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Crazycryodude posted:We already got the popular president wielding executive power to unfuck the structures of the empire by overruling the personal desires of the previous ruling class for their own long-term good. The tiny test dose of central planning they applied to the US rocketed it into the stratosphere and secured global dominance for decades. The bourgeoisie never forgave him for this and made it illegal to ever try that again. yes and also there is no abstract “popular president.” there is only biden, trump, haley, etc. no american caeser coming to save the republic. the problem is systemic
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dead gay comedy forums posted:mila kunis is right though. Issues are fixable. thk u, and thanks to the end of your post im now convinced biden is the harm reduction candidate
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# ? Dec 24, 2023 21:20 |
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Another recent hit from the Marxism thread. A way to summarize the problems of heavily financialized economies is that they make too much fictitious capital, too fast; and it gets worse depending on how much concentrated wealth there is in the society. real value always comes from labor sure would be a problem if something happened to the supply of labor oh no that's covid coming in with the steel chair
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Crazycryodude posted:We already got the popular president wielding executive power to unfuck the structures of the empire by overruling the personal desires of the previous ruling class for their own long-term good. The tiny test dose of central planning they applied to the US rocketed it into the stratosphere and secured global dominance for decades. The bourgeoisie never forgave him for this and made it illegal to ever try that again. It just goes to show how even a relative modicum of centralized authority can go. But yeah, it is just I have a hard time in the US of 2023 to see how such a figure could come to power. If anything the current US political system has been expertly crafted to make sure nothing of the sort could ever happen. Admittedly, the US does have a ton of resources and manpower, but could you ever see SCOTUS giving a pass on actual New Deal-style programs or a highly regulated arms industry?
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# ? Dec 24, 2023 21:29 |
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hell, imagine a single congressman or president trying to do it and winning their next reelection bid before everything reverts to normal
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Crazycryodude posted:We already got the popular president wielding executive power to unfuck the structures of the empire by overruling the personal desires of the previous ruling class for their own long-term good. The tiny test dose of central planning they applied to the US rocketed it into the stratosphere and secured global dominance for decades. The bourgeoisie never forgave him for this and made it illegal to ever try that again. Yeah, I get what you mean there. I like this take because personally, looking from the outside, the FDR presidency is still empire-building, a reform that gives it the power to helm the western hemisphere. It's the mutant political animal that is able to save the class from itself. Seeing the FDR presidency as a moment of reform against decline is interesting to consider from that point of view of imperial power. The reason why I think the above is that it is after FDR that the United States truly starts messing around with almost everybody in the world, reaching its apex in terms of foreign power. Does that make sense? I do understand that there's huge labor agitation at the time and a whole lot of instability, but I wasn't considering that at first in the definition of imperial power Like, for me, it seems that the moment of structural decline - where there is a continuous trend downhill in material historical terms - for the American state began with either Ford or Carter, and maybe this can be said only now tbqf, since there's enough distance (and ofc this is just a guess)
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poisonpill posted:hell, imagine a single congressman or president trying to do it and winning their next reelection bid before everything reverts to normal choose your favorite democracy representative captured by a ruling MIC by choice or by force
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# ? Dec 25, 2023 02:18 |
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Did Mitt Ronnie purpose building up the Navy in 2012? It made sense to compete with China in that area at that time. China's ship building dominance only emerged in the last 10-15 years. China's ship building order was neck and neck with S Korea around 2010 and blew pass SK in late 2010s. And China's competitive modern frigates and destroyers started appear in the late 2010s. Also I don't know in 2012, Americans were ready to face the fact that LCS and Zumwalt are complete lemons. So by the time Biden got into the office, the ship number had changed so much he probably didn't want to compete in an area the Chinese are very good at: building poo poo. Instead he chose to "crash" China in a different theater: high end semiconductors. Personally, I am not sure whether funnelling the money to intel CEO via CHIPS act is better or worse than funnelling the money to the traditional MIC capitalists and generals. However, the Washington elites probably didn't realize how much of the fabbing industry is essentially manufacturing. They are just manufacturing with an extremely high capital investment. Capital investment is also something China's economic system has an advantage over.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Did Mitt Ronnie purpose building up the Navy in 2012? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1VUS3Q2W0
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Romney was also right about Russia https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg
