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>>2101561 >>2106000how do
>B-52ssupposed to compete with Russia's superSONIC missiles?
>>2106024Like if it wasn't already clear enough. Russia-Ukraine war has clearly shown that Russian missile interceptors can't stop NATO cruise missiles and NATO interceptors can't stop Russian cruise missiles and especially not the hazelnut. So yeah it was Putin going, "but imagine if those had nuclear warheads on them" but the same thing with all the cruise missiles they got hit with inside Russia.
It really doesn't matter about developing new technology or whatever. Missile interceptors can't catch up with the old technology.
>>2106035I dont feel safe in this world no more
I dont wanna die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And live like an ape man
>>2106036simmer
like always
>>2106035>It really doesn't matter about developing new technology or whatever. Missile interceptors can't catch up with the old technology.Feels like we're in a period of history where advances in several technologies have outpaced the countermeasures. That includes missiles but also drones and landmines. I was hearing that the Ukraine war has all kinds of newer mines being developed and used, made out of plastic, powered by lithium batteries and triggered by things like changes in atmosphere from little doppler radars so it blows you up from a distance, while mine detection and clearing is still stuck in the 1990s. One reason why the Ukrainian offensive in 2023 failed completely. But also why the initial Russian invasion failed to decisively defeat Ukraine. The Ukrainians are numerically the weaker side but the technology has allowed them to hold on so far.
There was something similar in World War I when advances in machine guns, artillery, etc. made it impossible for either side to break through enemy lines. It wasn't until World War II that people figured how to combine new technologies like radios, tanks, aircraft to work together. What some military theorists today suggest is that to break the deadlock will be some combination of drones being used in en masse (swarms) combined with A.I.
>>2106068It's quite simple to understand why missile interceptors will never work. You need many times the number of interception missiles as the missiles you're trying to intercept. On top of that, these missiles need to be many times faster and more maneuverable than the missiles they are trying to intercept. But if you have tech to build those kind of interception missiles, than you have the tech to build just as fast and numerous attack missiles.
It's really just trying to shoot bullets out of the air with bullets. It's a fool's errand.
>>2106088Besides that's just missiles. Reentry warheads go fast:
>The reentry speed of the warheads on a Trident II (D5) missile depends on their trajectory, but typically, they reach speeds of 13,000â15,000 miles per hour (20,920â24,140 kilometers per hour) as they enter the atmosphere during reentry. This speed is equivalent to Mach 18âMach 22, depending on altitude and atmospheric density.
>The final speed of a Trident II (D5) warhead when it impacts its target depends on various factors, including trajectory, atmospheric drag, and the warhead's design. However, by the time the warhead reaches the target, its speed is typically reduced due to atmospheric deceleration.
>The final speed is estimated to be in the range of 6,000â8,000 miles per hour (9,650â12,875 kilometers per hour). This is approximately Mach 8âMach 10, depending on atmospheric conditions and trajectory specifics. >>2106100I think that the left should have a heavy metal attitude and not a punk rock one. Punk rock is just rebelling for the sake of it and being a bunch of slackers when it comes to producing cultural output, heavy metal had more of a point and is just a more refined and intense genre in general. It works both as a mainstream and outsider genre as well, while punk is stuck with being "Authentic" that only hipsters will find valuable or it will just be inauthentic.
The left should just give punk to the right and take over metal instead. Revolutionary Satanism might unironically work as well.
>>2106097We need to have indepth nuclear triad classes in school.
>this is how we are gonna kill everybody>and no one can stop usThis might be like the most important thing you could possibly learn about.
>>21061231. Proximity to Russia and the arctic ocean see
>>2105988 which will be very important once we have an ice-free north pole. It will be very significant for strategic and trade reasons since we'll be able to send ships through there without worrying about ice.
2. As an extension of that, there will be more "virgin land" available there (and in Canada) since the permafrost and glaciers will be gone.
>>2106114For as much as racializing political issues is a personal pet peeve of mine, I think part of the issue is that among suburban whites (and I imagine at least some people on this board fall into this category) Iâd say the nature of the suburbs especially in white areas makes things like âcommunity organizingâ more foreign. Lots of us donât know or care about the people we live next to, and it might be a remnant of the era of âwhite flightâ but community attachment seems fickle; like you just gotta be ready to pack up and move for any old reason. Itâs a little better for subgroups like the Mormons or Catholics, because youâve got these big centralized institutions who are bound by familial connections, but in an increasingly irreligious country, those ties are becoming ephemeral. So if youâre some downwardly mobile suburban white guy, what recourse do you have to express your intense alienation and desire for change than the internet? The internet becomes your community whereas other groups have actual communities they can actually organize.
And I think politics especially becomes difficult when youâre raised in such a mindset. Iâve got no idea who my âneighborhood councilâ or whatever is, or what they do. In some cases itâs replaced entirely with HOAs that pursue governance as another form of capital accumulation. You go on apps like Nextdoor and itâs just your neighbors writing shit like âI heard a loud bang last night, is there a shooting?!?!â There was a culture war issue ages ago where some insane woman tried calling the police on a bunch of black people having a BBQ in a public park, and you know thatâs the thing about the mindset that grows in these communities, it creates a class of old women who specifically want to disrupt and destroy and sense of community, they want to dictate everything that happens outside of their home. Iâve experienced it firsthand, my family has been the target of a one-sided feud from some insane woman a few doors down. She throws a fit and spams the police about noise complaints because my little brotherâs band practices their music at⌠1:00 in the afternoon. She did this before, apparently, with a little kid whoâd practice the trumpet in their house a few doors down from hers. Sheâs fucking brought our family up in local government meetings to try and get us expelled from the neighborhood somehow. Sheâs blamed every petty act of vandalism on us, including a plastic bag that flew into her law on a windy day. One time her son grabbed a homeless personâs shopping cart and dumped it on our front yard in front of us, our mom asked him to pick it up, he called her a bitch, our dad knocked on their front door asking for an apologyâand the bitch said sheâs proud of what her son did, that we deserve it, and then she called 911 after my dad left and claimed he was trying to break into her home and threaten her!
Community and liveliness isnât just dead in these suburbs, it was murdered, and the killers are still at large trying to stamp out anything that pushes back on the sterile silence they enjoy. Which is why I think an important task for leftists, white leftists especially, is to try to revive community. Host BBQs, start rec leagues, fuck set up an outdoor movie theater or
something. Anything that gets you in contact with the people you live next too.
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>>2106140>Leftists are seen as weak-muscled, elitist hipster typesgavin mcinness the founder of the proud boys and richard spencer much more closely fit this stereotype
>soyjak memechanners drawing each other
>people in the imperial core consoom stuffis this any surprise? marx talked about departments 1, 2a, 2b.
department 1 is means of production
department 2a is means of subsistence (food, water, shelter)
department 2b is unnecessary consoomer commodities.
If you dedicate too much of society's resources to making 2A, you get a crisis of overproduction in the means of subsistence, the price of subsistence drops, and food is too cheap for the bourgeoisie to profit. can't have that. so we set aside a lot of our economy to make shit people don't need to survive from deparmtent 2B. this prevents a crisis of overproduction in 2A so food prices will stay high enough that they eat away at a significant portion of a person's paycheck.
Since department 2B is so important to the bourgeoisie, especially in terms of making society look "wealthy" through conspicuous consumption of stupid BS, everyone has to be advertised to nonstop and brainwashed into wanting crap they don't need.
Now in marx's time, 2B was only for bourgeois consumption but bourgeois reformists in the imperial core countries in the 20th century realized they could stabilize capitalism by making everyone in society consume 2B commodities and raising wages slightly above subsistence. this led to a culture of "consumerism' that was criticized heavily between the 2nd half of the 20th century and now
>>2106263>Be Elon Musk>Hate your parents>Hate your children too>Your children too despise you in return>All your ex-wives also hate you>No real friends outside of groomed sycophants who would deny ever knowing you if they felt it was in their best interestsI think you underestimate the level of psychopathy and narcissism of these people. Trump isn't much different either. He cares about his sons only in as far they're useful to him and hinted he was willing to throw them under the bus to stay out of prison, and he only values Ivanka because he's an incestuous pedophile degenerate who has been lusting after her since she entered puberty.
It's difficult to grasp for ordinary people, but oligarchs like Musk and Trump don't care about anyone. Not even their own blood.
