Realistically, in any scenario that the USSR continued West (ie. operation unthinkable but reversed) the US would have just dropped another nuke… and another nuke… and another nuke… until they won.

Russia had no strategic bombers, very rudimentary (basically zero) nuclear technology, and a very minor navy. The US would have happily deployed more nukes until one hit them back; they only started talking about peace after the Soviets surprised the world with their rapid nuclear weapons program in 1949. Even then, that’s 4 years of a head start for American nukes.

Yeah but then the next Hezb leader signed a deal that let Israel and the UN stroll cock-to-hand from the Litani-southwards, gleefully flattening villages, outposts, and other military infrastructure as they went.

The Lebanese military would fold faster than the Iraqi army did in Mosul, and Hezbollah is then expected to maintain a Southern front stuffed full of UN mercenaries and with massively degraded defenses.

Thats the doomer perspective, and Im sure there will be a historic defense from the mujahideen of Lebanon, but it doesnt feel like the odds are better than in 2024.

I mean there’s definitely going to be a radicalising effect by its very nature but I wouldnt put too much thought into reddit being any form of accurate barometer for liberal thirst for revolution

100%. All my siblings are neurodiverse, but only the youngest 3 got diagnosed as children (4 if I wasn’t pushed away from it!).

My 2 older siblings are near their 40s now (What’s that in generational lingo, Millenial???) and both have almost identical traits or struggles but only recently even considered it!

My parents both have come to accept their own traits (OCD, autism, ADHD esp. in dad) but they’ve resigned themselves to never getting diagnosed because theyre in their 50s/60s now :/ So much shit they went through without anyone understanding at all.

When you meet a neurodivergent person, you’ve met one neurodivergent person!

Yeah that’s also a good idea. I wasnt sure if there were standard sizes that people fit these things to which made me think bespoke!

That’s what im thinking too. Lighter plastic would make it wasier to fit the frame. I’ll see what sorta rivets you can get (or maybe buttons) since my SO knows a lot of seamstressing stuff

That’s a good shout! I have some iron bricks that were laying about that could work for that 😎

They absolutely are a proxy, but it’s just that their relation vis a vis Israel is one where Tel Aviv extorts the wahhabist-turned-statesman, rather than him following their orders.

HTS had no chance of recovering and using the air defense equipment in time to fight Israel even they wanted to. And now, Jolani is willing to send his men into their graves if it means the next airstrike on Damascus isnt on his head.

I dont think they hate Israel, but I think the relationship is driven by fear more than adoration.

True! Do they publish much combat footage? I dont see much of their stuff ever really.

looks at the american pension system

yeah

this owns, and the fact people got off without charge is fucking amazing, especially for ameriKKKa

do you think she had to buy it out of her wages or did elon do this to punish her

Clever. Now insurers dont need to pay up

ANCAP goes on strike

someone tell milei and see if his heart explodes instantly

YPJ forces had multiple intense battles with Turkish proxies and HTS during the collapse of Assad.

They’re the only military I’ve seen not just recruiting women for tokenism ever; they are armed, trained, ideologically educated, and actually deployed to front line operations with equal significance to their male counterparts. Geopolitical critiques of AANES aside, they’ve been consistent in their goal of usurping the traditional status of women through armed defense.

There’s also Myanmar. Footage is more scarce and commentary sometimes nonexistent, but multiple factions recruit women for combat duties, they just don’t advertise it abroad.

Communist movements around asia (especially maoist) are probably the hardest to confirm. Women are armed and trained and ideologically educated like those in Syria, but their insurgencies are heavily repressed by Western (and sometimes Chinese) backed forces. The scale of the fighting in those regions seems to be more limited.

If only. I imagine that would probably end with cooking China with all the server farms it would need to run lmao

Thing is, how does this fit in with the neoliberal tech trend of just… losing money?

The entire gig economy was subsidised by massive loans and investments, with only a few companies just recently reaching any kind of profitability! Uber only turned +$9mil this year after accruing nearly $250mil in debt!!!

These businesses are run like states: massive debt pools held aloft by the debt and supplementary income that pays off other debts. You might as well be able to buy bonds for these things.

My question is though, how does this fit into Marxist economic theory? I’m aware of the “reducing rate of profit” and such, but how does this fit for swathes of the economy operating on negative profit as its ideal model? I suppose these firms are “micro” relative to the “macro” of the whole economy.

Are these gargantuan loss making businesses dragging the whole system down with them?

I mean with the massive investment into the military and ICE im sure the company that provides useful technology to both of these vital organisations will be totally fine.

I cannot WAIT for reddit to finally become so AI filled that no one bothers reading it except the morons who believe they’re talking to fellow humans. so many “communities” are gonna become safely isolated