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stephenthinkpad posted:Did Mitt Ronnie purpose building up the Navy in 2012? It made sense to compete with China in that area at that time. China's ship building dominance only emerged in the last 10-15 years. China's ship building order was neck and neck with S Korea around 2010 and blew pass SK in late 2010s. And China's competitive modern frigates and destroyers started appear in the late 2010s. Also I don't know in 2012, Americans were ready to face the fact that LCS and Zumwalt are complete lemons. The Great American Plan to kill South Korea will never stop be funny
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https://www.unz.com/article/the-u-s-navy-is-unprepared-for-a-prolonged-war-with-yemen/quote:The U.S. Navy Is Unprepared for a Prolonged War with Yemen
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yellowcar posted:lollin at the bolded parts ansarallah laying the pride baits the americans can never resist
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yellowcar posted:https://www.unz.com/article/the-u-s-navy-is-unprepared-for-a-prolonged-war-with-yemen/ Didn't know Yemen bagged a reaper, nice
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yellowcar posted:https://www.unz.com/article/the-u-s-navy-is-unprepared-for-a-prolonged-war-with-yemen/ remember a couple days ago when the Yemenis were astounded at the USN firing multiple missiles to shoot down their cheap recon drone if they fire 100 of anything at a carrier group there won't be a missile left in it
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Slavvy posted:Didn't know Yemen bagged a reaper, nice that cost more than the entire yemeni drone fleet Complications posted:remember a couple days ago when the Yemenis were astounded at the USN firing multiple missiles to shoot down their cheap recon drone USN also won't stop throwing good money at bad because their pride won't allow it Palladium has issued a correction as of 04:56 on Dec 25, 2023 |
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Complications posted:remember a couple days ago when the Yemenis were astounded at the USN firing multiple missiles to shoot down their cheap recon drone Looking forward to the entire carrier group panic firing and dumping every VLS cell on a dozen flying lawnmowers that don't even have warheads, they're just there to run the VLS completely dry.
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DancingShade posted:Looking forward to the entire carrier group panic firing and dumping every VLS cell on a dozen flying lawnmowers that don't even have warheads, they're just there to run the VLS completely dry. Does any major military invest in large scale cheap dummy rockets to deplete modern expensive AA systems? It seems like a major weakness to them, but completely antithetical to a privatized military-industrial complex that likes selling 2-million dollar missiles.
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:Does any major military invest in large scale cheap dummy rockets to deplete modern expensive AA systems? It seems like a major weakness to them, but completely antithetical to a privatized military-industrial complex that likes selling 2-million dollar missiles. Yeah they're called drones though. Alternatively you can use inert concrete warheads on your old surplus cruise missiles due to be scrapped.
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:Does any major military invest in large scale cheap dummy rockets to deplete modern expensive AA systems? It seems like a major weakness to them, but completely antithetical to a privatized military-industrial complex that likes selling 2-million dollar missiles. if you are exhausting your enemies aa with dummy missiles, they are probably going to begin using real missiles on your positions, degrading your ability to shoot real missiles at them later. better to shoot a lot of cheap real missiles i would imagine
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What hamas is doing to iron dome would likely be repeated, but much better, with a shitload of truck launched MLRS systems Don't google which countries have lots of those
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How many years is it going to take to merely reload Iron Dome? I bet they burned through all their interceptor stockpiles.
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# ? Dec 25, 2023 07:05 |
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(allegedly) most powerful navy in the world unprepared for a prolonged conflict against country whose navy consists of like a dozen upgunned motorboats
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:Does any major military invest in large scale cheap dummy rockets to deplete modern expensive AA systems? It seems like a major weakness to them, but completely antithetical to a privatized military-industrial complex that likes selling 2-million dollar missiles. Check out the analysis paper “red storm rising” for more info
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:Does any major military invest in large scale cheap dummy rockets to deplete modern expensive AA systems? It seems like a major weakness to them, but completely antithetical to a privatized military-industrial complex that likes selling 2-million dollar missiles. the part of a missile that explodes is the cheapest part of the missile, you might as well just put the explosives on your dummy anyway after you're spending the resources on the parts to make it have similar flight and guidance characteristics
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# ? Dec 25, 2023 07:26 |
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If you’re a USN captain of course you’re shooting down any quadcopter that strays too close to you, supply replenishment capacity be damned. If you don’t and your ship gets bombed you’re absolutely hosed. Your career is over. It’s going to take a sunken ship or two before the incentive structure re-aligns to make saving your missiles for when you need them worthwhile to those in command.