The wife and children of the Brian Thompson? Same deal. His wife wasn't bothered at all. (And why would she? She's about to inherit millions of dollars. Its not like she needs him now)
The only thing they truly fear losing is their own lives. Which also ties into their obsession with life extension research and vampire freaks like Thiel infusing themselves with the blood of young people and a daily diet of 200+ or so nootropics and other experimental drugs.
>>2106595>exactly what his bourgeois handlers tell himHow many times are people going to keep pushing this line?
He
is the bourgeoisie. There are no bourgeois handlers. The bourgeois handlers are
in direct control.This Thiel-Musk-Trump-Others admin is a thoroughly blatant oligarch led regime. This isn't the Biden-Bush-Obama-HW-Reagan era anymore where the oligarchs act as the policy making handlers through think tank proxies and campaign funding whilst a supposedly impartial democratically-elected bureaucracy officially manages the affairs of the State for the Good of the Nation.
It's a mask off bourgeois dictatorship. They're not pretending anymore.
>>2106607We both have a savior complex over the proles, it's just that I embrace it while you become a tailist. To be a leader, you must know what the followers want and see if that is feasible or not.
Also I don't think americans are mentally disabled, just really easily lied to be grifters because feeling good and having an acceptable image is more important than the truth or even just being a moralfag.
>>2106621You really think people are going to follow you when you talk like Steven Pinker and tell them that they never had it so good while everything's falling apart or tell them the little things they enjoy are "treats" (Funny how you types never go after the rich or
their toys) or that they deserve austerity for being "problematic" or unenlightened? If you want to be a vanguard, you need to earn it. Until then , you're not Lenin and the Bolsheviks, you're the mirror image of a bunch of Navalny supporters in Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
>>2106100>>2106080Please don't take this as an insult, but please go outside right now. Like literally right now. And touch the nearest patch of grass. (Or a tree, or just go for a walk - anything)
Like I know where this is coming from, but please don't say shit like this to your co-workers, especially not the religious ones. Actually don't say it to anyone.
The "Left" has a general issue appearing out of touch as is, or at worst, degenerate "freaks" who push "wokeism" (sigh) on ordinary normal everyday people.
Instead do what what CPUSAnon is suggesting
>>2106146 Go outside, organize events, hang out with friends and co-workers - it doesn't have to be official. Put the
social back into
socialism.But please don't start
another insular schizophrenic misanthropic cult but this time "communists", rightoids already do this, and it's very
very cringe.
We don't need "meme magic" and egregores and obscurantists esoteric religious rituals in order to convince people that, as a wagie, you're being exploited and fucked over. They know. We know.
Instead we need a way to organize this shared sentiment into action.
People obsesses over wages and bills, but not enough is said about (as CPUSAnon described) just how much capitalism has eroded people's social lives, how it tears apart families, how it destroys people mentally and not just physically, how we're dehumanized into becoming mere cogs in machines where the only thing we do is work, commute, eat, shit and then repeat the same thing the next day. And every day turns into a haze, where three months later you wonder what you did in the meantime.
I think everyone here who has either done a repetitive physical or desk job has experienced that moment where you're like "What the fuck am I doing? Who am I?"
I forgot who said it, but I remember someone writing about something similar in relation to homes, and how houses under capitalism aren't places where people "live" like might be understood in previous eras, but instead are places where you merely recuperate in-between work. And how this became especially evident during the height of the pandemic.
Everything in capitalism ends up revolving around the replication of capital. The work day doesn't end when you clock out. It doesn't begin when you clock in. Capitalism doesn't merely determine how you work, but where, where you live, what you study, what you eat, what you say, how you express yourself online and offline, when and if you "start a family". As if all of humanity has become enthralled by an alien god. An unseen suffocating force.
Like only in a society that is deeply
socially ill could a concept like "loitering" ever arise.
tl;dr: Please don't start yet another cult. (ACP, terminally online eceleb fandoms, etc) And instead talk and interact with people around you (coworkers, friends, people you meet during the day). You'll find a lot of ideas you may believe to be fringe are not only easily grasped, but already considered to be self-evident. And a lot of people want to move away from the culture war hysteria, and long for real tangible social bonds and a social life which isn't entirely mediated through capitalism.
And
this is what's the real appeal of socialism; not this endless trite reduction to "policy", "wages", "geopolitics" and the astroturfed culture war hysteria.
>>2106526he's right you know
not sure how you square the massive amounts of people living in sacrifice zones, the lack of healthcare, the million and a half homeless people, the deaths of despair, the largest prison population on earth (per capita) with that whole mentality
>>2106080The best 'egregore' is organizing in real life; you know, like the right-wing militias have been doing to quite great success in the US? Hell, there was even an exposĂŠ dropped yesterday that showed the extent of influence they have.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-moleIf you really want to push for positive change in the material world, then simply organize.
>>2106654I think the issue with this, is that it ends up feeling like another instance of someone or some group trying to "sell" you something. Like Jehova's witnesses.
You go to an event to have fun with your friends, maybe find a hook up, but instead you meet these clergy freaks who are obnoxiously waving their holy books in your faces while quoting the scriptures.
Like I remember an image from the old days way back of some WWP (I think it was the WWP/some Marcyist group) member holding up a book and screaming during a rally looking like a lunatic. It's that kinda vibe.
Like don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "don't do anything". But I think it would work better as an invite to yet ''another' event. Like an informal
>By the way we do events/protests too maybe you'd like to check them outAnd then you invite them to your whatsapp/telegram group.
It doesn't have to be strictly political in the way most might understand. The main appeal might be checking out local musicians and having a fun time, the official reason is some charity concert for Gaza, but it's also a way to find like-minded people. Yes you will encounter liberals, you may even encounter unironic MAGA, but imo that ain't the big deal people make it out to be.
You can't go out there and expect everyone to agree with you beforehand. Like people who aren't able to talk to ordinary people aren't going to be leading any "revolution".
In general - and this is my opinion - organizing should refill the void left by capitalism. It shouldn't attempt to sell anything, including memberships (and especially NOT newspapers), it should break not only in content but also form with the eceleb grifting, the cults and the especially bourgeois election spectacles.
Go grill with your neighbors. Like it genuinely surprises me how there are "organizers" out there who don't even know their own neighbors or ever interacted with them outside of small talk.
>>2106652>I have heard that the reason why the GOP does so well is because they actually host bbqs for the people to go to and then socialize at their functions with. The dems don't really do that and keep fucking up I live in the suburbs now and the GOP is the dominant party locally, and they do meetups at BBQ restaurants and things like that yeah. The Democrats do "drinking liberally" meetups at some brewery. Maybe they do something else but I haven't looked it that much. Annual banquets are also a thing that the Republicans and Democrats do all over the nation at the county level as an important source of fundraising, although the only leftist version of that I know about is a CPUSA banquet in Connecticut.
On "community" type stuff in the suburbs, most of it from what I can tell around here is that it's either local porky / professional-class business "leadership development" type stuff, churches, or apolitical hobby and fitness type things like running and cycling clubs, gardening / flower clubs, and "keep suburbsville beautiful" trash cleanup volunteers. Stuff like that.
>However how the fuck are we going to do anything but juts become another anarchoid charity group?I think it really comes down to demands. Like, what is your demand?
I used to live in a city with a kind of "non-denominational" leftist scene (but generally anarchist / Luxemburgist), and they did an interesting thing where mutual aid was a weekly event and they were persistent about it, and they'd go pitch a tent in the middle of town every weekend, but the real purpose of that was to act like a little hub or lobby if you wanted to get in contact and "get involved." The real meat was in building little coalitions with progressive people, labor people, and single-interest types (when appropriate) around specific demands. So, let's say the city would move to cut back on public services that would also shed some union jobs to replace them with shitty gig McJob contractors, that would be a cause to organize around and escalate from there, and they'd build a little movement and start harassing the city council, organizing a campaign (complete with demonstrations, press packets, petition drives – basically a playbook – and bringing in labor allies from other places to roll in), and while they weren't storming the barricades they were relatively productive and successful at it.
They tended to work closely with a small labor group. The people in the group were radicals but didn't hit you with any of that ultra stuff. It was like "Local Workers" and they'd pitch a tent next to the non-denominational mutual aid group with labor literature (some of it just straight AFL-CIO pamphlets, "know your rights"), so now there was this little leftist mini-camp out there on a pretty regular basis. I'd have to say my experience with the sectarian "ML" left on the other hand has been completely unproductive.
