Isn’t it curious how once the French were evicted from the area, suddenly all these terrorist groups became incompetent and vulnerable? Very weird!

One would even think that the French were somehow aiding these groups! Inconceivable!

Also, there’s absolutely no vegetation or rocks on the ground. It’s all the same texture and same evenness. There’s no burn or skid marks on the ground. There’s no other debris or wreckage strewn about the area. The afterburner colours look exactly like the first image on a Google search for “F35”. The plane’s surface looks rough and matte, sort of like an F16, whereas F35s have a really slick, almost shiny surface. The fuselage of an F35 is much less cylindrical and more ellipsoid (again reminds me more of an F16 or F15).

Probably some news website made the image to accompany their article. Maybe they even mentioned in the caption that it was AI generated. Then other websites picked up the picture hastily and used it without question.

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This isn’t strange. It’s exactly how the West has been behaving for the last 4 centuries:

1. Claim “European/American/Christian/Democratic” values are the pinnacle of human achievement.

2. Identify country that is a target for expansion/exploitation/influence

3. Constantly claim that this country is barbaric/inhuman/undemocratic/racist/heathen/terrorist/backwards/repressive/dictatorial/rogue/etc etc etc, so as to pressure it to fall in line

4. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to get your people in line with hating this country

5. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to get the target isolated diplomatically

6. If it doesn’t fall in line, then invade it or take over its government by force and subterfuge.

7. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to excuse any attrocities/war crimes/revealed subterfuge

8. Move on to the next target.

This is quintessential liberalism. Liberals will constantly advertise that it was liberalism that produced the legal framework of human rights, or that liberalism brought back “democratic” governance. They will also constantly attack other ideological frameworks as having committed attrocities, as people using them just to grab power, as malevolent systems of control, as being backwards and repressive, etc. However, they will always conveniently ignore the evils brought about by liberalism, such as… oh you know… that tiny thing called CAPITALISM and all it entails.

In this regard, liberals behave like religious radical extremists. They think they’ve ascended to some sort of moral nirvana. Hence everyone should be forcibly converted to liberalism. If anybody refuses to, it’s clearly because they are a bad, evil person with no respect for human rights or democracy. Thus, any such people, groups of people or even countries should be attacked until they change their mind. It’s for everyone’s best interests after all.

In the current era, most Western liberal governments view liberalism cynically, as a tool of control and coercion, through virtue signalling (Funny how liberals will be ever vigilant to detect control and coercion elsewhere, but completely fail to see it in their own system). Because colonial capitalist exploitation is being applied right back to the imperial core nowadays, and because digital communication gives instant access to any information anywhere in the world, it’s getting harder and harder for Western governments to keep their populace content. Therefore, they have no qualms about employing the very same behaviours they accuse others of. But it’s OK, because through the liberal washing machine, any and all attrocities, insults to dignity, hypocritical proclamations, and scandalous repression, can be excused as a justified means to a wonderful end.

Some older incidents to look at:

• Dismantling “undemocratic genocidal” Yugoslavia using ultra-conservative religious extremists imported from Asian countries. Then replacing Yugoslavia with a bunch of borderline fascist ethnostate governments that hate each other and are just itching to jump right back to genocide. Also inventing a whole new country (Kosovo) which is ruled by mobsters.

• Saving the world from the violently repressive communist Vietcong. Meanwhile, back in the US, deploying armed police with firearms and attack dogs to violently put down protests against the war and protests against racial injustice.

• Claiming to set up democracy in Europe after WW2, while sponsoring military Juntas (Greece, Spain, Portugal), running undercover terror campaigns against leftists (Italy, France), outright blocking leftist legislation from passing and leftist election winners from actually claiming their elected positions) (France, West Germany, Low Countries)

• Claiming to bring democracy, peace and prosperity in Africa, while sponsoring warlords to tear apart every single resource-rich region and serve it up to Western corporations. Also performing multiple coups across the whole continent constantly.

• Claiming to uphold the UN and international law above all else, while the US/French/Belgians probably assassinated the UN secretary general while he was flying to the Congo to resolve a civil war caused by a Western coup (which aimed to block the Congo from trading its precious metals with the Soviet Union)

• Openly training foreign militias and military officers so they can become fascist insurgents in their own countries and eventually take them over through a coup or civil war (e.g. Pinochet)

• Claiming to be saving thousands of Iraqis from Saddam Hussein’s “torture dungeons”, while the US was employing their own global network of both undercover and overt torture dungeons throughout the world.

