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Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh - 1970s poster

"You put the government on the spot when you even mention Vietnam. They feel embarrassed — you notice that?… It's just a trap that they let themselves get into. … But they're trapped, they can't get out. You notice I said 'they.' They are trapped, They can't get out. If they pour more men in, they'll get deeper. If they pull the men out, it's a defeat. And they should have known that in the first place. France had about 200,000 Frenchmen over there, and the most highly mechanized modern army sitting on this earth. And those little rice farmers ate them up, and their tanks, and everything else. Yes, they did, and France was deeply entrenched, had been there a hundred or more years. Now, if she couldn't stay there and was entrenched, why, you are out of your mind if you think Sam can get in over there. But we're not supposed to say that. If we say that, we're anti-American, or we're seditious, or we're subversive…. They put Diem over there. Diem took all their money, all their war equipment and everything else, and got them trapped. Then they killed him. Yes, they killed him, murdered him in cold blood, him and his brother, Madame Nhu's husband, because they were embarrassed. They found out that they had made him strong and he was turning against them…. You know, when the puppet starts talking back to the puppeteer, the puppeteer is in bad shape….." — ― Malcolm X, 1965

cow parsley season is a very pleasant time of year

nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

I love characters like that. You'd think theyd be boring, one note and only there to move the plot along, but I think he was handled so well. He made an extremely strong impression on me the first time I saw him.

His design is extra effective because you've heard a lot about the Fairweather armor throughout the course of the game. Specifically the leg, gloves, and torso pieces. I don't know if this is true for all playthroughs, but at least in my run, I had never seen the helmet piece before the tribunal. It's a great moment to reveal it imo.

Regardless of whether Ruud was the first time you saw the helmet piece, his portrait immediately communicates to the player that this is an extremely dangerous and frightening individual. Along with the more abstract Disco Elysium art style, the helmet itself is utterly sinister looking. Combining a ww1 helmet and a gas mask-esque face piece. When Ruuds portrait first appeared on screen I seriously thought it was a skeleton I got scared.