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Slavvy posted:What hamas is doing to iron dome would likely be repeated, but much better, with a shitload of truck launched MLRS systems Remembering the barrages you'd see videos of early in the Ukraine thread or its previous incarnation really showed that Iron Dome wouldn't be worth a drat against anyone who isn't a concentration camp inmate
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If it's just flying lawnmowers, there's always the 5-inch cannon on the destroyers. Of course, if someone decides to mix missiles with flying lawnmowers the missiles are going to have to be fired.
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KomradeX posted:Remembering the barrages you'd see videos of early in the Ukraine thread or its previous incarnation really showed that Iron Dome wouldn't be worth a drat against anyone who isn't a concentration camp inmate Every "modern" Western missile interception system is designed to deal with nothing more advanced than a scud that uses 1970s technology. Maybe a single exocet, launched by itself without a volley.
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you mean the "shoot two missiles at the javelin-equipped tank" tactic scales up indefinitely?
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Owlbear Camus posted:you mean the "shoot two missiles at the javelin-equipped tank" tactic scales up indefinitely? Trophy system but yeah. Yes it does. At some point we're going to see mirv style warheads become popular again. Might have to call them something else. Multiple-missiles? Things that split up mid flight and scatter randomly before all zeroing in, just to confound the defence system. Like in those 80's animes with jet robots and stuff.
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DancingShade posted:Trophy system but yeah. Yes it does. Whoops, yeah trophy. I just was in a pious holiday spirit and was thinking about how "st javelin" delivered the nice Ukrainians from the rapacious rus.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Whoops, yeah trophy. I just was in a pious holiday spirit and was thinking about how "st javelin" delivered the nice Ukrainians from the rapacious rus. It's all good, we've all been victims of buzzwords at one point or another.
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DancingShade posted:Trophy system but yeah. Yes it does. before i die i wanna see a real-life itano circus
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Cerebral Bore posted:before i die i wanna see a real-life itano circus Me too. Seems like a good way to go.
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DancingShade posted:Trophy system but yeah. Yes it does. I've always wondered if there was some reason that old anime space stuff always has those crazy giant mirv clouds of missiles. Probably just a popular cartoon randomly did it and the rest copied but I thought they also could be responding to something specific. Reminds me that I never finished the long rear end Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
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FuzzySlippers posted:I've always wondered if there was some reason that old anime space stuff always has those crazy giant mirv clouds of missiles. Probably just a popular cartoon randomly did it and the rest copied but I thought they also could be responding to something specific. aerodynamics are irrelevant in space so you can have multiple projectiles break off and spread out along different vectors (this is also how MIRVs work; they break apart outside the atmosphere on a suborbital trajectory) without running into the issue of air resistance at high velocities fighting you the whole way attempting to do so with a conventional missile in atmosphere means the faster (and thus more effective) your missile, the smaller the angle individual submunitions would be able to disperse and at the speeds you want to defeat interceptors they probably can't disperse enough to avoid all being destroyed by a single interceptor (and the entire package will be heavier and slower than a single warhead package built with the same industrial and technological capacity) atelier morgan has issued a correction as of 08:34 on Dec 25, 2023 |
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Fancy multiple warhead missiles also suffer from "isn't a winged lawnmower engine with a gps unit and a bomb on it" syndrome. Cost has re-entered the server.
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The Oldest Man posted:Fancy multiple warhead missiles also suffer from "isn't a winged lawnmower engine with a gps unit and a bomb on it" syndrome. Cost has re-entered the server. p much, the 'effective multiple warhead missile' already exists, it's whatever drone or plane you fired your missile from
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# ? Dec 25, 2023 08:38 |