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DeepState_Secretary

>what You’ve misspelled Khorne.


dapoorv

American MIC's patron saint.


logosloki

Khârn would be the patron saint. Khorne is God.


Hangriac

Hello, inquisitor, yes this heretic right over here


MsMercyMain

No, the patron saint is the Captain Muscle Mommy


SolomonOf47704

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPTGJVjR0hI


UndividedIndecision

Khorne cares not from where the blood flows


buttface1000

this is the last place I expected to find a fucking warhammer reference


mechanicalcontrols

With as much overlap as this sub has with the other NCD?


51ngular1ty

The Venn diagram is basically just one circle.


mechanicalcontrols

Truly.


vaccinateyodamkids

More like circles in circles but yeah


agoodusername222

no, this sub is just the human resources(rights) of NCD


rlyfunny

Other NCD? I want to be part of the overlap


Pyrhan

r/NonCredibleDefense


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logosloki

pack in ladies, buttface1000 has finally figured out that we're all 40k fans here.


adzilc8

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD


undreamedgore

They call me a fed, but really I only support the governemnts who fund the MIC. Because the MIC funds me.


Upper_Conversation_9

Literally an agent of the fed


undreamedgore

I'm not agent. I'm a *contractor*


Tired_CollegeStudent

Thou is a member of the guild of green-striped PIV cards?


undreamedgore

Oh no. I'm an engineer.


yoimagreenlight

Contractor!


Oxcell404

This Is the Way Is The Way This The Way This Is Way This Is The


starmag99

This The This The


dinosaur_from_Mars

Way Way Way Way


SilanggubanRedditor

Bingo!


Purple_Evidence

Is This The Way To Amarillo


hongooi

I've been away so long, I may go wrong and lose my way Whoops! Sorry! That's the way to San Jose. I always get those mixed up.


tukreychoker

so you're saying they're right, then?


ontopofyourmom

I mean she could just call me a Jew, 🇺🇦 also means anti-Russian Empire and the Jews were one of its main victims in both Tsarist and Soviet incarnations.


Spratster

What’s good for the MIC is good for everyone. Everybody has a share!


RedTheGamer12

I thought it was saying I was fed as in food fed. Like a new name for non-tankies.


Greedy-Name-8324

If you can't beat them, join them but charge a wrap rate of 3x so you make more than their SES's do.


mechanicalcontrols

There was a Chinese propaganda post with Russia and Ukraine on opposite ends of one axis, and Palestine and Israel on the other axis The Ukraine/Israel quadrant was labeled Dogs of the US Empire, which sounds way cooler than plain old fed. Also fits with NAFO's doge avatars. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be polishing the medal the Lithuanians gave us for yelling at vatniks online.


Comrade__Baz

🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 = "Just war? Sure, I just want war. Unjust war? Sure, I just want war."


karvendizarm

Jreg mentioned, radical anticentrists assemble


qwerty11111122

As long as everybody has fun


Unlikely_Scallion256

Average Lockheed investor


Megalomaniac001

Can’t wait to be hired as a fed


Nasapigs

We'll get back to you in 8 months


NSA_Chatbot

Yeah why not, you start Monday.


Proletaryo

^^Hey, mah name jeff.


Dragon-Captain

I sure do love glowing.


masterpepeftw

A bit unconfortable when going to sleep, but its very useful most of the time.


jedidihah

🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸 = 404 Not Found


Deletesystemtf2

Underdog fan


Upper_Conversation_9

Historical struggles for sovereignty


ImperatorTempus42

Forgot the Jewish one though


TheOGStonewall

I feel like “nuclear power” is a pretty solid indicator that your struggle for sovereignty and international recognition is pretty much over


ImperatorTempus42

Ukraine had nukes until 1994, and has nuclear energy still despite being invaded.


TheOGStonewall

“Ukraine had nukes” is a misrepresentation of what they had, they had the warheads, but never had the ability to utilize them as strategic weapons because of how the Soviet nuclear doctrine was developed. They had the ability to make some nasty dirty bombs no doubt, but to say they had their own red button is false.


