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Scallop Eyes posted:The Goonswarm special vilerat al-houthi faked his death
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https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1749634876167364864 don't let the salt water touch the f-35s
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i wonder how well the fake Chinese islands handle things like this. serious question.
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Scallop Eyes posted:The Goonswarm special i made that model lol it was mostly just collectivism for goons afaik every major group still does it with their whateversite majority bc can't compete otherwise before that the powergroup was elite rentseeking fasc organized connected nobility-superwarriors and pay-mercenary armies with lots of expensive stuff that wasn't economical in a free market economy, hmm, lot of parallels, almost as if under similar enough material and economic conditions even digital imaginary ones with human actors this outcome might be inevitable
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uber_stoat posted:i wonder how well the fake Chinese islands handle things like this. serious question. Great question. If they're built like rigs probably okay, if they're built like glass doored golf clubs probably not so much.
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FirstnameLastname posted:people are told this stuff constantly and fed an image of America that isn't America
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uber_stoat posted:i wonder how well the fake Chinese islands handle things like this. serious question. i think china has recognized since the USSR fell at least that the west is the overall danger in the world and has very quietly and politely planned out everything, and isn't doing anything for show or taking risks or cutting corners why would they at the state level I can't see any gain they have way more people and their whole govt can share the same set of priorities for decades and not have a problem with it and the west is a purpose built murder-$-reactor i wouldn't gently caress around with that i could make sure i wasn't vulnerable, it would be suicidal
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you don't recognize how many behaviors you see in people that are only from capitalism im telling you. everyone is smothered in propaganda and people aren't good at separating that stuff at all you don't see capitalist piece of poo poo behaviors in socialist states and it's not because they have to tell people it's built into how people respond to the conditions
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uber_stoat posted:i wonder how well the fake Chinese islands handle things like this. serious question. Some of them are huge https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35249092.amp I think much stronger than a carrier.
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FirstnameLastname posted:i made that model lol it was mostly just collectivism for goons EVE online was already a very good case study for how economies work, big lmao if it also becomes one for wars/militaries
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at how fast a thread can implode somebody set us up the bomb!
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FirstnameLastname posted:you don't recognize how many behaviors you see in people that are only from capitalism im telling you. everyone is smothered in propaganda and people aren't good at separating that stuff at all I mostly agree with this. I hear a lot about human nature that is confusing American values with all of humanity across space and time. We have some dumb values absolutely soaked into us that it's hard to disentangle especially the older we get. It's also why I try not to argue about whether this thing or another that China or some other US geopolitical foe does is good or bad. I'm just some loving American what do I know. I'm sure I have plenty of bad wiring primed to see villainy in things just opposed to my world view.
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just a friendly reminder that “human nature” is a social construct
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Y'all need to read the Marxism threadquote:In his recent discussion [...] about socialism Ethan Klein asked some pretty common questions about socialism and communism’s practical feasibility. These are the kinds of issues that are raised by the average person who has never read any Marx and does not have much knowledge about the theory and practice of the socialist movement, and it is quite understandable why they would raise these questions. To someone born and raised in a capitalist society, human nature appears to be a certain kind of way essentially, and once this essence is fixed, every other objection to socialism and communism flows from it. If human nature is to be greedy, avaricious, purely self-interested, self-calculating, vicious, hateful, violent (because greed begets all these other vices)—then of course you can never have a social and economic system that requires a different kind of human nature, one characterized by virtues such as empathy, solidarity, sacrifice for the greater good, selflessness, the things that provide the foundation for cooperation and harmony in all aspects of social life.
