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The masses in most of these cities aren't even angry though. They are mildly annoyed that the man on the TV isn't the correct looking man on the TV.

You are misunderstanding the Mao quote. Power grows out of the barrel of a gun but it is not the only way to pursue power after deterrence has been established.

China has about three cards to play, that they have been good faith negotiators for the last 40 years and the entirety of the 21st century, they control a plurality of the worlds manufacturing production (and the labor force to back it up), and while the capabilities of it have not been tested, likely one of the most advanced anti-air and anti-missile arsenals in history which unlike Iran's is fully networked and will not be the subject of internal cyber attacks and failures, even if it cannot protect the entirety of China. They have the power that grows from the barrel of a gun.

The U.S. on the other hand, globally, has about two cards to play, both of which have been shown to only have limited effect. Sanctions and bombings. Both of which have been shown to be basically ineffective at achieving your geopolitical aims in the 21st century outside of mindless destruction.

Much like with Russia, it doesn't matter if you destroy all of China's allies, eventually even your allies will trade with them and fill the market gaps left. As long as they can prevent internal dissolution and discontent, their path towards being the premier global trader and cultural power is assured. And this is besides the fact that the U.S. would have to face a massive internal civil war of their own bourgeois if we were to ever actually go to war with China. Our entire petite bourgeois economy would grind to a halt within three to four weeks, which is the other gun has to the U.S.'s head.

I love that the American misrepresentation of what role the Kim family plays in North Korean politics has completely buffaloed Trump into thinking that Americans will ever be able to "Sit up and listen." We don't have anything close to a culture of respect for others that is required for such a thing to happen. Hell, Trump directly contributed to that culture of disrespect multiple times with his comments on Obama (not that Obama doesn't deserve massive amounts of criticism and disrespect).

It's synth jazz, which is fairly popular outside of the U.S.

The worst part about the satire of Starship Troopers is that it made the fascists appear competent at the produced media spectacle.

Which they are, it just is more about distraction and overwhelming slop than actually pleasing aesthetics.

Honestly the only people in the U.S. who can march are in marching bands. And they are pretty damn good and competitive about it in some areas. They genuinely would have been better off getting some Midwestern high schoolers and college students rifles and have them do the parade.

I'm genuinely surprised they didn't hold it somewhere in friendly territory. Surely there are better parade grounds.

It literally looks like from an 80's movie, especially when compared to other videos I have watched.

A tyrant is literally a king. Just in latin. Idiots.

I get what you are saying, but there is a huge flaw in your logic here. You are treating military ventures, particularly WWII military ventures, as if they have a quality assurance team with statistically controlled practices and a feedback mechanism that allows them to make adjustments and understand what they are doing, or why it is effective or ineffective, or if it the effect justifies the costs. They did not, and to some degree, still don't.

The U.S. still hadn't even figured out by WWII that it is a really good idea to have troops stationed behind the front lines when pushing on an offensive in order to regroup scattered soldiers, which left multiple divisions scattered on offensive thrusts and lead to the infamous moments like what was portrayed in "A Bridge Too Far" or in the Hurtgen Forest, a mistake that they literally repeated from WWI in the Aragonne Forest. In that vein, they did multiple troop air drops, which which have repeatedly and soundly been shown to be ineffective at best, and completely wipe out a combat unit at worst, despite what Hollywood and video games would have you believe, because of what military planners thought, which was mostly that it seemed bad ass.

The bombings absolutely caused chaos in Germany and took their toll on the population, but their actual effect on German industrial production was relatively limited in hindsight, especially when compared to the bombing campaigns in things like the Second Gulf War. It is unclear if it could have been considered an effective campaign from that measure. But generals love their planes and destroying civilian infrastructure, and bombers and jets are admittedly pretty cool to look at and watch fly.

Well, that is the way it works. If you control the media narrative, you can easily control social reality, and since no one is actually going to punish you because the material reality doesn't match the social reality (and more often that not, those that acknowledge and want to study the material reality are punished for not accepting the consensus social reality), then 'manifesting' will always benefit you.

It's basically a cult signalling that you are in the group because you blatantly disregard material reality. The only way it stops is when the material reality actually contradicts it in such a way as to make it impossible to believe (i.e. you will die).

Going by WWII logistical documentation, the Nazis highest levels of military production was by the end of the war, because basically all the factories had been moved into massive underground complexes.

The interesting thing about bombing and missiles is that machines like lathes and mills, especially the ones from the 1940's are actually incredibly difficult to destroy unless they are directly hit by a bomb or a missile. Most allied bombing did was completely destroy the building infrastructure, which forced periods of rapid reorganization as equipment was recovered.

The Nazi problem was that they wasted much of their time and resources early on in the war after their initial victories in Poland and France investing in fortifications that they themselves had just proven to be ineffective, utilizing privatization and mass slave labor to run that initial war economy, which is incredibly inefficient, and that even with the increase in production, they couldn't come close to matching Soviet or U.S. levels of production, or even force reorganization of the major factories powering the war machine.

If anything Allied bombing forced the Nazis to actually become centralized and efficient in their industrial war production, it was just too little, too late.

What I am saying is that they had a golden opportunity to make it look even worse and for some reason missed it because even their own propaganda underestimates the scope of the problem, or more importantly, why it is actually happening (urbanization driven by a complete lack of funding and tax support for the public systems in rural communities).

I hate the 'No Kings' shit. Bastards can't even follow through with it. It's always been, "No Kings, No Gods, No Masters."

This map is not at all accurate. There is plenty of land in Minnesota and Wisconsin that are owned by Chinese farming corporations. It's not just by the military bases.

Genuinely been a bit stressed all day, but since I heard of the missile strikes I feel much better. Very silly western stuff.

The only real benefit at that level is that you don't pay for food or rent in the barracks, so if you are disciplined and not addicted to sports betting, you can save all that money, which is why people blow it on a Camaro when they are 22, but then basically have nothing outside of that.

It's also why people in the military get married so young and divorced so often, as if you are married you get to have a little house on base with all your rent and food paid for, but once you make rank and can just live in a house, suddenly living with your wife who you always hated doesn't sound all that appealing any more.

They can court martial you, hit you with insubordination beforehand, delay the paperwork, all kinds of fun stuff, because despite being a volunteer army, you sign an enlistment contract and unlike at-will employment that gets pushed everywhere else to combat unions, there can even be financial consequences for trying to leave your contract early.

It's why I heavily discourage people from joining the military, other than all the usual reasons. At least you can quit McDonalds.

This is how I remind myself that I live in a rarified space where, because I have family that worked in China, and colleagues that deal with Chinese suppliers regularly, basically everyone around me has a favourable idea of China and sees the U.S. as having batshit industrial policies.

That dip is insane.

Absolutely. You are welcome.

You are more than welcome anywhere here, but there is absolutely a dominant posting culture outside the trans mega that was developed specifically to combat online Western liberal brain worms, which it is very, very good at. Posting combat is not about being excruciatingly specific and correct, it is about dunking as hard, and fast, as possible, with overwhelming force.

'Chapo-posting' shone brightest when we were essentially predators, singling out bad takes from the packs of redditors, striking fear into their hearts through things like the n-word bot. This is a reduced, if still mildly effective form.

Unfortunately, like any vestigial organ, while it occasionally has it's uses for the wandering liberal/fascist, it more often than not causes friendly fire these days. That said, it would be a shame to lose it entirely, like killing the last white rhino, and it was fighting a losing battle so I stopped advocating for less dunks on fellow posters years ago. Gotta treat a forum like a forum, no matter the forum.

Glad to be of service.