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Retromancer
Aug 21, 2007

Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.

The fentanyl crisis isn't actually real because it only kills people that capitalism wanted gone anyway.

Much like COVID.

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SixteenShells
Sep 30, 2021

Doktor Avalanche posted:

withdrawal from afghanistan
It was the Trump admin that negotiated that withdrawal. Maybe Biden gets some credit for not immediately trashing the deal but it's not like it was his administration's idea to withdraw or their work establishing the agreement.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

the us didnt withdraw it got owned and lost the war and left crying

it then sanctioned afghanistan causing widespread famine and stole its money reserves

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

He didn't immediately try to re-invade Afghanistan after Taliban kicked them out.

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Retromancer posted:

The fentanyl crisis isn't actually real because it only kills people that capitalism wanted gone anyway.

Much like COVID.

Industrial waste reprocessing

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Another reason we'll lose the world war III is that there's another high altitude balloon that just came out of nowhere and everyone is panicking over it again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-tracking-balloon-western-us-military/

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Doktor Avalanche posted:

withdrawal from afghanistan

He canceled that out by stealing all their money and embargoing the country.

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
my favorite part of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is that everyone involved had known it was happening months in advance and yet it was still a humiliating, Fall of Saigon level chaotic disaster in which no planning or preparation had been done and no one had any idea what they were doing

FuzzySlippers
Feb 6, 2009

US is currently losing WW3 in Ukraine, the Red Sea, and apparently in the skies vs sneaky Chinese balloons.

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


Mister Bates posted:

my favorite part of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is that everyone involved had known it was happening months in advance and yet it was still a humiliating, Fall of Saigon level chaotic disaster in which no planning or preparation had been done and no one had any idea what they were doing

the generals were so used to deadlines coming and going that they didn’t bother to even pretend to get ready for yet another “withdrawal” “”deadline””

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

Hatebag posted:

something i just learned is that another helicopter to come out of the failure of operation: eagle claw was the attack variant of the oh-6, the mh-6m little bird aka Killer Egg



"I'm gonna kill him (Budgie the li'l helicopter) now!"

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Lostconfused posted:

When is US going to lose the first fentanyl war?

every bag in this country is 50 percent fent and 40 percent drywall.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 01:02 on Feb 24, 2024

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

poisonpill posted:

you’ll know ww3 has started when everyone complains for weeks about their supermarket, pharmacy, ISP, then gas station, Netflix, and other services going out to cyberattacks. gps will get fritzy so Uber and doorsssh will stop working. then internet, phones, and some power stations will go out.

Yeah I saw the Obama movie too

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

NeonPunk posted:

Another reason we'll lose the world war III is that there's another high altitude balloon that just came out of nowhere and everyone is panicking over it again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-tracking-balloon-western-us-military/

Just keep sending over cheap high altitude balloons with scrap bicycles or something suspended beneath them in lieu of any expensive equipment until the USA runs out of missiles to shoot them all down.

HouseofSuren
Feb 5, 2024

by Pragmatica
American's are also keeping track of other American's who support Ukraine and Israel. For the civil war portion of the future.

I'm all in that the face of NATO and the west is going to melt off immediately and the people will be hunted down in western Europe and the US itself until we are very, very different places.

Most of those people will end up dead soon.

HouseofSuren has issued a correction as of 04:33 on Feb 24, 2024

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

FuzzySlippers posted:

US is currently losing WW3 in Ukraine, the Red Sea, and apparently in the skies vs sneaky Chinese balloons.

hypernormalized away

HouseofSuren
Feb 5, 2024

by Pragmatica
Confirmed that the drone in Yemen was shot down

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/us-drone-yemen-houthis/index.html

FirstnameLastname
Jul 10, 2022

poisonpill posted:

you’ll know ww3 has started when everyone complains for weeks about their supermarket, pharmacy, ISP, then gas station, Netflix, and other services going out to cyberattacks. gps will get fritzy so Uber and doorsssh will stop working. then internet, phones, and some power stations will go out.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/netflix-leave-world-behind-trending-cell-phone-outage-1235832585/

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Considering domestic US radio towers are already being stolen (yes whole radio towers) for scrap I imagine cell towers are only one step away.

I mean it could be scrap. Maybe its actually sabotage? Who knows!

HouseofSuren
Feb 5, 2024

by Pragmatica
The OPCW finally identified ISIS being the mustard gas attack in Syria, 9 years late

https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2024/02/opcw-identifies-isil-perpetrators-2015-chemical-attack-marea-syria

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1761059954860216484

quote:

Unreal.

This is Bruno Le Maire, France's Minister of the Economy. You might know him as the genius strategist who said he was going to "cause the collapse of the Russian economy"...