>>2106652>I feel like you might be right to some degree, I have heard that the reason why the GOP does so well is because they actually host bbqs for the people to go to and then socialize at their functions with. The dems don't really do that and keep fucking up (Outside of special election s which they wonâŚtoday). However how the fuck are we going to do anything but juts become another anarchoid charity group? This is also why the memes are important, there is not just the false dichotomy of GO OUTSIDE or POST ONLINE. People will be on their phones while bbqing with the boys. I even was invited to one of those by the neighbor olds, but couldn't go because I was sick as shit.Y'know I think it was Behind the Bastards, but they were doing an episode on psychotic right-wing suburbs in Cali (your Orange County, your Simi Valley) and when those suburbs became breeding grounds for insane anti-communist reaction, what they found was that a lot of people almost seemed to use it as an escape from suburban alienation. Here you were, passionately arguing against some ACLU candidate because you think he's a commie, and you're loving every minute of it because your whole neighborhood feels mobilized, it feels like you're a part of something.
There was some advice I heard from older CPUSA members (who honestly have seen a lot and are worth listening to based off experience alone) where they talked about how they were young and impassioned communists, they dedicated all their time to trying to get some public meeting to discuss socialism going, and when they spent hours upon hours getting everything ready for the big day… no one showed up. It was only after they made a new event that was, IIRC, a working class art exhibition that they got people to show up and talk socialism.
If you advertise a socialist book club, you're only gonna get socialists. If you advertise a BBQ and maybe keep some stuff from your local org, a copy of some newspapers or some pamphlets or what have you, you'll catch a wider audience of people. People are
desperate for some sense of community, but they don't want it to be all "political" at first.
>>2106638>People obsesses over wages and bills, but not enough is said about (as CPUSAnon described) just how much capitalism has eroded people's social lives, how it tears apart families, how it destroys people mentally and not just physically, how we're dehumanized into becoming mere cogs in machines where the only thing we do is work, commute, eat, shit and then repeat the same thing the next day. And every day turns into a haze, where three months later you wonder what you did in the meantime.Jesus that hit close to home.
But something I think is important to mention is that, while I've advocated sports or BBQs, it can literally be
anything that gets your community together. Don't worry if you don't think it'd be popular, because it just might be you introduce someone to something they've always been curious about but never had a chance to try. Combine shit. Have fun. Introduce Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons to people. Or Go. Or Chess. If you got a thing for some niche sport, do that! Hell, you could even try partnering with local businesses: create a new bowling league, if you're having a big event, ask the local comic book store if they want to set up a stand and sell stuff. Open your yard to bands. Just anything other than "we need a new kind of soyjak"
>>2106683Oh, one last thing. I'd say the distinction between this and mutual aid is that mutual aid tends to just attract people in need of aid. The homeless. The poor. And look, those are great allies to have, but there's a lot of people who don't or rather refuse to fall into those categories. Free blankets and children's food and water are all good and mutual aid should continue to be done, but I work with the public: I had people who used foodstamps during the pandemic who told me nervously "I hate using this thing. I only use it 'cause I lost my job. I'm looking for a new one so I can get off this right away." Things like Sports Clubs or BBQs are innocent. People don't have this socially imposed idea that they're a "failure" or "loser" for attending your event.
I think the key is also learning how to talk to people. Don't go all in their face "Have you heard about our lord and savior Karl Marx?" Practice a kind of magnanimity. Don't lie and pander. Be neighborly, see the value in people beyond their politics. If you see potential in someone, include them in some Socialist work. Make it a kind of open invitation. Don't make it seem like you're trying to "change" them or make them see your way of doing things. Instead do something like "I'll be helping out some striking Amazon workers, care to help me deliver some water to them?"
>>2106146That lady sounds nasty, you should organize the community against her. You know she's fucking with everyone else.
>>2106683As someone recovering from suburban living you're 100% right. It's designed to be alienating and I know you end up developing an ambient paranoia. Holed up in you're dragon cave of consumer bullshit. Idk how to fix that, I just had to leave. Since then I've been taking baby steps myself in getting involved in my new community. I've met my neighbor and smoked weed with him. He's also plugged super into the town and told me about all the intrigue, the local corruption and the sex cults that been popping up.
I can't be assed to reply to any particular person but I think the move to play is to create a positive atmosphere offline and create a negative atmosphere online. You don't bother to organize much of anything online, it is a waste of time. Instead, you try to poison the vibes against the liberals. You make it a humiliating thing to be, you make them feel basic, pop, conformist, NPC, stupid, uneducated, lacking in will ect. You goblinize liberals both maga and shitlib online, but you don't do that shit OFFLINE
>>2106717I understand what you're getting at, but I think people online need to chill too (including here on /leftypol/). Like I remember back when forums (>20 years ago) used to ban people for swearing, any use of slurs or being mildly rude.
I feel this shift towards "it's okay to be deliberately obnoxious and offensive online" happened around the early 2010s, and while it has made the internet worse, it hasn't made offline organizing any better.
Instead much of the terminally online derangement has bled into the offline.
Imo if someone's behaving in a way that would get them punched in the face offline, ban them.
>>2106722This kid needs to find some offline friends.
>>21067314chan has been around since 2003 but I didn't start using it until 2016. To my knowledge it was always "chan culture" to be
>deliberately obnoxious and offensive online" That's like always been the draw of 4chan vs a messageboard where you have to signup, often have to wait to get approved to post. Vs. it takes like half a minute at most to ban evade on an anonymous messageboard. The design of this platform was always to encourage trolling.
>>2106733I don't recall it being this toxic back then. There's a difference between using a slur as a way of addressing (fellow) anons (i.e. being edgy), and people writing paragraphs about how they want to unironically burn black children alive with flamethrowers. The latter is something that started appearing after the early 2010s.
4chan wasn't always like this. I recommend checking the archives and seeing the general contrast and shift in vibes. Especially before /pol/ was created. (which imo is responsible for ruining the site entirely. The news board should have been deleted and never replaced)
>>2106735You're right, but I remember this happening already during the early Obama years, and really gaining pace when Ron Paul ran for president. There was a general shift away from people talking about "the elites" towards simply blaming jews. I remember when the culture was largely "libertarian" and the US government was compared to
Nazi Germany and this was considered to be a
bad thing.
"Trumpâs return creates opportunity to remove Iran threat, says blue-ribbon committee"https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-return-creates-opportunity-to-remove-iran-threat-says-blue-ribbon-committee/The election of Donald Trump as US president offers an unprecedented opportunity to remove the threat Israel faces from Iran, according to a committee appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to examine defense spending and IDF military force design for the future.
Trumpâs return to the White House, said the Nagel Committee on Monday, âcreates, for the first time, the potential for a fundamental change, and the removal or meaningful reduction of the Iranian threat.â
Trumpâs inauguration is scheduled for January 20. He is expected to return to a version of the âmaximum pressureâ campaign that he pursued in his first term to pressure Iran to give up its nuclear program.
The release of the committeeâs findings came the same day as an Axios report that Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer had come out of a November meeting with Trump thinking that the US president-elect would back an Israeli strike on Iranâs nuclear facilities or even order a US attack.
The committee, chaired by Brigadier General (Res.) Prof. Jacob Nagel and comprising representatives of the Prime Ministerâs Office, Finance Ministry, Defense Ministry and IDF, is tasked with determining the direction of Israelâs military force design for the next decade, the budgetary implications, and the economic impact.
>>2106736>>2106743Looking back, this was always going to be the logical end point of "multipolarity" + no rules. Smaller or less powerful neighbors (nat bourg) either accept being reduced to protectorates (exclusive market access), or they're invaded and annexed.
It's very 19th century, and I feel in absence of an (international) socialist workers movement, it will end the same as last time.
I see a lot of liberals not taking this seriously. As if they've been living under a rock for 30 years.
But Jan 20th is going to be the definitive end of an era. The American bourgeoisie are openly stating they will no longer abide by the rules. They already didn't, but at least they pretended to. This is mask off.
>>2106750>I see a lot of liberals not taking this seriouslyOf course not they are coping atm
>The American bourgeoisie are openly stating they will no longer abide by the rules. They already didn't, but at least they pretended toBecause the rules that they followed were the rules that they came up with post-91 and benefitted from it. Multipolarism puts a headache on liberal hegemony and now they can go mask off because the pig with make up was always a pig but now allow it to be the ugly sack it always was.
>>2106749Consolidating North America, the Panama canal included takes care of any Chinese threat to local American bourgeois (economic) hegemony on the continent.
People shouldn't be surprised because this was attempted more than once in the 19th century for many of the same reasons. And was only halted in the southern direction because north-eastern whites didn't want a bunch more slave states + an influx of non-whites. And if not for an infamous diplomatic fuck up the southern border would have been even further south than it already is.
This wasn't necessary for a long time because the west was united, and American business interests in North America weren't threatened by soviet industry and multinationals.
The anons who predicted the American bourgeoisie would rather "burn down the world" than lose their hegemony were right all along.
>>2106750They're going full speed ahead with fascism. This was always the plan and it turns out that the vast majority of humans are fascist scum who deserve the bullet. Nobody is pretending to be a good person anymore. It's just mask-off monstrosity.
Stalin is the most vindicated man in history. I wonder when someone will save us from all of this.
Start practicing your shooting skills and working out, friends. Even if you're on your own, these are healthy skills to have. You don't want to be a fatass if you need to flee some bad shit and you don't want to have a shaky finger when you need to shoot someone in self defense.
>>2106757>the Panama canalIt was only given up in 1999 at the peak of American dominance in the world. China was not a threat and seen as potentially becoming democratic. The US never gave up on the Panama Canal and it was only a matter of time before a competitor would rise to make America want to take it back.
>People shouldn't be surprised because this was attempted more than once in the 19th century for many of the same reasons20th century as well before the Cold War. US predicted a war with the British Empire and put plans for this war. The special relation didn't become solidified until Harry Truman became president.
>And was only halted in the southern direction because north-eastern whites didn't want a bunch more slave states + an influx of non-whites. And they still don't they just say it in a PC way as to appear progressive in the 21st century. They just want to exploit these countries nicely and democraticly for the benefit of the US
>American business interests in North America weren't threatened by soviet industry and multinationals.If the Quebecois started a socialist revolution with Soviet backing the US would annex all of Quebec immediately. Soviet or more accurately socialists were a threat to American business interests across the Americas. Fall of Cuba was devastating and guerrillas and Military men were sympathetic to socialism which caused a great headache for the US and made them set up dictatorships that would be mask off. In short, America was always an empire it just hasn't been pushed to a breaking point in the home front and now the empire bleeding is slowly showing itself
>>2106760I feel this is closer to á´uá´lossnW. But really there is no 1:1 comparison to be made. Hitler was a figurehead doing the bidding of German bankers and industrialists. As was á´uá´lossnW in Italy.
I don't recall there being a case where the mask-off bourgeois dictatorship was led by an actual oligarch.
This is uncharted territory. It shares similarities with previous mask-off expansionist anti-communist bourgeois dictatorships but there isn't a direct parallel.
>MexicansHave been largely integrated into mainstream "whiteness". Latinos are "white" nowadays unless they'd pass as black or Indians ("bipoc").
>CanadiansLargely "white" and Indian Americans (As Brahmins) have been integrated as well.
>GreenlandPredominantly indigenous
Instead, this all feels more 19th century than the early 20th, but with a multicultural twist.
If there is any attempt to go through with this, we'll have two expansionist bourgeois empires in the future. (Or three if you include Israel) Which makes me curious as to what they're thinking and going to do over in Beijing.
There's no way they aren't at least slightly concerned about these developments, especially when media personalities close to the Russian government are cheering on Trump.
https://www.frontlinewildfire.com/wildfire-news-and-resources/private-firefighters-growing-trend/
>Last fall, when monstrous wildfires blazed through some of southern Californiaâs most privileged neighborhoods, these small teams provided personalized prevention and protection for homeowners, in addition to their exterior sprinkler systems. The service is part of the coverage offered by insurance companies American International Group (AIG), Pure Insurance and Chubb Limited, among others.
>This private fire protection has been part of the companiesâ policies in wildfire-prone states for about a decade. But itâs an area that continues to grow. (For instance, Chubb contracts with licensed wildfire fighters across 13 states.)
>Itâs a welcome service for customers. But itâs also smart business for the company, since saving a home is cheaper than paying out on a policy to rebuild it. Often the wildfire defense option is offered with no additional cost to the annual (admittedly high) premium. However, policy holders must opt in to the service, granting permission for access to their properties.
>Firefighter contracting within the insurance industry is not a new concept. U.S. insurance firms have had relationships with private firefighters as far back as the 1790s. Long before public fire departments became common. (The countryâs first municipal fire department was finally established in Cincinnati on April 1, 1853.)
>Prior to the Civil War, the U.S. relied almost exclusively on private firefighting in urban areas. At that time, private fire brigades competed with one another to be the first to respond to a fire. Insurance companies paid these brigades (often handsomely) to save buildings.
>And did you know that private firefighters are routinely contracted by the U.S. Forest Service? According to the National Interagency Fire Center, the USFS contracts many private crews for âinitial attackâ â the first few hours of a wildfire. In fact, contracted crews have been a regular part of fighting wildfires since the early 1980s. >>2106847I had the same thought. Mine doesn't even seem to list general assemblies anymore, only working groups whose meetings are only over Zoom (groan).
All that they ever seemed to do before I stopped going in 2020 was door-knocking campaigns for local politicians and literally nobody in my area likes being canvassed
>>2106853Thank you. Enjoy. If you are still up in the morning, me or boss will help you out. Unfortunately we gotta sleep in order to make money.
Last post of the night.
Those firefighters never stood a chance.
>>2106874>>2106881 I don't quite understand why right-wingers and Christians would cheer for the provinces of their own country suffering from disasters
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>>2106894Because American politics is kinda like a team sport. You just hate the other team for no real reason in particular. So that means you hate anyone who supports that team. So that means you hate states that lean towards one team or the other, but even in places like California the split is only 60-40, so at least 40% of those homes getting burnt down are Republicans, and considering it's a rich area, probably more.
But Republican voters see California burning and they see an enemy they hate even worse than China burning. That's a common theme with right-wingers, is they have a way more emotional hatred for people who they consider traitors than those they consider out and out enemies. So they consider Californians to be godless heathens that are ruining their lives more than any foreign adversary possibly could.
>>2106913This. It's why America is called United States. Fifty provinces with the geographic size of average nations.
And they have their own geopolitical systems.
>>2106810Younger Canadians are leading the charge of wanting to be burgers
>âThe appeal of a province joining the United States varies greatly by age,â explained Mario Canseco, president of Research Co.>âWhile only 10% of Canadians aged 55 and over perceive benefits, the proportion rises to 27% among those aged 35-to-54 and to 40% among those aged 18-to-34.âCanada as a nation is running out of time anyway so why delay the inevitable.
>>2106985Good morning. A 4th fire has just started. Vegetation fire but we are now in the worst of the wind storms. It will grow incredibly fast and out of hand.
It has only begun.
>>2106743Imperial consolidation.
A territory buyback
>>2106778The mexican army would be dissmantled rather easily.
But the purge of the narco in the fields would be something akin what the soviets were short doing to a mexican muhajjidin.
>>2107171No he isn't a prole at all. He's just as Bourgeoisie as Trump and the rest of the billionaires.
Our sham of a Democracy finally has had it's mask removed and has been revealed what America has always been since it's beginning. A Country ruled by an oligarchy of rich assholes.
>>2107220>The secularized and liberal world that these posters are coming from never created an alternative morality,an attempt was made
>Liberal attempts to shame them mean nothingtbh libs should realize that fundamentalist religous reactionaries of any creed or country are fuckin psychos. Zizek is overrated imho but he was right about god permitting anything, many religious reactionaries genuinely believe that not only is there an omnipotent all powerful creator but its specifically dickriding them and their in group so why would you expect these fundies to not act like this
>>2107238am zoomer, there has been no increase in reactionaries just a complete death of the neolib center so if you are right wing its full reaction or bust and even our libs are just americans without a socdem party to vote for. Third way neoliberalism is completely dead with no following and this is the after effect, the generation zylkon shit is just a /pol/ and oldhead cope like all genpol
>>2107243Slam poetry in the gayest shit on earth.
>tbh libs should realize that fundamentalist religous reactionaries of any creed or country are fuckin psychos. Zizek is overrated imho but he was right about god permitting anything, many religious reactionaries genuinely believe that not only is there an omnipotent all powerful creator but its specifically dickriding them and their in group so why would you expect these fundies to not act like thisWasn't the followup to that statement by Zizek that in modern atheism, seemingly
nothing is permitted?
