No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
2mo ago
Does he really have any connections ? That's the thing. He's very sketchy but those pictures of him in a cheap suit looking lost in Kiev don't inspire confidence in me. He had websites where he was soliticing passports numbers and saying he could get these people visas.
He appears he wants to have connections, and people on X are making a big deal out of him following some CIA girlboss on there, but people are generally stupid and confirmation bias is king.
Personally I'm leaning towards the guy being basically a fantasist and not very competent.
The only thing he did right was apparently camp out for 12 hours on the golf course, expecting that Trump will go there to relax. Had he used the time to properly camouflage himself, he might have succeeded.
No_one
2mo ago
It's trivially true that the current war in Ukraine could've been avoided had the Kievan Russ welcomed Moscow as liberators and acquiesced to their rule instead of choosing to fight.
Even more simply, it could have been averted by not creating conditions for a coup in Ukraine and then not psyopping the Ukrainians into thinking US is going to help them win a war against Russia. And you were telling them exactly that - it's even on video.
Two high profile senators talking, on camera, about "taking the fight to the Russians" and that US will give them all they need is pretty unequivocal in my book.
Voting, even when your vote isn't neccesarily the deciding vote, has value for the same reason honoring your agreements has value. Doing so (or otherwise not doing so) tells the rest of the world something true about you.
Voting is mostly a mechanism for farming legitimacy: "you voted for this, here eat it". It gives people the illusion that they may change some outcome. Seeing how it's gone with migration in Europe, it's pretty clear voting doesn't really work and you don't get to vote on judges and especially international courts which are making it impossible for states to run their own territories in a sane manner. If it's even threatening to start to maybe work then you get calls to ban the new parties, as with AfD.
It doesn't matter that policy is written by think-tankers or NGOs and that representatives don't even read what they vote on.
No_one
2mo ago
Pardon me for thinking that that is probably complete nonsense. E.g. it's well known that open spaces are shit for people who need to concentrate, yet almost everyone uses them.
It's probably same for utter majority of workplace and recruiting psychology. Just trash that exists so managers can justify their decisions.
No_one
2mo ago
I didn't cotton onto the hidden cases of covid and thought it was way more deadly than it should be.
With hindsight, the Swedes were pretty much right ,and iirc their mortality in the end wasn't notably worse than countries that locked down much harder.
No_one
2mo ago
As a kid I was wrong on America, that was excusable. Had a pretty big row with friends over Americans bombing Serbia and Serbian infrastructure over Kosovo. Defended them flattening the bridges of the Danube and putting power plants out of commission because 'genocide'.. which apparently wasn't.
Later on I thought libertarianism is viable. It isn't, unless you can figure out a way of how to have libertarian armies, how to man them and finance them. That's the problem - we live on this mudball, we can't leave it. People are going to want to take your stuff, so you need something more than a 'why can't we all just live along' ethos to motivate people.
Don't look at me. I have no idea what that should be.
I was listening to a podcast w/Malcom Collins*, and he said one of things he's afraid of is the rise in anti-human philosophies. People always want to be the hero of their own story, we evolved to be just that.
So, once there's way more resentful people who are angry they made the wrong choice. 'cope' philosophies that help them sanctify their mistakes like anti-natalism or even efilism are going to get more prominent.
To certain people, you being happy while they aren't is emotional violence. And a reaction to emotional violence with actual violence is okay. We've seen this in certain of the less hinged anti-terf activism.
Techies better invent more impressive distractions or maybe even catgirls or catboys to deal with this.
*husband of the 'elite tech couple breeding to save humanity' who got all those hit-pieces on him. I like his enthusiasm tbh, the systematic way he looks at things. Apparently he's enjoyed Fallout Equestria.
No_one
2mo ago
The poverty and criminality of the black community just makes it more sympathetic for someone who sees them as victims of Democrat policies designed to keep them as an underclass
You mean they believe the lack of policing and the lax standards the democrats are okay with are designed to keep them poor and clients and are harming the black communities, and that they believe a higher amount of paternalism would make the situation better ?
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but the amount of control and cultural change needed is rather higher than they'd likely think is needed.
No_one
2mo ago
Famous US joke is that when math departments are trying to fill their Hispanic quota, they look around for Argentinian Jews.
