Bad Bunny is an industry plant. Latin Americans don’t actually like him, on account of him being such a mariconcito. Also, Mexicans and Cubans don’t like Puerto Ricans. No one likes Puerto Ricans really.
Do those people have any purpose in their existence in your eyes?
I remember the sheer glee they had about factory workers, coal miners and truck drivers being driven out of business by automation and illegal immigration. Fuck ‘em. I hope they enjoy their brave new world.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Who are these people, exactly?
Redditors. The irony is that their intellect was never that impressive anyway.
But seriously, there really is an entire cohort of people who were in the top five percent of their high school and college because they could sit still and gulp down boring bullshit who think they are somehow intellectually superior to the plebs they disdain. Usually it’s not actually the really smart people making big strides in science and tech.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
The average age was clearly 50+, and may have honestly been 65+. The other thing I noticed was that 75-80% of the protestors were women. Of the men, I'd estimate that three quarters of them were there with their wives, and the men were usually sitting on a stone wall that stood next to the sidewalk rather than holding signs and screaming at cars.
That’s a good sign. If there were hordes of military aged males out on the street, the chances of civil war would be a lot higher.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
What am I missing?
When you flood your country with a firehose of malignant propaganda the people eventually stop trusting you, even about basic stuff.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
it's good PR when Pokrovsk/Kupyansk/??? Holds.
It’s not just that. Once Ukraine gets pushed off its major fortification line around the Donbas and into fields and open steppe, preventing a major collapse of front line gets much harder and more costly. Notice how fast the front is moving along the southern sector. That offensive spent three years jammed up on the Avdiivka-Donetsk-Vuhledar fortifications but once it got passed that it accelerated rapidly.
It’s not going great for Ukraine. Losing Pokrovsk is bad because it was a major logistical hub for the whole front. The last major fortification line at Sloviansk-Kramantorsk-Konstantivka is rapidly being surrounded. Once that goes the eastern front is basically cooked. There are also minor incursions into Kharkiv oblast that are gradually being developed into a more major offensive. The Zaprozhia axis is collapsing.
And like @Lizzardspawn was saying, their air defense is basically gone and their logistics are rapidly being diced up with airstrikes. I don’t know what the casulties/manpower situation is but my guess is “not great”.
Overall I would say July-August is when the oh-shit moment comes and it becomes obvious they could lose the eastern half of the country.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Also if you want white girls, the major overseas countries for that are all in Eastern Europe which has a very heavy FSB presence.
just an (increasingly abundant) amount of suggestion and innuendo
It’s circumstantial evidence, but we’re reaching “Scott Peterson switching all his dating profiles to ‘single’ 12 hours before his wife went missing” levels of circumstantial evidence. There are pictures of his private jet parked at military airfields with Blackhawk helicopters in the background. Members of parliament are making statements in session about how they can’t release information about Epstein because it would be embarrassing to the UK, the United States, and an anonymous third country. The idea that he was just some random rich lech is getting ridiculous to the point that the people arguing for that possibility are transparently acting in bad faith now.
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
Well that is the fun thing about a planted tank, it’s much closer to being an actual functioning ecosystem than an artificial tank. And if you do it right it can be incredibly low maintenance. No siphon-cleaning dirty gravel every month and bi-weekly water changes.
ABigGuy4U
7d ago
It touches on the "Groundhog Day" problem but treats it with the severity it deserves.
IIRC Harold Ramis once said in an interview that realistically, Bill Murray would have spent a few hundred years just getting up every morning and murdering the whole town, but that it wouldn’t have fit the tone of the film.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
I’ve even seen people here obtusely sticking to that line against all evidence as recently as a few months ago.
The most disheartening revelation was that Epstein was in communication with, and possibly funded, the hacker known only as “4Chan”
ABigGuy4U
10d ago
I wouldn’t chalk it up entirely to Don Lemon being dumb. Like many other leftward organizations and people, he got used to the government, the media, big tech, the legal system and federal law enforcement all simultaneously running interference for him. There are tactics which are very effective in a permissive threat environment like that, but will quickly bite you in the ass in a less permissive one. If he had done something similar to this in 2014, he may genuinely have come out on the other end being made to look like a hero. Or at worst, looking like a jackass with no other actual consequences.
No you don’t understand, the snack-table level of organization basically is special forces-tier guerilla tactics compared to what conservatives are working with. Hell, it’s practically black magic cast by wizards. Conservative/right wing organization is a joke. The actual official Republican parties of most states aren’t nearly as organized as this one signal group chat. You’re lucky to have a monthly dinner club that a few people bother to show up to. It’s completely feckless.
And this isn’t a “getting ratfucked by feds” problem. I’m not talking about paramilitaries here. Even the lamest of the lamestream conservatives are completely allergic to any kind of organization. That’s what happens when you spend forty years dismissing organizing as something only communists do. The constant conservative sneering about Barack Obama being a Community Organzier as if that’s some kind of made up job was a telling red flag.
And as for right wing paramilitaries, they don’t exist. I’ve heard people say “well they don’t want to get ratfucked by feds so they keep a low profile”. Bullshit, they just don’t exist. Military veterans have their heads wedged so far up their own asses all they care about is their VA benefits and alcoholism. Further right wing radicals just bitch online. There’s no there there. The only ratfucking by glowies going on is the operation convincing you that these groups exist at all, not infiltrating and breaking them up.
ABigGuy4U
13d ago
I know China has been watching the Ukraine War very carefully for teachable moments. And Russia had to spend two solid years unfucking their general staff and getting rid of the incompetent political hacks, while in the middle of a war. So I wouldn’t be surprised if this was some spring cleaning. That said, I don’t know too much about CPC kremlinology in detail, unfortunately.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
But I mean are we looking at a hyper inflationary spiral in just a couple of years or less.
My read on what happened is that the officer that took the sig off of the protestor shouted “gun” to indicate that he had found a gun. Unfortunately the other officers misunderstood in the fracas and thought the protestor currently had a gun and started shooting. This is a fairly common type of fuck up in law enforcement situations. I don’t think it’s good that the guy died, but resisting arrest while armed is always a dicey proposition.
ABigGuy4U
16d ago
Why hasn’t the FBI gotten to Reddit yet? They do open terrorist incitement all the time.
Unrelatedly, I hate the new cultural obsession with "protein".
It’s an overreaction to the food pyramid having been screwed up for the last 60 years. An entire generation of boomers lived under the delusion that saturated fat and animal meat was evil, and refined processed carbohydrates were the cornerstone of a healthy diet. In the 70s you literally had magazine advertisements shilling pure sugar as just the thing you need to kick those food cravings and give you the energy to get through your day. The FDA fed an entire generation through the diabetes meat grinder.
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