Okay, to go into a bit of Nietzscheanism here, I think what gives the religious right an advantage in this is that God has ostensibly acted as the "origin" for "objective" morality for thousands of years. You can justify a whole lot in the name of a God who ultimately decides if something is right or wrong: Holy Wars, Persecution, and also Martyrdom, Charity, etcetera. Given the theology of a "personal relationship with Jesus" over an earthly institution deciding what is right and wrong, you can end up with a scenario in which just about any and everyone think God's permitting them a special dispensation to do X, Y, or Z. The whole "mine was the only justified abortion" shtick. God becomes their ego. Their animal drive.
Where I think modern Atheism has stumbled is in turn creating a new morality that can be just as self-justifying as the religions of old. One of these ice-munching psycho fundamentalists could nuke the planet and have no problem with it, "God" is on his side after all. The Atheist removes that divine permissiveness from himself. Everything he does is ultimately a product of his own actions. Whereas the religious, specifically religious protestants, genuinely believe that every bad thing in their life is the product of Satan and everything good is the product of God. Like they have a Manichean view of the world.
Say a pastor runs over a dog while driving to a motel where he cheats on his wife with a transgender prostitute. How's he justify it? "Well, the devil made me do it." Queue crocodile tears and begging for forgiveness. Let's say an Atheist does it? Well the devil is out of the question, so if he thinks on it long enough he might go insane realizing that he's a piece of shit.
I think for a lot of the global left, the revolutionary fervor that followed Marxism-Leninism has dissipated. The people who were Communists decades ago genuinely believed there'd come a time where they saw a Red Flag hanging above the White House. The harsh choices of Stalin and Lenin could all be justified as paving the way for the world revolution. But with the death of the USSR, what's left? In the back of their mind, people can only fret: "What if I'm killing and dying for a bunch of bullshit?" At least the Islamist believes when he blows himself up he'll be rewarded in Jannah. What's the Marxist got to look forward to? The great abyssal nothingness? And if his revolution fails, he'll just be a monster that murdered people in the eyes of history.
It's why I don't think libs have the capacity to really challenge fundamentalists. Maybe not even Socialists to some extent, though they at least have the benefit of having a revolutionary ideology.
>>2107300Akshually, they closed it down in 2019 because all the yuppies that replaced everyone don't have kids to send to public school anyways and even if they did they would send them to montessori instead anyways.
>Pasadena, also known as "Dena" or the "626" is a city near LA, best known for the rose bowl games(which USC always wins) and the rose parade (which is only cool to the people who dont live in Pasadena). Full of Bloods (PDL), Crips, Latin Kings, Villa Boys, Thugs, tweakers, hobos, rich snobs, and everything else. It has underrated public schools who people love to critisize (Muir,PHS,Marshall,Blair,Rose City) which is mostly for the blacks, hispanics, and lower class white people who love to party, get wasted, and have fun. Muir is usually thought of to be the ghettoest one because it is in the "hood" which is in north-west pasadena near altadena (but thats where the best athletes tend to be). But Pasadena also has a whole bunch of private schools for the rich people who dont want their "precious" little kids to be affiliated with the "lower class" kids(Maranantha,La Salle,…etc) those are the kids who you'll usually see kikin it at the paseo on colorado st.https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/pasadena-school-board-votes-close-three-elementary-schools/156183/Pasadena School Board Votes to Close Three Elementary Schools >>2106887reactoids support CRINGE people for having a few BASED opinions
revolutionaries commit BASED actions whether or not CRINGE people agree
>>2107300The wind seems to have ripped up some telephone poles not too far from my house. Just straight up splintered wood and wires tangled in trees.
This is pretty bad, ngl.
>>2107319California is pretty alright compared to other states though. Where would you flee that is nicer?
Especially if you like going to events. Like 75% of anime cons in the US are in California and I like going to them.
>>2107321>California is pretty alright compared to other states though. Where would you flee that is nicer?California is super nice if you can afford it. If you aren't working a high paying job it's possibly one of the worst places in the country. Someone should make an index of income for regular dick jobs like retail, delivery, security, janitorial, whatever, compared to the average home price/rental price in the area.
Like ok 25 dollar minimum wage, wooohoo! That's twice as much as 12.50 an hour! But if the cost of housing are 5 times as much in the 25 an hour area as the 12.50 area, you're doing way worse with the 25.
>>2107153>Hilarious shit. Next on the list is French Guyana, thenThe French never leaves any colonies without chimping out. France also believes it is a multi-continental country and should be included in the americas. In the 19th century Napoleon III tried to take on the Monroe Doctrine:
>We are interested in keeping the United States a powerful and prosperous republic ; but it will not be interesting to us if it takes possession of the whole of the Gulf of Mexico, and governs the West Indies and South America, thus controlling the entire produce of the New World.-Napoleon IIIFrance still has ambitions unlike other European powers and I would love to see the Franco-American confrontation. Also don't forget Americans sabotaging the French in Australia.
>>2107333>There is affordable housing in California if you're willing to live outside the bay area or los angeles. Unfortunately the cheaper areas are pretty dominated by Republicans.Anywhere not near the coast in California is an absolute shithole. Basically like Texas or anywhere but with all the shitty problems of California.
But there really isn't anything out there. My parents when they were gonna sell the house and retire a few years ago. They looked for places in the area they could afford. Their price range was like 200k to 300k. Literally the only place they could find was this little place up in the mountains called Pine Mountain, which is 2 fucking hours from a supermarket it's so remote. Cool part is that the Chumash, the socal natives considered it to be the center of the universe. That's pretty neat.
Instead they bought a house larger then the one they were selling in Austin for 250k or something and it's in a nice neighborhood with hospitals all kinds of advanced medical specialists, every kind of amenity. Bro they couldn't fucking by a house of any comparable size for that price in fucking San Bernadino and that places is a renowned shithole.
California is SO GARBAGE unless you're uber rich.
>>2106526>The "treats" discourse is fucking cancer. A bunch of petit-bougeois hipster "Left" looking for a reason to spit on the poor from their gentrified luxury apartments and tell them that they never had it so good.it was coined to make fun of suburbanite petty bourgeois MAGA types who can afford waterfront property in The Villages FL and drive a 202X Ford F150 but only ever use it to pick up groceries
This is a treatlerite type dwelling
>>2107344Even if you're super rich it's a crazy hellhole. This guy I know whose dad is a famous movie director decided to rent a place after college with his friends in this Latino neighborhood where MS-13 famously had an ethnic cleansing program against Blacks. I only visited the place one time, but when I got my car and saw literally every person was Latino, being a negro, my spidey sense was tingling, oh brother you are in the wrong neighborhood. Anyways sometime later he was having some big as party that all kinds of strange people were breezing through. These guys who breezed through came back later and held him at gunpoint pistol whipped them, then burned down the house.
These are kinds of experiences you just can't get outside of LA! It's so authentic!
>>2107352It's pretty obvious Trump only sees greenland as potential dollar signs from oil contracts.
The military and neocons love the idea because it'd piss off Russia.
Evangelicals will probably start mass moving their cults to Greenland to populate it as a second Alaska where no one can hold them accountable.
>>2107351>The way red states keep cost of living low is by filtering out all the "undesirables" by being too unfathomably unlivable for them.Lol you got that completely backwards. I guess they are harder on the homeless, although they were letting them go hogwild in Austin for a time. You have that completely backwards, it's California that filters out all the undesirables.
I remember I was in community college, and there was a recent spate of gang murders and stuff in my area and seeing a couple corners with flowers laid on them, and I was mentioning it in class and this real uncle tom ass uygha was like:
>Oh I'm friends with the Sheriffs and they say it's really not that bad and anyways<they're pushing out all those people to the high desert and wherever so the problem is fixing itselfCalifornia is like a non-stop stream of gentrification. Like I was talking about, if you are working a regular non-high paying job, your standard of living in California has been steadily falling faster than almost anywhere in the country.
>>2107354>Thing is a lot of red states are becoming more expensive to live in.This part is true. Austin housing prices have skyrocketed in just a few years. My parents bought in before the spike lol.
Gotta find the next Austin.
>>2107359But you can find another Austin in Texas. You should see how cities like Amarillo and stuff are expanding. That town look like it was just built and and the rest is being built.
California wants you GONE. They aren't going to build a house for you until hell freezes over.
