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The Oldest Man posted:The fall of the USSR to I would say about 2011 or so is a period in world history when almost everybody thought the US had Done It and just wanted to sign the paperwork, get their american flag hat, and get on with life. Even the Taliban tried to surrender and reach terms. Moving this here. I'm not sure I'd say the US cultural hegemony is gone, really. They still seem to have the ability to get most of the world to shoot an entire AK magazine into their own feet to be on the Freedom side. If it was just Europe that'd be one thing, but we have Argentine and Taiwan going full NED brain too and Gradenko's Philipine posts aren't exactly hopeful either. Seems WW3 is going to be Democratic Centralism, backed by most of the world's productive forces vs. vibes. And looking at covid I wouldn't count out vibes just yet.
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If you’re going to drop the $$$ Red Wings, save up a bit more and get pair of custom boots from White’s boots out of Spokane. It’ll take awhile for them to be ready but 100% worth it.
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genericnick posted:Moving this here. I'm not sure I'd say the US cultural hegemony is gone, really. They still seem to have the ability to get most of the world to shoot an entire AK magazine into their own feet to be on the Freedom side. If it was just Europe that'd be one thing, but we have Argentine and Taiwan going full NED brain too and Gradenko's Philipine posts aren't exactly hopeful either. Seems WW3 is going to be Democratic Centralism, backed by most of the world's productive forces vs. vibes. And looking at covid I wouldn't count out vibes just yet. I do sort of feel that the reliably supply of rock and roll, Levis and bananas is imperilled though.
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genericnick posted:Moving this here. I'm not sure I'd say the US cultural hegemony is gone, really. They still seem to have the ability to get most of the world to shoot an entire AK magazine into their own feet to be on the Freedom side. If it was just Europe that'd be one thing, but we have Argentine and Taiwan going full NED brain too and Gradenko's Philipine posts aren't exactly hopeful either. Seems WW3 is going to be Democratic Centralism, backed by most of the world's productive forces vs. vibes. And looking at covid I wouldn't count out vibes just yet. Well like all good internally self-destructing hegemonizing empires, Team Vibes isn't sinking into irrelevance without a massive body count
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Yeah, but vibes are contrary to what you need to actually prevail in this sort of struggle. By way of example, the through line in Spain's decline throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, when there appears to be no reason why Spain should have suffered as badly as they did in the War of Spanish Succession, Seven Years War, Napoleonic Wars etc. is that Spain did not have a strong, centrally administered state. Whenever one of these major wars happened, Spain had global commitments, but could not harness productive forces in any meaningful sense, let alone direct them on a global scale. The state was far too weak, and while the hidalgos and priests could keep Spanish society going in the face of catastrophic defeats, a durable society is not the same thing as a powerful state. The durability existed on a local level, and so Spain eventually shrank back to Iberia, where even now, local autonomy limits the Spanish state. Everything else was broken off. It's a really interesting case, and I wish I had more to say about it, but the Spanish empire was fabulously wealthy, but that money was never effectively directed because of the lack of centralization and administration. It was just a money hose directed at the upper echelons of an essentially feudal society.
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genericnick posted:Moving this here. I'm not sure I'd say the US cultural hegemony is gone, really. They still seem to have the ability to get most of the world to shoot an entire AK magazine into their own feet to be on the Freedom side. If it was just Europe that'd be one thing, but we have Argentine and Taiwan going full NED brain too and Gradenko's Philipine posts aren't exactly hopeful either. Seems WW3 is going to be Democratic Centralism, backed by most of the world's productive forces vs. vibes. And looking at covid I wouldn't count out vibes just yet. The US cultural dominance will likely stay a good while after the end of the unipolar world order, see UK culturally overachieved for a few more decades after the Suez crisis. And Europe has their own prestige tie to the rise and fall of the US empire at a very root level, they are not going to split and go their own ways. But the countries outside of the Christianity civilization zone, alot of them are doing it for optics, because the US liberals care a lot more about optics than their competitors. I am not saying the like of South Korea and Taiwan are not cheering for the US, but they have less investment in the American empire hegemon than the Europeans. Taiwan population already chose a very meddling result in their latest election. A quarter of the voters (mostly young people) basically throw their vote away, chose a third party candidate instead of siding with the pro-US or pro-status quote party.
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FizFashizzle posted:Say what you want about dementia: disinhibition leads to refreshing honesty. arent there people who are supposed to stop him from saying this out loud or drugs they can give him
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Biden is caught in a negative feedback loop. He's too senile to remember the right things to say, or that he has to say them, to obtain his andrenochrome rations.
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Halloween Jack posted:Biden is caught in a negative feedback loop. He's too senile to remember the right things to say, or that he has to say them, to obtain his andrenochrome rations. "What do you mean we're not winning. I pressed the bombs button. That means we won."