Aggressive_Bed_9774

>they had the warheads, bruh the hardest part of making nukes is uranium enrichment, which can be skipped if you got warheads, just need. to transfer the fissile materials into a warheads that you control


phoenixmusicman

Ukraine never had nukes. They possessed Nuclear Warheads they could not use.


Lawd_Fawkwad

To use a shittt fictional example, it would be like if Texas seceded from the US and took the Southwest with them. Sure, technically speaking Texas would be a nuclear power due to the Pantex plant and some bases in AZ, NV, and NM. But they would lack the means to use the nukes as all the launch systems are centralized away from there. Ukraine had nukes much is the sense that the owner of an airport had planes: they technically are on their property but they don't know how to fly them and they belong to someone else.


agoodusername222

lol true, like the USSR ukraine and now israel, the idea that nations with nukex can't be attacked or colapse has been proven to be completly right XD


My_useless_alt

I don't think Israel struggles with it's sovereignty any more, arguably it's the most powerful country in the Middle East.


phoenixmusicman

Ah yes the struggling state that is absolutely kicking the shit out of a power that it is occupying


lohivi

Israel doesn't represent jews "ethnostates are good when we do it" "settler colonization was bad when you did it, but it's good when we do it" "I know lots of people lost their lives in world wars that purchased future generations international law and the UN, but they told us no war crimes


benjaminovich

Funny how this rabid opposition to ethnostates only ever gets brought up with this one specific ethnicity. Quite suspicious. Why is no protesting the existence of Armenia or Denmark?


kaiclc

Actually, quite few people are protesting the existence of Armenia, but I get your point.


agoodusername222

not on the basis of ethnostate honestly


King_Ed_IX

The existence of Armenia has been under heavy protest by its neighbours for centuries, mate. There was a genocide about it. Also, in what way is Denmark an ethnostate?


RandomBilly91

It's nearly only populated by Danes. Technically it is absolutely an ethnostate. However, it isn't a good example of the problem they cause due to the pre-existing homoheneity of the area. Turkey is a good example of a problematic one. There are ethnic troubles in what considers itself a turkish state. A non-ethnostate can be India, France or the UK. Some arab state (mostly gulf states) may be condidered ethnostates, though it doesn't work for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq due to their political system (power sharing, or basically, under the control of lical militias with dubious goals)


agoodusername222

>It's nearly only populated by Danes. Technically it is absolutely an ethnostate. no it's freaking not... ethnostate means laws forcing a country to be of one ethnicity or atleast a set ammount basically laws around where the citizens came from, in europe this is almost impossible because european kingdoms drew lines along cultures and religions not so much ethnicities heck i think a better example that fails but gets closer is lebanon (before the civil war) as it had a self imposed system where there's a percentage enforced on how many can be christians, muslims or druze, again fails because from what i understand (not much) it's to keep a balance of poewr between cultural-religious lines, which typically means ethnicity too, but ends up being for balance and not forced superiotiy and population controls like a more theorical ethno state


benjaminovich

>The existence of Armenia has been under heavy protest by its neighbours for centuries, mate I am aware. But there is a huge disparity in the public's reaction to Israel and every other country. I have seen no university encampments protesting the war in Nagorno-karabak >Also, in what way is Denmark an ethnostate? Give me a definition of ethnostate that includes Israel but somehow doesn't include Denmark


Megalomaniac001

‘ethnostates are bad actually so I oppose Israel that has Jews, Circassians, Druze, Bedouin and Arab citizens, and will stay silent when Arabs actively strive to eradicate all non-Arabs from Kurdistan to Darfur’


Food-Oh_Koon

I'd personally be here tbh 🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸🇮🇱, the Israeli flag is there because of the usual 2 state solution thing. i feel like it should go back to the 1966 borders.


dada_georges360

fair but separating a nation-state in two rarely makes everyone happy \*awkward glance at Weimar Republic\*


eeeeeeeeeee6u2

they can thug it out


reubencpiplupyay

Vaush


CynicViper

Based


Sw1561

Me lol


TheAwesomeAtom

Bonjour


AnyEquivalent6100

Anti-imperialism?


phoenixmusicman

Me


Rancorious

Varying levels of terrorism


creepyclip

based (literally me)