The list could go on forever.

And there seems to be a sort of monopoly trust going on for the past 30 years, with companies agreeing with each other on what game prices will be across the board. They are even openly admitting that they are waiting for a big release like GTA 6, to raise the standard release price of games.

Not just any industrial powerhouse. Germany is an industrial powerhouse. Italy is an industrial powerhouse.

Socialism produces industrial powerhouses that are putting people into space, building nuclear reactors and inventing revolutionary technologies.

In S2 people around Luthen cry about their personal shit and accuse him of being a bad guy psychopath. And Luthen just stares back at them with a look that says “I get shit done. What do you think would happen if you made the decisions?”.

There’s a scene in S1 where Luthen talks how hard being a dedicated revolutionary actually is. How being revolutionary means sacrificing your soul, to bring about a future for others after you. That’s the actual manifesto of the series for me.

It’s even worse than the headline.

The F35 is supposed to have stealth capabilities. That’s partly why it costs so much.

Ansar Allah locked on the most technologically advanced stealth fighter the West has ever produced. And they did it with a 1970s AA radar made in the Soviet Union.

Nah, the Vatican just trying to get off the sanctions list 😂

Indeed. This has been a low effort factually untrue comment. Which regime do you speak of though?

While referring to your own comment as a shitpost is admirable, I’d urge you to commit to more constructive discussion in the future, rather than pointless exclamations upon achieving self-awareness.

In several European languages, “alphabetism” is the term used for literacy.

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To be fair they are somewhat copying the Russian Army. The Russians offer bonuses for every piece of equipment destroyed and for killing or capturing Ukrainian officers and NCOs, or members of certain formations like Azov.

Furthermorr, if you follow Telegram channels of various Russian formations they regularly post calls for donations and fundraisers that they use to buy extra medical equipment and food, as well as motorcycles, buggies, civilian cars, drones, specialized equipment not issued by the Army and the spare parts to maintain them. It’s also widely publicized that along with this crowdfunding, most Russian formations require their soldiers to contribute a % of their wage to a communal fund for such purchases.

Some formations even use such funds as a sort of additional life insurance and healthcare coverage for their heavily wounded and deceased soldiers and their families, aside from what is offered officially by the Russian Federation.

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Sure, but the Ukrainians can use those 3 days to do the same thing. And the way things are, that means the Russian army loses momentum while Ukrainians gain respite (if they actually go for the ceasefire). Don’t get me wrong, I agree with Putin’s decision. It’s the right thing to do, both morally and politically. Especially for the reasons to outline (but I think in Putin’s mind he’s just trying to present some good faith on Russia’s behalf, and he’s probably hoping there’s no incident in Moscow while a bunch of BRICS leaders and other world leaders gather together). But militarily it might turn out to hurt the Russian effort more than it would help.

Winter was dedicated to all the maintenance stuff mostly, and there was mostly no other field work during that time. They had way more holidays as you say, and they also had a lot more breaks during the day. Historians have done studies on this. An average 8-hour labourer today works about 1800 hours per year, accounting for breaks and holidays. An average medieval peasant would work significantly less so. English peasants had it worse at 1600 hours. French and Germans would fluctuate at 1300-1400 hours. Italian and French would also fluctuate at 1200-1300. Byzantine peasants (whose majority were not serfs and worked on their own land) would work much less at 1000-1200 hours per year!

The point of the meme is that a modern-day wage labourer is exploited way more than a medieval wage labourer. There’s nothing there about famines, plagues and wars (which by the way only went away from Europe to an extend for the past 80 years, and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be staying away).

Also don’t forget:

Medieval peasants worked on average (depending on the area and era you are looking at) 30-60% less hours per year than present-day wage-workers

Medieval peasants who worked on someone else’s land could elect not to go to work on any particular day and just not get paid for it (that’s how weekends were created)

Medieval bosses (i.e. land-owners) were responsible for feeding their workers for the day with breakfast and lunch.

Usually lunch during field work was followed by a customary 2-3 hours nap.