I mean reputation for humanity and morals, not of fearsomeness. What I mean is that if you gave mass communication to soldiers in any war you would see some pretty ugly behavior and pretty ugly attitudes.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Kirk was a unique in that he was the gateway between the normiecon boomer politics world and the underworld of bizarre lolcows. So he was very popular with normies, but there are also a ton of terminally online right-wing zoomers that liked him. One mistake everyone that is covering this is making is that young people don’t just follow a single political commentator. There are a good chunk of people that like both Fuentes and Kirk.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Which is an important factor that no-one really takes into account when doing the demographic projections.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
To be fair, I don’t think there’s a single army in history who’s reputation would be improved by the soldiers having the ability to broadcast all their activities on tiktok.
ABigGuy4U
3d 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
4d 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
7d 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
18d 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
19d 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
19d ago
Full disclosure I just hate the government and have no libertarian biases.
Thirty-on-thirty-on-thirty
ABigGuy4U
20d 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
20d 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
21d 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
21d 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
21d 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
23d 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
30d 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.
I don’t think this is entirely true. There is leaked audio of Trump and RFK talking on the phone and Trump is expressing skepticism and concern over how babies get so many vaccines so early. That’s a subject that also comes up periodically in Trump’s pre-political career tweets, including his much memed “...AUTISM! Many such cases!” Tweet. It’s partially a marriage of convenience, but it’s only possible because both Trump and Trump’s base are casually but broadly sympathetic to a lot of RFK’s causes.
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