Ditto6687
6d ago
I feel like I'm living in some parallel universe to posters here, but things coming out of the IDF recently look worse than Azeri conduct in Armenia a few years ago. I had to actively block all war accounts on Twitter after the recent "8 month baby torture video" which I don't think I've ever seen any military do, ever. Don't get me started on videos of beating up old people in literal, currently ongoing pogroms in the West Bank. Machine gunning down hundreds of civilians intentionally in Gaza etc. This happened along a steady stream of Israeli officials literally calling for the murder of their enemies children, btw. Calling this "talking pretty harshly" seems genuinely bewildering to me.
Ditto6687
7d ago
Yes! I was asking genuinely. I did not know this. For most Russian Jews I know, they have Russian ancestors too.
Ditto6687
7d ago
Notice that completely identical line of reasoning applies to Russian action in Southern and Eastern Ukraine, Although both sides there are leading a much more modern war when it comes to treatment of civilian populations.
Ditto6687
7d ago
returning to Israel
So you're saying that the Eastern Euro Jews originated from Israel? Is there evidence for this?
Ditto6687
11d ago
Ally with someone who literally killed 160 little girls in the opening salvo of the war?
Ditto6687
11d ago
US is waging a war as lawfully as anybody would.
Less lawfully than Russia, though, which makes the last 4 years of intense propaganda ridiculous.
Ditto6687
12d ago
No I think what's surpring to some is seeing OP get any criticism on here at all. This board was my primary info(tainment) source on Covid way back then, and throughout the years I had just assumed everybody here would harshly criticise the lockdowns, or at least not get mad when someone does it. I'm really at a loss as to who here would report OP or get mad at it.
Ditto6687
26d ago
That's just magical thinking. A hypersonic missile could off him easily and the US does not have capabilities of countering them.
Ditto6687
1mo ago
I'm not sure I understand what this means. Do you think that the US military has magic AD protecting Trump that it has never deployed anywhere else in the world? If it's something more reasonable like "in a realistic scenario, Trump would hide in a bunker before anyone gets a hit on him", why not just say that? Sure, the Ayatollah allegedly refused instructions to go hide in a bunker bunker, but this is not such a prestigious military technology otherwise inaccessible to your adversaries.
If it's something like "the US can bomb them more", then sure, that's why it's a good idea to have nukes.
Ditto6687
1mo ago
I think I can go on record to say that I bet the U.S. has the capability to kill Vladmir Putin at almost any time if they committed the same degree of planning to it, but the nuclear deterrent is the only thing that would ALWAYS shift the risk calculus against such a move.
Yeah, Russia also has the ability to off Donald Trump from space too, what of it? Nobody survives in either direction.
Ditto6687
2mo ago
If you believe more people have died in a week of Iranian protests than in 6 months of the largest European war since WW2 your assessment of the situation is questionable, to be polite.
Ditto6687
2mo ago
Sorry what? I don't follow. If it wasn't clear, I was implying that the "disparity" was assured because the other side did not engage in a defense.
Ditto6687
2mo ago
I'm still in awe of the Venezuela gambit, he must have been assured there was such a disparity in capability
They literally didn't turn on their air defences. It's not impressive from a military angle at all.
Ditto6687
2mo ago
His assesment of Iran's damage roughly matches what I was seeing on Twitter and Telegram groups as it was happening.
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Neither psychologist nor RL people I talked with seem to believe that this is literally how the human mind works, because this leads you to the suspicious conclusion that the thousands of simple RL models people train for e.g. homework are also experiencing immense sufferring. Yes there is a vaguely RL-like layer of our brain, but RL itself does not conscious experience make. Unless of course you have some very heavy philosophical machinery to convince us otherwise...
Ditto6687
9mo ago
There's a lot of pointless sufferring that is a useless signal. Evolution just isn't smart enough to distinguish. Besides, if "I should react to reduce this pain" is a useful idea on an individual level, why shouldn't there be cases where it is also useful on a collective one? E.g. "torture is bad, ceteris paribus"
Bees can't do anything about their condition when being farmed. Why is suffering a useful signal to them? Why should it be preserved?
If there was a cost-free way to make bees not suffer at all while farmed, wouldn't you press the button?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
That's a pretty good argument for why Iran should get nukes don't you think?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Bosnia is just a bunch of Croats and Serbs who converted to avoid taxes. Demographics matter too. Iranians are quite distinct from Arabs as well. Highest IQ people in ME bar the Askenazi ofc.
Ditto6687
10mo ago
Think of it this way: you've missed out on a bit, sure, but AI progressing so fast right now, that the value you left on the table so far is really insignificant compared to what you can get at any point you decide to jump in.
Ditto6687
11mo ago
US/NATO waged war and took Kosovo from Serbia, and then formally recognized the resulting statelet.
Ditto6687
11mo ago
EU membership would serve this role. Just as much of a deterrent I presume.
Ditto6687
11mo ago
I'm sorry but Master and Margarita is one of the most fun, funny, and colorful books I've read in my life. Considered a Russian masterpiece, at least where I'm from. Also they explore a much wider breadth of themes than just "sufferring". But fair, the true old Russian classics are in Realism, which, due to the nature of the genre and Russian society at that time obviously includes a lot of suffering.
This misconception is so funny. Who "mogs Russia" in gear or training, other than the US and China? German and British tanks are so much worse it's laughable. Maybe they're mogged by European soldiers in training huddle together really closely waiting for drones to come? Training to pretend it's 2020 warfare?
Ukraine would steamroll most of European NATO, actually.
Because of it, actually.
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