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the us is sanctioning dji now just gonna sanction itself out of existence it looks like
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Dec 15, 2021 05:53
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Dec 15, 2021 06:06
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Centrist Committee posted:the us is sanctioning dji now got a link? only things i see are from 2020?
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Dec 15, 2021 06:18
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crepeface posted:got a link? only things i see are from 2020? https://www.ft.com/content/fbcf9467-5b7e-4a81-8b40-d829fefa09ae quote:
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Dec 15, 2021 06:20
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“Chinese military-industrial complex companies” sure is a phrase
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Dec 15, 2021 06:30
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it's almost as if the issues the US has with China all boil down to them projecting subconscious guilt onto the big bad yellow peril. 🤔
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Dec 15, 2021 06:45
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Like do DJI even gives a poo poo to "american investors"
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Dec 15, 2021 07:00
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8 year old me would've been extremely excited to see this.
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Dec 15, 2021 07:03
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touring decomissioned US warships does more for recruiting than any commercial or video game. poo poo was cool. frigate level on goldeneye was one of the best
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Dec 15, 2021 07:17
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hopefully that Mikuma meets a fate similar to the last one
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Dec 15, 2021 07:34
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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...pgtype=homepage God, they're even beating us at World Trade Center attacks E: it's an electrical fire Mantis42 has issued a correction as of 08:26 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dec 15, 2021 08:24
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WATCH XI START A FU- wait no he's not gonna do that
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Dec 15, 2021 08:29
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Mantis42 posted:https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...pgtype=homepage 
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Dec 15, 2021 08:29
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holy sh*t that tanya execution at 12:20
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Dec 15, 2021 08:40
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Notice that the Uyghurs knew not to come in to work today...
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Dec 15, 2021 08:49
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Pornographic Memory posted:Haven't been reading this thread but did anybody mention the Tom Clancy book where China invades Russia and the US invites Russia into NATO? Because that one was completely bonkers. I read it as a teenager and didn't really get how just about everything in that book is just pure right wingers' wet dream splattered all over the pages even though it's so obvious now looking back at it the Clancyverse is a magical place see, most of his deranged right-wing wank fantasies happen in the same universe. This means that, in his utopian right-wing fantasy, all of the following things have happened: - the IRA have teamed up with the Black Panthers to attempt to assassinate the Prince of Wales on US soil, almost successfully, failing only because the IRA men stopped in the middle of the operation to kill their American allies for no reason - Palestinian militants, ex-East German communists, and the American Indian Movement have teamed up to nuke the Super Bowl. the Palestinians stop in the middle of the operation to kill their American ally for no reason, but the operation is still ultimately successful. the US has been nuked in Clancyverse. - the US suffers a major epidemic, which results in a nationwide lockdown enforced by strict martial law, which every state complies with and which faces no significant resistance from the populace. the only characters in the book to express opposition to being trapped at a random truck stop for months by the lockdown are two terrorists who were in the process of trying to drive a bomb to their target and are annoyed that the lockdown is getting in the way of the terrorism they're trying to do. the epidemic turns out to have been a bio-terror attack by Iran. - the US comes within a hair's breadth of suffering a second epidemic-causing bio-terror attack, this time by a militant wing of the loving Sierra Club. - Iran and Iraq have briefly merged into a single country, which the US has gone to war with. - the US has fought a war with China. - the US has fought a war with loving Japan. - almost the entire US federal government has been killed by a Japanese ultranationalist in a kamikaze attack on the Capitol during a State of the Union address. - the President's daughter has been kidnapped by Iranian-backed terrorists. - a Secret Service agent has attempted to assassinate the President because he (the agent) is Muslim, and was foiled only because one of the other agents took the bullets out of his gun. - a group of Islamist terrorists have snuck across the Mexican border into the US and shot up a mall in a small Midwestern US town, killing a lot of people before a heroic citizen with a gun stops them. as the terrorists are bleeding out on the ground, the hero literally grabs a football from a sporting goods store and puts the football in their hands and says they're holding a pigskin from a genuine American pig and the terrorist's eyes are filled with horror because he knows he's going to hell now. - the Israel-Palestine conflict has been solved forever by turning Jerusalem into a Vatican-style religious city-state with security responsibilities turned over to the Swiss Guards. - the US has formally instituted the 'Ryan Doctrine', which states that the US reserves the right to execute the head of state of any country they deem to have 'ordered attacks on American citizens, territory, or possessions'. it has exercised this right by murdering the Ayatollah of Iran on live television. all of this has happened in a span of maybe fifteen years?
