ABigGuy4U
5hr ago
search warrant or detain him based on an identification of a McDonald's employee who had never seen him before
It would be especially hard to get probable cause from this given that she’s a made-up person with an AI generated photo that never actually existed.
ABigGuy4U
12hr ago
I suspect that China’s interest in nuclear power and renewable energy (and coal) are similar to De Gaul’s. China wants a diversified energy portfolio so that they don’t have a single critical failure point built into their economy.
ABigGuy4U
16hr ago
@cablethrowaway @hydroacetylene
But notice that there was never any kind of official statement on who did it by any of the countries that were capable of investigating and verifying. They were content to leave the public in the dark.
ABigGuy4U
16hr ago
I was actually referring to the UK case that others mentioned down-thread. I should really start checking before I post to see if someone else has already brought things up. It’s disheartening that this type of case seems to have happened more than once.
I’m going to call BS on the Ukrainian nuke- if they had one, they’d hit Moscow.
It wouldn’t necessarily have been a Ukrainian nuke. But yes, that puzzles me too, I don’t know why you would drop one tactical nuke on some warehouse complex in Toretsk without elaboration or credit or apparently any further strikes, and apparently no response from the Russian government. Maybe it was a foward-deployed 380 KT Russian nuclear weapon that fizzled when it got hit by a conventional strike and produced a 15 KT yield.
I don’t buy the official explanation either, which is that an entire warehouse of S-400 interceptors were sitting in a warehouse five miles from the front line. And even accepting that, it seems like way too big of an explosion. Fire storms 12 kilometers wide, picked up on satellites for monitoring wildfires.
ABigGuy4U
16hr ago
Despite what wags online will tell you, nuclear weapons would actually be very useful in retail combat. The reason for their lack of usage is for political reasons to maintain the nuclear taboo, not because they aren’t useful.
I do know that the Houthis and Hezbollah both use very deep underground fortifications of the kind that would be hard to take out even with multiple 20,000 pound bunker busters dropped from a B-2. Much less trying to take those apart with fighter-bombers, which can carry a 2,500 pound munition.
I’m not sure who exactly would be doing it. I know there were influential families (the Fords, the Bushes) and titans of industry in the 30s and 40s that were fairly sympathetic to naziism. There was also a decent amount of contact between the OSS and German intelligence during the war. Allen Dulles, the later head of the CIA, was back-channeling with Heinrich Himmler to try and negotiate a separate peace between Nazi Germany and America so that the Nazi government could remain standing and be used by the west as a bulwark against Communism. Some Nazi intelligence divisions were basically rolled intact into the American intelligence apparatus after the war ended.
You could say that America resembles Weimar Germany just because there are certain characteristics that sick or declining societies all have, but some of it seems awfully specific.
- There is a giant coordinated push for Marxism in the early 2010s, both the old school kind and the new Bio-Leninist kind.
- There seems to have been a giant coordinated push to weaponize American black people as a Cossack class to oppress American white people. This doesn’t seem like it would work on its own, but it did an awfully good job of putting white Americans into a defensive crouch. This culminates in near-genocidal Hutu-style rhetoric against white people in 2020.
- There are suddenly suspiciously organized glowie-adjacent communist street fighters that took their name and logo from the communist street fighters in Weimar Germany. They generally seem to be trying to act as unsympathetic as possible.
- The controlled detonation of the American economy in 2020, inducing hyperinflation.
- The coordinated lockstep pushing of transgenderism and prostitution culture. This and Antifa is what really started to make me suspicious, because those were both phenomena that was specific to Weimar Germany.
- In 2022 there is a sudden, at least partially astroturfed push to associate Jews with the prior events I described in the last several paragraphs. There was definitely organic anti-semitism in the years before that, and some genuine bad behavior by prominent Jewish people in America. But 2022 is when you start seeing very consistent very intense anti-Jewish rhetoric on Reddit, which is very odd given that Reddit Turbo-jannies were and are such prudes about literally everything else. I have hung around on 4chan long enough to know what organic anti-semitism looks like, and what I started seeing in 2022 looked different, odd. It looked more like organized shill behavior that I had previously associated with left wing stuff like transgenderism and astroturfed pro-Ukraine sentiment on Reddit. Crucially, I started noticing this a full year before October 7 and the bombing of Gaza, which is usually marked as the beginning of wide scale public anti-semitism.
