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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The term ‘indentured servant’ is more accurate

i-am-adolf-hitler

edit: owned for being eepy i-cant

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Dentist got me fucked up, went in for a filling yesterday and today I notice that there's just an open cavitation where the filling is supposed to be kitty-cri

don’t know if it was botched or like fell off or something but it’s very uncomfortable.

like what even happened. I was supposed to get a new retainer tomorrow and now I gotta cancel because I don’t want them fucking with the unfilled cavity.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

many people aren't going to weather an energy crisis for the first superstructural reasons you gave them, so you have to consistently demonstrate that you have to do this.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One thing I've been thinking about as of late is how important demonstrating to your allies why they need to lock in to struggle against the existing order with you is for your relations with them when your actions would pull them into an uncertain or detrimental situation. The observation I have gathered as a layman is that geopolitics is an exercise in wading through inertia, as generally, states want stability. You never want to be the unreasonable actor as the underdog power, because your casus belli needs to be persuasive and rational for your allies not to hedge on the status quo.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Our hands remain on the trigger, and any small mistake by the enemy will be met with full force.

please follow through on this mindset timmy-pray

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Alright, that makes sense, I guess I underestimated production capacity here.

To shift goalposts a little here, I guess I mainly don’t see how this top-up, like the THAAD redirections, won't similarly further entrench them into this quagmire. I assume Iran is also preparing for a backstab, because they were already backstabbed. I want to assume they are going to also top up their missile and drone capacity in the time they have?

I just have an immediate hunch that this is much more of a pyrrhic tactical retreat for the U.S. compared to the 12 Day War, and I would think Iran would be accounting for these terms being ultimately flimsy, unless it is a true unalloyed fell-for-it-again

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

spitballing here from a layman understanding. If this is a two-week armistice, how is the U.S. going to "rearm" in this situation? From what I have been reading from other commenters and sources posted here:

  • the U.S. does not have the domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply the deficit of interceptors
  • Iran, comparatively, has more domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply missiles/drones (unless that was crippled in the strikes on Tehran, but I want to think that supply mechanisms would be somewhat accounted for in DMD?)
  • this armistice is for two weeks, after which resumption of war or deeper negotiations will happen

Compared to the 12 Day War, which had a restrained exchange between the U.S. and Iran in order to wind it down, the U.S. has been much further committed to this iteration. I don't see how this is a repetition of that because I don't see how the U.S. has a two-week turnaround to a favorable position here.

if Iran comes out with temporary favorable terms and it becomes a two-week race to rearm, I would assume that Iran would also be playing the same game now rather than acting on an assumption that the situation is winding down. If the "ceasefire" is declared broken by the U.S… okay? They just resume operations? It’s not like it's primo casus belli for the world anyways, not going to galvanize their regional/geopolitical allies against them or make them hesitant, it's just an excuse to sucker punch them. They get a hit in during the armistice, the war resumes, and we're back here again.

Is this cope? I just think it's rash to assume this is the same exact situation as the prior instance without letting it play out first and seeing what both nations do in the interim

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

talk to my handlers, they're the logistics of the operation. I'm just the test subject

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

trauma ok thanks clock in tomorrow

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Don't know if what I'm feeling is grounded in reality since I just had a particularly productive therapy session but I think I was feeling this beforehand too when I was scrolling this morning.

From what I'm seeing in the shift in posture, Stephen Miller blew his load and I assume Capital is getting antsy and is trying to cut off the Infinite Vice-Signal Machine. In a dark way, Alex Pretti was the perfect victim for the American public, and his execution was so blatantly appalling that it seems that that, alongside the general strike, is shocking the bourgeoisie into realignment with social liberalism for the first time since 2025's "mandate".

If it is the case that the leash is being pulled, expect to see the internal contradictions between the accelerationist cadre (ICE, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Thiel) and the thermostatics (Trump, Cruz, Vance) start to heighten. (EDIT: it, at least rhetorically, begins) The state-integrated Proud Boys and Oathkeepers on the ground are going to try to hit the gas on the tension pedal now that the leash for Unlimited GTA LARP might be tugged. They want to provoke the race war as much as they possibly can before the party ends. Miller, if competent, will take an L, fall into the background, and bide his time until we approach US midterms for another ramping up of domestic repression. They seem to want to make Noem and/or Bovino the fall guys for this, though I'd laugh if they somehow take Miller down with them.

If you are in the USA and my vibe meter holds (meaning the admin takes the L on this and retreats), you should be operating as if this is an armistice that will last, reasonably, at most until midterm elections. Even if they fold on their aura-farming about 'canceling the elections', treat it like they won't and immediately seek to organize with cool people within your area. gather the tools, strategies and general means to defend against and disrupt militant repression.

If I'm wrong (the admin doubles down), then we are truly in the Decades Week, agitate as much as possible to the laymen and rally for shows of worker power, as well as linking up with your local socialists and workers, of course. The former path's goals are worthwhile too if you and your comrades can muster them in time.

The best time to get offline and talk to the people in your area was when you first gained political consciousness. The second best time is now.

 

I’m granting the Seattle Polyweb charge of the PNW's mass-line infrastructure

 

I mean, sure. fuck it. why not at this point?

 

erstrogen

 

feels like it for me. My mood is oscillating way too frequently in a way that I can in my heart tie to what I see on social media. Want to know if anyone's having a similar experience if you're a resident of the sites or if I need to go talk to my psychiatrist.

 

like it feels like the only way out of this spiral into mass servile proud illiteracy in the imperial core is that, for the third qualifier, ego injury might push people into learning out of spite. I don't know. What can you even say to people who don't understand how to parse what you are saying, and then get mad at you about it?

Am I overreacting? Is this too blackpilled? It genuinely seems like this is a very dark potent, especially at this nexus of heightened contradictions

 

like yeah I get they have to decimate our will to herd us into complacency but man it sucks can you not do that you're kinda pissing me off

 

natsuhi, you don't get it! mr. chan is a man with a brilliant future ahead of him! there's nothing suspicious about him! because the dreams he speaks of anticipate the future, they sound crazy to people who can't see into the future! natsuhi please i have to put the money somewhere other than roko's centipede or the other money people will start to get bearish

 

we can make it if we try

 

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