Gamer’s traditionally have less political sophistication than a dead dog. Recent highly visible gamer moves have included review bombing Helldivers, screaming about not being able to see both labia t the same time in Stellar Blade, and whatever that Sweet Baby/DEI thing I haven’t bothered to look at is. Idk what the scale of...
We first heard of AdVon last year, after staff at Gannett noticed product reviews getting published on the website of USA Today with bylines that didn’t seem to correspond to real people. The articles were stilted and formulaic, leading the writers’ union to accuse them of being “shoddy AI.”...
uhh, yeah. If we give him what he wants he’ll go right back to comitting genocide.
When power balks, when it takes a step back, you don’t congratulate yourself and go home. You kick it in the balls, stab it in the throat, and steal it’s wallet. There’s no “incremental change”, you either go all the way or you lose everything. We didn’t “win” by making Biden stop sending bombs, because he didn’t stop sending bombs. this is feint, and if we fall for it he’s going to shiv us in the kidneys.
The fash are out there re-writing the books right now. “But my molotov ribbentrop!” Like the cccp wasn’t the last power in Europe to sign a treaty with the Nazis after every country in Europe froze them out. The Soviets spent most of the 30s trying to build a coalition to invade and destroy Hitler before he could re-arm and all of Europe told them to go fuck themselves bc they thought the Nazis would go east and solve their communism problem.
Also, semi-related but I love how just by shitposting on a piracy community I caused an inter-instance diplomatic crisis and had 2 (PoS) admins banned, lol wasn’t my intention but I’m glad they showed their true self, so to say.
Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It’s like a reflex or impulse and honestly it’s kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There’s like no thought or contemplation, it’s just see the insect, and then...
As you know, there was always an American flag 🇺🇸 flying in that location till the protestors commandeered the companion flagpole and replaced the GW flag with a giant Palestinian flag which was illegal for several reasons inc. “When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size.”
It was literally already written and waiting in a folder for the next time blowback came along and gave them an excuse. 9/11 was inevitable, someone was going to blow something up sooner or later. They were just waiting for an excuse.
Iran was a much harder target than Iraq. More mountains, more unified populace, a whole bunch of factors. Iraq had been crushed by a decade of sanctions and as far as I know never really recovered from the destruction wrought in 91. I have no idea how smart anyone in the Bush admin was, whether they had any idea what they were actually up against. Their complete, buffoonish ignorance about Iraqi culture and politics was a constant topic of discussion back in the day. The whole yellow cake kayfabe.
It’s hard for me, at least, to say how much of Iraq was planned and how much was a raft of fools stumbling from one disaster to another but always having unlimited funds and materiel to throw in to the chaos to keep things going. I’ve heard people who were there talk about the absolute clusterfuck at every level - From US soldiers who never really understood what they were doing, from people who worked in the “reconstruction” effort and described just mind-blowing levels of cultural ignorance and ideology. Views on the motive for the invasion have changed a lot over the years. It went form oil, to MIC grifting, to a large scale strategic plot to destabilize the region.
it was probably equal parts planned, plans going bad, culturally ignorant and incurious Americans, and the chaos of an inept state with an inpet military doing something really stupid with no clear objective. The US government isn’t a monolith, it’s neither helplessly foolish nor hyper competent. And probably a lot of cases where people’s expertise in one area didn’t translate to general competence.
Like I remember the absolute fiasco when un-armored Humvees that were never supposed to be anything but scout and utility vehicles started getting owned by IEDs. There was this whole period were the public found out that soldiers were welding scrap metal to their trucks to try to protect themselves from bombs. They found out there was really no defense against IEDs, the whole concept of an IED entered the public consciousness. I think the body armor thing was happening at the same time, where infantry didn’t have worth while body armor. Just cheap flak vests from the 80s if they had anything. It was a huge public relations disaster for Bush. They had to dump a lot of resources in to procurring body armor and MRAPs (Mine resistant ambush protected, a kind of large truck looking APC). The MRAP thing was a fiasco, every firm in the US that knew how to weld was building these over-weight, badly engineered, barely functional monster trucks. The US Army’s hardware is notoriously shit, from what I remember all they had at the time for infantry transport was unarmored trucks, bradley IFVs, and shitty old M113s. maybe a few of whatever the predessecor to the strykers was.
So they put in all these procurrement orders for any truck with armor and a V-hull, and they get tons of shitty overweight trucks that couldn’t go off road due to their massive weight and being massive top heavy, they couldn’t go on many roads in iraq for the same reason, they were all slapped together by MIC grifters so there were all kinds of parts problems, it was a huge mess on every level.
What happened there? Did the regime not anticipate the use of bombs and mines to ambush patrols? Did they think the Iraqis would just surrender and they wouldn’t need armored vehicles or body armor? Did they anticipate those things but believe that the US public would accept the resulting casualties? I have no idea. There are probably documents somewhere. How much of it was ignorance, how much was foolishness, how much was poor planning, how much was calculated indifference?
Right? I am so tired of this. there’s no exciting grand conspiracy, it’s just the normal bs the US does every day. It’s not a conspiracy because it’s all legal and they admitted to it. What “truth” to people expect to find? The US does a bunch of evil intelligence bullshit? That the US alphabet soup is a bizarre combination of frightening cold blooded competence and laughable keystone kops?
Like even putting aside that kinds of random shit survives fires, floods, plane crashes, nuclear bombings, what are we even talking about? How did they recover the passports? They picked them off the ground, just like they did huge amounts of other debris. This isn’t even a debunking, there’s nothing to debunk, stuff survives airline crashes and building collapses and every other kind of disaster. It’s completely banal, a leading question that leads nowhere.
