ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I’ve heard that their periods can attract bears. The bears can smell the menstruation!
Men won’t do shit.
Women won’t do shit.
Nothing ever happens.
To add some actual analysis here, I react to these discussions the same way I react to pop-sci articles about how we’re all going to evolve into a race of pale, long-fingered morloks in order to better access our computer terminals: it’s laughable to expect that these completely unsustainable systems are are going to last long enough to make any kind of difference whatsoever.
And as I’ve said before, I think if incel rage ever does boil over, it will probably be sublimated into some other ideological movement, be that fascism, Bolshevism, radical Islam, or radical Christianity.
Thanks to Canada, I don’t have to worry about that anymore. It went from “this poor stage 4 cancer patient can’t bear to suffer anymore” to “the State has determined you to be a useless eater, please stand by the ditch and allow the nice man with the MP-40 to perform the procedure” in about six months.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Whether we're in a bubble or not, sources are reporting that 40% of the stock market is tied up in tech/AI stocks. If we're in the initial phases of a singularity (a big 'if'), then we might expect the economy to do well in spite of almost any burden we could place on it.
That’s why I have a hard time trusting the market right now, when most of its value is contingent on the atheist rapture happening, it does not make me confident.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Bear in mind, this is right in the heart of fentanyl country, and “died suddenly” is also often a press euphemism for overdose death.
The line is currently collapsing in five different places, I don’t think predicting major territorial gains by Russia is particularly loopy or controversial at this point.
Mottizens or similar.
I’ve been getting lit up by various Mottezens for two years for saying Ukraine would lose. They’re still mocking me up upthread for saying that Ukraine is going to lose, even now.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
I think it is still unclear how this will end as a war
Total collapse of the front and Russian annexation all the way to Lyviv. The 2014 fortifications are about to fall, after that it’s going to be very hard to prevent major collapses of the undermanned front line. Ukraine has no leverage left for a settlement. Insurgency is unlikely given the amount of casualties.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
And what’s so odd about it is that I think the opposite tack would have played much much better with the American public, who never met an underdog they didn’t like.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
There was no unified French command structure at Agincourt. You had four or five different French lords with their own forces. Since each one individually had more troops than the entire English army, they were more concerned about getting in there and getting credit for the victory than about survival and overall victory, which already seemed assured. So instead of a unified attack on the English line, you had several piecemeal assaults that got diced up and defeated in detail. They forgot to achieve Harry, and then sell his bones.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
Now it is, up until 2025 it was always delusional copium about total Ukrainian victory and 14:1 kill ratios.
I just don’t understand why there was such an intense effort to keep people in a state of delusion regarding the progress of the war. Wouldn’t people have been more willing to give aid if they had known this was a difficult uphill battle? That technique worked very well when the UK was trying to play on American sympathies during the early parts of WWII.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
Well that simply isn't possible, demographic change is baked in the cake.
It’s very possible, if you recategorize Hispanics as white. Now you have a country that’s about 80 percent white.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Jewish Boomers of any income level you will find a lot more conservatives, and the liberal ones are usually not crazy. Gen X is where the shift starts, and it becomes almost total ideological lockstep in the Millennial and Zoomer ones.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
So it begs the question - why is the American right turning against Jews now, and what changed in the last 20-30 years that enabled it?
American Jews used to be much more ideologically diverse and spread across both parties. Now they are like 98 percent Democrat and very very far left. More than Asians or African Americans, and much more influential than either of those groups. Part of the reason no one takes Ben Shapiro seriously the way they did Dennis Praeger or Mark Levin is that he’s clearly some kind of weird outlier, the right equivalent of the Democrats castrated whipped token white males. He’s like the Republican Tim Walz.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
If right wing whites can't prevent their own progressive brothers from championing that alleged ethnic cleansing why should we assume that progressive Jews could be talked down?
I think the Israelis could have tard-wrangled them if they made a serious effort. But like all the rest of us, they didn’t realize the significance of the SJW threat and how fast the ideology would metastasize.
Additionally part of the problem was that Israel spent years presenting an overly white-washed version of themselves, so people didn’t realize how awful Israel was going to look through the lens of decolonialist ideology.
This is all Monday morning quarterbacking but:
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Try to get their American cousins to not launch a 20 year long pogrom against the demographics that most strongly supported Israel
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Try to get their American cousins to not spend 50 years pumping up and covering for all the demographics that hate Israel the most
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Realized that their public relations campaign was going the way of Harley-Davidson* sometime in the early 2010s
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Done something different regarding October 7, somehow. This is the hardest one, it’s like saying “why not simply prevent 9/11?”
I take the opposite analysis of a lot of this board, I think most of Israel’s flagging support is the result of the American cousins and not Israel itself. Were it not for them, Israel would just be one of many, many foreign countries with a somewhat questionable human rights record.
*Harley-Davidson is a motorcycle company that monomaniacally focused their marketing and product lines around boomers, to the detriment of appealing to any other demographic. The minute boomers got too old to ride, the company’s sales collapsed.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
he's got far too many flaws to be a real vehicle for serious political change, and while being gay isn't something I find disqualifying it is something a large portion of his potential base finds disqualifying
I’m reminded of 2015, when no one thought that evangelical boomers would ever have more than a grudging toleration for Donald Trump, at very best.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
I have to say, I was very impressed by both his interview with Tucker, and his eulogy for Charlie Kirk (which was better than a lot of sermons by actual preachers that I have heard).
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
They weren’t, but they primarily operated as diplomats before the civil war, and having them as full blown combatants and military officers was seen as somewhat weird and uncomfortable.
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
When Anikin and Mace Windu are arguing in front of the window, Mace specifically says that Palpatine is too dangerous to be left alive and that his corruption of the courts makes the justice system inadequate to deal with him. He’s definitely arguing for an impromptu extra-judicial killing right there in the office.
The Jedi are justified if you know everything that’s going on, but from a public perspective it’s all very suspicious looking.
I don’t think George Lucas gets enough credit for writing a pretty realistic government overthrow. The later stuff in the Clone Wars and other tv shows about the troops having mind control chips is annoying and unnecessary, because to an outside observer that’s not privy to the viewer’s secret knowledge, the Jedi really do look like they were pulling shady maneuvers. Look at the facts:
- Due to a civil war a formerly quasi-pacifist Buddhist cult is drafted as a military arm of the state, and is now commanding troops in battle.
- Despite this militarization, the cult refuses any oversight from the political branches, and is hostile to the idea of the chancellor having anyone on the Jedi council to monitor their decisions. The chancellor and the cult are increasingly at loggerheads.
- In the closing days of the war, the cult suddenly decides, on no evidence whatsoever, that the chancellor is a member of an evil witch coven that hasn’t actually existed in 2000 years. They claim that the only reasonable solution is to send six guys to go assassinate the chancellor without trial.
- The Chancellor is forced to execute a bloody emergency purge in order to protect the state.
Palpatine actually did a pretty good job tricking the Jedi into looking like they were trying to overthrow the Republic, and I don’t think the rank and file would object to their orders based on what they know.
@anon_ I’m not saying Reagan personally whiffed it. That’s mostly on the people that came after him. I mean that with hindsight it starts to seem less and less like a grand achievement, which is going to tarnish his reputation even if that part of it wasn’t his fault. Ozymandias built a pretty amazing temple and monument complex, but all I’m seeing at the moment is a disembodied stone foot sticking out of the trackless desert and it’s hard to be impressed.
He said sexual urges, not sexual success.
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