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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3hr ago
Iranians are friendlier to Western Civilization than Israelis.
If you skip over the whole batshit Islamic theocracy and the "Death to America"/"The Great Satan" thing
chooky
3hr ago
One obvious move is to just get rid of the marriage penalty on taxes. But... here we are seriously looking at getting rid of taxes on tips.
hanikrummihundursvin
4hr ago
I'm not sure where you are from but 'Bomb everything and then watch mass starvation, suffering and death whilst shrugging your shoulders saying 'Iran can't have nukes' sounds, at best, bizarre.
Like, at what point does nuking Israel just become a more humanitarian option to your proposals.
Vacuous predictions. That broken record keeps spinning.
Read a relationships thread here some time. Read similar conversations elsewhere. Observe the collapses in sex, relationships, marriages and fertility. Observe general attitudes to such modern marvels as the Dating App. Observe how men and women talk about each other, as a class. Observe the history of the #MeToo movement, and its deployment of unsustainable coercion and attempts to escalate to the police and jail to settle what it perceived to be failures of the previous sexual order, an order built and defined entirely by the Progressive sexual revolution. Observe the grooming gangs in the UK, the total failure of governments at all levels to do anything but pointedly ignore the problem, and contrast that with their heavy-handed efforts against anyone who refused to allow the subject to be quietly buried. Observe the number of Americans willing to endorse political murder of their opponents, the generally bleak outlook, the proliferation of black pills, the evident rise of extremism on all sides.
It is entirely possible that the above is not your problem. It seems unlikely to me that it will continue to not be your problem indefinitely.
Your life so far has been that of a zealot, flip-flopping from one extreme group to the next, fanning the flames of CW and even civil war wherever he went.
I do not mind personal criticisms. I do mind inaccuracy.
I've spent long portions of my life as a moderate by-the-book "none of this matters, let's just chill out and go to work and save and invest in the stock market and let the experts sort it all out." When I became an extremist, I have been the sort that points out that widespread endorsement of unrestrained, lawless mob violence in support of tyrannical and unaccountable government authority will end badly, that incentives are decisive, and that sooner or later reckless hatred will recoil to the ruin of those who wield it. And now I confine myself to attempting to warn people of the foolishness they are evidently stumbling toward.
always trying to force on others the one thing, or its opposite.
It's an evocative image, but the charge is baseless. I do not want to rule you. I do want to live in an orderly, structured environment, and I understand that this requires a non-trivial degree of coercion. There are many whose idea of an ordered, structured environment conflict with my own; we should each do our best to leave each other's communities alone, up to and including moving away from each other. To the extent that it is possible, I want to live in peace and plenty. To the extent that living in peace and plenty is not possible, I am pretty sure it is not the fault of people like me.
It would help to identify our enemies first. Iranians are friendlier to Western Civilization than Israelis.
hanikrummihundursvin
4hr ago
That would be a relevant point if we knew nothing about Iran. But we do know things about Iran so I don't see the need for games of analogy.
veqq
4hr ago
I would have guessed it's another Iraq, but it's two of them.
Iraq's population has nearly doubled since 2000, like Afghanistan and Gaza. So Iran is actually 4 2003 Iraqs.
Lizzardspawn
4hr ago
Doesn't really matter. That is the thing with shooting people - if the penalty is swift and inevitable you won't be forced to shoot too many of them.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
4hr ago
The goalposts moving past abortion would be a surprise to the million women who get abortions each year.
From American Conservative link, it's a good example of what I mean by the Online Right's poverty fetish:
It should go without saying that the success sequence as it is actually practiced in the United States is possible only because of artificial contraception. It is not love of chastity that leads the vast majority of Americans who attain it to “delay parenthood,” as the literature puts it, but the apparently successful attempt of pharmaceutical corporations to reduce the marital act to a sterile parody. Whatever virtues the average middle-class American couple exhibit by “delaying,” they are not natural ones. They are really showing us their disordered understanding of prudence, which has become a synonym for convenience.
