There are a lot of tankies who are pro-Assad. He’s nominally (emphasis on the nominal) secular and socialist, and he’s hated by the West. That’s more than enough.

Caesar: “Who are these German barbarians to speak to ME? Degenerates like them belong on a cross!”

This is like imagining Ireland before potatoes were brought back from the America’s, it’s impossible.

Fun bit about that - potatoes had a similar journey in continental Europe! The French thought they were disease-spreading and only good for animal feed, until the good doctor Parmentier was captured by the Prussians during wartime, who had recently begun experimenting with potato cultivation, and got fed a steady diet of potatoes while in captivity. Realizing that a prolonged period of time of eating potatoes had NOT killed him, he went on to advocate for its wider usage.

Depends on their plans for the day after.

Poland: “Ha ha oh boy I sure am glad that my eastern border is secure so I can execute this delaying campaign against Nazi Germany!”

A bash to remember. All the bluebloods are invited.

Yeah, fuck 'em. This poor fellow is from Twitter, and unfortunately, there are definitely a bunch of brainrotted self-proclaimed ‘leftists’ there mourning Assad’s fall and calling Rojava a CIA plot even now.

I hope Rojava prevails and perseveres.

The photo is of a recent assassination of a healthcare CEO in charge of one of the worst insurance companies in the US (itself a low bar).

The text/UI template is from Skyrim, in which the protagonist uses voiced spells which reshape the world according to the meaning/arrangement of the words of the spell.

Damn, that’d go great on !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Don’t worry, no one really knows how the horsie moves

If you think this person is a “moderate” voter then you really, really haven’t been paying attention to what they’re actually saying.

And if you think this kind of person will embrace hardcore anti-capitalism because it’s against the status quo, you haven’t even done a cursory read of what they’re actually saying.

This person is the mythical moderate. The person who isn’t REALLY that dedicated, they just need to be given the right pretty words to vote for the other side. You know, exactly what you’ve been fucking saying. But any examination of the moderate voter reveals, as I mentioned, that such a concept, at least in electorally significant numbers, is mythical. These people absolutely have deeply-rooted beliefs and loyalties, those beliefs and loyalties are not pliable, as much as they pretend and loudly proclaim that they are and playing the Internationale isn’t going to convert them just because they claim to be dissatisfied with the status quo.

This is not most of the working class though. They are reachable.

True. Most of the working class is reachable. But they’re not the ones talking like this, the subject of the meme, so I don’t know why you think that’s relevant.

They want someone to talk to them, as Trump just demonstrated.

Jesus Christ.

A big part of it is that they didn’t have a fleet at the start of the war. Which means they didn’t have experienced sailors. Which means that several of the fleets were lost either to rough seas, or lost to the Romans sticking big boards on their ships to compensate for their lack of seafighting ability, which unbalanced the ship in rough seas.

Funny enough, when they ACTUALLY fought the Carthaginians at sea, they largely won, because of said massive board. They did lose a fleet in combat at the Battle of Drepana on account of their fleet being unable to stay coordinated against the better-trained and more maneuverable Carthaginian ships and getting eliminated piecemeal by the Carthaginians.

I always imagined it was more like “My dog got into the garden and ate like twenty of them and he survived, they can’t be THAT deadly”

Authoritarians support authoritarians.

God, I hope this is a rare happy ending for them. Let them have the new Syria of their hopes and dreams.

State employee.

There was such a “God, I guess we should look busy?” energy from the soldiers, lmao

Good on them for immediately dispersing too.

Could also say “When EVERY god is a god of war (and agriculture)”

I like to think it was some ancient dude’s or family’s equivalent of Bard with the Black Arrow