ABigGuy4U
1d ago
It’s not one base. The lowest mainstream media numbers are 250 separate impacts (and these are one to two thousand kilogram warheads) over at least 16 different facilities in the Middle East. I don’t mean to be a jerk, but you’ve clearly read very little of even just the basic media coverage about this.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I don’t think it’s unfair to call a base that’s been hit by so many missiles that it’s basically rubble and can’t be used anymore “glassed”. You are latching on to an at most slightly hyperbolic term.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
However, I remain skeptical that you were being sincere in your claims that US military bases have been glassed and the IAF has been destroyed on the runway.
You might disagree on the degree. But look at the communications coming from Trump, Vance, Rubio, Netanyahu and Ben Givr. Does it sound like things are going really well to you? My version of events matches the chatter a lot better than the one where Iran is collapsing in two weeks.
Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show
The Washington Post, May 7, 2026
*The End of the American Way of War?
“The Iran war has called into question the feasibility of the American way of war. For decades, the United States has premised its national strategy on the ability to fight using forces forward deployed close to enemy territory”
The Brookings Institute
Anon, this stuff is literally all just in the news, it’s just that no one is paying attending. Almost every major US base in the Persian Gulf has sustain serious damage (article 1) to the point that the military is concerned that they won’t be able to effectively forward deploy to the Middle East anymore (article 2). That’s just two articles I was able to find with five minutes on Google. There’s hundreds like this.
The Iran missile stockpile:
U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
“Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted.”
The New York Times, May 12, 2026
The IAF thing:
Ramat David Airbase hit by missile fragment during Sunday's Iran escalation, IDF confirms to 'Post'
The Jerusalem Post, June 10, 2026
The article is currently claiming “minor damage” from a “missile fragment” but it was enough to cancel Israel’s planned 200 plane strike. Remember, this “minor damage” stuff was the party line we were hearing about the USS Gerald Ford for months.
And in any case, you are misapplying the rule to speak plainly. I’m not required to soooooooooource you just because you don’t like what I’m saying.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Yes it’s always lucky when a conveniently timed terrorist attack gives you an excuse to do exactly what you already wanted to do anyway. Russia, America, and William Randolph Hearst would approve.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
There aren’t a lot of options. Burgerland and Israel got their assess kicked, the news just isn’t reporting it. The “laundry fire” on the Gerald R. Ford was so bad that there are now serious concerns the ship will never sail again. Basically every American base in the Middle East has been glassed. The final kicker was when most of IAF got unexpectedly blown up on the runway a few days ago. This was in exchange for attriting about 10 percent of Iran’s missile stockpile. Your only options are Operation Overlord 2.0 or nukes.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
I’d argue that if there was a betrayal, most the architects were men of the Lost Generation, like Allen Dulles and his brother. Boomers are just the fall guys because their the only ones still around to blame.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
I'd personally just go full globohomo: money under the American aegis is nice. Get a luxurious villa on the Caspian, drink nice Shiraz every evening watching the sunset.
The problem that IRGC Colonel Mottezen has is that the Iranian people remember all the fingernails he pulled out for God, and the United States remembers those 40 years of him being an intractable pain in the ass. Neither one of them want him administering the new globo-homo wonderland Iran. The first second they get the chance him and his entire family are going to be hanging from construction cranes. And he knows this.
So for weeks I’d been hearing insane levels of word of mouth about the movie Obsession: It heralds the arrival of Gen-Z filmmaking. It says deep things about the anxieties of modern dating. It’s a genuinely spine-chilling horror film. Man, I was hyped.
Then I get to the kinoplex and I am shown a rather dull and prosaic romantic comedy about a man dating a Latina. If there are supernatural elements, I’m not sure where they went. Maybe critics were referring to the bog-standard dark brujeria that the female lead used to ensnare and damn her sensitive white boy gf. I hate to be one the one to tell you this, but they’re all doing that (I bet you believed her when she told you have a tinder account either).
After that it hits all the usual Latina gf notes: the honeymoon phase, the love bombing, the ethnic cuisine, the BPD, the paranoia. And as for the “shocking” twist ending, it was a bit of a downer but statistically that is the second most common way these relationships end, after marriage.
What did you guys think of it? Overall I would rate it 2.5/5, the scene where he’s on the phone with Latina tech support will definitely get a laugh from anyone who’s been there. When it hits streaming it would make a good double feature with Fools Rush In.
ABigGuy4U
12d ago
Astroturfed bullshit has to allowed to spread, when it’s big and real it’s tough to stop with anything.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
But that’s partially because January 6 was very small and contained. A white people equivalent of the George Floyd or Rodney King riots would be a lot harder to deal with, as unlikely as it is.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
You bury TWO Nazis in Mount Zion and Arlington cemetery, and suddenly people think you can just grab a shovel and stick the buggers in anywhere. It needs to be a tasteful, limited number of Nazis, just the good ones. Otherwise people start getting the wrong idea. Once your start building thousand-Nazi necropolis monuments in Canada you’ve crossed the line.
These people have been rioting for a hundred years.
Yes, but that also means that they are trained, heavily armed, and not particularly squeamish. Northern Ireland could pop off incredibly fast in a way mainland England just can’t. The paramilitaries never fully complied with the Good Friday Agreement. There are still sweet old Irish farmers in South Armagh with crates of Libyan AK’s and rocket launchers buried under the barn.
Additionally, the demographics are a lot different in NI. Decades of civil war and deindustrialization hit the economy hard, so it was never an attractive destination for migrants.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
But are you correcting for the fact that Tsarist Russia was basically a feudal backwater? It’s not like the communists inherited a shiny industrial state and then drove it i to the ground. They’re the only reason the industrial state exists at all.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Stinky is the gateway to Europe. Stalingrad, Thermopylae and the Fulda gap all in one. Russia’s victory is assured now.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
HAPPENING NOW: Stinky has fallen! It’s over for the Ukraine! Now the Banderite swine will scatter like the rats they are!
@daguerrean @Dean @Chrisprattalpharaptr
APOLOGIZE!
ABigGuy4U
15d ago
I really like Quantum. It’s Bond as pure Miami Vice cologne-ad vibes film.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
Does anyone else watch The Rock and feel some grief that Connery didn’t keep making Bond films up into the 1990s?
ABigGuy4U
22d ago
No one noticed the unfortunate implications because the character is so aggressively white-coded. He wears khakis and button up shirts and drives a somewhat boring BMW. Ejiofor uses a flat California accent and talks like an educated professional (the character is a failed architect) with no traces of AAVE.
Yeah well flashing your cop lights at me just because you disagree isn’t that nice either.
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