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@realKalos Nah let’s push it harder: cyborg Jocko Willink and a battalion of RoboCops (tm)

We are entering the Capeshit Boss Characters stage of the war. This guy needs to meet a 6'5 redneck marine nicknamed something like "The Boulder" on the battlefield to fist fight him. Kino.

@RefinedLurk @romanhelmetguy You have reading comprehension problems.

@HellscapeT @romanhelmetguy It’s so funny to use this “I bet you got this from a dumb guy” takes when the message stands on its own and digs to the core of the issue

Euros be like: “I would never risk $300M to save the life of a single soldier, but also I would never grow the economy by $300M if it risked the life of a single spotted owl.”

@RX_9999_2 Japanese are really not large enough a group in the USA to stand out. Except perhaps in Hawaii, but I don’t think those came from the best parts of Japanese society.

海外からの日本の評価って今まで集計したデータ的には 「日本にいる日本人の存在感はすごいが、アメリカにいる日本人は大したことない」 になるんだけど、これ普段から本国バカにしてる在外日本人にとっては屈辱的な評価なんじゃ

@mtracey Operation Fast and Furious II: Persian Firepower

I thought it was fake news, or Israeli propaganda, that the United States was doing this

@SaysSimulation In addition to the global economic damage, presumably Iran’s missiles will target Arab & Israeli life support infrastructure causing at least a resettlement crisis if not mass death.

Another way of looking at this is that Iran is threatening to do tremendous damage to the world over the next month. And Trump is saying if you do that, we will destroy your infrastructure for the next decade, starting in two days. Quite the negotiations! 5/

There's a very dark, but fascinating symmetry in play here. Iran is trying to take down the world economy to punish America. They are willing to kill many millions of people with the resulting food shortages. So, Trump responds to that leverage harming Iran worse than 1/

@SaysSimulation This is perfectly reasonable: US and other nuclear powers have explicit doctrines around thermonuclear war in existential situations, this is Irans version of that.

@Indian_Bronson Against the war: * those who hate how the war corrupts the American nation and immiserates the populace * those who find the conduct of the war dishonorable and/or immoral * those who find the war and its aims retarded For the war: * reckless psychopaths * [REDACTED]

It's a fair enough question, even though many would disagree with the precise framing - but let's say: 'Many Americans seem to be rooting for Iranian resistance to US military operations in Iran'. That seems to me like a very factual statement! And one worth answering. I will try to write as simply as I can (Shaun is ofc, brilliant, and this is mostly an exercise for my own discipline) as straightforwardly as I can: Americans feel basically disgusted by the US Government at the moment for a few reasons. First and foremost, a basic premise of the MAGA / America First movement was an end to elective wars waged for, if not entirely, in part driven by foreign interests. Trump dominated Jeb Bush - who was much better funded and more serious as a frontrunner candidate - in South Carolina's primary debate in 2016 (now a decade ago, then but 5 years after the sort-of end of the Iraq War) by saying what everyone, especially the White Working Class (which had been trending ever more rightward on issues of PC Culture and Immigration), in unison with the sincerely anti-War left had been saying: 'The Iraq War was a big fat mistake.' And it was. The entire war was completely irredeemable and frankly, criminal in how it was prosecuted. We should absolutely pursue a legal route as a country of putting many people involved in knowingly spreading likes about Saddam's WMD program in jail or worse. Americans by 2016 were absolutely sick of war, and this was highlighted by their revulsion for Hillary Clinton seemingly celebrating the ouster (and brutal murder) of Gaddafi alongside callousness towards the plight of service members facing the brunt of blowback in Bengazi ("We came, we saw, he died" and "What difference at this point, would it make?"). Trump won in 2016, and through the 2024 election, including the 2020 campaign and through the Biden years in the middle, his supporters always pointed out that Trump started no new wars. In fact, as recently as this past June, huge conservative influencers like Charlie Kirk - who was growing increasingly critical of Israel before his assassination - were praising Trump for seemingly being able to act in a US security interest (keeping the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran from getting a nuke) while not pursuing what is clearly a foreign priority (engaging in a regime change war). So in light of all of that, alongside - for the right at least - a clearly massively de-prioritized domestic agenda of immigration enforcement, actions to go to war seem like rank hypocrisy and an about face on campaign promises, motivated by the intense lobbying and coordination between permanent-enough members of government in the US and Israel alike. That is what has Americans, including sincerely patriotic, nationalist, right wing Americans - if not especially them - extremely riled up and contemptuous of what the US government is doing.