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Dec 15, 2021 08:53
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Mister Bates posted:This means that, in his utopian right-wing fantasy, all of the following things have happened: 9/11 also happened on top of everything else, including the Japanese kamikaze that's reminiscent of 9/11 itself
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Dec 15, 2021 08:57
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The thing about them being airport books that people pick up and read in random order means that each insane thing that happens isn't allowed to dramatically alter the course of events too far from the real world. Imagine WW3 happening and it being memoryholed 9 months later when the latest crazy terror plot by... *rolls dice* the Shriners working with Somalian pirates occurs.
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Dec 15, 2021 09:04
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gradenko_2000 posted:9/11 also happened on top of everything else, including the Japanese kamikaze that's reminiscent of 9/11 itself Do people still talk about it like a world changing event despite clearly not being as big of a deal as all the other poo poo?
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Dec 15, 2021 09:08
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30.5 Days posted:Do people still talk about it like a world changing event despite clearly not being as big of a deal as all the other poo poo? okay so, quote:- a group of Islamist terrorists have snuck across the Mexican border into the US and shot up a mall in a small Midwestern US town, killing a lot of people before a heroic citizen with a gun stops them. as the terrorists are bleeding out on the ground, the hero literally grabs a football from a sporting goods store and puts the football in their hands and says they're holding a pigskin from a genuine American pig and the terrorist's eyes are filled with horror because he knows he's going to hell now. this is from "The Teeth of the Tiger", which is the first book in the Clancyverse to talk about "The Campus", a privately-run intelligence operation whose offices are cleverly placed within telecommunications-intercept paths of the CIA and NSA headquarters so they can piggyback off of all the SIGINT that those two organizations scoop up they also have a stack of undated presidential pardons stashed away in a safe, as a "gift" from then-President Jack Ryan Sr., in case they ever need for a rainy day but anyway - two operatives from The Campus get caught in one of these Midwest mall attacks and put a stop to it (with the other attacks across the country being stopped by LEO with various states of response-times and civilian casualties). Thus begins an operation to track down who did it, and make the bastards pay because The Campus is not a government/official intelligence op, they can't be seen as doing noisy, loud, public assassinations the way the CIA might, so they start looking for a way to quietly kill terrorists. A doctor volunteers his services, and furnishes the outfit with syringes of succinylcholine, which [allegedly] induces a heart attack that can't be traced unless the coroner knew exactly what to look for in a later book, this same doctor would be involved in a torture scene even more extreme than Without Remorse's decompression chamber shenanigans: they take Totally-Not-Bin-Laden and subject him to a heart attack, then revive him, then do it again, over and over, until he spills but why would this doctor agree to working for such an organization? his brother was on the 101st floor of the north tower, working for Cantor Fitzgerald, when the planes hit
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Dec 15, 2021 09:21
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also worth mentioning is that the specific way they do these assassinations is by stabbing their targets in the rear end with the syringe
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Dec 15, 2021 09:57
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Tom Clancy books are James Bond with less sex. Confirm/deny?
