Karp and Thiel are in the crew that thinks we'll never get power again because they run the Cathedral now.
12.03.2026 23:34
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Karp and Thiel are in the crew that thinks we'll never get power again because they run the Cathedral now.
30 years ago Clinton would have hesitated but probably sent in ground troops to occupy the Iranian side of the straits.
40 years ago Reagan would not have hesitated at all to do this. Times have changed not just the capacity to fight, but the will.
Something underappreciated is how society has been demilitarized. For all the defense spending we do, we have but a fraction of the industrial capacity needed to sustain something like World War II.
More tellingly there's a lack of will to spend lives or re-route economies for war.
Recall doing a game theory course in college that said most wars boiled down to information failures (though this was attributing warmakers as being maybe too rational, certainly a lot of fights that get picked are quixotic).
Wasn't the problem that South Vietnam was never really viewed as legitimate by a majority of South Vietnamese the way say, South Korea was by South Koreans?
I've seen it described as a post-colonial rump regime for Vietnamese Catholics.
was stuck saving for a condo at the time. Thankfully I did a half-step upgrade from a 2021 build in 2023 so I'm not shit out of luck for so long.
given the lack of willingness to put any troops/ships in harm's way I doubt there will be a Taiwan campaign. Maybe fling ordinance to try and impede the initial crossing and that's it.
Now this lack of willingness to feed soldiers to a meat grinder is good, but strategically limiting.
worst case being what, Iran figures out that they've got the entire world by the shorthairs and keeps the straits closed until some insane demand is met?
I'd be impressed at the dedication if it were applied to anything remotely productive.
Demons-from-Frieren discourse stays winning.
you're calling Daines empty seat over Collins?
recently was in a Reddit thread on this and people were making the same mistake as here: a farce comedy is not an idiot plot, so Coen Bros classics don't count.
It's more when the characters are contrived to be/act stupid (especially compared to usual).
Think Snyderverse Batman.
some sort of biological hazard is involved.
Mongolian dudes rock
The economic narrative is to help sway people who don't give a shit about the Iranians to support a ceasefire.
dicks out
my go-to example is that you see all of those people in sweatshops for a reason. They came from subsistence farms, they could go back if they wanted!
Obviously they should be raised up out of the sweatshop as well but people today and our ancestors before chose the shops.
He has been forced to sleep for 11 days now. He stirs, ready to awaken.
Sometimes I do this only because I can't find the correct product in the lookup
Now it's all about Umamusume money. Gotta be Gacha Rich.
aye, it reminds me of his "don't be a panican" defiance after Liberation Day made the financial markets shit a brick.
There is no way around this except to either destroy every Shahed in Iran, or make a settlement with them.
I just read a collection including "Simulacra and Simulation" a few weeks ago and Elias's piece here helped me understand that Baudrillard was trolling with some of his work, particularly in tone. Though it can make it hard to tell what he's actually saying knowing that some is facetious.
Dying Rust Belt PA town changes its name to Focus Group.
Tiny silver lining means maybe Trump will finally get Russia's never been on his/our side.
"wars not make one great" said the guy who got his ass beat in a war.
Which if we're talking about the bad old Realpolitik Kissinger types, they knew this was wrong and exploited it to the hilt a la wedging the Sino-Soviet split wide open.
The Singapore solution remains undefeated (pay the legislators and civil servants richly but also create severe penalties for corruption).
We do the opposite: keep pay pitiful by elite standards and SCOTUS keeps legitimizing corruption.
Gaston ends up as a revolutionary hero, wins unfathomable fame at Austerlitz, still can't get any action.
