Aidan
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The U.K. comes to mind. It seems the world is less in a competition for first and more in a race to the bottom. Whichever society self-sabotages the least, wins.
August 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The U.K. comes to mind. It seems the world is less in a competition for first and more in a race to the bottom. Whichever society self-sabotages the least, wins.
I mean by that time the A-4 was in vogue and you really just can't beat the A-4 in the "being cheap and lugging munitions" department.
August 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I mean by that time the A-4 was in vogue and you really just can't beat the A-4 in the "being cheap and lugging munitions" department.
It's also worth mentioning the counterfactual. What if fewer militia or Russian army units defected? Even if one argues their presence wasn't critical to the uprising, denying their use to the opposition forces is still incredibly valuable.
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It's also worth mentioning the counterfactual. What if fewer militia or Russian army units defected? Even if one argues their presence wasn't critical to the uprising, denying their use to the opposition forces is still incredibly valuable.
Getting the regular or part of the regular army is critical in the opening stages. If it doesn't effect a complete coup d'etat, it buys the time to further recruit, train, and equip units which is necessary in the last stage of the conflict.
August 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Getting the regular or part of the regular army is critical in the opening stages. If it doesn't effect a complete coup d'etat, it buys the time to further recruit, train, and equip units which is necessary in the last stage of the conflict.
2. Broken Back War. A lot of the best resources are expended by both sides. This is where further training and rearming occurs as the conflict stagnates.
3. Further intensification. As new units and armaments begin to accrue the intensity rises until one side or the other falls apart.
3. Further intensification. As new units and armaments begin to accrue the intensity rises until one side or the other falls apart.
August 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
2. Broken Back War. A lot of the best resources are expended by both sides. This is where further training and rearming occurs as the conflict stagnates.
3. Further intensification. As new units and armaments begin to accrue the intensity rises until one side or the other falls apart.
3. Further intensification. As new units and armaments begin to accrue the intensity rises until one side or the other falls apart.
You can generally divide these protracted conflicts (and in fact most wars) into three stages.
1. Oubreak (most relevant) where it's high intensity with just about only the materials and people on hand at the start participating. Maybe some scratch militias but these aren't very effectual.
1. Oubreak (most relevant) where it's high intensity with just about only the materials and people on hand at the start participating. Maybe some scratch militias but these aren't very effectual.
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
You can generally divide these protracted conflicts (and in fact most wars) into three stages.
1. Oubreak (most relevant) where it's high intensity with just about only the materials and people on hand at the start participating. Maybe some scratch militias but these aren't very effectual.
1. Oubreak (most relevant) where it's high intensity with just about only the materials and people on hand at the start participating. Maybe some scratch militias but these aren't very effectual.
And yet they bought the necessary time to set the conditions for further campaigns.
August 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
And yet they bought the necessary time to set the conditions for further campaigns.
Where did I ever imply they did? And again, please read the previous comment, they were not meant to be homogenous cases.
The point is that to win you need a regular army. The best time to build up support in the regular army is now and losing critical positions to protest resignations is bad.
The point is that to win you need a regular army. The best time to build up support in the regular army is now and losing critical positions to protest resignations is bad.
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Where did I ever imply they did? And again, please read the previous comment, they were not meant to be homogenous cases.
The point is that to win you need a regular army. The best time to build up support in the regular army is now and losing critical positions to protest resignations is bad.
The point is that to win you need a regular army. The best time to build up support in the regular army is now and losing critical positions to protest resignations is bad.
Yet you seem way more enthusiastic about murdering scientists than trying to affect these steps, even violently.
August 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Yet you seem way more enthusiastic about murdering scientists than trying to affect these steps, even violently.
Notice how I broke up the examples instead of painting them with a broad brush. It might, just might, reflect they embody different aspects of how defections and a regular army plays into a revolutionary campaign.
August 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Notice how I broke up the examples instead of painting them with a broad brush. It might, just might, reflect they embody different aspects of how defections and a regular army plays into a revolutionary campaign.
And yet they do defect, as seen by the examples given. You need to bring more than platitudes. What is the specific goal that their resignations serve and how does that compare to the potential of regular military support in an armed confrontation? Because in the latter it can be decisive.
August 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
And yet they do defect, as seen by the examples given. You need to bring more than platitudes. What is the specific goal that their resignations serve and how does that compare to the potential of regular military support in an armed confrontation? Because in the latter it can be decisive.
Really, and this system can't at all be changed so the best way to handle things is to regress as a society and go all Pol Pot?
August 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Really, and this system can't at all be changed so the best way to handle things is to regress as a society and go all Pol Pot?
Are you willing to kill scientists over this? It's a pretty simple yes or no question, one I have asked and one you persist on avoiding directly answering, trying to use other people's words as insulation.
So I ask for clarification of your position, are you willing to kill scientists over this?
So I ask for clarification of your position, are you willing to kill scientists over this?
August 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Are you willing to kill scientists over this? It's a pretty simple yes or no question, one I have asked and one you persist on avoiding directly answering, trying to use other people's words as insulation.
So I ask for clarification of your position, are you willing to kill scientists over this?
So I ask for clarification of your position, are you willing to kill scientists over this?
What happened to "setting the conditions for revolution"? What did you think that meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Here it means keeping potential revolutionaries in power and importantly not trying to shame them out of that power for marginal gain.
