Because much like the ethno-nats at large (and the Nazi types specifically), they know that if they were serious about their beliefs, the average normie would balk at it. But while the pinkos are better at lying about their intentions, sometimes they seethe so hard that they let slip that they are as evil as they think you are.

Also, I agree with your larger post in this thread as the most likely outcome of this. I just find it extremely funny/ironic that even while they are actively oppressing their chosen enemies, their enemies still find a way to outperform the commies by merely existing. Unironically, Communism is the very definition of failure.

Good to know. I thought that "gulag" was the name of the camps, not the administration in charge of them.

TLDR: The Lotus Eaters podcast discusses a recent research finding regarding the Soviet Gulags. Apparently, putting all of the interesting and smart people in one place for being "counter-revolutionaries" resulted in those areas becoming hubs of culture and education once the gulags opened up (since the people who were put in couldnt really leave) that still benefit from that fact decades later.

Also, commies still absolutely seething over this fact, and they hung an effigy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at the Gulag museum in Moscow in protest (as he is a liar, obviously).

Not shown in this video, but in the wrap up, one of the comments points out how there is some parallel in the fact that the dissident movements and alt-tech are becoming the hubs of culture in the modern era, while "mainstream" culture is becoming dull and stagnant.

Remember that the New York Mafia started out as a group to keep Italian immigrants into the US safe. Hell, MOST of those groups (the Irish, Blacks, Jews, etc) had their own Mafia, and all for the same reason. Gangs obviously arent above gunning down their enemies for turf or for pushing drugs. But they would have still wanted to keep at least some order otherwise your entire operation can fall apart.

It sounds like instead its just general anarchy and you have random thugs running around screaming "CHAOS REIGNS!!!!" and doing whatever the hell they want, regardless of stability, for seemingly no other reason than they are violent sociopaths who gain joy in the chaos and mayhem.

I used to be a doubter. Until he kept pulling it off. I still think Teslas are overpriced novelties, but the man knows what he is doing when it comes to space tech and even energy (apparently the solar panels he designed are excellent, so says an energy tech I know).

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True, but like another thread in this topic said, there is an issue of perception vs. reality. The reality was that the War Department was hesitant to actually nuke Japan. But as far as the Japanese were concerned, one moment Hiroshima was there, and the next it was gone, and it took them hours to even figure out what the hell happened. And as far as the Japanese were concerned, the US had just Thanos-Snapped an entire city with literally no warning. What conclusion are they supposed to draw other than "If we dont surrender, they will kill every last one of us!"

It gets on my nerves ever time this comes around that people still push that long debunked conspiracy. And while its true that Roosevelt and a lot of the high command had been told there was a strong possibility that AN attack would come somewhere (the US Navy knew that Kido Butai was gone pretty much the moment it left Yokohama), but almost all intel said that the most likely target would be the Philippines.

After all, who would be dumb enough to try and sail all the way across the Pacific, hit a target, and then sail all the way back across, and do it without getting caught on the way in and back out?

Historical ignorance, and its retarded cousin 'knowing stuff that's wrong', is the plague of our time.

And worse, there is absolutely no excuse to be that way other than willful ignorance and/or politically or ideologically charged retardation.

We have the collective knowledge of humanity at our finger tips, and access to information from alternative points of view with dozens of experts or self-taught historians talking about the matter. And yet some people chose to be the way of OP. sigh

Also, on the note of OP:

What difference would razing 2 more cities with special fire that also causes cancer make in that situation?

How about the fact that one plane with one bomb wiped out an entire city? Every other city they destroyed took hundreds of planes dropping thousands of bombs. You can see an air fleet like that coming. You can HEAR it coming. One plane can easily slip past every defense you have. And now that one plane can destroy EVERYTHING by itself. Which was the moment that finally snapped a lot of the Japanese high command out of their zeal and showed them just what kind of power they had fucked with, and now it wanted them to die. And even then, you STILL had a not insignificant amount of the Japanese military screaming "Death before dishonor!"

How did all those appointments work out for you?

The only criticism I ever had of Trump was that he was abysmal at picking people. Which is honestly part of the reason I favor DeSantis, who has seemed much better at building out his war team with people who will actually go to bat for him (on top of him for all intents and purposes being "Trump with a Filter").

Also, funny story about Miley. My brother apparently met him while he was in the Army at some USO event in Iraq. He said that the first thing Miley did when he got off the helicopter was throw a fit because his unit was rocking their Texas National Guard unit patches, and he ordered them to don the "proper" 10th Mountain unit patches. This despite the fact that even though his unit was indeed 10th Mountain, they were in Ft. Polk, and that unit was tied to the Texas National Guard/36th Infantry at the time.