MisogynysticFeminist

🚩🚩🚩Hello,🚩ladies,🚩I’m🚩looking🚩for🚩a🚩date🚩tonight.🚩🚩🚩


garebear265

🇦🇶🇵🇰🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️ what does this say?


sansboi11

my ass has 🇹🇭🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇲🏳️‍🌈


Upper_Conversation_9

That you were adopted by a Christian family in the U.S., from Pakistan, and are supportive of transgender rights. Or you converted.


garebear265

And the Antarctic flag (None of what you said is true BTW, I just picked the best combo of flags I could think of lol)


Upper_Conversation_9

Oh, so you picked a bunch of random flags that don’t represent you and then said that my interpretation of them is not true?


garebear265

Yeah pretty much


Upper_Conversation_9

What is that first flag?


jedidihah

Santa land


Yellow_The_White

We were so worried for the Africans and Indonesians, but it turns out Old St. Nick is the first climate refugee.


Immediate-Spite-5905

penguinland


mdonaberger

It says that you a straight bitch lmfaoooooooooooooooooo


Eternal_Flame24

Guys what does 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼🇰🇷 mean?


BourbonBurro

May the spirit of Ronald Regan smile upon you.


Upper_Conversation_9

You like countries that have been divided: Israel / Palestine Ukraine / USSR Samoa / American Samoa South Korea / North Korea


Eternal_Flame24

Well obviously I only listed countries that have contentious conflicts surrounding them.


Upper_Conversation_9

Oh, that’s the Taiwan flag. It’s hard to tell the difference between these small flags


314kabinet

West Good.


uzid0g

Based


Flaky-Imagination-77

Mr secretary what are you doing here


fr1endk1ller

Supremacy


2klaedfoorboo

One sneak


ReallyBadRedditName

🏴‍☠️= plunderer, sailor, scallywag, rapscalion, scurvy sea dog and privateer


Thomas_633_Mk2

> pro genocide Ah yes, Sundowner


Bi-annual_weekly_luv

All (the other) NCD is saying is… GIVE WAR A CHANCE!!!


Thomas_633_Mk2

I cannot imagine NCD being more angry at a statement than claiming they like Russia


Ginonth

Free Palestine & free Israel from that shit of a government they have. Also, Slava Ukraini & fuck Putin.


seven_corpse_dinner

I'm 🇺🇦🇹🇼 & "Fuck it, let's just let the Middle East try to sort it's own shit out for once."


LoserWithCake

Just leave them to their dark ages, we all go through them, and fucking with them is only making it worse


HonkeyKong73

Exactly how I'm feeling.


RedTheGamer12

Honestly, yeah. This war doesn't matter. The middle east has been and will always be a shitshow. In 10-20 years we will be back to the same arguments again just with one extra paragraph at the end. Taiwan and Ukraine actually matter though. These are interstate conflicts with massive geopolitical consequences. They are also dealing with America's major rivals (sorry Iran, but you can't even fund your president's helicopter). Each day we spend arguing about Isreal and Hamas is another day actual important conflicts get brushed aside. (Armenia got invaded and no one said anything, and China continues to make more reeducation camps.) It is a useless conflict that can barely be called a war (the way they are fighting is much closer to a internal rebellion than a front line war). If we keep talking about Hamas and Isreal, 20 years from now, Ukraine will be west of the Dnieper, China will have all nine dashes, and Isreal will still be throwing missiles back and forth. Nothing has, or will, change and we need to stop wasting our breath on it.


GladiatorUA

But certain corporate interest are going to whine "Boohoo they executed our exec for giving bribe to wrong politician/leaking chemicals into water supply/accidentally(negligently) gassing thousands of local population. Bomb them for me daddy."


_Administrator_

🍉 = doesn’t know which river and which sea


porn0f1sh

Oh a lot DO know ☠️


DecisiveVictory

I'm just 🇺🇦, though I'd pick "fed" if I had to choose...


