The Euro-American chauvinism, ignorance, audacity, racism, orientalism, and cope that comes out of the mouths of ordinary citizens who consider themselves smart and experienced is just too much for me sometimes.

Why bother posting something like this hours before use? Why not just snap the pic, fire it, and then afterwards say “this is what just hit you”?

Yeah, because those societies are shaped by their failure to manage dark triad personalities in the first place. Pretty obvious.

Yes, but I don’t think Israel expected its air defenses to become functionally useless and for Israel military buildings and airports to be demolished. I think Israel is increasingly desperate and the US needed to step in to do something to stop Israel from doing something big out of that desperation. I think that’s why the US didn’t go in with shock and awe. It was more symbolic than anything.

I actually think it’s trying to get Israel to calm down.

I think it was. My guess is that this bombing run was to limit Israel’s escalation options. Now, the only way for Israel to escalate is to oppose the US narrative and actions, which creates the conditions for the US to split from Israel as a proxy.

I am shocked that this is the US’s way of entering the war. Shock and awe is the normal way. This was not that in the slightest. I think this was a symbolic act and not a functional one.

And that gives me hope that the US has not identified a path to military victory in this situation.

The calculus is either that a bunch of attacks against US assets is the blowback necessary for the US to enter a regional conflict OR that everyone will realize this and only attack Israel and leave the US alone. In the first case, I don’t think the US needs pretense. In the second, it’s indicative of US weakness.

You’re psychologizing. Russia as a nation does not have a psychological need to reestablish it’s former Tsarist empire. It’s entire aim militarily is to prevent encirclement by the US.

So the US using Taiwan as a lethal proxy and generating Chinese defensive action makes Chinese terrorist?

You got oatmeal for brains.

China will never attack Taiwan unless the US makes it an imminent threat.

You’re right. They should only be doing business with China.

Because here’s what a real terrorist country looks like:

https://soaw.org/home

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program

And of course if one argues that Europe is nicer we have:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

To me, this is a sign that the resistance is activating in the face of greater and greater certainty that the US is about to make critical grand chessboard moves. Iran is the key position right now. If the US moves against it, we all better hope the US is the paper tiger we think it is.

Commenter wasn’t saying that the point of contention was the plane type. They were saying the point of contention is that these unnamed experts claim this type of plane is often used for weapons and military persons and didn’t claim any other use for what is likely the most common large air freighter in the skies.

Change your approach completely.

Plan to do a single video for an entire month. Literally.

In your schedule, decide if you’re going to do yoga 2 times a week or 3 times a week. Don’t do more. You’re not ready.

Pick one video.

Every single time you do yoga for the next month, ONLY do that video.

This will fundamentally change your mindset. Yoga is not about gathering external information. Doing more videos will not teach you anything.

Yoga is about learning how to observe internal information. Repetition is the key to get started.

If you want to do more than this, then every single day you are not doing yoga, sit on the floor in complete silence for 15m. Do nothing else.

Again, the goal is not to gain anything, it’s to observe. Through observation, you will fundamentally change.

Money. Plan and simple. The right wing is the side with all the money and they spend it on producing propaganda regardless of its economic viability. Just look at Prager U’s financials. They pay dozens of content creators to pump out content even though it’s not profitable. There’s not enough money in the left wing to counter that.

Mind, I don’t count Democrats as left wing.

You think an M-L community is supportive of Trump? Where do you get your thoughts from?

You have it backwards. Israel is the lapdog. The North Atlantic imperial bloc let’s the lapdog shit wherever, they feed it, and when the lapdog feels insecure it barks at the imperialists looking for support. If it doesn’t get enough support it goes and starts attacking someone, knowing that the imperialist block will come in and scream “what are you doing to my little poopsie woopsie!?”

Why is this posted to brain worms?

I don’t think AWS was impacted. I think the article was just explaining that an outage to services like AWS would be disruptive

Congress is stacked against Democrats. There really isn’t anything they can legally do until they regain the Senate or the House

Except praise ICE, I guess. It doesn’t really matter that Congress is stacked against the Democrats. They’ve shown everyone who they are and what they stand for and it’s not clear in the least that they would behave significantly differently if they were in power. From Biden building the wall to Kamala saying “Do not come”, and all of the messaging of the Ds since they lost and now 75 Ds voting to praise ICE…

Despite? Really?