2D3D
2hr ago
Trans as a category is muddled beyond belief. Progs keep asking if normies wouldn't wanna fuck whatever heavily made up chiselled Jailey Bay fuckdoll gets plastered over the interwebs but in reality most trannies are awkward failed women or obnoxious Jessica Yaniv nonpassers. Blue city trans people are more likely just experimenting with labels and haven't gotten masectomies. Lets be real the big issue is men pretending to be women without having gone through the chop because male access to female spaces is rightfully suspect. A girl who wants to check out of the female presentation rat race can use "trans" or NB as convenient acceptable cover until she decides to abandon or commit. To pretend Angel Buck or Bailey Jay are representative of the trans community as a whole is pure definitional fuckery and every prog should be forced to watch the top of all time selection of reddits nonbinary subreddits selfies and really honestly say that they're all equally valid in whatever presentation they choose. Attach a motion sensor to their dick for proof.
2D3D
2hr ago
I often think thats what Russians actually really want to happen. Losing to Ukraine, even NATO supported, is embarrassing. Losing against NATO gives cover for cessation of hostilities. "NATO aggressors were checked at the border by our forces pulled from Ukraine but to preserve life like all Russians do we shall talk like gentlemen". Need to have a small victory (destroying a few finnish lakeside banyas should do the trick) and then rapid escalation of kinetic response to justify rapid retreat across the borders. "If mother russia mobilizes the loyal baltic subjects will surely rise up and rejoin the motherland but that is exactly what perfidious albion wants so we shall deny them their war and settle like gentlemen". Easy out, makes all the previous failures in Ukraine secondary to standing up to NATO.
2D3D
4hr ago
truly Americans are men beyond comprehension. I couldn't stay hard while overhearing guys outside the can talk about their thunder shits or piss smells, let alone replicate what I heard from US personnel telling me about dudes just casually jacking it openly in the barracks and then sharing the flashlight with the next dude without washing. The worst version of eskimo kiss available.
2D3D
5hr ago
Being unable to articulate the most anodyne obvious solution means no lessons will ever be learnt. Those who know the deep histories will be forgotten to the sand of time and the textual history will just say "oh no wow the republicans were really mean to transgendered people!" without ever acknowledging the culpable role of tying oneself to such an insane position had in making such an attack land in the first place.
2D3D
5hr ago
In fairness to Mamdani, as much as a progressive wanker he may be, he really really really does seem to love New York and knows how to talk the talk to seem like a real fucking human being. New Yorkers are fine with rich people, Bloomberg was mayor after all, but you gotta be a real human being. Newsoms skinsuit looks like it boils his lizard scales every time he puts it on and Adams went full KARABOGA for whatever reason. A dweeby Indian nerd who shittalks Trey Young and doesnt seem to have Hochuls hand deep up his ass (at the time) gets lots of likability.
2D3D
5hr ago
If he didrespected black people he'd get more votes in Maine. Socialism for lily white Maine, free from corpotard oligarch techbros, of the people for the people.... jewhating... nazi tattoos... waaaaiiiiitaminute.
2D3D
5hr ago
Dramanaut vs SRDines for control of the left. Much more fun than DSA vs Justice Democrat infighting, and less fatties.
2D3D
5hr ago
The maximal case of WW2 mass bombing is the case you raised as a means to move the needle that Russia should employ to win, and my point is such terror bombing didn't work in either destroying civillian morale/resilience (adaptation is quite rapid we can go back to eating roots and huddling around smoking dry wood piles) or meaningfully degrading operational momentum independent of frontline pressure. And thats with saturation bombing actually destroying entire districts, not just the fear of bombs dropping onto a building at a time which characterizes semiprecision (or rather rate-limited) warfare.
Gaza lebanon Iran are raised as examples because they are contemporary and visible and categorized as such, but if such examples are dismissed, which I personally do as well, it introduces new definitional problems. What is this terror bombing the russians should do to effect the needle moving you state can be done? Full constant bombardments of thousands of drones every day to blow a city to smithreeens? The volume of munitions needed to level a city fully with terror bombing exceeds what Russia can generate a year. Tokyo required 2000 tonnes of firebombs to inflame wooden cities, Dresden needed something like 8000 tonnes. Russia doesn't have the airframes or depth to lob that volume, and that's even assuming every package goes through. Even targets within tube artillery range can't get saturated to death because counterbattery and better targrts exist. Severidonetsk and Adviika held out forever despite being in tube artillery range until meat could actually grind through. Citing Kharkiv Sumy or Zaporozhye is insane when the donbass prize of Slovyanks still holds and that was the target since 2014. Fuck, even Kupiansk isnt Russian anymore.
