Llituro comments on Apparently this is a real plotline in the new HBO It miniseries. What the fuck. (Spoilers for It: Welcome To Derry if you care)

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 79 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

this sounds like horrible slop, but i will grant that the u.s. military finding out about what is effectively an eldritch horror, a godlike manifestation of fear itself, and thinking "yeah we can make this a weapon to fight communists," is a historically coherent response.

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[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Yeah this is some raiders of the lost ark shit, I hope IT ends up melting their faces off

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

markkks-juggalo

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

yeah, that's my read too. us military discovers existential horror and some shit wizard up the chain's first thought is "how do we deploy this against our ideological rivals?" holds up.

ive found a lot of horror stories have this kind of commentary on nuclear weapon development and leveraging of nuclear holocaust.... like the unspeakable abomination isn't the scary part, the scary part is there really are faceless people in leadership roles who would knowingly, deliberately unleash it on the world to climb even higher.

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