2D3D
14hr ago
Its only residents of third world shitholes who insist on flying their flag as a mark of conquest on territories they conquer. No fucking Taiwanese or Korean or Japanese flag gets flown in Orange County, its only these muslim countries. The obvious hostile conquering attitude on display is a celebration that should be interpreted as the threat it is, yet the invasion is allowed to continue unmolested. The blind love of multiculturalism will end with Zimbabwe style disenfranchisement of whites followed by annihilation of anything of value as the scavengers pick off anything that made the communities viable to begin with.
2D3D
15hr ago
US executions are held up because there is a surprisingly unlimited appetite for judicial reviews and appeals to hold up the process with dubious procedural minutae introduced years after the fact being the reason for blocking. The threshold for evidence getting higher and higher even after sentencing is cause for lawyers to launch appeals nonstop, since there is free money for everyone involved to get in on the grift. Defense, state, judge, prisons, all get to feed at the trough for every death row inmate cycled through appeals. I think this raises the cost of legal+housing for lice without parole vs death row from 2m to 4m or something stupid like that for a 25 year period, and then costs spike if they hit old age.
2D3D
19hr ago
The US is a low punishment society because crimes are underinvestigated and criminals are underprosecuted relative to the incidence rate of criminal activity. This is due to both capacity issues but also judicial and societal fiat putting the finger on every side of the scale as much as possible to keep black incarceration as low as possible. That blacks are still overrepresented is a function of how widespread minor criminality is within US society, not some grand conspiracy about blacks being unfairly victimized. FBI crime statistics regarding victim perpetrator filings show that black victimization actually is from black communities who are the first victims of criminal activity, and the clear majority of crime is intraracial. Punishment being proportional within a capacity strained carceral system means a higher absolute number of criminals, especially blacks, roaming free where they should be curtailed.
As for the Pakistani gangs it is for the UK to decide whether its still ok to keep uncovering new rape gangs and expose the sheer scale of predation that was ongoing. Europe and especially the UK are peak embodiment of institutional capture by the narratively invested, with zero appetite to acknowledge the uncomfortable facts of predatory behavioral origination.
Whether UK or US, its the same pathology: institutional narrative capture perpetuating for decades and zero pivot capability. Somalians, like Pakistanis, just learned to play the game on the path trodden by their black forebears. Ok Uk is a bit of a weird one where the predecessor is black caribbean and not African but the end result is the same: a race card played to the hilt.
2D3D
19hr ago
It grows because it uses coercion without facing any external censure. Converting to Islam is celebrated as diversity, apostates are killed and then "culture" is blamed while ignoring Islams culpability.
You can only gain converts to your cause when the prize makes it worth it and the liberals are handing out their seedcorn to tourists stopping by. The TQ+ of the rainbow coalition is uninvestigated and allowed in, just like every Nigerian or Caribbean warlords offspring gets to claim black solidarity to get a seat at the trough. White liberals at the roost want to destroy their own societies because they make the category error that impoverishing white institutions only harms the uneducated white hicks. That the white hicks are a bulwark against a Hamtrack style takeover by even worse conservatives just doesnt register.
White liberals may continue to get converts for a while, but whether that sustains is questionable. Their time at the top has been pretty bad and when the pie starts shrinking theres a free for all where everyone tries to get as much as they can before escaping. Rate of growth slowing is the first canary in the coal mine, once it flips it will be an exercise in statistical fudgery (we are likely here now) before raiding the pot for scraps.
2D3D
3d ago
Staffing requirements usually put 4 infants to 1 caretaker. At a legit facility rent admin and janitorial staff wipe out even a fully subsidized package, without accounting for incidentals and capex. Probably need to hit at least 12 infants to start breaking even, and then your capex soars too. Daycares are not automatic money printers because kids are delicate and staffing is difficult.
So the easy scam is to just put pretend kids in and unqualified staff in place with fake credentials if ever interrogated. No auditor will investigate on their own and the local vote boss just says ' I will take care of it'
When the govt was not a fat cow worth milking taking care of it meant having to offer a sacrificial scalp to the other local bosses. Now the govt is this depersonalized money printer far away, and its also run by whites who are not only the enemy but also one that are self declaring the nobility of self impoverishment. Why would you deny them the opportunity to feel good.
2D3D
3d ago
The consequences for the pakistanis are miniscule compared to the personal satisfaction they enjoyed ruining the children of the enemy and getting paid to do so. So too will be the censure for the Somalians since the US is already a low punishment society that can barely punish the most easy criminals to indict, let alone anyone with a racism shield to deploy. The only way out is unspoken societal segregation, a hope that islands of sanity will be unmolested by the courts for the crime of being too prosperous and capable. As an overall polity there is no appetite to recognize the beast of racialized hate coming from foreign ethnics and less to address it.
