It’s like when the Nazis designated certain sections of their population to be “useless eaters” and then gave them a lifetime stipend out of the government’s pocket so they could continue uselessly eating. Or when corporations run the numbers and decide that ten percent of their employees aren’t making the company enough money so they decide to keep paying them anyway. Or when Pol Pot decided Cambodia didn’t need scientists or intellectuals so he gave them all a monthly check to stay out of everybody else’s way. Or how during periods of food insecurity, Inuit tribes would give the most elderly and infirm members double portions of seal meat to make sure they don’t lose too much weight.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
The Thirty-Year Old Barsoomer
•Lost his job because he literally cannot stop Barsooming
•Stayed in his Barsoom-cave so long that everyone thinks he’s dead
•Freed all his slaves so no one can walk in on him while he’s Barsooming
•”Is that a Princess of Mars?! Ahhhh I’m gonna BARSOOOM!”
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
There seems to be great pressure mounting to force Ukraine leadership to sign whatever rag of a document is presented to them and let the whole thing be over.
Or they need fall guys to blame if Ukraine collapses. It wasn’t Europe or America’s fault, it was these corrupt oligarchs!
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
This, it smacks of a group that did a lot of reading but had minimal actual field experience.
Supposedly he shouted “Allahu Akbar” while opening fire so apparently Islamic lone wolf terrorism.
Edit: Please disregard the fact that the shooter was employed by the CIA in Afghanistan. Please disregard the fact that this shooting has spurred a comprehensive review of all Green Card holders in the United States. :^)
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
"my chad tribesmen will beat the shit out of your effeminate wimps, if only the sheeple finally wake up and develop classtribal counsciousness"
Maybe I’m unusual, but I’m pretty doomer-pilled about the right’s prospects in a civil war.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
A million dead Ukrainians is too high: we would see the evidence everywhere in both economies if that were true.
The articles about stunning and brave Ukrainian girlbosses taking over the coal mines and shipyards because all the men were... uh.... somewhere else started popping up like a year and a half ago.
Not Europe's problem.
It is Europe’s problem, or at least they feel it is. That’s why they got involved in the first place. There’s a big strategic difference between Russia controlling Donbas, and Russia controlling Ukraine all the way to the Polish border.
All the leverage europe has over russia (sanctions, confiscated assets) has been gifted to ukraine, to do with as they please.
But why?
Anyway, the I don’t think Europe was thinking about this as logically as you are, I suspect they just don’t know how bad things really are.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Say what you will about the people of Boston, at least most of the money they were funneling to terrorists came out of their own pockets and not the taxpayer’s.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Shoot and scoot should be much safer than setting up one of those monster cannons, right?
Sure, for each individual unit. But Russia has 4-5 thousand individual artillery pieces in the field, including around a thousand to fifteen hundred that are also self propelled (though not as accurate). Ukraine has 1500 tube artillery plus a handful of western MRLS systems. So individual Russian artillery pieces and systems get destroyed too, but it’s not going to change the overall disparity in volume of fire.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
Probably not going to happen. The European proposal is delusional. The Russians probably don’t have an actual interest in ending the war at this point and their own proposal is only being made because they know that Ukraine will refuse.
What makes them more vulnerable? Aren’t they supposed to be “highly mobile”?
The fact that most of your artillery strike capacity is reliant on the survival of four vehicles. You lose one of those, now your strike capacity is down 25 percent (not a perfect figure since the Ukrainians do have some tube artillery of their own too, but you get the idea).They used to be pretty resistant to counter-battery fire due to their mobility, but the Russians developed better ways of tracking and eliminating them after a year or two. That’s why you don’t hear a lot about them anymore. There are only about 400-700 HIMARS systems in existence and the rumor is Ukraine has gone through about 75-100.
HIMARS ammunition capacity is a problem too. Plus the Russians got better at distributing logistics so there aren’t as many huge ammunition depos within strike range. HIMARS only carry about 4-6 rockets, and are best suited for strikes against a few large key targets, not doing 40 artillery strikes a day against small infantry positions for weeks at a time. French Caesar systems and other similar systems have the same issues. Intel isn’t much of a problem since they get live satellite coverage from US systems.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
The main problem isn’t the drones, it’s the massive imbalance in tube artillery. HIMARS systems are neat but they are vulnerable to counter-battery fire and can’t substitute for Russia having ten times as many standard howitzers. NATO’s main advantage is air power, which is politically untenable to deploy and logistically untenable to give to Ukraine.
Like everything else with Zoomers, this is all online. I’m not sure you would see a visible Groyper presence anywhere, no matter how much support there is.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
The first season of Breaking Bad is pretty slow, it gets more interesting the deeper Walt digs the hole he’s in.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
I found it nihilistic and depressing, and the time limit annoying given the realistically portrayed gravitational physics.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
Thank you, I had been meaning to make a Sunday question about this as well.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
The Soviets mostly were not Jewish. I have not heard the claim that Jewish Soviet officials were especially heinous, statistically speaking.
During the early parts of Soviet history there were a lot more of them. From the 1917 Revolution to around the late 20s-early 1930s. Which means there were a lot of Jewish party members participating in particularly ugly war crimes during the Red Terror. Some of these had the character of an ethnically and religiously motivated pogrom more than class warfare, especially many of the actions against the Russian Orthodox Church.
Stalin kicked most of them out (along with most of the other ethnic minorities) because he was staring down the barrel of a huge war with other foreign powers and he needed a more Russian centric communist party to get the largely Russian population on board for it.
Now none of this particularly reflects on Jews specifically. Vicious ethnic and religious persecution of various kinds was very common for most of European history. Many other communist revolutions were used as a cover for ethnic and tribal warfare. And in Russia specifically, the government using one designated favorite ethnic minority as a stick to beat everyone else into line was a standard part of government structure.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Europe has an annoying quality where they want America to pay their meal ticket and then act snooty about it. They aren’t an Indian reservation, if they really wanted to make a go of being independent they could. Even when they’re right about the particular item of snootiness (like wrecking up Iraq) it’s hard to feel sympathetic for them.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
There was a similar phenomenon in Burgerland even before the immigration started. The only reason the elite like the left so much now is that they had the FBI spend 70 years beating the shit out of the left until it was free of all the parts they didn’t like.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
False flags all seem to be so poorly executed that they don't achieve anything for the "team" attempting them.
False-flags are like hairpieces, you don’t notice the good ones. This lady and Smolett aren’t political operatives or intelligence agents, they are crazy narcissicists looking for attention. It’s like Münchausen’s syndrome.
A lot of cruise ship tickets are surprisingly cheap and since you are in Florida you wouldn’t need to travel that far to embark. I can’t speak to the quality of the experience having never been on one.
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