Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield

same

another tl;dr from this book is essentially "if the Iranian state can just hold out long out enough against air power - which might entail truly apocalyptic destruction - their capacity for asymmetric war and defense in depth will just fucking *rock* anyone stupid enough to put boots on the ground"

a screencap of text from a military history of Iran, which can be found here (page 316) : https://www.google.com/books/edition/Immortal/8eUTLaaVOOQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=naval%20procurement

from Steven Ward's 2014 military history of Iran, Immortal (Georgetown UP)

sure we could unlock the Strait of Hormuz by assaulting the regional stronghold and defeating its boss via a Decapitation Strike, but what's our plan for when the AI's Vendetta mechanism spawns a Bounty Hunter at our level or higher who will track us anywhere we go across the entire worldmap

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.

ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

people with salaries are seriously talking about traversing space, time, and material obstacles like its a matter of just unlocking fast travel points and denying your enemy the stone and lumber they need for resource trees

does anyone know if the strait of hormuz has been mined yet

goddamn

Cops boarded the plane knowing there was no threat because it wasn’t a school.

psychoanalysis isn't a GUT but it does cut right thru questions about why people don't "learn lessons," why they repeat the same aggressive enactments, etc by demanding we look to what people actually do despite what they say and to what the functions of those very questions are

BDE, persisting

are you an oil tanker worried about getting merked by the artesh? sounds like a skill issue: even though they call it a "strait" I would simply maneuver serpentine. also: stop using red barrels for your oil - they are NOTORIOUS

he certainly thinks it's the limit of ours. and honestly its a little hard to disagree

War must be going really bad for the US to already start setting up Israel to become the scapegoat for its failures and atrocities

press conference where they announce a wartime economy to support the not-war lawlessly not-waged by the department of war and all the journalists just keep asking Hitler what this means for affordability

I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

if there were some way to have recoded “big dick energy” to denote caring, containment, potentiating imagination and the thriving of others, etc etc we would be in a very different and better place

frankly yes

I confess I have a love/hate relationship with it myself

if some busted ass statue with no arms legs or head told me that I Must Change My Life I would simply reply “you first”

Nobody’s talking about this but if you simply kill enough people and smash the economy you unlock “Legitimacy”

- Tha DaRk P0litical_Sc1entist

it feels like my country is an assembly line for producing crimes against humanity which no one will ever punish, or even bother to pretend caring about, and it's making me crazy

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

look you gotta give in the surveillance team a chuckle or two

get in losers we’re eschatonmaxxing

Trump tells oil CEOs: Arising each morning the true Samurai must visualize himself being torn apart by dogs, pierced by flaming arrows, cleaved in twain by a ōdachi. the path of Bushidō can be trod only by those who consider themselves already dead and thus free

Salisbury-on-Mars

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

LLMs saying "you met me at a very Chinese Room time in my life"

sitting with the proposition that the US arbitrarily declaring this round of slaughter over and victory accomplished no matter what's happening on the ground only to then at some unforeseeable but inevitable time in the future getting hit with 9/11 II might be some kind of "best case scenario"