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I've noticed all the pictures coming from the Red Sea are of F/A-18s launching, no F-35s. Are they just not using them or are they using them and not depicting them in the media?
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skooma512 posted:I've noticed all the pictures coming from the Red Sea are of F/A-18s launching, no F-35s. Are they just not using them or are they using them and not depicting them in the media? Aren't they still all grounded cause the Marines had an oopsy?
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Sancho Banana posted:"What do you mean we're not winning. I pressed the bombs button. That means we won." The goal of liberals is to smugly watch people die. It affirms their position at the top of hierarchy.
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KomradeX posted:Aren't they still all grounded cause the Marines had an oopsy? The F-35C has a pretty abysmal readiness rating, they may be not ready for combat operations. It also means Carl Vinson is down to 3 squadrons basically.
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Ardennes posted:The F-35C has a pretty abysmal readiness rating, they may be not ready for combat operations. It also means Carl Vinson is down to 3 squadrons basically. Fresh out of the factory and already hanger queens.
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Bar Crow posted:The goal of liberals is to smugly watch people die. It affirms their position at the top of hierarchy. Really hard to overstate the importance of smugness.
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I really enjoyed a couple articles on the topic by Emmett Rensin; too bad he turned out to be a sex pest.
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GrunkleStalin posted:If you’re going to drop the $$$ Red Wings, save up a bit more and get pair of custom boots from White’s boots out of Spokane. It’ll take awhile for them to be ready but 100% worth it.
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GrunkleStalin posted:If you’re going to drop the $$$ Red Wings, save up a bit more and get pair of custom boots from White’s boots out of Spokane. It’ll take awhile for them to be ready but 100% worth it. those are like double the cost of redwings. plus they don't look as good. hello, I'm here for my job... as a fuckin clown! 
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Hatebag posted:those are like double the cost of redwings. plus they don't look as good. Imagine not knowing what a logging boot is.
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i mean i know what they are. they're the ones that came up when i clicked "logging boot."
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The biggest part of their business are wildland firefighters who actually do buy those boots. I’ve got a pair of light boots from Franks that are on their third resole and doing fine. And they look nice.
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Frosted Flake posted:Really hard to overstate the importance of smugness. We need a word that combines soy and smug. Even German doesn't have one for it afaik.
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Orange Devil posted:We need a word that combines soy and smug. Even German doesn't have one for it afaik. We already have one, Liberal
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KomradeX posted:We already have one, Liberal
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DancingShade posted:Imagine not knowing what a logging boot is. Logging boots... for a clown! They aren't even class rated! It's just a leather boot with spikes, that won't stop a chainsaw for poo poo.
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  quote:“There will not be a shutdown on Friday,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said. “Because both sides have worked together, the government will stay open.”
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Look out USA. Russia has defeated the eyeballs of a b-17 gunner. https://www.eurasiantimes.com/unique-camouflage-for-su-75-makes-it-impossible-to-identify/ Sukhoi Patents Unique Camouflage For Su-75 Checkmate Fighter That Makes It Impossible To Identify. Russia has patented a unique paint and camouflage scheme exclusively designed for the under-development Su-75 Checkmate. It allows the aircraft to be indistinguishable from the shape of the clouds and ground above and below it. . . . Patented please do not steal.
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VomitOnLino posted:Would be more like .... we have this AI enabled, self correcting, trajectory adjusting, anti personnel, anti armor, anti aircraft high explosive shell with a built in lighting charger and drill bit, which will win the war single-handedly. The Oldest Man posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMwWQktNlPk lmfao hell yeah
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The Oldest Man posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMwWQktNlPk 57mm that's an interesting and proprietary size. Wait its 2.2 inches? Crosses legs awkwardly, folds hands protectively over groin area. Micro deck guns. Less threatening, for a progressive and sensitive USN. edit - a finless guided projectile. Hmm. HMMMM. Something isn't adding up here, other than the price of course. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 08:59 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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I'm going to sell the US army hyper advanced smart bullets for their marksmen rifles. Each will cost 100 times more than usual per individual cartridge but comes with some silicon bits from a genuine Nvidia GPU ground up and embedded in the round. Or in the powder. Wherever we can sprinkle them really. Will it perform better? I assure you that the 3D renderings will perform excellently.
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that Superiority short story by Clarke is burrowing into my brain. It just needed more explicit grift.
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skooma512 posted:I've noticed all the pictures coming from the Red Sea are of F/A-18s launching, no F-35s. Are they just not using them or are they using them and not depicting them in the media? they're afraid a rogue F-35 will defect to Yemen
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The Oldest Man posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMwWQktNlPk that thing is practically turning right angles, is that even possible?
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DancingShade posted:57mm that's an interesting and proprietary size. Wait its 2.2 inches? Crosses legs awkwardly, folds hands protectively over groin area. The price isn't added up either. It's multiplied.
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Jel Shaker posted:that thing is practically turning right angles, is that even possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0
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