I missed this post the other day. I love building bandai's Star Wars and gunpla model kits. I don't often get the opportunity to get one, so I've only built a few over the years, but always looking forward to building more when I can. My very first kit is probably my most interesting/unique. A 7-Eleven themed classic gundam that afaik was only sold in 7-Eleven stores in Japan, which I built many years ago, before I ever got into watching the series.
The past couple years, I finally started watching the series and I love it. I'm in a similar camp, I've been watching the series chronologically, so I'm also mostly only familiar with UC, and only just starting to venture outside of it (finished G gundam, started Wing). I've built two more since getting into the series properly. Sorry bad lighting/photo quality on these ones. First was Kamille's Mk II in Titans colors:
and most recently a Zaku II, which was my first RG kit. This one is currently unfinished, still needs decals and I never built accessories:
After building the green Zaku, I'd love to make Char's red Zaku next as well. I'm also glad you posted pictures of the hyaku-shiki, that was also a kit I was looking at potentially getting, but I really wasn't sure how the metallic gold plastic would look outside of the promotional pictures. I was afraid it might look tacky/cheap, but it actually looks pretty good.
Me, a father of two little girls, randomly asking a person who is walking past me at the theater if they are going in to see a movie that I am not going in to see.
These marriage camps wouldn't possibly also be gay conversion camps for lgbt people right?
I'm a gay trans woman.... would they give me a husband to make me straight, or a wife? What's the straight option there?
I also love the opening line:
the think tank behind the infamous Project 2025 policy wishlist, which dragged down Trump’s most recent reelection campaign with its massively unpopular proposals
I really don't think the opinions of people who did not vote for Trump really need to be considered here. They weren't the target audience for these proposals. It didn't drag down his election campaign. These proposals were incredibly popular with their target audience. Like, he won.
No better time than the current moment of national emergency that demands immediate and thorough radical action and monumental structural change to elect the most uninspiring bland democrat to possibly exist next to Kamala Harris. Truly the person we need most at exactly the moment we most need her.
This is also true. I don't mean to give them any credit for intelligence. I just figure with their bottomless budget, they almost certainly have a bunch of protective gear that's just been sitting around that they'd be itching to finally get to use if this were truly a chemical weapon scenario.
This, absolutely. Their job is to intimidate and scare the crowd into dispersing and leaving. And it's working. People are immediately freaking out and running away. It plays into people's wildest fears. They are on reddit talking about the gas "crawling on the ground" even though when you look at the footage, it absolutely is not doing that. It's dispersing higher than the trees. Someone claimed [citation needed] that the can just says "tactical green smoke". Lot's of people talking about how dumb the cops are for 'gassing themselves", but If this absolutely was a chemical/neurological agent, the officers would be wearing protective gear and gas masks, and that is not what we are seeing here.
A slight tangent, but I thought this video I saw recently was a good dive into Rob Schneider and other washed up right wing Gen X comedians falling into the whole "the left won't let me do comedy" and anti-woke grifting pipeline.
There are no articles suggesting he has schizophrenia though, so randomly making that accusation is out of place. Also, anyone who reads your message, who either deals with schizophrenia themselves, or is close to someone who does, would likely be offended at being compared to actions like this, which we have no reason to assume has any relation to schizophrenia at all.
The video is definitely being run through an AI to 'clean up' his appearance/complexion. Strange patterns sometimes appear on the shirt when he moves. Makes him look like a wax model or a video game npc.
US atrocities all the way down is apparently "understanding restraint with power"
Restraint is when you drop an atomic bomb, see the catastrophic effects of it, and deciding "Hey, let's do that again!" The amount of restraint not to do it a third time must have been truly monumental.
the architecture of trust built after World War II, paid for by millions of dead
Why yes, the US did force 'trust' in American dominance by leaving millions of people dead in the wake of the Cold War following WWII, what an astute observation.
Browsing the Minnesota subreddit, there are still an overwhelming majority of people that seem to think that the local cops or even the national guard would help protect them from ICE, because "they are our neighbors" or that the higher ups may be a problem but the lower rank and file are "just ordinary Americans" who would obviously never follow an unjust order against their own community/countrymen. Some may persist in deep denial, but I think there's a lot of people that are ripe for radicalization as soon as they find out these people are not there to protect you, will not protect you, and absolutely will follow any orders they are given. They are not on our side and people really need to see that for themselves first hand. They are about to.
"ICE is terrorizing our communities, and I have called on masked, armed ICE agents to leave our towns," DeLauro added.
"Armed robbers are terrorizing my family, and I have called on masked, armed home invaders to leave my house," she added. (Gonna have to remember that one, it sounds effective.) "I will be giving them no additional money until they go back outside and ask nicely," she said.
The seeds for his "why I left the left" have already been planted: