I just don't see how that's a possibility for the Russians. NATO and the west has made it very clear that as soon as the shooting stops, Ukraine is being brought in and some type of defense umbrella will be immediately enacted. At that point NATO is on Russia's doorstep and what happens when they lob shells or drones or partisans over the border? They just have to suck it up for the rest of time?
You can't just claim a small success and leave, the west has made it clear the only end of this war is the breakup/humiliation of Russia. At that point why not just keep fighting? Like Putin doesn't even have to make propaganda for his people, they are literally openly saying this every week.
People keep saying that but then what's the end to this then? If you're letting Russian cities be captured will you retaliate ever? Like this war started with sending over helmets and sleeping bags and since we've put NATO forces on the ground there, bombed Nordstream, gave long range missiles and even let the dumb asses drone strike the Kremlin.
What's the end goal to this madness other that pushing the Ruskies to use nukes?
Which is a pants on retarded take from them. If the first 20-50 pages of a book are complete ass why would the rest of the book or series be different or why would I have to keep reading it in the hope it gets better?
It's a same take I see when games are bad and review bad and people cry out "But but the developers will be out of work!!", like that's reality everywhere. If you're a shitty cook or welder or whatever, you need to find a new job.
They did try to start WW3 when they dropped that AA missile into Poland and blamed the Russians so it wouldn't suprise me.
The article and leaks it's based on says Hungary because they're pissed off them for more leaning towards Russia.
The problem I think is that there is no off ramp or end to this conflict. No matter how much western media cries that Russia is just "two more weeks" to total collapse or Putin has cancer or something else flat out retarded, the reality doesn't match the propaganda. If any of that was true, they why is NATO reinforcing the western flank with 10000s of ground troops and F-22 Raptors? Why did they announce that they're reinforcing the Suwałki Gap just this week? I mean according to the media Russia is out of troops, out of ammo, out of missiles, and have to resort to suicide charges with shovels. Seems kind of silly right?
The west also thinks they can get this to a peace deal but like you said they would literally have to put Ukraine in NATO to prevent future attacks. So why would Russia give up and let that happen?
The scary part is that this doesn't suprise me. I went and got a beer with a buddy who's a teacher recently and he said that their administration seperated all the teachers by race and the white ones (including my buddy) were ranted at over "white privilege" and other shit.
Shit at least you'd have a chance there even if they signed you up for the war. Especially since from some of the rumors and pictures I've heard/seen there's foreign units there including an American one led by a former USMC colonel.
I mean you might die but that's better than having your life destroyed and sitting in jail waiting for shower time.
It's funny I thought that was just a meme the first time I heard it but when you dig it's literally the most logical thing in the world. It's incredible how obvious it is too when you compare him to younger photos of good ol' Castro.
This, it's gonna be hugely destabilizing because it's gonna upturn huge sections of the economy and put a lot of people out of work. For example today you could put in a prompt to an AI and ask it something like "I'm planning a trip to xyz, find when the cheapest time to fly there is, buy me a ticket and book a hotel, and find me the highest rated sushi spot on xyz day and give me local spots to visit etc etc"
Like right there with a simple prompt you just bypassed all the search engines, travel sites, travel agents, hospitality sites & guides, food reviews and blogs, etc and you did it under a minute. It's pretty crazy to think of these jobs and career fields that will literally not be able to compete and that's not in the future, like you could do a prompt like that right now.
I mean I believe in the concept and it's application I just find personally and in general that people who cry "gaslighting" usually just are shitty people who can't acknowledge when they're wrong or try to block out the self realization of them being assholes.
Like alot of the buzzwords you listed, it's just another way of not accepting responsibility for their actions which the left seems to love.
I don't think it will happen though, I mean they themselves will admit they are a model business, not a game one so I don't think they're stupid of enough to torch the only people buying said models. Sure they might try to pander but at the end of the day it's a niche hobby and it's just not conductive to people who are not buying shit.