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Dec 15, 2021 10:03
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Mister Bates posted:also worth mentioning is that the specific way they do these assassinations is by stabbing their targets in the rear end with the syringe lovingly stroking the victim's throbbing cock as they die
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Dec 15, 2021 10:05
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gradenko_2000 posted:okay so, It just seems like the time we got nuked by bds would loom somewhat larger in the public consciousness
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Dec 15, 2021 10:31
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FrancisFukyomama posted:with how cartoonishly racist cnc generals was it was kind of surprising that it ends with the us humiliated and bankrupt by middle eastern adventurism and retreating into irrelevance as China is ascendant an dismantling the EU and NATO Command and Conquer was always cool. The Soviet Campaign for Yuri's revenge ends up with the soviets doing a parade on Wall Street and then shutting down the stock market.
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Dec 15, 2021 11:55
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They should've done a secret campaign a la the Red Alert 1 Ant Campaign because even Yuri can not kill Number!
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Dec 15, 2021 11:59
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People sometimes forgot Tom Clancy got popular becausr his extremely long and detail military porn description. Was there other ""geopolitic thriller"" writers in the 90s? Kind of want to look up other right wing fantasy ideas during that time capsult bubble right before 911.
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Dec 15, 2021 12:10
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stephenthinkpad posted:People sometimes forgot Tom Clancy got popular becausr his extremely long and detail military porn description. Perhaps the grandfather of the genre is General Sir John Hackett's "The Third World War", which posits a Soviet invasion of Western Europe in August 1985 and presents it in a high-level retrospective, as if he was describing a history of what had already happened. Harold Coyle. His most famous work is "Team Yankee", which is your stock-standard Cold-War-Gone-Hot scenario of the USSR invading West Germany. Later he'd also delve into works about the US military getting involved in inter-European wars, given the lack of a big Soviet boogeyman, starting with "The Ten Thousand". Ralph Peters. I think he's only really done one notable book, "Red Army", but it is notable as far as it's a USSR-invades-Europe scenario but the story is told purely from the (perceived) perspective of Soviet soldiers. Stephen Coonts. A former bomber pilot, he wrote "Flight of the Intruder", which is sort of like a revisionist take on Vietnam to try and demonstrate what the US could have done if only the politicians weren't "holding them back". It picked up enough buzz to get turned into a movie in 1991. Coonts is still writing up to today, but as far as I know he went more towards the single-protagonist-spy-thriller rather than broad geopolitics. WEB Griffin. This one's getting a little far afield, as he tackles historical intelligence operations, with books about the OSS, the ONI, commandos, and other special forces in past wars, but I still count him among the genre for things like writing about a dude who flies in the Battle of Britain, then flies for the Flying Tigers, and is such a pro pilot that he becomes Chiang Kai-Shek's personal advisor and bangs dozens of Chinese women. Dale Brown. Look up "Chains of Command" to get a glimpse into right-wing fantasies about the US defending Ukraine from Russian invasion while being lead by Not-Hillary-Clinton as Shadow President. He's a profilic enough writer that he's also done a bunch of novels by now where China is the baddie, after rotating through Russia, Iran, and drug cartels. Larry Bond. He was Tom Clancy's writing partner on "Red Storm Rising", and I've always considered him the better author, on top of being a game designer involved with the Harpoon wargame series. "Red Phoenix" is about a new Korean War, "Vortex" is about apartheid South Africa deciding to blitzkrieg the rest of the continent, and "Cauldron" is something like if Macron decided he wanted to team up with the Alternative für Deutschland to conquer a post-NATO Europe, and the US has to defend the independence of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. His latest works have all been focused on a single submarine crew, and tends to be somewhat less whacky for it.