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The US will get a "did got complete" for ww3 https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/25/top-general-says-theres-shortfall-navy-ships-carry-marines-no-clear-solution-sight.html?amp
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dead gay comedy forums posted:and of course, mileage may vary, but if circumstances are truly exceptional, then the dialectical movement will be exceptional as well in response. I am not saying it is some beautiful inevitability, I am saying that by the self-contradictory forces of the system that oppresses us necessarily create the means to overcome it with time it is required to fix itself - the oppression forces the liberation with time doesn't matter what the name of the oppressor is doesn't matter if the oppressor has a name, face doesn't matter if people know they are oppressed, only that they have an oppressor who is like them it cannot be distributed or abstracted it doesn't matter what the form of rule is it doesn't matter what the power disparity is none of it matters they cannot control time the harshest oppressor will face the most determined resistance, they remove any other option - that is all that is left if any is left at all ruling class is ensured to fall because they think they cannot lose and the people are ensured to prevail no matter what they are told or what's done the conditions and time are the defining factors it forces it to happen we are slaves to our own conditions. we cannot ever change that, but we can control the conditions that define us nobody here is free at all unless u in China or North Korea or Vietnam or one of the places that isn't the devil people must control their conditions to be free at all that's prolly why they tie america to freedom capitalism is a slavery of your mind and emotion over time, in large groups, it controls you as much as any mind control i think, because they can selectively adjust the amount of compensation and also kill groups that make a problem, they just have to find it fast enough (they think (actually doesn't matter lol)) freedom becomes worth more than any other thing when you know all that you are free of it has taken a very very long time and been very slow and i think thats the last thing that will change before everything i think when you have people and currency and things value for the currency and ways to get things and time, technology, valuable resources, it is inevitable. people can speed it up, delay it, but nobody can stop it
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Regarde Aduck posted:Jesus Christ gas this loving thread If you can't take the heat get the gently caress out the kitchen
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The Oldest Man posted:The US will get a "did got complete" for ww3 Tell them to book their deployments via a Disney cruise liner.
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Regarde Aduck posted:lol at how fast a thread can implode What loving thread are you reading? E: Slavvy posted:?? You're the only one saying this Dude is cracked and/or a poo poo stirrer. Glad we have an ignore feature BrotherJayne has issued a correction as of 08:35 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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FirstnameLastname posted:that is also what is beautiful tho preach it bratna
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Danann posted:IIRC weren't the latifundias functionally blackboxes that ate up the economy while contributing very little to the greater economy? Didn't they produce the overwhelming majority of consumables that weren't from Egypt?
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dead gay comedy forums posted:just a friendly reminder that “human nature” is a social construct This is most clear to me because I was born in Apartheid South Africa and when I worked as a bartended in the years after apartheid ended I'd hear all the same arguments from old men.
And so on. And now I hear the same nonsense from pro capitalist people except to justify greed, privatization and the various ills of liberalism. Invoking Human Nature to explain the status quo is merely another form of the Just World Fallacy.
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Counterpoint: Life isn't fair.
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People aren't that different, some societies can bring out the worst in them, one of them is America. It is just you probably don't want to "trust the system" or organized movements in an imploding fascist state because it is simply dangerous and the US in particular is very good at creating fronts and co-opting any system attempting change. Maybe something better will occur after everything falls apart but it is going to be gruesome looking at the handiwork of America's current proxies. As for the USD, it will be around for a bit, it is also showing signs of strain. How many times has there been an assumption of a "pivot" that never occurs? It isn't an accident. Moreover, if the reports from the Permian basin are clear, there may actually be increasing oil prices across the first half of this year.
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Votskomit posted:This is most clear to me because I was born in Apartheid South Africa and when I worked as a bartended in the years after apartheid ended I'd hear all the same arguments from old men. i guess when i say human nature what im referring to is biological necessity vs conditioning people don't have an innate need for violence like they do for food and water and shelter from the elements the things people do not like about the world are from capitalism it creates perverse incentives bad people are rewarded more, the biggest reward for the worst thing that's the lowest effort lowest competition option and capital is always going to be encouraging that to someone somewhere so someone will make it happen larger incentive for worse thing is a bad system the bigger it gets the worse it gets it is the system that makes people do bad stuff and needs stopped
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mlmp08 posted:For the SU-75 in general, it's basically a design and mockup (hasn't flown or matured yet), so the idea is try to sell it to whoever will buy it, but no country has signed up to buy it sight unseen. Rostec hoping to be able to sell it in South America, Africa, Iran, etc, but Iran also just signed up to buy about 3 squadrons of SU-35s, which are a proven design. The SU-75 was supposed to fly for the first time in 2023, but that has been delayed to some unknown date in the future. drat, if only there was some sort of 4th option, not Russia, not China, not NATO, who were and have been building airplanes for a really long time and used to come with a "not Washington nor Moscow" kind of statement.
