The name of that link had me do a triple take.

I see your point.

Helps with manufacturing consent for escalation with China

Trump’s entire cabinet is basically one Milei.

Argentina isn’t going to be the only country with a fuckass meme leader.

With regards to Ukraine: IHave69xibucks is right. A nuke is more useful as leverage than an actual weapon. Russia will absolutely be more generous to Ukraine during negotiations should Ukraine develop a nuke. 1 nuke in Moscow wouldn’t bring down the whole country, but it’s not nothing either.

Hence the threat of MAD is used as a valuable tool for leverage during negotiations. Might as well have a nuke to scare Russia into attenuating their strikes and force them to agree to more of Ukraine’s demands.

China, Russia, and the US don’t nuke each other because of the threat of MAD. That’s why they try to strike each other through proxies. Even if the proxies were to land direct strikes on Beijing, Moscow, or Washington, it’s a risk they’re willing to take bc the risk of MAD is zero in that regard.

They’re still going to hit each other and even aim for their capitals and heads of states when it gets bad enough, they’ll just do it through proxies so they don’t have to worry about MAD.

It’s the proxies that are going to deal with the assured destruction, after all.

That’s what I meant by the threat of MAD is a bigger deterrent than MAD, bc they’re still going to strike each other through those proxies.

While the officials said they do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war,

This is ofc followed by Russia attacking major electrical grid infrastructure on Sunday.

Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, launching 120 missiles and 90 drones that killed at least seven people and caused severe damage to the power system, officials said.

Source for 1st quote: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html

Source for 2nd quote:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/blasts-shake-key-ukraine-cities-poland-scrambles-air-force-after-russian-missile-2024-11-17/

Edit: I suppose it technically is correct that it won’t fundamentally change the course of the war in the sense that Ukraine was always going to be destroyed by Russia, negotiations will be blocked by the west, and ultimately Russia will get exactly what it wants plus more in the end.

but seriously tho, it shouldn’t be news that LLMs are a waste of time and resources.

https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/vivek-ramaswamys-thought-experiment-on-reducing-govt-size-even-social-security-number-you-are-in-odd-you-are-out-453560-2024-11-13

Pairs well with vivek’s plan to cut government employees by firing employees with SSN ending in odd numbers.

I would be more optimistic on that front. States are going to tow the Zionist line until the entity collapses. People are becoming aware of Zionism and the criminal record history of the entity.

This is emboldening actual anti-semites in europe and strengthen their claims and lies unfortunately.

But we should look at the positives of the situations.

Explain yourself?

They weren’t talking about state actors. They were talking about regular people, and I think they’re correct. Even in Germany, roughly 50% believe Israel is wrong. This number was significantly lower before Oct 7th.

You can see the growing support for Palestine across Europe. This was never present before Oct 7th. There are so many grassroots protests popping up now, even in countries that don’t have a sizeable Muslim or Arab population.

Israel has lost the propaganda war. It destroyed the narrative that it was ever a progressive state concerned with the well being of Palestinians (only targeting Hamas). More and more people are seeing it for the genocidal ethnostate that it is.

I can tell you that the divide between Palestine supporters and supporters of the zionist entity is only going to get deeper. Everyday the ratio of far-right individuals to regular people increases for the pro-israel side. Fewer and fewer regular people are siding with israel, they’re moving to the Palestine camp.

This is also going to deepen the divide. Anyone pro-israel will be seen as a racist zealot, this is the future.

The threat of MAD is somehow a greater deterrent than MAD itself.

If you read the paper, it states that kyiv is not interested in building nukes itself.

It was written by a Ukrainian think tank that stated that kyiv could build a bomb if it wanted using its remaining nuclear reactors. The report was then given to the Ukrainian government.

It’s nothing serious.

Racism is systemic. This is just discrimination. I wouldn’t worry too much about this since affirmative action was attacked by their own supreme court.

If they want to keep working there, they can put in the same work the Chinese and Taiwanese workers put in.

And it’s because they don’t work as hard as Chinese/ Taiwanese workers.

Once again proving the point that immigrants do the necessary jobs Americans won’t do.

They’ll ban you for anything atp. It’s actually dumb and I suspect this last struggle session had a bunch of people get banned for silly reasons.

Newsmega is the best thing on the site. 2nd was dunk tank/ dredge tank. The rest of the site is dumb.

Bc hexbear is the most deeply unserious left site. This whole thing is just a massive temper tantrum.