- October 7 happens in 2023 (which stinks to high hell but that’s an entire post on its own). The invasion of Gaza starts and now you suddenly have a left-right triangulation against Jewish people. The Israeli government seems to be working very hard through all this to act as unlikeable and shady as humanly possible.
- Ever since then there has been just a full-bore shill campaign against Jews on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok and 4chan. I used to hang out on 4chan when half the posters were literal Stormfront users, and it was never this intense. It definitely smacks of organized shilling and not just people who genuinely dislike Jews.
- Then a sudden coordinated push to rehabilitate Naziism. First for liberals with the glowie-affiliated Azov Battalion (“Shut up Chud, It’s just the Ukrainian skull and pinwheel of good fortune!”) and then for conservatives with Tucker Carlson and Darrell Cooper (who both have connections to CIA and the defense industrial complex).
So to me it looks like there was potentially a coordinated push to induce Weimar problems and then present Weimar solutions.
Can you elaborate please?
On paper the free market is supposed to route goods and services in a somewhat rational manner and create value. In practice the system seems to have gone loony and catabolic in a lot of ways. What you are seeing now is the capitalist free market equivalent of the endemic product and commodities shortages seen in the late Soviet Union. In western countries, industry is gone, the critical infrastructure that allows for the market to exist is falling apart, wages are going down. There are shortages of housing, rising food prices, rising automobile prices, massive shortages of critical armaments and military equipment, shortages of computer chips. Meanwhile bajillions of dollars are being pumped into irrational and economically wasteful Skinner boxes like narcotics, gambling, OnlyFans, and video game micro-transactions.
In 50 years Bonnie Blue’s picture is probably going to be in a history book somewhere in the chapter about how the United States economically fell apart and dissolved.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
But if China is just 1950s America, and 1950s America was just 19th century Britain, aren't we headed for the same stagnation and broad irrelevance of the UK today?
The one thing Burgerland has going for it is that it’s BIG. Big land area, large population, lots of natural resources, large nuclear stockpile. Britain’s problem is that once you lose the empire all you are left with is a barren island the size of California with about 60 million people. Barring complete Balkanization and civil war, I think America can at the very least look forward to being a gas station with nukes like Russia.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
A lady got sentenced to probation and community service for calling her rapist a name in a private text conversation with her friend.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I don’t know what formats you are using, but if you are streaming there’s a good chance that the service is actually streaming at less than 4K resolution much of the time, even if you have it set to 4K.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I assume a mix of bot views she buys to big herself up and ones provided by China and Russia who benefit by promoting the biggest morons
Look, just because I live in a server in the basement of the Lubyanka building doesn’t make me any less of a real person than you.
the Early Iron Age
In the early Iron Age, the predominant religions at the time included:
•Sending your daughter to the temple of Ishtar so she can lose her virginity getting railed by some stranger for money
•Burning your firstborn child to death as an offering to Moloch
•Big orgies under groves to celebrate seasonal changes
Not to mention both Sodom and the tribe of Benjamin getting wiped out because they couldn’t keep their roving bands of gang-rapists under control. The early prophets of the Bible wouldn’t like modern society, but I doubt they would be particularly surprised. Neither would St. Paul, given the time he spent in Rome and the Greek cities.
She’ll very probably never marry or if she does, it’ll be to a man who’s a laughingstock.
