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With all the talk of the end of the world, I watched this new video from Mark Felton discussing just how bad a big Russia conventional attack on the UK would be. He really hates the leftist anti-defense government going on there for sure. Not US related fully really, but still worth a watch I think.
ETA to make this is little US related, I do get a kick of the 'it's not a majority' cope the dems are doing now. Take that and $25 and buy a coffee liberals.
ETA to make this is little US related, I do get a kick of the 'it's not a majority' cope the dems are doing now. Take that and $25 and buy a coffee liberals.
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Its mouthbreathing sophistry. You can twist numbers to mean anything. He could get 75% of the vote and morons would say "still a majority didn't vote for him because 40% of the country didn't vote at all checkmate nazis!!" Literal "but i did have breakfast" tier yogurt brain.
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Congress spent a few billion (4?) on "hardening" the infrastructure but that amounted to barbed wire, bullet resistant insulators (7.62x51 will probably still fuck with them) and a few cameras in true government contractor fashion.
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It's fucking scary that people are so clueless about the grid, when shutting it down for a week would kill millions. The SoCal bughives would die of thirst, and rioting, within a week.
No reason to spend a few billion in nukes, when you can cause more damage with one, or a few teams with .308 rifles.
Good thing we haven't had a few million military age males cross the border, without security checks.
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I want nuclear war because the bughives will be annihilated.
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Meatball fucking up his political rehab:
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I live near a bughive. Can confirm we'd be annihilated. I would ride that torpedo if I could. Please end my suffering.
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tbh I suspect that EMP is a bit of a meme
I straight up tried a bulk eraser, like the electromagnetic "hold the button and watch your keys have a seizure" dudes from back in the days of magnetic tape for broadcasting, slapped that on the side of a couple of running computers and it did precisely jack and shit to them
I straight up tried a bulk eraser, like the electromagnetic "hold the button and watch your keys have a seizure" dudes from back in the days of magnetic tape for broadcasting, slapped that on the side of a couple of running computers and it did precisely jack and shit to them
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A little something for VIP exploding head day:
Editorial | MAGA world and Nov. 22, 1963: The JFK and RFK legacies meet DJT
By Editorial Board | editorial@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
UPDATED: November 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM PST
Soon, few will be left who remember where they were, what they felt on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was murdered.
Sixty-one years and counting and the shocking events of that day continue to be fodder for conspiracy theories. The distrust and cynicism about our institutions that enveloped this country have never truly abated.
The events on and after Nov. 22 when JFK was assassinated in a hail of bullets from the rifle of Lee Oswald, an ex-Marine and Castro Cuba sympathizer, still evoke strong passions.
As Bob Dylan put it in “Murder Most Foul,” a recent incantation about the “dark day in Dallas”:
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son, The age of the Antichrist has just only begun”
… It is what it is, and it’s murder most foul
Take that as you will but clearly a nation lost what was left of its innocence that day. The JFK era, for all the president’s failings, was and is remembered as a shining moment when all things seemed possible as a young president challenged a new generation to take up the mantle of freedom and service.
After he was cut down, the president’s brother, Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, became the next torch bearer for generational change. But Bobby Kennedy, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, also was murdered, shot to death in June 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, is a Palestinian-Jordanian, and remains in prison. Decades later he said he killed Kennedy because of RFK’s support for Israel.
The family political mantle was passed along to the youngest Kennedy brother, Edward (Ted), who became embroiled in his own scandal regarding the mysterious death in 1969 of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former RFK campaign worker, who drowned when a car driven by the Massachusetts senator left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after the pair had left a party. Kennedy neglected to inform authorities of the accident until the next day.
Ted Kennedy went on to serve in the U.S. Senate until his death in 2009.
Against that grim history of the Kennedy family, it has been jarring that the martyred president’s nephew, RFK’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has become a staunch ally of the nation’s 47th president, joining the strange cast of characters Donald Trump is assembling for his next administration. RFK Jr. is Trump’s choice to be the next Health and Human Services secretary.
