Eetan
3hr ago
There are companies, deep state actors, and military generals that are more than happy to start a hot war with Iran anyone even if the strategic consequences for the US are negative.
If you are properly cold calculating Corrupt Corporate Executive of E.V.I.L.Inc you want state of cold war prolonged indefinitely (or at least till you retire).
You want to deliver small number of super weapons at extraordinary cost, replace them after few years with super-hyper weapons and then with super-hyper-duper weapons, without anyone ever using these marvels to find out whether they work as promised.
What we instead see is progressive feminists almost entirely ignoring the plight of women under Islam
Set aside what could and should Western "progressive feminists" do about plight of women under Islam.
Would you also ask, for example, first world labor union organizers:
"Why you care about such trifle as lunch breaks and pay raises for already spoiled first world workers? Do you know that millions of workers in Africa are actual slaves? Why you do not fight against slavery in Africa?"
The same for every first world problem - the problem is much worse in third world, do you want everyone to be effective altruist concentrating all their efforts on the most dowtrodden people of the world?
Eetan
21hr ago
Eetan
1d ago
New age of hyperpower, and hyper oops.
Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says
When your greatest losses during large war are caused by your ally, you know you are the real hyperpower.
Eetan
1d ago
nuclear war means victory for the Red Tribe in the culture war
Do not be so sure.
After The End, what would "red and blue" mean anymore, what recognizable "red culture" would still exist in Fallout universe?
Big cars, big houses and giga consumption lifestyle would be out for the foreseable future, and so will be sport obssession and religion promising prosperity and worldly success.
Eetan
1d ago
The war was not about "controlling" Gaza (who needs such prize), but destroying it. Now, it is pile of ruins that will be never rebuilt. Hamas can "control" it, but can do nothing to endanger Israel.
(The actual death toll is unclear, somewhere in low six figures. The rest of Gazans are going to leave or die too).
Yemen is danger because of ballistic missiles, supplied by Iran. When the factories where they come from are destroyed, Yemen would be again as threatening as Zimbabwe.
Eetan
1d ago
The US isn't going to control the middle east by just bombing.
Why not? Israel controls (sort of) Lebanon and Syria just by bombing them unopposed. This goes on for decades, and could go on indefinitely. In principle, Iran could be reduced to this state too.
Eetan
1d ago
Well, the problem with bullying discourse is that one side talks about bullies from movies, and the other from real life.
In Hollywood, the bully is always tall blonde handsome football player from rich Christian family. Who wouldn't want to be dominated and subjugated by such awesome Chad?
IRL, the bullies (never singular, always a wolf pack) are young thugs on the way to prison, who are enjoying their 20+ second chances to turn their life around and in the mean time turn school into prison lite. You are not bullied because you did something "wrong", you are bullied because you do not belong to gang.
Eetan
1d ago
New coalition of the willing is forming.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a joint statement Sunday they are ready to work with the US and partners to help stop Iran’s retaliatory attacks.
As if the hopes and fears about demise of US/NATO bloc were premature.
Eetan
1d ago
Is there really no recourse for this?
1/ Build your own. Conservapedia, Infogalactic, Grokipedia etc. tried and failed, try harder.
2/ Take over. Bring few thousand friends willing to dedicate all waking hours to editing and edit warring, and persevere for years of uphill struggle.
Eetan
2d ago
Looks it is real, mainstream news are confirming it now, including the most authoritative source. Not only US&ISR killed big K, but have sources on the ground that could verify it.
Only Wikipedia still cannot process this mega habbening, massive edit war is ongoing on recent deaths page.
In related news, not everything is lost. Here is how Iran can still win. When all human wit and wisdom failed, listen to the cat girls. What can go wrong?
Eetan
2d ago
No need for worries. The Iranian regime made sure there will be no shortage of Ayatollahs.
Work hard, grind for exams and you can be an Ayatollah too.
Originally used as a title bestowed by popular/clerical acclaim for a small number of the most distinguished marja' at-taqlid mujtahid, it suffered from "inflation" following the 1979 Iranian Revolution when it came to be used for "any established mujtahid".[3] By 2015, it was further expanded to include any student who had passed their Mujtahid final exam,[4] leading to "thousands" of Ayatollahs.[5]
Eetan
3d ago
Israeli media announce death of Khamenei.
Not hard to believe. Put yourself in Ayatollah's shoes.