No_one
2mo ago
Are there truly people in the US, who aren't senile, who live in or near a black area that's not say, purely military, who think the black community is basically doing okay and there are no problems with it?
That is, they full believe the entertainment media image of blacks as just a reskin of white liberals or something along those lines ?
No_one
2mo ago
Why.. metal shavings and cutting fluid are contained inside the CNC machines, you only encounter that while cleaning them, no ?
No_one
2mo ago
If it's big enough on social media they're going to have to try to address it.
No_one
2mo ago
What I meant is there exist a number of not really typical people in each population who wouldn't raise an eyebrow in either place.
Obviously you can tell at glance which group of tourists are from where, you can even tell Brits from Germans if you look carefully enough, but still, there are people who can pass in both places.
Here's a story that's not going to play very well.
Woman saying that her 71 year old mother in law got killed by a reckless Haitian driver while taking out the trash. That no one was punished, not even for expired tags on the vehicle.
Honestly anyone taking a good look at Haiti could have bet that far, far worse stories are going to come out of this. The car insurance($420 insurance per month on 2 cars) and crime (doubled since '21) factoids are likely right.
Locals are saying they believe Haitians have 'amnesty' and cops can't touch them. A woman - and not a great looking one, complaining she was groped and saying she doesn't go out without her pitbull and her gun.
EDIT: local claims he saw police stop a van full of Haitians who were collecting cats.
EDIT 2: Interesting talk by people from a neighboring village of Tremont (just NNW) https://youtube.com/watch?v=YrCotATOgR4&t=665s
Police in Springfield ordered not to tow vehicles without licenses. 7+ car accidents every day in Springfield. Haitians get out of fines because they don't have translator(?). Second guy who's speaking says he's been crashed into twice, his mother once.
No_one
2mo ago
A pretty long time ago ('07) I've read a mfg company manager that finding a working class person who can come to work on time, pass a drug test is quite hard in the US. Because probably everyone from them who can do these things is already employed. Or worse, in college.
Murray made a case in his Coming Apart book that the working classes have been badly hit by the last 50 years. People with worse cognition aren't as flexible and need a more functional culture.
No_one
2mo ago
Genetic similarity is pretty high, many Serbs can pass for Britons and vice versa. Not true for Haitians or Chinese etc. Cultural similarity is now much higher because modernity wiped it out during 20th century.
I'm quite sure the ole' American assimilation process (which continues largely the same way it always has despite protests to the contrary) will do it's work on Salvadorans, Venezuelans, and whomever else is the scary migrant group of the week
None of these people are, on average genetically on par with anglo-saxons, germanics or even balkan slavs, who are believed to be the dumbest Europeans there are, with the possible exception of southern Italians. I'm talking about stuff like propensity for violence, polygenic scores for educational attainment and so on.
If they were really on par, Salvador or Venezuela wouldn't look like Salvador or Venezuela, but would look like Australia.
No_one
2mo ago
Why bring up the Springfield pets thing?
Because when democrats are forced to fact check that and say "the guy who is seen carrying a goose is South African" etc, they're not helping themselves much. And there's police reports of people killing geese in the park and loading them in cars from Springfield, Ohio.
Here's a interview from Springfield. It's rough.
Here's another thirty minutes of residents complaining.
Kamala is a competent but relatively weak debater,
She's being accused of having used help during the debate, though. Her earrings look very similar to wireless headphone earrings being sold. And her frequent gaffes with compound sentences are suspicious.
On the other hand, she did pass the bar exam, so, it might be a legit okay performance.
No_one
2mo ago
IMO, you can make any normiecon suffer a brain lock by starting to wax poetic about how much more excellence would America have had the dastardly democrats not allowed the blacks to abort that much.
IIRC the number works out to having double the present population. Also IIRC half the abortions in America are done on black women.
Ukraine is a poor corrupt country with very little means of retaliating. Russia provides up to 10% of world's material inputs in most cases. I don't even mention that it has a steel and chemicals industry with output on par with WW2 US. And that it's currently apparently outproducing NATO as Ukraine is .. not doing very well on the artillery front, and NATO has little reason to hold back artillery and shell production seeing as the next war is a naval and air war against China,where artillery is of little to no use.
endlessly attacks Ukrainian infrastructure It really doesn't. Russia has had the means to drop every bridge over the Dniepr since day 1. They could have taken out the entire electric grid with cruise missiles on day 1. Or day 90, or 180. Yes you can defend against such if you've got enough air defense, but salvo attacks defeat that, and crude ballistic hypersonics like Kinzhal make it even more complicated. Ukraine, of course, doesn't have enough air defense., especially not after two years of war.