Now he is straight out declaring that Europe has run out of money (it "does not have sufficient financial reserves") and that they need to "mobilize all the savings of Europeans" that are "currently dormant in European bank accounts" in order to finance the future, including Europe's "defense effort".

This is a complete and direct translation of what he said:

"I am at the Council of Ministers of Finance in Ghent, Belgium, and I just raised a fuss because the capital markets union is not progressing. What is the capital markets union? It's the ability to mobilize all of Europeans' savings - 35,000 billion euros - to finance the climate transition, fund our defense efforts, and invest in artificial intelligence.

Since things aren't moving forward with all 27 members, I proposed that we move forward on a voluntary basis with a small number of member states to propose a European savings product in the coming months, to propose European supervision of capital markets to ensure that regulation works well, and therefore to raise several tens of billions of euros to finance our growth and prosperity.

Europe cannot economically weaken as it has been doing for several months because it does not have sufficient financial reserves. Europe cannot miss the climate turning point because it does not have sufficient financial reserves. Europe cannot miss the artificial intelligence turning point because it is unable to agree on this capital markets union and make Europeans' savings work.

35,000 billion euros lying dormant today in European bank accounts instead of fostering Europe's prosperity tomorrow, instead of financing artificial intelligence, instead of financing the climate transition, is no longer acceptable. That's the gist of my rant this morning in Ghent."

Quite unreal... All the more coming from a country, France, that ALREADY collects some 50% of the country's GDP in taxes, the second highest in the world (after Denmark, another EU country). On top of that you need to get into people's savings? 🤨

And immensely ironical that mister "I'll collapse Russia's economy" comes back to us 2 years afterwards, telling us "Europe cannot economically weaken as it has been doing for several months", we need to take your savings... When Russia's economy, far from collapsing, has been growing faster than all European countries.

All this in part to "fund our defense efforts", likely a code for "send it to Ukraine", the most corrupt country on the continent currently fighting an endless money pit war that it has no chance of winning. Pure madness.

Sharpest sanctions strategist of Europe advocating for the full mobilization of European excess savings to be burnt on the pyre of America's MIC and NVIDIA.

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024


lol well we all knew it but jfc it's about time

Waiting for the 2032 report on Bucha

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1761059954860216484

Sharpest sanctions strategist of Europe advocating for the full mobilization of European excess savings to be burnt on the pyre of America's MIC and NVIDIA.

35 trillion euros here and there and soon you’re talking real money

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

Danann posted:

Sharpest sanctions strategist of Europe advocating for the full mobilization of European excess savings to be burnt on the pyre of America's MIC and NVIDIA.

we are in so much poo poo and i know this moronic loving continent will embrace exactly what we don't need - fascist demagogues who make the trains run on time (except they don't but nobody cares anyway)

Trimson Grondag 3
Jul 1, 2007

Clapping Larry
governments are always trying to raid pension funds to fund stuff they should be paying for, usually they get told ‘sure if you will give us a sovereign guaranteed 8% return’ and they scuttle off but it depends on your country’s system.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Which one was marea? Don't think that one made a big splash in the news.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Can't even build landing craft anymore. Contract for 32 awarded 6 years ago. Total completed zero.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2024/02/23/us-navy-orders-swiftships-to-stop-work-on-its-landing-craft-program/

US Navy orders Swiftships to stop work on its landing craft program.

The U.S. Navy has ordered the builder of its Landing Craft Utility 1700 program to stop work and moved to terminate the contract, the shipbuilder Swiftships told Defense News, following years of challenges and disagreements on the program.

The yard has laid off nearly 100 workers related to the LCU program since January and is considering actions to dispute the Navy’s termination of the contract, hoping to get back into a settlement process.

Louisiana-based small business Swiftships won the LCU competition in March 2018, with the Navy awarding a contract for $18 million for the detail design and the construction of the first craft. The yard also received follow-on contracts, one in 2019 worth $26.7 million for the next two craft, and another in 2020 worth $50.1 million for four more.

These craft haul Marines as well as their ground equipment and weapons from amphibious ships to the shore and back again. They are the slower but heavier-lift connectors, compared to the Ship to Shore Connectors that travel at higher speeds but carry less weight.

Swiftships’ contract called for options to build as many as 32 — the total number of craft needed to replace the Navy’s Vietnam-era LCU inventory.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Australia's grift frigate program contains insufficient grift for our domestic rent seekers.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/backlash-builds-over-plans-to-build-frigates-overseas-20240223-p5f7b1

Backlash builds over plans to build frigates overseas.

