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remzem
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remzem
3mo ago
League is Chinese? They might be owned by tencent, but is any of riot's dev work done in China?
Interestingly Final Fantasy 14 went fairly woke this expansion and it is now the lowest rated expansion they have put out. Though to be fair it's also just some of their worst story telling and quest design and they brought in a new writer.
remzem
3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
a limited hangout is "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."[1][2] While used by the CIA and other intelligence organizations, the tactic has become popularized in the corporate and political spheres.
So after all this time the story that the US intelligence agencies are leaking to the WSJ about the attack that turned Europe into an obedient lacky of the US, took away whatever leverage Russia had on them to oppose US foreign policy interests, and simultaneously enriched US companies via liquid natural gas exports helping the regime avoid recession by an economic down turn created by it's terrible economic policy turns out to be this nonsense?
Conveniently the people involved are not Ukraine military, they are some private nobodies, and not Zelensky since the CIA article goes out of it's way to make sure he is absolved of any responsibility even painting him as being a good boy of the CIA and asking to stop the op. The only person implicated that we will ever prove even exists and is alive somewhere on Earth right now happens to be one general that has already been sidelined into a position where he is irrelevant to Ukrainian leadership and simultaneously immune from any sort of prosecution that could potentially uncover information that conflicts with the CIA story.
yea, nobody with a brain is going to believe this. I guess it's better than Russia blew up their own pipeline.
remzem
3mo ago
From a military pov it's a stupid choice, though they don't really have any good choices to make. They are not in the same position they were in with the Kharkiv offensive. Back then they had a large manpower advantage now they are increasingly at a disadvantage. The likelihood of it pulling Russian troops out of Donetsk is pretty close to zero. If seems like Russia has actually called Ukraine's bluff and doubled down on Prokrovsk and Toretsk so far. They already have ~30k reserves in the north due to the Kharkiv offensive. The whole point of that offensive was to force Ukraine to commit more forces to the north and away from Donetsk, pulling even more Ukrainian forces out of Donetsk to start a new offensive is almost a gift to Russia in the long run.
The tactics they are using might be working now, but it's more due to no one expecting anything this stupid. ISR is simply too good for rapid incursions deep into enemy territory. They will outrange their logistics and EW support and get picked off, which seems to already be happening in places like Gir'i where they attempted some more deep raids. Lots of fog of war still but it seems there is already a more static front forming around Sudzha in the east, Snagost in the west and Korenova to the north their are still saboteur groups operating further out but actual controlled territory hasn't moved much from these general areas since the initial raid. This is territory they will now have to try to defend without the advantage of years of built up defenses and established logistics routes for supplies, GL with that.
Guessing it's more politically motivated. PR and propaganda like a lot of people have been saying, though even western pro ukraine sources seemed surprised by this. I'm thinking it might be similar to Bibi's situation, Zelensky and co are cooked once the war ends, they seem to be getting increasing pressure with elections coming up to start negotiations or commit to a cease fire. By invading Kursk any negotiations are now off the table so they'll stay in power for longer. Not sure what the long term goal is, but I guess if you're hanging off a cliff's edge you cling to whatever you got.
remzem
3mo ago
Is creating instability abroad and then inviting everyone in not an intentional goal of our leaders?
remzem
3mo ago
eh, objective / subjctive, if you believe that aliens are going to ascend you to the next plane of existence it's not odd to eat the phenobarbital laced apple sauce as their comet reaches it's closest approach to Earth. Still odd af to everyone else.
From what we've seen of the war lately the Donetsk situation is a huge mess, they've been begging for reinforcements for months. Russia is entering Toretsk, captured most of Niu York, and has pushed through all but one defensive line between them and pokrovsk. Which is the main logistical hub for the entire region. Not even western analysts have been able to make sense of this border raid. Russia can just use conscripts to defend their own soil so it's unlikely to pull troops out of Donetsk. To use it as a bargaining chip they have to actually hold it, which considering they can't hold fortifications that have been built up over years seems unlikely given they will have to defend villages without those fortifications and with less established supply lanes, air defense issues etc. Capturing and sabotaging a Russian nuclear plant to create an environmental disaster just makes them look insane to the rest of the world.