August 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
What happened to "setting the conditions for revolution"? What did you think that meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Here it means keeping potential revolutionaries in power and importantly not trying to shame them out of that power for marginal gain.
Does it ever occur to you that it is better to concentrate forces at specific times and places and not to winnew them away trying to fight every single battle?
August 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Does it ever occur to you that it is better to concentrate forces at specific times and places and not to winnew them away trying to fight every single battle?
Who? Robert? He's a Podcaster. Musk? He's an asshole Billionaire. I fail to see what bearing this has on the conversation.
Words have meanings. If you don't actually mean what you say maybe you should keep your mouth shut.
Words have meanings. If you don't actually mean what you say maybe you should keep your mouth shut.
August 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Who? Robert? He's a Podcaster. Musk? He's an asshole Billionaire. I fail to see what bearing this has on the conversation.
Words have meanings. If you don't actually mean what you say maybe you should keep your mouth shut.
Words have meanings. If you don't actually mean what you say maybe you should keep your mouth shut.
So your first step before the army proves it's on our side is to remove all the dissenting elements? Genius move. One wonders at your truly peerless intellect.
August 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
So your first step before the army proves it's on our side is to remove all the dissenting elements? Genius move. One wonders at your truly peerless intellect.
"Governor Newsom demonstrates his plan to cut all Republican politicians in half on JD Vance during a live televised broadcast."
August 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"Governor Newsom demonstrates his plan to cut all Republican politicians in half on JD Vance during a live televised broadcast."
There is actually a timeline longer than "tomorrow" and you need to learn how to be strategic.
It's a good thing Mao never had you as an advisor because you would've insisted on fighting the nationalists and Japanese instead of forming the united front and consolidating power.
It's a good thing Mao never had you as an advisor because you would've insisted on fighting the nationalists and Japanese instead of forming the united front and consolidating power.
August 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
There is actually a timeline longer than "tomorrow" and you need to learn how to be strategic.
It's a good thing Mao never had you as an advisor because you would've insisted on fighting the nationalists and Japanese instead of forming the united front and consolidating power.
It's a good thing Mao never had you as an advisor because you would've insisted on fighting the nationalists and Japanese instead of forming the united front and consolidating power.
Read Robert's goddamn post. Are you willing to actually kill scientists over this? Because that's what would be required and is called for.
Maybe one day you will learn to think through your opinions, what they involve and what they imply, but I doubt today will be that day.
Maybe one day you will learn to think through your opinions, what they involve and what they imply, but I doubt today will be that day.
August 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Read Robert's goddamn post. Are you willing to actually kill scientists over this? Because that's what would be required and is called for.
Maybe one day you will learn to think through your opinions, what they involve and what they imply, but I doubt today will be that day.
Maybe one day you will learn to think through your opinions, what they involve and what they imply, but I doubt today will be that day.
Please explain to me how people against Trump in the military resigning is going to substantially improve the current situation.
The vast majority of the repression is by the para-militaries so you are trading a potentially very valuable card for maybe an ever so slight (and temporary) loosening.
The vast majority of the repression is by the para-militaries so you are trading a potentially very valuable card for maybe an ever so slight (and temporary) loosening.
August 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Please explain to me how people against Trump in the military resigning is going to substantially improve the current situation.
The vast majority of the repression is by the para-militaries so you are trading a potentially very valuable card for maybe an ever so slight (and temporary) loosening.
The vast majority of the repression is by the para-militaries so you are trading a potentially very valuable card for maybe an ever so slight (and temporary) loosening.
"Well, hopefully people solve that first, because until they do I'm with Robert." You explicitly state that if it cannot be shared with everyone they should be murdered.
Maybe you should pay attention to what you are actually saying rather than blindly assuming a position.
Maybe you should pay attention to what you are actually saying rather than blindly assuming a position.
August 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Well, hopefully people solve that first, because until they do I'm with Robert." You explicitly state that if it cannot be shared with everyone they should be murdered.
Maybe you should pay attention to what you are actually saying rather than blindly assuming a position.
Maybe you should pay attention to what you are actually saying rather than blindly assuming a position.
So it's better to kill the researchers and doctors so that everyone is equally diseased than try to improve and reform things?
Has it ever crossed your mind that advances in modern medicine also benefit less developed areas of the world?
Has it ever crossed your mind that advances in modern medicine also benefit less developed areas of the world?
August 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
So it's better to kill the researchers and doctors so that everyone is equally diseased than try to improve and reform things?
Has it ever crossed your mind that advances in modern medicine also benefit less developed areas of the world?
Has it ever crossed your mind that advances in modern medicine also benefit less developed areas of the world?
This is ignoring the countless smaller and less small coups that have occured throughout history. The military is the center of gravity around which the state can ultimately exert violence. To want to brush it off because you think it's gauche only shows your lack of comittment.
August 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This is ignoring the countless smaller and less small coups that have occured throughout history. The military is the center of gravity around which the state can ultimately exert violence. To want to brush it off because you think it's gauche only shows your lack of comittment.
It's how the Soviets, Syrians, and Americans weren't crushed at the start of their revolutions. It's how Mao eventually destroyed the Nationalist Army. It was Vietnamese tank divisions, not ragtag citizens that took Saigon.
August 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's how the Soviets, Syrians, and Americans weren't crushed at the start of their revolutions. It's how Mao eventually destroyed the Nationalist Army. It was Vietnamese tank divisions, not ragtag citizens that took Saigon.