If the Russians could terror bomb Ukraines frontline cities into submission they'd have fucking done so. Its not a lack of will, since Russians gleefully document their atrocities for updoots and donations on VK and telegram, they can't terror bomb because it doesn't fucking work and they don't have the means to do so. Frankly the shahed striking stinks of trying to do something with an available asset, not a true cogent action. Maybe Poland opening all its doors to Ukraine would make people move but really everyone still left in those targets you identify are the stupid and the stubborn (this latter being a particularly slavic trait). They'll die in their soil just like their ancestors before and curse you for trying to drive them out.
2D3D
6hr ago
Yeah give me some real red meat for the conspiracy, not just the rehashed stuff. Nuland phone call... Russian language law... Donbass crucifixion...Boris Johnson tearing up peace process... Odessa hotel fire... thats all settled shit that immediately signals someone is holding out like Hiroo Oonada. Give me Zalushnii-Truss love affair, Budanov Azov, Pringles secret army good shit. Something that at least makes it seem the person trying to understand the situation did some novel work instead of just finding the first hits of vatnik wiki and then treated it as truth.
2D3D
11hr ago
Destroying this one rail junction will cripple Ukraines backline logistics. To understand why here is a brief 10 page history of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth...
2D3D
11hr ago
Its all downstream of culture war. The west, especially USA, is a totalizing and omnipresent factor that will always be available as a common referent. Within the USA there exist multitudes too so people anywhere can pick and choose what they like or dislike (usually dislike) about the west to hold an antipode against as contrast. Race mixing sexual degeneracy offends you? Heres good old orthodox slavic cultural conservatism to hold up. Evangelical eschatology stinks? Heres balinese spiritualism as the counter. Techbro oligarchy ruining your economy? Heres chinese state capitalism for you. Media now filled with ugly trannies drawing attention to themselves? Korean goonerslop to the rescue.
This forum is entirely founded due to culture war issues being unignorable so it seems obvious the russia ukraine war just like any war has a culture war colouring to it. Except because it has real kinetic implications and falsifiability the culture war claims can get tested far quickly, and the smarter ones know better than to tie their brain cells to the sinking ship that is Russian military capability.
2D3D
11hr ago
blow up NPPs and make sure that any city in Ukraine that still can support a civilian drone workshop becomes uninhabitable for civilians
We've had evidence since WW2 and right now we see Iran and Gaza and Lebanon all being 'terror bombed', with civillian infrastructure destroyed. That shit never fucking works. People adapt and would rather eat dirt than surrender to someone far away. Until you've got a boot on the ground, and often not even that, populations can hold out. You need full governmental capitulation on top of military defeat to force the issue, and the Russians simply don't have the mass to actually move in. Their theory of victory seems... absent? Thats the kindest way I can put it.
2D3D
11hr ago
I wonder if german youth fatalism also is influenced by knowing if they die Von de Leyen has a million migrants ready to import to keep the population high. The notion of dying so that you can be easily replaced by foreigners, and lets be real the foreigner here isn't Pierre or Johnny its Ahmed or Rajiv Von de Leyen wants to bring in, must surely make one fatalistic about your states concern for you.
2D3D
11hr ago
Powerpoint slides with no attribution or methodology breakdown shared on reddit aren't considered authoritative sources? Especially for the hundreds of civillian vehicles blown up counted as military vehicles which is kinda rich coming from russians doing the kherson safari. Russian telegram calls ukrainian children 'maggots' as well and revel in pictures of dead ukrainians (they don't condone rape fantasies so that makes them better than arabic telegram), so maybe civillian apartment blocks are considered barracks too.
Russian rate of advance collapsing is obviously because Russia is consolidating and carefully cultivating resources in the background while putting pressure on the khokhols, so once the Ukrainians are sufficiently exhausted they'd be wiped out easily like the vermin they always were compared to glorious Russia. Anytime now, the mighty rush will be sprung. Aaaaaany day now. Aaaaaaaaaaaany day....