>>2107371Civilization really does make beasts of men.
Also isn't Texas due to get frozen over?
>>2107319I appreciate the warning but my friends and family are all out here, no clue what Iâd be doing in the Midwest.
As it stands Iâm taking things day by day. And maybe if America collapses in on itself California could be a Peopleâs Republic with Chinese help. Alternatively I could just fucking lose my mind and witness the rise of the Newsom Imperium.
>>2107275i kind of wonder if this is true.
Who was gonna be able to say "yeah we actually killed way more occupiers than that?"
>>2107321you can get fur conventions in the midwest and east
>>2107382we're just kicking people out instead too.
>>2107479>you can get fur conventions in the midwest and eastYeah people are living in the ancient past. Everywhere in the country is the same liberal-freak zone.
I bet there is not a single major city in the country you can name with out a furry convention.
>>2107493Honestly, relatable.
There are times I hate music and the obsession people have with it.
>>2107497https://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jun/08/las-vegas-street-gangs/>The Las Vegas Valley is home to more than 300 street gangs, a number law enforcement officials say is growing as members ditch loyalties and create new groups.
>Roughly 20,000 gang members â or 6 for every 1,000 Nevada residents â live in the valley, according to the FBIâs 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. Only five other states have as high a rate: California, Idaho, New Mexico and Illinois.
>Local gang members average from 14 to 21 years old, with recruitment typically starting in middle school, Metro Police said.
>Many of the cityâs more established gangs are subsets of larger, California-based organizations. But there also are âhybrid gangs,â more loosely organized groups that are harder for police to contain.https://www.lvcriminaldefense.com/las-vegas-getting-violent/<Another reason for the violent crimes is that many California prisons are now releasing their so called âsafe prisonersâ to avoid over crowding. The depopulation of prisons that started in California has resulted in many non-violent felons having their prison terms cut short by the new California laws. Proposition 47 led to decrease in sentences for non violent crimes like petty theft and drug possession, with charges being reduced to misdemeanors. Unfortunately many of these felons have now moved into the valley where they have taken up gang membership.LA be like:
>they your problem now Sin City >>2107356Or get a job at the local school, DMV, or whatever government job you can snag.
The problem is, most small towns economies are one trick ponies. Usually centered around an extractive industry or some federal government job like an army base. Since deindustrialization though most lost the those big paying industries leaving only the service jobs with no one around to purchase services or goods.
>The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
>(We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn)
>(Burn, motherfucker, burn)
>The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
>(We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn)
>(Burn, motherfucker, burn)
>>2107583Im glad to never have to live in Memphis, Chicago, Toledo (Ohio), the bronx, new haven (CT), Buffalo (NY), Rochester (NY), Syracuse (NY), West Virginia, Bodymore (Murdaland), Atlanta, San Diego, Mississippi, Alabama, ect
>>2107532I find redscare and their cast to be a lot more cringe than most of reddit these days.
>dark enlightenment auraThat's entirely silicon valley tech bros (Moldbug/Yarvin) and ivy league elitists like BAP. That stuff never had mass appeal and mostly piqued the interests of the terminally online or oligarchs like Thiel.
>What if us rich people are chosen ubermenschen who deserve to rule the genetically unfit unwashed plebs?Is very run of the mill reactionary ideology. Which is what NRx boils down to; commoners (working class) ruined the west, western culture and Good Governance with Democracy and in order to reverse the decline the billionaire oligarchs should abolish Liberal Democracy and replace it with themselves as immortal god-kings (Mask off bourgeois dictatorship)
>>2107673He's entirely right about it being entirely about geopolitics on top of meaningless buzzwords and statements about "support"
Also why is a supposed communist promoting a multi-millionaire human trafficker who got rich off get-rich-quick scams, the sex industry (you know the thing the ACP opposes) and promoting idpol? Don't they have communists parties too over in the UK that need promoting?
Or what about Jeremy Corbyn? Who is also pro-peace in Ukraine and pro-Palestine? Even if you think he's but a lousy sucdem, I don't see why he wouldn't be a better PM than
Andrew Tate. >>2107682I disagree. It's not the lifestyles they envy.
They hate the bureaucrat middle men not because they envy their wealth (Both Yarvin an Moldbug are
rich), but because they feel "liberals" are doing too much "democracy" and letting the filthy plebs ruin "western civilization". They're annoyed at too much lip service being paid to the masses instead of only doing what the oligarchs want.
And obviously oligarchs like Thiel and Musk like promoting people like that.
The incoming "Trump regime" is odd in how it breaks with historical precedent - even more so than his first term.
Usually the way these things go is the big bourgeoisie appoint a charismatic figurehead to do their bidding, or you have an oligarch who runs by themselves and then spend their time in office lining their pockets even more (Berlusconi), but not an outright clique of oligarchs ruling openly whilst also pushing for a bellicose expansionist foreign policy.
You can't even compare this to Russia. Whatever wealth people (well western MSM) attribute to Putin, he's still a
bureaucrat at heart. Not a businessman.
In a way, this is more mask off than even Nazism/Fascism were. Because they still
pretended to be something they weren't. A "national" movement led by larger-than-life "man of the people".
This on the other hand is bourgeois hubris at its most shameless. It's what Absolutism is to "Feudalism". And it's kinda embarrassing many didn't see it coming and could only ever bring up HItler and á´uá´lossnW as to how these things would develop. Where porky would again appoint a charismatic puppet. Instead of you know, simply taking the reins themselves.
>>2107666Regarding the fires, gonna take the opportunity to plug Desert since it doesn't seem to have been posted in this thread yet.
readdesert.org
>>2107725Martiage is slavery
Abolishing gay marriage is the Marxist position. Read Engels.
>>2107718Just get rid of the ag industry in California and all the water problems are solved.
Agriculture GDP share:
>1% of Cali GDPAgriculture water usage share:
<80%It nakes
0 business sense. This isn't capitalism. This is Commiforniaism.
>>2107739It's funny because in the late 20s and 30s you had newspapers saying that hitler and his followers were just joking around and that they'd mellow out when they got power too.
I'm too lazy to dig through a bunch of old newspapers to find this one, but one even had a cute little comic depicting hitler as a boy scout puffing out his chest, lmao
>>2107742It's not the same; the 18th Brumaire is a closer comparison.
These are literally just opportunists who are taking the advantage given to them for the next two to three years and scoring points where they can by forcing through constitutional rulings.
Let me ask you something: Whatâs the worth of a human life in the American Regime? No, donât answer. Let me show you instead. Picture this. Youâre 15 years old. Your cell is concrete. Your window, if you even have one, is coated with ash. The largest fire in California history is half a mile away. Half a goddamn mile. Every breath you take scratches your throat. The guards say nothing. The supervisors do nothing. Your cell is starting to feel less like a room and more like a coffin. You wonder if this place will turn into a crematorium. You wonder if anyone on the outside even knows youâre here.
You think about the stories. How they left people to die in Katrina. 2004, New Orleansârotting bodies floating in flooded cells, water up to the waist, no food, no answers. Just the silence of being abandoned. Thatâs what it means to be one of the forgotten. One of the expendable. Youâre not just locked upâyouâre erased.
This is the darkest corner of the empire. The black hole where the regime dumps its deliquent kids, its poor, its lost, its angry. Youâre a kid, but youâre locked up, and that makes you nothing. Just another body in the machine. This is what the regime does. This is what it's always done. Call it what you wantâprison-industrial complex, systemic neglect, capitalist realismâbut at its core, itâs rot. The kind of rot you canât wash off.
Let it sink in. The flames donât discriminate. They wonât stop at the prison gates. If that fire reaches the detention center, every one of those children could die. Burned alive in their cells. Cremated by a system that locked them up, tossed away the key, and now wonât even bother to unlock the doors when the fire comes.
What does that say about the American Regime? About the so-called social contract we're expected to believe in? Because thisâthis shitstorm of neglect and crueltyâis the fine print. This is what it looks like when youâre not the one society cares about. No safety net, no second chances, no dignity. Just fire and smoke and the faint hope that someone, anyone, will come for you.
But letâs be real: they wonât.
Theyâve got prisoners fighting these fires, getting paid $1.45 a day for risking their lives to save the homes of millionaires who probably wouldnât piss on them if they were on fire. Think about that. Theyâre out there choking on smoke, dragging hoses through hellish terrain, while the media worries about the Malibu beach houses. Oh no, P. Diddyâs mansion might burn. Oh no, the Bourgeois palaces might go up in flames. But those kids in the detention center? Fuck âem. Theyâre invisible.