Riley Reid, Mia Khalifa and Sasha Grey all turned out fine. Riley Reid is happily married to a handsome wealthy man and they have a child and apparently a nice family life. Faye Reagan on the other hand is one of those homeless tunnel people living underneath Las Vegas. Dakota Skye died of a fentanyl overdose. Usually the fate of ex-porn actresses (like anyone else) is more tied to whether or not they were already a drug addict with poor time preference and impulse control issues, not any kind of scarlet lettering from what they used to do. Given that Bonnie Blue seems to be a skilled intelligent grifter, she will probably turn out fine.
What I don’t get is why everyone sees this as some kind of moral issue and not the massive late-Soviet Union-style failure of economic allocation that it really is.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I have seen videos of bombings that the Saudi Air Force conducted in Yemen and that the IAF did in Lebanon with explosions that seem to be far, far beyond the size of anything that they have the capability to carry on the planes they have (to my knowledge neither have heavy bombers). Also there was a Ukrainian attack on a Russian facility in I believe Toretsk where it looks like the damage is consistent with around a 15 kiloton explosion. Also the documented fact that a hydrogen bomb went off in the middle of the Indian Ocean in 1979 and supposedly no one can figure out who did that (I’m guessing the US and USSR both knew and just didn’t say).
The current space exploration efforts better resemble Julius Caesar failing to invade Britain
Ok look, he was kissing the ground as he came ashore. He did NOT trip and eat shit on the beach in an inauspicious sign that his hubris was disfavored by the gods. The very fact that that you are insinuating this makes me think that you are a butthurt Gallic shill poster working out of a boiler room in some mud hut in Lugdunum. Opinion disregarded.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
The singularity hinges on the implicit assumption that there is some level of intelligence where you can think your way out of the laws of physics and thermodynamics.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Sometimes I forget how much of a different information world that I seem to live in than a large part of this forum.
Most of the Motte (and the internet as a whole) are so divorced from any extractive industry that they’re like the kid from Deadwood: “Peaches come from a can. A man in a factory put them there”
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Fracking isn’t actually that cost effective. It gets massive subsidies because no one wants OPEC to have the world by the short-hairs. And then OPEC in turn sees fracking and starts dumping their own prices to try and drive it out of business. And then no one wants OPEC to have them by the short hairs, so they subsidize fracking even more.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
The Democrats on Israel are a lot like the Republicans on Israel: there is considerable anti-Israel sentiment in the younger parts of the base, but almost none of that actually filters up to the politicians in office. So you have your token three congressmen who criticize Israel, and all the others move in lockstep support, quietly or loudly. There’s a huge generation split, so boomers and Gen X of both left and right are much more likely to be pro-Israel, or at least moderate in their criticism.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
My suspicion is that there are military and intelligence systems without these hang ups.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Good lord. Maybe that’s how they got caught, that would be detected by satellite. How long was this before the subway attack?
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
I also suspect AQ might have remained an unreliable but still associated CIA proxy even as they started escalating attacks against US forces and installations overseas. So I think there may have been some covering up of the fact that CIA personnel were communicating with and possibly providing aid to AQ potentially right up until the attack. They might have even been rooked into unwittingly providing some material aid for the attack itself. This could also explain some of the intelligence failure, since CIA might have been convinced that AQ were mostly-controllable good boys (even if they occasionally got rowdy) and not likely to do something that drastic against the mainland US.
Unlike a lot of 9/11 conspiracy theorists, I’m not particularly wedded to a single theory and I have contemplated a lot of different narratives.
•Initial reports that the identifying witness is named Nancy Parker, photo circulated by media
•there’s only one single photo of her in existence and it looks like like something a three year old instance of stable diffusion would crap out on a bad day
•initial reports that she’s 85 and lives in a nursing home and she is technically a “volunteer” at McDonalds so the press can’t interview her and there’s no actual record of her employment.
•FBI quietly says she’s not actually getting any reward money due to a technicality
•all the information about her and the photo all seem to have been subsequently retracted and scrubbed
•all subsequent media reports just call this person “the employee” and don’t give name, age or gender
•So now we have no name, no face, we don’t even know the employee’s age and gender and no one is actually getting a reward
I’ll be interested to see if this person actually testifies at the trial or if they’ll find a way around that
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