Actually wait no there is one way out. Elect a capable non-scammy minority ethnic that is free to name the beast and act upon it. They will have a short but actionable runway to try and right the ship. A decisive window to act can arrest the decline. If the opportunity is squandered or fumbled (Obama capitulating to progressives after the 2nd midterms) then things get permanently worse. So, good luck with that.
2D3D
4d ago
You're right, but by preliminary I am referring to the months long campaigns in Iraq that suppressed and destroyed pretty much everything large enough to fit a box and the boxes themselves. A tactical DEAD on short window still lets a rapid evacuation occur so the combination of cyber warfare to paralyze all comms and cnc definitely expanded the window of opportunity from minutes to maybe half an hour. Still a lightning raid by any account, though I do take back the strength of the word "preliminary".
Regarding air defense, I mainly attribute the lack of response to the fact that low alert troops on midnight duty are always going to be sleepy shits and likely not on post. If they were on post they weren't hauling the MANPADs everywhere and if they had the MANPADs available they might have preferred to wait for command authority: what if the flying helo was Maduro making his escape? Mass defections are not likely but lazy troops as tripwires rarely succeed in defending an asset, a QRF tasking typically gets the actual job done if the tripwire does its job of slowing the advance.
Whatever the case is, the military comes off looking horrible. Now the Generals have to figure out who is to blame, and the ghost soldier paradox will bite them in their ass: is Pfc Gonzales a real guy on duty or is he someone I invented to fund the downpayment for my yacht?
2D3D
5d ago
its a good play. China can make a big show of its buildup and they are a serious threat, but a reminder that the USAs military stumbles in the 2010s was due to political constraints and not inbuilt capability is always good to hang over upstarts.
2D3D
5d ago
100% agree, no notes.
This is as close to a total regional fait accompli as you can get. More than that, the ecstasy from the Venezuelan and most of the South Americans is palpable. If it results in Venezuelans queueing up to self deport, even if its just a registration of intent, it secures Trumps decisiveness as the key unlocking US regional primacy. The US always COULD do it, it just never chose to, and it resulted in ill for itself as well as the region.
USA being a massive rich country that refused to crack down on its own people that partook of narcotics freely flowing across the border is what crippled South America (ok fine one of many things). If US could just LOOK decisive occasionally it changes the calculus for any actors that wish to exploit.
2D3D
6d ago
At this point I'm convinced whoever was on air defense duty was told to go for a midnight taco raid and the presidential guards rushed maduro out made a wrong turn straight into a delta team and oh no the clumsy americans dropped a usb with 10 bitcoin on it what clumsy fumblefingers they are.
2D3D
6d ago
Honestly, pretty based if USA immediately smacks Maduro immediately after Maduro gets assurances of Chinese support. Really fucking funny anime style twist you could have seen coming a mile away yet still lands because the execution is chefs kiss.
If this fails its just a comedy, so win win for me either way.
2D3D
6d ago
Yea its already over; either the HVT objective has been met or a new narrative spin will be executed to justify why the shock and awe is a sufficient first demonstration. Either way, bringing in rotary assets unmolested into Caracas is fucking ballsy and signals total degradation of any Venezuelan air control, especially given the lack of even preliminary SEAD/DEAD.
It might be a fait accompli if Maduro stayed put because he believed his own copium regarding air defense or bigbrains asserting that USA doing this was retarded. For all the degradation of the US military as a strategically independent thinker they do at least maintain kinetic capability and wont put boots on the ground without a decisive vetted go signal. At least for their sake I hope so.
2D3D
13d ago
Unless NSA overpays relative to FAANG and keeps everyone on an ideological leash the talent simply wont flow to the US state. The smartdicks with some vague natsec aspirations might go join Anduril to pretend at building Cyberdyne systems skynet. And thats only if Anduril stays off the DOD security asset whatever list so the staff dont get flagged at every port of exit.
2D3D
13d ago
The left absolutely subscribes to America being number one, its just their version of America instead of what America actually is or what the right and normies say they want. What the left wants is hard to pin down, but I'll stake it on some form of vague internationalist semisocialism that serves primarily to keep their own enemy, the right (kings, kulaks, landlords, their dad) in the ground and they themselves on top - with a similarly vague hope that everyone else who helped the leftist get on top of the pecking order will accept that leftists ascension as a fait accompli.