2D3D
22hr ago
Its just tired pro-Z bullshit that insists the west is the big bad conspirator funding colour revolutions and that actually everyone would be happy to live under any autocrats thumb so long as the west is opposed. What always amusing is that the vatnik brigades are WORDS WORDS WORDS with reams of photos and pointing arrows and histories and obscure engineering diagrams that all sound authoritative until a reader notices something doesn't add up and then a mild review shows literally every assumption rests on an insane assumption. The single phone call of Nuland saying Yushenko was "our guy" as if he was a deliberate CIA plant as opposed to simply a guy that made the calculus on his own recognizance that the Russian puppet brigade was doing a terrible job and he himself wouldn't have had access to that circle so to the other guy we go. Yet a single leak was taken as proof of western perfidy, a narrative repeated TILL NOW in vatnik circles that Ukraine actually really wants to join the motherland and the Azov NAFO fascists are suppressing the will of the people.
I get the anti USA animus can manifest in many ways and the totalizing presence of the USA means every axis is a pair of dynamics to flagplant on but like have an original thought please. Textdumping pages of conspiratard shit is for the heyday of tumblr and at least there was interesting porn adjacent to the weirdo walls of crazy.
2D3D
1d ago
No_One would never have eaten humble pie. The reason I started posting on this forum was seeing No_ones post about stealth and radars that is cribbed straight from anti-US pro-russian slop about how X band radar reflecting off mountains or clouds can defeat frontal stealth and how IRST proves US stealth is inferior so Russia wins automatically. His responses involved special pleading of "you and i aren't privy to the inner workings of UAC AS the technology is secret so thats how we know it works" type of wishful thinking. Its pure cope straight out of ArmchariWarlord or BigSerge except without the tells of self-insert heroism or dour prose that makes those idiots at least amusing to read. No_ones takes were pure regurgitations of the lowest effort leavings of NCD without the courtesy of logical follow through supposedly the standard of this board or at least being amusingly wrong which is the standard of the internet.
As for the Ukraine war itself, the slow grind out past Pokrovsk just shows the incapability of the Russians to keep goals realistic. They were supposed to break out and lay siege to Kramatorsk after fucking Popasna 3 years ago, and since then its been a steady stream of small towns taken and then slowly meatgrinding forward. Theres alot of Russian meat but also alot of Ukrainian land, with Kramatorsk having multiple clear resupply from the west easily unlike the smaller satellites towns which had a single viable resupply line that if cut off resulted in withdrawal.
Sometime around 2024 the Ukraine war reached the trough of grinding where individual town blocks and 150 person villages were treated as magnificent gains by the Russians. Every fucking Z(slur) acted like this was finally the moment of their ascension and then moved the goalposts when Nothing Ever Happened. Its two old stupid soviet armies slogging each other past the tenth round and neither really understands a strategy to unfuck themselves but also can't take time to figure out how to unfuck themselves. Ukraine 2026 PR boosting is as much an artifact of real successes as much as the Russians reaching effective exhaustion due to lacking any viable doctrine for exploitation.
2D3D
4d ago
Eh, its definitely liberal trash coded but its more nostalgiagooning for an idealized high school experience than Modern Audience politicking. The main objection to mixtape I can see is the 10/10 by IGN, which as an institution has become a punching bag for everything wrong with games journalism mainly because IGN was THE first source for digital games information back in the early 2010s so its downfall sticks. As a game and narrative mixtape isn't 'fuck white people' as much as some weird 2020s midlife crisis financially strapped lib arts majors idea of what the idealized 90s he knows of but never really experienced was like. There were mixtapes, friends, awkward but real moments, and thats the stuff of a coming of age movie redux, not a videogame, which is where the major objection really comes from. That the base subject matter is also pretty insipid is just the stevia maraschino cherry on top of the soggy biscuit.
2D3D
6d ago
Kishore is definitely smart, dont let my conveyed irritation at his playing the pop geopolitics circuit distract from the strength of his simplistic reductive concepts. If anything Kishore is an aberration to the Singaporean institutional resistance to highfalutin grand theory, their operational modality is see the world as it is not as you wish it to be and maintain internal red teaming to avoid blinkers.
My own experience is unimportant. On the internet I could be Kishores disciple or a disgruntled taxi driver or anything in between, what matters is verifiability. Kishores own books give the necessary info and in the professional sphere if you encounter a single Singaporean in any eliteish profession like finance or tech anywhere globally you're two kevin bacons away from knowing someone with deep insider knowledge of the Singaporean civil service operational modalities which really aren't that opaque anyways. That contact could be any one of us. It could be you! It could be me! It could even be - ok its me I know these dudes directly.