@ddd23 Another reason to consider: Christianity (like Islam) also functions as a social technology to bind different peoples together into one coherent society. My understanding is that Japan hasn’t needed to solve that problem. (Or, as you say, solved it its own way 3000 years ago)

この手の日本と海外(欧米)の宗教話、向こうの人にはなかなか感覚的に理解されづらいんだろうなぁ… 日本って「キリストの直系の子孫みたいな人が3000年前から国王やってて、今でも権威を保ち続けてる国」だから、ぽっと出のよその宗教が布教し始めたらそりゃアウトですよ(´_ゝ｀)

@1059kanri This interestingly parallels the tensions with Christianity in ancient Rome

豊臣秀吉や江戸幕府が日本におけるキリスト教に求めたのは「公権力に従い他宗派を攻撃せず共存しろ」という事であり、共存とは即ち、幕府なり朝廷なりの要請に応じて他宗派と共に法事を行え、という事であって、それを拒否したからこその「禁教令」なわけですね。実は教義の内容とかあまり関係ない

@jon_stokes Drives to work in a huge metal phallus ✅

Male-pattern baldness ✅ Multiple daughters ✅ Large family dog ✅ All the signs are there

@Indian_Bronson This really puts the “win ben steins money” show I watched in the 90s in a different context.

In the same way allegedly high IQ online (lol) get hyped up on 'fan edits' over increasingly abstruse politics, or way low IQ people get shifted around by TV or rap music or social media, all people have some amount of susceptibility to media patterning life-habits for them.

@Indian_Bronson 100% if you’re young. As an old I don’t expect to be able to stay here.

@HellscapeT A great thing to do with a “US” salary if you can is live in Florida or Texas. Some people go all out and do Mexico or Argentina etc. but I think that’s overkill.

The important bit: As more young/non-asset owning Americans realize the US establishment impoverished them by inflationary monetary policy to insulate older/asset owning Americans, the establishment is starting to worry they will opt out & live well for doing so

@Clunio @Tats_Gunso Very interesting! I wonder if this implies that the Japanese did not internalize this same distinction regarding the Mongols, that meat-eating came from pastoralism and not hunting. I suppose this was not the main concern during the Japanese/Mongol interactions, or was forgotten.

@HellscapeT @Tats_Gunso 日本社会には畜肉を目的とした牧畜が歴史的に長く根付かず食肉はもっぱら狩猟で得るものであったので、日本社会の近代化プロセスでヨーロッパ文化の畜肉食文化に接した日本の知識人は、ヨーロッパ文化のエートスを狩猟文化だと誤解してしまったのです。

なぜ日本人が俗説で白人を狩猟民族とラベリングするかというと彼らが肉をたくさん食うからなんだけど、なぜ彼らが肉をたくさん食うかというと彼らの祖先が草原の遊牧・牧畜民だからなんだよね。 現代欧州人の祖先は大別して西部狩猟民、初期アナトリア農耕民、ヤムナヤ牧畜民の３つからなるんだけど、このうち最も言語的・精神的・遺伝的影響が強いのが実は最後のヤムナヤ牧畜民なんだよね。ヤムナヤは印欧語族の祖族と目されていて、人類史的には比較的最近の約五千年前にヨーロッパに侵入し欧州の遺伝子分布を塗り替えたとされている。印欧語族がみな同じ動物でもオスかメスか、仔か成体か、去勢されているか否かの区別にそれぞれ別の単語を当てるのは彼らの祖先に家畜が非常に身近な存在だったから。日本語で米という植物に生えてる状態、収穫された状態、脱穀された状態、調理された状態でそれぞれ別の語を当てるのとは対照的だ。 さてそのヤムナヤだが実は北欧で最も遺伝子比率が高く50%以上にものぼる。北欧の親戚であるゲルマン系とアングロサクソン、またロシアの一部でも高い。つまり現代の我々が思う一番典型的な白人はこのヤムナヤの比率が高いわけだね。そしてこの人たち周辺とその子孫は現代でも文化的に最も肉を食う人々のひとつなわけだ。つまり日本人が欧米人を見て肉を食うとか社交的だとか積極的だとか好戦的だとか拡張的だとかをもって狩猟民族と呼ぶとき、実はそれは彼らの中の遊牧民・牧畜民的性質を見て言ってるわけだ。

@SCHIZO_FREQ @tmuxvim False. Homosexuality requires abundant heteros for both downlow and also style contrast

@tmuxvim OAI is just the best to ever do it. Dario has a nice chatty model now but he will inevitably commit unspeakable crimes against all of humanity. Sam will only destroy the heterosexuals

codex is black magic. I take it for granted now. it's nuts.

@mattbramanti I wonder if the alien breeding program has experienced birthrate collapse, too.

man wouldn't it be crazy if there really were an alien breeding program in the united states just imagine

@Howlingmutant0 This is the esoteric prelude to “margaritaville”

When I was a kid dad would pick me up from school drunk and take me to a restaurant for lunch. Hed make me flirt with the waitress and if they didnt smile hed get hostile towards them. I used to get so nervous I felt ill. But I realize now it wasnt my fault, it was women to blame

@upstatefederlst Sarah Connor is Olympias; concerned with her son’s survival but also raising him to conquer

Terminator 2 would never be made today because Sarah's primary identity is being a mother and her primary motivation is protecting her son.