ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
How’s a guy from England going to conquer Africa if standing in the sun for two hours gives him second degree burns, and doing that for a few years gives him cancer?
I also think Westerners tend to overestimate the seriousness of these things because they apply a western metric towards the number of deaths. The military opening fire on a crowd of demonstrators and killing a couple hundred people would be a big fucking deal if it happened in Paris or Portland. In Iran that’s fairly standard.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
I suspect there was something stopping a lot of the radiation until pretty recently, I don’t see how European colonization of Africa and Latin America would have been possible otherwise. Maybe the ozone layer.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
True, but it’s also not exactly fun to be the local baker who gets his bread forcibly requisitioned by a Wehrmacht unit and then gets taken out to a ditch by La Resistance and shot for it when the war is over. If these articles had been a serious examination of the difficulties of living in an occupied country I would not have minded, but it was just the same special pleading you see over and over again. And the fact that these ran during the height of punch-a-Nazi hysteria made it even more grating.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
@CapitalRoom
The report I just filed with the Moderators lists me, my men, and Dr. Alexander here, but only one of you! First one to talk gets to stay on my message board!
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
The water situation is difficult, their currency value is falling, the regime is losing support for not being able to ensure basic economic and infrastructural function. And the liberals in Tehran continue to not like their theocratic government. The question is whether the people out in the streets fall into group A or group B. If it’s just group B it’s probably a nothingburger. If it’s group A it could be a happening.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
I don’t mean legal process for living Nazi collaborators. I mean the wave of drippy articles about how the French and Belgians shaving the heads of Nazi collaborators (female) was terrible because living in an occupied country is hard and stuff. Shooting Nazi collaborators (male) is ok though.
There are some very large protests/rioting in Tehran. Potentially veering towards an attempted revolution. As I said in my post in the last TT thread, I’m pretty sure these are organized and coordinated by Burgerland/Israeli intelligence. Probably not much will come out of it, but something to keep an eye on.
Edit: Starting to see some armed anti-government paramilitaries popping up on the street in videos. Not necessarily a huge deal, these groups have been conducting attacks for years. But perhaps a sign of an escalation.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
This reminds me of that sudden coordinated media blitz a few years ago to politically rehabilitate Nazi collaborators (female).
I think it’s less a reaction to the anachronism of it, or wokeness generally, and more that the trope has just become so heavily overused that it’s an automatic eye-roll moment. Even for viewers who aren’t particularly conservative. We’ve basically been doing this once per show since Buffy the Vampire Slayer
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout We’ve been talkin’ ’bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out
Ironically that was a common tactic back when most marriages could only be dissolved for fault. You’d move to a state with no-fault divorce long enough to establish residency and then get divorced. Everything that’s old is new again.
A completely real, non-astroturfed revolution that is in no way shape or form affiliated with any foreign intelligence agencies has broken out in Tehran. The people have taken to the streets (in Tehran) demanding the return of Reza Pahlavi, the scion of great man who despite his single-digit approval ratings in Iran, is extremely popular with foreign intelligence agencies. This is quite possibly the single most important event for world freedom that has happened since the last three failed color revolutions in Iran.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
wearing a rolex means you are a person that wears rolex, which is hardly a compliment
That’s the way the Rolex brand is now. For a long time Rolex was what was called a “tool watch”. That is, just a good accurate watch that you would wear because you were in a profession where you needed to be precise about time. Che Guevara wore a Rolex when he was tramping through the jungle, because you don’t want to whiff an attack because your watch lost eight minutes and you sent the reserve element in at the wrong time. Divers would use them a lot too, because when you’re calaculating oxygen reserves you need to be accurate.
Over time that reputation for good quality gave Rolex some cachet, and it gradually morphed into the gaudy status symbol it is now.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
It seems we that agree there should be some amount of restraint. Now we’re just haggling over the degree.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
Ok but why not? If Russia is the aggressor, and Ukraine has zero responsibility to restrain themselves in their defense, why not just give them four hundred hydrogen bombs and let ‘er rip?
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
Why is all the onus of restraint on them, and never on the giant aggressor with nukes?
Blockades are an act of war too. Cuba could have just fired a nuke at the American fleet in ‘62 and been done with it. They had the nukes. They had launch authority. Hell, that’s what Castro wanted to do. Thankfully for all of humanity the Soviet presidium wasn’t taking your advice.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
Ukraine previously drone striked a radar installation in northern Russia the sole purpose of which is to monitor the North Pole for incoming ICBMs. It had zero utility for any of the Russian military activity in Ukraine. Sure it’s war, Ukraine can hit anything they want, but I fail to see why else they would do that.
moral framework
Personally I would rather not die of radiation poisoning and end human civilization just because it’s within your moral framework
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
IIRC there were a lot of Allied plans to kill Hitler, it’s just that none of them got very far. The CIA supposedly did attempt to kill Kruschev. In the second half of the 20th century, I’m not aware of them ever attempting to kill the leader of a major world power. The State Department did make a last minute intervention last year to try and stop a Ukrainian attempt to kill Putin, which is something that makes me think it might not be bullshit.
Regardless of the morals and legality, I think it’s pretty irresponsible to try and kill the leadership of a nuclear state. I don’t think the attitude of Putin’s hypothetical successor would be “hey it got me this nice chair, so all is forgiven!” I think it would be anger and a need to set an example so that kind of thing doesn’t happen again.
I have seen other behaviors by Ukraine attempting to bait the Russians into a limited nuclear strike against Ukraine to try and bring NATO into the conflict.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
The Russians are claiming that Ukraine attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin with a drone attack on one of his houses in Russia. The Ukrainians claim this was a false flag by Russia. I could buy either explanation to be honest.
ABigGuy4U
2mo ago
Fancy watches are primarily a status symbol. Mechanical watches as a whole are basically obsolete anyway. So it doesn’t really matter that you can get one with roughly the same mechanism quality on Temu. The last time anyone bought a Rolex solely because they needed a good reliable watch was around 1968.
Sure and twenty years ago you could get the same result with some skill and two hours in Photoshop. The major problems arise when you make the tool easy and powerful enough for a large pool of idiots to use.
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