Only explanation that makes some sense to me is that this is a Bibi situation, they are getting pressure to tie things up or at least begin winding down before the November elections and are spending 5k+ lives to escalate things and keep the war hot.
remzem
3mo ago
Covid totalitarianism was memory holed so I doubt this slogan would work, but tbf the closest thing German's have to any collective identity is their weird guilt pride. So I don't see calling him a nazi backfiring by angering Americans of German descent, if anything it would be extra effective on them.
remzem
3mo ago
No American blood need be spilt in conflict with Iran? Why would it need to be even if we let Israel get steam rolled? Does Iran have ambitions in the Americas? If it's about oil and imperialism than plenty of American blood has already been spilt in the ME and Israel was less helpful than Europe.
remzem
3mo ago
US urges citizens to leave Lebanon on 'any available ticket' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80xxeqel5po seems like something is close to kicking off
remzem
4mo ago
The situation neatly demonstrates both the advantages and disadvantages of highly centralized power.
On one hand as you say they will likely get everyone in line behind Kamala in time for the election and I'm already seeing people shift to commending Biden for having the humility to part with power. People who days ago all collectively had their knives out and were shivving him while shouting for him to step down. It'll all be memory holed by next week.
On the other hand if power wasn't so centralized there would've been more dissent in upper leadership as people who recognized how unhappy the base were with Biden and how poor his mental state was would be more willing to break rank. Instead all the higher ups in media and the Biden admin covered things up and pretended the emperor wasn't naked which got them into this predicament where 3 months short of the election the dissent from the rank and file got too extreme to ignore.
So I guess it's a double edged sword.
remzem
4mo ago
Do you not remember her primary run? She is horrible in front of a camera. She has a tendency say absolutely nothing in an overly long way by repeating statements. Even the left made fun of her for it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=72vUngNA9RM
She has Hillary levels of charisma, and a weird mumble giggle that seems to pop up mid sentence for no apparent reason. Only thing she has over Biden is that she's unlikely to die in the next few years.
remzem
4mo ago
I'm still somewhat surprised they've been able to block Suez transit. Since when was Yemen a major power?
Seems like at current levels of technology navies are just outmoded? A lot of fundamental issues are stacked against them. Sea and air based suicide drones are available to countries with very low levels of development. Missiles available at levels barely above that. On the other hand anti air is more costly to develop and operate.
We see this dynamic a lot in the Ukr-Rus war, modern western AA and the higher end Russian stuff can be overwhelmed with saturation attacks via mixed drones + missiles. At sea this problem is compounded given that you are even more limited when it comes to your supply of AA missiles and can't easily be resupplied. Also with the advances in surveillance there is no way to hide at sea. You are basically a floating AA with a limited supply of missiles sitting on a featureless plane. Seems like this dynamic will just get worse with computer vision and other basic AI features becoming more and more available which can overcome EW.
On the other hand when it comes to shutting down land based missiles and drones the task has become nearly impossible. They can be hidden from satellite and drone surveillance on land though this is more difficult than in the past, but the biggest problem is shutting down supply. There is no obvious "missile factory" or industrial supply chain that we can target or sanction because we've globalized industry which means parts can just be sourced from all over the place and the weapons pieced together on site or at a neighboring country and then shipped in bypassing sanctions. Again we see this with the sanctions failing when it came to Russia and the US looking like lunatics complaining about China exporting washing machines due to "dual use" components helping Russia's war. Navies just kinda suck now.
remzem
4mo ago
Vance was picked to appeal to the white rust belt vote. If Kamala is indeed the successor this could turn out to be a pretty decent choice. I don't see the DEI president helping much with the blue collar vote. Given her history as attorney general I don't see her appealing to the minority vote that well either. Maybe she'd poll better in the great lake swing states since she's been less supportive of Israel and could get some of the black/muslim vote there? Israel will be throwing big money around if she doesn't pivot on this and is the nominee though.
remzem
4mo ago
It might be legal and make sense from the view of the party but it's pretty skeezy from just an average citizens pov. There is no time for any democratic process to be involved in picking a successor, which is pretty amusing from a party that is "saving democracy." Also, the polls are bad because he's senile. Staying in as the president while dropping out of the race and claiming it's just has to do with the polls conveniently ignores the context around the polls. They don't exist in a vacuum.
remzem
4mo ago
oops typo, fixed.