(There were audible sighs of relief from many Americans Thursday over the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as nominee for attorney general. The next departure from the cast could, should, be Pete Hegseth, Trump’s misguided choice for secretary of defense, whose chances are quickly circling around the drain with the latest lurid revelations from a Monterey police report concerning an allegation of sexual assault in that city.)
In one sense, considering the serial philandering of the elder Kennedy brothers, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. RFK Jr.’s womanizing and infidelities are well documented.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation is not a sure thing, with some Republicans raising strong objections. Nikki Haley, Trump’s former Republican primary rival, said this week about RFK Jr., who for many years was known as a left-leaning environmental lawyer, that Kennedy is “not a health guy,” “not educated” or “trained” in health, and a “liberal Democrat” to boot.
Perhaps she also was referring to the viral photos of RFK Jr. apparently eating a McDonald’s hamburger while riding on Trump’s jet as the president-elect brought on his favorite fast foods. The photos added to the bizarre commingling of former Democrat Kennedy and his views on healthy foods (not to mention vaccines) with MAGA world.
Trump, for his part, has repeated pledges he made, and did not follow through on, to unseal remaining JFK assassination files.
Conspiracy theorists await – including RFK Jr. who has long claimed the CIA was involved in his uncle’s murder and a cover-up, claiming the killing stemmed from his uncle’s refusal to send U.S. forces to Vietnam.
Editorial | MAGA world and Nov. 22, 1963: The JFK and RFK legacies meet DJT
By Editorial Board | editorial@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
UPDATED: November 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM PST
Soon, few will be left who remember where they were, what they felt on Nov. 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was murdered.
Sixty-one years and counting and the shocking events of that day continue to be fodder for conspiracy theories. The distrust and cynicism about our institutions that enveloped this country have never truly abated.
The events on and after Nov. 22 when JFK was assassinated in a hail of bullets from the rifle of Lee Oswald, an ex-Marine and Castro Cuba sympathizer, still evoke strong passions.
As Bob Dylan put it in “Murder Most Foul,” a recent incantation about the “dark day in Dallas”:
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son, The age of the Antichrist has just only begun”
… It is what it is, and it’s murder most foul
Take that as you will but clearly a nation lost what was left of its innocence that day. The JFK era, for all the president’s failings, was and is remembered as a shining moment when all things seemed possible as a young president challenged a new generation to take up the mantle of freedom and service.
After he was cut down, the president’s brother, Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, became the next torch bearer for generational change. But Bobby Kennedy, seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, also was murdered, shot to death in June 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. His assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, is a Palestinian-Jordanian, and remains in prison. Decades later he said he killed Kennedy because of RFK’s support for Israel.
The family political mantle was passed along to the youngest Kennedy brother, Edward (Ted), who became embroiled in his own scandal regarding the mysterious death in 1969 of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former RFK campaign worker, who drowned when a car driven by the Massachusetts senator left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after the pair had left a party. Kennedy neglected to inform authorities of the accident until the next day.
Ted Kennedy went on to serve in the U.S. Senate until his death in 2009.
Against that grim history of the Kennedy family, it has been jarring that the martyred president’s nephew, RFK’s son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has become a staunch ally of the nation’s 47th president, joining the strange cast of characters Donald Trump is assembling for his next administration. RFK Jr. is Trump’s choice to be the next Health and Human Services secretary.
(There were audible sighs of relief from many Americans Thursday over the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as nominee for attorney general. The next departure from the cast could, should, be Pete Hegseth, Trump’s misguided choice for secretary of defense, whose chances are quickly circling around the drain with the latest lurid revelations from a Monterey police report concerning an allegation of sexual assault in that city.)
