ABigGuy4U
1hr ago
The Right’s aggressive policing of its own kooks is in some ways quite admirable, but it’s also part of the reason it gets rolled so easily by the Left. When Holocaust denial eventually becomes popular on the radical left (it’s already starting to) I bet you won’t see Democratic politicians, breadtubers and CNN launching a crusade to eradicate it. They’ll just pretend it’s not a thing and gaslight anyone who says otherwise.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
But the point of both terrorism and many partisan actions is to create fear, provoke a vast overreaction by the victim, and to inspire further action from others through what 19th century Russian nihilist social revolutionaries called “Propaganda of the Deed”. If Osama Bin Laden had secretly bought the Hostess company and increased the amount of sugar and trans fats in each Twinkie by 10 percent, he could have killed far more Americans than 9/11 did, and he would probably still be alive. But I doubt that would have fulfilled any of his political or strategic goals.
ABigGuy4U
7hr ago
McVeigh picked the Murrah Building as a target because that was the field office where the Waco raid was planned.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
An institution that collects knowledge and spurs technological growth but also hoards societal wealth and prevents all its high-IQ members from ever reproducing? We have that today, it’s called “Silicon Valley”
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I also wouldn’t rule out Cyberpunk style inter-corporate glowie warfare.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I agree that Christianity is inherently a multiethnic religion and any attempts to introduce racial supremacist ideas to it leads to heresy and perversion. But I think you may be conflating Christian Nationalism with Christian Dominionism.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
Well remember, South Korea has only been a democracy for like 40 years, they had a military dictatorship until the early 1980s.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
It’s definitely a problem if you need lots and lots of disposable people to stand in a trench and hold rifles.
The President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has declared a state of martial law, accusing his opposition in parliament of colluding with North Korea and engaging in anti-state activities. Yoon’s party lost in a landslide in the last parliamentary election, and this is likely an attempt to maintain power. Troops have been placed around the parliament building to prevent parliament from convening. Opposition leaders are telling citizens to take to the streets. The parliament has voted unanimously to disband martial law. But the troops in the streets are currently refusing to disband until ordered by the President to do so. My suspicion is that Yoon either planned this with the military beforehand, or he is very incompetent and desperate.
This has significant potential to inflame the Korean peninsula, my understanding is that Yoon is an anti-communist hardliner, and I can’t imagine North Korea reacting well if he manages to seize dictatorial control over the country.
From a culture war perspective, Yoon is an anti-feminist (or at least he’s described as such), and there will likely be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from Western media if succeeds at staying in control.
Edit: unconfirmed reports that opposition party leaders are being arrested.
Edit: 20:05 GMT — Yoon claims he will lift martial law on urging of members of his own party
ABigGuy4U
3d ago
We ain’t any different than Tombstone or Dodge City or San Francisco. First come the dreamers. Then the bankers. Then the salesmen. Then the sharks. Then the desperate. And then the thieves.
That’s a quote from the new Taylor Sheridan series Landman. It’s about an oil boom town in Texas, but it would fit the pattern of New World settlement, and probably the settlement of any new world. There’s 8 billion people on the planet, I doubt Musk or anyone else would have trouble finding a few thousand fit, motivated, high IQ people who would be willing to truck out to Mars. If the deadbeats and the penal colonists and the political refugees ever show up it probably won’t be until quite a while later
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
Democrats have a bad habit of marginalizing all their most promising candidates early on so they can’t compete with party flacks. Hell, even Barack Obama only broke out by accident, that wasn’t how that election cycle was “supposed” to go.
ABigGuy4U
5d ago
In the last hour there’s been reports of heavy gunfire in Damascus near the armed forces headquarters. There are rumors of an ongoing military coup d’etat.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
It’s the less damning admission. Which would rather cop to:
-You were too dumb to realize that your 82 year old presidential candidate was getting a little slow
-You were a Machiavellian conspirator that intentionally installed a blackmail compromised figurehead President so that a CIA directorate could lead the country into the Third World War?
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
I remember Barack Obama saying something in a primary speech about being annoyed that his mechanic only spoke Spanish. Saying that today could literally get you fired from your job.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
They used to buy those games. But increasingly “woke” games are now associated with fundamentally broken or derivative technical/design aspects and are starting to flop. For example:
-Concord: a game you have to pay 60 dollars for that’s worse than a free game that came out 10 years ago
-Star Wars Outlaws: broken AI and particle effects that look like they came out out of a 1996 Tomb Raider game.
-Assassin’s Creed Shadows: the 400th derivative remake of the first Assassin’s Creed game from 2007.
There are exceptions, like Baulder’s Gate which was pretty woke and had solid underlying mechanics, but increasingly AAA games are just a garbage fire of slop.
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
Vance is a writer who later became a politician. Hillbilly Elegy is what made him famous and jump started a potential political career. It’s not a political memoir written for a sitting politician like Dreams From My Father
ABigGuy4U
11d ago
-Ron Brown the Secretary of Commerce who was killed in a plane crash in Croatia. The medical examiner found a execution-style bullet hole in his head that was explained away as a flying rivet.
-Mark Middleton, who hung himself from a tree, and then after that shot himself with a shotgun.
The real suspicious thing is just the sheer volume. How many politicians have a double digit number of associates die violently or commit suicide?
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
It’s not surprising, but I think it‘s worth mentioning when talking about an ICBM launch.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
It’s relevant. He’s going bald because all the hair has migrated to his palms.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
Yes, there is video footage of multiple MIRVs hitting the ground. There do not appear to be any interceptions. It looks like the MIRVs were targeted at an empty area and not any particular target, although I have heard chatter that it may have been a Ukrainian military facility. Given the apparent lack of conventional or nuclear explosives in the MIRVs, I don’t think there was any significant damage.
ABigGuy4U
14d ago
A few hours ago, Russia fired an ICBM with a MIRV warhead at Ukraine. It looks like it was just the kinetic vehicle with no nuclear warheads.
ABigGuy4U
15d ago
Unfortunately your argument fails because you used the letter “e” multiple times throughout the post. This was supposed to be a constrained writing assignment where you don’t use the letter “e”. You may have made some good points, in a well-written post, but unfortunately you fail because you didn’t meet the arbitrary victory conditions that I just made up.
I think many of them really do. Sometimes it doesn’t look like it because they grew up in an incredibly worldly secular environment without any doctrinaire religion or teaching in the scriptures, and they are desperately trying to claw back their faith. So it sometimes looks a bit cargo-culty and hypocritical, their twitter posts alternating schizophrenically between synthwave deus vult crusader memes and anime porn.
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