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if the human nature is so malleable, then molding that nature (in the empire) into an edifice of brutality is still entirely possible, even probable. I'm just saying, the catholic church is the oldest bureaucratic institution ever created by humanity, and they survive no matter what kind of horrible nazi poo poo they get up to in their concentration camp schools. it is entirely possible to create an institution that promotes inhumanity, and have that structure be stable and prosperous for centuries
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Danann posted:IIRC weren't the latifundias functionally blackboxes that ate up the economy while contributing very little to the greater economy? Because in many ways the present situation does make me recall that vibe-wise. In the present day labor, land, resources, and finances are being devoured by corporations who contribute little to what they likewise take and demand from the US as a whole. It's also not helping that the current set of failsons are taught to be so blind and shortsighted such that the mundane observation that there is a positive correlation between electricity consumption and industry is a mind-blowing revelation. Yeah they were a loving black hole in many cases and there was a marked economic downturn in regions where they took up more and more of the land. They were just not very productive, and concentrated on things like viticulture because that’s what was important to the absentee senatorial landlords. It’s like the 19th and 20th c British country estates, which continued to fund the aristocracy through rents, and let them go partridge shooting or whatever, but were not actually economically productive once Britain became a food importer and the nobility started making most of their money through business in London or financial investments. They were happy to have the “passive income”, but letting Piers Ploughman actually grow food there was not their number one priority. Which is not to jerk off the American idea of a hardworking yeoman farmer or anything, either. e: and I guess in both cases it’s worth separating the economic value of agricultural commodities from actual food produced, because trying to grow grapes and olives in places where they wouldn’t grow at all without a massive force of slave labour was certainly productive in the sense that they commanded high prices, but in terms of yields, they would have produced much more growing wheat. ee: Cindy the SKULL posted:I'm just saying, the catholic church is the oldest bureaucratic institution ever created by humanity, and they survive no matter what I agree, there’s hope of a return to the better angels of our nature and values originating from God and not mammon. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 14:51 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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FirstnameLastname posted:nope yeah well the system has conditioned americans to be atomized little freaks who hate everyone. in the present day, there is no realistic way to organize americans into a revolutionary movement. as the system decays there could very well be opportunities. so that means people should be forming cadres, reading groups, doing labor organizing, and other pre-revolutionary activities to keep those ideas relevant. because one day america could be capable of a mass movement and a revolution takes generations of effort
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dead gay comedy forums posted:and of course, mileage may vary, but if circumstances are truly exceptional, then the dialectical movement will be exceptional as well in response. I am not saying it is some beautiful inevitability, I am saying that by the self-contradictory forces of the system that oppresses us necessarily create the means to overcome it to say that the emancipation of humanity is inevitable is not to embrace determinism but rather that while i and my comrades draw breath we will carry out this task no matter what
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:
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Danann posted:don't let the salt water touch the f-35s If they get wet, they turn into sponge dinosaurs. I don’t know why the marines demanded this feature.
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Bar Crow posted:If they get wet, they turn into sponge dinosaurs. I don’t know why the marines demanded this feature. Guadalcanal. I will not be taking any questions.
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I love buying into your own myths so hard you produce equipment around it three quarters of a century later.