In one sense, considering the serial philandering of the elder Kennedy brothers, the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree. RFK Jr.’s womanizing and infidelities are well documented.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation is not a sure thing, with some Republicans raising strong objections. Nikki Haley, Trump’s former Republican primary rival, said this week about RFK Jr., who for many years was known as a left-leaning environmental lawyer, that Kennedy is “not a health guy,” “not educated” or “trained” in health, and a “liberal Democrat” to boot.
Perhaps she also was referring to the viral photos of RFK Jr. apparently eating a McDonald’s hamburger while riding on Trump’s jet as the president-elect brought on his favorite fast foods. The photos added to the bizarre commingling of former Democrat Kennedy and his views on healthy foods (not to mention vaccines) with MAGA world.
Trump, for his part, has repeated pledges he made, and did not follow through on, to unseal remaining JFK assassination files.
Conspiracy theorists await – including RFK Jr. who has long claimed the CIA was involved in his uncle’s murder and a cover-up, claiming the killing stemmed from his uncle’s refusal to send U.S. forces to Vietnam.
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Can't wait for four Senators that are hated by the entire GOP base to dictate Trump's cabinet picks.
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All the news hits the platform formerly known as Twitter first anyway, it would be a good synergy.
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He did a lot better than Bill Clinton ever did. And he proved that his huge gain in voters in 2020 wasn't a fluke (while Biden's gain largely evaporated). This article is insane levels of cope and seething. They know they got their asses handed to them.
Every transformer in the effected area will be utterly fried, over probably a third of the country for a 25 mile high detonation. I doubt we have enough replacements in the country currently to replace every transformer in a single major city, let alone such a large area. Assume potentially years to get the entire grid back up and running, as all that equipment needs to be imported or rebuilt.
The main issue with modern technology is that we have so many electronic based systems. A nuke-pumped EMP has enough energy to literally make the wires in your graphic card melt and the expansion of the metal in a circuit board can make it pop right off the board, totally scuttling the entire thing. There's no repairing any of it, it's all just useless trash instantly. So it all has to be replaced, which means months of waiting for ships from China to bring in replacements. So no communications system, no electricity, no computers, no internet, for months or years on end.
On the plus side, most of those old films/shows way over estimated the effect of EMPs on automobiles. Most cars and trucks should still function, since they're basically isolated Faraday cages to begin with, though their radios are probably fried. Of course, the power grid is needed to run the pumps at gas stations, so even with working vehicles, you aren't getting very far. But if you can build a wood-gas generator, you should be able to run most gas vehicles without too much trouble.
Some homes might be shielded as well, I don't know what effect a metal roof or the metal walls of a trailer would have, but it should provide some degree of protection for any electronics inside. Ironically, trailer parks would probably fair better than average, kind of the opposite of a hurricane or other disasters.
Like most disasters, water would be a huge problem. Pumps need electricity to work and there isn't any and won't be for a long time. Food next, since nobody has working fridges. There's ways to work around all this, much like my wood-gas generator mentioned above, but 99.99% of the population won't do any of it, so expect roving gangs killing and looting for food and water bottles within a day or two.
The worst part is that the lack of communication technology means nobody knows the extent of the damage or if it's effecting the entire planet. The fear levels will be overwhelming just from not knowing if help will ever come or if there is even anyone left to rebuild. They might not even know what caused the power to go out if they were too far away to see the nuclear explosion.
On the plus side, most of those old films/shows way over estimated the effect of EMPs on automobiles. Most cars and trucks should still function, since they're basically isolated Faraday cages to begin with, though their radios are probably fried. Of course, the power grid is needed to run the pumps at gas stations, so even with working vehicles, you aren't getting very far. But if you can build a wood-gas generator, you should be able to run most gas vehicles without too much trouble.
Some homes might be shielded as well, I don't know what effect a metal roof or the metal walls of a trailer would have, but it should provide some degree of protection for any electronics inside. Ironically, trailer parks would probably fair better than average, kind of the opposite of a hurricane or other disasters.