2D3D
7d ago
US aids Pakistan because Pakistan surrendered oversight of CIA activities in the Hindu Kush listening posts entirely in exchange for having its own free hand to do its own dastardly shit, and from there the Pakistanis leveraged their place as 'useful assholes' for many players globally, a role India never managed because India saw itself too important to aid foreigners at all and so was bypassed by major powers. The Pakistanis asked for US help and offered something in return, India always said it could chart its own course while begging for aid whenever shit hit the fan (request for US carriers in 1962 war, request for USSR submarine support against the US carrier group in 1971, requests for SU30 technology transfers, requests for IMF bailouts, requests for waiver for purchasing Russian/Iranian oil, etc etc etc)
Kishores own reputation within the international commentariat is a byproduct of market demand for a non-Chinese articulate ostensibly neutral heavyweight that isn't bogged down by domestic political considerations polluting the discussion: Kishores commentary and analysis is hardly more breathtaking than informed western China observers that seem similarly dispassionate about capability convergence inevitability like basically the entire US Chamber of Commerce circa 1998-2013, or Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Nye if you want to be intellectual about things.
However, Kishores own media ascendancy is also a byproduct of a deliberate internal tension within the Singapore foreign policy establishment where a pro-US advocate is always raised up at the same pace as an anti-US advocate, and the two actually switch positions depending on the needs of the moment. Kishores antithesis is Kausikan Bilahari, who himself enjoys some time on the media circuits when a counter to the China ascendancy is also sought. You can see the same pattern in others, there is also Chan Heng Chee and Tommy Koh, but that gets too deep into the weeds of Singapores arcane adversarial-cooption civil service modality.
Also, and lets be fucking frank here, Kishores pro-China anti-US sentiment comes from what looks like a fairly obvious chip on his shoulder. His first book was 'Can Asians Think', a direct rejoinder to a presumed racial contempt that supposedly existed in the western policy establishment which denigrated asian (specifically southeast Asian (singapore) at time of writing, but later extended to China and the subcontinent) intellectual ability and execution capacity. Thing is, even at that time of writing the US policy establishment and broadly the west as a whole recognized asian capability and its necessity to be actively managed. Kishores voluminious presence on the media circuit is downstream of what looks like obvious status reassertion, and that there is an especially receptive audience because US domestic political considerations make people cast about for an ostensible 'neutral' just happens to direct that gravy train straight to Kishores lap.
2D3D
8d ago
Its ok, after pounding Jamal in the butt long enough the jewish rape dog sees the error of his ways and tries to hunt down netanyahu, and the book ends with netanyahu on all fours in a gimp suit smirking "who do you think these dogs trained on." fin.
thank you thank you i'll accept my hugo award in straight male tears and romantasy darkweb tokens.
2D3D
9d ago
Wait, I hear techno Euofunk. It... its chuck tingle! He's here to save the UK from the evil censorship bill! Hooray hooray we don't need fake moustaches to go on wattpad anymore!
2D3D
9d ago
We may be overreading the magical powers of LLMs here. Frequency of posters matters more than granularity and the LLM will pull a dataset towards a big badfit rather than a small goodfit. I shoved the AAQC from Rov_Scam, RandomRanger, myself, MonkeyWithAMachinegun, 100prooftollbooth and Claude kept insisting it was TracingWoodgrains, Naraburns or FCfromSSC as the authors. I'm sure if I fed all the AAQCs into Claude it'd cluster everyone as either self_made_human (indian), 2rafa (new york finance), Tracingwoodgrains (vaguely angry pseudoliberal) or FcfromSSC (boomer) since theres a corpus of adjacency there. Surprisingly about 10 samples in and I didn't get any dean hits, so something must be happening to make Dean a particularly unscrapable voice.
Point is, the magic autocomplete is fun but it isn't accurate, but really if you think about it does it matter? Do we really have distinct voices on this forum as it were, or are we ourselves mirroring dominant stylostic term somewhere present in drips and drabs to make patchwork argument golems to slug it out? Who the fuck knows.
2D3D
9d ago
I'm certain its got nothing to do with fucking and everything to do with dominance. My tiny female dog used to hump my big male dog, and she tried to hump the car hubs too. Its not like they didn't fuck, but the leadup seemed to be entirely irrelevant.
It also really doesn't help that trannies in particular are either clearly awkward women who needed better socializing early in their lives or creepy men who needed to be bullied early in their lives. The great win for gay marriage was that most gays really are just normal people and the chemsex degens are really an outlier, but for trans people the more people are exposed to them the less sympathetic they become. Progressives might as well have allied themselves with NAMBLA in this case, at least a decent south park episode came out that acronym
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