This is what the regime is. Save the beach houses. Let the kids burn.
This isnât a failure of governance. This is the system working exactly as designed. Itâs a regime built on sacrificeâthe sacrifice of the poor, the young, the voiceless, to keep the machinery running. It is a society built to protect Malibuâs mansions while imprisoning children and letting the detention centers burn to the ground with them in it. And how different is that, really, from the mass death we see pouring out of Gaza on our social media feeds every day? Children buried under rubble. Families obliterated by airstrikes. Lives erased in moments. The parallels are stark, and theyâre horrifying. In both cases, the message is the same: these lives donât matter to the regime. These deaths are acceptable. The system calculates, weighs, and shrugs.
Think about this: the only reason they care about beach houses burning down is because itâs profitable. The only reason they donât care to evacuate these kids from the fire is because itâs profitable. And the reason mass death is being carried out in Gaza? Because itâs profitable. The only reason your neighborhood isnât burning, drowning, or being shelled is because itâs not profitable to the capitalist regimeâyet.
How long until it is? How much longer can we live under a system that places no value on human life? The fire is coming. For them. For you. For all of us. The question remains: Who will wield the flames?
https://www.calonews.com/communities/los-angeles-county/advocates-urge-immediate-action-to-evacuate-incarcerated-youth-from-high-risk-fire-zones/article_fa502526-ce22-11ef-918c-6bea9ac567a3.htmlCheck out this article from HOUDINI Magazine: [Burning Behind Bars: The Value of Human Life in the Empire](
https://erikhoudini.com/#burning-behind-bars)
>>2107713Guys I dont enjoy this focus tree anymore
Can we reload the game and take the wholesome socdem path instead?
>>2107782Trumpâs popularity went to shit the last time he presided over a national crisis, the next time wonât be any different
>inb4 but people are super online nowPeople were nothing but online by and especially during 2020
>>2107784The thing is all the major media conglomerates are going to run interference for Trump now. We shall see how the sheeple react in Argentina, because Milei's approval rating is still super high in spite of all the poverty rising there.
>>2107786I think constant climate crises CCC would do some harm, but the climate is a very abstract notion to people who can barely remember anything beyond 2 months, outside of mah-maws photos.
>>2107790I still remain fairly pessimistic.
Old rightiods are going to be trumpfags for the rest of their lives
Chuds are hooked on a constant drip feed of anti-woke youtube content, which will still be seen as counter cultural so long as hollywood still exists.
Minorities managed to get a spot in the right atm, which is why their men turned right and so did their women. The only ones who haven't are black chicks.
My tactic here is simple, do what the liberals did during the second term of the bush era. Be pricks, be aggressive but don't be elitist and focus on the economics.
>>2107796Homophobia has definitely declined even if its apparent vanishing from polite society was due to censorship.
Currently not a good time to be a full on public fetish queer though.
>>2107791>>2107797 (You)
Didn't really plant to go back there but maybe it was back of the mind. Kinda liked the terrain but not like the people would be the same if I ever went back.
Altadena Blocc Crips / San Antonio
know what I'm saying this young creep from Altadena blocc [ ] we still functioning out here [ ] I'm strapped with my son [ ] you feel what I'm saying it don't stop my [ ] it don't stop we does this we it [ ] [ ] tank R my [ ] tank free My [ ] scratch free my [ ] t-one you feel what I'm saying we got locked up in that [ ] man free My [ ] Murder One sh free all them [ ] from the 90s man real [ ] man you know what I'm saying not them dumb ass small time type of [ ] oh yeah hey [ ] Small's campaign [ ] Altadena [ ] that's how we do it out here we just hit cars up that oh y'all know that [ ]
ALTADENA UYGHAAltadena may burn down. But Altadena uyghas will spread across the country keeping the memory alive.
>>21077871. The major media conglomerates are basically only relevant to older generations. For the below 50 crowd, social media and influencers are the MSM 2.0, and controlling the narrative there is more complicated due to how volatile it is
2. Argentina is a unique case, itâs been so fucked for decades that a ham sandwich would get the honeymoon that Milei has with his voters. Milei staunching the bleeding on inflation let him get away with murder, but now that theyâre at 53% unemployment while prices are still modestly increasing from where they were means itâs put up or shut up time for him, and if he canât, heâs fucked in the long run. America on the other hand has basically nowhere to go but down.
>No mention of $13 billion for the LAPD>No mention of $800 million for the LAFD>No mention of how the city lacks water to put out the fires and this is partially the result of the state favoring big agro interests over those of the cities>No mention of how the houses lost were valued at millions of dollars, but there was no money for underground power lines which may have prevented thisI hope his sink starts leaking and an Italian plumber shows up
>>2107764>Manchin absent>VP doesn't bother to show up>Will show up when signing off aid to Israel>Will show up whenever Ukraine (paid for by yours truly, the American working class and exploited masses of the global south) needs more armsRemember dems arguing Biden was the most pro-labor president ever? (lol. lmao even)
>>2107753Your writing is actually good, keep it up
>>2107774This is clearly HAARP by the deep state to attack president-elect Trump's forever term to stop him from Making America Gusano Again, trust the plan
- Q
>>2107806Here you go some rare Darqman produced by moi.
>So cold>How it all unfolds>If you listen to it>It'll touch your soul>Have your mind spinning>Yeah, out of control>Too much stress>carry the heavy load>In this thing called life>Hard work and sacrifice>mad decisions>and at times it ain't nice>But sure it ain't right >how they scream at night>the birth of the fiends>lost with no sight>his eyes tell lies>hurt ones, they cry>lost souls, get tortured by the fire>some thoughts inspire>never altered my desire>my destination, yup, >I'm only going higher>word's spoken>It's like priceless art>constructed brilliance>how I carried on>from a division>to another dimension>So I stay>bidding the competition>I never knew>it would be like this>from the two 16s>uygha, living through the 90s>still right here>up in the cut>yeah, doing my thing>and still living it up
>Simple how it is>how it all gets done>We get it how we live>shorts we taking none>I give it to you live>for real with live spit>Cause all I do>I came to catch wreck>Get's cold >when you're looking out the window>Hand's get froze>Girl, when the wind blows>so whatcha gon do>Cause it's funny how shit go>been doing this forever >is what you didn't know.>Sun roof tops>packs of dutch blunts>Honey Jack>we all getting fucked up>Cause everyday>Money be on my mind>Signs of the times>steady, be on my grind>2 steppin to this>walkin through the mist>my eyesight vivid>deep like the abyss>from the wise one>thoughts that get inside you>to open you up>with the spiritual guidance>godzilla spit>for real I leave ashes>scared to death>when the titans is clashin>heard you was a nice emceee>and could pack a jam>but all around the world>these kids they know who I am
>You don't really want it>so you can stop frontin>still on the ave with it>still gettin blunted>true to the fact>hell has no fury>ministeries>of these lost ancient memories>styles beyond>thoughts you can't imagine>It's only torture>when you up against the dragon>check your stats>I'm an obvious giant>Egyptians walk>like the Incans and the Mayans>when I spit>yep, the truth hurts>how Darqman came >to rock and shock the Earth>lost in time >why don't you open your mind>or you find yourself>lost left in time>so ask yourself>how Darqman lift's>your mind out the dark>I work shifts>Darqman>invading your space>and once you enter>it ain't no escape>The way I pop?>yeah it's deadly when I drop>you need sunblock>cause me I'm burning hot>real danger>yeah, when I'm in your area>you just don't know>cause you dummies ain't there with us. I'm watching Tulsa King because chapofags made fun of it. It is extremely bad. Silvester Stallone can barely articulate or move his face muscles any more yet he is this super cool boomer who solves all the problems E-Z P-Z.
One of the most hilarious aspects of this mafia series is that he just gets money because that's what the mafia guys get, but they never go into the actual details of his financials.
>haha, i'm a boomer, bitcoins aren't real
<Mr. stallone, I just stole 3 million bitcoins for you and here it is in cash
>haha, i'm a boomer, wtf they have weed shops now?
<i am weed selling man, my shop revenue now belongs to you since you successfully extorted me
The whole libidinal aspect is fucked in the series and becomes a weird analogy for the real boomer condition. We don't know how he got his money, his success, his charisma, his women… his face barely moves (like the plot)… he doesn't understand anything yet he's super successful, the world is his oyster, etc.
