Our generations Churchill.

“I need ammo, not a ride”.

Slava Ukraini!

The reality is the US has started numerous wars on shaky grounds / manufactured consent and we at least try to reflect on their rationale and judge whether there’s any way for empire to be held accountable for war on false pretenses. In the US’ case it essentially never is.

Yea and a large portion of the USA is against those wars.

This is clearly a very Western leaning audience that is entrenched in their perspective which is totally fine. As long as it’s understood that they are also perceiving reality through propaganda disemminated by their elites.

You don’t need propaganda to know right and wrong. Israels genocide of Palestinians is wrong. Russia invading Ukraine is wrong.

I don’t support imperialism in general, regardless of where it comes from. I’m more interested in how empire justifies imperialistic behaviour and how its subjects align themselves to that behavior. This thread has been illuminating in that regard. I imagine there will be quite a few American supporters for war in Venezuela, for example.

The problem is you’re just say “but but USA bad”…and then trying to rationalize ruzzias bullshit with “but USA”…and no, only trump and his idiot friends want a Venezuelan war.

I agree with you. Nothing the USA or any other party has done justifies Russia’s war in Ukraine. But how the state justifies imperialism and how the subjects buy into and hold dearly their state’s mistruths is a fascinating sight to behold.

Which you seem to have eaten some russian propaganda.

Nothing the USA did, should warrant russia from invading its neighbors. Period. This is not a “well NATO” or “well USA”. That’s bullshit tankie/russian propaganda talk.

They can not see NATO as a defense alliance all they want… that’s literally what it is. And it’s why countries join it when russia is trying to invade them. Even suggesting russia is acting in any sort of good faith is bullshit. They’re the aggressor in Europe… period.

Trump is a russian asset. The majority of the USA and it’s corporate overlords are not happy that trump has given away a fuck ton of our soft power.

Also russia promised not to invade Ukraine when they gave up their nukes…this has nothing to do with NATO, and everything to do with putin being an imperialistic fuck.

Yep, same here, we never had any of that religious shit or military shit. It was all about awareness for the environment, community outreach, hiking, climbing, camping, caving. We did a ton, and our leaders where all dads who had their own kids in the program. Everyone of them were previous eagle scouts and had a lot of certs to make it a ton of fun for everyone. It sucks that the program no longer seems like that anymore.

This had nothing to do with encryption. 99.99% of breaches aren’t some pen hack, it’s social engineering of someone to gain access. You have all the best software and practices in place, but if the dumbass on the fourth floor decides that they’re gonna let someone in who’s called them from Microsoft, then it doesn’t matter.

They let the FBI into the chat because they don’t know opsec for shit.

LEB ftw. Seriously almost all the vps deals I’ve gotten over the years has been through LEB.

Is it just me or does it feel like every powerful nation is afraid of pissing off Israel? Especially after the whole “we didn’t kill kirk” shit they keep repeating.

Edit: this wasn’t a I support Israel post. This was a “does anyone else feel like isreal is basically saying back us or we’re going to start assassinations”

Wait… you’re doubtful because it’s coming from a anti-NK instance? A pay stub is just going to show he worked. He could have bought and sent bitcoin or done so with cash drop offs. Why does this story magically no longer become interesting because of a group that helps defected NKs?

Yep, fucking so damn annoyed with the bullshit fascist taking this flag …

Give me my fucking flag back you boot licking shit stain racist bigot fascist.

This is a pointless comment. You don’t even tell us what model router you’re running…

My first thought was…how is this a good thing, we get a lot of our water from ground water…and now we’re pumping toxic shit into the ground. The fuck

Todays AI is clippy on steroids. It’s not intelligent or creative. You can’t feed it physics and astronomy books without the equation for C and tell it to create the equation for C. It’s fancy autocorrect, and it’s a waste of compute and energy.

If you’re expecting me to say Communist is the way to go… you’re on the wrong instance. Capitalism has its flaws, but acting like communism is what needs to replace it, is a fucking joke. Capitalism has brought more people out of poverty than any other system ever. It definitely has its issues and can be done better, but as someone who has a large part of my family from exsoviet countries…not a fuckin chance I want that shit anywhere near me.

Did you drop your /s? Cause I recall Vietnam winning both wars against the us and french.

It’s mainly tech savy people who don’t use it. Tons of people in companies use this shit. The number of people who use “ai” to take auto notes in meetings is insane. It’s a massive security risk but they do it anyways thinking it won’t be stored.

Lots of FUDD here.

Over pen is going to happen on pretty much any round period. Slower rounds with larger mass will go through more usually in real life situations. The drywall videos are ok, but the issue with them is that they don’t show the other shit in the walls. Wires/firestops/insulation/studs. Exterior walls might have brick or stucco with tile. Doesn’t matter the round, you’re going to have over pen. Shoot a deer slug at a 2x4 stud and drywall, vs a 223/556 round…deer slug is winning every time.

Second, a AR pattern rifle is much, much easier to get on target and shoot for pretty much anyone compared to a shotgun or handgun.

Secondly people do call out the absolute bullshit rules of from the ATF and NFA. A shorter barrel doesn’t magically make a firearm more deadly, just like a suppressor doesn’t magically make a firearm silent. FUDD shit.

Lastly, a revolver is trash for defense, there is a reason pretty much every branch of LE or military has swapped to semi-auto mag fed handguns. They are easier to shoot, more accurate, hold more rounds, easier to reload, etc. On top of all this, you shouldn’t be loading something and tossing it in a drawer until you need it. You should be practicing with it at minimum monthly.

At the end of the day, making EV cars isn’t either unfortunately…but in the grand scheme of things. Both hydrogen and EV cars are more environmentally friendly than gas powered cars.

Explosion wise or climate wise?