Doubtful. It's saber-rattling. Same with the constant scramble of the airforces, same with the provoking in the South China Sea. Taiwan is in a good position where if China does try any shit they have 2 strategic assets
- Treaties with Japan, Philippines and SK. This might not sound like alot but the fact that Japan and SK have ramped up aircraft carrier production to meet China's isn't a coincidence. You might think that these countries would do nothing if Taiwan was attacked, but they know that it's the first domino.
- Probably the most important is TSMC, or a multinational superconductor company. If Taiwan stops supplying China with Super conductors, which is responsible for manufacturing a 3rd of in the world, suddenly electronic factories in China stop, local consumers can't by anything new and as a result blame their government.
The fact that Taiwan has also stepped up local arm production to not rely anymore on American arms-deals goes to show the shift in focus of everyone relying on America and instead needing to fend for themselves. Taiwan has friends, they have to pretend it doesn't exist though for it to exist.
Incase you were wondering more about the Bin Laden family, Johnny Harris did a good vid a few months ago going into their history. Basically, they came into fruition because they started off as oil sheiks but then transitioned into construction to building all the tourist infrastructure around Saudi. Soviet invasion of Afghan starts and Osama goes off with his Mujaheddin. Soviets pull out, Saddam starts to amass power, Saudi's are looking at their strategic oil fields close to Kuwait and getting desperate, enough to ask the US to stage an intervention. Osama though says his Mujaheddin could take on the Iraqi army in open conflict in the desert. Saudi's call the Americans who Desert Storm, Osama gets pissed and 9/11 happens.
So yeah, after that the Bin Laden family basically disown their son and he goes into hiding in Pakistan.
Chris was shown on Tucker. Millions of normies are knowing about his.
Us or just you? But it is untimely your choice to be angry and to have it mean nothing but for you to twist yourself up in a mental jumble that will cause you to lash out at your supposed friends.
Do at least try to take your mind off of what's happening, you may be happier for it.
So leaving you to wallow in misery instead of offering you alternative ways to deal with the stuff that's happening? Can't really do that, cause I try to be a decent person so when I see warning signs of of a person being apathetic, especially in their text, I can't ignore that. Not when they start 3 posts in the span of 2 weeks with the same focus.
Instead of insulting me, maybe you should be trying to help as well instead of reinforcing negative bias.
If you're this rude to everyone in real life and choose to take out your anger on a convenient target, you obviously have no close friends.
Mate, this comes across as a very "NO U" response. The way you keep people "Informed" is instead of having a simple thread title like "Victora Aus, locked down for 6th time", you spin it as "Dan Andrews is the very definition of evil." You're propagating fear, and this isn't the first time. "Aus is finished" "Coup against public" "US of failed cities." These are all threads you've made in the past 2 weeks since joining. How are you any better than the way MSM spins a story? Propagating fear isn't going to inform people, it's just going to demoralize them like you are.
And the crux of the issue is your first post 3 weeks ago. You come across someone who see's nothing but the black of society, someone drawn out and has been scraped of any happiness they have. That's not healthy which is why I say you need to not focus on the lockdowns. Yes it sucks it happens, yes you can't see your friends and you need to deal with it. Trudging around in circles posting online about how everything is shit is not an effective coping mechanism. You're going to burn out one day and I won't be able to do anything to help you.
You're basically turning into the Impossible1 except lockdowns and depression.
And take a look at my post history, if I'm a lefty shill, I must be very deep cover for being here for over 9 months.
Forming para-social relationships and constantly being reminded about how shit the world is will lead you to madness. Cutting off social media will help clear your head. It's worked for me.
You can't keep doing this to yourself lad. I know the lockdowns and stuff might be affecting you but your post history is just nothing but that. If you constantly look at all the negative aspects of all this while constantly trodding in a cycle of "lockdowns bad, here's evidence to support it", you'll see nothing but black.
Doomer posting isn't going to help you cope with what's happening in a realistic way and try to deal with the psychological pressure of it all.
Take a week or two away from social media. Just try to calm yourself before something bad happens.
An Emergency Protective Order was taken out and Chris was shacked up in a motel, there's probably an on-going investigation into this when it was leaked what he did.
Hey, how's your failed channel going? Does yelling into a camera make you feel impotent yet?
These are your super heroes now. Please clap.
Raven doesn't look too bad though, legs, long hair with hood suits her. The only to look decent in this trashfire of a comic. Starfire should look like former slave space princess I.E. beautiful, not qwerky tumblr mum.
Edit: For anyone who wants to read (Why?), it's about 150 pages.
Half white
Everytime.
That cold sociopathic delivery of the lines is golden.
Incase you want an example of how bad it is.
Still hate fugging Geshin.
