So what, exactly, are our leaders thinking?
I've said it before, I'll say it again: bleeding Russia is on sale right at an amazing discount right now, so we're buying a bit.
"But [list of reasons why long term Ukraine is screwed, won't be able to get back lost territory, etc, etc]." Yeah, sure. Also Russia is exhausting itself at a very small cost to the American taxpayer.
If Russia spends years grinding away to a standstill in Ukraine, then they won't have the ability to attack any further anytime soon.
And very optimistically, it serves as a warning to other countries wanting to invade their neighbors. If they badly desire a drawn out conflict that drains their resources for no obvious gain, we'll give it to them.
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16d ago
Tabletop Games (W40K)
Assuming this is a racial issue: Shouldn't a true to the setting depiction of 40K be full of POCs? If anything it's weird that all of mankind 10s of thousands of years in the future produces mostly white guardsmen and space marines, given their depiction in various media.
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5d ago
shift hard and fast to the Right and mean it
This is not going to happen. But also I predict almost all American jews will not move to Israel. The author is really setting up a false choice here.
I'll climb aboard this train. I saw the recent Dune movies and she is a very plain woman. She's lean in a bad way I don't like. She's entirely flat and lacks a feminine figure. Her face looks decent in photos. But I'm wondering how much careful makeup and editing went into the photoshoots. Her face looks much worse on film.
Comparing her against women her age: she's in the bottom third. Not ugly, but aggressively plain and flat in a unattractive way.
And that's fine for an actress. Not every woman in Hollywood needs to shapely and big breasted.
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16d ago
I thought the Russian economy lacked the ability to replace expended or destroyed high tech equipment. Or recently destroyed oil infrastructure for that matter. They could be throwing large amounts of effectively unreplacabe materiel at Ukraine. And then none will be left for other uses. Bleeding them.
I have little doubt in their ability to field many men for a long time and gradually grind at the Ukrainians. I don't take more men under arms as a sign of economic strength for them. But it doesn't matter since our ""allies"" in Europe will fund them more and more through oil purchases so their GDP will grow merely by being a petrostate.
Ukrainians have agency and I am not at all sympathetic to arguments we are egging them on when we give them the arms they ask for. Or that hastening their brutalization by Russia is somehow a moral good.
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16d ago
But GW isn't introducing female space marines. So that's a non-issue.
Females custodes is a change. I'm not sure I'd denounce it as wokeness.
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17d ago
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7d ago
One of these is not like the others.
In the places I have lived they appear to be extremely strongly correlated.
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29d ago
As an ignorance American I read that article and am confused. They don't have a Constitution, so how is anything unconstitutional?
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1hr ago
Or alternatively preemptively use state coercion to force your way before they do. Ban their stuff before they ban ours.
And for the many people who seem to view the state as a club meant to smash the heads of people with different preferences, that's generally their apparent goal.
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1hr ago
In some vague sense we'd be on the slope. Vegans aren't shy about describing how horrific any form of raising animals is. There'd be a push to ban the real thing once an alternative existed.
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6d ago
Perhaps you could proactively explain how these malicious actors got to him. I also don't suppose these bad people made his wife sick or made him take drugs.
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6d ago
ring video of him berating his pregnant wife for taking the car when he needed it or something
I heard the audio and it was egregious. Articles about it may sound like hit pieces because of how very bad he sounds in that recording.
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7d ago
There was a good thread around here about this a few weeks ago. A white nationalist moves to the Midwest and lives among only all-American whites. He despises them of course.
You'd think Midwesern whites were cattle in the form of men the way he describes it.
In 2018 I moved from a racially diverse swing state in the Sun Belt to a homogenous red state up in corn country. This decision was largely motivated by politics—I was looking to retreat to an imagined Hyperborea free of crime and degeneracy where my volk had political autonomy.
The next two years were the most miserable of my life. But they were also among the most instructive, and ultimately were what made me leave WN on an emotional level.
To put it bluntly, most of my white neighbors and coworkers basically resembled hobbits. They had no ambition to them, nor any aspirations of greatness. Nor did they think about the world in a dynamic way—the more educated among them certainly stayed informed about the wider world, but they largely took it for granted that their immediate universe was a static place where nothing would ever happen.
And the horrifying thing is that’s how they liked it.
I quickly discovered that Midwesterners had no sense of imperial destiny and “right to rule” like you see in New Yorkers, Texans, or Californians. They had nothing like the feisty Faustian individualism of Floridians or “fuck you” pride of Appalachians. They didn’t even have the air of faded glory and gothic tragedy you see in the Deep South. It was nothing but aggressively bland conformity everywhere you looked.
At this point I hope he moved back to his sunbelt home and found a good Mexican woman to marry. He certainly doesn't like (non-hispanic) white women.
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8d ago
Every single liberal leftist normie-oriented talking head I ever encountered kept repeating for months
Any chance these drooling morons exist almost entirely in your imagination and almost not at all in real life?
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16d ago
And what happens when more than one party has this attitude? Wild mutual escalation that most people people involved don't even want. Turning what could have been a mild contention into effectively a blood fued.
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16d ago
The classic story of Chuck Palahniuk being a diesel mechanic while writing Fight Club. Frankly a grittier man than some other authors.
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17d ago
Israelis built a truck with a remote control gun on it and killed Iran's top nuclear scientist with it in Iran.
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26d ago
"Let's shut down some nuclear power plants and replace the energy with imported Russian fuel."
-Actual for-real recent German policy.
It's like they read Frank Herbert's bit about hydraulic despotism and decided to become the dependant helpless party in that exchange.
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1hr ago
There's an obvious point that various contrary factions are pushing and pulling the government. So push to get the laws you want or be stuck with the laws they want. Whoever "they" are in any context.
And laws are very sticky, so there's a huge first mover advantage.
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1d ago
I keep seeing posts in my neighborhood about coyotes. "A coyote went through my yard", "Watch out at night, my camera saw a bunch of coyotes running around", etc.
Everyone, yes, I know there are coyotes around here. It is filled with coyotes. Please stop saying you saw one. They are all around every night and sometimes at day. This isn't news. And your little dog that's been missing for a few days was eaten by coyotes the first night it was out.
From a redditor:
More just dumb than clearly some ideology. Unless the ideology is merely that ugliness is desirable.
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