{snip}
Which is why I say without hesitation that pregnancy outside wedlock is superior to the success sequence. While fornication is indeed a grave sin against chastity, it is not disordered. It is a natural act, albeit one taking place outside its proper context. Where the success sequence is parsimonious, elevating lust and the pursuit of wealth above other natural goods, pregnancy is liberal in the old-fashioned sense of the word, indeed by the standards of our professional class, even munificent. It involves the failings of youth and, by economy, the goods proper to it: heedlessness, generosity, and a kind of awe before creation, in which it quite literally participates.
veqq
4hr ago
if [Afghanistan] had only half their population
Afghanistan's population more than doubled during American occupation, from 20 to 42-5 million. The Gaza strip similarly went from 1 to 2.1 million, at the same time.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4hr ago
Me: [looks at photo of Natalie Winters] “I would let her press my correspodent until my whole house is white, if you know what I mean!”
From outside it seems that all major sides of US political discourse are cursed with insanity of a special kind, that comes only for powerful and wealthy. You can't solve anything alone but participating in creating and shaping a subculture is the closest you can come to it. Yes, MAGA people are mostly retards, that should only motivate you to find a viable alternative and use them to your advantage. Neoliberal status quo forces are too entrenched for this, too fixed in their structure and institutions, you can't have a sensible centrist reform there, you need to dive into chaotic primordial soup of a radical variety. Movements quite often are turned on their head and completely transformed from inside, some small group in the right circumstances can capture the minds of hundreds of millions of people. Nobody expected the radical communists, the ISIS of their time, to come to power anywhere, much less the largest European state. Yudkowsky built a subculture alone, from some scraps in a cave and now it holds the hearts of many people who try to bring the singularity into existence. You shouldn't be BASEDtm, but you should still be based in the original meaning, trying to build a solid base for something better which can include not only sensible university educated people, but same unvaccinated retards and even the basement dwellers.
P. S. Looking at this, I think this comment feels disjointed and off topic to the op, but I will leave it as is because something in your text inspired me to write this, so why not let it exist
Shrike
4hr ago
It's built for precision strikes, not mass destruction (unless nukes).
Yes, the USAF is built for precision strikes, but the US builds guided bombs the way the Russians build artillery shells. We've made over half a million JDAM kits (although of course we've used a lot of them). Assuming a stockpile of around 200,000, we have roughly one precision guided-bomb for every squad in the Iranian military. That's without getting tapping our inventories of cruise missiles, guided missiles, guided and unguided rockets, or cannon ammo at all.
The MOP is a bespoke weapon designed to fill a small niche, and the fact that it has been procured in small numbers doesn't reflect on the broader state of the USAF's procurement of guided weapons.
Tree
4hr ago
I don't take responsibility for any action committed or idea defended by anyone left of center. I don't agree with trans policy. On the issue of permissibility of sex, the trad project involves a lot of coercion and the liberal one doesn't. I don't give a shit about your left-right spats and choose my policies on other criterias, like coercion. Also @Hadad .
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
4hr ago
I'm honestly pretty confused as to how this got communicated so poorly, but you seem to be acting in good faith so I'll take responsibility for the miscommunication.
I tried to differentiate earlier between "missiles", "interceptors" and "JDAMs/bunker busters". Perhaps you are not aware of the difference, which is fair.
When I say "missiles", I mean weapons like Tomahawks, PrSM, JASSM, JSOW. Guided missiles with engines that target and destroy things. When I say "interceptors" I mean missiles that shoot down other missiles. "JDAMs" are dumb bombs (think ww2) that have guidance kits (computer+wings) strapped on so they can aim and hit things. However JDAMs need to be dropped much closer to the thing being exploded, as they have no engines. Bunker busters are basically fuck-off huge JDAMs + some extra tricks.
What is keeping China out of Taiwan right now, is that they are not confident that they can keep the US Navy far enough away from Taiwan to stop the USA from blowing up all their landing/resupply craft to execute a miliary occupation of the island.
So every Tomahawk, PrSM, JASSM, or JSOW shot at Iran, cannot be shot at a Chinese landing ship (or missile launcher, or SAM, or shipyard, or airbase, etc). Every interceptor used to shoot down an Iranian ballistic missile cannot be used to defend against a Chinese missile.
