It is the best gun to use in America due to the widespread proliferation of ammunition, mods and optics for it. Not saying it is the best gun in a vacuum, but here it is

Guess he’s given up fully on being the Liberal technomessiah and is going all in on being mechaHitler

Bit of rare honesty followed by the usual lies

Some of their sister vessels had made calls to Israeli ports in the past year, an analysis of shipping data showed.

First time I’ve seen western press admit the links that attacked ships have to Israel. Usually they obfuscate and mention everything except the Israeli connections (ie they’ll mention it’s Greek owned and Liberian flagged, but fail to mention it is headed for Israel. Or they’ll mention it’s headed for Saudi Arabia but fail to mention it’s Israeli billionaire owned).

The Houthis [sic] attacked more than 100 ships from November 2023 to December 2024. In May, the U.S. announced a deal to stop bombing the Houthis in return for an end to shipping attacks, though the Houthis said the deal did not include sparing Israel.

The deal was merely a ceasefire between the American Navy and Ansarallah. There was nothing in the conditions of the deal about “sparing shipping” for Israeli ships

Israel will do more airstrikes as soon as they are ready, citing nuclear weapon progress. Iran will have to respond. The ceasefire is more just both sides taking a breather after they got their respective shits kicked in

Very few people alive in the DPRK were around for the Korean War. The reason the population remains committed to anti-imperialist principles even decades and generations later is because of a good education system and strong socialist public life. The extent to which the Chinese and USSR populations were too complacent to defend their comrades abroad is a failure of those educational systems.

Thank you for the recommendation, this was a very good read. I’ll need to get this book.

don’t look up the original context of that image

ACLU has an app that does this.

https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/aclu_blue_faq.pdf

Link is for Texas app, I believe there’s one available for every state. Laws differ from state to state so they have to build the app differently I guess. Just search “ACLU video upload app state”

Seriously if you are gonna get shitcanned for it anyway, go big.

The people generally are for a more aggressive stance, while it’s the leaders who are capitulationist. Look at Armenia and Iran right now, there are protests and riots because they are pissed at the governments inaction and cowardice against western aggression. The people demand a stronger stance.

So be it. WW3 would bring about global communism. Instead we get the doomed ending with humanity consuming itself via fascism and climate collapse.

With how much Russia is able to sustain toe-to-for attrition warfare against the west, imagine if the USSR, even in its late stages under Gorbachev, actually committed to a full scale attrition war against the West when it continued its imperialist aggressions. Actually took control of Europe by force and kept the West out of Eurasia and Africa.

Over half of Ukraine’s munitions and equipment is ex-soviet. Imagine if that was pointed West instead of East while we had the chance. The war would be a guaranteed victory.

I really think prioritizing unjust peace over anti-imperialist principled positions has been the most consistent mistake of the socialist projects thus far. War should not be shirked from over all else or we get Pez and Gorby and China’s foreign policy, which results in the West setting up as it sees fit to pick off the weakest links one by one.

i wish it were S300s and S400s, but unfortunately probably more likely that it’s more mundane and routine. Russia doesn’t have tons of spare systems sitting around to my knowledge.

Have you not seen those geoguessers on YouTube who can correctly identify a location from like a 1 second flash static image? A lot of that is meta things specific to google maps or the game, but if people have teams and resources not just a 1 second flash they can almost certainly narrow it down

now that’s a show that disappeared into the cultural blackhole. Not seen anybody mention nip/tuck in a decade

Interesting development. It used to be that developing countries want to attract as many foreigners as possible to stimulate the local economy with their strong currencies, now people are even fed up with American tourists.

The governments and corporations want to attract tourists and foreigners. The working classes generally do not. This same dynamic has been witnessed basically in every tourist hub. “Developing countries” are not a monolith

There would be no poverty in a hypothetical socialist republic and no ability for any group to vote any other group into it. Old geriatrics just cannot be trusted to govern selflessly

It’s so easy for him. Literally all he has to do is talk to the world leaders the rest of western media pretends cannot be talked to

I really do not understand the compulsion within old people to destroy the world on their way out. These are people with grandkids who won’t let go of their wealth and power and are fine dooming their own lineage out of spite

Voting power (in a hypothetical socialist republic) really should be pro-rated to remaining life expectancy. Those with skin in the game’s opinions matter more than those on the way out

Just put them in work camps or tie their work visas to their employers discretion for indentured servitude. They need the migrant labor, they don’t need to treat them fairly or pay them well.