Hey, remember when he was insisting he had no idea what it was and had nothing to do with it?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

lol wow, so glad we got rid of all the “woke” ATC people, this spike in accident rates is much more exciting 🫠

The funniest possible response to this would be for George Soros to donate $7.6 Billion to the CA state government for the purposes of energy infrastructure upgrade (yes, I know that’s the countrywide, number; yes, that was intentional), and then CA uses it to speed up their grid modernization to catch up to somewhere like where China is, and becomes a next-gen/green energy titan in North America.

This is an exception to Betteridge’s Law

It’s only “RAVAGING the fuckin’ leftist cause” because the politicians who are supposedly on the “left” are reacting to the situation with an infuriatingly neoliberal and Kissinger-esque geopolitical mentality that simply does not align with:

• how a very large proportion of western civilians see and understand the situation
• how people with deeper historical, socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and diplomatic knowledge understand the situation
• the historical nuance of the quagmire
• how geopolitics works in general

Or more simply: politicians are continuing to be fucking stupid and miss the moment.

Why the fuck would I care about any Islamic population when if they have power — they would kill me for apostasy?

Wow, that’s pretty overtly prejudiced.

Here’s a thought: pull your head out of your ass, zoom out, and maybe consider that the problem is the people leading the regimes and religions, and that brutal suppression will only beget more brutal suppression - perhaps to you and yours at some point?

I am absolutely NOT saying “invite hardcore Sharia law into your country and neighborhood” - Sharia (as well as the Christian and Jewish flavors of hardline religious law) are categorically fucking stupid and societally caustic, and should be ideologically starved to death to the greatest extent possible. But I AM saying that fighting ideology with bombs is a dumb fucking idea, because all you’re going to do is make those radical ideologies run rampant, and (if you’ll pardon the darkly humorous pun) explode in popularity.

It’s fair to say this social space tends to lean far left. But at the same time, outside of tankie circles, many users are pointedly not dogmatic about it, and in fact have a strong distaste for dogmatic approaches used by both the far right AND far left.

Thunberg is reductive in her approach to issues and geopolitics outside of climate matters, sure - but her ideology is based in humanism and trying to be a decent person while advocating for the human dignity of others, so I personally am willing to give her a rather generous benefit of the doubt. To compare her and her supporters to orangeboi and his is… well, kinda dumb. Thunberg’s supporters care about the environment and human rights. Orangeboi’s supporters care about white people being on top of society, and hurting “the bad people”, where “the bad people” is left intentionally extremely nebulous (more succinctly, they’re fascist supporters and enablers). This is not really an apples to apples comparison.

My previous comment calls you out (admittedly crudely) for expressing utter disdain and contempt for an ongoing human rights catastrophe and genocide, and I stand by that comment. I’m calling you out for being callously indifferent to the rampant suffering that’s being spitefully inflicted on a civilian population by a state actor.

Since you’re on an Aussie instance, I’ll adjust my phrasing:

Were you born this way, or did you undergo some sort of training regimen to become such an absolute cunt?

Man, the things that influence stock prices these days can get pretty fucking stupid

I’m no cheerleader for the US or the neoliberal bullshit that large segments of the western hemisphere has fallen into, and imo the vast majority of western media outlets barely deserve the name.

You, however, should inform yourself more thoroughly on the background and shady details of a lot of people who are running Russia these days. I don’t think Russians as a people are inherently evil, but I do think they have had to suffer under the rule of despots and despotic systems far too consistently throughout history, and that Putin is absolutely one of those despots. Try to branch out a bit from your dogma.

AFAIK, “Patriot” is a broad-brush term for the holistic system, similar to AEGIS.

“PAC” does refer exclusively to the missiles themselves, iirc.

The wiki article actually goes into some detail about the different ground units and modules that are used with a battery (some required, some optional/capability-add).

There’s also PAAC-4/SkyCeptor, but UA is (unfortunately) not getting those afaik

You are absolutely not “on the left” if your political ideology is “being a Putin apologist”

The older munition for the Patriot is called a PAC-2, and an upgraded interceptor missile is called a PAC-3.

Clarification, because journalists seem to have a comical level of difficulty getting the nuances of a lot of military hardware right:

There are actually quite a few missile and launch system variants, and “higher number” doesn’t necessarily mean “better”, nor “lower number” “worse”.

• PAC-2 has a longer range than PAC-3, and also has a ~10x larger warhead, despite being “less PAC”.
• PAC-3 has ABM capability
• Patriot launchers can mount 4 “units”, where a “unit” is a single PAC-2 cell, or 2-4 PAC-3 cells.
• It is also possible to mix-and-match 2/3, including subvariants thereof, so a single battery can use the most appropriate missile for the threat it’s trying to kill (for instance, a PAC-3 for ballistic threats, vs a PAC-2 for a Tu-95 or MiG-31).

Get him a Hollow Point USA T-Shirt :D

…it is a white bronco…?

I see the tankies have discovered Delaware and are now trying to use it as a “gotcha”

Wouldn’t you say that making your invasion casus belli about something that straight up didn’t happen creates a tense atmosphere in Europe?

Lmfao I’m baffled at how you expect that headline to be taken seriously by anyone

All youre saying is that you have no idea how unbelievably pervasive ASICs are

A Russian outfit is butthurt about an election that didn’t go the way Russia tried to influence it towards? Huh, imagine that.

Wouldn’t you say launching and then not being able to successfully complete the objectives of an invasion and creating a war that drags out for years creates a tense atmosphere in Europe?