it reduces the risk of missing because the target bent over to pick up a quarter, or stepped to the side because they saw something interesting. the knives in question are basically swords that deploy radially from the missile body like an umbrella.

okay? good for you, i guess. i think that’s well within your purview since the voting system is meant to grade relevance, not agreement. this is also really standard practice so i don’t know why you brought attention to yourself doing it. once i’m back at my laptop i’m going to block your communities because i don’t want to see or participate in them. save you some effort

yeah which was a key in that this was who this poster meant

the knife missile is so emblematic of the entire military industrial complex. can’t stop engaging in unnecessary resource wars due to unnecessary casualties. instead, the military industrial complex will develop and sell a product to allow the killing of specific people in public spaces. and the more you think about the idea of being at a produce stand and someone standing next to you turning into a fine red mist, never to exist in physical space again, the more distopian it seems.

it reminds me of the episode of star trek where they encounter a planet that has eliminated war via coordinated computer simulations and voluntary genocides.

the romans didn’t convert to christianity. they converted christianity to romanism

the difference between Virginia and Philadelphia has never been so succinctly summarized

personally i chose the word based on russian president vladimir putin’s stated war aims of annexing Ukrainian territory to seize natural resources and ethnically cleanse the seized lands.

i felt it matches closely to former German chancellor adolf hitler’s stated war aims of annexing Ukrainian territory to seize natural resources and ethnically cleanse the seized lands.

the apostle paul is a major component of the new testament as, canonically to the catholic church, he was the first pope and his letters giving theological advice to early roman churches are the backbone of catholic teachings. however, most biblical scholars find the epistles canonized as the pauline texts to be disjointed, and likely a mishmash of paul’s writing, other authors writing as paul, and even marginalia that simply made it into the bible as paul’s teachings, even if they actually contradict other things he said

safe haven for LGBTQIA+ people unless you move there. my mom, back before she understood Israel to be what it truly is, was going to move there with her girlfriend. the military recruiter bringing her girlfriend over got in her ear about how the Jewish race is dying off and a lesbian couple won’t make any new little perfectly Jewish children, so she broke up with my mom.

their position on LGBTQIA+ issues is purely virtue signaling. it’s propaganda for fundraising. the point of a thing is what it does and Israel hurts, not helps, our rights (our here meaning queer, Jewish, and queer Jewish).

let’s not forget one of the first actions of the american war of independence was protesters pelting british regulars with snowballs leading to said regulars opening fire

blue sky and wheat fields. the sunflower is a separate element of identity like how the trident coat of arms is. i can’t speak on this much further than that because my Ukrainian friends have such differing ideas of what these elements of identity represent and should represent and my outside perspective would only muddy the water of what should be an inside process to assign and evangelize meaning to these symbols

the regulations on intensity never presumed we’d use such small arrays to produce that intesity. in the cabin, the lights projected onto the road don’t seem that different from 20 years ago. but from the other way it’s dazzling

my c posts in my 2020 car are so big that i frequently have no idea there’s a pedestrian right in front of me about to enter a crossing. it stresses me out

i don’t know what you mean. anarchism is an extremely leftist position and the poster in question wasn’t on hexbear. the post that made it onto hexbear was a marxist-leninist effectively ignoring what the anarchist was saying critical analysis means to anarchists.

their teachers told them in middle school to use times new roman. they never questioned why because they were raised to not do that ever under any circumstances

read Hannah Arendt. evil thrives when moral apathy is the norm. kegseth is implementing peter thiel and elon musk’s grand designs to kill en masse

Ukraine is fighting for self defense. russia is fighting for lebensraum

both saw each other as important to furthering their own goals

i’ve been actively avoiding hexbear but i had nothing to do but laugh looking at their slop community misrepresenting an anarchist saying that anarchists don’t just engage in critical class analysis but in other forms of hierarchical exploitation. like. the context was so completely obviously saying that anarchists engage in multiple forms of anti-authoritarianism, and class is one of them

i guess marxist can only be marxist? they can’t ever apply critical analysis to anything else?

most other fediverse softwares have blocks run two ways to reduce risk of harm via stalking, brigading, and dogpiling. there’s a difference between muting someone and blocking them on things like mastodon. on lemmy blocks are equivalent to mutes on mastodon