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FirstnameLastname posted:i made that model lol it was mostly just collectivism for goons Ironically in the age of full loot pvp mmos this comes up a lot and the side that effectively operates as a collectivist, super-industrialized and well-organized group wins 100% of the time. It's interesting though because even though it is a game, the actual supply chain of equipping and supplying fighters is modeled 1:1. Question for FF, how do professional war games model supply chains and how granular do they get? In the context of these goonrush MMOs it's like, we need crafters to produce X amount of arrows, armors, weapons, horses, and food per week to sustain the war, and this usually ends up being the determining factor of winning and not, like, sir poopsock slayed fifty foes today. What makes it interesting is this "modeling" isn't like some coefficient in an equation, it's players virtually "doing" these production and crafting activities and all the inherent things that go along with that like resource scarcity or seasonal affects on crops or actually hauling it over on a cart etc. I think there's a strong element of logistics in Foxhole but I never played it. Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 17:24 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I love buying into your own myths so hard you produce equipment around it three quarters of a century later. how else are you going to fight the giant cgi demon
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the USA played Doom Eternal and is developing weapons to defeat the Icon of Sin when he arises from the Pacific Ocean
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Justin Tyme posted:Ironically in the age of full loot pvp mmos this comes up a lot and the side that effectively operates as a collectivist, super-industrialized and well-organized group wins 100% of the time. It's interesting though because even though it is a game, the actual supply chain of equipping and supplying fighters is modeled 1:1. Question for FF, how do professional war games model supply chains and how granular do they get? In the context of these goonrush MMOs it's like, we need crafters to produce X amount of arrows, armors, weapons, horses, and food per week to sustain the war, and this usually ends up being the determining factor of winning and not, like, sir poopsock slayed fifty foes today. What makes it interesting is this "modeling" isn't like some coefficient in an equation, it's players virtually "doing" these production and crafting activities and all the inherent things that go along with that like resource scarcity or seasonal affects on crops or actually hauling it over on a cart etc. I think there's a strong element of logistics in Foxhole but I never played it. Foxhole is a really interesting example because there are only two sides and people who play long-term tend to stick to one or the other almost exclusively, so you have two distinct organizational cultures that have developed, which at this point exist largely independently of the game. Everything in the game, from the uniforms you wear to the bullets in your rifle to the 'soldier supplies' that serve as respawn tickets, has to be manufactured somewhere, out of resources that have been refined at a second location, from raw materials mined at a third location, and all of it needs to be trucked/shipped/railed around between every point in this process, in addition to dangerous last-mile delivery to the front. For basic poo poo this is a fairly simple process, but as you start demanding more and more complex things like tanks, machine guns, artillery shells, radios, etc. you start needing massive factory complexes connected to electrical generation infrastructure and now you also need to harvest and refine all of the raw materials for that as a necessary precondition before you can even start making the tanks you want. Goons almost exclusively play in one faction, Warden, and the way Warden handles this is that there is a semi-permanent and highly centralized coalition of most of the major regiments (what the game calls clans) on the Warden side, and every time a war starts up the coalition works out assigned areas of responsibility and roles to fill, and sticking to it and not getting in anyone's way or sabotaging anyone is socially enforced. If you're from a smaller minor group, you mostly do not mine and refine resources yourself to build a factory yourself to make a tank yourself, you mine enough raw materials to make the tank, deliver them to a factory operated by a larger regiment who do logistics work almost exclusively, and they give you the tank you ordered. In previous wars there were even forms you could submit to basically automate the whole process, and they'd sometimes even have a guy deliver your tank/boat/towed AT gun/whatever directly to you, although I haven't played this war so I don't know if those systems are still in place. The other side, the Colonials, mostly run on a more traditional MMO-style clan system, with some very loose coordination but the various regiments mostly doing their own thing without really working together in any organized way at scale. If a Colonial regiment wants a tank, they're mostly building it themselves from the mine through to the end process. Instead of a few huge centralized factory complexes you have dozens of smaller ones scattered across the Colonial backline, and unlike on the Warden side where raw materials are usually shared and not access-controlled and land use is determined collectively, on the Colonial side competition for access to raw resources or prime land is constant. I have seen fierce and large-scale civil wars break out over access to resources or good factory locations, and I have also seen desperately needed reinforcements or resources deliberately withheld because of bad blood between different Colonial clans. I have seen giant factory complexes plopped down on key defensive terrain, leaving it basically unprotected and allowing us to roll up an entire flank easily, and conversely I've seen good industrial land rendered useless by the construction of enormous concrete defensive works that were so far in the backline that they never got used. Their logistics are similarly decentralized, with a bunch of disconnected and competing rail networks instead of one big one, for example, and they never really developed a good equivalent to the huge seaport/freight classification yard/distribution center thing we used to make every war. The game's balance has been getting thrown a bit out of whack as a result - in 2023 there were 10 wars and Warden won 7 of them, for example. Mister Bates has issued a correction as of 18:00 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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Pf. Hikikomoriarty posted:
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this is a good metaphor for us empire
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