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Dec 15, 2021 12:57
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Those last two Larry Bond books actually sound cokl
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Dec 15, 2021 13:19
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StashAugustine posted:Those last two Larry Bond books actually sound cokl yeah, after seeing vigil i have a hankering for some submarine stories
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Dec 15, 2021 14:30
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Mister Bates posted:the Clancyverse is a magical place If you ever get the chance to pick up the DVD for Sum of All Fears it has the most bizarre and hilarious DVD commentary track ever. Tom Clancy joins the director and he just proceeds to poo poo all over the movie and how it didn't follow his book at all, and just complains about the movie and the plot for 90 minutes. I believe this is the first conversation they have ever had. He also veers into politics and rants about how spending more on the military is the only way to ensure peace, and that's not a left right issue that's just the facts and how bad the democrats are for not seeing this. It's a great tour of Clancy's brain at the height of Clancy, I can't recommend it enough. I think that was the book where they nuked the super bowl in Denver which is just the most cartoonisly evil terrorist poo poo you could imagine, like come on lmao Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 14:43 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dec 15, 2021 14:37
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Pryor on Fire posted:If you ever get the chance to pick up the DVD for Sum of All Fears it has the most bizarre and hilarious DVD commentary track ever. Tom Clancy joins the director and he just proceeds to poo poo all over the movie and how it didn't follow his book at all, and just complains about the movie and the plot for 90 minutes. I believe this is the first conversation they have ever had. well they were specifically nuking the super bowl. It just happened to be in Denver
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Dec 15, 2021 14:43
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Raskolnikov38 posted:well they were specifically nuking the super bowl. It just happened to be in Denver The super bowl is never held in cold outdoor stadiums, choosing that city makes no sense. It's just as absurd as saying Al Qaeda is scary threat to people in Omaha. Pure Clancy nonsense.
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Dec 15, 2021 14:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:okay so, This bit is also part of the plot to payday 2
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Dec 15, 2021 14:47
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Pryor on Fire posted:The super bowl is never held in cold outdoor stadiums, choosing that city makes no sense. It's just as absurd as saying Al Qaeda is scary threat to people in Omaha. Pure Clancy nonsense. isn’t SAC in Omaha
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Dec 15, 2021 14:48
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StashAugustine posted:Those last two Larry Bond books actually sound cokl oh yeah don't get me wrong Vortex and Cauldron are very fun rides... Doctor Jeep posted:yeah, after seeing vigil i have a hankering for some submarine stories ... the interestiing thing about the "Jerry Mitchell series", the first book is "Dangerous Ground", is that the protagonist is a naval aviator that gets dumped into a submarine because of office politics - combine this complete newbie with a mission that doesn't involve combat, and a lot of the plot revolves around Mitchell learning submarine best practices and traditions, such as the tribute the Neptune when a sub crosses the equator (or something like that). It's almost like a slice-of-life novel rather than mil-wank. Pryor on Fire posted:Sum of All Fears the movie is special in that it was made after 9/11, but either the script was written before and was just never updated, or the director/producer weren't as Islamophobic as the rest of the country, because it specifically walks away from the book-plot where the bomb-plot is hatched by secular Marxist Palestinian insurgents, and instead shifts the baddies to being Neo-Nazis.
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Dec 15, 2021 14:57
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Pryor on Fire posted:The super bowl is never held in cold outdoor stadiums, choosing that city makes no sense. It's just as absurd as saying Al Qaeda is scary threat to people in Omaha. Pure Clancy nonsense.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:
the griffin books about the OSS are so much fun, i love them. like 90% of the books are just the main characters loving around, doing bants and seducing babes, and then in like the last 30 pages the book suddenly remembers something needs to happen so there's an extremely compressed action sequence where they do spy poo poo. it's awesome. there's like four or five of them too.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:50
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gradenko_2000 posted:the movie is special in that it was made after 9/11, but either the script was written before and was just never updated, or the director/producer weren't as Islamophobic as the rest of the country, because it specifically walks away from the book-plot where the bomb-plot is hatched by secular Marxist Palestinian insurgents, and instead shifts the baddies to being Neo-Nazis. ebert was salty over that
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Dec 15, 2021 15:59
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Mister Bates posted:- the US has formally instituted the 'Ryan Doctrine', which states that the US reserves the right to execute the head of state of any country they deem to have 'ordered attacks on American citizens, territory, or possessions'. it has exercised this right by murdering the Ayatollah of Iran on live television. 
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Dec 15, 2021 16:08
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