It appears to be a great idea and in fact key to winning wars.
Wars. Do you understand what a 'war' is? Attacking infrastructure, outside of a war situation, risks that it becomes a war.
And yes, Europe is the most feckless and counterproductive allies the US could have. A parasite society hiding under our defense umbrella, using our hard-found pharmaceuticals without paying to support them and endlessly funding our enemies.
Nice trolling, but the biggest trade partner of China is the United States. Also Europe isn't funding Iran or North Korea - Iran is mainly funding itself with its oil revenue.
9/11 being the one exception.
You forgot that WTC was bombed, that Muslim terrorists almost blew up a dozen airliners, the LA bomb plot. And then of course, 9/11 itself. A massive strategic victory for Al-Qaeda, in that it gave Americans a blank cheque to waste all their power through sheer stupidity.
And all of these plots were far harder than bribing a particular crewman on a cargo ship to open a particular container, input a code and push a button, watch a dozen drones zoom off and then dump the packing materials off board.
No_one
2mo ago
Feels like this is hefty hyperbole
Ok, lot of countries were quite primitive in 1800. But ability of states to get things done has taken a big nosedive since WW2 at the very least.
Universal healthcare, pensions and wider welfare were all post-WW2 inventions.
These are not good things. Pensions are basically declaring "we don't care about the future, we're going to bleed reproductive age people". They were invented in an age of rapid population growth. Now they're eating up state finances. The entire European social state model is hardly sustainable. Also pensions are.. much older..
Bismarck started with it in late 1880s, when the average person died 2 years before they could collect any, and there were cca 8x more young people than old.
I don't know where you live, but I don't expect to get any pension other than symbolic, and wouldn't expect it even if I were paying lot more taxes. Government debt is always increasing and economic growth is unlikely or impossible. AI is something to be regulated, not used, industry is a dirty word and energy is supposed to be expensive to "save the planet".
Look at the tempo of railway construction in 19th century. A feat like that is unimaginable today. Or how much of Europe was built then. Now much of Europe has unaffordable cost of housing because we can't or won't build.
once it was introduced the years spent and scale of schools needed were much smaller than today.
Seeing as vast majority of university graduates use nothing whatsoever from their degrees, and it's purely a credential proving they can sit down & study, a lot of it is pure inefficiency. Same for universal high school.
No_one
2mo ago
Prussia hasn't existed since '47. Modern Germany has vastly different legal system and ethos. I guess it died with that.
No_one
2mo ago
Allow me to be skeptical about that. The explosions were very powerful, on the order of useful load for a yacht that size. It smells of a cover story, really.
Not all of them all at once, but little by little to help wean Europeans off if Russian fuel.
Don't you think it's up to Europeans to decide who they're going to buy fuel from ?
Are you not worried this kind of thing could result in drones randomly blowing up US nat-gas liquefaction facilities. Attacks on infrastructure are not a good idea, not against people with means.
Especially seeing as US border is pretty much unsecured, US has hugely long coasts and there's a lot of ship traffic and all that.
Springfield in Missouri, not Ohio.
Lmao. Embarrasing.
I swear I clicked on Illinois one. It even looks similar, though the creek going through the middle seems to be going east to west, not west to east.
No_one
2mo ago
They do fly but can't do it very well, so you get the idea.
I tried looking it up, and easily found some wild ducks with what appears to be a single pekin duck.
Springfield has a number of parks, almost all small and without water. Doling park and Close memorial park could hold a large amount of ducks, especially the latter. No ducks on Google Earth, but then the pictures are from august of '14 and it looks hot. No idea what ducks do in hot weather but sitting in the open on water is not optimal. There's one more park that has water in it, but it's a small stream.
Routh spent all his money on flying around. Had he brought quality camo and laid on the ground looking like some slightly wilting local plants he might have gotten off a shot.
He was in the area for cca 12 hours.
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