I wouldn’t go so far as to say you’re outright wrong, but I feel the nuance of subtlety is important here. These ads are cheeky without intending to be overtly offensive. I imagine most folks see edge lords as the childish button pushers that they are, and this is more developed and mature, imo, of course.
Yeah nuance is good. This ad is a bit more cerebral but it’s definitely ‘of a generation’ that I think the majority of proto-edgelords emerged from. I think it just evokes the video game mags of that era and it has the same kind of surreal over the top visual style that a lot of the more offensive ads shared.
Don’t forget Afganistan and Korea! We do so well when we go to places we are not welcome and do not have significant shared cultural ancestry from and try to get someone who likes us in there to run things.
Or fighting, then eventually losing, in major international conflicts with modern weapons, technology, well trained armies, the best intelligence and endless resources against a country full of malnourished farmers and peasants with a stick and an AK47
I mean yeah but Vietnam didn’t go great for the Vietnamese either. “The US is getting involved in your war” is bad even if you win because “dropped more bombs on your tiny Asian country than were dropped in all of WW2 and then gave up and withdrew” is a pretty goddamned Pyrrhic victory.
Agreed … but if your options are death, destruction and subjugation … or fight endlessly until you get anything out of it … it’s a sight to behold how the Vietnamese even still exist today.
A single lifetime might seem insignificant … but in the long run … even empires do fall.
This doesn’t normally look this way for anyone wondering. It’s a monument outside Astoria Oregon. It’s really quite beautiful and has stunning views from the top.
The view from the top is breathtaking on a clear day (it was pretty foggy this trip though) and the light show at night is quite pretty as well
My friends and I went on a little day trip out this way and it was pretty fun. I’d recommend heading over there for some hiking, museums, and some lunch for sure.
If only. The Gaza Strip is one of the handful of regions that could actually benefit from US regime change. Not because we're good at it, but because the strip is so monumentally fucked as it is.
The only way I think we could honestly do worse is if we built gas chambers or nuked them. I’m sure the US government will find a new way to fuck it up though.
I’m expecting them to support a new “legitimate” government which will turn out to be worse than ISIL and join up with aliens to commit a multidimensional extermination of humans.
The Monkey’s Paw curls. First contact is with an alien race with technology beyond our wildest dreams and the ability to solve all our problems. However, it turns out they were the inspiration for Christianity and due to a very crucial passage of the Bible describing a ritual to be registered in their database of “saved souls” having been lost to time, no one is saved.
If the US can become the common enemy that finally unites all the various factions then that seems like a real improvement for the region. Maybe not for the US, though.
Anyone remember that ad campaign with everyone showing off their gigantic disgusting thumb blisters that they got from playing video games for so long?
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