What’s the US gonna do? Slink away in the middle of the night again?
The US has never found a solution to the “what if we murder hundreds of thousands or even millions of civillians but they don’t surrender and keep fighting us?” Problem.
Referring to people as “tankies”
Openly cheerleading a military intervention and while directly acknowledging that the US’s stated goal of spreading democracy abroad is actually just a form of punishing politically opposed governments
Someone tell me what’s going on here. Is it possible to go beyond lack of self-awareness into negative self-awareness?
I’m writing a star trek parody with tankies called star tenk where the proton torpedoes are powered by releasing self-awareness and anti-self-awareness particles to blow up NATO imperialists.
If we could power a ship with anti-self awareness we’d be blasting off to warp 10 and becoming salamanders
ITT we learn the real tankies were the neocons we met along the way (to invading Kabul and Baghdad)
“Democracy”
Oh, is it not real democracy or something?
common “are we the baddies” moment
As predicted we really arrived at the point where “tankie” means just anyone who won’t bootlick US while emitting loud slurping sounds all over the internet.
You could sneeze on the American navy and it would collapse, from the extremely aged and decrepit ships to the intensely overworked sailors
Remember when they fired that commander for actually giving a shit about his crew during one of the early COVID waves? Pinnacle of strategic thinking is turning your navy into coffin ships.
Remember when they lost a war game against Iran so they called time out and just changed the rules to make themselves win?
IIRC, the rules they changed were that motorcycle messengers could instantly teleport across the map without being intercepted, and that the fleet of missile motorboats he was using to attack the US navy couldn’t actually mount the weapons they were previously allowed to, because the missiles alone were heavier than their actual maximum weight even without an attached launching system.
Supposedly, a computer error also teleported the US fleet directly into motorboat range.
It doesn’t really seem like losing a game against Iran rather than the game being extremely flawed.
Which is its own kind of pathetic. Imagine running a simulation and you’ve not covered basic things like “causality” and “maximum parameter value means you can’t go above that number”.
I’ve noted 40k has a rules commentary that has statements like that, and I know some gamer somewhere has had that conversation.
I know I’ve seen “it doesn’t say anywhere that a model removed from play can’t act” in the wild, which I feel like is pushing the limits of semantic readability of game rules.
At least one edition of D&D has had a “the dead condition doesn’t technically say you can’t act” prior to an errata.
“There’s no rule that says a
dogmotorcycle messenger can’tplay basketballteleport!”I read a story on 40konline back in the day where someone placed a character on top of another model and then moved the other (much faster) model around. It’s pretty wild what shit people will pull.
If I’m doing tabletop rules writing, I try to be clear without getting trapped in the weeds of arguing with that sort of player. :/
I know I’ve seen “it doesn’t say anywhere that a model removed from play can’t act” in the wild,
Amazing
Hey, it’s out-of-the-box thinking like that that had me dual-wielding Thunderhammers in my Space Wolves back in the day.
America’s finest strategies being honed on the glitchiest pre-Alpha early access game imaginable.
It was also before the invention of hypersonic missiles, so the outcome would be even worse now. I don’t think Iran has them, but I wouldn’t doubt China or Russia would provide them.
There were some legitimate problems with the millennium challenge but it’s still funny how it made them look bad and bootlickers get mad if you talk about it
Ukraine and Palestine flags, pro-US intervention. This person has rocks for brains.
“I support Palestinians, I just wish they would stop being so violent towards Israel.”
same tbh
If the houthis manage to sink billions of dollars of aircraf carrier, the only logical conclusion would be that Allah is, in fact, ackbar.
Vietcong
The mountains in Yemen are also 6000-8000 ft above sea level on average, while those in Vietnam were only 2000
Pretty much every city is surrounded by 8000 ft mountains. Because if they weren’t, there’d be no rain there and there’d be no city in the first placeAnd if there’s one thing that white people aren’t evolutionarily accustomed to, it’s mountains (and flavor and sugar and sunlight etc)