It would be unwatchable if it didn't have this necromancy aspect to it. Walking corpse rules the world – the movie.
>>2107806He told me his nephew produced that song and he died in a shooting. Not to uncommon for my neighborhood. I remember there was this video called:
Altadena Blocc Crip Roll Calland it started with
>Where did all our friends go?Then it played some Never Can Say Goodbye kinda song and a long Oscar type "in memoriam" of "Baby Loc" and "Big Ghost" and whatever. Seems it is no longer on youtube. Altadena is being slowly and surely erased.
https://unitedgangs.com/altadena-blocc-crips/ Top one is Loma Alta park in this vid. Right below is the other Crip liquor store.
>>2107834Bottom is All Star Liqour in this vid.
>>2107806>>2107791This is where the 4 year old boy got shot in the drive by next to the Walmart grocery store. He was inside a house when the car shot into the crack den.
https://abc7.com/altadena-salvador-esparza-boy-fatally-shot-reward/13208146/>Wednesday, May 3, 2023>Salvador "Chavita" Esparza III of Monrovia was shot about 10:40 p.m. July 5, 2016, at 384 W. Figueroa Drive.That was the last time Altadena made the trending on twitter. I remember because I was woken up in the middle of the night by 6 helicopters hovering above my house. It felt like the Osama Bin Laden raid.
>>2107854even in your inferiority you have to pretend superiority
amazing
>>2107926>And Gen Alpha are preteens now and incelism is the rule among young guys not the exception so zoomers have it better than Alpha and upcoming Beta. If you think Gen Z has incel issues wait until you see Gen Alpha and their internet brainrotThis is genpol bullshit. Gen Alpha and Beta aren't automatically "le chud". That's more Gen X and Millennials. Why are we blaming the youth for reactionaryism?
Also "much brainrot"?
Seriously?
>>2107937He dumb. Maybe it was already too late by the point they were talking about buying Stingers, but uhh there is your red flag right there. Do ypu think those go missing? No one is "selling" them but the feds.
>According to the court documents and evidence presented at court, since at least in or about 2019, the DEA investigated Ebisawa in connection with large-scale narcotics and weapons trafficking. During the investigation, Ebisawa unwittingly introduced an undercover DEA agent (UC-1), posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker, to Ebisawaâs international network of criminal associates, which spanned Japan, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, and the United States, among other places, for the purpose of arranging large-scale narcotics and weapons transactions. Ebisawa and his network, including his co-defendants, negotiated multiple narcotics and weapons transactions with UC-1.
>Ebisawa conspired to broker the purchase, from UC-1, of U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles, as well as other heavy-duty weaponry, intended for multiple ethnic armed groups in Burma (including the leader of an ethnic insurgent group in Burma (CC-1)), and to accept large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine for distribution as partial payment for the weapons. Ebisawa understood the weapons to have been manufactured in the U.S. and taken from U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. Ebisawa planned for the heroin and methamphetamine to be distributed in the New York market. Pretty interesting story. So he really had the material and said he could get tons of it out of Myanmar. Doesn't say anything abput findimg his source or securing it.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/japanese-yakuza-leader-pleads-guilty-nuclear-materials-trafficking-narcotics-and-weapons>Finally, beginning in early 2020, Ebisawa informed UC-1 and a DEA confidential source (CS-1) that Ebisawa had access to a large quantity of nuclear materials that he wanted to sell. Later that year, Ebisawa sent UC-1 a series of photographs depicting rocky substances with Geiger counters measuring radiation, as well as pages of what Ebisawa represented to be lab analyses indicating the presence of thorium and uranium in the depicted substances. In response to Ebisawaâs repeated inquiries, UC-1 agreed, as part of the DEAâs investigation, to help Ebisawa broker the sale of his nuclear materials to UC-1âs associate, who was posing as an Iranian general (the General), for use in a nuclear weapons program. Ebisawa then offered to supply the General with âplutoniumâ that would be even âbetterâ and more âpowerfulâ than uranium for this purpose. Ebisawa further proposed, together with two other co-conspirators (CC-2 and CC-3), to UC-1 that CC-1 sell uranium to the General, through Ebisawa, to fund CC-1âs weapons purchase.
>Thereafter, on a Feb. 4, 2022, videoconference, CC-2 told UC-1 that CC-1 had available more than 2,000 kilograms of Thorium-232 and more than 100 kilograms of uranium in the compound U3O8 â referring to a compound of uranium commonly found in the uranium concentrate powder known as âyellowcakeâ â and that CC-1 could produce as much as five tons of nuclear materials in Burma. CC-2 also advised that CC-1 had provided samples of the uranium and thorium, which CC-2 was prepared to show to UC-1âs purported buyers. CC-2 noted that the samples should be packed âto contain . . . the radiation.â Approximately one week later, Ebisawa, CC-2, and CC-3 participated in a series of meetings with UC-1 and CS-1 in Southeast Asia, to discuss their ongoing weapons, narcotics, and nuclear materials transactions. During one of these meetings, CC-2 asked UC-1 to meet in CC-2âs hotel room. Inside the room, CC-2 showed UC-1 two plastic containers each holding a powdery yellow substance (nuclear samples), which CC-2 described as âyellowcake.â CC-2 advised that one container held a sample of uranium in the compound U3O8, and the other container held Thorium-232.
>With the assistance of Thai authorities, the nuclear samples were seized and subsequently transferred to the custody of U.S. law enforcement. A nuclear forensic laboratory in the United States examined the nuclear samples and determined that both samples contain detectable quantities of uranium, thorium, and plutonium. In particular, the laboratory determined that the isotope composition of the plutonium found in the nuclear samples is weapons-grade, meaning that the plutonium, if produced in sufficient quantities, would be suitable for use in a nuclear weapon.>>2107965I saw on Instagram how uhh Lana del Rey's beachfront property burned down and I shit you not people were losing their minds over that. It's like, it's just a house? And the replies are, no â it's so much more than that, she filmed a video spot there once.
Literal hell.
>>2107774>without power for four hoursGet fucked.
t. Asheville Resident
>>2107847>>2107850lumpens are the revolutionary class in america
cope
>Kristin M. Crowley is the 19th Fire Chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). With her wife and children by her side, Chief Crowley took the oath of office on March 25, 2022 â becoming the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief in the LAFD.
>Chief Crowley leads a diverse department â about 3,400 sworn and more than 350 civilians â in protecting four million people in Los Angeles (LA) â the Nationâs second-largest City. From the ocean to the mountains, the Valley to the Port of LA, the LAFD responds to over 1,300 emergency calls a day.
>As a 22-year veteran of the LAFD, Chief Crowley has proven her credibility and character by promoting through the ranks. She served as a Firefighter, Paramedic, Engineer, Fire Inspector, Captain I, Captain II, Battalion Chief, Assistant Chief, Deputy Chief, Chief Deputy, and Fire Chief.
>She has gained valuable experience in both field assignments on emergency apparatus and administrative duty in multiple areas within the Department. Before her appointment, she served as a Chief Officer for nine years as the Commander of Battalion 13 (South Los Angeles), Battalion 6 (San Pedro), the Professional Standards Division, Fire Prevention and Public Safety Bureau, and Administrative Operations.
>Chief Crowley has been instrumental in the LAFDâs youth development program. She has served as the program director on two youth fire academies in the harbor and valley areas in the City. This program has trained over 1,000 LAUSD students from local high schools on the fundamentals of becoming a firefighter focusing on graduating from high school and having good citizenship.
>She served as an executive board member for the Chief Officersâ Association and The Women in the Fire Service. Chief Crowley chairs the Fire Code Committee for Los Angeles and serves at the Los Angeles Fire Department Leadership Academy as a facilitator and instructor.
>Creating, supporting, and promoting a culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equity while striving to meet and exceed the expectations of the communities are Chief Crowleyâs priorities, and she is grateful for the opportunity to serve the City of Los Angeles.
>>2108213>Are rightoids proclaiming this to be an act of God punishing woke California ahead of the ascension of God Emperor Blumpf?More or less. Some of the less hip rightoids are still stuck on the "antifa arsonists" conspiracy theory. But of course when the Deep South gets its shit rocked by hurricanes (e.g. Helene), it's
not an act of a vengeful God
or climate change, just the Demonrats button mashing the hurricane machine.
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