n fact I’d say that’s the most likely because they definitely messed with the elections last time

yeah I still can’t figure that one out. even with the reluctants, the conflicted because of gaza etc., you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know trump’s gonna make all those situations worse, plus lgbtq plus racism…

hope springs eternal. VOTE!

yup. dude is a genuine nutcase racist dirtbag

“Now it’s a question of whether or not she is willing to be transparent.”

she’s fucked up the entire process from day one, she’ll never be willing to be transparent.

or he’s gonna try to cancel / fuck with them enormously.

honestly that’s where my bets are.

it’s a genuine inquiry about your response - China has long desired to recapture their ‘lost’ island (never was theirs but set that aside) and continues to run all kinds of pressure campaigns from political interference in Taiwanese government to artillery attacks on the outlying islands to pressuring the vast majority of the world to ignore their existence.

Taiwan has shown incredible resilience over decades and decades.

Now, if Trump robs them of the support and legitimacy, throws them to the wolves, all bets are off. Perhaps Taipei sees the writing on the wall - but man, I don’t see that going well either. Hong Kong illustrated - there is no separate peace, you get china, you get chinese rule and it’s not light handed.

It’s a shit sandwich, and the US has made it all worse with the iran bullshit draining our magazines, fleet deployments, and most importantly, resolve to stand up for our allies.

China will conquer Taiwan from within

if they could ever do that, don’t you think they’d have done it already?

do you have any evidence to support the idea that taiwanese attitudes have changed?

I’d be amazed if they wait that long. It would give us a chance to rebuild stockpiles.

I don’t think Taipei is at risk tomorrow, but holy hell this is gonna be a fraught year…

what’s wild are the killed vs injured ratios on the russian side… for years, they’ve just been leaving tremendous numbers to die on the field, and even when they’re recovered from the battle and recuperate, there’s no respite - they send the dumb bastards into the fight on crutches and torture anyone who objects.

I’m convinced we are in WWIII,

the preamble perhaps. the conflict that sets the stage.

fml, the idea that putin/bibi/trump ally so closely in their desire to destroy their own countries, and xi is like: let’s make more terawatts of solar power and help cuba - the world is stranger and darker every day.

ebola may finally hit globally, thanks to stupid cuts at cdc/who/usaid

and then there’s taiwan… just sitting there, all tempting, and the US having expended tremendous amounts of our arsenal for the iranian folly… gee whiz…

DEW weapons are always ‘just about to be deployed’ to change the situation.

It’s never as simple as generating a directed pulse (regardless of the wavelength) if you don’t acquire the target at range, and, environmental conditions are compatible with your weapon system.

I think it’ll get there, but would discourage anyone from believing it’s around the corner until we see shaheeds melting in the video feeds.

they’re taking a page from ukraine on asymmetric warfare and just following the playbook russia and ukraine have been escalating with drone warfare. and iran can get fiber optic from china just like russia.

this is something people aren’t understanding, the disparity in costs - sure western customers can shoot patriots at incoming, but if it’s a $12k shaheed the cost disparity is nosebleed, but you can’t NOT shoot at incoming because the costs of targets on the ground is also nosebleed expensive.

Fuck, iran bagged an E3 sentry awacs on the ground! Millions of dollars of STRATEGICALLY valuable asset, nuked on a fucking tarmac, because some dumbfuck decided to follow Israel into this shitshow.

FWIW, if you REALLY want this shit to stop, push legislation to tax the fuck out of the data centers.

fuckin’a

well put.

my only question is how many years of this shit will we need to survive until they realize: there’s no such thing as a free lunch? yeah, you can get agentic systems working with accuracy and precision, but will it ever be a panacea to dev costs that justify the trillions - TRILLIONS - of dollars invested for the paltry billions of profit?

I’d settle for all their chefs, security, nannies, janitors etc., to tell them “thought you said AI was going to replace humans?”

it’ll be hilarious when all this shitware collapses in on itself under the weight of the actual costs.

And the actual costs are starting to hit https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-claude-code-retreat-ai-cost

they certainly play on fear, but that’s to justify the hateful actions they take.

truth

he could have left JCPOA alone and iranian reactors would be observed and regulated. No need to murder children, no reason to get dragged into a military adventure that will alienate the region and murder children for generations, but no, it was an Obama thing, it had to go.

He’s so stupid and racist he couldn’t even leave something that benefited the US and region alone because a black man who humiliated him by being competent was part of the agreement.

He’s such a pathetic shitbag.

yup. I will never understand how he gets people to vote against their own interests time and time and time again. whether it’s ‘conservatives’ like Kaitlan Jenner or miners or farmers or poor white shits, they’re so obsessed with their own hate and “i got mine fuck you” attitude don’t just step on the rake, they jump on it with both feet and a sadistic grin.

it’s depressing as fuck what a drug hate is.

my experience with heated seats:

why does my ass feel embarrassed?