Local defence contractors are warning the Albanese government over plans to initially build frigates overseas, fearing foreign firms will already be locked into the supply chain when construction shifts to Australia.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
We realise you might want a working military but have you considered the adverse impact to key shareholders?

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005

DancingShade posted:

Can't even build landing craft anymore. Contract for 32 awarded 6 years ago. Total completed zero.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2024/02/23/us-navy-orders-swiftships-to-stop-work-on-its-landing-craft-program/

US Navy orders Swiftships to stop work on its landing craft program.

The U.S. Navy has ordered the builder of its Landing Craft Utility 1700 program to stop work and moved to terminate the contract, the shipbuilder Swiftships told Defense News, following years of challenges and disagreements on the program.

The yard has laid off nearly 100 workers related to the LCU program since January and is considering actions to dispute the Navy’s termination of the contract, hoping to get back into a settlement process.

Louisiana-based small business Swiftships won the LCU competition in March 2018, with the Navy awarding a contract for $18 million for the detail design and the construction of the first craft. The yard also received follow-on contracts, one in 2019 worth $26.7 million for the next two craft, and another in 2020 worth $50.1 million for four more.

These craft haul Marines as well as their ground equipment and weapons from amphibious ships to the shore and back again. They are the slower but heavier-lift connectors, compared to the Ship to Shore Connectors that travel at higher speeds but carry less weight.

Swiftships’ contract called for options to build as many as 32 — the total number of craft needed to replace the Navy’s Vietnam-era LCU inventory.

were they trying to make MCU-style hovercrafts or what, lol

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

HouseofSuren posted:

American's are also keeping track of other American's who support Ukraine and Israel. For the civil war portion of the future.

I'm all in that the face of NATO and the west is going to melt off immediately and the people will be hunted down in western Europe and the US itself until we are very, very different places.

Most of those people will end up dead soon.

Which people?

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

Oglethorpe posted:

were they trying to make MCU-style hovercrafts or what, lol

Lostech

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020


I don't see how they couldn't even bother making one at least. It looks like it's just a simple boat??

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

remember when more than 23,000 of these were built over the span of less than four years

zetamind2000 has issued a correction as of 13:50 on Feb 24, 2024

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Lol it happened again, we're still on ballon busting

https://youtu.be/R6-X01AAO0Q?si=xbargLgJvdwWu4AX

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

zetamind2000 posted:

remember when more than 23,000 of these were built over the span of less than four years



They built 1203 LCTs between 1941-42 lol



"All of these vessels were built from prefabricated kits assembled in riverside yards, no ship builders were used in their construction"

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
how the gently caress can you not build landing craft. It's just steel!

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
no grift potential

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

gradenko_2000 posted:

how the gently caress can you not build landing craft. It's just steel!

no it’s also connected, 360 degreee war fighting awareness with integrated ai-powered threat assessment and integrated command and control synergies across multiple theater verticals for 21st century police actions

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

DancingShade posted:

Can't even build landing craft anymore. Contract for 32 awarded 6 years ago. Total completed zero.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2024/02/23/us-navy-orders-swiftships-to-stop-work-on-its-landing-craft-program/

US Navy orders Swiftships to stop work on its landing craft program.

The U.S. Navy has ordered the builder of its Landing Craft Utility 1700 program to stop work and moved to terminate the contract, the shipbuilder Swiftships told Defense News, following years of challenges and disagreements on the program.

The yard has laid off nearly 100 workers related to the LCU program since January and is considering actions to dispute the Navy’s termination of the contract, hoping to get back into a settlement process.

Louisiana-based small business Swiftships won the LCU competition in March 2018, with the Navy awarding a contract for $18 million for the detail design and the construction of the first craft. The yard also received follow-on contracts, one in 2019 worth $26.7 million for the next two craft, and another in 2020 worth $50.1 million for four more.

These craft haul Marines as well as their ground equipment and weapons from amphibious ships to the shore and back again. They are the slower but heavier-lift connectors, compared to the Ship to Shore Connectors that travel at higher speeds but carry less weight.

Swiftships’ contract called for options to build as many as 32 — the total number of craft needed to replace the Navy’s Vietnam-era LCU inventory.

Don’t worry, the Navy has selected a second shipyard:

quote:

https://news.usni.org/2023/09/07/navy-sets-up-second-lcu-1700-shipyard-with-92m-award-to-austal

An Alabama shipyard won a $91.54 million contract to build three next-generation landing craft for the Navy, according to a Wednesday contract announcement.
The contract for Austal opens a second source for the LCU-1700s following an initial $18 million 2018 contract award to the Swiftship shipyard in Louisiana. Swiftship won subsequent options in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

You might remember Austal from such successes as the Independence class LCS, 4 of which lasted less than 15 years.

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