Hilariously 4chan also found out he starred in a commercial for a big globalist / left wing investment company https://youtube.com/watch?v=hjmLqoGRqNo
invest in tin foil
The details are all over the place. He was registered as a republican since 2021, had donated 15$ to the Biden campaign in 2021, was wearing a t-shirt of one of the biggest gun youtube channels, was using an AR with basic iron sights...
Combine that with all the scrutiny the secret service is getting for the delayed reaction and lax security and if there is no manifesto there will be as many conspiracies about this as JFK.
remzem
4mo ago
There is another angle from before the shooting circulating which definitely confirms it https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1812333459127578870 The blue shirt photo is fake, some 4chan troll, but that grey shirt matches with the photos of the deceased shooter and shows the logo clearly.
Yeah demo really keeps his channel clean of politics given it's focus and the audience. Though he collabs with Brandon Herrera who recently ran for congress and lost his primary and is very pro Trump / populist right.
remzem
4mo ago
Is that a demo ranch t-shirt? https://www.bunkerbranding.com/collections/demolition-ranch-shirts/products/demolitia-t-shirt?variant=6807591190573
Looks like the flag matches up and I see a bit of an EM on the front. That would quickly pivot things to gun control.
remzem
4mo ago
Polling seems to suggest the opposite. More conservative social views better align with the average voter, it's generally the economic views that they disagree with. The problem isn't the policies it's just the elites have exclusive access to all the npc programming devices via their choke hold on information. Far right is weird not because of it's policy, it's weird because the authorities say it's weird.
remzem
4mo ago
It was less about the Russian's ability to hit targets and more about what they were targeting.
https://www.ft.com/content/4d583259-7565-4cbc-972e-ea77f4a76175
Russia’s first aerial bombardment campaign in the winter of 2022-23 targeted the country’s electrical distribution grid — which could be repaired relatively easily, according to officials and experts. But the latest barrages are zeroing in on thermal and hydroelectric power plants which will be much harder and more expensive to fix, rebuild or replace, they said.
Went for distribution early which could be repaired relatively quickly, now they are targeting generation itself which will take years to fix.
remzem
5mo ago
I think this could go either way depending on how worried China is about AGI. I'm sure it'd rather have the foundries for it's own use, but Taiwan is something like 60-70? percent of advanced chip manufacturing. If China ends up destroying them it could allow them to catch up in production as it'd just be their own domestic production vs US + korea, japan, bit in Germany. And Korea would be vulnerable similar to Taiwan + China might feel it would have less red tape and corruption to deal with in revving up it's own domestic production compared to the US in the potential AGI arms race.
remzem
5mo ago
When people refer to US empire they aren't really referring to a traditional empire in which one country benefits off another. It's more the "globalist" empire, or stateless elite empire. American's are just as much colonists having their wealth funneled off as any of the other vassals in Europe.
remzem
5mo ago
Opposing birthright citizenship is contrary to the ancient traditions of our people and thus unAmerican. But then, Erik Prince is a Dutch fifth columnist and not to be trusted.
What? Ancient traditions of a 300 year old country? One that didn't even exist at the founding of the country and was just a quirk of a post civil war law meant to force Southern states to accept Blacks as citizens.
hmm for me the woke was mostly in how fake the world felt. A land that's full of diverse peoples that have been at war until just recently but they're all holding hands and singing kumbaya and if there happens to be a disagreement here or there it's fixed in an instant by something like tasty food, or resources. They've all had their cultures diminished to nothingness in just a few years of Galool ja ja's rule or something. Usually it's interesting to see how Japanese interpret foreign cultures via anime and other media since they are so insular they don't seem to bothered when the opinions are incorrect or offend. This felt like they were working with outside consulting groups until they got the usual soulless western media style fictional cultures that have all their rough edges sanded off.
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