ABigGuy4U
22hr ago
It reminds me of the disappearance of Jean McConville, or some of the other similarly sickening incidents of the Troubles. The attitude was there too. Stopping your car to jeer at a soldier as he bleeds to death on the road. I think about Northern Ireland a lot lately.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
That’s because the BBC is misreporting it. It wasn’t three down arrows, it was ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ , the button code for calling in one of the air strikes in Helldivers.
Do you have a source on that?
Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a Glormpf supporter. A moron.
The problem is that the jobs are getting a lot more complicated. In peacetime, Johnny Serf has to farm a few acres of land with a couple of different types of crops. It can get tricky but it’s not rocket science and Johny has been doing it his whole life. If Johnny is lazy or a drunk and his crop yields are ten percent lower than his neighbor that mostly doesn’t affect anyone other than Johnny. In wartime Johnny has to hold a pike on a marginal section of the line and let his liege lord do most of the real work.
His great-great-great grandson John Tradie has to drive a semi truck, and if he’s not constantly paying attention every second he could kill a dozen people with it. Or he works in an office doing rather complicated drafting and clerical work that in Great Grandpa Johnny’s day would only be done by monks, scribes and merchant guilds (he has to read for God’s sake!). If John Tradie goes to war he has to operate the radar system on a Patriot battery that costs more than his grandfather’s liege-lord’s entire fief.
ABigGuy4U
4d ago
Israel appears to have just killed most of the Hamas political bureau in an airstrike in Qatar. Early reports seem to indicate there was a ruse ceasefire negotiation in Qatar, organized by the United States, that the leadership was lured to for the strike. Saudi Arabia has expressed condemnation for violating Qatar’s sovereignty, but so far no one else seems to have weighed in.
There’s a whole genre of Irish Republican songs from the War of Independence and the Troubles. History and politics aside, a lot of it is really good folk music, and it’s all free on YouTube. For any single song you can probably find dozens of covers from the 1960s to the present.
ABigGuy4U
15d ago
Gross creator revenue surpasses the total league payroll of ALL SPORTS LEAGUES EXCEPT THE NFL.
Yes but there’s 2 million OnlyFans content creators and about 600 pro basketball players. The combined total salary of every minimum wage fast food employee in America far outstrips NFL salaries too, but that’s just because there’s so many more fry cooks than pro football players.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
I suppose nothing I write will convince you otherwise.
No sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
Full disclosure I just hate the government and have no libertarian biases.
Thirty-on-thirty-on-thirty
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
Because the AI generated image is a symbol that connects present events with two thousand years of Scottish and Celtic history. She could just as well be brandishing that axe at a Roman centurion, a Saxon warrior, or an English redcoat.
ABigGuy4U
17d ago
Trump will still have the Republican bully pulpit for the rest of his life, and who he chooses to back as a successor could be the deciding factor in the nomination contest. Regarding his children I think he will probably try to get one of them a VP slot so they can make a later go at the White House.
ABigGuy4U
18d ago
Pompey’s side defected 80 years earlier when they beat the Tribune of the Plebs to death with table legs, committing what was in the Roman worldview both treason and blasphemy. Then they spent most of the next century being shocked at the succession of demagogues who were suddenly willing to break all sorts of political norms, for some unknown reason.
ABigGuy4U
19d ago
I think civil war is actually more likely.
Perfect! That’s how you get a constant supply of enthusiastic colonists to settle the wretched frontier.
ABigGuy4U
19d ago
I would count the Line in Saudi Arabia. Many people write it off as another prince’s embarrassing vanity project, but I think it’s the first serious attempt to construct an arcology. A type of semi self contained megastructure that you will probably be hearing a lot about in the near future.
ABigGuy4U
20d ago
I have never found a source for this, but I am absolutely convinced that Admiral Holdo was just a way to recycle Princess Leia’s plot and lines after Carrie Fisher died mid-filming.
The right has begun to sour on Capitalism for a few reasons. The current iteration of the “free market” has so much government intervention that it’s basically corporate socialism already, making calls to preserve the free market ring hollow. Libertarians burned too much of their conservative cachet and are now a fringe group without much pull. Also the right realized that “all that is solid melts into air” includes religion, nation states, ethnic groups, gender roles and families.
ABigGuy4U
27d ago
I think it’s true. The types of training designed to increase aesthetic mass are quite different than those for pure strength, like powerlifting or Olympic weightlifting. That said I think a person who seriously lifts for aesthetics is still going to be a lot stronger than they would have been if they didn’t train at all.
ABigGuy4U
28d ago
His post MCU run isn't exactly a Pattinson/Radcliffe-style rush to stretch himself.
Neither was his pre-MCU career.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Well the Arab world maintains its own massive charity-lobbying-propaganda industrial complex that works to keep that alive, but I think the historical outline I have is the reason that sympathy is around to exploit.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
You’re the one equating women to children, I’m just pointing out the second-order consequences if that’s true.
- WWII mortally wounds the British and French Empires, meaning their holdings all over the world are now up for grabs.
- World War Two was (among many other things) an extremely violent six year long PowerPoint presentation about how controlling major oil fields is really really important.
- For this reason both the US and USSR are very interested in getting friendly proxy nations in the Middle East.
- For various cultural and political reasons, the US ends up backing the new state of Israel and the old British and French backed Arab monarchies. The USSR ends up backing the rising tide of Arab socialist movements. This was not set in stone, and there are plausible alternate scenarios that end up with the USSR backing Israel. It just didn’t shake out that way.
- Now that everyone has chosen their fighters, a forty year war of proxy battles ensues to control the Middle East. For the USSR, that includes eventually knocking out Israel.
- The USSR and various Arab states begin arming and training nascent Palestinian paramilitary groups as part of this strategy. Most of these groups like the PLO are pretty secular and vaguely Marxist even while they pursue goals that are basically ethnic nationalist with religious characteristics. If you want a western example for reference, look at the Provisional IRA.
- If you are an American Soviet fifth columnist (read: “University Professor”) the hip thing to do is to ardently support these Soviet-backed paramilitary groups and denounce Israel.
- The Soviet Union and the Islamic world suffer a messy break up over Afghanistan, immediately followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Without the Soviet backing to keep them nominally on the socialist track, the Palestinian militant groups increasingly drift in an Islamic and nationalist direction.
- University professors are mentally stuck in 1968 and they don’t receive the memo about anything that happened in paragraph 8.
- In the 2000s, George Bush’s adventures in the Middle East reawaken and inflame the dormant Islamist sympathies of the University professor set. This passes it on to a new generation and sets it in stone as a foundational left wing tenet.
- Fast forward to modern times and now leftists endlessly simp for various Islamic militant groups even though it really doesn’t make sense anymore given that these groups are all reactionary religious organizations with a heavy overtone of ethnic nationalism and ethnic supremacy.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
Imagine someone suggesting that we somehow 'fix' children such that they just start as adults!
If we regularly expected children to be helicopter pilots, doctors and heads of state, then yes I think them acting like regular children would be a big problem.
ABigGuy4U
1mo ago
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles (a period of civil war waged by clandestine paramilitaries roughly along religious sectarian lines), neighborhoods in the major cities would have large political murals on buildings and walls that marked the area as either Protestant or Catholic. This is a region where walking into the wrong neighborhood could get you shot.
Do you mean from the crime scene or the video game?
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