the slavery, and the extent to which it was baked into Tibetan society. Not to mention a population breakdown that adds up to 95% of the population being enslaved serfs, or chattel slaves.

Chinese involvement arose primarily from three facts. The first being that if they claimed to be a socialist country, but allowed a neighboring theocratic country to practice chattel slavery, it would make them immensely hypocritical. The second being that bandits stationed in Tibet would frequently raid and pillage the Chinese countryside bordering Tibet, with these attacks only intensifying as the west sent Tibet arms and money. Finally, the third reason being that Tibet was historically part of China before the breakup in the early 20th century, and incorporating the country back into china made historical sense while freeing its population made moral, economic, historical, and ethical sense.

http://za.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zt/12/200903/t20090319_7636208.htm#:~:text=However%2C serfs and slaves%2C who,marriage of serfs and slaves.

That’d be like saying “The people of the Confederacy did not support the Union invasion”, with “the people” only referencing the white citizens of the Confederacy and not the millions of black slaves, Native Americans, and white abolitionists.

Of course the “people of Tibet” would not be rejoicing at the PLA operation; as those people were part of the 5% of the population that owned the other 95% as slaves. I’m sure that the 95% were distraught they were no longer enslaved against their will.

Also Haiti didn’t have slavery because they themselves wanted it. It was imported on a mass scale from a colonial power. Tibet had slavery because it was baked into their religion and culture with a vile caste system and violent repression.

A country that is built upon 95% of their “citizens” being chattel slaves does not have a right to exist and be tolerated by countries around it, and such a state genuinely should be invaded if the aim of the invasion is to sweep aside a vile system that is keeping millions of people as nothing more then livestock.

I’d be interested!

Nah, this is the French Legion, they won’t be counted as being in active combat until they’ve sexually assaulted all the civilian minorities they can find.

The 54th Mechanized Brigade is engaged in active combat surrounding Bakhmut and Slavyansk, and has been for months, meaning that the French troops will almost certainly engage Russian forces directly.

France has said for months that they would only send troops to reinforce the northern border with Belarus so Ukraine could draw the border troops to the front.

This act of desperation means that those reserves most likely don’t exist in any substantial numbers anymore, and there is no point in going through with the original plan.

It’s the beginning of the end.

The Catholic Church is the only organization that can offer “actual” Christian exorcism, so all those exorcists are just random “exorcist-trained” priests living in the Vatican.