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This line if reasoning about backlash drives me crazy, depending on the speaker it’s inevitably either dishonest or hopelessly misguided.

I voted against Trump in 2016 for reasons they turned out to be false, and for him in 2020 specifically because of the high probability of a horrendous backlash.

I saw his enemies slip the mask after 2016, I wanted much much more of that. I wanted his enemies to reveal how psychotic and narcissistically hateful that I knew they were, for everyone to see. That way when they popped their heads up to scream ghoulishly for blood, the body politic could (rhetorically) bash their fucking skulls in with whatever was handy (in Minecraft).

Sometimes you have to induce a fever to kill a disease.

If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.

There was a very simple way to head Trump off at the pass; say you’re going to do something about illegal immigration, which is wildly unpopular with the body politic, and then fucking do it.

That’s it. That’s the whole game. That would have stopped Trump because he would have never developed his constituency, which wasn’t invented by him but simply ignored by both parties.

There was electoral gold in the streets just waiting to be picked up but a prospiracy driven primarily by rank class hatred blocked it. All it took was one defector.

That makes it worse. A longer time span gives more evidence to come to the opposite conclusion, not less.

I think it literally just means that lib aligned PMC will be embarrassed at cocktail parties.

If that sounds uncharitable, I’m quite serious. “Global Standing” is what a tiny percentage of the international elite feel about the USA, not the unwashed public at large.

Considering who owns the most megaphones and controls their content, I find this opinion absolutely astounding.

The idea of “Trump damaging our standing globally” to me is always 100% tied up into class anxiety amongst the PMC.

Trump is popular, and not just in the USA. He has rapport with and the respect of many world leaders and their respective publics; just not the ones that the cosmopolitan upper PMC consider their “equals”.

I see this very plainly. So many blue tribers of this type simply can’t be seen, even to themselves, to be “one of those people”. They’ll complain about the “excesses” of the Democratic Party until they’re blue in the face but are basically never going to actually do anything to push back against it.

The chapo types, rarely right about anything (pun intended), were 100% right about the libs.

If those other issues were dealt I would bet enormous sums of money that support for stolen election claims would deflate slowly like a balloon over the course of several years.

Opposition to very commonplace and common sense election security measures is legitimate dry tinder for ever wilder rungs of supposition. And every day it’s not implemented the plausible deniability of the worst, least charitable takes about trumps enemies shrinks until we are at the point we are currently at, where the conspiracies start to seem more plausible even by people like myself who are naturally skeptic and repulsed by woo and snake oil salesmen.

Swapping out Pedro Ximenez Sherry for the simple syrup is one of the greatest small changes you can make to a classic cocktail.

It’s crazy sweet but figgy and date-y.

On the gaming front; I’m absolutely obsessed with UFO50, a top tier collection of 50 8-bit style games with modern design elements.

I’m not particularly nostalgic about the 8-bit era as it was coming to a close when I started playing games as a kid but these are really impressive. As a collection it’s astounding, some of the individual games are amongst the best I’ve ever played. And there are 50 of them!

This is the drink I go for when I’m out on the town;

1oz Aperol 1oz Reposado Tequila Shake, pour into an ice-filled high ball glass

Pour 2oz dry Prosecco or Cava on top, garnish with ruby red grapefruit slice.

Comes out a beautiful salmon color if done right, it’s both light and boozy and keeps your tastebuds alert.

Napoleon: “Britain is a nation of shopkeepers, we needn’t fear them.”

Same energy.

Based on his other responses in the thread I’m guessing he thinks the Wermarcht was pretty competent.

where is the evidence that the American or British are particularly effective soldiers.

Time on task.

My favorite response to this on Twitter;

“In 2023 there was footage of Haitians eating people, and the thought that they might eat cats is too offensive to consider?”

Bush meat is a real thing. Recent immigrants from countries that eat bush meat doing what they did in their home countries before they are acculturated to their new environment is not even remotely shocking to consider. I’d be more amazed if it didn't happen.

This is a nuclear level cope, I have a hard time taking this seriously. Sneak attacks work, that’s why people use them.

If Israel had even close to population parity in any of those wars some of the nations that had waged war against them in the past likely wouldn’t even exist today.

Physically and academically weak? What on earth are you talking about?

Are you imagining like woody Allen in combat boots, kvetching about the quality of the food in the mess hall? Your mental image of the average Israeli is a bit off.

An IDF soldier can go toe to toe with just about any soldier in the world except the Americans and maybe the British on a good day. They’ve been actively waging war for large portions of the last fifty years and are an actual developed country with a martial tradition that is as hardcore as any of the advanced war fighting nations.

I’m having a hard time explaining this level of copium outside of a dose of anti-semitism that could kill a horse and which subsequently leaves the taker mentally retarded.

Israeli Jews aren’t like American Jews.

You’re talking about a self selected group of people who were the most martial Jews in the world in the years before its founding and most of the Jews that joined them afterwards were mostly pulled from the middle east and North Africa.

And it keeps happening. Every year a small amount of even more self selected Jews leave the countries of their birth to go live in Israel. Making Aliyah is like all that homesteading LARP you see on the DR but even more hardcore.

I think the Inner Party / Outer Party distinction is pretty good.

The Outer Party is clearly a lot of blue tribe climbers with some red tribe elites mixed in.

The Inner Party is all blue tribe elites.

I think there’s a real demand for sort of basic housing, I think the whole “standards have gone up” is a bit of a cope unless it’s specifically a complaint about building codes blocking new construction.

Myself and my medium sized family live in an 1000 square foot apartment. An 1100 square foot town home or duplex would be an obvious upgrade to work towards but stuff like that is simply not on offer in many places.

I recognize some of these words.

Weren’t they also responsible for translating and publish “Always With Honor” in the west?

One of my favorite books. A short memoir of Pyotyr Wrangel, the most famous and successful general in the white army during the Russian civil war.

Quick note; I think using the fights & romances as sort of a zig-zag central beam of the narrative would be quite compelling, they seem even more central to your character than the more standard adventure fare of your far-flung career.

The whole fighter / lover tension seems to be wrought throughout it.

But then again I’m a military brat and third culture kid so that other stuff is more normal to me. Maybe that’s a plus; conflict and love are more relatable to a wider variety of people.

My favorite was the “no US soldiers in an active war-zone” lie. Just a few weeks ago some US Soldier got shot by ISIS.

There was a viral video uploaded basically the same day of the debate that ended up getting millions of views of the debate on TV when she said that, and it pans out to like seven soldiers in a forward operating base being like “Wait… then where the fuck are we right now?”

Your average democrat might lie less often than Donald Trump but they are much, much more dishonest in my opinion. It’s not even close.