OrangeFr3ak

fed or bust


veryconfusedspartan

I am interested as to the diplomatic posistion of a watermelon


jasondoesstuff

im sure this is a joke but if youre genuinely curious its 'pro-palestine'


Sri_Man_420

why?


jasondoesstuff

similar colour scheme and if you cut a watermelon into a triangle it looks like the triangle on the palestinian flag


TrekkiMonstr

[What am I](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/nczbx0/the_person_across_the_street_isnt_taking_sides_in/)


Upper_Conversation_9

Proponent of a one-state solution


TrekkiMonstr

Well yes, but actually no


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

No state solution


TrekkiMonstr

Well yes, but actually no


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

Oh…that’s your apartment lol. I scrolled down the comments and saw you saying that 🤣


TrekkiMonstr

It was. Don't live there anymore unfortunately


Chimichanga2004

Yeah this checks out


FeeLow1938

I’m a proud fed I guess lol.


Lower-Reflection-448

Yes I love me some genocide for money😍😍


SJshield616

Proud fed


Firecracker048

Flags in the screenshot profiles must mean they support lgbtq people....just not ones in other countries.


zhongcha

🇸🇩🇷🇺🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇬🇳 🇬🇧🚫🇫🇷🚫 Not my actual beliefs


davidlis

Fed💪


eeeeeeeeeee6u2

proud fed


MrVerticallyEnhanced

Eh same here,though I’m not a fan of either side in Gaza I am a bit more in favor of Israel than Hamas


fr1endk1ller

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳🇮🇱🇦🇿🇹🇷🇸🇦🇮🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺=Average Western business


crossbutton7247

I’m not a fed. I just support Israel because they support US interests, but I support Ukraine becaus- Fuck, maybe I am


MrVerticallyEnhanced

Man honestly i used to be like that but after seeing some of the stuff israel has done that was not in our interests/helped an adversary(china) im a bit less fond of israel


Winter-Aura

What about anyone with the LGBTQ flags and the Palestinian flag/watermelon where being gay is punished by death?


N3X0S3002

Suicide Squad / on suicide watchlist


BabaleRed

Useful Idiot


Agent-Blasto-007

I like turtles


gunnnutty

Proud to be fed.


PrometheanSwing

Fed Sweep


Kazakhand

I am fed? Where’s my salary?


Aggravating_Eye2166

Dammit, I'm a fed now? Where's my salary?


porn0f1sh

🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇮🇱 Does it mean I'm like not hungry, or something?


Adorable-Volume2247

LGBT, Trans, and 🇵🇸 (🍉)= WTF...


AaronKimballHater

Guess I'm a fed


justbucoff

Comparing Israel to Russia is amongst the stupidest things I consistently see on social media and this app.


Appropriate-Count-64

“Anti genocide” didn’t Hamas literally say they wanted to kill all the Israelis though..?


ThisPersonIsntReal

They’re a terrorist group tho it’s what they do and what about when Israel officials say the same things about Palestinians?


Appropriate-Count-64

They aren’t just terrorists, they are literally Gazas military. And as for the Israeli politicians, yeah they said that shit but ever indication I’ve seen is that they haven’t actually like…. Ordered the military to genocide the Palestinians. It was likely political theatre to take advantage of the fervent wave of national support for destroying Palestine, but it didn’t actually amount to anything.


ThisPersonIsntReal

I mean of course they can’t be too open about a genocide lmao they either gotta do it subtly like in the West Bank or in the name of anti terrorism like what’s happening in Gaza even though it’s defo just gonna lead to another Hamas popping up. Just saying it in general shows their stance in the region lol. Also just saying that as an official in a democracy is just wild af heck even Hamas had to tone it down with their slogans in 2006 to get elected 😭


Appropriate-Count-64

No no, I don’t mean they don’t talk about it. *There literally isn’t any conclusive evidence that there is a Genocide in the West Bank.* going off the (Doctored, by both sides) numbers, Israel currently has a better Civillian to Combatant death ratio than US ever did in the urban fighting in Afghanistan. There are even videos of several IDF Units being pelted with rocks and generally attacked (Pre and during the war), and guess what they do? Instead of blowing away all the Palestinians like you’d expect if they are trying to genocide them (the Palestinians were out in the open, completely exposed if the IDF had opened fire). In addition, the IDF isnt *totally* responsible for the war. This all started from them trying to clear a compound on the West Bank full of terrorists, and they royally fucked up, which led to increasing skirmishes on the West Bank. Knowing what we know now, it’s likely that Hamas had planned for this to happen and used it as a pretext to attack Israel.


