• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    the entire pretense of US military strategy is to maintain so many layers of unrivaled superiority over the enemy, that the pea at the bottom of the princess’s stack of mattresses must be presented as the biggest threat to the princess’s vertebrae of all time

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      I remember being told a version of that story where the princess ended up alone, because no one would want to be with a person who complained about a pea beneath 20 mattresses