You can see lately too they've cracked down on their social media and any really forward person has left or been pushed behind the scenes because they keep leaving and starting Youtube channels, podcasts or paint ranges with their own "brand". They don't want that or any "face" that can turn on them and or become an ideologue so I gotta give them credit for putting their foot down.
40K at least has the benefit that it's gatekept through its cost in both time and money. You'll never get these people who literally can barely afford the cat food for all their cats to drop 1000s of dollars on paint, models, codexes, terrain, boards, etc. Like even if you drop all that money you still have to sit there and individually paint every model even before playing a game. GW will always GW but they're not stupid enough to chase after those people.
YUP. As someone who was in Occupy Wallstreet it's incredible to look back at how they infiltrated it and set the progressive stack on the movement and the world. I remember quite a few people noticed it was happening and tried to fight it but it was a moot point after they moved to all the camps and tear gassed the protest sites constantly.
Yeah that thread even brought up the interesting point that once you removed black women from the equation it was like 6/60 - 7/60.
I mean I still remember in real time and have it archived when they first said "masks don't work", "The flu is worse", "If you're worried about coronavirus, you need to go outside ;)" and then completely flipped every single news outlet a couple weeks later to "If you even suspect masks don't work you're a maga idiot"
While I personally think the concept of gaslighting is retarded, it's literally what they did.
Seriously like I'd play the hell out of a Blaxploitation vs vampires game. Something like a mash up of Dusk til Dawn and Jackie Brown would be a really interesting take especially if they went the Tarantino route.
And every video I've seen of Lithium mines is literally children just digging out of the ground with damn near their bare hands. Like that's the dirty secret behind all these EV batteries.
This. You can't put the genie back in the box folks. I've dabbled in the rabbit hole of ChatGPT and if it doesn't pull a Skynet it will put all these writers out of work. It's spooky some of the shit can do if you prompt it right.
It's funny how in the John Titor predictions he said that the remnants of the US would welcome the Russians because Globohomo got completely out of control and they and the Chinese were the only ones standing up to it. Shit's pretty spooky how alot of the predictions have lined up.
This is literally happening in Ukraine. Not the tranny shit but we're literally giving them seriously advanced weapons and it means absolute dick when faced with fire under actual combat.
The Ukie NCO that got in trouble for talking to the western news said as much. Like those conscripted or otherwise were dropping their weapons and running once the Russian artillery started dropping or trench charges happened.
But why though? That's the only thing I haven't figured out yet. Why are we literally risking a nuclear war while emptying our armories and bank coffers for what was very recently (and still is) the most corrupt country in Eastern Europe?
Like that's not even hyperbole, you can read archived news articles from the Left and Right both saying they were corrupt as fuck and damn near a lost cause as late as 2020 before Covid took over the news cycle.
It's honestly warms my heart that the "'modern standards of beauty" doesn't mean shit in the real world no matter how much they push them.
Like when I open snapchat, I don't see any fat troons pop up in the discover page where they hawk influencers. It's all attractive thin girls. Funny that.
They just need to fuck. Once I learned that Antonio was a woman it all made sense. Being there for their older arguments too that went on for pages and seeing that much sexual tension made it pretty clear.
Yeah that's why I'm holding out hope that we're on the John Titor timeline. Honestly you add a seven year to those predictions and they line up pretty close. All this shit will go out the window real quick after a nuclear war.
But how are they beaten though? They're still in Ukraine, their government hasn't collapsed in "two weeks" like they said it would, Putin is still in charge and not dying of cancer. And even though Ukraine is recieving billions of dollars weekly and huge weapon shipments daily the status quo hasn't changed an iota since Kherson.
If western governments truly believed the propaganda they put out they should be kicking back with a margarita right? Except they're not. They're reinforcing the Suwałki Gap. They're putting tens of thousands of troops in Eastern Europe. They're putting next generation fighter jets and AD in there as well. Why? Russia is down to using shovels because they're out of ammo supposedly right?