Like most disasters, water would be a huge problem. Pumps need electricity to work and there isn't any and won't be for a long time. Food next, since nobody has working fridges. There's ways to work around all this, much like my wood-gas generator mentioned above, but 99.99% of the population won't do any of it, so expect roving gangs killing and looting for food and water bottles within a day or two.
The worst part is that the lack of communication technology means nobody knows the extent of the damage or if it's effecting the entire planet. The fear levels will be overwhelming just from not knowing if help will ever come or if there is even anyone left to rebuild. They might not even know what caused the power to go out if they were too far away to see the nuclear explosion.
What are you, a child? There aren't any good guys, this is geopolitics and war. Both sides will endlessly retaliate to save face, upping the ante in hopes the other side will eventually blink. Most likely neither side will blink, and once things go nuclear, however limited initially, it eventually will become a full blown nuclear exchange that effectively ends the world. That's why you don't poke the bear in the first place.
Russia clearly wants to keep things limited to Ukraine, they haven't gone out of their way to attack NATO directly yet, and NATO just let Ukraine push things into Russia using our missiles in a deliberate attempt to provoke a retaliatory strike, which we got. We'll now retaliate with some other stupid thing or other, and were it not for Trump coming in a few weeks, we'd probably end up with boots on the ground by Christmas.
Trump is more or less keeping things somewhat frosty because both sides know he'll likely push for peace talks as soon as he gets in office, and this war goes on hiatus for at least the next half decade while both sides rebuild and rearm. That's the best case scenario for either country at this point.
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LOL do it, X News, the commercial breaks lead in and fade out with memes of the day. Make a fucking Apu vtuber who signs off and signs on the channel with "good night frens" or "gm frens say it back," every few hours we get this just because:
Dana Loesch, ConInc. example of Meatball TDS, showing The Twits happy meme being truth. Acting like Bondi is some bad choice is incredibly retarded, Groyper Fuentes level retarded:
What she used to look like:
Please women, stop trying to be rough enough to hang with the boys, just do you and be happy.
Dana Loesch, ConInc. example of Meatball TDS, showing The Twits happy meme being truth. Acting like Bondi is some bad choice is incredibly retarded, Groyper Fuentes level retarded:
What she used to look like:
Please women, stop trying to be rough enough to hang with the boys, just do you and be happy.
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right. because unlike in movies and video games, in real life
nothing ever happens
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but somehow they'll find some more holocaust survivors and people to arrest for it
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I’m sick of hearing about nuclear war. Just give Russia the part of Ukraine wants to annex off, make every country who doesn’t want their shit pushed in part of NATO, have the USA money launder elsewhere.
”But Russia won’t stop!” I don’t care. Any non-nato country is fair game. They can fight their own wars and don’t need the US or NATO allies involved. In return, all countries not related to BRICS or Russian alliance is fair game for the US. Eat shit, Iceland and Greenland. Your ass is ours.
Edit: I was just informed Iceland and Greenland are part of NATO. We should still invade anyways because it would be really funny.
”But Russia won’t stop!” I don’t care. Any non-nato country is fair game. They can fight their own wars and don’t need the US or NATO allies involved. In return, all countries not related to BRICS or Russian alliance is fair game for the US. Eat shit, Iceland and Greenland. Your ass is ours.
Edit: I was just informed Iceland and Greenland are part of NATO. We should still invade anyways because it would be really funny.
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If he does, I'd expect Elon to update the TOS to include some sort of "all breaking news videos posted here are automatically property of X for purposes of republish on X-associated news service and cannot be republished by non-associated news networks without express written permission of X" or whatever. Cut off the other networks from being able to just endlessly pull their info from Twitter like they've been doing the last decade.
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Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000 year clock, and an autist with a fixation on the letter 'X' is personally responsible for the vast majority of orbital lift.
We live in a situation comedy programmed by a LLM designed by interdimensional pajeets.
If he makes it a subsidiary of 'X' the current TOS would cover that.
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