US Navy in the Red Sea:
We are conducting freedom of movement and trade, anti piracy operations.
US Coast Guard in the Caribbean:
Look at me, look at me.
I am the pirate now.
sp3ctr4l
joined 8 months ago
Why are tankies always so dishonest ?
Because they usually, eventually, end up in a position or situation where they have to either justify or gloss over or invent apologia for or just deny the existence amd actions of Beria, who... is the kind of person with the kind of power and cruelty that is an inevitability of their worldview put into practice.
Its not dissimilar from American Extremeist Christians who just start frothing at the mouth when you point out obvious hypocrises and 'justified' horrors in their worldview.
Somewhat ironically, the ego of being a 'correct' collectivist overrides a basic sense of human decency, resulting in fanaticism, and fanatics, basically by definition, don't care about 'the' truth, they use language as a weapon, not as a means of genuine communication, and they ultimately use it to affirm their own moral/intellectual superiority over others.
It would be funny if it wasn't so deadly serious.
There is a pretty damned good movie that climaxes with the Kyujo Incident, called "The Emperor In August", came out in 2015.
It's basically the Japanese equivalent of "Downfall".
Its genuinely an intense and gripping story, nearly unbelievable story, ... it's fucking insane, and its more insane because that movie is quite historically accurate.
A lot of the minute details of what happened actually were recorded in significant detail, so ... there's really a minimal level of 'artistic intepretation'.
Maximum possible recommend seeing this movie.
That's a much better inclination.
Cow Milk? Yes/No?
That'd be my first thought, in your line of thinking.
... but you can tie that back to... bloodlines, lineage, peoplegroups, haplogroups, whatever word you want to use.
Most east asians just literally do not have the genetic lineage to support regular consumption of dairy products, the way most europeans do.
Because... we (hi, I'm white) come from a long line of cow milk drinkers, east asians do not.
Its funny reading a bunch of article headlines like "why are so many east asians lactose intolerant?"
No. Fucking, no.
We're the weird ones.
We are the ones who essentially decided to become mutants, due to our dietary choices.
What other animal regularly drinks the milk of another species of animal?
Here's another weird one:
Redheads.
(At least broadly 'white european' redheads)
They ... experience pain differently.
While they have an overall higher pain tolerance, they are also more sensitive to certain kinds of pain, and they need a somewhat higher dosage of something like novacaine to experience the same levels of pain reduction as a non redhead.
So basically, if you have a redheaded east asian child, don't give them a high dairy diet.
You'll hurt them, literally.
(this is mostly a joke, i dont really know if ... that would be the case. it seems to follow, as ... the two things i described, they seem to operate independently on different genes/gene clusters, but genetics is all about finding out how things you would not expect to be connected, actually are)
I mean... yes, thats true, but its more complicated than that.
At the end of WW2, elements within the Japanese military and government executed an ultranationalist coup attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
In broad strokes, the Emperor was planning to surrender, after the Potsdam Conference, after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
A significant number of military higher ups, many various officers... decided that was bullshit, and concocted a plan to take the Imperial family hostage, destroy the Emperor's recorded speech that was to announce the surrender and urge all Japanese people to actually surrender.
This plan ended up failing, but maybe now you can see that significant portions of the Japanese military wanted to keep fighting, literally to death.
So, if you're trying to make sure that something like this coup does not reoccur in the years following surrender... it makes some sense to try and support the people who wanted to comply with you, wanted to end the war, who would and actually could ensure stability.
Consider an alternative example.
Iraq, 2003-6.
The US basically just wholesale dismantles the Iraqi government, including its military, which was a significant source of employment for a lot of people.
Those former Iraqi military members then go on to be a very significant, effective and capable element of the Iraqi "Insurgency"/Resistance, for... what, 10, 15 years?
Can you not imagine something like that playing out in Japan, up into the 1960s?
I'm not trying to endorse or defend anybody's policies or actions here... I'm just trying to point out that it's more complicated than how you summarize it.
Thats fucking amazing.
That's the IRL / performance art equivalent of "ceci n'est pas une pipe."
Man, I've been homeless and seen some wild shit on busses... fairly regularly...
That?
What you've just described?
That's expectional even to me.
God damn.
If you were from, where I was from, you'd be ~~fucking~~ dead.
It is entirely within Scouts character to just... "yo, knucklehead, scoot over", and then just put on his headset when the screaming resumes.
Though, being from Boston, and being exceptionally prideful... that may cause some issues on the NYC subway.
... this is basically a FarSide one panel.
You're talking to a person who was homeless for 2 years, is currently seruously crippled, doing my own physical therapy because the US healthcare system is completely broken and unaffordable, and is writing this message to you from a piece of shit gas station cell phone that I have somehow managed to keep working through 2 blizzards over two years, that I experienced fully outdoors, while travelling about 2000 miles, with nothing but the clothes on my back.
I've been building pcs out of spare parts, salvage and scrap since the 90s.
You can fuck right off with your first world privilege bullshit and learn how to speak English if you want to converse in it.
No its not no loss, because if Steam figures out you have a real account and a 'cracked' account, they can ban both.
I've personally known hackers this has happened to.
See your hardware has a unique identifier. They know your're running the same machine with dual accounts, if you do it often enough, doesn't matter if you use a vpn or whatever.
Anyway, sure, ok, this apparently allows you to spoof your way into Steam's multiplayer system.
I don't see where that is stated, but maybe I missed it.
So... this would only make sense with games that are entirely reliant on steam for networking, where you can't host a local server or use something like hamachi...
So, what, you're 12 and want to play a cracked, probably also hacked, version of CS2 or ARK? Maybe DOTA2?
... You know Valve has a track record of criminally prosecuting people who hack their shit, right?
Were you around when the HL2 Beta leak happened, because some guy penetrated Valve's internal systems, basically did a smash and grab?
Yeah they pretended they were impressed, wanted to hire this guy, told him to fly on over from Europe for a job interview.
The guy did that, and then... he was arrested when he got off the plane.
This is animal abuse.
It's inhumane to forcibly gorge so many leopards.
... sob ... they can only eat so much!!! ... sob ...