Like, every event in the US is full of this. People are talking about the true-anon series about 9/11, and yeah, it’s full of weird shit because it’s America and we’re up to our eyeballs in spies, cops, foreign influence operations, terrorists, gusanos, Banderites, the scum of every coup and color revolution. This is a nation of assassins, thieves, spies, crooks, and criminals. You can find evidence of conspiracies everywhere because there are conspiracies everywhere. except, most of the time, it’s not a conspiracy because it’s legal and they admit to it. But it’s just boring shit; killing protest leaders, cops framing political enemies, insider trading, regulatory capture, intelligence failures, FBI entrapment bs. None of this is obscure or hidden or suppressed, it’s been front page news for decades. PREDATOR and ECHELON were conspiracy theories right up until Snowden spilled the tea, but after that the NSA wiretap scheme was blown wide open, all over the news. That UN investigator who locked himself inside a bag from inside the bag in the woods then died was screaming that Iraq had no WMDs, and people knew it at the time or shortly after. They didn’t care, they wanted blood and didn’t care whose blood it was, but it was in the news. Is it a conspiracy that he was killed for trying to fuck up the grift? Dude was found locked inside a duffle bag and they called it a suicide. That’s not a conspiracy, that’s a government that knows it’s untouchable and doesn’t care enough to cover its tracks. When the regime didn’t find WMDs they just moved the goal posts, right out in the open, where everyone could see it, and they got away with it. The Iraq war protest movement was one of the largest in history up to that time. Why doesn’t anyone remember it? It’s not a conspiracy, the US Media just deliberately didn’t cover it. No coverage, no impact on public awareness. Its’ not a conspiracy because it was legal and they did it in full view of the public.
My take is that the US political class was operating on the correct belief that their violence would lead to an event that would give them the excuse they needed to launch USAPATRIOT and the GWOT, or something like it. I guess you could compare it to, idk, flooding of a drained swamp. You know that a swamp will flood next time there’s a big rain upstream. You don’t have to destroy the dikes. You just wait for your moment. Like a predator employing an ambush hunting strategy. They know prey will come along and they’re content to wait.
Analyzing the occupation and invasion is hard for me. If you assume their goal was to remove Saddam and create a stable regional “democratic” ally under US hegemony they clearly fucked up and were totally incompetent. If you assume their goal was to get filthy stinking rich, prop up the MIC, expand the US police state, and they didn’t really give a shit about Iraq or about the US military, then they succeeded spectacularly. Idk how much of each is true.
It’s astonishing rrealizing how much of American political thought is just this intense kayfabe of presenting a real political system while rigidly upholding the status quo at all costs.
I agree, it is a dumbfuck argument. If you told someone that they democrats just let Roe die without opposition they’d say you’re a nut, that’s ridiculous, that would never happen, the democrats would fight tooth and nail, pull out every stop, take to the streets, riot, revolt, to protect Roe! “You lost Roe under Biden” is a dumbfuck argument. It’s the most dumbfuck thing imaginable, and the fact that it literally happened should have been a wakeup for the democrat base.
Hate crusades in gamer "activism" ? What's actually happening? (www.404media.co)
Gamer’s traditionally have less political sophistication than a dead dog. Recent highly visible gamer moves have included review bombing Helldivers, screaming about not being able to see both labia t the same time in Stellar Blade, and whatever that Sweet Baby/DEI thing I haven’t bothered to look at is. Idk what the scale of...
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Now that president biden is getting tough on israel, yall got any more of them reasons to let trump win? (www.reddit.com)
18+ [CW// sex/ Swastika] how do they come up with this? (hexbear.net)
Fucking Soros. He never paid for my services. (hexbear.net)
dbzer0 defederation vote
db0 and Unruffled have both been banned for reactionary behavior and, in the case of the former, DM harassment....
Trump's federal classified docs trial date postponed indefinitely (www.axios.com)
Adam Sessler droped a take so bad he deleted his account (hexbear.net)
galaxy-brain
Ukronazi shows video of Uzbekistanis celebrating their Soviet heritage: (hexbear.net)
starts calling them all Russians and nazis
Does anyone get the feeling that we're going to see a huge censoring of the internet under the guise of "preventing violent extremism"?
I feel like the TikTok ban is only the start....
You know someone has fash tendencies when they... (CW:Violence)
Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It’s like a reflex or impulse and honestly it’s kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There’s like no thought or contemplation, it’s just see the insect, and then...
Genocide Joe (hexbear.net)
Vote Joe 2024
Anti-genocide protesters at George Washington University in D.C. project a giant image of "Genocide Joe" onto on enormous American flag hung by counter-protesters (www.reddit.com)
Awesome....
Ok, but how did they recover the mf hijacker passports from 9/11
They recovered four, three of them AT the crash sites! How. The black boxes didn’t even survive. cat-confused
"Everyone knows Helldivers is satire!" (hexbear.net)
Ahh, yes. Our old foes, Nncredibledfense
The average public policy professor (hexbear.net)
Only KKKhama$$ would advocate for such vile principles such as, clean up after yourself, and drink water. (hexbear.net)
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Bulletins and News Discussion from April 29th to May 5th, 2024 - Césaire's Boomerang - COTW: United States (hexbear.net)
Also known as “Foucault’s boomerang” or the “imperial boomerang”....
Libs' Schrödinger's presidency. Biden is a smol bean president incapable of doing anything to pack the court or to stop fascism. etc. Trump will be a king fascist president destroying democracy. (hexbear.net)
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