Then, while he was having dinner, he got seated at the table with Miley on one side and Gary Sinise on the other (apparently, because he was pretty smart compared to a lot of the other grunts, so they wanted him to sit with the 4-star General). While sitting there, they somehow got on a topic of army command, and Miley started talking about how there were bases he had been told to close down during the Obama cuts, and he managed to get around it by doing shenanigans moving units around and creating paper trails. My brother was being a good Specialist sitting there, nodding, and saying "Sir, yes sir." but the whole time he was thinking "This sounds very illegal."

So when I told him about how Miley apparently usurped nuclear authority in the final days of Trump, he just nodded and said "Yep, sounds about right."

Like the other comment said, you can jump through a bunch of hoops and drop fat stacks of money to get a full auto.

Another option is that there are also semi-auto versions of the gun that are the same gun just without the full-auto. These can range from reasonable (semi-auto Thompson: about $1,200) to “Still Need Fat Stacks” (semi-auto M60: about $15,000).

Massie has an M60, his wife has a Thompson

Bruh, I am more jealous of this mans arms collection than anything else.

Also, notice the expert trigger and barrel discipline displayed by his entire family.

To back that up, the election in Virginia showed that while abortion was a minor issue (only 3% said it was extremely important to their vote), the ones who's votes were swayed by abortion overwhelmingly voted Republican.

This whole canard about how getting rid of Roe will somehow kill the Red Wave next year just reeks of MSM Establishment propaganda mindkiller tactics.

Like usual, I keep a handful of games in my rotation so that I can pick and choose whenever I want to play something else. Right now that rotation is:

1. Snowrunner

Offroad trucking game, where most of the challenge is in making sure you dont get bogged down in the mud/snow/swamp/all of the above, while also carrying cargo for different organizations who hire you out. Luckily, unlike Spintires or Mudrunner, its not all just logs. It can be concrete slabs and steel girders for construction, it an be a tanker for a remote outpost, it can even be specialty cargo like an oil rig and its drilling equipment.

2. Anno 1800

I have been in a Victorian mode lately (probably because I am hyped for Victoria 3 to eventually come out), so why not play one of the only games in the setting. And it honestly looks pretty good as well as having a healthy amount of challenge.

3. Hearts of Iron 4

Been getting back into this since they came out with the new DLC. So far, I have been playing as the US, with a Fascist Canada to my north, a Communist Mexico to my south, but no one declaring war on me because its 1947 and I have like 30 nukes and my army standard issues assault rifles while everyone else is just getting around to semi-autos. Also like 30 aircraft carriers, because "Fuck you and everything in a 200 mile radius."

4. Tropico 4

I guess I am on a city spree right now too. I have been working my way back through the Tropicos to do achievement hunting and replay the campaign. Will probably go to Tropico 5 when I believe I am done with 4.

5. Age of Darkness: Last Stand

Got this on a recommendation, and I will also recommend. It takes the same gameplay style and loop as They Are Billions, then improves it in literally every way. Its just a much better game than TAB and is the new platinum standard for Survival Strategy in my book.

6. HighFleet

Kind of fell of the wagon with this one, but I am want to get back into it. Its pretty difficult, but I love every second of it, and its probably one of my top games of all time.

All state powers involved wanted to make sure that such a show of cross-faction sympathy could never occur again and implemented harsher punishments for resisting command.

Well...not really. Industrial Warfare (especially WW1) was what I got my history degree in, and the Christmas Truce was very much the last death rattle of Napoleonic, Pre-Industrial warfare. For one, even as famous as it became, it was a VERY limited event. Sure, you saw most of the line call a ceasefire for Christmas, but the fraternization between enemies only happened at a few points along the British and German section of the line. The French were in no mood to make peace with the people currently occupying parts of their land, and the Belgians even less so. But the British and Germans? There had been some who believed they would be allied with each other, and they had been on very good terms before the German invasion of Belgium (you have no idea how much better it would have been for the world if someone slapped the German generals and told them to stop being so autistically obsessed with their plans). They certainly werent going to turn around and end the war. This was still a time of nationalism, and they were going to fight for their nations. Its just that they had all been brought up with a sense of there being honor in warfare.

Come Christmas 1915, both sides high command were looking at ways to keep fraternization from happening...but they really didnt need to. By Christmas 1915, Gallipoli was raging. The Germans had cracked the first seal and brought forth chemical warfare. The Germans had sank Lusitania, in brazen defiance of pre-war naval norms. And of course, everyone had been stuck in trenches fighting a war they were told should have been over by now. They didnt need to stop anyone. No one was going to do anything like it again. Because the honor of Napoleonic warfare had died in clouds of mustard gas, hails of machine gun bullets, and then drowning face down in mud.

