ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
A few months ago war critics told me that America lost so badly it would accept whatever terms that the Iranians offered.
My position was that America lost badly enough in the first round that they wouldn’t be able to afford to leave it at that. I had been expecting this resumption for some time.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
I’m not surprised. ISIS was one of the first parties to ever use quad-copter drone strikes. When a group is underground and unofficial they have to think outside the box in a way that major military powers don’t. And terrorist organizations are like any other military, two thirds of the members are in the logistical wing and have never held a gun. So I’m also not supposed that there are smart, patient eggheads around to figure out how to use it. That’s what they are doing all day anyway.
No, he just got blown up and they didn’t declare him dead until his remains got home stateside. They do this all the time, there was a marine general who died the day after getting back from Kiev to 29 Palms the exact same way. Graham was touring an advanced strike-drone factory that got unexpectedly hit by 8 Iskander missiles.
ABigGuy4U
9hr ago
OK, now that Lindsay Graham, a sitting United States Senator “died suddenly after a brief illness” when a massive Russian missile strike occurred during his visit to Kyiv, are we now allowed to contemplate that this might not be the true story?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Because in parliamentary bodies, seniority gives you significant advantages, so dumping Mitch and Dianne for some young fresh face is strategically imprudent.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Mitch McConnel or Dianne Fienstein are more brands than actual people. You or me or any other of the posters here could probably vote on their behalf and vote all the same ways they would just from a cursory knowledge of their political positions. It kind of doesn’t matter who’s actually in the chair pushing the voting buzzer, people know that a vote for one or the other will get them a certain set of policy positions.
Jay-Z is a hack who was mostly carried by Kanye West, his wife, and the Democratic Party apparatus. Kanye is the obvious choice for the list but they can’t pick him for political reasons.
Taylor is on there because the vast majority of pop stars don’t write any of their own material and the fact that she has even some creative input on her music and style makes her unique.
Country is mostly either shit or turbo-underground indie bands, so that doesn’t surprise me.
God damn it sorry, I had a post replying to the post in the main culture war thread discussing his Kirk’s death. I got your reply notification and thought you were asking for clarification on that.
To answer your question, There were persistent rumors that a large contingent of NATO advisors got trapped in Mariupol because the city was encircled faster than anticipated. So it’s interesting that you have a mass casualty producing event just at the right time you would need an excuse for casualties from that.
There are also rumors that Biden’s trade of Britney Griner for Viktor Bout was to secretly get back high-ranking American POWs from that battle, hence why it looked like such a hilariously unfair swap on paper.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I think the word living is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Most of the old rock n roll and early soul luminaries are dead. A lot of the really excellent black hip hop artists of the early 90s died early violent deaths, so Eazy-E, Tupac and Biggie Smalls aren’t around to get nominated. So you are left with an awkward selection of mediocrities from the nadir of American hip hop music in the 2000s, and the remnants of the old greats.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Including most of the King family themselves. They even visited James Earl Ray in prison and tried to help him get a new trial because they believe he was innocent.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Well sure, that’s exactly what happened to the East India company eventually: it got too big for its britches and got eaten by the British government. But that took a century and all those investors that got in early still made a fat mint.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
That the importance of a person’s martyrdom is often only visible in the light of history, and isn’t controlled by the number of tasteless bon mottes belched out by soulless haters. On April 5, 1968, it looked pretty definite that the Civil Rights movement had been killed with Dr. King. In hindsight, that is obviously not the case. We won’t know the verdict on Charlie Kirk until at least 2050.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
The white sheet set made a lot of dank may-mays about Dr. King’s untimely passing too. Twenty years later they were bankrupt, universally hated even in their home towns, and their leader was popping and sizzling in the electric chair.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Interesting that the landing craft crash happened just five days after Russian forces broke through at Mariupol....
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
I even remember seeing not particularly edgy punk girls wearing SS runes. It was a different time.
US Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards , the commander of the helicopter squadron of the USS George W. Bush, died earlier this week in the Persian Gulf, the US Navy announced Wednesday. According to official reports, Edward’s needed up missing at see when his helicopter collided with a unicorn. The collision caused Edwards to teleport fifty miles to the left, where he was lost at sea in contested Iranian waters. His death was not the result of any hostile military action. Any concurrent ceasefire violations that happened the same night as his disappearance are completely coincidental
He is survived by two children. I appreciated the United States Navy’s great candor and honesty during this difficult time for them.
In the interests of speaking plainly, I believe the Navy is lying about the circumstances about this man’s death, potentially in a way that violates federal law and the Constitution. Frankly I think the only reason they didn’t ship him back to Norfolk and claim he died of a heart attack is because they don’t have his body.
Well as you saw with the both the Apollo and Soviet moon programs, being able to crap a washing machine-sized probe out on to the moon does not a lunar base make. The real test is having enough heavy lift capacity to make five to ten flights a year to the moon not really a big deal.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Probably, but given the state of the competition, I don’t think SpaceX would need and army or a navy. At least for the first half century of resource exploitation.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
I think there’s also a good chance it turns into an East India Company situation where SpaceX is the only entity in the world with access to Mars and Luna.
I think it’s always been a lot more likely than people think. Nixon, Bush, Golda Meir, Kruschev and DeGaul all got close to using them at one time or another. Someone will eventually unless God keeps stopping it.
Now with respect to this current conflict I don’t think it’s likely. I think your best bet at seeing mushroom clouds was in summer of 2022, when for a minute in looked like an entire 60,000 man Russian army group was going to be encircled and destroyed. Other than that one which is already past, I think there are two potential scenarios.
The second is that Putin uses nukes offensively to win the war quicker. I don’t think that’s very likely because Putin is already winning the war, if slowly. Even if the Russian economy really was about to shit itself and die, and extreme measures had to be taken, I think there are probably several alternate extreme measures he could take instead. Like a full wartime mobilization and draft. Or conventional strikes on Polish rail terminals. Or loudly declaring victory on Twitter and going home.
The third option is that I chug an entire Mountain Dew Baja Blast and we switch over into the Call of Duty Modern Warfare II timeline, and it turns out Ukraine was just a prolog to a full scale Russian invasion of Europe. Obviously that could lead to a nuclear war but there would be many, many intervening steps that would have to happen and it would probably take years.
I don’t think your picturing it right. It wouldn’t be nuclear strikes on NATO. It would be tactical strikes on various hard points in Ukraine, with the aim of collapsing the Ukrainian army in a matter of days, not years. Then the Russians would wait and observe to see what kind of response there is, which could range from “nothing” to “limited nuclear strikes on Russian soil”. That said I don’t think it’s likely, I will explain above.
It did fuck me up and make it hard to sleep.
I also suffered a few nights of insomnia after seeing the film, due to intense feelings of
That’s what they’re doing now and it isn’t working. Everything military is hardened under rock. You can make the civilian population suffer but it won’t stop the shooting. And the gulf states and Burgerland have a lot more shiny things in the region to break than Iran does.
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