Hence why I said that if America bombed Iran with only JDAMs, that wouldn't effect readiness against China, as JDAMs are useless against China (can't get close enough to release). However this feels unrealistic as it would be high-risk, lower effectiveness. Usually militaries don't tie one arm behind their back. Also even if you only use JDAMs, you're still going to need to use interceptors when they start shooting back.
There is no universe in which the USA is bombing TSMC facilities. I'm really not sure how I gave that impression, but to be clear that is not happening. There are allegedly "kill switches" in fabs to make the machines not work anymore in the event of an occupation.
In a hot war with China I assume that the USA would target mainland Chinese facilities for strikes. Although it's actually an interesting question as I doubt they could materially impact Chinese war production given the size and distribution of it. Russia can't even shut down Ukrainian war production. So shooting at their mainland might not be worth inviting China to start lobbing things at LA. Who knows, that's beyond my pay grade lol. They would definitely be trying to swat every plane from the sky, sink every ship on the sea, and destroy ground based missile launchers in and around Taiwan.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4hr ago
One MOP may not do it, but the MOPs are made to be used in multiples.
Hadad
4hr ago
Not true, not convincing
True, and I'm convinced. You might not be, but that's fine.
If stopping proliferation were all Ted wanted to do in Iran maybe youd have a point. But its not. So you dont.
If Ted starts advocating for boots on the ground and a commitment to rebuilding Iran, I will oppose him -- but it still wouldn't matter that he doesn't know the population.
Becauase if there is a civil war, then all of the progressives in America are going to do whatever they can to import a billion refugees.
They will do this anyway. The way forward is to not let progressives have power, not to hope they won't abuse the world to import infinite third worlders.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
4hr ago
Like the sorts of police who show up with a court order taking children away from parents who won’t trans them?
Are those the police you are referring to? Because that sounds coercive to me, at least.
Hadad
4hr ago
I ask again: do you think the left does not use real coercion to promote their values and ways of life?
Tree
5hr ago
Vacuous predictions. That broken record keeps spinning.
Your life so far has been that of a zealot, flip-flopping from one extreme group to the next, fanning the flames of CW and even civil war wherever he went. Life at the end of a horseshoe, annexing societal and personal dissatisfaction for one cause or another (you're mad as hell, and you're not going to take it anymore), always trying to force on others the one thing, or its opposite. Perhaps too personal a criticism, but you’re bringing up your personal journey and mental health as an argument, so let it be weighed.
phosphorus2
5hr ago
America loves doomed interventions and military misadventures, but it loves them because it has such an overwhelming military and wealth advantage over everyone else it can afford to be reckless and half-ass imperialism
Not true, not convincing
I reject that population size is an important factor when deciding to halt nuclear proliferation. It is the military and the President who will handle the logistics of destruction and/or conquest.
If stopping proliferation were all Ted wanted to do in Iran maybe youd have a point. But its not. So you dont.
What? No, of course it means those things. Why do you think Ted Cruz or people who support bombing Iran care about another civil war in the Middle East? So long as they're not nuclear, they're welcome to go full Mad Max.
Becauase if there is a civil war, then all of the progressives in America are going to do whatever they can to import a billion refugees.
Sloot
5hr ago
:laughingcrying_emoji:
Has she ever acknowledged the irony of her being persistently extra over the phrase “high maintenance”?
YOLO; funemployment is a general value-add when it comes to freeing-up schedule.
How long are you going to keep doing this? Why can't you just put forward your positions and then defend them instead of constantly strawmanning your opponents? And no matter what you think, that is what you are doing to Natalie Winters. Well, aside from boosting her media profile. I'll admit, this was a unique variant, but that is still all you do, strawman your opponents and then demand they defend your insane understanding of their position. Cut it out for fucks sake.
And being so low-class the spacetime continuum bends under the enormous weight of it.
And being so low-class the spacetime continuum bends under the enormous weight of all the trash.
And being so low-class the sheer inferiority warps the spacetime continuum.
And being so low-class the very air around them felt greasy.
What does lack of class weigh Alex?
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