Newsweek is a notoriously populist-neofascist magazine, so I’m not surprised.

ignoring Afghanistan

Stop right there. Your argument is over. Goodbye.

Wisdom never correlates with age. That old adage needs to die.

Fuck that, time to arm Liberty Prime

Takes a massive fool to think European companies are basing their data in US continent, where the ping would be >150ms, and speeds would be far slower and less manageable.

It’s actually simpler than that: It’s not in regulatory compliance. Cloud providers need to host their data centers in different regions because of geopolitical instability, including the distinct possibility of this scenario, among other localized regulatory factors. These companies may be headquartered in America but they still are at the whim of many different governments.

Source: I have an AWS certification

Iran isn’t known for it’s cybersecurity divisions. Right wing states generally aren’t good with technology. So I’m not worried about a cyber attack.

In fact, it’s tough to say what Iran’s military capacity is at all. We pelt them with drone strikes and long range missiles constantly and they seem like they can do nothing about it. We keep talking about all this enriched uranium they possess, but do they even possess the capacity to deliver the payload to our domestic soil before we thwart them?

They’ll likely go after Israel first, so we’ll soon see the extent of their armaments.

It’s actually the perfect analogy, you just can’t see it because you’re stuck in the bubble.

Purity politics have enabled more than one genocide, thanks to the non-voter.

I grow apathetic of the purity politics and blind gluttony of the left, yet as a progressive I am obliged to play their game? Fuck that. The price of ignorant bliss is suffering, and I refuse to pander to privileged electorates that think they can afford to play with peoples lives. This isn’t centrism, it’s giving up.

I’d rather watch it all burn. The petri dish is long overdue for a rinse in this terribly drawn out social experiment.

I would have thought eating the same gruel every day would have prevailed over eating saute shit a la fascism. As it turns out, Americans aren’t good at binary decision making and some like to be imaginary revolutionaries.

Actually, yeah. A lot of people voted third party and many more stayed home. I will blame them.

No. If you wanna ditch the Internet, go right ahead.

Did 2024 not teach you that already? It’s all a lost cause.

Deploy tactical Bison on ICE raids?

GabeN save us

Ramp up the pressure.

Violence breeds violence, Commander.

I agree, I think there’s clear limits. This isn’t like Russia where they were being told they were being sent to a training exercise, this is an event where everyone being deployed knew exactly the reason and are able to be kept up to date by sources that don’t include their superiors. Being deployed doesn’t mean anything other than they’re getting a bigger paycheck each, and the legality of a domestic deployment for the purpose of crowd control is debatable. The real test of these men will be whether they take the life of a civilian.

There’s a lot of doomers who will base current events off of a TV show they watched, but there is no media in existence nor any historical event that mirrors these circumstances. There are non political guardrails, such as societal conventions, that will realistically play a much bigger role in the coming conflict than people think.

One thing is very clear however: The price of true change is blood.

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