thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]

Would honestly be sick. Can’t imagine how it’d work because missiles and drones are dispendible though. It would be an RTS where like all your units are petards from AoE II or something. I am sure there’s a way to make this work, just don’t know how.

You can train most mammals, because mammals are generally smart and understand rewards, so yeah I imagine you could train squirrels.

If the US drops a nuke we’ll know immediately. There are a number of robust nuclear monitoring stations around Earth, many of which not at all under American influence. The radiation sgnatures of a nuclear strike are trivial to detect, and will be known almost instantly.

I mean that’s how they’re shooting them down in the UAE. Helicopters with their guns are tracking and then shooting down drones. So you’re right.

Many thought Trump was better than Harris because Trump would clearly lay bare the brutality of American imperial power and, through his hubris, destroy it in an efficient manner. JDPON Don always delivers.

Meanwhile the average North Korean:

They could very well be “dumping Trump” because he’s not deporting enough people and hasn’t implemented the right wing culture war shit that they wanted. The only safeguard against Trump pulling a coup in 2028 is mass organizing, not voter disapproval. Hitler pulled a coup and did a total takeover with only around 30% support; no reason Trump, with the vast apparatus of the US state available to him, cannot do the same. Hell, you can argue he already has.

I mean sure, but what, if anything, does this “approval rating” affect? What happens if he gets even lower approval ratings? Nothing. Trump can just continue to do the same shit.

China, for over two thousand years, has acted sort of like a cultural SCP, absorbing more and more of the globe because people recognize Being Chinese as a set of culutral norms is actually really good. This is just furthering that trend. Chinese isn’t a race, it’s a way of life. The book Chinese Cosmopolitanism by Shuchen Xiang covers this process well.

For context on this:

“In recent weeks, companies in the hi-tech sector have complained about delays in shipments from China of dual-use components. In all the checks we conducted with official bodies, it appears that there is no change in regulations, but rather enforcement that was not practiced in the past. Such technical requests create bureaucratic hurdles,” a government official told Ynet.

“The Chinese are imposing a kind of sanction on us. They don’t officially declare it, but they are delaying shipments to Israel,” a senior figure in one of the factories told Ynet. “They have various excuses and pretexts, such as requiring suppliers from China to obtain export licenses to Israel that did not exist before. Additionally, they demand that we fill out numerous forms, causing significant delays. This has never happened to us before. We are talking about many different types of components. In electronic products, there are tens of thousands of components, but if even one component doesn’t arrive, we cannot deliver the product.”

Note the date, this article is from 2023, so these kinds of soft bans have been ongoing for years. Per https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/b1ze7rrda

Since the “war” in Gaza began, China hasn’t “banned” any investment to Israel. Like the soft-ban on American rare earth metal exports, there’s no “ban” at all. What happens is the proper forms to get the investment pushed through get “lost” or “delayed.” Certain inconsistencies are pointed out. Replies from the proper authorities take months, etc etc. It’s a plausible deniability ban.

I’m not trying to downplay the agency of these monsters, just saying that they probably care way more about money than anything else and don’t really have any sort of moral compass. I’m not saying they were “forced into it” or anything like that, just that they like money and don’t care about the people around them because our society is so atomized. The real mystery here is why that supposedly doesn’t fit into any liberal political theory?

McDonald’s doesn’t have $50k signing bonuses, nor does it give you a gun and make you feel “tough.”

Best part is they didn’t quote the Iliad, they quoted the Brad Pitt Iliad movie. Those lines, and even that sentiment, aren’t in the poem.

If Jesus came back today he’d use an AK-47 instead of a whip

Ah yes, the woke gender ideology of Plato that includes things like uh… men are better than women at everything and that men are reincarnated as women as a punishment.

I was at a rest stop in upstate New York when it happened. Completely surreal. Just random people peeing off the highway breaking out into cheers and applause, and some of the most haunting shit being beamed into the eyes of every child in there. Cursed land.

There’s a good case that deconstruction and Derrida’s method of differance is just applying Marxist dialectics to reading. Derrida was obsessed with finding the “sediment” of words and thoughts, the underlying and historicised meaning behind texts left unsaid. That’s a very materialist and Marxist thing to do!