Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully.

I don't like to make too much of a business of joking about how the US military is bad at doing war because the inverse (a world where we're good at wars) would be an even worserer situation but like. Jiminy fucking Christ we're really really bad at wars it's downright remarkable

I'm really hung up on the oil thing. I love the part where we apparently have a critical interest in preserving the economy of the country we're trying to blow up because our economy will collapse if their economy collapses. I just. That's the worst anyone's ever done it, buddy. It's like the eternal war in 1984 but like the Jason Friedberg version of 1984. If the term total war describes the Clausewitzian mobilization of an entire country's political and economic apparatus towards war then the USA of America is in a permanent state of Quarter-Ass War. Like they're never gonna get there but they're gonna keep on trying anyways

it feels like their incompetence at war is directly linked to a desire to do war. It's trite to say but I think "They are so bad at war they want to wage it" works for the modern era. The more the bomber mentality took over in ww2 and afterwards, the worse America got at war and the more they wanted to do it. Being good at war would involve knowing how disastrous/expensive/long it would be to try it.

sometimes you have to invent new terminology for your blorbos, like World's First Ethical Dictator, which is when you are a dictator but this time you're gonna get it right

Idk I think it would serve the thrawn Fandom if we all remembered thrawn (2017) is about Pryce also and not just thrawn and eli maybe....

"I think we as a thrandom should care more about Pryce since she's more of an active presence in Thrawns career and she's an interesting character in her own right" "um has it ever occurred to you that people only read the Thrawn novels for the slash and you shouldn't ask them to care about evil female characters" do you hear yourselves. You guys are lucky I haven't fucking snapped yet.

my name is Fucked Bastard and my special talent is not going to make it

Idk I think it would serve the thrawn Fandom if we all remembered thrawn (2017) is about Pryce also and not just thrawn and eli maybe....

personally i do not prefer when stories engaging with complicated topics attempt to make themselves good educational resources on said complicated topics

and i understand that sometimes it's a very thin line between giving a realistic depiction of a serious topic and ending up in after-school special mode, but i also notice that no one is doing this when a character gets the flu (which kills many people every year) and PERSONALLY i don't love the patterns i'm vaguely sensing about which experiences can be depicted normally and which experiences must always be a learning opportunity

fuck, man, the fog's been trying to contact me all day. I just turned my phone on and it says I've had a bunch of mist calls