functor
2mo ago
How popular do you think dragging the middle east into a major war is? People hate Israel from the start, now their tourist business in Dubai is shut down because of Israel.
functor
2mo ago
Various Somalis are in no way an existential threat to Jews and they would rather live in an area with some Somalis than an all white area.
functor
2mo ago
The people in the middle east are not going to like Israel more after another Israeli war of aggression. Meanwhile the rest of the world gets a continued reminder of what a warmongering and alien state Israel is. More Americans supported Palestine than israel in a poll for the first time in the US. That number is going to take a big jump.
functor
2mo ago
Their neighbors have been pushed back as Israel has stolen land and driven millions of people off it. Many of them are now in Europe.
functor
2mo ago
In multiple ways. The US population is tired of these wars.
The US military is dumber, smaller, and worse equipped than before.
The US is stuck feeding a black hole of a war in Ukraine while trying to keep pace with China even though China is far more cost efficient and has a larger industrial base. A repeat of the Iraq war wouldn't be possible today.
functor
2mo ago
The US failed miserably in Yemen. The US managed a kidnapping in Venezuela, not regime change. The US is bombing Iran because they can't actually invade countries anymore.
What winning?
functor
2mo ago
The policy of expanding Israel, attacking their neighbours and helping migrants get to Greece. Israel is a major refugee smuggler into Europe. Meanwhile they push millions of arabs out of their homes.
functor
2mo ago
It really isn't.
Wanting to genocide a population that largely consists of children because of LGBTQXYZ issues is beyond extreme.
Israel's policy of trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza and move millions of refugees to Europe isn't popular with a decent portion of the gay community in Europe.
functor
2mo ago
Do I think a homogenous society is more difficult for ethnic minorities than diverse societies? Absolutely.
Also the worst times for jews have been in all white societies.
functor
2mo ago
Jews have been kicked out of 110 countries. They have been in conflict with Europeans since the roman times. The jews were not happy in catholic spain and worked with the muslims. Jewish communists killed millions of christians in Eastern Europe. They were regularly banned from various European countries.
They do prefer a jewish ethnostate to diversity.
functor
2mo ago
Much rather than live in a homogenous state where there culture and ethnic background sticks out. They are a naturally cosmopolitan people and naturally gravitate to the most diverse parts of the US and Europe. They are mainly afraid of white homogenous societies, not individual immigrants who might go a bit bonkers. The diversity has never really done any serious harm to jews.
functor
2mo ago
The natural state is that the vast majority of goyim hate them. The fact that some of the boomers actually like them speaks volumes to the effectiveness of propaganda. Without the propaganda the US would probably have had bouts of pogroms. Christians and jews are naturally incompatible. Getting sections of Christians to like jews is an impressive feat of propaganda.
functor
2mo ago
Jews want to live in a multicultural state. Flooding Minnesota with minorities is in line with what they want.
A few Somalis are far less of a threat to jewery than a homogenous society is.
functor
2mo ago
This debate is like blind men debating what an elephant is while one is touching the tail, another one the trunk and the belly.
Programming is everything from wordpress to high frequency trading. It is everything from tiny teams to products with tens of thousands of people working on them. Some teams are extremely particular in how they write code, others will accept pretty much anything. People won't agree because they fundamentally have completely different visions of what programming is. At some places developers are given highly detailed tickets, at other places they are given a loose description on what to work on for the next couple of months. It is easy to underestimate how many devs have jobs which barely entail more than "make the button blue", "make a postman test for a simple API".
We will probably see a major wash out of people who took a react or python tutorial and expected an upper middle class lfestyle.
With that said a developer speed has generally not been limited by the speed of coding. A product I worked on averaged two lines of code per day per developer. The company was inefficient but so much time was spent on other things. The average dev is probably only coding at 50% speed. A 50% speed boost to coding will only increase work output by 25%. That is reasonable and it is possible that the labour market can swallow 25% more software.
functor
3mo ago
McNamara's Idiots, sending low Iq people to Vietnam while capable people managed to dodge the draft.
Sending mediocrely talented soldiers to Afghanistan for deployments that last a few months while spending exorbitant amounts of money keeping them comfortable instead of having high quality people spend years in Afghanistan and building relations with the locals.
The fringes of the US empire have been nibbled by a lack of conviction by the American elite class.
functor
3mo ago
Furthermore they should teach that other countries have wide spread use of public transit and even wealthy people use it. Meanwhile in the US Rosa Parks made public transit a last resort option for those too poor to care about being stabbed.
functor
3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOS-2
The Russians use it to clear out areas before attack.
functor
3mo ago
The Russians aren't storming head on. They are semi surrounding fortresses and then droning the Ukrainian logistics. To make matters worse for Ukraine Russia has a clear advantage in air power and in thermobaric MLRS that allow them to pound these fortifications.
functor
3mo ago
Ukraine essentially has no real initiative or ability to do anything larger scale. In 2022 they had two big and succesfull counter offensives. In 2023 they had a large summer counter offensive. In 2024 they did Kursk. In 2025 and into 2026 they have been losing ground at a noticeably higher rate while not being able to launch any real counter offensives.
functor
3mo ago
The best time to join the war is on the end. If one was to join WWII as a Russian the best time would have been to arrive at the front when it was in Berlin and after a tiny bit of action take a selfie at the reichstag.
Russia clearly has the momentum in this war. Ukraine is losing ground faster and faster, Ukraine has rising desertion rates and the highly motivated fanatical elements of the Ukrainian military are largely spent. People want to join the winning team and Russia is clearly the team to bet on at this point.
functor
3mo ago
It would be interesting to see what they would think if a large group of illegal mexicans with criminal records showed up to their Yoga class. The issue with this class of people is that their worldview doesn't add up. They want to live among white middle class people who want to invite the world. This will result in them living in world different from what they want.
functor
3mo ago
I don't see how the US will ever be a manufacturing country when a house for an engineer in a city is a million dollars, medical insurance for a family is 2000+ dollars a month and an engineering degree starts at 100k dollars. Being a country built on assets being inflated to the moon is incompatible with manufacturing.
China wanted its bubble to pop because BYD's engineers can rent condos for far less per square meter than what GM engineers can.
Further more the US birthrate is 1.6 children per woman. That is an almost 25% drop in population over the course of one generation. This is while the construction industry continues to pump out housing. This is pretty much a commitment to continued mass immigration.
functor
3mo ago
The amount of silver shorts vastly exceeds the amount of silver. China sits on a substantial amount of the world's physical silver. China could very well decide to play a game of chicken against the short sellers by wildly buying silver even at high prices. Their silver gains in value as the price climbs and a silver short squeeze is every silver investor's dream. Silver going parabolic would undermine wall street and strengthen the resource rich part of the world.
China doesn't want to replace the dollar with the Yuan, they want a decentralized world with a global reserve currency that isn't controlled by one single entity. Precious metals make an ideal reserve currency for them.
This war was not popular before the war
The wars in the middle east tend to age like milk with steadily declining once they start running into problems. Trump is attempting to achieve in weeks what the US failed to do in 20 years in Afghanistan with trillions wasted. It isn't going to work. Oil prices will rise and the media will be full of pictures of war and disaster. Trump really shot himself in the foot.
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