And yes, I do see irony in me being an optimistic person, but my area of interest is one of the most brutal, grinding, pointless, and hopeless wars in history.

As for your other comment, sounds like a trip. Like I said, I would have never expect those sort of problems in a Black Metal band. Glad you like it, even if its not my style (I prefer clean vocals, and I generally like the more optimistic tone of Heavy and Power Metal). I suppose I lucked out, because all of my favorite bands managed to avoid getting drawn into any sort of obvious TDS, and some of them have even said that they are more concerned with the authoritarian nature the world is going on. My top bands at the moment being Sabaton (as mentioned), Powerwolf, Brothers of Metal, Eclipse, Starset, and Smash into Pieces.

I think your outlook is slightly too Americentric, and derives too many of its losses and wins from what happens there.

To be quite frank: Its because we are some of the only ones fighting back. That is not to say that the rest of the West is taking it lying down. I have seen the protest against the mandates in Europe. But there is a lot less they are able to do about it than we can in the US. Because in Europe, there is a lot of top down control that makes it easier. Meanwhile, in the US it is deliberately set up so that a Federal bureaucrat cant even sniff without getting vibechecked by a State level politician. So Biden can say he wants use to begin every morning by praying in the lotus pose, and my state can tell them "Eat shit and die" and suffer no consequences. My area (Kansas) never really locked down except the first time, has been fairly lax on enforcement of things, and very few people wear mask. And we were still more strict than some of our fellow rural states because of a Dem governor who is going to get cockslapped come next year (it was a fluke of local politics she is even in in the first place).

Trump SHOULD have had the presidency if not for fraud. Rittenhouse SHOULDN'T have ever gone to trial.

Both true, but think about it this way.

They had to pull their "in case of emergency, break glass" move on Trump even after 4 years of fake scandals and doing everything they could to drive down his voters, who mostly were turned off by his tone. And that only BARELY dragged them over the line. But now, they are having to do it for damn near every election, which means they are having to pick and chose who they save. I guarantee you that they rigged New Jersey to get the win there.....BUT THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED! That is a D+15 seat, it NEVER should have been close. And then in Virginia, the cheating was kept to a minimum, because the Populist have acknowledged that the bell cant be unrung, and left-wing cheating is now just part of the game. So where they can, they will limit how much they can get away with (Virginia had some of their stuff "defortified" from 2020), and when that still isnt enough they will just turn out massive numbers and get creative with their reporting to keep the cheating as low as possible. So now the Dems are in trouble, and they may not have to resources to save everything.

As for Rittenhouse, true. He never should have been to trial. Which means now, just like with school boards, people are going to be paying attention to who they elect as DA. To make sure they are not just going to let Left-Wing terrorist off the hook, let Criminals walk because "incomprehensible Left Wing noises", and put anyone who defends themselves from the latter 2 on trial. So now the Left has a new front they need to defend on that no one had payed attention to before, which means more resources, which means less people they can keep saved.

The more fronts you have to fight, the harder it gets. And the Left just keeps making new fronts, because they cant help themselves and just keep making enemies.

and speaking of small wins I'm currently preserving my sanity with an album release from a veteran band who kicked out a histrionic tranny and managed to put out some kind of masterwork in the messy aftermath.

Definitely doesnt seem like the kind of band that would have that sort of problem. And while its not my style, that is good to hear. I am into Melodic, Heavy, and Power Metal and its been a blast for me, with so many bands coming out with so much stuff its hard to keep up with it all. But of course, my top hype right now is still the new Sabaton album next year. They released Christmas Truce a few months ago, and now the rest of the album is sitting there taunting me. The one I am most interested in hearing though is a tossup between Dreadnaughts, Hellfighters, or Stormtroopers.

I don't think that we need to "hold the line". I think we need to absolutely subvert the shit out of these bastards.

For what it is worth, I was mostly being dramatic for the purpose of narrative, but your point is correct. Luckily, like I pointed out in the main post, you have the likes of Scott Presler and Steve Bannon doing just that, going into the turf of the Left and the RINO types, smacking their nuts, and then taking over their turf for the Populist future.

I still see the coming economic collapse as the end-game for Fabianism.

