JayTreeman [none/use name]

Buuut the youth are shifting to the right.

‘Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev’ry soul Katie blew.’

I dated a woman who took a history course on baseball. She said baseball mad was a thing about horny women.

I have actual ancestors that were killed in crimea after the communist revolution. They owned a mill and apparently were dicks and colonizers. I told my daughter about it and she responded ‘they probably had it coming’. I’m a very proud father

Less lethal if used properly. They’re supposed to bounce those rubber bullets. How are they even supposed to do that in a real life situation? This isn’t billiards.

Ja

I haven’t been convinced that was done by the Americans. Is it a thing they’ve done in the past? Yes. Do they have reason to do it now? Yes. Have I seen anything outside of anti-american sources talk about it? No.

I try and give people a lot of leeway IRL. I always hope that helps convince people

25 - 60 year olds. When the wars done, the country is going to be broken and won’t recover for 40 years… Yikes

Talking with a friend who’s very anti china and Russia, I asked what it would take for him to think that NATO was pushing Russia to use a nuke. ‘Nuclear sabre rattling’ was his response. Well, here you go friend.

It’s funny to me that the media will get people to laugh at these weapons and not see that it’s a well thought out tactic. The US is going to double down on expensive equipment before anything changes. They’ll have the most expensive and sophisticated weaponry, but they won’t be able to afford to use it

Definitely a reasonable point to start negotiations. The Russians barely hold anything in Kherson, but you don’t start where you want. Otherwise, you don’t have any leeway in negotiations.

I’m pretty far from a lib, but I feel it’s a validish argument. Russia has bombed civilian targets. It would be hard to do responsibly. Not impossible though. Hard doesn’t mean they shouldn’t.

People are shitting on Russia for having simpler tech. That simpler tech is better for a conscript army. Once the pros are gone what’s that amazing tech worth? Also, look at the ‘turtle’ tank that people were laughing at a few months ago, and now the Americans have a version too

Nuclear war is, hot take in-coming, bad. Is nuclear war more likely under Trump or biden? I’d argue biden. Trumps likely to acquiesce to anything Putin wants. Biden will probably escalate given the chance. He’s already escalated US involvement in the last couple months

Is the dumpster fire I mentioned that obvious?

Oooo this ones surface level interesting from a ‘flush out the anti-semites’ point of view. In ww2 my country turned away Jewish refugees and sent them back to the gas chambers. That was 100% a war crime in my mind. My country also accepted a bunch of Nazi refugees afterwards. During this conflict, my country hasn’t accepted any amount of Palestinian refugees. It seems that my government hasn’t learned about morality yet. I would want Israelis coming here to go through some kind of deprogramming. I’ve seen so much about how their society has warped how the average Israeli thinks. It’s so sad, but I also don’t want that hate here.

There’s some weird disinformation going on. Hexbear is leftist for sure, but my short time there I’ve yet to see any of the rhetoric that people claim is everywhere there.

There’s so many businesses that shouldn’t run on a just in time basis. I can’t believe anyone thought that was a good idea for a military force.

Also Canada which went from a serious up and comer to a backwater laughing stock

BRICS is a pretty big removed in the armor. The next few years as they establish themselves is going to be interesting