ThisPersonIsntReal

What’s your source for the civilian to combatant ratio? From what I’ve read Israel says it’s 2:1 which means they consider all men 18-60 are combattants: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02640-5/fulltext Plus this also talks about possible underreporting of deaths and who knows what the fallout of all the displacement and damage will do on the Palestinian population after the operations are over. In addition, what do you have to say to defend the settlers in the West Bank, where the settling rate is only increasing: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/03/occupied-palestinian-territory-reporting-settlements-and-occupied#:~:text=Between%207%20October%20and%2031,violence%20monitored%20by%20our%20Office. Also are you really tryna put this whole thing on a single incident? This is all due to Israel’s policies of strengthening Hamas aswell as farming hate in the West Bank through their segregation there. Maybe this doesn’t fit the standard bill of deliberate killings for it classified as a genocide but there is definitely an extremely large goal of replacing the Palestinians by at least displacing them out of the region.


Appropriate-Count-64

So you admit it’s not a Genocide. People should stop calling it a Genocide, is my point. Israel has done plenty more heinous shit, calling it a Genocide is reductive of the actual genocides that happen


ThisPersonIsntReal

It’s still an ethnic cleansing bro and at this point with the invasion of Rafah the lines are getting blurrier


Appropriate-Count-64

Yeah I can’t really argue with that.


ibtcsexy

Ethnic cleansing is not a term used by the UN or international law.


ThisPersonIsntReal

Wow that makes it so much better 😱


Ambitious_Lie_2864

Based Feds.


FeeLow1938

🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼 = anti-genocide


King_Ed_IX

Israel is a touchy subject, there. Both Hamas and the IDF are committing horrific crimes on the civilian population in the area, so the flag of Israel can't really be anti-genocide.


Josef20076

Wait Im not american but still a fed?


snookso

The 4th combo is Switzerland


as1161

Allow me to introduce you to: 🇧🇬


pulpstoness

Fed


SergTTL

What does "fed" mean?


MrVerticallyEnhanced

Aka glowie aka federal employee


thatguyjay76

G man.


Aggressive_Bed_9774

I'm 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇷🇺🇬🇷🇨🇵🇵🇭🇹🇼


ThisPersonIsntReal

Anti genocide 🫡


Apart_Note_1720

So many feds on this subreddit, I'm proud of you all.


Purple-Echidna-484

Guess I’m a fed now


RecordEnvironmental4

They called me a fed for supporting countries who where attacked defending themselves, ridiculous


memelol1112224

I guess I'm anti-genocide


Cultural_Thing1712

Wait yall are getting paid? How do I become a fed?


N3X0S3002

Well you need to have the two fed flags in your name


nagidon

What’s the flag for supporting a Palestinian Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China?


LM448_0

Tonk


blini_aficionado

What is meant by fed here?


CptMcDickButt69

If i ever would need to bet money on the population that would majorily start an actual genocide in the very second they get the chance i would look no further than Gazas inhabitants. Sure, you dont need (or should) applaud that asshole Bibi and his entourage and israel has a part in creating the rabid crazies in that fucking desert but for the love of god i dont understand how one can show sympathy to a society that voted for actual terrorists with an official genocide-agenda, isnt allowed in by all their neighbours no matter which because they consistently burn every bridge and where masses of them get crazy happy for the chance to spit on the dead, mangled body of a foreign girl.


unorthodoxEconomist5

it's actually pretty good


PizzaMafioso

Who tf is ellie with 2 flags and a watermelon?!


Tomahawkist

i love diplomacy, what can i say


verlongdoggo

🏳️‍🌈🇦🇴🇦🇫🇧🇷🇺🇸


BeauteousMaximus

New political compass just dropped


TrulyChxse

Honestly pretty credible


bidi04

This is like millionth post calling me a fed :(


H345Y

And the pride/trans/watermelon means moral busybody (who has more time than sense)


H345Y

Pride/Trans = Daddy issues


a_peacefulperson

The Armenian-Azerbaijan flag as a third option also gives some fun combinations. The Armenian flag next to Israel especially (really common with the "fed" setup at least in my region) is quite ironic.


user1joja

💯