Stay in your palace with your turban on, die.
Hide in bunker like a rat, die too because the secret location was sold off long ago.
Eetan
3d ago
So it is finally habbening. The "axis of resistance" doing nothing as predicted by most astute observers. After Syria and Venezuela, Iran is on the chopping block now.
Turbo America is here as promised, the real American century is just beginning. Next step Cuba, and then Russia.
Eetan
4d ago
The Saudis (and pretty much all the Gulf sheikdoms except Qatar) have been collaborating with the international Jewish conspiracy (if it exists) or allied with Israel and the US against Iran based on shared interests
As illustration, see one minor detail from Epstein saga.
Piece of covering of Kaaba in Mecca was sent by Saudis to their good friend Jeffrey to use as decorative carpets.
If you take Islam only slightly seriously, this is bad. As bad as drawing unflattering picture of the Prophet, only about 100,000x worse. As analogy, imagine than Jeffrey had good friend in Vatican who sent him old vestments from St Peter to redecorate his bedroom (well, if this also happened would not surprise me overall).
And... nothing. This news went out months ago, and no protests, no riots, nothing. As if there never had been anything organic about these happenings.
Eetan
4d ago
Few "Americans with sidelocks" are likely to go backpacking through SE Asia. It is specifically Israeli tourists who have well earned reputation of super-hyper-duper assholes (and not only in this part of the world).
Eetan
4d ago
"Natural state" as I understand it would require that the "goyim" know absolutely nothing about jews from things such as cultural background, religion, etc. and form their opinion solely on living alongside them. I am not aware of any such social experiments.
In medieval times, these social experiments are called China and India. Here, where no one heard about Abrahamic faith, Jews were seen as just another foreign barbarians with strange and ridiculous habits, or just another caste that keeps their customs and rituals for themselves.
In modern times, these experiments are called Thailand, Laos, Cambodia etc. - countries where few people care about Abrahamic scripture or Middle Eastern issues, but know well tourists and travellers from all over developed world. Ask there what tourists are the least welcomed, the answer would be tourists from Asian country named on I (and it is not Iran, Iraq or Indonesia).
If this 'slaughter' you cannot speak of arrives, well, that might change as some nation begins accepting US asylum applications.
Press D for doubt. We've had this conversation before, like 10 days ago. US is, like it or not, still the world's first super power, and when conditions in US get into "mass slaughter" stage, world's economy and international relation system is flushed down the toilet (collapse of US dollar alone would do it).
In this world, no one is welcoming any refugees. Lessons of collapse of world's three great powers in 1917-1920 do not apply here, the fallout would be far worse and will hit everyone.
Eetan
6d ago
And with no hope of fleeing the slaughter to come
Well, if you are absolutely certain that "slaughter" is near, and there is nowhere to run, then the radical solution is to preemptively join the winning side.
If the year is 1913, this is the right time to join the bolshevik party, and when the boog comes, you are not class enemy, but distinguished comrade and old revolutionary veteran.
Eetan
7d ago
The best I can infer is that Carlson is saying Yahweh did promise the land to the Jews but the Israelis are not Jews- although he does not say that directly, he makes the argument indirectly by saying "Netanyahu came from Europe."
Carlson, like most people who are not Middle Eastern politics or demography nerds probably believes that all Israeli Jews are of European origin. In reality, Ashkenazis are shrinking minority.
Eetan
7d ago
The problem: none of that is true. Yes, from my perspective (a Catholic) Huckabee is in an insane, anti-christian cult with absolutely insane beliefs. My (somewhat unrelated) point is that this is why you need The Church.,
Unfortunately, not any more. Since Vatican II Catholic church repudiated 1800+ years of teaching and moved to "dual track" salvation mode.
Eetan
7d ago
New week is here, it is time for some more random culture (and kinetic) war news, sourced from various parts of internets via xitter.
1/ Middle Eastern issues, and general strategy, tactics, law and customs of war in the current millenium.
About half of US deployable air power is ready for Iran boogaloo 2.0. It would be very symbolic if it began exactly at 4th anniversary of three day special operation to desatanize Ukraine.
How it will start? As massive decapitation strike on enemy elite human capital.
It is fascinating to see how something that was absolute NO in traditional rules of war "Generals do not take pot shots at each other" became normalized in the rules based order.