True. But I think its less likely to end in their favor than I was a few years ago. They have ripped off their own mask and are running around screaming like a babbling crazy person, so now even normies are starting to seek ways out (more homeschooling, more people seeking alternative sources of wealth, moving away from large cities, etc). And the Fabians dont have the power to actually force it, so they may be forced to cut their losses and go running away from America to wherever they want to set up next (probably China, but New Zealand and Australia also seem likely due to the way they have been going). But the whole "Great Narrative" of the WEF is falling apart in real time, so I still believe they will lose

Liberation Theology is already a very present thing in South America. It is the merging of Catholicism, it's philosophical roots in founding Social Justice, and Marxism.

Funny you should mention that. I have seen data that shows that Catholicism is actually on the decline in South America, in favor of the various sects of American Protestantism. And it is indeed tied to the Catholics becoming very woke under the Pope, while Protestantism is much more difficult to subvert as it has no or limited central authority. Which incidentally is part of the reason it exploded during the Reformation in the first place.

There is no reason why George Floyd can't literally be canonized as a saint.

implying they havent already done so

I also agree with your larger point that it seems much more likely that the Woke will descend into becoming a new religion. It is entirely within their past and their nature, and the Woke Ideology is already not too far removed from the Cult of Reason from the French Revolution, right down to their "Year Zero, All must begin again" attitude toward just about everything that exist.

I got that info from a guy who personally planned one of these "suburbs", I spoke to him in person.

That would be because a lot of the "progressive" urban planners, if they were let off the chain to do whatever they wanted without question, there would be no cars, period, in their perfect cities. Only walking, bicycles, and public transit.

Its why I always say that every city I have ever built in something like Cities: Skyline would give them an aneurism. I have efficient mass transit, but I also have efficient road networks. I have well developed downtowns, but I also have well developed suburbs. I have office parks for highly educated workers, but I also maintain extensive industrial parks (including heavy industry like Ore Smelting and Oil Refining). I have legalized narcotics use and and well funded educational services, but I also have a well funded police force with a "tough on crime" stance regarding prisons. I also have a personal thing where I will build a Liberal Arts college, a city district with zero-emission housing and organic shops, and ban all non-electric vehicles, but I deliberately name the district the "Hippie Ghetto."

To play devils advocate: Arbery was unarmed. So while it very much would have been legally self defense trying to do something to the McMichaels, it seems extremely reckless to throw yourself at an armed individual trying to steal their weapon in an attempt to defend yourself. Because unless you have reason to believe they are just going to kill you anyway, the better option would be to surrender and live until you see a time to escape.

That said though, I dont have particular beef with either side here. Everything I had heard at the time made it sound like a situation where no one was in the right, so I more or less declared "a pox on both your houses!" months ago, and from what I have heard of the trial that did little to clear up that issue.

Stuff like this is honestly why I am not super concerned about China winning the game of Civilization. They are putting up a nice, terrifying front, and they are using their paid stooges in the media to push the narrative that they are unstoppable, hoping it will scare people into just giving up so that they dont have to fight. But behind the scenes, the situation is MUCH more shaky, and the odds are much higher that they will go the way of the Soviets rather than them displacing America for the top spot in the world. They have too many irons in the fire, and they cant keep it going much longer, with a population crunch never before seen in human history on top of an economy and financial state even worse than just about any country on the planet.

Kansas. But we did model our self defense laws off of theirs IIRC. But like I said, there are some local cases in more rural counties that have seen self defense be taken even stronger than the law already says.

Meanwhile, my state makes Wisconsin seem like a restrictive hellhole by comparison as far as self defense is concerned, and would likely make these leftoids have a heart attack.

Under all situations (even while out on the street), you are under no duty to retreat, and in the event of a shooting the DA must prove to a judge that there is reasonable doubt that it was unjustified before you even get to trial. And within your own house, state law assumes that anyone on your property is a dangerous threat by default, so you have yet more protection in the event of a shooting. And that is before you get to the pro-defense DAs who take a very dim view on crime who have done some actually kind of over the top things before.

But please, tell me more about how self defense is bad.

Like the other comment said, its the one known as Jumpkick Man (government name: Maurice Freeland), and he had a rap sheet including car theft, ID theft, battery, drug possession, and escaping custody. Kyle shot at him twice, but missed both times, before Ride Or Die (government name: Anthony Huber) beat Kyle with a skateboard and tried to take his gun.

Also, the only one he missed was the black guy. There was divine intervention involved in this whole event, you cant change my mind.

Laughs in Red State

Maybe us Americans being cantankerous bastards with a distrust of government was actually the correct way of doing things.

And then the one person he shot at and missed also had a pretty substantial criminal history. Almost like Antifa (and probably a lot of Leftist in general) are bad people looking for an excuse to be bad people and get away with it.

Morgan Freeman

God damn bro, dont scare me like that. I thought it was the OTHER Morgan Freeman and I was going to be very sad.