Still slogging through Okami. It shall be done, as the motto on the side of the Hafen in VC4 goes. After that, Great Ace Attorney comes out late July, looking forward to that. Beyond that, Blue Reflection TIE is one in late October so there's that on the horizon. A few other things but all in all, some stuff to keep me going.
If you can, I'd recommend some mods for Darkest Dungeon. It's got a ton on the workshop and custom classes are just scratching the surface with what it can offer. Get the Thorn, she's beautiful as a class in DD.
I think this is a bit too black-pilled even for me.
It's regressive culture. Like Kreia says, a Culture's teachings find definition in conflict, to constantly improve and build upon. Because post-modernism means nothing matters and American culture is so fixated on people's junk so that it isn't even about improving the lives of it's citizens but instead the oligarchs that control the country, a slow inevitable decline is what you get.
I have to wonder if this is the natural result of all Democracies, a slow decline into obscurity.
I just want to put down a timeline as I saw this while lurking the Jim Sterling thread on the site.
Null posts an email exchange between them. Byuu offered Null $120k to take down the thread. Null wanted to check a lawyer as it would be bribery or entrapment to take the money. Not even a day later, Byuu says he's killed himself. Trannies over-react and DDoS the site after swarming the thread from twitter.
Couple of things.
- His Dox is floating around but there's no full name attached to it, meaning people can't contact the police to do a wellness check.
- Byuu said a friend would post his passport in 5 hours afterwards so people could check the new in Japan where he supposedly lived. 3 days later and one DDoS attack after, still no passport.
- Byuu's Friend says that he was on the phone for half an hour while his friend was killing himself with a home made noose, not contacting the police or anything. Even listed an obscure french rock song instead of calling the police.
- Byuu's Friend SAYS (emphasis) that Byuu is dead and that he wants to respect the dead by not saying anything.
- According to the KW thread, it can take up to a week for anyone to be listed as dead in Japan. Suicide is a daily occurrence over there and the news can get swamped and other things.
My theory on all this was it was a gay furry op designed to get Null to take the money, but that would mean Kiwi would lose it's 230 protection under US law and be open to a bunch of lawsuits. Byuu offered money, Null not being greedy, empathic or guilty didn't take it and sat on it. Byuu "commits" sudoku, Streisand takes effect, Trannies swarm in because it's one of the places on the net people can say No to them. It also could be a severe Schizo act from Byuu, who did all this and actually sudokued himself but I doubt it. More likely he's dropped the persona.
It's because the "Actual" agencies have been folded up under the supervision of the Pentagon. Me thinks that new US foreign policy they don't want to announce is essentially following what's happened with China, in that they employ thousands of people to live in other countries all the while acting in state interests on a scale that would make the Cold War look like high school politicking.
These Alphabet agencies are now little more than propaganda pieces. Remember how the Allies in WW2 built entire airfields and planes out of balsawood in Britian in the lead up to D-Day? Same thing, CIA and FBI go woke because they're only used for state sanctioned propaganda while the real agencies are overseen by the deep state.
I know this is kinda tinfoil but it would explain much of what's happening, at least from what I can see.
Let's see. Me being the Weeb I am. Dang It Ron Paul is like $10 each, that's pretty good. Get V1 and V2, V3 is troll game and haven't touched it.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 is $20, I need to replay that . It's good. First VC is $8, is kinda rough considering the port and all the features 8 adds but still good. Ah, Lynn, your full HP recovery and Extra action during a turn is always good. Grab a mod that re-balances progress, that will make it more friendly than having to scout rush.
100% OJ, pretty neat party game if you have friends. Like 3 bucks. Has some DLC for characters and such but it's fun in bursts.
EDF 5 is $35 is a bit pricy but EDF 4.1 is $14. That one is still good and still has multi.
Digimon Cyber Sleuth and Akiba's Trip are $20 each. Both are pretty good exploration games set in Tokyo.
Recettear is $5. Lucy is also $5, if you want a android VN.
Forgotten Anne is $10, decent little platformer.
Lobotomy Corp is $15. Steal at that price. Prepare for the Pain Train. That is no joke with this game.
40k Mechanicus is $14. Project Hospital is $17.
Xcom 2 is $20, grabbing that for mods is worth it.
And that's all for now. You'll find something for sure.
With Wingman, I'd buy it for Prez alone. Get the mod that unlocks all weapons on mounts then fly the F-15MTD and use multi rail basic missiles against a plane. They can turn out of one missile launch but not when there's 2 dozen fired at once. And the ammo type stacks so you have 300 multi launch missiles you can use against Crimson for instance. It's great.
Karl Jobst dropped a video about companies that are propping up video game collecting at the moment with million dollar prices going to cartriages. I don't know if that is what is happening with Billy's Gun or someone legit bought it because he wanted it so much. It just makes me question how much it's really worth when it sells for multi millions and world record headlines.