First organized crime bosses, then leaders of terrorist/freedom fighter groups like Al Qaeda, Hamas or Hezbollah, and now leaders and VIPs of internationally recognized states as Iran or Venezuela. And not only uniformed personnel, but leading scientists are now fair targets too.
This tactic became prevalent, because the targets are completely unable to reciprocate.
US and Israeli high ranking officers are not so well protected, professional sleeper cells should be able to get at them, but there is no evidence that these cells exist outside of Tom Clancy novels.
The highest ranking Israeli person killed was minister of tourism 25 years ago.
True war of assassins is yet to come.
What would be long term results? Being general is not any more cushy job with spiffy uniform, only people who believe in their cause and are ready to die will strive for such positions. Do the forces of freedom have plan B for case when decapitation strike succeeds, all targets are elliminated, but the enemy still refuses to surrender?
It is important to always have plan B. ready.
2/ More Middle Eastern issues
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in Tucker Carlson interview that "it would be fine" if Israel took over all of Middle East.
Angela Price Aggeler, US ambassador to Macedonia, so far hadn't commented whether Macedonians should take back all lands given to their ancestors by Zeus.
3/ Yet more Middle Eastern issues
Israeli ultra-orthodox revived ancient European tradition of burning cats and dogs alive as part of celebration.
Very based and trad pilled.
4/ Woke and also military issues
Ft. Bragg kindergarten teacher who identifies as trans wolf 'Lilith Deathhowl' was fired
The parents had been upset since early 2025 that administrators hadn't taken action to remove the teacher after he engaged in "disturbing behavior" that involved dressing in feminine clothing in class, as well as wearing a dog collar with fetish tags and an animal tail.
It looks like story from 2021, as if celebrations were premature and wokeness hadn't perished yet.
5/ Epstein issues
Epstein before his ultimely demise hid his secrets in storage units. Good news, the whole sordid saga can be prolonged into infinity. At any time, mysterious storage unit can be opened and new Easter eggs rolled out for the eager public.
6/ Now, the thread connecting all issues of the day together
The subway question is again the hottest debate on Xitter right now:
Are homeless drug addicts peeing and pooping in public transport reactionary lumpenproletariat or progressive freedom fighters? Is shitting in New York subway the best way to defeat American imperialism and free Palestine?
Eetan
13d ago
Thus for him, a decadent society may still be rich, productive, or militarily powerful, but it lacks drive. It lacks a goal or ambition beyond merely continuing on in its current state.
Then it is another point against counting late Roman empire as "decadent". Late Romans had enormous ambition and drive - to be Christians, to be the correct kind of Christians. People who DNGAF do not spend enormous resources on building churches, and would not bother with ceaseless religious strife and persecution.
Eetan
13d ago
Anti-D think that decadence has specific visible markers:
Now, we can check the ur-example of decadence, the example all this debate is about, late Roman Empire how well it check these boxes.
Decline in "warrior values" or "warrior ethos"
5th century Rome was less martial than Republican Rome at its peak, but I do not see less "warrior values" than in Principate when Rome was at its greatest power. (warrior skills and ability are another matter)
Increased emphasis on physical comfort among elite-class males
Ditto. In 5th century, you do not see extravagant luxurious life of the first century.
Decreased willingness to inflict physical pain, including reduced use of harsh training and corporal punishment
If anything, the opposite. In classical Rome, corporal punishment was reserved for slaves and provincials, Roman citizens (about 10-15% of population) were extempt. In late Rome, everyone except tiny elite of "honestiores" legally belonged to the "torturable" class.
Decline in sexual morality and/or traditional gender roles
Sort of - unlike in classical Rome, late Roman women had option to leave their family authority to stay celibate and dedicate themselves to religious life. If you want to make case that nuns (tiny percentage of population) destroyed Rome, do it.
Increasing willingness of people who are not battle-tested warrior elites (including priests, merchants, politicians, women, REMFs etc.) to interfere with military decision making
Again, no evidence of it. In first century, Caligula could divert the army to build bridge over Bay of Naples. No such wild tales from the fifth century.
Left-wing politics more generally, including increased wealth redistribution. (I'm not sure what fraction of anti-Ds would include this)
"Wealth redistribution" in late Rome was from the bottom for benefit of top oligarch class. This is period when free grain supply for city of Rome stopped for good.
Do not worry, the Chinese are aware of Ashkenazi super powers and are closing this gap too.
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