2D3D
1mo ago
While I'm sure most work being bullshit was the cause of capability requirements withering, I also think that our favourite bugbear here of DEI or rather its predecessor of Affirmative Action plays a role. Reducing the need for someone to actually know the broad based technicals of their job in exchange for being capable of doing something specific makes jobs lottery tickets for the incapable. As long as someone is not an active fuckup or active liability they can be held on payroll forever since their actual outcomes are materially unimportant. Annual KPI exercises are so easily gamed that you have to be an actual retard to fail in a firm that is able to plod along, and so if KPI isn't a way to get rid of someone then its just Team Spirit. And on soft metrics like that then theres no way they're getting rid of someone in the Protected Classes.
2D3D
1mo ago
Social media made it easy to pierce the social veil. Your boring nonwork life is no longer hidden by default, it is assumed to be public. Thats the blurring between personal and work, which means your boss can know if you're a true believer outside of work. I don't think you can even put Dilbert comics on your cube anymore, mainly because cubes are now dead thanks to 'collaborative spaces' that were the rage precovid.
Thats the big difference, not just COVID and remote work. Social media is the arms race for 'authenticity' and so you have to fake authenticity to fit in with the culture. Are you secretly a heretic? You can't be private, you have to declare your adherence openly, because other people are more enthusiastic than you.
But therein lies a question: why the arms race for authenticity, instead of just, you know, being good at your job. We need to realize that it is entirely possible that being Good At Job is simply becoming less and less important these days. Opportunity to not fuck up is more important than grindmaxxing. So many bullshit tasks in office are busywork to pretend one is productive, when most of it is not actually accretive to task fulfilment. Meanwhile many actual work deliverables that need bullshit microchanges as it is being worked on - coding, writing, drafting, anything manual - were made efficient by productivity tools and then it became representative of our own executive microfailures to use the tool rather than the difficulty of using the task itself. Random fuckwits can do a due diligence of a company financials for fundamental analysis just by ratiomaxxing, you don't need a genius to do it, just grind the formulae out diligently. Good is less important than discipline, and since discipline is only visible by outcomes that are beyond ones control, performative performance is a visible proxy.
This is the world we live in, outcomes divorced from inputs or at least sufficiently muddled by layers that our own roles as cogs are known to be unimportant. To not be swapped out we gotta pretend we believe the mission of the machine, and the incentive to publicly deepthroat the corporate mission is so high precisely because it is easier than actually trying to do great work. Who knows, we might end up liking the sensation of being choked out by slogans. Enjoy your corpospeak ASMR, piggies.
2D3D
1mo ago
We followed the man because he embodied the virtues of office that effect the manifestations of success within ourselves, and we replaced the man with tbe office hoping that virtue can be embedded within the wall and text like words of power. Modern failure is due to the office being sacrosanct and the selection of men to enter such offices is done by chicanery crookery or chance. The corner office is degraded by the incompetent holding it as his own, but the failure is to let the incompetent drape himself in the trappings of virtues rewards without the work. The gatekeeper to the doors of office are what maintain or degrade the virtues desired, and when the office is hollowed then other offices are made to do what is necessary without the gatekeeper being present.
The great man and great leader works fantastically for small group organization where personal affect can be sustained, but it fails to scale horizontally or linearlly past death. Old boy networks held the line when mass labour mobilization and consolidation let in incompetents, but those networks had to be hidden, impossible in modern digital communication.
Right now the gatekeepers are the masters of the offices and the great men are replaced by what the gatekeepers deem relevant. With the rewards still accruable to the islands of competence, what incentive is there for greatness to subject themselves to the struggle session of gatekeeping proles or bureaucratized academica? The obvious problem is that the system as a whole rots, but thats the fault of the system for ennobling asskissers and tokens.
2D3D
1mo ago
I do consider this an arrogation of authority! I also consider the JAQing off about "if the military is given illegal orders shouldn't they disobey hint hint hint" an arrogation of authority as well, compounded with cowardly evasiveness.
Grant was ordered to kill 100k US citizens, and that should have triggered a supreme court crisis right from the outset even with the generals who were first mobilized. That no such challenge was sustained proves only that the durability of legalistic restrictions is a choice, one that Trump has clearly shown can be steamrolled over de facto by just simply fucking doing it. To be bound by the laws is a choice if unbacked by kinetic measures, and the chief wielders of kinetic force (army and police) get a say in whether they want to follow the rules. Right now the US security establishment has leaders prefer to resign with dignity intact rather than stage coups to enforce or resist "unlawful" orders. For democrats to hope for a noble cincinnatus to overthrow Trump and restore the republic to the exiled senatorial class is Sorkinian fantasy. Sucks but it is what it is. If the leaders don't want to actively resist orders, what chance some E4 giving a single shit about the legality of his actions.
