Private Cumshoe posted:

Still backed by Noam Chomsky!

gradenko_2000 posted:

Chomsky did not "support" Pol Pot. His position was that it was wrong for the media to call what happened in Cambodia a genocide, when they said no such thing of East Timor, a place that had a larger proportion of its people killed (by the Indonesian military), and under pretenses more directly attributable to genocide (East Timorese as a ethnic group, versus "intellectuals" as a class in Cambodia).

Ardennes posted:

The Iraq War comes up quite often but I don't really think most people have embraced what it really was about. I think you can safely ignore "bringing democracy" and humanitarian concerns, and the US had plenty of access to oil in 2003. In fact, oil prices were still relatively depressed compared to where they were in the early 1980s.

The big issue? Just Saddam was in the way, and while the Iraqi regime was relatively toothless, there needed to be housekeeping. Qaddafi wasn't that different.

Did tens of millions of lives get turned upside for no useful result? Yes Does anyone in the US inclding its "left wing" really care? Absolutely not

Zodium posted:

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Weka posted:

The factory is in Alabama. There's only one supplier, it's Lockheed Martin intellectual property.
"To produce the Javelin anti-tank guided missile, various teams located around the U.S. collaborate to ensure the Warfighter’s arsenal stays full. After gathering material from 63 suppliers across 18 states, the missile rolls off the production line in Alabama. This is also where Wenona Sublett, production facility leader, oversees the team that helps finalize the F-Model’s production."

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2020/essential-javelin-workers-shoulder-on-for-warfighter-during.html

Al-Saqr posted:

he was right about people who wear glasses tho

Xaris posted:

it's a bit simpler than that, sadam was trading oil in euros and a year later we invaded their country and bombed it back to the stone age. funny enough, that's also exactly the reason we bombed libya into smithereens was gaddafi was tired of getting scammed through the petrodollar and stopped cycling it through US banks and started selling oil in other currencies and setting up an Africa Union -- a year later we bombed it to ruins

anyways the iraq war was the worst genocide carried out since america genocided korea

Hadlock posted:

Wow so only 40 people total and yeah that building is mostly empty lol. I've seen strip mall grocery stores occupy larger footprints

I get that there's only one supplier/final assembly location, I was more talking about component suppliers; there's probably two dozen major sub assemblies in a javelin (wild guess) including stuff like radio transceivers and raw circuit boards etc. Circuit boards aren't super difficult to manufacture in bulk but 1000-2000 is kind of that sweet spot where no large manufacturer wants to take the order, but also nobody wants to do something that large in their kitchen; you'd need to own some specialized machinery and have a commercial account with someone like mouser for specialty parts

TL;DR manufacturing capability is in that weird gray area where half a million dollars each is almost justifiable and scaling up is probably legitimately difficult, but at the same time if they built 12,000 a year their annual cost would be about the same as it is today as volume discounts kick in as that's the lower end of industrial mfg capability

gradenko_2000 posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

Ardennes posted:

I would argue that Pol Pot/the Khmer Rouge was very much a creation of the US and the type of damage it did to Eastern Cambodia.

gradenko_2000 posted:

as Losurdo put it, you don't get Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge without the Vietnam War and the US bombing of Cambodia to begin with

Cerebral Bore posted:

the virgin uruk-hai vs the chad uruk-ukrainian

Egg Moron posted:

can someone post a flow chart of historical ukranian racial grievances plz

Dixon Chisholm posted:

It's just a map of the world.

NeatHeteroDude posted:

that's insane. they can't possibly go through with that. there has to be some kind of procedural safeguard in place to prevent them from killing all these people. I wonder what the long term consequences on teaching as a profession will be if they start killing teachers for doing whatever it was that got them on the list (teaching russia approved stuff)

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

fits my needs posted:

its really funny cuz the jakarta method is literally posted about p much on every page of the glenn greenwald thread

Gulping Again posted:

nobody actually reads

Gulping Again posted:

nobody actually reads posts in the glenn greenwald thread

mlmp08 posted:

My schtick is that I check the most basic facts when they sound real wild and I don’t assume Vietnam is full of total morons and pushovers.

gradenko_2000 posted:

420 Gank Mid posted:

This all started because you had to "correct" an actual Vietnamese person Luna Oi with your silly little falsehoods you racist idiot

mlmp08 posted:

Nah

420 Gank Mid posted:

Imagine being this stupid lmao

bonelessdongs posted:

Many people already have

genericnick posted:

I thought this started with the claim that Cambodia got to pay for the bombs the US dropped on them. Why are we arguing about Vietnam?

genericnick posted:

I thought this started with the claim that Cambodia got to pay for the bombs the US dropped on them. Why are we arguing about Vietnam?

gradenko_2000 posted:

nobody actually likes mlmp enough to agree with him when he's right

gradenko_2000 posted:

nobody actually likes mlmp enough to agree with him when he's right

mlmp08 posted:

No, this particular argument it started with a poster making up poo poo about the Vietnamese government agreeing to a deal to pay America for the bombs America dropped in the Vietnam war, which is a thing that never happened.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Lord of Pie posted:

Gleb is just the Ukrainian pronunciation of Gilgamesh

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/AndriyYermak/status/1592504182703284229