2D3D
1mo ago
I'm reflecting line of argument upthread. I don't actually believe it, but the democrats are signalling that they expect the military to oppose trump to ends beneficial to democrat political objectives, the bare minimum being preventing the military being a + point for trump.
The democrats statements are cowardly weaselling: we expect the military to disobey illegal orders proactively but we are not actually saying trumps orders are illegal, we expect the military to make that judgment for themselves to achieve a political objective benefitting democrats. Oh and the reverse implication is that the military is conducting illegal orders under trump by executing the missions.
If the orders are illegal state it openly as such. Why make a statement decrying the consequences of illegal orders if there are no illegal orders. Democrats clearly hope to gain political capital out of this but are too cowardly to actually openly declare their affirmative stance.
2D3D
1mo ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
At the same time, the UC system eliminated its best tool for assessing students’ academic preparedness. In 2020, system leaders voted to phase standardized-test scores out of admissions decisions. They argued that the tests worsened racial divides and unfairly privileged wealthy students.
Anyone remember the greatest hits of racialized education from the mid 2010s? Math is racist. Decolonize science. Genetically transmitted racial trauma. Social promotion for underperforming (especially "minorities") so that they won't feel bad.
Much of the above arguments were created by progressives and embraced by administrators seeking to avoid hard metric accountability to keep their funding alive. Real high impact success required tracibility and accountability, like Roland Fryers Promise program in Harlem that closed achievement gaps significantly. Naturally that all gets abandoned because it required work, which is apparently racist.
Well, its all coming home to roost. The first crop of pandemic + zero accountability + AI kids are coming into college, and the results aren't pretty. Fully 50% of entrants cannot write an essay or do high school math. Institutions that have self respect have pivoted back to some form of standardized testing, but it may be too late. The value signal of a bachelors was already diminished pre pandemic because too many incompetents were getting degree mill slop, saturating the job market with useless cultural studies slop churned out by universities soaking in those sweet Pell Grants. The 30% of the cohort getting bachelors is still unimportant compared to the top 5% in Ivies. The lack of critical mass of competence seems real this time.
So does education matter? Can you simply git gud with an Agile cert and a self built site with 1099 proof of taxable income from a successful venture, as opposed to educationmaxxing? If the value signal is degraded, can it be restored? Has the era of mandatory rectification of disparate outcome with forced racial redistribution ended? Is all this unimportant in an AI age where Scarjo can whisper ASMR opium?
2D3D
1mo ago
What is the 'it' they fear? A military that disobeys unlawful orders without any legal process, which curtails Democrats own ability to issue orders of dubious legality like Obama drone striking a US citizen? Or the orders being executed that actually are lawful but unpopular for Democrats?
If I threaten to take my childs spoon from him after I issue the warning, I am the one exercising the threat. The democrats are saying the orders may be unlawful and the military itself should exercise judgment on the unlawfulness to remove trump. The responsibility is borne solely by others and never by the democrats for affirming an active course of action. It is yet another example of cowardice in action and intent, cloaking desired outcomes behind someone elses actions and preparing oneself to take credit later on.
2D3D
1mo ago
Fuck that in my company there was a guy who faked a pregnancy in basic. The others in his gang claimed he was possessed by a female spirit and would commit suicide (kill him)if she lost the baby, so he had to be on light duties till the baby came to term. Our top hat accepted it and instructed him to be locked in the infirmary till delivery, then he could resume training. As skaters go that was a particularly stupid one, but not the last by any means.
2D3D
1mo ago
Ah thanks for the clarification, I've heard women bitch that men get more pay for combat and also complain that women are underpaid so I conflated the two in my above. Forgot that women want the pay without having to work it. Not sure I'd blame this one on feminism as much as shitbirds being shitbirds.
I understand that pregnancy out is a problem in the USN. An ex-chief complained to me that half his female rates get knocked op before any sail longer than 6 months, married or not. Not sure about girls wanting to get a train run on them while at sea, or even having enough demand from men. I still believe the YMCA is the accurate depiction of USN proclivities.
Vae victus, git gud if you wanna play the game. Third world shithole conquering of first world gibs is done only by exploiting the naive goodwill of first world idiots, not by being competent at anything except being dark and useless. It is true that the game is really fucking stupid and self defeating but I can hate the player as well as the game both.
EDIT I now realize the above comment was not a "waaa first worlders did meanie bad things to poor third world" but the new faction in the first world emerging to fight the same game of flag planting as conquest. In which case, again, git gud. They allied with the browns and got merked, perhaps they should re-evaluate their situationship with their pets.
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